Recaps

After Genryūsai and Araki departed for Hueco Mundo to duel over the next Captain-Commander position, Unohana Retsu stopped Central 46’s agents from reporting the news and began planning retaliation against those who spread it. The chapter ended with Kyoraku reassuring his sister-in-law that Araki would win.

• Sasakibe announced that Genryūsai and Araki had gone to Hueco Mundo to duel, and that Genryūsai would resign as Captain-Commander if he lost.
• Unohana Retsu decapitated the Central 46 agents who tried to leave and warned the gathered captains and soldiers not to spread the duel’s details.
• Unohana Retsu let the crowd depart, then ordered Saito Furofushi and Kenpachi to follow the departing witnesses and kill those responsible for spreading the news.
• The captains of the 3rd and 5th Divisions and the soldiers passed the news through Seireitei, while Unohana Retsu recorded names for future retaliation.
• Kyoraku’s sister-in-law worried that she had caused the duel, and Kyoraku told her that Araki would certainly win.

Kyoraku reunited with his eldest sister-in-law and feared the punishment awaiting him when Araki and Genryūsai returned. Meanwhile, Tokinada and his allies killed the Tsunayashiro clan head and took Enrakyoten, while Araki and Genryūsai arrived in Hueco Mundo to settle their battle for leadership of the Gotei.

• Kyoraku thanked Unohana Retsu for promising to explain his actions to Araki, then took his eldest sister-in-law home as Tokinada and Ukitake left to handle the Tsunayashiro Family.
• The Tsunayashiro clan head planned to exploit Kyoraku's supposed grief, but Tokinada confronted him and revealed that Kyoraku's sister-in-law had survived.
• Tokinada's allies ambushed and restrained the Tsunayashiro clan head, and Tokinada killed him and claimed Enrakyoten.
• Tokinada thanked Yoruichi, Ukitake, the Shiba Clan, Soifon, and Tessai Tsukabishi for helping him, then planned to return the clan head's body to the Tsunayashiro Family.
• Araki and Genryūsai arrived in Hueco Mundo and prepared to fight for the Captain-Commander position of the Gotei.

Araki and Genryūsai’s long-awaited duel began in Hueco Mundo, where Araki revealed that he had held back during their sword and hand-to-hand exchanges. Genryūsai unleashed his Bankai and demanded that Araki show his own, but Araki pointed to a Holy King already watching over the world.

• Genryūsai burned Szayelaporro’s experimental Hollow, Detector Number Three, and Szayelaporro learned that Araki had returned to Hueco Mundo.
• Barragan ordered Hueco Mundo’s Hollows not to interfere with Araki’s duel, while Szayelaporro stopped Lilynette from going to see Araki and the two fought.
• Genryūsai released Ryujin Jakka and clashed with Araki, who sent him flying with a single strike after they traded sword blows.
• Araki used Shunkō to outpace and strike Genryūsai with wind, lightning, ice, and fire techniques, prompting Genryūsai to end their warm-up.
• Genryūsai and Araki both called Bankai, and Genryūsai’s power turned Hueco Mundo’s night into day.
• When Genryūsai demanded to see Araki’s Bankai, Araki pointed toward a Holy King praying above Hueco Mundo.

Araki unleashed his true Bankai across the Three Worlds, defeated Genryūsai, and became the new Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13. After persuading Genryūsai to join Division 0, Araki prepared to begin his next plan for Soul Society.

• Araki revealed his true Bankai, causing the Chakravartin Holy King to appear across the Three Worlds and shake Hueco Mundo, the Human World, and Soul Society.
• Araki fought Genryūsai, countered his four Zanka no Tachi techniques, and overwhelmed him with a vast Thousand-Hand Medicine Master Tathagata Palm.
• Araki defeated Genryūsai, who accepted the loss and named Araki the next Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13.
• Araki invited Genryūsai to join Division 0, persuaded him with the prospect of improving Shino Academy, and opened a Garganta to Soul Society.
• Araki looked ahead to his plan for Soul Society as its new Captain-Commander, while Kenpachi and Saito continued purging corrupt nobles and Yhwach remained sealed in a crystal coffin.

After returning from the Soul King Palace, Araki took over as Captain-Commander and began his era by consolidating control over the Gotei 13. The chapter ended with Aizen Sōsuke enrolling at Shino Academy as an apparently ordinary student.

• Central 46 failed to enforce its authority as the Gotei 13, Onmitsukidō, and Kidō Corps refused to help it pursue Kenpachi and Saito Furofushi, who exposed crimes committed by the nobles they had killed.
• After Araki and Genryūsai remained absent for months, Nagase Antaro infiltrated the 11th Division barracks to destroy evidence, but Saito Furofushi and Kenpachi captured him.
• Araki revealed that he and Genryūsai had returned seven months earlier and spent that time in the Soul King Palace, where Genryūsai joined Division 0 and Araki trained him to control his enhanced power.
• Araki killed Nagase Antaro, named himself the new Captain-Commander, appointed Kenpachi as the 11th Division captain, and summoned the Gotei 13 captains to a meeting.
• Araki announced his appointment to the captains, who gathered for the first Captain's Meeting in months and formally began his era in the Gotei 13.
• Aizen Sōsuke enrolled at Shino Academy and introduced himself as an ordinary student.

Araki presided over his first Captain’s Meeting as Captain-Commander, killed the conspirators holding the 3rd and 5th Division captaincies, and arranged replacements for several vacant divisions. The chapter ended with Tokinada bringing the Tsunayashiro elders an urn of his father’s ashes and revealing that the Family Head had smashed it.

• Araki told the captains he had killed the 3rd Division captain for conspiring against the Azashiro Family, while Shiba Zehong persuaded Kuchiki Ginrei to accept Araki’s explanation.
• The 5th Division captain arrived, tried to flee after seeing Araki, and was struck down, stripped of his Bankai, and handed to Yoruichi for questioning.
• Tokinada recommended Soifon for the 3rd Division captaincy, and Araki appointed her after Yoruichi failed to answer questions about the Onmitsukidō.
• Araki left the 7th Division captaincy to the Tsunayashiro Family, accepted Hikifune Kirio as a future candidate for the 12th Division, and heard Ukitake’s suggestion that a promising 5th Division officer could take over.
• Central 46 argued over Araki’s actions but concluded it could not effectively challenge him because of his authority as a Royal Guard.
• Tokinada returned to the Tsunayashiro Family with an urn of ashes and revealed Enrakyoten, prompting the Family Head to realize the ashes belonged to his father.

Tokinada used the return of Enrakyoten and his master Araki’s backing to seize the Tsunayashiro Family Head position, while family elders maneuvered for power and estates. Araki then went to Central 46 and persuaded its members to fund a Hollow-subjugation force by secretly lending money that they planned to recoup by pressuring the noble clans for matching contributions.

• Tokinada presented the former Family Head’s ashes and Enrakyoten, dismissed the elders’ accusations, and insisted that the family needed to choose a new head.
• The elders proposed voting for the next Family Head, but Tokinada wounded the Fifth Elder and demanded a place in the election; Araki arrived and forced the elders to accept Tokinada as their candidate.
• The Second Elder supported Tokinada, then killed the injured Third Elder to claim his estate, while Tokinada appointed the Fourth Elder to replace him.
• Tokinada declared himself the new Tsunayashiro Family Head and kept Enrakyoten, then left the family’s affairs settled.
• At Central 46, Araki warned that Hueco Mundo’s higher-level Menos were multiplying and proposed creating a force to subjugate them.
• Araki persuaded Central 46 to lend ten billion ryo for the force, with the sages and judges planning to recover their money by making the noble clans contribute matching funds.

Araki used Central 46’s enormous loan to pressure the Five Great Noble Clans for protection fees, then welcomed Genryūsai back from the Soul King Palace and accompanied him to Shino Academy. There, Araki met student Aizen and delivered a demonstration of his power before a violent recruit from the Eleventh Division interrupted the ceremony by launching hundreds of students into the air.

• Araki received one hundred billion Rings from Central 46 as a loan and told Saito Furofushi to inform the Five Great Noble Clans that Central 46 had funded the Gotei 13.
• Genryūsai returned from the Soul King Palace with his Zanpakuto sealed, and Chōjirō Sasakibe and former 1st Division members pledged to follow him to Shino Academy.
• Genryūsai and Araki arrived at Shino Academy, where Araki encountered student Aizen and briefly startled him by catching him after a staged fall.
• Genryūsai and Araki addressed the students, and Araki released overwhelming Spiritual Pressure during his short speech.
• A disheveled young man cut open the assembly hall doors, announced that students could join the Eleventh Division by surviving his strike, and launched hundreds of students into the air.

Araki summoned Kenpachi to the Shino Academy, where Genryūsai stopped his rampage, then collected funds from the Five Great Noble Clans for Hollow extermination. Back at the 1st Division barracks, Araki found Genryūsai trying to borrow his money to pressure other divisions into contributing to the Shino Academy and refused.

• Araki’s summoned Kenpachi rampaged through the Shino Academy until Genryūsai knocked him down and calmed him.
• Araki asked the Five Great Noble Clans for funds, and Shiba Tenjun claimed the Shiba Clan had no money and offered his sister Shiba Zehong instead.
• Zehong confronted Tenjun at the Shiba estate after Araki relayed his offer, and Tenjun admitted he had made a foolish suggestion.
• The other four clans agreed to split the Shiba Clan’s two-hundred-billion-kan contribution, and Araki stored the collected money.
• Araki returned to the 1st Division barracks and found Genryūsai beside his money, asking to borrow it to make other divisions contribute to the Shino Academy.
• Araki refused to lend Genryūsai the money.

Araki refused Genryūsai’s request for a loan, then gave him 2.5 billion after they haggled before secretly using a recruitment campaign to delay Central 46’s repayment demands. Kuruyashiki joined the Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force, defeated ten 1st Division assessors, and asked to fight Araki.

• Araki refused to lend Genryūsai money, but eventually agreed to give him 2.5 billion after they bargained over the amount.
• Araki ordered Saito Furofushi to publicize recruitment for a Hueco Mundo expeditionary force, explaining that the campaign was meant to convince Central 46 that the money was being put to use.
• Central 46 praised Araki’s publicity drive and dismissed the chance that anyone would actually enlist, but Kuruyashiki found a notice in Junrinan and went to register.
• Kuruyashiki told the 1st Division assessors not to go easy on him, then defeated all ten of them without releasing his Spiritual Pressure.
• Kuruyashiki asked the stunned 1st Division member to arrange a fight with Araki, the Captain-Commander.

Kuruyashiki came to the 1st Division to challenge Araki, but a chain of misunderstandings turned his request into a supposed attempt to seize Araki’s Captain-Commander position. Araki attacked before Kuruyashiki could explain, and their fight began with a single slash.

• Kuruyashiki asked a 1st Division member to arrange a fight with Araki, and the member went to report the request while warning him not to force his way inside.
• Saito Furofushi kicked the reporting member away, then decided to interrupt Araki and Unohana Retsu before going to confront Kuruyashiki herself.
• Saito told Araki that Kuruyashiki intended to challenge his position, and Araki left the office to meet him.
• Kuruyashiki praised Araki and said he wanted to test himself against the strongest Soul Reaper, but Araki called him a brat trying to take his position.
• Araki drew his Zanpakuto and used God Avoidance against the still-confused Kuruyashiki.

Araki defeated Kuruyashiki, then accepted him into the 1st Division and appointed him to lead a second Hueco Mundo expedition. Five years later, the expedition force was ready, and Central 46 panicked when they realized Araki meant to carry out the mission rather than use it as a pretext to profit.

• Araki's slash knocked Kuruyashiki through the Seireitei's barrier toward the Soul King Palace, where Hyosube Ichibei caught him and hurled him back to the Seireitei.
• Kuruyashiki recovered enough to tell Araki he had never intended to replace him as Captain-Commander, and Araki realized Saito Furofushi and a 1st Division soldier had distorted his message.
• Araki punished the soldier by making him the 1st Division's Chief Restroom Officer for a hundred years, while Saito remained in Araki's office.
• After recovering, Kuruyashiki joined Araki's 1st Division and asked to command the Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force; Araki appointed him captain of the Special Hollows Assault Squad and put him in charge of recruiting and training its members.
• Five years later, Kuruyashiki had assembled the expeditionary force, prompting Central 46 to complain that Araki was actually going to exterminate Hollows instead of sharing the profits they expected.
• Araki told Central 46 that he would repay their money on his own terms and claimed he had placed it in the Soul King Palace.

Araki sent Kuruyashiki’s expeditionary force to Hueco Mundo after empowering its soldiers with a combat-strength buff, then turned Central 46’s debt claim into a demand that they reimburse the expedition’s expenses. Back at the 1st Division, Araki and Unohana Retsu battled with their Zanpakuto while Aizen Sōsuke arrived to report for duty and began revising his plans around Araki.

• Araki delivered a rousing speech that secretly strengthened the expeditionary force, and Kuruyashiki led the soldiers through the Senkaimon toward Hueco Mundo.
• A Central 46 sage confronted Araki over a debt, but Araki handed him a bill for the expedition’s expenses and left the sage outside the barracks.
• Araki returned to his office, where Unohana Retsu argued with Saito Furofushi before challenging Araki to test her new combat techniques.
• Unohana and Araki fought in the rear hall, releasing their Zanpakuto and Bankai as Saito complained from the sidelines.
• Aizen Sōsuke arrived at the 1st Division to report for duty and, after observing Araki and the two women, decided to use the division as a springboard toward greater power.

Araki heard Aizen’s thoughts and made the wary prodigy his disciple, while Aizen resolved to learn Araki’s abilities and eventually surpass him. The next day, Araki began teaching Aizen that Spiritual Pressure determined Soul Reaper battles and demonstrated the lesson by releasing his own overwhelming power.

• Aizen privately planned to study Araki’s weaknesses, but Araki read his thoughts and recognized his captain-level Spiritual Pressure.
• Araki asked Aizen to become his disciple, and Aizen accepted after concluding that Araki had already seen through his abilities.
• Araki told Aizen to report to his office daily, while Aizen left determined to earn Araki’s trust and learn all his abilities.
• Unohana Retsu questioned Aizen’s wary manner and his failure to address her as Mistress; Araki said Aizen could become his successor as Captain-Commander.
• Aizen arrived at the Captain’s Office the next afternoon, and Araki taught him that Spiritual Pressure decided battles before releasing his overwhelming Spiritual Pressure.

Araki overwhelmed young Aizen with his Spiritual Pressure, then began training him through brutal lessons in swordsmanship, combat, Kidō, and movement. Aizen learned about Division 0 and endured Araki’s relentless instruction, ending the chapter determined to change the world.

• Araki released overwhelming Spiritual Pressure, and Aizen pretended to surrender while privately marveling at his teacher’s strength.
• Araki took Aizen to Sogyoku Hill and began swordsmanship training, but his first strike split the hill and forced Aizen to flee.
• Araki healed Aizen and demonstrated his power in hand-to-hand combat, Kidō, and the Thousand-Mile Heaven-Reaching Palm while explaining Division 0.
• Araki taught Aizen Shunpo and Shunkō through a punishing chase, then continued his combat training as Aizen resolved to change the world.

Araki trained Aizen for three months, teaching him about Shunkō and the Thousand-Mile Heaven-Reaching Palm while revealing that he belonged to Division 0. Aizen discovered that Unohana Retsu was Araki’s only apparent weakness, then waited outside the 1st Division Captain’s Office as their latest fight began in earnest.

• Araki defeated Aizen in training, explained that only Division 0 members could master the Thousand-Mile Heaven-Reaching Palm, and gave him a booklet detailing both it and Shunkō.
• Aizen trained with Araki for three months, growing stronger and learning more about Kyoka Suigetsu as he searched for Araki’s weaknesses.
• Aizen used Kyoka Suigetsu to spy on Araki and Unohana Retsu, mistook their private combat for an intimate encounter, and concluded that Unohana was Araki’s only weakness.
• Aizen decided that Unohana was too powerful to exploit and resolved to keep searching for another weakness in Araki.
• Aizen waited outside the 1st Division Captain’s Office while Araki and Unohana fought inside, where Unohana activated Bankai and challenged Araki with her eight thousand ways to make him use Bankai.

After a century of training under Araki, Aizen Sōsuke completed his apprenticeship and chose to leave the 1st Division for the 5th Division. He joined Captain Arimura Soma’s division and met Third Seat Officer Shinji Hirako, who distrusted Aizen’s perfect smile.

• Over a second century, Araki’s investments and security efforts helped Rukongai thrive, while the Gotei 13’s divisions changed and gained new leaders, including Hikifune Kirio in the 12th Division.
• Araki announced that Aizen had completed his hundred-year apprenticeship, during which Aizen mastered Soul Reaper arts and greatly increased his Spiritual Pressure.
• Araki offered Aizen the choice of staying in the 1st Division as vice-captain or joining another division as an ordinary member, and Aizen chose the 5th Division.
• Araki, Unohana Retsu, and Saito Furofushi joked and sparred after Aizen left, while Aizen arrived at the 5th Division barracks.
• Captain Arimura Soma introduced Aizen to the 5th Division, and Third Seat Officer Shinji Hirako privately recognized that Aizen’s smile seemed fake.

Shinji Hirako was assigned to show Aizen Sōsuke around the 5th Division, and their mutual suspicion began a relationship that would shape their future roles. Meanwhile, Araki’s disciples discussed Aizen’s ambitions and the expedition to Hueco Mundo, where Kuruyashiki prepared to return after documenting the dangers he had encountered.

• Captain Arimura assigned Shinji Hirako to introduce Aizen to the 5th Division, and Shinji pretended they were getting along as he led Aizen away.
• Shinji confronted Aizen about his fake smile, while Aizen became intrigued by Shinji and began considering what changes he might bring to the Gotei 13.
• Yoruichi, Kyoraku, Tokinada, and Ukitake discussed why Aizen had joined the 5th Division and anticipated the return of Kuruyashiki’s expeditionary army.
• Kuruyashiki prepared to return to the Soul Society after a century in Hueco Mundo, having encountered powerful Menos and recorded information about Gillians, Adjuchas, and Vasto Lordes.
• Aizen contemplated using Menos after learning about Kuruyashiki’s findings.

Araki welcomed Kuruyashiki and the Hueco Mundo expeditionary force back to Soul Society, rewarded their service, and recruited them into the 1st Division. After a brief spar in which Araki defeated Kuruyashiki, he took Unohana Retsu’s hand and headed off with her.

• Araki and the captains welcomed Kuruyashiki and his battered expeditionary soldiers as they returned from a century in Hueco Mundo, and Kuruyashiki presented Araki with his map and records.
• Araki appointed Kuruyashiki leader of the 1st Division’s Menos Extermination Squad and used Ruriko to heal the expeditionary soldiers’ injuries.
• Kuruyashiki ordered his soldiers to take a week of leave before reporting to the 1st Division, then he and Ashido accompanied Araki back to the barracks.
• Kuruyashiki asked Araki to spar and released Gagaku Kairo, but Araki struck him down with God Avoidance and sent Ashido to retrieve him.
• Araki took Unohana Retsu’s hand after Kuruyashiki and Ashido left, intending to spend time alone with her.

After losing to Araki, Kuruyashiki visited the Gotei 13 to test himself against its captains, with Ashido following him. Kuruyashiki beat Yoruichi and Soifon with ease and moved on toward the 5th Division.

• Kuruyashiki told Ashido that Araki was far stronger than he was, then set out to visit the Gotei 13 and challenge its captains.
• Kuruyashiki challenged Yoruichi, took her hair tie during their fight, and declared victory after she had agreed that touching her once would count as a win.
• Yoruichi chased after Kuruyashiki, insisting the fight did not count, while Ashido followed them toward the 3rd Division.
• Soifon accepted Kuruyashiki’s challenge after Yoruichi warned her that he had defeated her.
• Kuruyashiki cut through Soifon’s Shunkō and knocked her down with one punch, then changed his intended destination from the 4th Division to the 5th Division.

After defeating Soifon, Kuruyashiki continued his attempt to test his limits against the Gotei 13 captains, while Yoruichi and Soifon followed to watch. Kuruyashiki reached the 11th Division and found Kenpachi Zaraki eager to fight him, while Aizen Sōsuke revealed himself as the true captain of the 5th Division.

• Yoruichi comforted Soifon after Kuruyashiki defeated her, then took her to follow Kuruyashiki and watch his challenges.
• Kuruyashiki told Ashido he was testing his limits, explained he would not challenge Unohana Retsu because he could not defeat her without his forbidden Bankai, and suggested she might even surpass Araki in some way.
• Araki and Unohana Retsu continued their private battle in the 1st Division Captain's Office while Saito Furofushi lay unconscious nearby.
• Kuruyashiki defeated 5th Division captain Arimura in one move, sensed a hidden monster among the division members, and vowed to return; after he left, Aizen Sōsuke emerged as the real captain of the 5th Division.
• The captains of the Sixth, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Divisions declined or avoided Kuruyashiki's challenge, so he went to the 11th Division, where Kenpachi Zaraki welcomed him to fight.

Kuruyashiki challenged Kenpachi at the 11th Division, while Kyoraku explained to Ashido that Unohana had once been Unohana Yachiru, the legendary first Kenpachi. The chapter ended with Kuruyashiki and Kenpachi beginning a fierce battle in the division’s rear garden.

• Kuruyashiki revealed that he had come to fight Kenpachi, and the two prepared to face each other.
• Ashido told Kyoraku that Kuruyashiki had won three of four challenges, losing only to Araki and skipping Unohana’s division.
• Kyoraku explained that Unohana had been the first Kenpachi and that Araki had later inherited the title before becoming Captain-Commander.
• Kuruyashiki and Kenpachi went to the 11th Division’s rear garden and exchanged their opening blow, with Kenpachi sending Kuruyashiki flying.
• Kuruyashiki and Kenpachi roared and charged at each other as their Spiritual Pressure surged into the sky.

Kenpachi fought Kuruyashiki in the Seireitei, overpowering his Shikai and forcing him to concede before Araki transported them to Hueco Mundo. There, with Soul Society’s strongest watching from afar, the two prepared to unleash their Bankai.

• Kuruyashiki initially appeared to suppress Kenpachi, but Kenpachi adapted to his swordsmanship and forced him to release Gagaku Kairo.
• Kenpachi destroyed Kuruyashiki’s regenerating Shikai creatures with Nozarashi, and Kuruyashiki conceded because he could not safely use his Bankai in the Seireitei.
• Araki arrived with Unohana, opened a Transcendent Gate, and led Kenpachi and Kuruyashiki into Hueco Mundo so they could fight without endangering the Seireitei.
• The 11th Division members followed them through the gate, while Araki warned the spectators not to pursue the fighters into Hueco Mundo.
• After traveling far into Hueco Mundo, Kenpachi and Kuruyashiki stopped, faced each other, and called out Bankai at the same time.

Araki kept the 11th Division from approaching Kenpachi and Kuruyashiki’s battle, while Kuruyashiki’s Bankai opened a vast Abyss that devoured the landscape. As Aizen and others learned the Bankai’s limitations, Kenpachi endured its attacks and prepared to strike the enormous maw directly.

• Araki refused the 11th Division’s pleas to watch the battle up close, and Unohana Retsu agreed that they should stay back.
• Kuruyashiki revealed that his Bankai was the devouring Abyss, which began swallowing the land and everything across a vast area.
• Araki raised the 11th Division into the air so they could witness the Abyss, and the soldiers thanked him for keeping them out of danger.
• Aizen joined Kyoraku and Yoruichi, and Kyoraku explained that Kuruyashiki’s Bankai attacked indiscriminately and left his Zanpakuto unusable for six months.
• Kenpachi rejected Kuruyashiki’s demand that he admit defeat, gathered his Spiritual Pressure into his Zanpakuto, and swung at the Abyss’s enormous maw.

Kenpachi defeated Kuruyashiki in a catastrophic Bankai clash, and Araki healed them before turning to recruit more Vasto Lordes for his Twelve Divine Generals. Araki named Dihyera Mahoraga and set out to win over Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck and Tier Harribel using Aizen’s notes.

• Kenpachi and Kuruyashiki unleashed their strongest attacks, nearly shattering Hueco Mundo, and Kenpachi emerged as the victor before both fighters collapsed.
• Araki healed Kenpachi and Kuruyashiki, protected them with a barrier, and sent the gathered Soul Reapers back to Seireitei.
• Araki met Barragan at Las Noches, learned that Dihyera had become a Vasto Lorde, and named him Mahoraga as one of his Twelve Divine Generals.
• Dihyera told Araki that Kuruyashiki had once defeated him with Shikai, prompting Araki to suspect he was the unnamed Vasto Lorde from the novel SAFWY.
• Barragan identified the other Vasto Lordes as Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck and Tier Harribel, and Araki prepared to recruit them with advice from Aizen’s notebook.
• After Aizen returned to Seireitei, he sensed that something belonging to him was getting farther away.