Recaps

Duan Mu revealed himself as a powerful Soul Reaper by incinerating Habutae’s forces as they fled into town. With his deathly aura on display, Daimaru wondered how someone like him had died so young.

• Habutae’s forces overwhelmed Daimaru’s side with superior combat skills, while Daimaru searched for the vanished Duan Mu.
• Habutae confronted Daimaru and noticed that the spiritual pressure of the groups she had sent to block the town’s exits was rapidly disappearing.
• Daimaru mistook Habutae’s returning subordinates for reinforcements and cursed Duan Mu for abandoning them, unaware that they were fleeing.
• Duan Mu appeared behind the retreating forces and used Bakudō no Thirty-One: Kakka Hō to engulf them and the rear of the town in flames.
• Duan Mu walked through the blaze with a deathly aura, and Daimaru wondered how such a dangerous man had died.

Duan Mu intervened in the battle between Diao Ao’s group and Habutae’s forces, ensuring they could retreat before facing Habutae. He overwhelmed more than a hundred attackers with Hakuda, leaving Habutae to watch as her force’s coordination collapsed.

• Duan Mu concealed himself with Light-Bending and moved to secure the group’s escape route as Habutae gathered her scattered subordinates.
• Diao Ao stationed stronger subordinates on both sides of the town, while Habutae challenged Duan Mu and ordered her forces to attack him.
• Duan Mu’s feint provoked the attackers into unleashing their Spiritual Power before they could coordinate, and he vanished to strike their flank.
• Duan Mu killed the attackers with rapid punches, kicks, and Hakuda techniques, throwing the survivors into disarray.
• Habutae observed Duan Mu tearing through her forces, while he used the fight to practice his moves.

Duan Mu defeated Habutae’s forces in West District 79 and reflected on how much he enjoyed the battle, while Diao Ao nervously confirmed that the commission was complete. Habutae fled to West District 80, grew curious about Duan Mu, and unexpectedly raised her favorability toward him.

• Duan Mu fought through Habutae’s attackers, becoming more precise as he gave in to the thrill of combat, while Habutae retreated.
• Duan Mu let the remaining attackers flee or die, then reviewed the battle and saw that his Shunpo, Hakuda, and spiritual pressure had improved.
• Diao Ao backed away from Duan Mu until Duan Mu asked whether the commission was complete, prompting Diao Ao to confirm it and offer extra payment.
• Habutae reached West District 80, feared Duan Mu’s growing strength, and decided to investigate him because she found him more appealing than the district’s other villains.
• Duan Mu saw that Habutae’s favorability had increased by five points and gained 200 experience, then remarked on the villains’ strange thinking.

Duan Mu dealt with new commissions and arranged for Diao Ao’s group to gather timber for house repairs. As Ganju learned why the men had come to respect Duan Mu, the group set off to cut trees on Kofusan.

• Uzuki complained about Duan Mu’s drinking and unpaid wages, then gave him the urgent commission slips.
• Shiba Ganju returned with Hawk and his other lackeys, saying he had completed all ten of Kūkaku’s training platforms.
• Diao Ao and his men arrived, apologized to Ganju, and admitted they were afraid of retaliation from District 80.
• Duan Mu assigned Diao Ao’s group to cut the trees needed for upcoming house-repair commissions and leave them at the foot of Kofusan.
• Uzuki explained the situation to Ganju, who became curious about why Diao Ao’s group feared and respected Duan Mu.

Duan Mu finished a renovation for Emiri and learned that her adopted son, Kosuke, longed for modern Human World comforts. Back at Yorozuya, he found Uzuki turning the shop into a tavern and accepted a goods-escort commission tied to an upcoming Fourth Division ceremony.

• Duan Mu renovated Emiri’s house, gained her favorability, and heard her praise her son Kosuke and describe his requests for a kotatsu, television, and handheld game console.
• Duan Mu returned home with food from West District 7 residents and tallied 2,800 experience points after a busy month of work and training.
• Duan Mu found the villains drinking at Yorozuya, ordered them out, and watched Diao Ao lead them away.
• Uzuki told Duan Mu she planned to move Yorozuya upstairs and turn the first floor into a tavern, with Iwao and Diao Ao helping with the renovation.
• Uzuki gave Duan Mu a commission from families in District 43 to escort goods to Byakudō Gate, explaining that the Fourth Division was preparing for a lieutenant captain replacement ceremony.

Duan Mu joined President Shinno’s caravan to escort goods from District 43, but Shinno reassigned him to push carts after learning he had come alone. Shinno explained that unusually strong bandits had begun robbing caravans about a month earlier, and Duan Mu suspected the timing might be connected to the Yorozuya’s new tavern employees.

• Duan Mu arrived at the farm and President Shinno identified him as the Yorozuya’s owner from District 38.
• President Shinno accepted Duan Mu for the commission but told him to stay in the convoy’s middle and help push carts.
• Duan Mu set out with the caravan and asked President Shinno why it needed protection.
• President Shinno explained that bandits from District 55 sometimes robbed caravans outside Procurement Season and that unusually strong newcomers had begun taking goods about a month earlier.
• President Shinno said he had hired Duan Mu because he had heard the Yorozuya had gained several strong, fierce-looking employees.
• Duan Mu told President Shinno that Uzuki had turned the Yorozuya’s first floor into a tavern, then wondered whether the timing was more than coincidence.

Duan Mu considered how to strengthen his combat style and develop new techniques, relying on the system to help him refine promising prototypes. As the convoy traveled through bandit-prone territory, he reflected on the system’s ability to deduce a new skill from a single acknowledged prototype.

• Duan Mu joked with President Shinno and the others that he could carve a safe tunnel through the mountains if they could afford to hire him.
• The convoy reached the foot of the mountain near District 55, and its guards spread out and watched for bandits.
• Duan Mu assessed his strength and considered combining Hakuda with Shunpo or Kido to prepare for enemies wielding Zanpakuto.
• Duan Mu recalled how he fused Seikaku with White Lightning to create the prototype Lightning Rope, then used the system’s deductions to complete the new Kido.
• Duan Mu concluded that the system’s strongest ability was developing a technique from an initial prototype to its limit.

Duan Mu detected an ambush on President Shinno’s convoy and defeated the bandit leader, only to recognize him as Takahashi, a regular at the Uzuki Bar. After frightening the bandits into fleeing, Duan Mu told President Shinno to continue the journey.

• Duan Mu spotted an ambush ahead and warned the convoy, prompting President Shinno to halt it.
• Dozens of bandits rushed down the hills, and their leader demanded the convoy leave its cargo behind.
• When the leader recognized Duan Mu, Duan Mu appeared behind him and pinned him to the ground.
• Duan Mu recognized the leader as Takahashi, a regular at the Uzuki Bar who supplied the bar with liquor bought using protection money.
• Duan Mu released his spiritual pressure, terrified the bandits, and sent them fleeing before kicking Takahashi into the forest.
• Duan Mu told President Shinno to keep the convoy moving.

Duan Mu escorted President Shinno’s caravan to Seireitei, where he reunited with Jidanbō at the Byakudō Gate. The Fourth Division arrived to collect the delivery, led by the timid-looking Yamadatarō.

• After the bandits fled, President Shinno moved Duan Mu from cart-pushing duty into the caravan’s guard party.
• The caravan traveled along the main road to Seireitei, and hungry Duan Mu resolved to buy himself a meal after the delivery.
• At the Byakudō Gate, Jidanbō greeted Duan Mu warmly and praised the rest house Duan Mu had built for him.
• When a caravan member asked what Duan Mu had done while alive, Duan Mu pointed out the approaching Fourth Division delegation.
• Yamadatarō led the Fourth Division group to the caravan and asked them to hand over the goods.

Duan Mu unexpectedly reunited with Konai, his former student, while the Patrol Team inspected Fourth Division supplies at the Byakudō Gate. Her greeting revealed their connection, and the Fourth Division members recognized Duan Mu as the Yorozuya owner who had helped train their talented new Advanced Medical Unit member.

• Duan Mu spotted Konai among the Fourth Division personnel and remembered teaching her Kido and other subjects at his Shinigami cram school.
• Konai overcame her shyness, greeted Duan Mu, and called him her teacher, puzzling the Fourth Division members and President Shinno.
• Duan Mu explained that Konai had studied with him before graduating from the Soul Reaper Academy and joining the Fourth Division.
• The Fourth Division members recognized Duan Mu as the Yorozuya owner Konai had described as skilled in medicine preparation and Kido.
• The chapter explained that Konai’s talent and broad training helped her excel in the entrance assessment and join the 14th Advanced Medical Unit directly.

Duan Mu tried to build connections with Fourth Division members by offering medical exchanges, then overheard a 9th Division researcher spreading dubious rumors about Rukongai. He left the tavern convinced the reported war between South District 80 and West District 80 was fake news.

• Duan Mu invited Fourth Division members to exchange medical knowledge at his shop and offered them discounts.
• The Fourth Division completed its cargo inspection, settled payment, and entered Seireitei.
• Duan Mu visited Uncle Watanabe’s tavern and overheard two 9th Division members discussing the Fourth Division’s former Lieutenant Captain and rumors from Rukongai.
• A young Soul Reaper claimed South District 80 was preparing for war with West District 80, based on unconfirmed information from North Rukongai.
• Duan Mu dismissed the claim as fake news and left the tavern.

Duan Mu encountered the badly wounded Habutae carrying her nearly dead boss and accepted her commission to protect them. He faced a group of armed pursuers and prepared to defend them.

• Duan Mu walked through the wilderness with wine and thought about training and his dwindling experience.
• Habutae burst from the woods, wounded and carrying a gravely injured man whose presence made Duan Mu instinctively wary.
• Habutae offered Duan Mu a commission fee of one million rings, and he shielded her and the man from their pursuers with Enzansen.
• Duan Mu asked for the commission's terms, and Habutae told him to protect the two of them until her boss woke up.
• Duan Mu gained experience from Habutae's favorability and accepted the commission.

Duan Mu accepted Habutae’s commission and faced Jiu Su, whose combat instincts nearly caught him with a sword strike. Recognizing the danger of the District 80 fighters, Duan Mu advanced into their coordinated attack with his spiritual pressure unleashed, and the chapter ended as their weapons closed in around him.

• Jiu Su offered Duan Mu double the commission fee to hand over Habutae and the other woman, but Duan Mu disappeared to attack him.
• Jiu Su anticipated Duan Mu’s Shunpo and slashed his clothes, making Duan Mu realize his opponent’s battle instincts and experience were formidable.
• Jiu Su ordered his dozen fighters to attack Duan Mu after his own strike failed to stop him.
• Duan Mu unleashed his spiritual pressure and walked toward the attackers instead of retreating or using Shunpo.
• Duan Mu dodged an axe strike as the other fighters attacked from every direction, surrounding him with their weapons.

Duan Mu unleashed his full strength against Jiu Su’s subordinates, using skilled swordsmanship, close combat, and powerful Kidō to defeat them. Habutae realized how much stronger he was than when they had last fought, while Jiu Su’s whereabouts remained unclear.

• Duan Mu used Intermediate Zanjutsu to read the attackers’ movements and dodge their blades while blocking unavoidable strikes with Bakudō #8: Kyaku.
• Duan Mu killed one swordsman with Hado #4: Byakurai and attacked a bald man with Kakka Hō.
• Duan Mu blasted the ground with Kakka Hō, throwing Jiu Su’s charging subordinates off balance and launching himself into the air.
• Jiu Su warned his subordinates as Duan Mu chanted and unleashed Kidō #63: Raikōhō, leaving the attackers charred in a vast crater.
• Habutae stared at Duan Mu in shock, realized Jiu Su was missing, and shouted a warning.

Duan Mu survived Jiu Su’s ambush by spending his remaining experience to heal while evading him, forcing Jiu Su to flee. As Iwao and the others arrived, they mistook Habutae for an enemy, and Duan Mu ordered them to stop.

• Jiu Su shattered Duan Mu’s Kidō restraints and slashed him severely, but Duan Mu began healing himself by pouring his remaining experience into Kido.
• Duan Mu used Shunpo to evade Jiu Su while healing, and Jiu Su eventually abandoned the fight and escaped.
• Duan Mu sat down, exhausted, and Habutae approached him; her favorability rose to 40 and earned him 640 experience points.
• Iwao arrived with Diao Ao and their companions, and Diao Ao mistook Habutae for a threat and charged at her.
• Duan Mu glared at the man who called for them not to waste his sacrifice and told Iwao to stop them because Habutae was not an enemy.

After treating Habutae and the badly injured Nishijin-ori, Duan Mu discovered that Uzuki had expanded Yorozuya into a tavern and inspected its new layout. He explained how the tavern served as a protected meeting place for villains from the later-numbered districts.

• Duan Mu treated Habutae and Nishijin-ori with Kido and medicine, then reassured Habutae that her boss was stubbornly holding on.
• Diao Ao and the other customers crowded around to ask about Nishijin-ori, but Duan Mu drove them out of the shop.
• Uzuki went home to rest, and Iwao escorted her with his four underlings.
• Duan Mu inspected the expanded Yorozuya and found that its first floor had become more spacious while his bedroom remained separate from the tavern.
• Duan Mu told Habutae that the tavern served only villains from the later-numbered districts and described its barriers, security, and status as a safe zone for negotiations.

After recovering from his near-fatal fight with Jiu Su, Duan Mu reviewed how underestimating his opponent and lacking combat instincts had led to his defeat. He left his bedroom to find the tavern unusually quiet, then recognized the reason when he saw someone sitting at the bar.

• Duan Mu emerged from a medicinal bath and checked his system, noting his improved Kido and limited spiritual-pressure growth.
• Duan Mu regretted spending all his experience on Kido instead of spiritual pressure, which he had planned to raise to lieutenant level.
• Duan Mu reflected that Jiu Su’s battle instincts and his own underestimation of the enemy had caused his defeat, even though his choice to use Kido had been the best option in the moment.
• Duan Mu resolved to learn from each battle and muttered that he needed to work harder at making friends.
• Duan Mu left his bedroom, found the tavern unusually quiet, and recognized the person sitting at the bar.

Duan Mu faced Nishijin-ori in a tense standoff at the tavern, but Nishijin-ori left after praising the wine and promising to pay later. A new visitor then arrived asking Duan Mu to teach him Kido.

• Diao Ao greeted Duan Mu after he woke and drew attention to the tense meeting with Nishijin-ori.
• Nishijin-ori and Duan Mu released their spiritual pressure, but Uzuki's strawberry milk interrupted the standoff.
• Nishijin-ori left, promising to bring payment for the wine and commission later, while Habutae followed him.
• Duan Mu learned that Nishijin-ori had charged six cups of wine to his tab and complained that he had let the debtor leave with a million rings unpaid.
• Yamadatarō arrived at the tavern and timidly asked Duan Mu to teach him Kido.

Duan Mu agreed to exchange Kido knowledge with Fourth Division Seventh Seat Yamadatarō for a fee, then began by asking him to treat his scar. The chapter left Yamadatarō fascinated by Duan Mu’s herbal bandages and eager to learn how they were prepared.

• Duan Mu charged Yamadatarō 27,000 rings per hour, and Yamadatarō paid without bargaining.
• Duan Mu arranged for Yamadatarō to visit for two hours a day and told him to address him as Mr. Duan Mu rather than teacher.
• Duan Mu began their exchange by exposing his scar and asking Yamadatarō to treat it with Kido.
• Yamadatarō examined Duan Mu’s herbal bandages and recognized that their unusual preparation could make them especially effective.
• Duan Mu offered to teach Yamadatarō how to prepare the herbs after he finished testing his healing Kido.

Soi Fon reviewed the Punishment Force’s findings on Subject 147 and ordered his supervision priority raised while keeping him under observation. Three days later, Duan Mu taught Yamadatarō how to improve his Kido healing at the Yorozuya clinic.

• A Punishment Force member reported that Subject 147 had fought sixteen people, killing fifteen and leaving one survivor with the strength of a High-ranking Officer.
• Soi Fon criticized the low supervision ranking, and the Punishment Force members blamed their collective judgment while Marechiyo Ōmaeda defended them.
• Soi Fon ordered Subject 147’s supervision priority raised to 11, switched the method to Spiritual Power tracking, and instructed Ōmaeda to inform the Fourth Division’s Lieutenant Captain.
• Ōmaeda told Soi Fon that Duan Mu was skilled in Kido healing, that a Fourth Division seated officer had studied from him, and that Shiba Kūkaku had taught him Kido.
• Soi Fon canceled Ōmaeda’s vacation as punishment for negligence, and he protested as she left.
• Duan Mu explained Kido healing to Yamadatarō, who had studied at the Yorozuya clinic each day for three days.

Duan Mu tried to draw more Fourth Division members to his lessons by sending Hanatarou to consult the medical team, but a visitor interrupted him. Nishijin-ori and Habutae returned badly injured, bringing payment, medical expenses, and Jiu Su’s head, and Duan Mu arranged for them to be treated.

• Duan Mu urged Hanatarou to discuss his medicinal-preparation lessons with the Fourth Division medical team and ask them to correct any mistakes.
• Diao Ao told Duan Mu that an esteemed visitor was waiting downstairs, and Duan Mu recognized that he meant Nishijin-ori.
• Nishijin-ori gave Duan Mu a bag containing the commission fee and medical expenses, then threw down another bundle that revealed Jiu Su’s head.
• Duan Mu realized Nishijin-ori and Habutae had come for medical help and asked Diao Ao to bring Hanatarou downstairs.
• Duan Mu arranged a makeshift treatment area, told the tavern customers to leave, and ordered someone to dispose of Jiu Su’s head.

Duan Mu treated Hanatarou, Habutae, and Nishijin-ori, warning that Nishijin-ori’s Soul Sleep injury could cost him his Spiritual Power if he moved or used spiritual pressure. When Habutae asked whether they could stay at the tavern, she revealed that she and Nishijin-ori had escaped from Western District 80.

• Duan Mu showed Hanatarou how Prison Orchid could improve wound medicine and used the mixture to prepare medicated bandages.
• Hanatarou treated Nishijin-ori while Duan Mu treated Habutae and warned them not to fight or leave until their injuries had healed.
• Duan Mu told Habutae that Nishijin-ori’s Soul Sleep injury was severe and that using spiritual pressure could cause him to lose his Spiritual Power.
• Habutae asked to stay at the tavern and told Duan Mu that she and Nishijin-ori had escaped from Western District 80.

Duan Mu learned that a powerful figure from South District 80 had driven Nishijin-ori and Habutae from West Rukongai District 80, and he decided to risk accepting their commission. The chapter ended with Hanatarou still at the tavern as Duan Mu prepared to act.

• Habutae told Duan Mu that the Great Villains of District 80 admired Kenpachi and called themselves losers until they could defeat him.
• Habutae explained that her boss and another Great Villain had attacked South District 80 first, then suffered severe injuries when a powerful man arrived in West Rukongai District 80 and wounded them with one slash.
• Duan Mu closed the tavern and let Diao Ao and the other criminals stay, while Habutae's increased favorability earned him enough experience to reach 20,480.
• Duan Mu decided the experience made the dangerous commission worth gambling on, and he noticed Hanatarou was still there.

Duan Mu accepted Habutae and Nishijin-ori’s dangerous commission, then discovered Kotetsu Isane waiting in his Yorozuya. He recognized the Fourth Division lieutenant captain as a valuable new customer, unaware that someone else had helped bring her there.

• Duan Mu told Hanatarou to return the next day if the bell outside the Yorozuya was hanging out, and Hanatarou reported that the tavern bell had rung.
• Duan Mu agreed to take Habutae and Nishijin-ori’s commission for five million rings, with the option to terminate it if it proved impossible.
• Duan Mu led Hanatarou upstairs and sensed a visitor whose reiatsu was concealed with exceptional control.
• Duan Mu found Kotetsu Isane in the treatment room, welcomed her, and learned from Hanatarou that she was the Fourth Division’s lieutenant captain.
• Duan Mu credited Hanatarou for bringing Isane to him and thought of him as Brother Hana, unaware someone else had helped arrange her visit.

Kotetsu Isane visited Duan Mu’s Yorozuya after hearing that Hanatarou had studied Kido in Rukongai, but she became absorbed in Duan Mu’s notes and felt ashamed for barging in. Duan Mu tried to turn the awkward meeting into a business opportunity by offering Isane the shop’s services and consultations.

• At the Lieutenant Captain gathering, Omaeda told Isane that a Fourth Division officer had been studying Kido from someone in Rukongai, leading others to suspect Hanatarou was challenging her authority.
• Isane went to the Yorozuya intending to confront Hanatarou and teach Duan Mu a lesson, but she entered the shop and became engrossed in the Kido notes on the blackboard.
• When Duan Mu and Hanatarou arrived, Isane felt embarrassed that she had entered without permission and secretly read Duan Mu’s work.
• Duan Mu, Isane, and Hanatarou sat in awkward silence until Duan Mu offered Isane tea, despite the Yorozuya having none.
• Duan Mu asked whether Isane had a commission and pitched the Yorozuya’s jobs and paid consultation services, including a forty percent discount for Lieutenant Captains.