Chapter Summaries

Yamamoto tested Iori’s swordsmanship, named him as his successor, and began planning a major reshuffle of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads. At Kuchiki Kyoka’s adoption celebration, Kyoka prepared to take command of the Tenth Division and met the newly transferred Shiba Isshin, while Iori noticed someone in the crowd.

• Yamamoto challenged Iori to a bamboo-sword contest, lost after thirty exchanges, and told him not to let the world down.
• Yamamoto told the elders he would replace the Thirteen Court Guard Squads’ lineup, with Iori set to succeed him as Captain-General within three years.
• Kyoka attended a Kuchiki family gathering celebrating his adoption and impending appointment as captain of the Tenth Division.
• Iori congratulated Kyoka and urged him to take up his responsibilities, while Kyoka vowed not to disappoint him.
• Shiba Isshin introduced himself as a new transfer to the Tenth Division, and Iori welcomed him as a comrade.
• Saitō Fuyōfushi teased Kyoka at the gathering, and Iori’s attention suddenly stopped on someone across the courtyard.

Yoruichi asked Iori about love and marriage, then learned that people believed Yuki had someone she liked. In Kagoya, Quincy forces cornered Inaba Kageroza, and Haschwalth arrived to stop him.

• Yoruichi asked Iori why people married and suggested he pretend to be her partner, but Iori warned her not to speak carelessly.
• Yoruichi told Iori that people believed Yuki liked someone, leaving him amused and surprised by the rumor.
• Saito decided to strengthen her relationship with Yuki and considered asking her to witness her wedding.
• Inaba Kageroza used his Zanpakuto to reflect Quincy attacks, but the Quincy used their knowledge of his ability to find and injure him.
• Haschwalth appeared in Kagoya, shattered Kageroza's defensive technique, and left him demanding to know why the Quincy wanted him dead.

Yuki Aizen rescued Kageroza from Haschwalth and revealed that she planned to use his Reigai as an experimental container to deceive Iori. Meanwhile, Yamamoto assigned Hikifune Kirio and Jushiro to investigate apparent Hollowfication experiments, and the Captains tacitly accepted Iori Aizen’s secret research as the chapter left the investigation underway.

• Haschwalth cornered Kageroza in Kagoya, but an unseen attacker’s Five Dragon Annihilation devastated the area and forced the Quincy to retreat without their captive.
• Yuki Aizen appeared in Soul Society with Kageroza’s Zanpakuto and explained that she had rescued him to study his abilities and use his Reigai as a durable experimental container.
• Yuki told Kageroza that she wanted to fake her death in front of Iori Aizen, leaving him shocked that Iori might know about her plan.
• Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni informed the Captains that more than three hundred and seventy souls had vanished from West Rukongai and presented evidence of unusual Reishi traces.
• Kurotsuchi Mayuri identified traces suggesting Hollowfication, and Yamamoto ordered Hikifune Kirio and Jushiro to lead the investigation.
• The Captains accepted that Iori’s secret Hollowfication research would continue, since opposing him would risk a conflict they were unlikely to win.

After the investigation team vanished, Iori found Aizen Souyuki impaled on a wall and carried her away as his grief unleashed a storm across the Seireitei. Unohana Retsu and Shihōin Yoruichi then examined the ruins of Rukongai District 78, where signs of powerful Kido hinted at what had happened.

• Yamamoto ordered Kyōraku Shunsui, Unohana Retsu, and Shihōin Yoruichi to lead a new investigation squad after the team sent to Rukongai District 78 disappeared.
• Iori and Shunsui found Aizen Souyuki pinned to a wall by a Zanpakuto, and Iori carried her away as his spiritual pressure unleashed a storm.
• Shunsui comforted Iori and urged him to take Aizen Souyuki somewhere clean, while Iori struggled to hold back his grief.
• At the ruins of Rukongai District 78, Unohana Retsu examined traces of spiritual pressure and learned that the eastern area had likely been struck by powerful Kido.
• Shihōin Yoruichi arrived beside Unohana Retsu as they investigated the ruins.

Yoruichi and Kurotsuchi Mayuri discovered that the missing Hikifune Kirio had been transformed into an Arrancar, while Unohana’s Hollowfication awakened the murderous nature she had long restrained. The chapter ended with Unohana embracing her identity as the First Kenpachi and preparing to kill to her heart’s content.

• Yoruichi and Unohana searched the area where Jushiro and Hikifune had vanished, finding no survivors or signs of a battle.
• Yoruichi arrived at the Research and Development Bureau and restrained an Arrancar that was attacking squad members while Kurotsuchi Mayuri observed it.
• Kurotsuchi Mayuri revealed that the Arrancar had been artificially created from Captain-level Bleach and identified it as Hikifune Kirio.
• Yoruichi fought Hikifune, overpowering her with Shunkō after Hikifune fired a Cero despite being bound.
• Unohana confronted memories of her past as Yachiru and realized that Hollowfication was breaking the restraints she had placed on herself.
• Unohana’s Hollowfication awakened the First Kenpachi, and she declared that she would kill to her heart’s content.

Unohana awakened as the violent First Kenpachi and confronted Yoruichi, while Hollowfied Ukitake fought Kyōraku until Iori arrived. Iori severed the growths spreading through Kyōraku’s arm, then swiftly subdued Ukitake without killing him.

• Unohana revealed her bone-armored form and advanced on Yoruichi, who prepared to fight her despite the overwhelming killing pressure.
• Kyōraku and Hollowfied Ukitake clashed with their released Zanpakuto, and Kyōraku urged his friend to resist the corruption.
• Bony growths erupted from Kyōraku’s wounded arm, leaving him unable to continue fighting.
• Iori arrived, cut away the growths on Kyōraku’s arm, and sealed it with Kidō.
• Iori faced Ukitake, then used three basic techniques to wound him, break his knee, and knock him unconscious.

Iori subdued the Hollowfied Fujitora Shijuro while Yoruichi and Unohana Yachiru fought across the rain-soaked battlefield. Saitō Fuyōfushi joined the duel and defeated Unohana, leaving Iori to arrive after the fight was over.

• Fujitora Shijuro recovered enough to attack Iori, but Iori pinned him with Kidō and sealed his movements with Kidō #99: Ban.
• Yoruichi fought Unohana Yachiru, using her Shunko techniques and losing a leg before her wounds were restored by Unohana’s spreading blood-like power.
• Yoruichi and Unohana prepared to clash again, but Saitō Fuyōfushi entered the battlefield and claimed Unohana as her own opponent.
• Iori arrived to find Unohana bound by Shihoin Clan ropes, and Saitō told him she had won.

After Unohana was subdued, Iori grieved over Yuki’s apparent death while Shunsui comforted him. Yuki was secretly alive and preparing to carry out her plan, though Iori’s grief had shaken her resolve.

• Saito knocked Unohana unconscious, and Iori confirmed that she was alive.
• Iori stood by Yuki’s apparent corpse in the Fourth Division barracks, where Shunsui joined him and helped him face his grief.
• Shunsui told Iori that Yuki had cared deeply for him, and Iori vowed to live on in a way she would have wanted.
• After Iori left, Yuki revealed that the corpse was a Reigai shell and that she had heard his words through contingencies she had planted in it.
• Yuki resisted the urge to return to Iori and opened a hidden cabinet containing a device she had found through Urahara Kisuke’s research.

Yuki completed a perfect Hogyoku while Hollowfied Reigai threw the Seireitei into chaos. Unohana and Jushiro discovered they were Reigai and escaped their restraints, while Yamamoto exposed an impostor; the chapter left the Seireitei tense and divided as another Reigai was found.

• Yuki used Iori's data to complete a perfect Hogyoku and began studying how to merge it with Urahara Kisuke's unfinished creation.
• Unohana broke out of her barrier, freed Jushiro from his restraints, and told him they were Reigai created by Yuki with their memories restricted.
• Unohana, Jushiro, and Hikifune Kirio realized they had been manipulated into entering the Dangai and were trapped in a Kagoya.
• Yamamoto burned the Shubaku Jiro impostor in his office after detecting hostility and seeing blue lightning in the impostor's eyes.
• Iori proposed recalling Hiyori's forces from Hueco Mundo to help purge the Reigai, but Central 46 delayed the decision over fears of his growing influence.
• The Seireitei remained divided and on edge as Reigai infiltrations fueled distrust, and someone announced that another one had been found.

Koga was formally tasked with identifying the Reigai as attacks and mistrust spread through Seireitei. Yamamoto faced three Reigai who ambushed him, unleashed his Bankai, and was interrupted by Iori Aizen before his attack landed.

• Koga used Muramasa to test suspected Reigai, then received Yamamoto's formal order to lead the identification effort.
• Yamamoto learned the Research and Development Bureau had created a Reigai-detection instrument, but it could test only about fifty people a day.
• Fujitora Shijuro, Unohana, and Hikifune Kirio revealed themselves as Reigai and attacked Yamamoto at the First Division barracks.
• Hikifune Kirio used Temporary Soul to boost Fujitora and Unohana, and they pressured Yamamoto until he released Bankai, Zanka no Tachi.
• Yamamoto prepared a devastating strike against the Reigai, but Iori Aizen arrived and blocked him with Mirror Water.

Iori defeated Jushiro's and Hikifune Kirio's Reigai, but Yamamoto stabbed him after his senses were manipulated, and the sight of Unohana's Reigai drove him into a rage. Yuki revealed herself as the mastermind and struck Iori down with a binding Kido and Kyoka Suigetsu, leaving his fate unknown.

• Iori destroyed Jushiro's Reigai and Hikifune Kirio's Reigai, then faced Unohana Retsu's Reigai.
• Yamamoto Genryusai stabbed Iori while his five senses were deceived, and Iori realized his teacher could not recognize him.
• Iori erupted in fury over seeing his sister's Zanpakuto and overpowered Yamamoto and Unohana's Reigai in battle.
• Yuki pinned Iori with a special binding Kido, revealed herself as the mastermind, and blasted him into a ravine with Kyoka Suigetsu.
• Yuki told Unohana's Reigai that Iori's clothes had concealed the Kido and said he could only accept his fate.

Yuki revealed herself to Iori, and his pleas for their family to reunite failed to stop her from fighting him. After Yamamoto stabbed Iori while under deception, Iori flew into a rage and battled the Reigai captains, while Yuki watched from hiding.

• Yuki confronted Iori and explained that she sought to rise above the Three Worlds, while Iori begged her to return to their family.
• Iori defeated the Reigai of Jushiro and Hikifune Kirio, then faced Unohana Retsu's Reigai.
• Yamamoto Genryusai stabbed Iori with Zanka no Tachi, and Iori realized his teacher's senses had been deceived.
• Believing the Reigai had defiled his dead sister, Iori lost control and attacked Unohana and Yamamoto.
• Iori overpowered both Reigai captains and wounded Unohana, while Yuki watched from a ruined tower in hiding.

Iori fought Yuki after discovering she was the mastermind, while she used the Hogyoku to surpass the limits of Bleach and Hollow. Iori revealed his Bankai and trapped her in a domain of unavoidable slashes, but Yuki countered with Kurohitsugi.

• Iori and Yuki clashed with swords and Kido, and Yuki wounded him while criticizing his reluctance to fight seriously.
• Yuki awakened the Hogyoku’s power, transforming her appearance and reiatsu as she claimed to have surpassed the laws of the Three Worlds.
• Iori revealed his Bankai, Mirror Water: Heavenly Cloud Sword, filling the battlefield with threads that produced defense-piercing slashes.
• Yuki remained calm inside Iori’s domain and said she needed the Hogyoku to gain the power to defeat enemies.
• Yuki cast Hadō #90: Kurohitsugi, engulfing the space around herself as abnormal spatial fluctuations erupted inside.

Iori sacrificed himself to stop Yuki, and his death left her emotionally numb as she defeated the remaining Soul Society forces and created an Oken. Kuchiki Kyoka confronted her above Karakura Town just as she prepared to open the way to the Soul King Palace.

• Iori used the forbidden Kidō #96: Itto Kaso against Yuki, then fought her until he let her blade pierce his heart and died holding her.
• Yuki realized Iori had been her protector and grieved over his body as rain fell across Soul Society.
• Yuki broke Kyoka Suigetsu's illusion, defeated Yamamoto and Zaraki Kenpachi, and left Soul Society carrying Iori's corpse.
• Above Karakura Town, Yuki extracted human souls to create an Oken key for the Soul King Palace.
• Kuchiki Kyoka arrived through a temporary Senkaimon with Muramasa and challenged Yuki, who dismissed him as no threat.

Yuki Aizen entered the Soul King Palace after defeating Zero Division and learned from the King of the Quincy that Iori had reached the palace before her but gave up the chance to become the Soul King. Enraged by his claim that Iori had loved Cerasviel von Einzbern, Yuki attacked him, but her strongest lightning strike left him unharmed.

• Yuki broke Kyoka Suigetsu and destroyed its spirit, then burned Muramasa and turned Koga into an ice sculpture.
• Yuki used the Oken to reach the Soul King Palace, where she defeated Tenjirō Kirinji, Nimaiya Ōetsu, Shutara Senjumaru, and Hyōsube Ichibē.
• Yuki found the Soul King bound inside a crystal and discovered a cloaked figure seated on the throne.
• The King of the Quincy revealed that Iori Aizen had reached the palace first, fought him, and refused the chance to become the Soul King because he could not abandon someone in the lower world.
• The King of the Quincy named Cerasviel von Einzbern as the person Iori could not abandon, provoking Yuki to attack him.
• Yuki and the King of the Quincy exchanged powerful attacks, but he survived her Yamata no Arashi: Rai unharmed.

Yuki awakened in a vast observatory and confronted Iori, realizing he was the Soul King and had deceived her. Iori revealed memories spanning his life and suggested that even he might have been deceived, leaving Yuki trying to understand what was wrong with them.

• Yuki used her blood and the Hogyoku to fuse with Mirror Water and unleash a Bankai that let her govern phenomena across her domain.
• Yuki suppressed Yhwach and prepared to kill him, but Iori appeared, blocked her sword, and wounded her shoulder.
• Yuki awoke unharmed in an observatory and recognized Iori as the Soul King.
• Yuki demanded to know how long Iori had deceived her and whether their past had been deliberately arranged.
• Iori showed Yuki memories of his life from his arrival in Soul Society and asked whether she noticed a problem.

Iori revealed to Yuki that their world was known as Bleach in his memories and explained that his uncertainty about his own origins had led him to seek answers across other worlds. He planned to leave the Three Worlds to investigate his past, entrusting Yuki with their care as the next Soul King, though he promised to return.

• Iori told Yuki that he had traveled to worlds named after fictional works and that he remembered the Three Worlds as Bleach, where most people had been characters in a manga.
• Yuki believed Iori had manipulated her to stop her rebellion, but Iori explained that he had wanted her to exhaust her ambitions and become the true Soul King.
• Iori connected his own existence to Altair and described his fear that he might not have been a real person in his remembered hometown.
• Iori decided to search his original world for proof that he had existed and told Yuki to take charge of the Three Worlds while he was gone.
• Yuki reluctantly agreed to watch over the Three Worlds and care for Iori’s loved ones, but Iori said he would keep them in separate places.

Iori restored the dead and damaged Soul Society, revealed himself as the new Soul King, and established new rules for governing the Three Worlds. After arranging safeguards and saying goodbye to loved ones across several worlds, he prepared to use the Fate/Grand Order CG to seek answers in his hometown.

• Iori returned the innocent dead to Soul Society, revived those killed in the war, and repaired the Seireitei before revealing himself as the Soul King.
• Iori abolished Central 46, created a council for the Three Worlds, and gave the Captains Oken as a means to send him their opinions.
• Iori assured Ciel that he would return safely, left Disboard in her care, and watched Esdeath and Akame argue over who was most reliable.
• Iori arranged contingencies in the Campione! world, asking Athena and Hippolyta to safeguard markers that could help him find his way back.
• Iori prepared to travel to his hometown, relying on the Fate/Grand Order CG after gathering several safeguards and traversal abilities.

Iori prepared to travel through the Sea of Dimensions using a Cosmo-version Chaldeas to find and mark other worlds. Before leaving, he accepted Granny’s gift for Yuki and promised to return soon.

• Iori planned to use the Cosmo-version Chaldeas and his accumulated abilities to cross the Sea of Dimensions, returning regularly despite its chaotic flow of time.
• Iori told Granny he was going farther away but would be careful, and said Sister could return to help out more often.
• Granny gave Iori a kimono for Yuki and urged him to stop hiding his feelings for her.
• Iori joked with Granny about Nemu wanting a little brother, then accepted the gift and thanked her.
• Iori promised Granny he would be back soon and left using Shunpo.