Chapter Summaries

Yhwach subdued Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni by threatening to use Ryūjin Jakka against Soul Society, and moved to kill him. Arima Shizuya suddenly intervened, blocked Yhwach’s sword with Blut, and knocked him through a wall.

• Yhwach taunted Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni, claiming his softened resolve would cause Soul Society’s fall.
• Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni charged Yhwach, but stopped when Yhwach used the Star Badge to threaten control of Ryūjin Jakka.
• Yamamoto lowered his Zanpakuto, and Yhwach approached to kill him with a Quincy sword.
• Arima Shizuya appeared between them and blocked Yhwach’s slash with his Blut-protected arm.
• Arima Shizuya kicked Yhwach through a wall and introduced himself to the stunned Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni.

Arima Shizuya revealed himself to Yhwach, whose restored memories and use of Auswählen showed that the two were now at odds. After Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni apologized and Arima accepted, Arima turned to face Yhwach and prepare to settle their conflict.

• Yhwach remembered Arima Shizuya after his Soul King-level concealment ended, then angrily accused him of interfering with his fate.
• Yhwach activated Auswählen, reclaiming power from Quincies across the Soul Society and causing Robert Accutrone and other victims to perish.
• Liltotto examined the unconscious Candice and concluded that she had been affected by both Auswählen and another power, while Bazz-B and the others discussed Arima Shizuya's conflict with Yhwach.
• Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni apologized to Arima Shizuya, who accepted before turning to confront Yhwach.
• Yhwach calmly told Arima Shizuya, "Well done."

Arima Shizuya revealed how he had evaded Auswählen by controlling Lloyd Lloyd with Aizen Sōsuke’s help, but Yhwach targeted him again. Kurosaki Ichigo and Kisuke Urahara brought Arima’s separated Hollow half to reunite with him, allowing Arima to escape Yhwach’s control and reclaim Ryūjin Jakka for a counterattack.

• Yhwach realized Arima Shizuya had used Dominate to control Lloyd Lloyd and divert Auswählen, while Aizen Sōsuke had concealed the deception.
• Yhwach unleashed Auswählen at Arima, but a strange Hollow-like figure arrived and shattered the attack.
• Kurosaki Ichigo and Kisuke Urahara revealed that the figure was Arima’s separated Hollow half, and the two halves reunited.
• Arima’s fused soul began slipping free of Yhwach’s control, and he commanded Yhwach to come closer.
• Arima used Dominate to collapse Yhwach’s Star Badge and took Ryūjin Jakka from Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni.

Arima Shizuya stepped in to fight Yhwach, and their clashes unleashed devastating shock waves across the battlefield. As Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni lent Ryūjin Jakka and his resolve to Arima, Arima walked through the flames toward Yhwach, resembling the Sword Demon of a thousand years ago.

• Arima Shizuya charged Yhwach, and their blades collided with enough force to scatter and injure onlookers.
• Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni blocked part of the shock wave, while the wounded Kuchiki Byakuya struggled onward and an unidentified figure caught him.
• Yhwach fired Holy Destruction Arrows at Arima, who countered with Hollow Flash and then Gran Rey Cero against Yhwach’s enlarged arrow.
• Chōjirō Sasakibe joined Yamamoto, who sensed Hollow power in Arima’s complicated soul and declared him their last hope.
• Yamamoto unleashed Ryūjin Jakka’s flames, and Arima accepted the Zanpakuto’s will before walking through the fire toward Yhwach.

Arima Shizuya fought Yhwach while wielding Ryūjin Jakka, but Yhwach gained the advantage and challenged him to unleash the blade’s full power at the cost of destroying Soul Society. Arima refused to sacrifice everyone and considered another way to turn the battle around.

• Yhwach unleashed a rain of light arrows, but Arima Shizuya’s flames spread through them and the two clashed above Soul Society.
• Shinigami and Quincy alike watched the battle as Soi Fon ordered Ōmaeda to finish bandaging her so they could go see it.
• Neliel Tu Oderschvank argued with Hirako Shinji while they helped the wounded, then asked whether Arima could win.
• Yhwach knocked Arima out of the sky, leaving him weakened and at a disadvantage.
• Yhwach taunted Arima and offered him ten seconds to unleash Ryūjin Jakka, threatening to make him choose between killing Yhwach and destroying Soul Society.
• Arima refused to use Ryūjin Jakka at that cost and prepared to rely on another option.

Arima Shizuya lowered Ryūjin Jakka and awakened his unstable Hollow power to fight Yhwach with his full strength. Yhwach launched Sankt Altar against him as the light began to fall.

• Arima Shizuya lowered Ryūjin Jakka because its indiscriminate attacks risked causing too much destruction.
• Kisuke Urahara and Kurosaki Ichigo judged that Arima Shizuya had the upper hand despite appearances.
• Arima Shizuya erupted with spiritual pressure and forced Hollow power to manifest through his body, creating a half-face mask and armor.
• Arima Shizuya explained that the fusion was unstable because parts of his soul were missing.
• Yhwach summoned Sankt Altar, surrounding Arima Shizuya with colossal crosses and beginning a rain of light.
• Arima Shizuya began to move before the light fell.

Arima Shizuya broke through Yhwach’s Sankt Altar by transforming into a Hollow-like beast, and the two fought savagely in the sky before crashing to the ground. As Kuchiki Byakuya and Hinamori Momo watched, Yhwach pierced Arima Shizuya’s chest and crushed his heart.

• Arima Shizuya burst through Yhwach’s azure torrent and seized him by the throat, carrying him into the sky.
• Yhwach severed Arima Shizuya’s arm, but Arima regenerated it and attacked Yhwach with his fists and Ryūjin Jakka.
• Arima tore apart Yhwach’s Reishi torrent, and the two resumed their brutal fight before falling to the ground.
• Kuchiki Byakuya and Hinamori Momo reached the battlefield and saw Yhwach punch through Arima Shizuya’s chest.
• Yhwach crushed the heart he had seized from Arima Shizuya’s chest.

Hinamori Momo and Kuchiki Byakuya reached the battlefield just as Yhwach crushed Arima Shizuya’s heart, but Arima used Blut Puppe to create a new heart from spirit-particle threads and rise again. Yhwach realized Arima had pushed Quincy technique beyond anything he could comprehend.

• Hinamori Momo left the barracks after sensing Arima Shizuya’s presence and met the badly wounded Kuchiki Byakuya on the way.
• Hinamori Momo and Kuchiki Byakuya reached the front lines and watched Yhwach pierce Arima Shizuya’s chest and crush his heart.
• Hinamori Momo pleaded for Arima Shizuya not to die as Yhwach turned away, believing him defeated.
• Arima Shizuya seized Yhwach’s arm and, despite his ruined body, used Blut Puppe to move again.
• Arima Shizuya formed a new heart from blue spirit-particle threads, revived, and made Yhwach recognize the unprecedented reach of his Quincy talent.

Arima Shizuya fused Quincy and Hollow powers to overcome Yhwach’s counterattack and beat him into a mangled heap. As the Rescue Squad rushed to save Arima Shizuya, black vapor escaped from Yhwach’s remains, leaving Aizen Sōsuke to suspect the Wandenreich was involved.

• Yhwach attacked Arima Shizuya and disrupted the Reishi heart forming inside his body, but Hollow Power emerged and drove Yhwach’s Reishi back.
• Arima Shizuya combined Quincy reinforcement with Hollow Power and regained control of his body, then broke through Yhwach’s Blut and launched a brutal assault.
• Arima Shizuya continued beating Yhwach amid the ruins of Soul Society until Aizen Sōsuke approached and spoke with him.
• Arima Shizuya collapsed as his semi-Hollow armor dispersed and his Reishi heart began to fail, so Retsu Unohana and the Rescue Squad rushed to treat him.
• Black vapor rose from Yhwach’s remains and vanished despite Aizen Sōsuke’s attempt to stop it, leading Aizen Sōsuke to suspect the Wandenreich.

Arima Shizuya used a fusion of Quincy and Hollow powers to overcome Yhwach and beat him nearly to death, then collapsed as his newly forming heart began to fail. As the Rescue Squad rushed to save him, a black vapor took Yhwach’s remains and vanished, leaving Aizen Sōsuke to suspect the Wandenreich.

• Yhwach identified the limits of Arima Shizuya’s Blut Puppe and disrupted his body by forcing his own Reishi into it.
• Arima Shizuya stabilized himself by combining Quincy Reishi with Hollow Power, then shattered Yhwach’s Blut and launched a brutal counterattack.
• Arima Shizuya repeatedly battered Yhwach through the ruins until he was left as a mangled heap of flesh, while Shinigami watched nearby.
• Aizen Sōsuke spoke with Arima Shizuya, who thanked him before collapsing as his Hollow armor dispersed and his forming heart began to fail.
• Retsu Unohana and the Rescue Squad moved to treat Arima Shizuya while Aizen Sōsuke turned to Yamamoto and Kyōraku Shunsui.
• Black vapor emerged from Yhwach’s remains and vanished with them, prompting Aizen Sōsuke to suspect the Wandenreich.

Arima Shizuya awoke with his memories of his former comrades erased and learned that Shinigami and Quincy had repaired his heart after his defeat. As he met the people who felt responsible for his fate, Mayuri Kurotsuchi revealed that Yhwach had escaped and resurrected.

• Arima Shizuya woke in an emergency camp and asked Hinamori Momo whether she knew him, revealing that he could not remember her.
• Nemu Kurotsuchi escorted Arima Shizuya to Mayuri Kurotsuchi while explaining that his past self had likely altered his memories; the gathered Shinigami struggled with their guilt over his death sentence.
• Nemu Kurotsuchi told Arima Shizuya that Shinigami and Quincy had cooperated to repair his heart, and he learned that the operation had restored it almost completely.
• Arima Shizuya asked what had happened to Yhwach, and Mayuri Kurotsuchi said Yhwach had escaped to the Wandenreich and resurrected.

Arima Shizuya woke after two days with his memories of his former comrades missing, while the Shinigami and Quincy had repaired his heart. Mayuri Kurotsuchi revealed that Yhwach had escaped to the Wandenreich and resurrected.

• Arima Shizuya woke in a makeshift camp and learned that Hinamori Momo had been watching over him.
• Arima Shizuya told Nemu Kurotsuchi that memories of the people around him had been deliberately removed, while Hinamori Momo and the others struggled with their feelings toward him.
• Nemu Kurotsuchi explained that the Shinigami and Quincy had cooperated to repair Arima Shizuya's heart, and that two days had passed.
• Arima Shizuya asked about Yhwach, and Nemu Kurotsuchi brought him to Mayuri Kurotsuchi for answers.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi reported that Yhwach had escaped to the Wandenreich and resurrected.

After Yhwach resurrected stronger than before, Kisuke Urahara explained how Auswählen had enabled his return and warned that he had prepared a final measure during the last nine years. The group debated their next move as Yhwach’s final Auswählen left the Wandenreich’s Quincy dead, and Askin saw Yhwach seething with rage.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi told Arima Shizuya and the gathered leaders that Yhwach had resurrected and seemed even stronger.
• Kisuke Urahara explained that Yhwach could reclaim the power and lives he had distributed among Quincy through Auswählen, and linked this ability to his returns after 900, 90, and nine years.
• Kisuke Urahara said Yhwach had likely prepared a final measure during the last nine years, while Kyōraku Shunsui speculated that the resurrection had depleted Yhwach’s stored power.
• Uryū Ishida revealed that many Quincy had vanished in black mist after Yhwach’s defeat, and the group realized that Auswählen had killed them.
• Aizen Sōsuke asked what the group would do next, and Kyōraku Shunsui said they would have to seek help from others.
• Askin found the Wandenreich’s streets filled with dead Quincy and saw Yhwach radiating fury from a distant platform.

Yhwach regained The Almighty and ordered the Wandenreich to prepare for an attack in two days, while the Soul Reapers and Zero Division organized to defend Soul Society. The chapter ended with Arima Shizuya asking for his Zanpakuto back.

• Yhwach raged over Arima Shizuya’s disruption of his plans, then learned from Haschwalth that Zero Division had also mobilized.
• Yhwach ordered the Wandenreich to rest and reorganize for two days before setting out to settle its grievances.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi, Kisuke Urahara, Zero Division, and the gathered allies discussed preparations as Kyōraku Shunsui called the group to order.
• Kyōraku Shunsui explained that the Wandenreich’s location could not be found, preventing a counterattack, and the group wondered where Arima Shizuya had gone.
• Arima Shizuya confronted someone outside the gathering and demanded his Zanpakuto back.

Arima Shizuya asked Ōetsu Nimaiya to return his Zanpakuto, but Ōetsu refused, saying it was not yet time and warning that Sagara Dragon had to remain apart from him for the plan. Hinamori Momo then guided Arima to the Twelfth Division’s temporary station, and the two spoke about his former self and her decision to keep moving forward.

• Arima Shizuya asked Ōetsu Nimaiya for his Zanpakuto, but accepted his refusal after sensing the blade was with him.
• Ōetsu Nimaiya stopped Sagara Dragon from meeting Arima, explaining that she held Arima’s memories and was the plan’s final measure.
• Hinamori Momo approached Arima and offered to guide him to Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s office.
• Arima asked Hinamori what he had been like, and she described his flaws before admitting she had feared never seeing him again.
• Hinamori told Arima she was following the former Captain Arima’s advice to look forward, then asked to serve as his guide while he was in Soul Society.

Soul Society’s meeting to plan how to defeat Yhwach became a dispute over whether Shinigami, Quincy, and Hollows could cooperate. As the Quincy prepared to leave, the alliance remained uncertain.

• Bazz-B and Liltotto demanded to know whether the Shinigami had a way to defeat Yhwach, or whether the Quincy had any reason to join them.
• Abarai Renji rebuked Bazz-B for disrespecting the Captain-Commander, prompting Bazz-B to mock Renji.
• Soi Fon insulted the surviving Quincy as scraps left behind by Yhwach, provoking them to rise in anger.
• Hitsugaya Tōshirō condemned the Quincy for killing Shinigami without apology and erupted with spiritual pressure as he defended the fallen.
• Ichimaru Gin urged the assembled factions to set aside their hatred and cooperate against Yhwach, but Hitsugaya Tōshirō and Bazz-B both declared they could not trust the other side.
• Bazz-B stood up and said the Quincy could defeat Yhwach without the Shinigami, and the other Quincy rose with him.

As the war against Yhwach approached, Stark asked Aizen Sōsuke how to unite Hueco Mundo, the Shinigami, and the Quincy. Aizen agreed that cooperation was necessary for the peace he awaited and challenged Stark to identify someone influential enough to unite both sides.

• Kyōraku Shunsui and Yamamoto privately argued over how to handle the conflict as the Quincy departed Hueco Mundo.
• Halibel questioned whether letting the Quincy leave weakened their forces, while Barragan argued that only the strongest fighters mattered; Stark calmed Barragan when he reacted angrily to nearby jokes.
• Stark asked Aizen Sōsuke whether Hueco Mundo’s people could be united, and Aizen dismissed his former followers as milestones in his research.
• Stark explained that the people he once feared were not so different from the Arrancar and that Yhwach’s threat left them no choice but to join forces.
• Aizen said he had no objection to an alliance because he was waiting for someone to return, then warned that uniting the camps would require a person influential among both the Shinigami and the Quincy.

Bazz-B and the surviving Quincies agreed to consider joining forces against Yhwach only if Arima Shizuya would stand with them, but the factions discovered he was missing. Arima wandered through Seireitei with Candice, and she told him he was all she had left before he promised he would not die.

• Nel identified Arima Shizuya as the only likely person who could unite the factions against Yhwach.
• Bazz-B offered to cooperate with the Shinigami if Arima Shizuya would step forward, and Liltotto and the other Quincies said they would not join without him.
• Kyōraku Shunsui said he did not know where Arima was, and the factions noticed that Arima, Hinamori Momo, and Candice were missing.
• Aizen sensed that Arima had improved, while Hikifune Kirio comforted Hiyori and the Zero Division discussed the coming battle.
• Arima wandered through ruined Seireitei as fragmented memories returned, and Candice told him they could make new memories together.
• Candice admitted she had nothing left but Arima and asked him not to die, and Arima hugged her and promised he would live.

Hinamori Momo realized Arima Shizuya was not the Captain Arima she remembered, but found resolve in the training he had once given her. As the Soul Society prepared for Yhwach’s attack, Kisuke Urahara received promising news from an ally in the World of the Living that could give them a chance to turn the tables.

• Hinamori Momo saw Candice embrace Arima Shizuya and realized he was a different soul from the captain she remembered.
• Hinamori Momo cried over her past failure to help Captain Arima, then resolved to become stronger after Arima Shizuya praised her training and abilities.
• Kyōraku Shunsui, Kisuke Urahara, and the others discussed the poor attendance at their strategy meeting and agreed to let the allied forces fight using the methods they knew best.
• Yamamoto left the meeting to visit Retsu Unohana, while Matsumoto Rangiku recruited Ise Nanao for a girls’ night with the Arrancar and Quincy.
• Kisuke Urahara returned a call and learned of promising progress locating someone in the World of the Living, giving him hope that the alliance could turn the tables.

On the final night before the decisive battle, fighters from the Three Realms mingled and let loose, with drunken antics and revelations turning the gathering chaotic. Meanwhile, Isshin Kurosaki waited in the World of the Living with a crying baby, tasked with delivering someone safely before the crucial moment.

• Abarai Renji and Bazz-B bonded over their eyebrows, while the Shinigami, Arrancar, and Fullbringers began mixing despite their past enmity.
• Matsumoto Rangiku dragged Orihime Inoue and Ise Nanao into drinking, prompting Orihime to confess her envy of Nel’s openness and Ise to cry about missing her chance to marry.
• Bambietta drunkenly declared herself the future Quincy Queen, then exposed Giselle as a man dressed as a woman and accused him of wanting to visit her room.
• Giselle rushed at Bambietta as Liltotto and the others tried to restrain them, leaving the gathering in uproar.
• In the World of the Living, Isshin Kurosaki waited in the forest with a crying baby while carrying out Kisuke Urahara’s arrangements to deliver the target safely before the crucial moment.