Chapter Summaries

While training in Shunkō, Iori learned that mastering its continuous energy control would require more practice, but Ciel offered a possible shortcut. Akame then revealed her plan to leave the Imperial Capital and live in seclusion with Kurome, and Iori challenged her belief that her past left her no place in the New Empire.

• Iori trained in Shunkō in the Akame ga Kill! world and explained to Ciel and Akame that its powerful bursts left openings unless he learned to control the energy flow unconsciously.
• Ciel hinted that she could help Iori master Shunkō faster, and Iori kissed her before she could finish explaining her idea.
• Iori teased Akame about her feelings, but she insisted she had no plans to marry and intended to take Kurome into seclusion after helping Nadjeta.
• Akame told Iori she felt out of place in the New Empire and planned to leave the Imperial Capital once her guard duties ended.
• Iori argued that Akame was not alone in carrying painful memories and called her belief that she had been left behind in the old era arrogant.

Iori persuaded Akame to stop withdrawing from the world and offered her and Kurome a home in the palace, then dealt with Ciel’s jealousy over his growing romantic ties. He and Ciel discussed the slow, careful work of modifying the Empire’s leylines, and Ciel prepared to address another matter with him.

• Iori encouraged Akame to seek happiness, offered her a place in the palace, and said Kurome could live there while she recovered.
• Ciel confronted Iori after catching him flirting with Akame, and Iori embraced both women while declaring that he wanted them all to live together.
• Iori clarified that he meant to care for Kurome like a younger sister, while Ciel pointed out that his fifth partner would be Esdeath.
• Iori received an art-style reward for a CG, then followed Ciel to the Audience Hall to discuss Shunkō.
• Ciel explained that the leyline-modification plan would proceed slowly because of limited resources and the need to protect the environment, and she told Iori that the work would not delay their other matters.

Ciel proposed embedding Shunkō’s operating formula in Iori’s Magic Circuits as a Magic Crest, and began planning how to create it. After they synchronized through a night together, Iori received the Holy Grail’s protection, and Ciel woke the next morning only to be pulled back onto his chest.

• Ciel explained that a Magic Crest could simplify Shunkō by fixing its energy pathways inside Iori’s body.
• Iori agreed to let Ciel design the Crest, and she estimated that it could be made within a week with Crown’s help.
• Ciel said she needed to study Shunkō’s operational trajectory through physical contact and synchronized magical energy, and Iori initiated magic replenishment.
• Iori gained the Holy Grail’s favor, protection, and auxiliary Circuits through his soul connection with Ciel.
• The next morning, Ciel woke and tried to get up to handle her work, but Iori pulled her back onto his chest.

As the Bleach-Quincy war approached its decisive battle, Kyōraku Shunsui assigned Iori Aizen to seal the sea route while placing Sengoku Kyōka in charge of policing deserters. Kuchiki Ginrei objected to Kyōka’s assignment and then questioned why Iori had been removed from the main battlefield.

• Iori completed a Soul Imprint adapted to the Reishi system, returned to Bleach, and resumed his missions during the war.
• Kyōraku Shunsui’s forces confined the Quincy to a coastal city and prepared a sealing barrier before the final assault.
• Iori and Tousen Kaname received a Hell Butterfly summons announcing that officers would be briefed on the operation in three days.
• After the operational meeting, Kensei Muguruma relayed Shunsui’s orders: Iori and Shihōin Yoruichi would guard the sea, while Sengoku Kyōka would hunt deserters and traitors.
• Kuchiki Ginrei warned Shunsui that Kyōka’s demon blade would alienate his comrades, but Shunsui upheld the assignment.
• Ginrei accepted Shunsui’s decision and planned to protect Kyōka after the war, then challenged the decision to keep Iori off the main battlefield.

Kyōraku Shunsui explained to Kuchiki Ginrei that he had assigned Iori Aizen away from the main battlefield because he feared Iori would resist orders to kill Quincy civilians. As the battle went on, Iori and Shihōin Yoruichi discovered an elite Quincy group hiding near the bay, and their leader appeared to recognize Iori.

• Kyōraku Shunsui told Kuchiki Ginrei that Iori Aizen might refuse to compromise his principles and had therefore been kept from the main battlefield.
• Shunsui said Aizen Souyuki and the Grand Kido Master could help make up for Iori’s absence, and Ginrei left the tent thinking about Iori’s value and Sengoku Kyōka’s treatment.
• Iori Aizen and Shihōin Yoruichi discussed the war, the Quincy’s threat to the balance of the three realms, and Iori’s reluctance to attack people unable to resist.
• Iori and Yoruichi watched the battle continue until a Hell Butterfly reported that the Quincy had nearly collapsed.
• Iori used Hadō #4: Byakurai to reveal more than a dozen concealed Quincy warriors near the bay.
• A stern Quincy leader stepped forward, recognized Iori, and reacted with disbelief before showing silent fury.

Iori and Yoruichi faced Hreinn Herz and a group of Quincies on the beach, with Yoruichi’s Onmitsukidō surrounding the enemy while Iori fought Hreinn. Iori overwhelmed Hreinn with Ama-no-Murakumo, but the wounded Quincy reached for his Spirit Scattering Gloves as the battle continued.

• Hreinn Herz identified himself as Helfin’s godfather and attacked Iori to avenge his godson, but Yoruichi struck him and drove back the surrounding Quincies.
• Yoruichi used Flash Step to defeat the Quincies closing in on her, while Iori recognized Hreinn’s connection to Scarecrow.
• Yoruichi drew her Zanpakuto as nearly a hundred Onmitsukidō members appeared and surrounded the Quincies.
• Iori charged across the sea and used Yamata no Arashi to shatter Hreinn’s Reishi greatsword and send him crashing onto the beach.
• Hreinn struggled up from the crater and reached for his Spirit Scattering Gloves.

Iori defeated Hreinn after the Quincy fought beyond his limits, then joined Yoruichi and the Onmitsukidō as they rushed to the city to confront a Quincy counterattack. There, Iori saved Yoruichi from a falling attacker, but was struck aside before returning to clash with something invisible.

• Iori recognized Hreinn’s Reishi threads as Ran’s Heavenly Puppet, and Hreinn used the technique to keep fighting despite his fatal injuries.
• Iori killed Hreinn, washed his body away with a wave, and returned to find Yoruichi and the Onmitsukidō had defeated the leaderless Quincy at the coast.
• A vast pillar of blue Reishi erupted from the city, and orders sent Iori, Yoruichi, and the Onmitsukidō to reinforce the main battlefield.
• Iori and Yoruichi fought through the chaotic city, where Quincy emerged from underground barriers and attacked amid a shortage of free Reishi.
• Iori kicked Yoruichi out of danger as a meteor-like attacker struck, then returned from a nearby residence and swung his sword at an invisible opponent.

Iori Aizen and Yoruichi fought the young Quincy resembling Yhwach, whose overwhelming power forced them into a desperate battle. Iori survived devastating attacks and continued dueling the Holy Son, who grew curious about his unusually resilient body.

• Iori Aizen fought the young Yhwach-like Quincy, identified as the spirit of Tensa Zangetsu, and Yoruichi joined the battle with a surprise attack.
• The Holy Son trapped Iori and Yoruichi inside Sanctuary Hymn and unleashed countless Reishi arrows, then struck Iori with a Greater Holy Arrow.
• Iori emerged from the explosion apparently unharmed, introduced himself as Iori Aizen, and secretly signaled Yoruichi to retreat while preparing Tenteikūra.
• Iori clashed with the Holy Son in a fierce sword fight and unleashed Raging Tide, but the Holy Son emerged nearly unscathed and questioned Iori’s curious resilience.

Iori and Yoruichi faced the Quincy Holy Son D while Soul Society’s forces tried to contain the Quincy retreat. Iori continued fighting despite D’s overwhelming strength and landed a powerful lightning attack that sent D flying, then pursued him with another strike.

• Iori concealed the nature of his rapid recovery by claiming his Bankai made his body flow like water, while D suspected his power was extraordinary.
• D and Iori received battlefield messages: the Quincy elders called for D to lead a breakout, while Shunsui ordered Iori and Yoruichi to hold D until the Captains could arrive.
• Yoruichi and the Onmitsukidō joined Iori to surround D, but D’s Reishi arrows struck down the surrounding operatives.
• D repelled Iori and Yoruichi with a burst of power, then sent Yoruichi flying as Iori attacked him from the side.
• Iori endured D’s close-range Reishi flames and unleashed Yamata no Arashi, blasting D into the air before a white-lit figure caught up and struck him.

Iori fought D, a young Quincy posing as the Holy Son, and revealed that he suspected D was deliberately keeping him occupied. D explained that he was a failed vessel for the Quincy progenitor’s power, then revealed that Yhwach was still alive, shocking Shihōin Yoruichi.

• Iori used Shunkō and his own Flash Step Roar Second Stage to wound D, while Yoruichi watched in disbelief.
• D used his Date ability to inject erroneous data into Iori, hoping to disrupt his recovery, and asked him to admit defeat.
• Iori accused D of avoiding the rescue of his people and suggested he planned to trade his life for their survival.
• D described how Quincy elders made him their Holy Son by planting the progenitor’s seed in him, but said he could not save his people or overcome the limits of his borrowed power.
• D said he intended to make Soul Society turn its attention elsewhere by revealing that Yhwach was still alive.
• Yoruichi demanded an explanation, and D said the Flame Demon, who had buried the Quincy King, should already know the truth.

Iori learned that D was trying to preserve the last Quincy by making Soul Society hesitate to exterminate them, and the revelation drove Iori to resolve to keep surpassing his limits. He fought D with everything he had and unleashed Hadō #99, Five Dragon Annihilation, before the other Captains arrived to find the battlefield devastated and infer that a powerful Kido specialist had used it.

• D explained that publicizing Yhwach’s survival could make Soul Society spare the remaining Quincy until they found him.
• Iori understood that even D could not overcome the forces shaping his people’s fate, and resolved to keep growing stronger without limit.
• Iori thanked D for strengthening his resolve, then attacked him with Shunkō, Kido, and Heavenly Cloud.
• Iori trapped D with Nine Stars Binding and struck him with Hadō #91, Senju Kōten Taisan, but D survived and counterattacked.
• After completing the incantation for Hadō #99, Five Dragon Annihilation, Iori summoned a colossal dragon of light and charged D.
• The Captains arrived after the battle had stopped and, seeing the ruined terrain, concluded that a powerful Captain-level Kido specialist had used Five Dragon Annihilation.

After D’s defeat, Shunsui reported the Holy Child’s warning that Yhwach would awaken, and the Soul Reapers began winding down the war while monitoring the surviving Quincy. Back in Soul Society, Iori enjoyed a brief stretch of freedom before asking his adoptive sister Yuki about her hidden role in the battle.

• Shunsui’s Katen Kyōkotsu and Iori’s attacks left D mortally wounded, and the arriving Captains sealed the Quincy leader’s defeat.
• Before dying, D recited a prophecy that Yhwach would reclaim his heartbeat, consciousness, power, and eventually the world.
• Shunsui reported the warning to Yamamoto and Central 46, halted the pursuit of the remaining Quincy, and withdrew much of the army from the World of the Living.
• Iori returned to Soul Society and spent his unassigned days training and helping at Granny’s house while rumors spread that he might become a Captain.
• Yuki visited Iori’s dojo, and he asked whether she had been present when D was killed.
• Yuki admitted she had secretly fought among the Quincy and watched Iori battle D from the shadows.

Iori reflected on his battle with the Saint Child, gained Word Spirit EX from the fallen Quincy, and became Yamamoto’s disciple. As Soul Society handled the Quincy and considered new captains, Iori collected equipment from Kurotsuchi Mayuri.

• Yuki revealed that her hypnosis had disrupted the Saint Child long enough for Kyōraku Shunsui’s sneak attack to succeed, then discussed Iori’s strength and theories about his Bankai.
• Iori told Yuki that the Saint Child had spoken of his past and the Vandenreich Letter, while Yuki secretly kept a glowing object she identified as a Fragment of the Spirit King.
• Iori received the Song of the Holy Emperor reward, gaining Word Spirit EX and ten Art Style Value, while Soul Society debated restrictions on the surviving Quincy.
• Yamamoto appointed Iori his disciple, and Iori accepted before the gathered captains.
• Iori went to Kurotsuchi Mayuri’s laboratory to collect the data and devices he had ordered.

After learning that the Kurosaki family descended from the Quincy Holy Son, Iori acquired a mysterious CG and a Dimensional Gate. Later, Madame Crimson arranged a dinner between Iori and Yoruichi, offered him a residence, and revealed the Shihoin Clan’s struggle to secure a Bankai-bearing successor.

• Kurotsuchi Mayuri told Iori that Soul Society planned to confine the surviving Quincy and listed five families expected to remain, including the Kurosaki family descended from the Quincy Holy Son.
• Iori connected the Holy Son’s lineage to Ichigo Kurosaki and received the “Shinigami: Child of Darkness” CG, which opened a Dimensional Gate to The Eminence in Shadow.
• Iori met Yoruichi at a dinner arranged by Madame Crimson, who explained that the Shihoin Clan intended to repay him and offered him a residence.
• Madame Crimson described how the Shihoin Clan’s leadership depended on having a Bankai user to command the Second Division and oversee the Onmitsukidō.
• Madame Crimson revealed that no one among the current Shihoin younger generation, including the main family, branches, and retainers, had achieved Bankai.

Iori refused Madame Crimson's proposal to marry into the Shihoin family, saying he had pledged his life to someone; Yoruichi mistook his description of Esdeath for herself. The story then followed Kage no Minoru, a would-be Eminence in Shadow, as he investigated a meteorite crater and found the meteorite missing.

• Madame Crimson asked Iori to marry into the Shihoin family and become Yoruichi's proxy as the next head of the Second Division and Onmitsukidō.
• Iori refused, saying he had pledged his life to someone, and Yoruichi eagerly questioned him about her identity.
• Yoruichi concluded that Iori's description of his beloved sounded like her, while Aizen Souyuki eavesdropped nearby and smiled.
• Kage no Minoru defeated a group of delinquents while dressed as a masked vigilante, but felt disappointed that his opponents were not formidable.
• After seeing a report about a meteorite that had fallen near his home, Kage no Minoru went to school as usual and searched the crater that night.
• Kage no Minoru found no meteorite in the crater, tried sensing cosmic energy without success, and began climbing out with heat-vitrified stones as souvenirs.

Kage no Minoru followed mysterious signs through the forest and found Iori fighting a monstrous creature, confirming that a hidden supernatural world existed. Iori killed the monster while protecting Kage no Minoru, who watched in awe and became captivated by him.

• Kage no Minoru followed the beast’s roars and tracks through the forest, hoping to find supernatural power, but reached an apparently empty cliff.
• A massive monster landed behind Kage no Minoru, and he realized a boy wielding a strange sword stood between him and the creature.
• Iori’s narration revealed that he had battled the monster in a magic-filled hell world before its self-destruction sent him through a spatial rift to Earth.
• Iori hunted the surviving fragments of the monster in the forest until Kage no Minoru entered the battlefield.
• Iori blocked the monster’s attack with a barrier, then cut off its head and suppressed its magic with glowing wedges.
• Kage no Minoru watched Iori’s effortless victory and was overwhelmed by admiration.

Iori saved Kage no Minoru from a collapsing cliff, then rejected his request to become a disciple and sent him into an out-of-body experience. Kage no Minoru woke at the cliff’s base, unsure whether the encounter had been a dream as memories began returning.

• Iori lowered Kage no Minoru from the collapsing cliff with a Kido rope, and Kage no Minoru landed with a painful but survivable stop.
• After seeing an Art Style reward, Kage no Minoru begged Iori to take him as a disciple, but Iori refused and warned him about fate.
• Kage no Minoru declared that he would pursue his chosen path and become The Eminence in Shadow, and Iori touched his forehead to separate his soul from his body.
• In a strange empty world, Kage no Minoru met a talking crowbar that offered him power but said he was too weak to use it.
• Kage no Minoru woke beneath the cliff, dismissed the experience as a dream, and began recalling the meteor, monster, Iori, and his fall.

Iori discovered expanding spatial rifts around Earth that were leaking magic power and could eventually devastate the planet’s biosphere. After realizing the rifts might connect Earth, Hell, and the other world, he traveled through them and began identifying which ones led where.

• Kage no Minoru remembered seeing Iori’s supernatural abilities and celebrated, while Iori watched him and considered him a promising source of CGs.
• Iori sensed faint magic power in the atmosphere, flew into space, and found a vast spatial rift leaking magic power toward Earth.
• Iori traveled around Earth for three days and found numerous expanding rifts, concluding that they could eventually connect and cause catastrophic changes to the planet.
• Iori theorized that the rifts linked Earth and the other world through Hell, then tested the route by entering a large rift and emerging in the alternate dimension.
• Iori tested ten nearby rifts before reasoning that the flow rate of magic power could reveal whether each one led to Earth or the more magical other world.

Iori wiped out a beastman bandit village and rescued a kidnapped girl, then met an elf who had come to deal with the same bandits. The elf learned that Iori had already killed nearly everyone and found other captive girls, leaving them to decide what to do next.

• An elf traveler entered the mountain village and found its sentries and many bandits dead, with signs of a one-sided slaughter.
• The elf tried to free a human girl from Iori, but he effortlessly stopped her attack and withstood a feline beastman's ambush without injury.
• Iori killed the beastman leader and explained that his mana defense had made the beastman's claws useless.
• Iori put the terrified girl to sleep, and the elf sheathed her sword after he asked whether she wanted to fight.
• Iori and the elf discovered several captive girls and learned that the bandits had worked with slave traders; Iori offered her the leader's gold, but she declined.

After Iori and Beatrix rescued kidnapped girls from beastman bandits, Iori cared for the survivors and returned them safely to their village. At the village feast, Beatrix learned Iori planned to leave soon and asked him to spar with her.

• Iori apologized to Beatrix for attacking her, then asked her to help escort the rescued girls down the mountain.
• Iori fed and healed the girls, helped them wash, and shared some of the bandits’ property with them while Beatrix watched.
• Iori explained to Beatrix that he had cared for the girls to improve their mood, joking that their admiring gazes also pleased him.
• Iori and Beatrix joined the villagers’ feast, where they discussed their journeys, Beatrix’s family, and Iori’s plans to return before an upcoming festival.
• Beatrix asked Iori to spar with her, but he refused, saying he was a pacifist and saw no reward in a meaningless fight.