High School Senior Year Begins

The wheel of time kept turning; every change in space merely marked the passage of time.

The World of the Living, Karakura Town, the Kurosaki residence.

Kurosaki Ichigo was eating the breakfast his mother had made at the dining table.

Today, he officially became a third-year high school student!

The impact of the meteor disaster that had struck Karakura Town a year and a half ago had, by now, effectively been reduced to a minimum.

As the "miracle school" of that year, Karakura First High School had escaped disaster because the entire student body had gone on an outing when the meteor disaster struck... Though when they returned, they discovered their school was gone, and they had nowhere to hold classes...