Recaps

Yhwach reached the Soul King Palace, where the Zero Division overwhelmed his Schutzstaffel and left Jugram Haschwalth barely standing. Yhwach used Auswählen to reclaim the power of Quincy across the Seireitei, while Aizen watched the dawn and said Yhwach was about to return.

• Jugram Haschwalth told Yhwach that Aizen had arrived in the Seireitei, and Yhwach dismissed Aizen as no longer a threat.
• Tenjiro Kirinji confronted Yhwach, while the other Zero Division members joined the battle and killed three members of the Schutzstaffel.
• Tenjiro Kirinji struck Jugram Haschwalth back to Yhwach, leaving him as the only surviving member of their group besides Yhwach.
• Yhwach activated Auswählen and drained the power of Quincy throughout the Seireitei, turning them into pillars of light.
• Gerard Valkyrie begged Black Ant to save him as Auswählen took his power, but Black Ant watched him vanish.
• Aizen looked toward the brightening sky and said Yhwach was about to return.

Yhwach advanced toward the true Soul King Palace, where Ichibe Hyosube confronted him and used his brush to cut the name and strength of Yhwach’s arm in half. Yhwach countered that he could bestow the power taken from himself once more.

• Yhwach used Auswählen to revive Lille Barro, Askin Nakk Le Vaar, and Pernida Parnkgjas, who fought back against Zero Division and cleared a path for him.
• Yhwach reached the concealed true Soul King Palace and challenged Ichibe Hyosube, but Ichibe’s power burned out Yhwach’s throat when he called his name.
• Ichibe struck Yhwach with Thousand Mile Sky Palm, sending him a thousand miles away, and Yhwach used Sankt Bogen to return.
• Yhwach restored his throat by bestowing a voice upon himself and charged Ichibe, who said he would defeat him before dawn.
• Ichibe cut the name of Yhwach’s arm in half, reducing its strength and speed, then struck Yhwach across the chest.
• Yhwach declared that he could bestow upon himself once more any power that had been taken away.

Yhwach overcame Ichibe Hyosube’s Bankai by reclaiming his power and pierced him with The Almighty. As dawn broke, Yhwach’s sealed memory returned, and Ichibe warned that He-El was beyond his strength before Yhwach crushed him.

• Yhwach restored his name and power, but Ichibe used Ichimonji to erase Yhwach’s name and renamed him Black Ant.
• Ichibe revealed that Black Ant was the name he had given the Mysterious Hollow a century earlier, then tried to crush Yhwach.
• Jugram Haschwalth sensed Yhwach’s power returning, and Yhwach used The Almighty to pierce Ichibe with a Holy Quincy Arrow.
• Yhwach pinned Ichibe beneath his foot as dawn arrived, and the sunlight restored a sealed memory of He-El.
• Ichibe warned Yhwach that he was no match for He-El, and Yhwach stomped him.

As dawn returned the captains’ memories of He-El’s rampage a hundred years earlier, Rangiku Matsumoto and four captains headed for the First Division grounds. Shunsui Kyoraku and the others acknowledged their fear but continued onward, insisting that they were captains.

• After Cang Du died from Yhwach’s Auswählen, Rangiku Matsumoto remembered her past with He-El and left for the First Division grounds despite Toshiro Hitsugaya calling after her.
• Shunsui Kyoraku recalled his history with He-El and, suspecting a greater conspiracy behind Auswählen, headed toward the First Division grounds.
• Juushiro Ukitake, Shinsuke Hirako, and Kensei Muguruma also set out for the First Division grounds, where the four captains’ paths converged.
• Shinsuke Hirako observed that the Bleach who remembered He-El’s rampage had fallen silent from fear, and Shunsui Kyoraku admitted that their fear was understandable.
• The four captains kept moving toward the First Division grounds and declared, “We... are captains.”

Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni awoke and learned that He-El had returned, while several Soul Reapers recovered memories of their past encounters with him. He-El sat enthroned at the First Division as captains approached, demanding that they amuse him.

• Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni awoke, learned that Sajin Komamura had died saving him, and set out for the First Division after hearing Kenpachi Zaraki had not recovered enough strength.
• Ichimaru Gin and Kaname Tosen regained memories of He-El, and Tosen doubted that Aizen's preparations could defeat him.
• Tokinada Tsunayashiro unsealed Enrakyoten, but dawn filled him with terror and extinguished his delight.
• He-El awakened Uryu Ishida's potential, then took an iron throne as several captains approached and commanded them to amuse him.

Shinsuke Hirako, Kensei Muguruma, Juushiro Ukitake, and Shunsui Kyoraku confronted He-El, who demanded access to the Soul King's memories despite being unable to guarantee the Three Realms would remain unharmed. Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni refused to compromise, and He-El began the battle by targeting the Tsunayashiro Clan residence.

• Shinsuke Hirako, Kensei Muguruma, Juushiro Ukitake, and Shunsui Kyoraku arrived together and faced He-El.
• He-El told Shunsui Kyoraku he wanted to examine the Soul King's memories of creating the Three Realms, and admitted he could not guarantee this would cause no harm.
• Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni declared that the Bleach could not compromise their duty, while Retsu Unohana collected Sajin Komamura's corpse and departed.
• He-El promised to honor his agreement with Sajin Komamura and challenged the captains to attack him together.
• He-El flicked a finger toward the Tsunayashiro Clan residence in Noble Street, beginning the battle.

He-El unleashed a devastating attack across Seireitei, but Tokinada Tsunayashiro appeared with Enrakyoten and copied He-El’s Shikai. Using his fiftyfold Reiatsu advantage, Tokinada spread dark spheres across all of Soul Society and challenged He-El, who calmly invited him to attack.

• He-El erased everything along a vast canyon stretching from the First Division to the Tsunayashiro estate, shocking the Soul Reaper captains.
• Tokinada Tsunayashiro appeared in the sky with Enrakyoten, revealing that he had stopped fleeing and intended to face He-El.
• Tokinada declared his Reiatsu was fifty times He-El’s and said Enrakyoten could imitate any Zanpakuto, including He-El’s.
• Tokinada copied He-El’s Shikai and produced sixty million dark spheres that covered Soul Society in darkness.
• He-El remained seated and encouraged Tokinada to go all out and try to defeat him.

Tokinada Tsunayashiro used Enrakyoten to wield He-El’s Shikai, but could not reach him through the shifting layers of space. When Tokinada tried to overwhelm He-El’s dark spheres by absorbing Reishi, the spheres burst and Tokinada was badly injured.

• Tokinada Tsunayashiro attacked He-El with Enrakyoten, but He-El evaded him by shifting through layers of space.
• The Bleach captains could not join the fight, and Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni ordered a messenger to summon the Kidō Corps to prepare a spatial sealing barrier.
• Tokinada continued slashing at He-El’s illusions, then realized the dark spheres’ rapid regeneration kept him from reaching He-El’s real body.
• He-El told Tokinada that his life would end when He-El lost interest in him, while Tokinada’s use of Enrakyoten depleted his lifespan.
• Tokinada made the dark spheres absorb Reishi to break through them, but the spheres exploded and he vomited blood as he swayed in the sky.

He-El explained why Tokinada could not safely absorb Reishi, then defeated him despite Tokinada using Senbonzakura and hiding within He-El’s Shikai. As Tokinada called for Aizen, He-El killed him and turned his attention to Aizen, who began chanting.

• Tokinada nearly died after using dark spheres to absorb Reishi without He-El’s microscopic control.
• He-El rejected Tokinada’s claim that his Shikai was only an auxiliary tool and challenged him to continue fighting.
• Tokinada used Senbonzakura and dark spheres to attack He-El, but He-El pierced the blades with Hadō #4: Byakurai and wounded Tokinada.
• Tokinada hid inside He-El’s Shikai, but He-El passed through the spatial barriers and found him.
• Tokinada fled and tried to defend himself with an ice wall, but He-El shattered it and pointed Tokinada to death as he cried, “Aizen, save me!”
• He-El looked down at Aizen, who had three pairs of wings and an open eye on his forehead, as Aizen began chanting.

Aizen trapped He-El in a space-time-warping Black Coffin to restrict his powers and force a direct fight, hoping to delay him while Yhwach approached the Soul King. He-El adapted to the pressure, drew his Zanpakuto, and cut Aizen in half, leaving the fight's outcome unresolved.

• Aizen enclosed He-El in a Black Coffin filled with a crushing Spacetime Gravity Torrent that blocked his Senkai, spatial abilities, and external Reishi manipulation.
• Aizen explained that He-El had to defeat him quickly before Yhwach devoured the Soul King and the memories He-El sought.
• He-El adjusted to the pressure and summoned his Zanpakuto, clarifying that the weapon was simply an extension of his limbs.
• He-El and Aizen charged at each other, and He-El passed Aizen with a single slash that split his body in two.

Rangiku Matsumoto reunited with Ichimaru Gin as Aizen trapped He-El in Hadō #90: Black Coffin, while Soul Reapers and Espada gathered for a possible clash. The chapter ended as the Black Coffin began to change.

• Rangiku Matsumoto saw He-El trapped by Aizen and rushed toward the Black Coffin.
• Ichimaru Gin left the Garganta, met Rangiku, and revealed that his memories of their childhood with He-El had returned.
• Shunsui Kyoraku, Kensei Muguruma, and Juushiro Ukitake confronted Ichimaru Gin, while several Espada emerged and drew the other captains into a standoff.
• Ichimaru Gin explained that Aizen was continuing his unfinished battle with He-El and called the Hollows expendable distractions.
• Aizen's Hadō #90: Black Coffin began to change.

He-El broke through Aizen’s Kyoka Suigetsu and destroyed his control of Black Coffin, then left for the Soul King Palace to stop Yhwach. Aizen remained behind, badly wounded and unable to pursue him.

• Aizen used Kyoka Suigetsu to conceal his real body and trap He-El inside Black Coffin while warning that Yhwach’s fate would determine the battle’s outcome.
• He-El closed his eyes and relied on his perception to locate Aizen, then struck him and disrupted the Hogyoku’s ability to heal.
• Aizen’s injuries caused Black Coffin to collapse, and He-El told him that his tricks could no longer fool him.
• He-El vanished inside a dark sphere and headed for the Soul King Palace, leaving Aizen to speculate about how he had found him.

After Aizen recovered from He-El’s attack, he revealed that He-El had gone to the Soul King Palace. With the usual route unavailable, Aizen proposed using Enrakyoten to follow him there.

• The Bleaches surrounded the Espada, while Grimmjow remained badly wounded from their assault.
• Aizen’s Black Coffin vanished, revealing his transformed body as he finished recovering from He-El’s lingering attack.
• Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni demanded to know where He-El had gone, and Aizen said He-El was already at the Soul King Palace.
• The Bleach captains realized they could not reach the Soul King Palace by the usual route quickly enough, and feared what He-El might do there.
• Aizen ordered Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, Ichigo Kurosaki, and the Espada to prepare to fight, then told Shunsui Kyoraku to use Enrakyoten’s connection to send them to the Soul King Palace.

He-El revived True Name Calling Monk and continued toward the Soul King Palace, where Yhwach was approaching the Soul King. Jugram Haschwalth and the Schutzstaffel blocked He-El’s path, setting up a confrontation.

• He-El emerged from a dark sphere on Omotesandō and revived True Name Calling Monk by speaking his name.
• True Name Calling Monk thanked He-El and urged him to stop Yhwach before he claimed the Soul King.
• True Name Calling Monk admitted he had hoped He-El and Yhwach would weaken each other enough for him to take advantage.
• He-El said his growth meant no one in the Shinigami World could stop him.
• Jugram Haschwalth, Lille Barro, Askin Nakk Le Vaar, and Pernida Parnkgjas arrived and blocked He-El’s way to the Soul King Palace.

He-El advanced toward the inner hall of the Soul King Palace, effortlessly defeating the Quincy who tried to stop him. True Name Calling Monk watched as He-El continued on toward his confrontation with Yhwach.

• True Name Calling Monk offered to clear the Quincy from He-El’s path, but He-El continued forward and dismissed the threat.
• He-El caught Lille Barro’s X-Axis bullet, then sent it back with Everything Must Hit and killed Lille Barro.
• Jugram Haschwalth attacked He-El with his sword, but He-El blocked his assault with Blut Vene-covered fingers and walked through the other Quincy’s Holy Annihilation attacks.
• He-El’s overwhelming luck prevented Jugram Haschwalth’s Balance from affecting him, and a Reishi bullet snapped Haschwalth’s sword and killed him.
• He-El used the Thousand Mile Sky Palm against the remaining Quincy, then entered the inner hall as True Name Calling Monk watched in astonishment.

Yhwach prepared to kill the Soul King, whom he called his father, but He-El arrived and challenged him. Yhwach accepted the confrontation, and He-El said they could fight without leaving the hall.

• The narration recounted how the ancestors of the Five Great Noble Houses sealed, dismembered, and weakened the Soul King to create the Three Realms.
• Yhwach entered the Soul King’s hall and raised his cross-shaped sword to kill the limbless Soul King.
• He-El arrived and warned Yhwach that killing the Soul King would bring him an even worse end.
• Yhwach mocked He-El’s weak Reiatsu and dismissed his victories over Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni and Ichibe Hyosube.
• He-El challenged Yhwach’s confidence, and Yhwach laughed and invited him to fight.
• He-El refused to move elsewhere, saying the fight would not affect the Soul King.

He-El and Yhwach fought in the Soul King Palace, where He-El’s Reishi manipulation overwhelmed Yhwach’s Blut Arterie. Yhwach then used an unexplained power to inflict a nearly fatal wound on He-El, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• He-El and Yhwach exchanged sword blows until He-El forced Yhwach backward.
• Yhwach activated Blut Arterie, but He-El’s Reishi structure rebounded his force and sent him sliding toward the amber-encased Soul King.
• He-El taunted Yhwach’s reliance on inherited power and advanced on him.
• Yhwach closed his eyes, and He-El sensed an imperceptible change in the hall but could not identify it.
• A sudden, unseen slash cut deeply across He-El’s torso, and Yhwach opened his eyes with several pupils visible.

Yhwach used The Almighty to attack He-El, but He-El regenerated and studied the power while preparing a way to counter it. As Yhwach repeatedly changed the future and tried different attacks, He-El defeated each attempt, though the confrontation continued.

• Yhwach activated The Almighty and wounded He-El, but He-El regenerated and marveled at the ability to change the future.
• He-El summoned a calculating sphere and challenged Yhwach to attack him again with The Almighty.
• Yhwach charged with his sword, and He-El cut him into countless fragments.
• Yhwach fired a Heilig Pfeil, but He-El blocked it with Shell Blut Vene.
• He-El caught and erased Yhwach’s massive Heilig Pfeil with his hand.
• Yhwach used Sankt Altar to steal He-El’s power, but He-El suppressed the Reishi and stopped the attempt.

He-El used his strongest computational mode to predict and counter Yhwach’s attacks, while Yhwach relied on The Almighty to rewrite futures in which he was injured. He-El argued that a future calculated to leave no possibility of escape could not be changed, then trapped Yhwach inside Sankt Zwinger.

• Yhwach realized He-El had calculated and countered every attack he tried, leaving him unsure how to strike.
• He-El explained that his strongest mode calculated every factor affecting the future and advanced on Yhwach.
• He-El wounded Yhwach, but Yhwach used The Almighty to rewrite the future and restore himself unharmed.
• He-El declared that his calculations surpassed Yhwach’s, then cut Yhwach’s cross-shaped sword in two.
• Yhwach rewrote the future again to restore his sword and claimed He-El could not hurt him.
• He-El said Yhwach could not change a future with no possibility of escape and activated Sankt Zwinger around him.

He-El used a pre-calculated Sankt Zwinger to overcome Yhwach’s attempts to escape through The Almighty and trapped him in a state of being alive and dead. He then reached the Soul King and pressed his fingers to the Soul King’s forehead.

• Yhwach escaped He-El’s first Sankt Zwinger by changing the future, but He-El cast another one and anticipated his possible routes.
• Yhwach found a future in which his own Sankt Zwinger resonated with He-El’s and let him escape, then declared that he would eventually win.
• He-El revealed that he had linked the Reishi across the heavens and calculated Yhwach’s limits, leaving Yhwach unable to find any future in which he escaped.
• Sankt Zwinger imprisoned Yhwach, and a contradictory spiral that left him alive and dead enveloped him like black amber.
• He-El reached the Soul King and pressed his fingers against the Soul King’s forehead.

Aizen, the Espada, Ichigo Kurosaki, and the Bleach captains arrived at the Soul King Palace to confront He-El, who was fighting Yhwach inside. True Name Calling Monk gathered the revived Royal Guard and led everyone toward the battle, hoping He-El and Yhwach had weakened each other.

• Aizen and the others emerged from a dark sphere at the Soul King Palace, where True Name Calling Monk revealed that He-El was battling Yhwach inside.
• Shunsui Kyoraku carried Enrakyoten, and Aizen warned him that using the sword would cost him his soul and lifespan.
• Ichigo Kurosaki asked to speak with He-El, struggling to believe that his former teacher would destroy the Three Realms.
• True Name Calling Monk admitted he could not stop He-El alone and said the assembled fighters were the Three Realms' strongest battle power.
• True Name Calling Monk summoned Tenjiro Kirinji, Hikifune Kirio, Senjumaru Shutara, and Nimaiya Oetsu, then led the group into the palace to confront He-El.

The captains attacked He-El while Aizen and Shunsui Kyoraku freed Yhwach from his dark sphere. Yhwach questioned how they had rescued him, but Aizen said He-El had allowed it, as He-El emerged from the flames.

• Soi Fon, Juushiro Ukitake, and Shunsuke Hirako fired Hadō spells at He-El to interrupt him.
• Byakuya Kuchiki, Kensei Muguruma, Toshiro Hitsugaya, Soi Fon, Juushiro Ukitake, Shunsuke Hirako, Retsu Unohana, and Kenpachi Zaraki released their Zanpakuto and surrounded He-El's position.
• Aizen told Shunsui Kyoraku to free Yhwach, and the True Name Calling Monk questioned whether they should release him.
• Shunsui Kyoraku used Enrakyoten to create a dark sphere that shattered the sphere imprisoning Yhwach, leaving Shunsui badly drained and bleeding.
• Yhwach emerged and asked why they had rescued him when he had not seen that future.
• Aizen said He-El had allowed Yhwach to be freed, and He-El appeared amid the flames.

He-El withdrew his hand from the Soul King's skull, breaking the Soul King's role as the Three Realms' Keystone and causing the realms to collapse. Jushiro Ukitake halted the collapse temporarily, but as he neared death, Ichigo Kurosaki and the other Bleach prepared to fight He-El.

• Ichigo Kurosaki demanded to know why He-El was destroying the Three Realms, and He-El said the realms were simply unable to bear what he was doing.
• He-El withdrew his hand, causing the amber-like space around the Soul King to crack and the Three Realms to shake violently.
• Jushiro Ukitake activated Kamikake and used the Soul King's right arm to hold the Soul King together, stopping the Three Realms' tremors temporarily.
• Jushiro Ukitake told Shunsui Kyoraku that he could not hold on much longer, while the Bleach in the Soul King Palace gathered their Reiatsu.
• Ichigo Kurosaki summoned his Hollow mask and vowed to protect his family, while Byakuya Kuchiki attacked He-El with Final Scene: White Emperor Sword, furious over He-El killing his grandfather.

Byakuya Kuchiki launched a desperate, all-out thrust at He-El, but He-El repelled him and left him gravely wounded. The remaining Bleach fighters combined their attacks against He-El’s Blut Vene barrier, while Yhwach foresaw that they would fail.

• Byakuya Kuchiki attacked He-El with his Final Scene: White Emperor Sword, but He-El met his blade and blasted him into the Soul King's Palace wall.
• Retsu Unohana and Kenpachi Zaraki prepared to exploit Byakuya Kuchiki's attack, as Ichigo Kurosaki and the other Bleach fighters launched a coordinated assault.
• Ichigo Kurosaki's Getsuga Tenshō tore through He-El's unstable Blut Vene barrier while the others attacked and tried to weaken it.
• Retsu Unohana and Kenpachi Zaraki struck He-El's barrier together as their allies kept up their assault.
• Yhwach looked into the future and declared that the Bleach fighters would not succeed.

He-El fought off the captains while Soi Fon marked him with Suzumebachi’s Two-Hit Kill, giving the others a chance to set up a fatal second strike. As they all attacked to create an opening, Yhwach declared their plan a failure.

• He-El emerged unharmed from the explosion and dismissed the captains’ attacks as he faced the Hollowfied, bull-headed Ichigo Kurosaki.
• He-El struck Ichigo Kurosaki with an azure crescent and drove him through the wall of the Soul King's Palace and into the sky beyond it.
• Juushiro Ukitake and Shinsuke Hirako distracted He-El, allowing Soi Fon to land Suzumebachi’s first strike and mark his back with a Hōmonka.
• Shinsuke Hirako explained that He-El’s lower Reiatsu meant Suzumebachi’s second strike could kill him, and the captains launched a coordinated assault to give Soi Fon another opening.
• He-El examined the Hōmonka and recognized how it entangled Reishi, while Yhwach watched the captains’ attack and called it a failure.