Chapter Summaries

After Byakuya rescued Akina from Ryudoji Ganryu’s attack, Urahara warned that the Valley of Screams was rapidly collapsing because Ganryu had become a Hollow and was devouring its Blanks. Byakuya, Tsuna, Ichigo, Toshiro, and Akina entered the Valley to stop him and sever its links to both worlds.

• Tsuna healed Byakuya and Akina, and Byakuya asked to stay at Tsuna’s home to keep Akina safe from Ryudoji Ganryu.
• Urahara reported that the Valley of Screams might collapse before dawn, and he suspected Ganryu was devouring Blanks after becoming a Hollow.
• Toshiro’s team found the Valley’s entrance beneath an iron bridge, and Akina chose to join the mission as the Thought Bead.
• Toshiro led Byakuya, Tsuna, Ichigo, and Akina into the collapsing Valley while Rangiku and Ikkaku guarded the entrance.
• Toshiro sent Byakuya and Ichigo to eliminate Ganryu, assigned himself and Tsuna to freeze the Valley, and told Akina to separate it from the two worlds.

Byakuya, Ichigo, Tsuna, and Toshiro defeated Ganryu while Akina separated the Valley of Screams and set it to self-destruct. As the group evacuated, Byakuya carried Akina away and promised to take her to the ferris wheel.

• Byakuya and Ichigo unleashed their strongest attacks and destroyed Ganryu after Tsuna and Toshiro froze the Valley of Screams.
• Akina filled the frozen valley with maple leaves, turning its Blanks into leaves as the valley’s connections to the Soul Society and the World of the Living weakened.
• Urahara told Toshiro that the valley would self-destruct once its connections were severed, and Toshiro ordered everyone to evacuate.
• Akina returned and explained that she had set the valley to destroy itself automatically, but the others waited for her instead of leaving.
• Byakuya carried Akina out of the Valley of Screams and told her they were going to the ferris wheel.

Byakuya and Akina shared a final ride on the giant wheel as the Valley of Screams collapsed and Akina began to disappear. Akina used her remaining power to bring Hisana Kuchiki back briefly, and after Hisana vanished, a stranger invoked Frozen Rain.

• Byakuya and Akina rode the giant wheel together, and Akina told him how grateful she was for their day in the World of the Living.
• As Akina began turning into Reishi, she revealed that she knew Byakuya had approached her for Hisana Kuchiki's memories.
• Akina used Hisana's memories to recreate Hisana, who reunited with Byakuya and heard about Rukia Kuchiki.
• Hisana kissed Byakuya before fading away into a particle of Reishi, leaving him grieving as it drifted toward reincarnation.
• The giant wheel's glass shattered in the rain, and a man's voice called out Shigure Soen Ryu: Frozen Rain.

Decimo and Tsuna helped Byakuya attempt to restore Hisana by combining her memories with an artificial soul, while Byakuya agreed to identify her memories during the experiment. The procedure began in Squad 12’s laboratory, with Decimo stabilizing the surroundings and Tsuna melting the ice bead containing Hisana’s Reishi.

• Decimo arrived as Byakuya grieved over Hisana’s Reishi, and Rukia and the others witnessed Byakuya’s farewell.
• Decimo proposed using modified souls and an artificial soul to bring Hisana back, and Byakuya accepted.
• Decimo’s group entered Squad 12’s secret chamber, where Kurotsuchi Mayuri and Urahara Kisuke prepared a blank vessel for the experiment.
• Byakuya questioned Tsuna about guiding his earlier actions, and Tsuna said the plan had been Decimo’s idea.
• Decimo assigned Byakuya to identify Hisana’s memories, Tsuna to transform her Reishi, and Kurotsuchi Mayuri and Urahara Kisuke to preserve the memories and fuse the soul.
• Decimo harmonized the laboratory with Sky Flame, and Tsuna began melting the ice bead with Sun Attribute flames.

Tsuna, Decimo, Kurotsuchi Mayuri, and Urahara used Hisana’s preserved memories to create an artificial soul, restoring her as a newborn girl. Byakuya learned that he would need to raise her from childhood, and Hisana woke briefly to recognize him before falling asleep.

• Tsuna separated Hisana’s memories from the Reishi particle, isolated the memory of her first meeting with Byakuya, and used Cloud and Sky flames to expand and restore it into genuine Reishi.
• Nemu Kurotsuchi and Kurotsuchi Mayuri processed the Reishi into a modified soul, which Urahara merged with an artificial soul to create a baby resembling Hisana.
• Urahara explained that Hisana’s new body could grow as powerful as Nemu Kurotsuchi but had to be raised from childhood, and Byakuya eagerly accepted.
• Hisana woke and called Byakuya “Bya... kuya... sama...” before falling asleep, confirming her identity to him.
• Byakuya celebrated Hisana’s return, while Rukia wondered what to call her and imagined Byakuya carrying the baby everywhere.

Byakuya reunited with Hisana, and Tsuna learned that Aizen had assembled the Espada and mastered the Hogyoku. Tsuna and Urahara planned a trip to Hueco Mundo to assess Aizen, prepare an alliance against the Quincy, and test their scheme against the Soul King Palace, but first they would check on an Arrancar attack in the World of the Living.

• Byakuya thanked Tsuna for helping revive Hisana, though Tsuna clarified that he did not truly remember the Thought Bead Akina.
• Byakuya carried Hisana everywhere, and the Kuchiki Clan paid to renovate Tsuna's home.
• Urahara told Tsuna that Sora Inoue had reported Aizen's assembled Espada and growing mastery of the Hogyoku.
• Tsuna and Urahara discussed their plan to let Aizen challenge the Soul King Palace, then Yamamoto authorized them to recruit Kurotsuchi Mayuri and Rukia for their Hueco Mundo mission.
• Urahara reported that Arrancar were attacking the World of the Living, where Ichigo and his allies were handling the fight, so Tsuna decided to find his recruits before checking on them and heading to Hueco Mundo.

Grimmjow and his Fracción invaded Karakura Town to challenge Ichigo, but Ichigo and his allies met them in battle. Ichigo defeated Grimmjow with a Blut Vene-enhanced arrow, leaving him gravely wounded.

• Grimmjow and five Fracción released their spiritual pressure across Karakura Town, and Ichigo arrived to confront them.
• Ichigo revealed his identity and clashed with Grimmjow as Uryū, Tatsuki, Chad, Isshin, Ryūken, Orihime, and Yoruichi joined the fight.
• The allies overwhelmed the Fracción: Chad blasted his opponent away, Uryū used The Antithesis, Tatsuki crippled hers, Ryūken pinned his, and Isshin killed Shawlong Kufang with Bankai.
• Grimmjow released Pantera, and Ichigo answered with his Hollow mask as their battle intensified.
• Grimmjow unleashed Pantera Claw and Gran Rey Cero, but Ichigo switched to his Fullbring form and pierced the attack with a Blut Vene-enhanced arrow, destroying Grimmjow’s left arm and leg.

Ichigo and Tatsuki captured Grimmjow, and Tsuna arrived with a group preparing to travel to Hueco Mundo and negotiate with Aizen. Tsuna recruited Ichigo and Uryū to provide Quincy power, while Grimmjow agreed to guide them after learning Aizen already knew about their undercover agent.

• Ichigo pinned Grimmjow, and Tatsuki bound him while killing her own captive.
• Masaki arrived hoping to fight, but Isshin took her home before the battle could resume.
• Tsuna's group reached the Urahara Shop, where Tsuna subdued Grimmjow and Orihime restored his limbs.
• Tsuna told Ichigo and Tatsuki that he planned to visit Hueco Mundo and make a deal with Aizen.
• Urahara suggested bringing more Quincy, so Tsuna invited Ichigo and Uryū to join the trip.
• Grimmjow agreed to guide Tsuna's group, then learned that Aizen already knew about their undercover agent.

Tsuna's group traveled through Hueco Mundo with Grimmjow forced to pull them on a sled, then encountered Nel, a childlike Arrancar who had once been the Third Espada. They learned that Nnoitra had injured Nel and left her in her current state, and Tsuna planned to have Orihime heal her.

• Urahara opened a Garganta to Hueco Mundo, and Tsuna ordered Grimmjow to guide the group to the Forest of the Hollows and then Las Noches.
• Urahara bound Grimmjow to a sled and made him pull Tsuna and the others across the sands.
• Grimmjow changed course to avoid a falling figure, but Nel crashed into Ichigo and began crying after he confronted her.
• Tsuna comforted Nel, who quickly befriended Ichigo and clung to his leg.
• Tsuna asked Grimmjow about Nel, and Grimmjow said Nnoitra had injured her before she vanished from Las Noches.
• Ichigo learned that Nel had been the Third Espada, and Tsuna said Orihime could heal her injuries.

Tsuna and his group entered the underground Forest of the Hollows to capture a Gillian for testing, guided by Grimmjow. There they encountered Ashido, a former Squad 11 Shinigami who had been trapped in Hueco Mundo for two hundred years.

• Nel joined Tsuna and Ichigo on the trip, and her Fracción stayed behind to keep watch.
• Grimmjow led the group through a sand pit into the underground Forest of the Hollows, where Urahara warned them not to provoke the surrounding Hollows and Gillians.
• Urahara asked Grimmjow to lead them deeper so they could capture a Gillian for testing, and Grimmjow agreed despite complaining.
• A human voice warned the group that countless Gillians lay ahead, and Urahara's lights revealed a masked figure in a Shinigami uniform.
• Ashido introduced himself as a former Squad 11 member who had joined Captain Kuruyashiki Kenpachi's expeditionary force and remained in Hueco Mundo ever since.
• Kurotsuchi Mayuri recognized the expeditionary force as one that had disappeared from Soul Society's records two hundred years earlier.

Ashido learned that Kuruyashiki Kenpachi had died long ago and refused Urahara’s offer to return to Soul Society, fearing it would reject his Hollow-tainted power. After agreeing to guide the group through the Forest of the Hollows, he accepted konpeito from Tsuna as payment, tasting a reminder of home.

• Urahara told Ashido that Kuruyashiki Kenpachi had died two hundred years earlier, and Ashido broke down over the loss of his last tie to Soul Society.
• Ashido explained that years of eating Hollows had made him part Hollow, and he refused Urahara’s invitation to return to Soul Society.
• Ashido confronted Grimmjow, then killed a powerful Adjuchas with a swift sword slash after Tsuna warned the group.
• Ichigo showed Ashido his Hollow power and asked to exchange Zanjutsu pointers, while Tsuna urged Ashido to return to Soul Society.
• Ashido agreed to serve as the group’s bodyguard in the Forest of the Hollows, and Tsuna gave him konpeito as payment.

Tsuna and the others tested how Quincy power could turn destroyed Hollows into Reishi and used it with Urahara Kisuke and Red Princess to create an artificial spirit land in Hueco Mundo. They planned to use it as leverage against Aizen, then began testing whether other Quincies could produce the same result.

• Tsuna destroyed a Gillian with Ground Flame and gathered the Reishi left behind, prompting Kurotsuchi Mayuri to explain the soul cycle and Uryū to question Soul Society’s history with the Quincies.
• Tsuna explained that Quincy-destroyed Hollows became Reishi and revealed his plan to create an artificial heavy spirit land in Hueco Mundo to draw Aizen away from Karakura Town.
• Urahara Kisuke modified a branch fragment with Red Princess’s Bankai, creating a small mass of spiritually dense material that could serve as a bargaining tool with Aizen.
• Urahara Kisuke asked Uryū to test whether traditional Quincy powers could produce the same result, and Uryū prepared to use Hirenkyaku on the remaining Gillian.

Tsuna’s group set out for Las Noches after arranging the Reishi experiment, while Ashido chose to join them after retrieving his comrades’ belongings. As they left the Forest of the Hollows, Flame and Shizuku ambushed Rukia, and a crimson scythe struck her from behind.

• Urahara finished modifying the Reishi gathered by Tsuna’s Ground Flame, and Tsuna led the group toward Las Noches with Grimmjow as their guide.
• Ichigo reassured Nel that he would return for her, while Ashido reconsidered his beliefs about Hollows and agreed to go to Soul Society with the group.
• Ashido asked to retrieve his comrades’ belongings, and Ichigo accompanied him through the Forest of the Hollows.
• Flame and Shizuku tracked Ichigo and Ashido after Shizuku sensed Rukia’s scent on Ichigo, then followed the group toward the forest’s exit.
• As Rukia paused after hearing an unfamiliar voice call her name, Flame appeared before her and a crimson scythe cut through her from behind.

Tsuna and the others discovered that Rukia had been abducted and their memories of her erased by a parasitic Hollow’s power. Ichigo tracked her to Shizuku and Flame, but as the siblings attacked with giant white serpents, Tsuna prepared to intervene.

• Grimmjow agreed to guide the group toward Las Noches but insisted he would not drag them there.
• Urahara, Tsuna, and the others realized someone had vanished from their memories, and Ichigo recalled Rukia Kuchiki after Tsuna named her.
• Tsuna explained that a parasitic Hollow connected to Urahara’s past research had erased their memories of Rukia and brought her old friends to Hueco Mundo.
• Ichigo sensed Rukia’s spiritual pressure and rushed toward it, while the rest of the group followed.
• Ichigo found Shizuku fighting him and Flame holding Rukia; Flame summoned four Gillians, and Shizuku used their spiritual pressure to unleash giant white serpents.
• As Ichigo dodged the serpents and risked being swallowed, Tsuna ignited his Dying Will Flame and prepared to fight in Sky Bankai.

Tsuna blasted Ichigo and the giant white python with XX-BURNER, then Ichigo confronted Flame and Shizuku over their attempt to keep Rukia. Flame and Shizuku merged their Hollow power into the unconscious Rukia, beginning an unusual Hollowfication that left Sode no Shirayuki outside her body; the chapter ended as Rukia’s transformation was complete.

• Tsuna fired XX-BURNER at the white python beside Ichigo, and Ichigo emerged from the explosion Hollowfied and masked.
• Ichigo confronted Flame and Shizuku, insisting that Rukia should be allowed to choose whether she wanted to stay with them.
• Flame decided to bind herself and Shizuku to Rukia, and the siblings turned into black Reishi pressure and entered Rukia’s body.
• Tsuna and Urahara Kisuke identified Rukia’s transformation as an unusual Hollowfication, while Sode no Shirayuki explained that the new power had forced Rukia’s Bleach power out.
• Rukia’s screams subsided, and her Hollowfication was complete.

Ichigo, Tsuna, Urahara Kisuke, and Sode no Shirayuki worked to free Rukia from Flame and Shizuku’s control. Sode no Shirayuki restored Rukia’s Soul Reaper power, and she called on Rukia to remember her name.

• Hollowfied Rukia attacked Ichigo, who struggled to fight back without hurting his companion.
• Tsuna explained that Ichigo could not restore Rukia as he had before, and said Sode no Shirayuki could awaken her by returning her spiritual pressure.
• Rukia turned on Sode no Shirayuki, but Ichigo intervened while Tsuna and Urahara Kisuke restrained Rukia with Bakudo spells.
• Ichigo knocked away Rukia’s scythe and cut down the white snakes as Sode no Shirayuki thrust her true body into Rukia’s back.
• Sode no Shirayuki’s Soul Reaper power drove out the black Hollow pressure, and she called to Rukia to remember her name.

Rukia regained her memories and Sode no Shirayuki, then saved Flame and Shizuku from disappearing by absorbing their Hollow power. She learned to Hollowfy at will and stood with the siblings’ power now under her control.

• Rukia remembered her identity and called out Sode no Shirayuki, expelling the black spiritual pressure and defeating Flame and Shizuku.
• Rukia recognized Flame and Shizuku as her childhood friends and apologized for failing to protect them, but learned their essence had been badly damaged.
• Tsuna asked White Ichigo to explain how the siblings could become Rukia’s Hollow power, and White Ichigo told them to surrender their bodies and souls to her.
• Flame and Shizuku chose to give up their autonomy and transformed into Hollow power that Rukia absorbed through her scythe.
• Rukia demonstrated that she could Hollowfy at will, while Tsuna explained that her control over the Hollow power made the transformation natural.

Tsuna and his companions reached Las Noches after Grimmjow guided them across Hueco Mundo, while Rukia explained why Soul Society would accept Hollow power. Tsuna announced their arrival with his combined spiritual pressure, and Aizen prepared to welcome him with Sora Inoue at his side.

• Rukia apologized for delaying the group, then explained to Ashido that the Quincy were their future enemy and that Hollow power would be vital against them.
• Grimmjow overheard the group’s plans to approach the Arrancar, but kept the information to himself as he led them toward Las Noches.
• After about a day, Grimmjow brought Tsuna and the others to Las Noches and left to face whatever punishment awaited him.
• Tsuna told Ichigo that Aizen already knew they had arrived and released the spiritual pressure of his four powers against Las Noches.
• Aizen welcomed Sawada Tsunayoshi from his throne and called Sora Inoue out of the shadows to greet him.

Aizen allowed Sora Inoue to let the visitors reach Las Noches, while Tsuna’s group confronted several Espada at the gates. Ichigo challenged Nnoitra to avenge Nel, and Rukia prepared to fight Aaroniero after Tsuna revealed he carried Kaien Shiba’s Reishi.

• Aizen told Sora to warn Espada ranked above Number 4 not to act, while allowing the others to confront Tsuna’s group.
• Yammy, Nnoitra, and Aaroniero arrived at the gates, where Nnoitra’s surprise attack on Urahara failed.
• Tsuna told Ichigo that Nnoitra had injured Nel, and Ichigo challenged Nnoitra to fight.
• Tsuna sent Rukia after Aaroniero and revealed that the Espada carried Kaien Shiba’s Reishi, asking her to leave him barely alive.

Rukia followed Aaroniero to reclaim the Reishi he had consumed, while Tsuna fought Yammy and planned to let him encounter the Miracle. Yammy released his Resurrección and transformed into the Number 0 Espada, towering over Tsuna as the battle escalated.

• Rukia agreed to go with Aaroniero, and Uryū followed her while Ashido prepared to fight another Hollow.
• Tsuna took on Yammy himself so he could spare him for a later encounter with the Miracle, while Urahara and Ashido moved to intercept the other Arrancar.
• Mayuri headed alone to a side hall in Las Noches to pursue the target he had sensed, and Tsuna told him he could return to Soul Society after finishing.
• Yammy attacked Tsuna with a punch, Cero, and Bala, but Tsuna blocked or neutralized every assault with his strength and Mountain Flame.
• Yammy released Enraged Beast, grew into a massive, many-limbed form, and became the Number 0 Espada.