Recaps

Ronglin defeated Unohana Yachiru and young Zaraki Kenpachi, then entered Shino Academy, where he exposed Qiuyeqi’s fraud and formed a wary partnership with Kuchiki Byakuya and Shiba Zhu. The three traveled to the Graveyard of the Fallen, where Ronglin uncovered signs that a powerful Hollow had attacked the area and an unseen enemy ambushed Shiba Zhu.

• Ronglin fought Unohana Yachiru and young Zaraki Kenpachi, gained control of his Spiritual Pressure, and knocked both unconscious.
• Ronglin reached Shino Academy and exposed Qiuyeqi’s use of a Killing Stone to cheat and disqualify Rukon District applicants.
• Ronglin passed the entrance test, entered Class A, Grade 1, and focused on studying Spiritual Pressure and Kido despite attention from noble students.
• Kuchiki Byakuya and Shiba Zhu invited Ronglin to visit the Graveyard of the Fallen, and he agreed to go with them.
• The three traveled through the Rukon District and reached a forest where Ronglin discovered and helped defeat several Hollows.
• Ronglin deduced that a wind-based enemy was distorting their senses and that a powerful Hollow might have wiped out the local Shinigami squad.
• Ronglin cleared the surrounding forest with Tempest Kick: Flat, then Shiba Zhu struck a hidden target with Kidō #9: Strike before a black shadow sprang toward her.

Ronglin fought Szayelaporro after uncovering the Vasto Lordes’ invasion and drove him off, then returned to Shino Academy. As his fame spread, he attended a gathering where noble guests turned against him.

• Ronglin and Kuchiki Byakuya and Shiba Zhu fought Gillians in the forest before discovering slain Shinigami and five Adjuchas emerging from a Garganta.
• Ronglin killed several Adjuchas and learned that a Vasto Lorde led the invasion before Szayelaporro appeared and identified himself as the mastermind.
• Szayelaporro battled Ronglin, who controlled his Spiritual Pressure and devastated the surrounding land, but the Inverse Membrane carried Szayelaporro away before Ronglin could finish him.
• Ronglin warned the captains about Szayelaporro and the Vasto Lordes, then returned to Shino Academy while the Captain-General ordered stronger defenses and an expedition into Hueco Mundo.
• Shiba Zhu struck a noble student who mocked Ronglin, Kuchiki Byakuya restrained the youth’s companions, and Ronglin stopped their argument by kicking both Shiba Zhu and Byakuya through the classroom ceiling.
• Ronglin accepted an invitation to a Kuchiki Family gathering and resolved to obtain a Zanpakuto after his examinations before joining the Thirteen Court Guard Squads.
• At the gathering, nobles spread rumors about Ronglin and condemned him after he teased the Eleventh Division and challenged their praise of Unohana Yachiru.
• Ronglin mocked the claim that he had disturbed Unohana Yachiru’s peace, and the hall erupted as Kuchiki Haru watched the nobles’ hostility strengthen the Kuchiki Family’s position.

After Ronglin clashed with the Kasumiōji nobles, the captains recruited him into the Thirteen Court Guard Squads and he awakened his Zanpakuto, Silence. Sent to the World of the Living, he fought the Hollow invasion, gathered surviving Shinigami, and learned that Barragan and Szayelaporro’s forces posed a new threat.

• Ronglin defeated the Kasumiōji guards and nobles who attacked him, while Kuchiki Haru and Kyoraku Shunsui protected him and revealed that he had been accepted into the Thirteen Court Guard Squads.
• Ronglin agreed to join the squads, chose an Asauchi that resonated with him, named his Zanpakuto Silence, and received an acting Vice-Captain appointment in Squad Five.
• Ronglin led Kuchiki Byakuya, Shiba Zhu, and two other Shinigami into the World of the Living, where his team fought waves of Hollows and Menos Grande emerging through Gargantas.
• After learning that Hollows were being driven from the Forest of Menos and that powerful forces controlled their escape routes, Ronglin decided to support Shinigami teams in other towns.
• Ronglin rescued battered Shinigami squads from Gillians and Adjuchas, organized survivors into a stronger force, and continued fighting as casualties mounted.
• Shiba Zhu blinded a captured Adjuchas, which revealed that Barragan had sent an Adjuchas combat unit while Szayelaporro sent teams to investigate and interfere with Barragan’s forces.

Ronglin led the Shinigami through a campaign against Hollows and helped defeat Barragan’s Adjuchas, earning a recommendation for Captain. A trap in the Dangai cost Number One her life, and Ronglin’s fury over her death drove him to confront the Shihoin Family.

• Ronglin fought an Adjuchas with Kurohitsugi, injuring many Shinigami, while he privately despaired that his Zanpakuto still had not awakened.
• Zhuo Yun pursued Coyote Stark and died after their fierce battle, and Stark buried her before letting the antelope knight free the mantis.
• Ronglin lured Barragan’s twenty Adjuchas into an ambush, where the Captains sealed and destroyed them with Kurohitsugi.
• Unohana Yachiru and the other Captains recommended Ronglin for Captain, but the group became trapped in a time-space loop in the Dangai.
• Kotsubaki threatened the group, and Number One sacrificed herself to destroy it with her Zanpakuto while Ronglin collapsed from his injuries.
• Ronglin awoke under protection in the First Division Barracks, learned the Shihoin Family was under surveillance, and set out to confront them.
• Shiba Zhu told Ronglin that Number Two had committed suicide and Kuchiki Byakuya had taken his body to the Rukon District.
• Ronglin blasted open the Shihoin gates, defeated more than twenty Onmitsukidō members with Kurohitsugi, and entered the estate to find its head.