Recaps

Siwei Yan recruited graduates, developed his writing and publishing plans, and used The Killer of Meteor City to break through to Fifth-level Spiritual Pressure. His book drew the attention of Kurayashiki Kenpachi and Unohana Retsu, while Siwei remained unaware that Unohana intended to visit him.

• Siwei Yan defeated Sarugaki Hiyori at the academy recruitment event, demonstrated his Shikai, and watched Aizen Sōsuke join the Fifth Division.
• Siwei Yan wrote The Killer of Meteor City about Unohana Retsu, but Yoruichi Shihōin stole the manuscript before returning it and warning him about Noble scrutiny.
• Siwei Yan arranged with Yamagane Tetsu and Omaeda Kichiyo to publish The Boy and The Killer of Meteor City.
• Siwei Yan, Urahara Kisuke, and Yoruichi Shihōin chose the cavern beneath the Hill of the Twin Executions for a secret base and proposed a hundred-million-ring budget.
• Yoruichi Shihōin and Omaeda Kika publicly praised The Boy, prompting other Nobles women to buy copies.
• Siwei Yan absorbed the spiritual power from The Killer of Meteor City and broke through to Fifth-level Spiritual Pressure.
• Kurayashiki Kenpachi read The Killer of Meteor City, became absorbed in it, and ordered preparations to visit Meteor City.
• Unohana Retsu read “Blood Blossom,” recognized its reference to her past as Unohana Yachiru, and decided to visit Siwei Yan.

Siwei Yan was drawn into the Eleventh Division’s Human World mission, where he uncovered human interference with souls and helped face an abnormal surge of Hollows. After the rifts produced two Great Hollows and the mission ended, Yan returned to Seireitei and was told to attend a Kuchiki family ceremony.

• Kurayashiki Kenpachi and Ashido encountered Zaraki in Zaraki District, where Zaraki woke from his wound, killed the Wandering Souls who attacked him, and set out for Seireitei with Yachiru.
• Unohana Retsu and Kurayashiki Kenpachi questioned Yan Si about The Killer of Meteor City, and Kensei Muguruma ordered Yan to accompany the Eleventh Division to the Human World for combat observation.
• Yan Si obtained a prototype Substitution Wood Talisman from Urahara Kisuke and joined the Shinigami mission through Hiyori’s improved Senkaimon.
• On the battlefield, Yan Si purified souls that two Onmyoji were trying to turn into Oni Warriors, then discovered that numerous rifts kept producing Hollows after the fighting subsided.
• Yan Si fought alongside Ashido and the other Shinigami as the rifts merged, and Kurayashiki Kenpachi killed two Great Hollows that emerged from the passage.
• Hirako Shinji overheard Aizen Sōsuke and Yan Si discussing the battlefield, the Nobles, and the king, then told Yan Si that the captains would attend a ceremony for a commoner taking the name Kuchiki.
• Kensei Muguruma praised Yan Si’s performance and granted him three days of leave, then told him he would accompany him to the Kuchiki family on the fourth morning.

Yan Si navigated the Noble Council’s violent struggle while publishing Kuchiki Kyōka’s story and pushing the limits of his Zanpakutō. The arc ended with Yan Si and Kensei confronting the nobles after Kyōka killed his attackers and the nobles accused them both.

• Yan Si attended Kuchiki Kyōka’s adoption ceremony, turned down nobles’ offers to join their families, and agreed to write Kyōka’s life story.
• Yan Si tested Tsuzurimono Bansho’s ability to describe the future, suffered a dangerous spiritual backlash, then completed and published Reversed Life, raising his spiritual pressure to Fourth-Class.
• After Kuchiki Sōjun’s death, Yoruichi explained the fight over the vacant Noble seat and Shiba Kaien’s withdrawal from the Nobles, while Yan Si learned that the conflict was spreading through Rukongai.
• Kuchiki Kyōka intervened in a Rukongai battle with Muramasa, then became commander of a Special Suppression Force tasked with rooting out the rebels.
• Yan Si tried to improve his abilities and study Yoruichi’s Shunko, but he still could not reach or communicate with Tsuzurimono Bansho in his Inner world.
• Noble Council members plotted to exploit Kyōka’s desire for approval, while Kyōka hoped his deeds would win him the vacant Tenth Division captaincy and his father’s recognition.
• Masked men ambushed Kyōka and killed three of his subordinates, but Yan Si intervened and bound thirty-six attackers with Bakudō.
• Kyōka shattered the bound attackers, and when nobles arrived to accuse him and Yan Si, Yan Si signaled for help and Kensei arrived to stand against them.

Yan Si was imprisoned amid Kuchiki Kyōka’s rebellion, then sent to Hueco Mundo with a Shinigami expedition after helping expose the crisis. The expedition was devastated, Ashido was left behind, and Yan Si prepared to return to Hueco Mundo with Captain Kenpachi.

• Urahara Kisuke visited Yan Si in the Maggot's Nest, where Yan Si funded a tool to help him understand his Zanpakutō and Bankai while they discussed the Nobles’ conflict.
• Kuchiki Kyōka escaped with Muramasa, killed three conspirators, and later turned against the Nobles, while Yan Si tried to restrain him and warn him that others were exploiting his rebellion.
• Yoruichi Shihōin and Captain-General Yamamoto defeated and sealed Kuchiki Kyōka, while Yan Si fought Tsuzurimono Bansho and learned that his Zanpakutō was not the Scroll of Wind and Snow.
• Yan Si returned to the Maggot's Nest after helping stop the fighting, and Captain-General Yamamoto commuted his prison sentence to service in the Hueco Mundo subjugation force.
• Yan Si concealed the expedition’s camp and led his squad away from a massive Hollow horde, then diverted the Picaro from the camp while Cronos Elibird attacked the remaining Shinigami.
• Kurayashiki Kenpachi fought Cronos and used Bankai to swallow him, but the camp was buried in a sand vortex and its survivors were scattered.
• Yan Si reunited with Kurayashiki Kenpachi and the buried squad, led the Picaro through the sand to rescue Ashido and the others, and guided them through the Senkaimon.
• Szayelaporro captured Ashido as Yan Si escaped through the closing Senkaimon, and Yan Si learned that reopening the gate would take months before deciding to return to Hueco Mundo with Captain Kenpachi.