Recaps

Duan Mu built ties with the Shiba Clan, fought Daimaru’s gang in District 79, and grew much stronger. After accepting a commission to defend Daimaru’s former territory, he arrived as Habutae’s forces launched an attack.

• Duan Mu developed the Yorozuya, taught Academy students, and drew the attention of the Onmitsukidō, which continued to watch him.
• Duan Mu accompanied Iwao and his underlings to District 79, where Daimaru ambushed the group to capture Ganju and steal Soul Reaper techniques.
• Duan Mu fought through Daimaru’s men while Iwao helped the others escape, until Kūkaku arrived and knocked Daimaru down.
• Kūkaku took Duan Mu and Iwao to her underground training hall, where she tested and trained them before Duan Mu invested experience points to reach Stage Five.
• Duan Mu returned to find Daimaru’s men waiting at his shop, and Diao Ao hired him to protect their territory from a faction tied to District 80.
• Duan Mu went to West District 79 alone as Habutae led her forces in an attack, and he urged the two sides to finish the fight.

Duan Mu expanded the Yorozuya’s work, fought off bandits and Jiu Su, and began treating and training Fourth Division members. Habutae and Nishijin-ori hired him to help with the conflict in West Rukongai, while Isane arrived at the shop after becoming intrigued by his Kido notes.

• Duan Mu burned through Habutae’s forces in District 80, then accepted Diao Ao’s work and kept building the Yorozuya with repairs and tavern renovations.
• Duan Mu escorted President Shinno’s caravan, drove off Takahashi’s bandits, and reunited with his former student Konai at Byakudō Gate.
• Habutae hired Duan Mu to protect her and Nishijin-ori, and Duan Mu fought Jiu Su’s fighters before Jiu Su escaped and Duan Mu collapsed from exhaustion.
• Duan Mu treated Habutae and Nishijin-ori at the Yorozuya, while Yamadatarō began paying him to learn Kido healing and medicinal preparation.
• Soi Fon raised the surveillance priority on Subject 147 after hearing of his fight, while Ōmaeda told her about Duan Mu’s Kido skills and connections.
• Nishijin-ori paid Duan Mu and brought Jiu Su’s head, and Habutae explained that she and Nishijin-ori had been wounded by a powerful man in West Rukongai District 80.
• Duan Mu accepted Habutae and Nishijin-ori’s five-million-ring commission, and Hanatarou brought Fourth Division lieutenant captain Kotetsu Isane to the Yorozuya.
• Isane became absorbed in Duan Mu’s Kido notes, and Duan Mu offered her tea and pitched the Yorozuya’s commissions and consultations.

Duan Mu fought Gen'nai Kura, drew the Onmitsukidō’s attention, and accepted a monitored commission in Seireitei that put him in charge of cleaning and improving Maggot’s Nest. He built ties with the Fourth Division through healing and Kido lessons, then left Seireitei to continue his work in Rukongai.

• Duan Mu killed Tsudou and fought Gen'nai Kura, discovering a lightning-based Flash Cry that let him defeat the Hollow before collapsing from his injuries.
• Soi Fon reviewed Duan Mu’s record, continued surveillance, and arranged a monitored commission that brought him into Seireitei.
• Duan Mu entered Maggot’s Nest to clean it, defeated its prisoners without crippling them, and made them help repair and clean the prison.
• Soi Fon granted Duan Mu a Special Pass Token and permission to live in Maggot’s Nest, while allowing him to manage most of its affairs.
• Kenpachi Zaraki visited Yorozuya, learned Duan Mu had defeated Gen'nai Kura, and sent Ikkaku to challenge him another day.
• Duan Mu helped Kotetsu Isane and the Fourth Division treat injured Soul Reapers, healing a patient whose wound Kenpachi Zaraki’s spiritual pressure had kept open.
• Duan Mu agreed to return to the Comprehensive First Aid Station to treat patients and exchange Kido insights, then left Seireitei for Rukongai and planned improvements for Maggot’s Nest.

Duan Mu expanded Yorozuya’s reach, joined a mission to capture defectors, and awakened a Zanpakuto that Soi Fon had sealed rather than let him become a Shinigami. His clash with Kenpachi Zaraki left him badly wounded, and he ended the arc back in Maggot's Nest.

• Duan Mu fought Ikkaku Madarame with wooden swords and then Hozukimaru, ending their duel in a draw after improving his Zanjutsu.
• Duan Mu promoted Yorozuya in West Rukongai and Seireitei, met Gin Ginjiro and Ise Nanao, and agreed to help the Fourth Division in the Human World.
• Duan Mu joined Omaeda in pursuing three Third Division defectors, found their hiding place, and helped kill Yuan Mingyu, Liu Chuan Yuan, and Fengyuan Qianhui.
• Omaeda lent Duan Mu an Asauchi, which transformed under Duan Mu’s power, and Soi Fon chose to have it sealed instead of making him a Shinigami.
• Duan Mu created the Development Spirit Crest while treating a dying Third Division officer, then learned that Nishijin-ori, Habutae, and Diao Ao had become a force in North District 80.
• Duan Mu met Matsumoto Rangiku at Arakawa's Izakaya, then went to the 11th Division and fought Ikkaku Madarame before Kenpachi Zaraki joined in.
• Duan Mu wounded Kenpachi Zaraki and forced him back, but collapsed before Zaraki could remove his eyepatch, so Yachiru carried him to the Comprehensive First Aid Station.
• Three days later, Duan Mu had left the station and returned to Maggot's Nest, where Omaeda reported that he had killed prisoners who attacked him and was banging his head against a wall.