Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yato reflected on Saitō Immortal's experience and Soul Society's shifting tensions as years passed. The chapter ended with him receiving Hisana Kuchiki's obituary.

• Uchiha Yato parted from Aizen Sosuke after they emerged from underground and wondered whether rescuing Saitō Immortal would mean confronting Ryujin Jakka.
• Soul Society gradually forgot the Akatsuki after Sakibe Kyōga was recaptured, unaware that its leader was Uchiha Yato, captain of the Ninth Division.
• Sajin Komamura became the Seventh Division's captain, while Uchiha Yato and Kenpachi Zaraki continued their sparring bouts.
• Shiba Kazuo's influence over the Sixth Division grew, intensifying the conflict between his faction and Byakuya Kuchiki's loyalists.
• Uchiha Yato received a letter announcing that Hisana Kuchiki had died at the Kuchiki Main Residence.

After Hisana’s death, Byakuya vowed to fulfill her final wish while resisting Shiba Kazuo’s growing threat. Kaien revealed that he had achieved Bankai and planned to kill Kazuo with help from Shiba Isshin and Byakuya, leaving Yato to consider how to protect Kaien’s children if the plan went wrong.

• Byakuya mourned Hisana and told Yato he would fulfill her final wish himself, while vowing not to surrender the Sixth Division captaincy to Shiba Kazuo.
• Yato found Shiba Isshin barred from the Kuchiki Estate, warned him to avoid Byakuya for now, and learned that Kaien wanted to meet him.
• At the Shiba residence, Kaien told Yato and Miyako that he had achieved Bankai and intended to kill Shiba Kazuo after years of training.
• Kaien explained that he and Isshin had sworn a blood oath and that he planned to persuade Byakuya to join them, citing Kazuo’s suspected murders of Sōjun Kuchiki, Ginrei Kuchiki, and Arima Shintaro.
• Kaien and Miyako asked Yato to hide Kūkaku and Ganju in the Kamui Dimension if their plan failed, and Yato left troubled by the danger and Kazuo’s suspected crimes.

After learning that a student in a Rukongai jail resembled Byakuya Kuchiki's late wife, Uchiha Yato went to investigate and found Rukia Kuchiki and Renji Abarai. He took Rukia through Kamui, leaving Renji furious and Matsumoto Rangiku to assure him she would likely return the next day.

• Matsumoto Rangiku told Uchiha Yato that a Shin'ō Academy student in jail looked exactly like Byakuya Kuchiki's late wife.
• Yato and Rangiku went to Inuzuri No. 2 The Jail, where they encountered Tenth Division third seat Shiba Yiheng and the imprisoned students.
• Yato identified the students as Rukia Kuchiki and Renji Abarai, tested them with his spiritual pressure, and broke open their cell.
• Rukia and Renji explained that they had fought a stall owner who threatened to cripple a hungry child for stealing bread.
• Yato carried Rukia away through Kamui and told Rangiku to handle the matter quietly, leaving Renji behind.
• Rangiku told Renji to return to Shin'ō Academy and wait, saying he would likely see Rukia the next day.