Chapter Summaries

Aizen Sosuke escaped Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto and rushed to Sokyoku Hill, where Uchiha Hiko prepared to strike while Aizen absorbed power from the Sokyoku Blade. As Hiko crept closer, a Garganta suddenly opened in the air.

• Shunsui Kyoraku and Kenpachi Zaraki attacked Aizen Sosuke together, but he evaded their blows and clashed with Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto.
• Aizen Sosuke broke away from Yamamoto and sped toward Sokyoku Hill, prompting Yamamoto, Shunsui Kyoraku, and Kenpachi Zaraki to pursue him.
• Uchiha Hiko concealed himself beside the Sokyoku Blade and waited for Aizen Sosuke to approach.
• Aizen Sosuke touched the Sokyoku Blade, and white light poured from it into his body as blade energy cut him.
• Uchiha Hiko crept behind Aizen Sosuke with his Netherflame Blade ready, but a purple-black Garganta appeared nearby.

Uchiha Hiko ambushed Aizen Sosuke at the Sokyoku Blade, but a mysterious green-haired boy pulled Aizen into a Garganta before Hiko could finish him. Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto questioned Hiko about the rescue and his recent actions, while Shunsui Kyoraku and Kenpachi Zaraki arrived.

• Uchiha Hiko stabbed Aizen Sosuke in the back with a transparent Ryujin Jakka, disrupting Aizen’s hold on the Sokyoku Blade.
• Hiko attacked the weakened Aizen with Caress Slash, but a whip from the Garganta dragged Aizen away just before the strike landed.
• Hiko saw a blue-green-haired boy holding the whip, but neither he nor Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto recognized the stranger.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto asked Hiko about his disappearance and control of Ichigo Kurosaki’s spirit body, but Hiko struggled to explain.
• Shunsui Kyoraku and Kenpachi Zaraki arrived, and Kenpachi challenged Hiko to fight.

After the Soul Society battle, Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto suspected Uchiha Hiko was connected to the missing intruder and resolved to test him again. Back in Karakura Town, Hiko examined his changed condition, checked his system points, and found that the Hogyoku was no longer available to draw.

• Uchiha Hiko refused Kenpachi Zaraki's request to spar and used Shunpo to evade him, while Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto noticed their words suggested they had met before.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto warned Shunsui Kyoraku and Ukitake not to repeat their mistake, then wondered whether Uchiha Hiko had been the missing intruder and decided he would test him again.
• Three days after the battle, Uchiha Hiko watched the sunrise in Karakura Town and reflected on the strange sensation he had felt since merging with Ichigo Kurosaki.
• Ichigo Kurosaki dodged Uchiha Hiko's sudden punch and counterattacked, showing increased physical strength, then asked when they could spar again.
• Uchiha Hiko checked his system and saw he had 3,300 points, then opened the item draw and learned the Hogyoku option was blank because it had already been developed and used in the Bleach World.

Uchiha Hiko used 2,000 points to draw a one-time-use item and discovered that the two bundles contained all seven Dragon Balls. He recognized their power to summon Shenron and realized they could drastically change the Bleach World.

• Uchiha Hiko confirmed the system's item draw after learning that successive draws cost more points.
• The system explained that the drawn item was restricted to one-time use because it could affect the Bleach World's balance.
• Uchiha Hiko opened one burlap bundle and found a Two-star Dragon Ball.
• Uchiha Hiko tested the Dragon Ball's hardness and identified it as an orb capable of summoning Shenron.
• Uchiha Hiko poured out the other six Dragon Balls and compared their different star patterns.

Uchiha Hiko’s childhood Dragon Balls resurfaced, and Kisuke Urahara became curious about the golden orbs. After Uchiha Hiko revealed them, Kisuke sensed an unfamiliar energy in one, leaving him eager to investigate despite being kicked for barging in.

• Uchiha Hiko excitedly counted the seven Dragon Balls and hid them when Kisuke Urahara entered his room.
• Kisuke Urahara teased Uchiha Hiko and insisted that friends should share their good things.
• Uchiha Hiko decided Kisuke would not recognize the Dragon Balls and revealed them, then named the One-Star Dragon Ball.
• Uchiha Hiko kicked Kisuke in the crotch for entering without knocking, and Kisuke checked that he was not injured.
• Kisuke Urahara touched a Dragon Ball, sensed unfamiliar energy, and remained curious about the orbs.

Uchiha Hiko lent Kisuke Urahara the Seven Dragon Balls to study, then explained that Aizen Sosuke’s sudden growth was tied to the Hogyoku. The chapter ended with Hiko warning that Aizen would grow stronger still and could defeat even him and Captain Yamamoto together.

• Uchiha Hiko let Kisuke Urahara borrow the Seven Dragon Balls after Urahara eagerly asked to research them.
• Uchiha Hiko asked Urahara why he had come, and Urahara recalled that he wanted to discuss Aizen Sosuke’s betrayal and abnormal increase in strength.
• Uchiha Hiko asked Urahara who held the Hogyoku that had been inside Kuchiki Rukia, leading Urahara to realize it had helped Aizen grow stronger.
• Urahara admitted that the Hogyoku he had created was only a semi-finished product and asked whether Aizen could become stronger again.
• Uchiha Hiko gave Urahara pages containing Hogyoku research concepts and warned that Aizen would eventually defeat both him and Captain Yamamoto.

Uchiha Hiko learned that Aizen Sosuke might be absorbing the Sokyoku’s power and sought Kisuke Urahara’s help to prepare for the threat. After borrowing the Soul Slayer, he considered Aizen, an unknown teal-haired youth, and the strange power he had gained by merging with Ichigo Kurosaki.

• Uchiha Hiko told Kisuke Urahara that Aizen Sosuke might be absorbing the Sokyoku’s power to cross the boundary between Hollow and Soul Reaper abilities.
• Uchiha Hiko asked Urahara to lend him the Soul Slayer so he could improve his combat techniques, and Urahara agreed.
• Urahara left with the Seven Dragon Balls, while Uchiha Hiko kept the Soul Slayer and resolved to deal with Aizen as soon as possible.
• Uchiha Hiko wondered about the power he had gained by merging with Ichigo Kurosaki and tried to identify the teal-haired youth who had saved Aizen.
• Uchiha Hiko decided to visit the movie world and seek inspiration from the Thought Beads, while worrying that Aizen might target the Visored Army in his absence.

Uchiha Hiko gathered the Visored Army to discuss Soul Society’s recent upheaval and the threats ahead. He told them Central 46 had been wiped out, then began teasing the group about his second point.

• Uchiha Hiko arrived at the Visored Army’s new headquarters and ordered Shinji Hirako to gather everyone for a meeting.
• The Visored Army assembled after Shinji Hirako caused a commotion in the inner rooms and was left bruised.
• Uchiha Hiko announced that Aizen Sosuke had wiped out Central 46, prompting the Visoreds to celebrate their freedom from those who had sentenced them.
• Hachigen Ushoda asked whether Uchiha Hiko had killed Central 46, and Shinji Hirako defended him by arguing that the act had protected the Visoreds.
• Uchiha Hiko kept his involvement secret and invited the Visoreds to guess his second point, but Hachigen Ushoda asked him not to make them guess.

Uchiha Hiko told the Visored Army that Soul Society had accepted them as members of Squad Fourteen, and they thanked him for ending more than a century of persecution. He then announced that he would leave for an uncertain length of time, asked them to trust him, and told them to watch over themselves and the Kurosaki family.

• Uchiha Hiko announced that the Visored Army would no longer be pursued and would officially join Squad Fourteen.
• Shinji Hirako and the others knelt and kowtowed to Uchiha Hiko, thanking him for helping them return to Soul Society.
• Uchiha Hiko called the Visored Army his brothers, and they vowed they would never betray him.
• Uchiha Hiko said he would leave soon and did not know how long he would be gone.
• After Hachigen Ushoda asked why they could not go with him, Uchiha Hiko told the Visored Army to trust him and look after themselves and the Kurosaki family.

Uchiha Hiko ordered the Visored Army to maintain its barrier, protect Ichigo Kurosaki, and watch for the Quincy as he warned that Yhwach would soon emerge. He went to Soul Society to discuss the threat with Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, who questioned him about Aizen Sosuke’s massacre of Central 46’s adjudicators.

• Uchiha Hiko refused to bring the Visored Army with him and ordered Hachigen Ushoda to keep the barrier in place because Aizen Sosuke might return to Karakura Town from Hueco Mundo.
• Uchiha Hiko ordered the Visored Army to protect Ichigo Kurosaki and monitor the Quincy, warning that Yhwach would soon emerge.
• Uchiha Hiko left for Soul Society to discuss Yhwach with Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto and preserve Soul Society as a counterweight to Aizen Sosuke and Yhwach.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto complained that Uchiha Hiko had stayed away from Soul Society, then admitted that Aizen Sosuke’s actions had made his life more comfortable.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto told Uchiha Hiko that Byakuya had reported Aizen Sosuke killed Central 46’s adjudicators in under a minute, and watched for his reaction.

Uchiha Hiko recognized that Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto was testing him and turned the interrogation back on Yamamoto. Before revealing that he planned to leave for several months, Hiko asked for a rare token representing Yamamoto’s identity and offered information about Yhwach and Aizen Sosuke in exchange.

• Uchiha Hiko accused Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto of arranging Aizen Sosuke’s betrayal to eliminate Central 46, then dismissed the accusation as a joke.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto warned Uchiha Hiko not to make dangerous remarks carelessly.
• Uchiha Hiko told Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto that he would be away for at most several months and asked for an uncommon item that could represent Yamamoto’s identity.
• Uchiha Hiko offered information about Yhwach and Aizen Sosuke in exchange for the item.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto reacted with disbelief and demanded to know how Uchiha Hiko had heard the name Yhwach.

Uchiha Hiko warned Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto that Yhwach and his Wandenreich had been hiding within Soul Society and that Aizen Sosuke might attack from Karakura Town. He left with Yamamoto’s token, telling him to wait for his return as Soul Society faced the threat of a simultaneous assault.

• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto explained Soul Society’s past war against the Quincy and asked Uchiha Hiko to share his news.
• Uchiha Hiko warned that Yhwach would soon return with his elite forces and that Aizen Sosuke’s strength was rapidly growing.
• Uchiha Hiko told Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto that Aizen would use Karakura Town as a springboard into Soul Society while Yhwach attacked from within.
• Uchiha Hiko revealed that Yhwach and the Wandenreich had been hiding in Soul Society all along, and Yamamoto asked how to prepare.
• Uchiha Hiko told Yamamoto to wait for his return, then left Soul Society with Yamamoto’s token.

Uchiha Hiko told Ichigo Kurosaki he would be away and then traveled to a remote part of Rukongai to use the Soul Slayer for training. After activating it with his blood and Ryujin Jakka, he found the grassland filled with Zanpakuto and heard a voice challenge him.

• Uchiha Hiko returned to Karakura Town and told Ichigo Kurosaki to protect himself while he was away and to work toward completing Bankai.
• Uchiha Hiko asked Isshin Kurosaki to look after Ichigo Kurosaki, and Kuchiki Rukia asked why he had risked his life to save her.
• Uchiha Hiko told Kuchiki Rukia that he liked her, and she ran inside after wishing him a safe journey.
• Uchiha Hiko traveled to a deserted part of Rukongai, where he connected with the Soul Slayer and activated it using his blood and Ryujin Jakka.
• Uchiha Hiko saw Zanpakuto spread across the grassland and heard a voice ask whether he wished to challenge it.

Uchiha Hiko faced Ryujin Jakka’s manifested form and traded attacks with the fiery spirit, who demanded that Hiko stop looking down on him. Their enormous blue-white fire attacks collided in a blast that left the outcome uncertain.

• Ryujin Jakka manifested as a flame-wreathed man and challenged Uchiha Hiko, who remarked that he had expected a phoenix or vermilion bird.
• The manifested spirit unleashed Bankai, scorching the grassland and hurling a huge fireball at Hiko.
• Uchiha Hiko used Six Powers and a Zanpakuto to split the fireball, then asked the spirit how he had done it.
• The spirit grew angrier at Hiko’s scorn and gathered another enormous fireball while Hiko prepared a much larger blue-white flame attack.
• Uchiha Hiko used Fire Flame: Fuzhan to launch a powerful crescent slash, which collided with the spirit’s fireball in a tremendous explosion.

Uchiha Hiko defeated the Flame Great Han in their clash and demanded the secret behind the explosion. The Flame Great Han revealed that Ryujin Jakka’s techniques were hidden in the scattered Zanpakuto, then explained that Hiko needed to understand how different conditions affected the sword’s power.

• Uchiha Hiko and the Flame Great Han survived their enormous clash, but the Flame Great Han coughed up blood while Hiko wondered why his latest Fire Flame Slash had been stronger.
• Uchiha Hiko demanded the secret of the explosion and reminded the Flame Great Han that their fates were bound together.
• The Flame Great Han revealed that the techniques and secrets of Ryujin Jakka were scattered among the Zanpakuto across the field.
• Uchiha Hiko examined the swords but could not distinguish them, so the Flame Great Han told him that their subtle differences reflected Ryujin Jakka’s state under different conditions.
• The Flame Great Han instructed Uchiha Hiko to study each sword’s changes, advantages, and disadvantages, and began to rephrase what he needed to do.

Uchiha Hiko trained with the flame-wreathed big man to control his killing intent and reclaim his scattered strength through the Zanpakuto. On the eighth day, he still had many swords left unreclaimed as he prepared to leave for another world.

• The big man told Uchiha Hiko to begin training with one of the hundreds of Zanpakuto scattered across the ground.
• Uchiha Hiko attacked in his Ichimon state, but the big man knocked his sword away and taught him to stay clear-headed and retain his technique under killing intent.
• Uchiha Hiko repeatedly attacked and was disarmed until he finally dispersed the big man's force, realizing that emotions could both strengthen and weaken him.
• The big man explained that each Zanpakuto represented a portion of Uchiha Hiko's strength and that completing one would restore that portion.
• After eight days in the Soul Society, Uchiha Hiko looked over the many Zanpakuto he had not reclaimed and sighed.

After seven days of training with Ryujin Jakka, Uchiha Hiko left to retrieve the Seven Dragon Balls from Kisuke Urahara before traveling to another world. He confronted Urahara at the shop, but Urahara’s guilty silence left the Dragon Balls’ fate uncertain.

• Uchiha Hiko stopped training and told the melancholy Ryujin Jakka that he would return, then reclaimed the Soul Slayer and absorbed the scattered Zanpakuto, with roughly one-third of their power entering Ryujin Jakka instead.
• Uchiha Hiko returned to Karakura Town and went straight to Kisuke Urahara’s shop to retrieve the Seven Dragon Balls.
• Kisuke Urahara admitted he had assumed Uchiha Hiko had enough time to reclaim his power, and Uchiha Hiko punched him for leaving him dangerously short of strength.
• Uchiha Hiko asked where the Seven Dragon Balls were, but Kisuke Urahara hesitated, making Uchiha Hiko suspect something had happened to them.

Uchiha Hiko found Kisuke Urahara experimenting on the Seven Dragon Balls and discovered that Urahara had used their strange energy to create a space-expanding storage bag. After considering whether to take the Dragon Balls on his next journey, Hiko learned Urahara needed only four more hours to finish his research.

• Uchiha Hiko confronted Kisuke Urahara, who admitted the Seven Dragon Balls were in the laboratory and could not yet be removed.
• Uchiha Hiko entered Urahara's underground laboratory and found the Dragon Balls behind glass, being struck, soaked in chemicals, and cut by machines.
• Kisuke Urahara explained that he had researched the Dragon Balls while Hiko was away and was trying to make their strange energy diffuse for collection.
• Kisuke Urahara showed Uchiha Hiko a small bag whose interior space was a hundred times larger than its exterior and preserved stored objects.
• Uchiha Hiko considered taking the Dragon Balls with him because the Soul Slayer had weakened him, then asked how long Urahara needed to continue his experiments.
• Kisuke Urahara assured Uchiha Hiko that four hours would be enough, and Hiko responded with an ominous smile.

Uchiha Hiko tricked Kisuke Urahara into handing over the Seven Dragon Balls and a spatial bag before setting out for another world. After arriving, he found Ichigo Kurosaki and Kuchiki Rukia did not recognize him, leading him to suspect that a blink had transported him to the movie-version other world.

• Uchiha Hiko refused to give Kisuke Urahara the Dragon Balls early, then took the Seven Dragon Balls and a spatial bag after making him wait four hours.
• Uchiha Hiko left with the Dragon Balls and Soul Slayer in the bag and noted that only minutes remained before he went to another world.
• After an invisible force passed through him, Uchiha Hiko heard a Hollow die and found Ichigo Kurosaki and Kuchiki Rukia confronting him.
• Ichigo Kurosaki and Kuchiki Rukia failed to recognize Uchiha Hiko and treated him as a dangerous stranger.
• Uchiha Hiko realized the pair and their surroundings looked identical to those in the Bleach World and wondered whether a blink had taken him to another world.

Uchiha Hiko introduced himself to Ichigo Kurosaki and Kuchiki Rukia as the captain of the Huyan Special Unit, but Rukia could not contact the Soul Society to verify his claim. The three encountered a gathering of Menos Grande, and Hiko recognized that the story's plot had begun.

• Uchiha Hiko showed Ichigo Kurosaki and Kuchiki Rukia an appointment scroll bearing the Soul Society's and Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto's seals.
• Kuchiki Rukia tried to contact the Soul Society, but her communicator failed, while Ichigo Kurosaki hurried to recover his physical body from Kon.
• Ichigo Kurosaki and Kuchiki Rukia tried to escape Uchiha Hiko, who used flash step to appear ahead of them.
• Uchiha Hiko, Ichigo Kurosaki, and Kuchiki Rukia sensed a mass of souls and arrived at a shopping mall plaza filled with Menos Grande.
• Uchiha Hiko identified the creatures as Menos Grande, and Kuchiki Rukia confirmed his explanation while Ichigo Kurosaki asked what they were.