Chapter Summaries

Urahara Kisuke and Tetsusai Gantetsusai confronted Aizen Sosuke after discovering his Hollowfication experiments, then tried to save the affected Soul Reapers. Meanwhile, Ailin sensed their clash and chose to let Urahara bear the consequences while he remained devoted to the Spirit King.

• Urahara Kisuke accused Aizen Sosuke of using Soul Reapers in Hollowfication experiments, but Aizen denied it and left with Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen.
• Tetsusai Gantetsusai attacked Aizen's group with Destruction Path #88, but Aizen blocked it with Bakudo #81 before the group escaped.
• Hirako Shinji and the other affected Soul Reapers worsened, and Urahara Kisuke said he knew a risky method to treat their Hollowfication.
• Tetsusai Gantetsusai proposed using forbidden time suspension and spatial transfer to move the affected Soul Reapers to the Twelfth Division barracks.
• Ailin sensed the spatial Kido from the clash, reflected on the Spirit King's imprisoned state, and decided Urahara would have to bear the burden for now.

Ailin received Central 46’s order to arrest Urahara Kisuke and Tetsusai Gantetsusai, then led Eleventh Division Shinigami to the Twelfth Division. There, Mayuri Kurotsuchi moved to block the arrest, and Ailin welcomed the confrontation.

• A Shinigami delivered Central 46’s mandatory arrest warrant, ordering Ailin to apprehend Urahara Kisuke and Tetsusai Gantetsusai, with permission to kill them if they resisted.
• Ailin summoned thirty-four Eleventh Division Shinigami and led them toward the Twelfth Division headquarters.
• Ailin told Sixth Seat Gōsuke that they were ordered to arrest Urahara and Tetsusai, alarming the group but prompting none of them to retreat.
• Ailin showed Third Seat Akon the arrest warrant and warned that anyone obstructing the arrest would be detained as an accomplice.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi said he would not let Ailin arrest Urahara at the Twelfth Division, and Ailin smiled at the chance to confront him.

Ailin used the Eleventh Division’s assault on the Twelfth Division to buy Urahara Kisuke time, then subdued the division and arrested Urahara Kisuke and Tetsusai Gantetsusai. On his way back, Ailin ran into Shunsui Kyōraku, who claimed the encounter was a coincidence.

• Ailin ordered the Eleventh Division to detain the Twelfth Division members obstructing their mission, and the two divisions began fighting.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi held off Gōsuke and Maki Ichinose while reinforcements helped the Twelfth Division push back the Eleventh Division.
• Ailin summoned hundreds of Zanpakuto through Golden spatial ripples, destroyed a building, and forced the Twelfth Division members to surrender.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi attacked Ailin with his Bankai, Golden Sōkatsui, but Ailin destroyed it with three golden lightning strikes and blasted Mayuri away.
• Urahara Kisuke and Tetsusai Gantetsusai emerged from the laboratory and surrendered to Ailin’s arrest order.
• After handing the prisoners over, Ailin headed back toward the Kuchiki Clan and encountered Shunsui Kyōraku, who said their meeting was a coincidence.

After Central 46 sentenced Kisuke Urahara, Tetsusai Gantetsusai, and the Hollowfied captains, Shihoin Yoruichi helped them escape, and Ailin chose not to interfere. Ailin checked whether Kyoka Suigetsu had affected his senses and left the Seireitei, while Tetsusai held the group behind a barrier in Urahara’s underground base.

• Ailin told Shunsui Kyōraku that he had not seen Liza Yadomaru when he arrested Kisuke Urahara and Tetsusai Gantetsusai.
• Shunsui reported that Inner Garden Squad investigators had found evidence of Hollowfication experiments in Urahara’s experimental tower.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto announced Central 46’s sentences for Urahara and Tetsusai and ordered Jūshirō Ukitake to purify the Hollowfied captains and their allies.
• A guard reported that a criminal had abducted Urahara, Tetsusai, and the Hollowfied group, so Yamamoto ordered four divisions to search for them.
• Ailin tested his senses by touching his Zanpakuto’s blade, then left the Seireitei after confirming he was not currently affected by Kyoka Suigetsu.
• Tetsusai maintained a golden barrier around Urahara, Shihoin Yoruichi, Hirako Shinji, and the others in Urahara’s underground base after Urahara failed to reverse their Hollowfication with the Hogyoku.

Urahara Kisuke and Shihoin Yoruichi helped Hirako Shinji and the others control their Hollow powers, but Tetsusai Gantetsusai trapped Ailin Kenpachi in a fully chanted Black Coffin when he appeared. The others braced for Ailin’s response, warned that he was far stronger than they imagined.

• Urahara Kisuke used Benihime to split Hiyori Sarugaki’s Cero and restrain her and Aikawa Love, while Shihoin Yoruichi broke Aikawa Love’s mask and Urahara broke Hiyori’s.
• Hirako Shinji teased Hiyori Sarugaki after she regained her senses, and they argued about his hair.
• Ailin Kenpachi appeared in the underground base, and Tetsusai Gantetsusai dropped the defensive barrier and cast Black Coffin around him.
• Tetsusai Gantetsusai completed Black Coffin’s subsequent chant, intensifying the spell as shadow blades struck at Ailin, who drew his Zanpakuto and slashed.
• Kensei Muguruma warned Hirako Shinji and the others that Ailin had defeated four powerful opponents without injury, while Hiyori Sarugaki questioned his strength.

Ailin helped Urahara Kisuke protect and prepare the Visored to flee to the Human World while they learned to control their Hollowfication. When Ailin named Gin Ichimaru as his candidate for Third Division captain, Hiyori Sarugaki challenged him, and Ailin’s crushing spiritual pressure forced Hirako Shinji to intervene with his Hollow mask.

• Ailin emerged unharmed after cutting apart Urahara Kisuke’s Black Coffin, then agreed to keep the group’s hideout secret and told them Central 46 had ordered their arrest.
• Kensei Muguruma underwent Hollowfication in anger, and Hirako Shinji, Urahara Kisuke, and Shihoin Yoruichi restrained him before Ailin broke his mask and restored his reason.
• Urahara Kisuke asked Ailin to help the group while he stabilized the Visored and made Gigai for their escape to the Human World; Ailin controlled their training as they learned Hollowfication, with Kyunnanbyaku mastering it first.
• Ailin told Hirako Shinji and the others about the ongoing captain selections, including Soifon’s candidacy for the Second Division and Gin Ichimaru’s candidacy for the Third Division.
• Hiyori Sarugaki accused Ailin of knowingly recommending Aizen Sosuke’s ally Gin Ichimaru, and Ailin’s spiritual pressure drove her to her knees.
• Hirako Shinji shielded Hiyori from Ailin’s pressure and put on his Hollow mask, causing his spiritual pressure to change dramatically.

Ailin explained why he trusted Gin Ichimaru despite Gin’s association with Aizen Sosuke, then ended his visits to the group recovering from Hollowfication. On the way back, he told Shunsui Kyōraku that Aizen had caused the disappearances and Hollowfication experiments, prompting Kyōraku to reconsider the alibi he had unknowingly provided Aizen.

• Hirako Shinji used his Hollow mask to withstand Ailin’s spiritual pressure, allowing Hiyori Sarugaki to recover.
• Ailin gave three reasons for recommending Gin Ichimaru as a captain: Gin was his trusted disciple, had not attacked the others, and Ailin could deal with him and Aizen if they became a threat.
• Ailin said goodbye to Urahara Kisuke and the others and left the underground base, deciding he would not visit again.
• Shunsui Kyōraku met Ailin outside the Kuchiki Clan gates and asked why Ailin had stopped him from recommending Aizen Sosuke for captain.
• Ailin told Kyōraku that Aizen had caused Soul Society’s disappearances and used Hirako and the others as experimental subjects, while Urahara and Tetsusai Gantetsusai had fought to save them.
• Kyōraku realized that he was among the 125 Soul Reapers who had seen Aizen that night and inadvertently given him an alibi.

Ailin told Shunsui Kyōraku that the eight Visoreds were safe, while Shunsui resolved to recommend Aizen Sosuke for captain so he could watch him closely. At Gin Ichimaru’s captain assessment, Gin declined to challenge the assembled captains and prepared to demonstrate his Bankai.

• Ailin explained that Urahara Kisuke, Yoruichi, and the eight Visoreds had gone to the Human World after escaping Central 46’s judgment, and Shunsui was relieved that Lisa was alive.
• Shunsui described two possibilities behind the Hollowfication Experiment and decided to recommend Aizen Sosuke as Fifth Division captain so he could monitor him.
• Shunsui asked Ailin to keep Kyoka Suigetsu’s ability secret, then departed while Ailin reflected on the burden Shunsui had taken on.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto asked Gin Ichimaru whether he would challenge a captain or demonstrate his Bankai for his captain’s assessment.
• Gin Ichimaru declined to challenge the assembled captains, saying he would not make a fool of himself by challenging his seniors.

Gin Ichimaru demonstrated his Bankai and passed the captain's assessment, becoming Captain of the Third Division. After the meeting, acting captain Soifon asked Ailin to train her so she could complete her Bankai training as quickly as possible, and he agreed.

• Gin Ichimaru demonstrated Shinsō's Shikai and revealed that his Bankai, Killing Spear, could extend thirteen kilometers at five hundred times the speed of sound.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto and the captains approved Gin Ichimaru's assessment, and he became Captain of the Third Division.
• Ailin left the Captain's Meeting and noted that the Gotei 13 had filled several captain positions, while the Seventh Division's remained vacant.
• Soifon found Ailin and asked him to train her so she could complete her Bankai training quickly.
• Ailin accepted Soifon's request.

Soifon collapsed from exhaustion after Ailin agreed to train her, and he brought her to the Kuchiki Clan estate to rest. The next morning, Ailin began explaining the limits of her Zanpakuto, Nigeki Hissatsu, before training started.

• Ailin caught Soifon when she fainted and carried her to the Kuchiki Clan estate, where Haruko settled her in a guest room.
• Byakuya Kuchiki saw Ailin carrying Soifon and wondered whether Ailin had become involved with another woman.
• Ailin told Haruko that Soifon bore the burden of leading the Second Division after Yoruichi's exile, and promised to help her master Bankai quickly.
• Soifon woke the next morning, ate breakfast, and met Ailin in the courtyard to begin training.
• Ailin asked whether Soifon wanted greater strength or merely to complete Bankai training, then explained that Nigeki Hissatsu's effect came from the Bee Flower it left on an enemy.

Ailin explained the limits of Soifon’s Zanpakuto and offered to help her improve through Shunkō instead of rushing into Bankai. Soifon chose strength training to better protect the Second Division, and Ailin took her to Yoruichi and Urahara Kisuke’s underground base, where she questioned how he knew about it.

• Ailin explained that Soifon’s Bee Flower needed to form and overlap precisely to kill, and warned that her Bankai could carry severe restrictions if she forced its training too soon.
• Ailin offered Soifon a choice between learning Shunkō and completing Bankai training, and Soifon chose to improve her strength so she could protect the Second Division.
• Ailin told Haruko he and Soifon would be away for up to half a month, then used Shunpo to take Soifon to a hidden entrance.
• Ailin brought Soifon into Yoruichi and Urahara Kisuke’s underground base and explained that they had treated Hirako Shinji and the others there before leaving for the Human World.
• Soifon excitedly recognized the base as Yoruichi’s secret place, then asked Ailin how he knew about it.

Ailin taught Soifon to develop wind-attribute Shunkō and Infinite Shunkō, then fought her during her captain assessment as the captains watched. Shunsui realized Aizen’s praise of Ailin might be meant to make Yamamoto wary of Ailin, while he continued pretending not to suspect Aizen.

• Ailin taught Soifon the principles of Shunkō and guided her in finding her own attribute, helping her master basic wind-attribute Shunkō in a week.
• Soifon completed Infinite Shunkō after six months of training with Ailin.
• Soifon challenged Ailin for a captain assessment, and they fought in Mugen Jigoku while the captains watched her display her strength.
• Aizen praised Ailin’s talent and teaching ability, while Shunsui considered whether Aizen’s words were meant to influence Yamamoto.
• Shunsui suspected that Aizen was plotting to make Yamamoto wary of Ailin and concealed his suspicions as he continued speaking with Aizen.

Ailin defeated Soifon in her captain assessment, and the captains approved her as Captain of the Second Division. Years later, after the Gotei 13 returned to peace, Jūshirō Ukitake summoned Ailin and brought up Ginjo Kugo, leaving Ailin waiting to hear what had happened.

• Ailin restrained Soifon with Bakudō and forced her to concede, after which the captains approved her appointment as Captain of the Second Division.
• Three years later, Yamamoto nominated Sajin Komamura as Captain of the Seventh Division, completing the Gotei 13's roster.
• Ailin lost a Go game to Haruko, then received a Hell Butterfly summoning him to meet Jūshirō Ukitake.
• Ailin hurried to the Thirteenth Division barracks and met Ukitake, Kiyone Kotetsu, and Sentarō Kotsubaki.
• Ukitake asked Ailin whether he remembered Ginjo Kugo and explained that Ginjo's Substitute Shinigami Badge could monitor him.

Ailin traveled to the Human World to investigate Ginjo Kugo after Jūshirō Ukitake reported that Ginjo had killed Shinigami. While searching, Ailin encountered Soma Yoshino, a Bount, and learned that the Substitute Shinigami Badge’s signal had vanished.

• Jūshirō Ukitake told Ailin that Ginjo Kugo had killed more than a dozen Shinigami and asked him to investigate.
• Ailin accepted Ukitake’s request, received a tracking Communication Device, and entered a Senkaimon to the Human World.
• The device led Ailin to a Hollow, where he saw Soma Yoshino summon her fire Doll, Hellfire Gate, and defeat it.
• Ailin recognized Soma Yoshino as a Bount and chose not to kill her after noticing she had not begun consuming human souls.
• The Twelfth Division told Ailin that the Substitute Shinigami Badge’s signal had disappeared and gave him its last known location.

Ailin found Ginjo Kugo hiding in Yukio Hans Vorarlberna’s Game Space and confronted him over his suspicion that Soul Society had monitored and betrayed his Fullbringer allies. Ailin promised to investigate who accessed Ginjo’s badge records and stayed in the Human World while Ginjo and Xcution awaited the results.

• Ailin tracked Ginjo Kugo’s Substitute Shinigami Badge to Yukio Hans Vorarlberna’s villa and deduced that Ginjo was hiding in Yukio’s Game Space.
• Ginjo attacked Ailin from behind, but Ailin caught his sword and threw him through a wall before recognizing him.
• Ailin explained that the badge stored monitoring data that was only supposed to be examined after a Substitute Shinigami’s betrayal, and Ginjo accused Soul Society of using it to target his Fullbringer allies.
• Ailin told Jūshirō Ukitake about Ginjo’s suspicions and asked him to investigate who had accessed the badge records and which division’s Shinigami Ginjo had killed.
• Ailin told Ginjo to keep the badge outside the Game Space and left the villa, after which Yukio Hans Vorarlberna, Kiriko Tsukishima, and Shukuro Tsukishima emerged from the Game Space.

Ginjo Kugo planned to gather other Fullbringers’ powers while Ailin studied the Fullbring power in Ginjo’s necklace and considered using him to draw out Ouhana Auhra. After Jūshirō Ukitake discovered that another faction was monitoring Ginjo, he urged Ailin to kill him and return his corpse to Soul Society.

• Ginjo Kugo told Kiriko Tsukishima that he trusted Teacher Ailin for now, while privately planning to absorb the powers of other Fullbringers.
• Ailin examined an identical cross necklace and concluded that Fullbring was an incomplete form of the Soul King’s power.
• Ailin considered using Ginjo Kugo to lure out Ouhana Auhra, then resumed drawing Zanpakuto cards.
• Jūshirō Ukitake told Ailin that the Shinigami records Ginjo had mentioned did not come from the Soul Technology Development Bureau and that another faction was monitoring him.
• Ukitake suspected Urahara Kisuke or Aizen Sosuke and urged Ailin to kill Ginjo Kugo before another faction could act, then bring his corpse back to Soul Society.

Ailin confronted Ginjo Kugo over his crimes and tried to take him back to the Seireitei, but Ginjo fought and was quickly overpowered. Yukio rescued Ginjo into his Game Space, where Ailin began invading, and Shukuro Tsukishima stabbed Ginjo’s hand to wake him.

• Ailin told Ginjo Kugo that the Seireitei had found evidence he was framed but still held him responsible for killing a Shinigami and demanded that he return for judgment.
• Ginjo rejected Ailin’s offer, activated Bankai, and attacked him with Cross Execution and Getsuga Tensho.
• Ailin crushed Ginjo’s Getsuga Tensho, struck him repeatedly, and prepared to bind him with Bakudō.
• Yukio used his Game Space to pull Ginjo away before Ailin could restrain him, then warned that Ailin was invading the space.
• Shukuro Tsukishima stabbed Ginjo Kugo’s left hand with his blade in an attempt to wake him.

Ailin broke free of Yukio’s Game Space and faced Ginjo Kugo, who revealed a powerful Hollowfied form and attacked him with a Cero. Shukuro Tsukishima’s interference let the blast hit Ailin, but he emerged unharmed and discovered Ginjo and the others had escaped.

• Ailin destroyed Yukio’s Game Space with his reiatsu after fighting through its creatures.
• Ginjo Kugo awakened and combined his Fullbring with his Zanpakuto, then revealed his Bankai: Second Stage form, which Ailin identified as Hollowfication.
• Ginjo charged Ailin and struck him with Cross Execution, but Ailin held his ground and blocked the attack.
• Ginjo fired a Cero while Shukuro Tsukishima used his ability to interfere with Ailin and attacked from underground.
• Ailin shattered the ground, grievously injured Shukuro, and was struck by Ginjo’s Cero, which destroyed Yukio’s villa and much of the mountain.
• Ailin walked out of the flames unharmed and realized Ginjo, Shukuro, Yukio, and Kiriko had escaped.

Ailin captured Ginjo Kugo’s body, then used Book of the End’s power to experience the memories Shukuro Tsukishima had inserted into his past. After reclaiming four years of his younger self’s training, Ailin resolved to spend the next hundred years perfecting the single sword strike his past self had practiced.

• Ailin collected Ginjo Kugo’s ruined body, extinguished the villa’s flames, and sat among the ruins to address Shukuro Tsukishima’s influence on his memories.
• Ailin summoned Book of the End from Unlimited Blade Works and discovered that it could insert its wielder’s existence into a person’s past.
• Ailin’s consciousness entered the memories of his ten-year-old self at True Zero Spirit Arts Academy, where he saw Shukuro Tsukishima as a classmate.
• Young Ailin decided to train in Zanjutsu alone so he could grow stronger before the memories of his future battle with Shukuro Tsukishima took hold.
• Over four years, Ailin practiced a single powerful slash, ignored the academy’s other subjects, and accepted occasional corrections from Shukuro Tsukishima without befriending him.
• Ailin recovered the memories of those four years and used Unlimited Blade Works to absorb his younger self’s training experience, resolving to perfect the strike over the next hundred years.

Ailin perfected the strike he had promised his former self to master, while Shukuro Tsukishima's Book of the End failed to reveal Ailin's life. After Ailin returned from the Human World with an unexpected benefit, he found Jūshirō Ukitake waiting for him in the Thirteenth Division courtyard.

• Ailin unified his strength and perfected a strike that split a wooden post, causing Shukuro Tsukishima's records and memories of Ailin's future life to disappear.
• Over the following years, Ailin defeated his classmates, kept training with a practice sword, and declined an Asauchi so he could imprint his strike into his blade.
• Shukuro Tsukishima told Ginjo Kugo that his ability had failed against Ailin and warned him to keep his distance.
• Ginjo Kugo decided not to return to Yukio's family villa for his body, and the others in Yukio's Game Space were relieved to avoid facing Ailin again.
• Ailin checked that no trace of Tsukishima's spirit particles remained on him, opened a Senkaimon, and returned to the Seireitei.
• Jūshirō Ukitake greeted Ailin in the Thirteenth Division courtyard and said his condition had recently improved.