Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Hiko killed Kensei Muguruma with Ryujin Jakka’s Bankai, then faced Lui-sen-bang and Ulquiorra together. As their combined attacks threatened him, Hiko considered opening the dangerous Sixth Gate.

• Kensei Muguruma released Bankai and attacked Uchiha Hiko, but Hiko blocked his strike with Ryujin Jakka.
• Uchiha Hiko unleashed Zanka no Tachi, burned Kensei Muguruma’s arms, and destroyed his body and soul.
• Stark mourned Kensei Muguruma’s death, while Ulquiorra dismissed him and went to carry out Lord Aizen’s mission.
• Lui-sen-bang attacked Uchiha Hiko with corrosive black arrows, and Ulquiorra joined the fight with Gran Rey Cero.
• Uchiha Hiko struggled against both enemies, considered opening the Sixth Gate, and prepared Kafuu Joukaku.

Uchiha Hiko fought Barragan, Ulquiorra, and Stark in Karakura Town as Soul Society learned of the Hollows’ arrival and mobilized to intervene. The battle continued with Hiko unleashing powerful flames against Stark.

• Uchiha Hiko dodged Barragan’s corrosive black snakes, while Barragan demanded that Ulquiorra leave the fight to him.
• Stark arrived with his wolves, ordered Ulquiorra to check the passage to Soul Society, and attacked Uchiha Hiko with his pistols.
• Uchiha Hiko released the Fifth Gate and used Morning Peacock as the Hollow group pressed him.
• Shunsui Kyoraku told Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto that powerful Hollows had appeared in Karakura Town, and Yamamoto ordered the Thirteenth Division to gather and go there.
• Uchiha Hiko attacked Stark with Inferno Hell, then threatened to settle the score with his opponents and invoked Breath of Death.

Uchiha Hiko unleashed Evening Elephant against Stark, Ulquiorra, and Barragan, badly injuring the Espada and devastating the clouds above Karakura Town. With his energy nearly depleted, he evaded Barragan’s attacks and realized something had gone wrong when he had used the technique.

• Lui-sen-bang joined the fight as Uchiha Hiko continued to block the Espada’s attacks, and Ulquiorra warned that Soul Society’s forces were approaching.
• Stark urged the Espada to retreat, but Barragan charged Uchiha Hiko instead.
• Uchiha Hiko unleashed Evening Elephant, creating a vast golden hand that injured the Espada and left Ulquiorra unconscious.
• Kisuke Urahara and Isshin Kurosaki saw the attack’s aftermath and realized Uchiha Hiko had controlled its power to spare the living world.
• Barragan repaired his damaged crown, attacked Uchiha Hiko with Breath of Death and the Axe of Death, and Uchiha Hiko dodged and kicked him away despite his nearly drained energy.

Uchiha Hiko trapped Barragan Luisenbarn in Tsukuyomi and taunted him about being a puppet rather than the true King of Hueco Mundo. Barragan’s attacks failed to harm Hiko, but he struck down what appeared to be Hiko with his Axe of Destruction.

• Uchiha Hiko mocked Barragan for losing to Aizen and trapped him inside his shrinking black mist barrier.
• Uchiha Hiko used Tsukuyomi on Barragan, immobilized him, and told him he was only a puppet under the true king.
• Barragan rejected Hiko’s claims and attacked him with Breath of Death, but the corrosive mist could not hurt Hiko.
• Barragan charged at Hiko with his Axe of Destruction and split him in half, only for Hiko’s figure to dissolve into black mist.

Uchiha Hiko defeated Barragan Luisenbarn in the Tsukuyomi World, then revived him and decided to make him a subordinate. Barragan learned that the ordeal was an illusion but mistakenly thought he had escaped it, and attacked Hiko again.

• Barragan Luisenbarn's Breath of Death shield resisted Hiko's Rankyaku: Chaos, but Amaterasu gradually burned it away.
• Hiko struck Barragan with a Six Paths Shuriken and blasted his skeletal body into ash.
• Hiko considered whether to let Barragan believe he had died or recruit him to help conquer the Bleach World, then revived him inside the Tsukuyomi World.
• Hiko explained that he controlled the Tsukuyomi World and confirmed that the ordeal was an illusion begun when Barragan met his eyes.
• Barragan assumed he had escaped Hiko's Genjutsu and attacked him with spears of Breath of Death.

Uchiha Hiko persuaded Barragan Luisenbarn to ally with him against Sosuke Aizen, then emerged from the illusion with Barragan unconscious. Stark revealed that the Arrancar had been hunting Uchiha Hiko to devour his unusually pure and powerful soul, and Uchiha Hiko prepared to fight them.

• Uchiha Hiko offered to help Barragan Luisenbarn defeat Sosuke Aizen and reclaim the throne of Hueco Mundo, and Barragan agreed.
• In the living world, Stark and Ulquiorra waited beneath the Black Ball as the barrier faded and Barragan fell unconscious.
• Ulquiorra caught Barragan while Stark confronted Uchiha Hiko about his strength.
• Uchiha Hiko asked Stark why the Arrancar had been hunting him, and Stark explained that they wanted to devour his precious soul to increase their power and possibly cross the boundary between Soul Reapers and Hollows.
• Uchiha Hiko concluded that he and the Arrancar would have to settle matters in battle.

Uchiha Hiko drove Stark and Ulquiorra away, then returned home after Kisuke Urahara tried to persuade him to let his soul be studied. When Shunsui Kyoraku arrived to take Ichigo Kurosaki to the Soul Society for judgment, Uchiha Hiko challenged his authority and refused to let him go.

• Stark and Ulquiorra admitted defeat and left, while Uchiha Hiko chose not to pursue them.
• Kisuke Urahara arrived and asked to study Uchiha Hiko's soul, but Uchiha Hiko refused; Isshin Kurosaki then arrived, and he and Uchiha Hiko went home.
• Uchiha Hiko slept until dusk, then came downstairs and found Shunsui Kyoraku arguing with Isshin Kurosaki.
• Isshin Kurosaki told Uchiha Hiko that Shunsui Kyoraku intended to take Ichigo Kurosaki to the Soul Society for judgment.
• Uchiha Hiko challenged Shunsui Kyoraku's right to take Ichigo and asked what would happen if he refused.

Uchiha Hiko confronted Shunsui Kyoraku when Shunsui tried to arrest Ichigo Kurosaki, and Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto arrived before they could fight. Hiko refused to let Ichigo be taken and insisted that Ichigo would join the future Special Unit, leaving Yamamoto to answer his demand.

• Uchiha Hiko and Shunsui Kyoraku clashed over Shunsui's attempt to arrest Ichigo Kurosaki, and their Spiritual Pressures sent Isshin Kurosaki flying.
• Uchiha Hiko and Shunsui Kyoraku prepared to fight, but Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto arrived and stopped them.
• Shunsui Kyoraku explained that the dispute began with Kuchiki Rukia, and Yamamoto recognized the situation.
• Uchiha Hiko declared that Ichigo Kurosaki would not be taken away because he was Hiko's little brother and a future Special Unit member.
• Uchiha Hiko warned that he would not become a captain if Yamamoto refused to accept Ichigo into the Special Unit.

After Yamamoto stopped Ichigo Kurosaki from being arrested, Uchiha Hiko discovered that his updated system had granted him points and a reward-drawing function. He found a Hogyoku among the possible rewards, but learned that obtaining it would require far more points than he had.

• Yamamoto overruled Shunsui Kyoraku and kept Ichigo Kurosaki as reserve combat strength until the Special Unit was established.
• Shunsui Kyoraku left the Kurosaki residence after telling Uchiha Hiko he hoped they would fight another time.
• Isshin Kurosaki thanked Uchiha Hiko for protecting Ichigo, and Uchiha Hiko returned to his room.
• Uchiha Hiko opened the newly updated system and learned that his thirty thousand points came from completing missions and killing enemies.
• Uchiha Hiko found a Hogyoku among the reward options, but the system said it cost ten million points and offered to remove thirty percent of other rewards for twenty thousand points.

Uchiha Hiko spent all his points on a special draw and won the Hogyoku, only for the system to downgrade it to a one-use, lowest-grade version. The sudden change in the weather alarmed the Shinigami, while Sosuke Aizen sensed a familiar presence inside the sealed room and Shunsui Kyoraku warned him not to act without getting past him.

• Uchiha Hiko confirmed the special draw and spent all thirty thousand points, then won the Hogyoku.
• Uchiha Hiko collected the Hogyoku, but the system downgraded it because the original had already been unlocked and used.
• A violent storm struck Karakura Town, and Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto sensed that the world was about to change.
• Shunsui Kyoraku grew irritable and reached for Katen Kyokotsu before Yamamoto stopped him.
• Sosuke Aizen sensed a presence like the Hogyoku inside a sealed room, and Shunsui Kyoraku warned him he would have to get past him.

Uchiha Hiko learned that he could not turn his unfinished Hogyoku into a complete one without destroying the original, then met Sosuke Aizen, who questioned him about his rapid recovery and a mysterious object. Hiko suspected Aizen had come after sensing the Hogyoku's aura and redirected the conversation by inviting him for a drink.

• Uchiha Hiko asked the system how to complete his unfinished Hogyoku, and it said he would have to destroy the original Hogyoku.
• Uchiha Hiko put away the Hogyoku and found Sosuke Aizen waiting in his courtyard.
• Aizen asked about Uchiha Hiko's recovery and suggested he might have used a mysterious object.
• Uchiha Hiko denied having any such object, and Aizen said sharing a recovery method could help Soul Society and Hiko's captaincy prospects.
• Uchiha Hiko called Aizen a friend and invited him to drink, while suspecting Aizen had come to investigate the Hogyoku's aura.

Uchiha Hiko suspected that Sosuke Aizen had sensed the Hogyoku because Aizen already controlled Hueco Mundo, though neither man knew what the other possessed. Shunsui Kyoraku warned Hiko to be careful around Aizen, then brought him to a meeting where Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto was about to announce an appointment.

• Uchiha Hiko reasoned that Aizen’s awareness of the Hogyoku and Barragan Luisenbarn’s remarks suggested Aizen already ruled Hueco Mundo.
• Uchiha Hiko recalled that his drinking session with Aizen three years earlier had been a cautious exchange in which neither revealed his true hand.
• Shunsui Kyoraku warned Uchiha Hiko to be careful around Aizen, and Hiko agreed.
• Shunsui Kyoraku led Uchiha Hiko to a gathering of the captains and other Soul Reapers.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto announced that he would make an appointment.

Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto established a Special Unit in the Thirteenth Division and appointed Uchiha Hiko its captain, ordering him to remain in Karakura Town because he still had a physical body. Rukia told Ichigo Kurosaki she was returning to the Soul Society, and Ichigo comforted her; the chapter ended with Ichigo rushing to find Uchiha Hiko.

• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto announced the creation of a Special Unit and appointed Uchiha Hiko its captain despite lacking Central 46's approval.
• Sosuke Aizen, Shunsui Kyoraku, Toshiro Hitsugaya, Sajin Komamura, and Kenpachi Zaraki voiced support, and the other captains accepted the decision.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto ordered Uchiha Hiko to stay in Karakura Town because he retained his physical body, astonishing the captains.
• Rukia told Ichigo Kurosaki she was going back to the Soul Society, and Ichigo embraced her as she cried against his chest.
• Ichigo Kurosaki hurried to Uchiha Hiko, who was wearing his White Shinigami Uniform and carrying an illusory spiritual Zanpakuto.

Uchiha Hiko told Ichigo Kurosaki that he had to save Rukia himself, while a system mission tasked Hiko with facilitating Sosuke Aizen’s defection and saving her. Ichigo confronted Renji Abarai as Rukia was being taken to the Soul Society, and Aizen watched the fight thoughtfully.

• Ichigo Kurosaki learned that Rukia would be taken back to the Soul Society and begged Uchiha Hiko to help.
• Uchiha Hiko told Ichigo that only he could stop Rukia’s transfer, and the system assigned Hiko a mission to facilitate Sosuke Aizen’s defection and save Rukia.
• Ichigo left, while Uchiha Hiko decided he would have to enter the Soul Society himself despite being unable to transform into a spirit body.
• Ichigo arrived at the outskirts as Rukia was about to be taken away, and Shunsui Kyoraku sent Kenpachi Zaraki through the passage before telling Renji Abarai and Sosuke Aizen not to let Ichigo die.
• Renji Abarai drew Zabimaru and faced Ichigo, who charged him to keep Rukia from being taken away.
• Sosuke Aizen watched Ichigo and Renji fight and looked thoughtfully at the tearful Rukia.

After Renji Abarai defeated Ichigo Kurosaki and took Rukia to Soul Society, Sosuke Aizen gave Ichigo hope by teaching him how to open a passage there. Ichigo learned that his father was a Shinigami and resolved to save Rukia, while Kisuke Urahara began explaining why Uchiha Hiko could not become a true Shinigami.

• Renji Abarai easily defeated Ichigo Kurosaki, then led Rukia into the passage to Soul Society.
• Sosuke Aizen told Ichigo Kurosaki that Rukia might die, taught him how to open a passage to Soul Society, and left him two months to decide her fate.
• Uchiha Hiko told Ichigo Kurosaki that Isshin Kurosaki could teach him to use his Zanpakuto, revealing that his father was a Shinigami.
• Isshin Kurosaki confirmed that he had been a captain of Squad Ten and asked whether Ichigo truly wanted to save Rukia; Ichigo answered firmly that he did.
• Uchiha Hiko and Kisuke Urahara left Isshin and Ichigo alone, and Urahara speculated that Hiko's powerful body limited his soul's ability to become a Shinigami.

Uchiha Hiko showed Kisuke Urahara a Hogyoku that Urahara recognized as more advanced than his own, prompting them to question whether the Hogyoku sealed inside Rukia was still there. They realized Urahara had sensed no Hogyoku from Rukia before she was taken back to the Soul Society, leaving them worried that Sosuke Aizen may already possess a complete Hogyoku.

• Kisuke Urahara explained that Hiko's powerful, unfamiliar energy obstructed his transformation into a Perfect Form Soul Reaper.
• Uchiha Hiko revealed that he had a Hogyoku, and Kisuke Urahara eagerly examined it.
• Kisuke Urahara said his Hogyoku, sealed inside Rukia, had been an immature version of the device.
• Uchiha Hiko reasoned that Sosuke Aizen might have taken the Hogyoku from Rukia and completed it, and feared what that meant for Aizen's strength.
• Uchiha Hiko asked whether Urahara had sensed the Hogyoku in Rukia, and Urahara admitted that he had not.
• Kisuke Urahara questioned whether a completed version of his own Hogyoku would also be usable only once.

Uchiha Hiko and Kisuke Urahara suspected Sosuke Aizen had taken the Hogyoku, while Urahara promised to research it and help Hiko become a Soul Reaper. More than a month later, Shinji Hirako, Kukaku Shiba, and Love Aikawa questioned Hiko about Kensei Muguruma, and Hiko stopped them as they were leaving.

• Uchiha Hiko suspected Sosuke Aizen had taken the Hogyoku, and Kisuke Urahara admitted he might not be able to defeat Aizen.
• Urahara promised to research the Hogyoku within a month and make Hiko a Soul Reaper without taking away his physical body's power.
• Hiko spent more than a month sparring with Ichigo Kurosaki, whose progress brought him close to attaining Shikai.
• Shinji Hirako, Kukaku Shiba, and Love Aikawa confronted Hiko about Kensei Muguruma, and Hiko explained that Kensei had tried to take his soul and colluded with Hueco Mundo.
• Shinji prepared to leave after Hiko said there were no other signs, but Hiko stopped him.

Uchiha Hiko offered Shinji Hirako and the Visored a place in his Thirteenth Division Special Unit, promising that Central 46 would soon fall and the Soul Society would descend into chaos. Shinji agreed to test Hiko in battle, and their fight began with Hiko wounding him.

• Uchiha Hiko asked what conditions the Visored had for joining his Special Unit, and Shinji Hirako questioned whether Hiko could protect them from Central 46.
• Love Aikawa condemned Central 46 for driving the Visored out, while Hiko predicted its destruction and offered to take them back to the Soul Society.
• Shinji Hirako accepted Hiko's challenge, agreeing that the Visored would join his unit if he lost.
• Uchiha Hiko and Shinji Hirako fought in the mountain range, clashing with their Zanpakuto as the other Visored watched.
• Uchiha Hiko exploited an opening and slashed Shinji Hirako across the chest, but Shinji said he would not be careless again.

Uchiha Hiko fought Shinji Hirako after Shinji used Hollowfication and released Sakanade, whose ability inverted his opponent’s senses. Hiko used Sage Mode to track Shinji despite the effect, but Shinji challenged him to predict where his next attack would land.

• Shinji Hirako used Hollowfication and clashed with Uchiha Hiko, who overwhelmed him in their exchange and wounded him.
• Shinji released Sakanade and activated the World of Inversion, while Love Aikawa and the others expected Hiko to lose.
• Uchiha Hiko closed his eyes and used Yang Sage Art: Pure Yang Flame Hurricane to surround himself with green flames.
• Shinji attacked Hiko, who sensed his approach in Sage Mode and blocked his strike from behind.
• Shinji asked whether Hiko could sense where he would be injured next.

Uchiha Hiko countered Shinji Hirako’s Inverted World by changing the battlefield with overwhelming flames, trapping Shinji inside a burning enclosure. Shinji realized he might have lost as Kukaku Shiba and the others watched from outside.

• Shinji Hirako used Sakanade’s Inverted World to reverse Uchiha Hiko’s perceptions and attacks, cutting both of Hiko’s arms as Hiko tried to counter.
• Shinji revealed that he could trigger a second inversion during a brief pause, foiling Hiko’s attempt to predict his attack.
• Uchiha Hiko opened the Fifth Gate, raised his spiritual pressure, and unleashed Inferno Hell to surround Shinji with towering pillars of fire.
• Uchiha Hiko used Kafuu Joukaku to weave the flames into a net and seal Shinji inside a small, blazing space.
• Shinji stared at the flames in disbelief and wondered whether he had lost, while Kukaku Shiba cheered from outside the battlefield.