Chapter Summaries

Chiba Makoto and Aizen Sōsuke sealed Hyōsube Ichibē, and the Hogyoku became the keystone stabilizing the world. The Soul King revealed that he had guided Makoto to become a true Soul King and asked him to help resist Hell; Makoto accepted by absorbing the remaining Matter Particles and became the New King.

• Chiba Makoto and Aizen Sōsuke used the arriving Soul Reapers to seal Hyōsube Ichibē, and Makoto surrounded the seal with eighty-one layers of Kidō barriers.
• Aizen Sōsuke handed Makoto the Hogyoku, which contained the Soul King's power and most of Aizen's spirit body, making them joint holders of the throne.
• The Soul King emerged through Inoue Orihime and revealed that he had noticed Makoto as an outsider, guided his development, and sought a companion to help defend the world from Hell.
• The Soul King explained that he had intended Inoue Orihime and Kurosaki Ichigo to help create his new body, but proposed that Makoto become his father and offer him greater potential.
• Chiba Makoto accepted the Soul King's proposal by absorbing the remaining Matter Particles, and the Soul King welcomed him as the New King of the world.

After the Thousand-Year Blood War, Chiba Makoto became Soul King and reshaped the three realms into a more peaceful order. Three years later, he married six wives in New World City, and ten years after that, his son Chiba Isamu discussed Aizen and the coming war against Hell with him.

• Chiba Makoto subdued Aizen Sōsuke, made him the King's Half-Body, and transformed the former Seireitei and Soul King Palace ruins into New World City.
• Chiba Makoto established the Three Realms, Three Rulers order and reformed the divisions, while the Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and World of the Living entered a period of peace.
• In New World City’s third year, Chiba Makoto married Unohana Retsu, Soi Fon, Nel, Tier Harribel, Inoue Orihime, and Yoruichi Shihoin.
• Ten years later, Inoue Orihime had given birth to Chiba Makoto’s eldest son, Chiba Isamu.
• Chiba Isamu told Chiba Makoto that Aizen seemed to want to devour him, and Chiba Makoto said Aizen’s bond with the Hogyoku made him essential to holding the world together.
• Chiba Makoto and Chiba Isamu discussed granting Isamu’s younger brother a fief in Hell after they won the coming war, and Isamu agreed.