Chapter Summaries

Yamabuki Chidori gained a powerful system gift while fighting Hollows, then discovered that the man recruiting him was Yamamoto, who was preparing to found the Gotei 13. Chidori joined as Yamamoto’s first Lieutenant and traveled with him to Seireitei to recruit more members.

• Yamabuki Chidori used his beginner’s gift pack to gain a Zanpakuto, swordsmanship mastery, Flash Step, and Lieutenant-level Reiatsu, then defeated the Hollows pursuing him.
• Yamamoto invited Yamabuki Chidori to join his organization, and Chidori changed his mind after learning it would be called the Gotei 13.
• Yamamoto rejected Chidori’s request to retire, and Chidori asked to serve as his Lieutenant rather than become a Captain.
• Yamamoto and Yamabuki Chidori roasted sweet potatoes together, then set off to recruit someone Yamamoto had in mind.
• Yamamoto and Yamabuki Chidori arrived at Seireitei, which looked very different from its future form.

Yamamoto brought Yamabuki Chidori into Seireitei to recruit Shunshun Shidō and Saitō Fubōfu into the Gotei 13. Shunshun agreed, but Saitō challenged Yamabuki to a fight, leaving him scrambling to survive until an incense stick burned out.

• Yamamoto led Yamabuki Chidori into Seireitei, where Yamabuki used his Lieutenant-level Reiatsu to incapacitate a squad of noble guards.
• Shunshun Shidō welcomed Yamamoto and Yamabuki to the Shihōin estate, agreed to become the Second Division Captain, and insisted that Saitō join him.
• Saitō Fubōfu attacked Shunshun for calling her his servant, then challenged Yamamoto and Yamabuki to a fight.
• Yamamoto wagered that Saitō would join the Gotei 13 if she failed to defeat Yamabuki before an incense stick burned out, while promising her Yamabuki as a slave if she won.
• Saitō overwhelmed Yamabuki with her speed and strength, and Yamabuki asked Yamamoto to teach him Kidō during the fight.
• Yamamoto cast Bakudō #21: Sekienton, filling the area with red smoke as Saitō continued attacking Yamabuki.

Yamabuki Chidori joined Yamamoto’s Gotei 13, discovered that his body absorbed Reishi and rapidly increased his Reiatsu, and began training under Yamamoto. After surviving a brutal first lesson, he went alone to investigate a Hollow in Kofuku Mountain, where frightened residents refused to speak with him.

• Yamabuki Chidori copied Sekienton after seeing it once and used the smoke to ambush Saito, but Yamamoto stopped her from attacking him after the wager ended.
• Yamamoto welcomed Saito into the Gotei 13, and Shunshun Shidō offered the Shihōin Clan estate as their base.
• Yamamoto promised to train Yamabuki Chidori, who spent the night worrying that his ability to absorb Reishi meant he was a Quincy.
• Yamamoto attacked Yamabuki Chidori with Ryūjin Jakka as his first training lesson, then sent him to investigate a Hollow after breakfast.
• Yamabuki Chidori reached Kofuku Mountain and found the residents too frightened or distrustful to tell him anything about the Hollow.

Yamabuki Chidori used Chōjirō’s plea to lure out a spider Hollow, but discovered it was gathering captives for a Gillian. After killing the spider Hollow and rescuing Delia and the others, he faced the Gillian and prepared to strike first.

• Yamabuki Chidori gave Chōjirō food and learned that a spider Hollow had taken his sister Delia.
• Yamabuki Chidori tied Chōjirō to a tree as bait, killed a lesser Hollow, and was captured by Spider Menos Grande.
• Yamabuki Chidori escaped Spider Menos Grande’s web, killed it, and freed the people imprisoned in its cave.
• Delia told Yamabuki Chidori that a much larger Hollow had ordered the spider to gather captives, and a Gillian attacked the group with a Cero.
• Yamabuki Chidori deflected the Cero, recognized that the Gillian might be intelligent, concealed himself with Sekienton, and Flash Stepped behind it to attack.

Yamabuki Chidori nearly died when the Menos Grande evolved into an Adjuchas, but his Zanpakuto’s Blade Spirit appeared in his Inner World and offered to save him by taking control of his body. After the Adjuchas attacked again, Yamabuki blocked its Cero with his sword, leaving it stunned.

• Yamabuki Chidori wounded the Menos Grande, but it swallowed the Spider Menos Grande’s corpse and evolved into an Adjuchas.
• The Adjuchas used Sound Steps and Cero-charged punches to overwhelm Yamabuki and leave him close to death.
• Yamabuki entered his Inner World, where his silver-haired Blade Spirit scolded him and offered to save his life if he handed over control of his body.
• Yamabuki agreed to let his Blade Spirit take control, and she returned him to the battle.
• The Adjuchas struck Yamabuki with a Cero-charged punch, but Yamabuki raised his sword and blocked it with ease.

Yamabuki Chidori recovered from his battle with a Menos Grande and returned to the Shihōin estate with Sashō Chōjirō, his sister Delia, and Tenjirō Kirinji. He had recruited Chōjirō and Kirinji into the Gotei 13, but Saito greeted his return with a flying kick that hit Kirinji instead.

• Yamabuki Chidori’s Blade Spirit took control of his body, defeated the Menos Grande, and scolded him after he regained consciousness.
• Tenjirō Kirinji treated Yamabuki Chidori, who woke in a medicinal bath after three or four days and found his injuries healed.
• Sashō Chōjirō asked to join the Gotei 13, and Yamabuki Chidori agreed after learning his full name.
• Yamabuki Chidori confronted Tenjirō Kirinji over Delia’s medical debt, then persuaded Kirinji to join the Gotei 13.
• Yamabuki Chidori returned to the Shihōin estate with Chōjirō, Delia, and Kirinji, where Saito’s flying kick struck Kirinji in the face.

Yamabuki Chidori returned with Tenjirō Kirinji, Sashō Chōjirō, and Delia, then began training in Kidō while helping Sashō Chōjirō join the Gotei 13. Yamabuki mastered a powerful Hadō after watching Yamamoto cast it once, and Yamamoto found a spark of potential in Sashō Chōjirō before ordering him to continue practicing.

• Yamamoto agreed to let Sashō Chōjirō stay in the Gotei 13 after Yamabuki Chidori argued for keeping the boy, while Delia went to serve under Tenjirō Kirinji.
• Yamabuki invited Sashō Chōjirō to stay with him and brought him to Yamamoto for training.
• Yamamoto demonstrated Hadō #88, Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō, and Yamabuki learned and cast it after watching once.
• Shunshun Shidō obtained a Zanpakuto for Sashō Chōjirō, and Yamabuki taught him basic sword swings before studying Kidō.
• Yamamoto encouraged Sashō Chōjirō to imagine the Hollow that had captured his sister and strike it, causing the boy's Reiatsu to rise slightly.
• Yamamoto acknowledged Sashō Chōjirō's perseverance and ordered him to continue his thousand sword swings after lunch.

Yamabuki Chidori helped Yamamoto devise a scheme to win the nobles’ support and fund the Gotei 13 by staging a Hollow crisis in Seireitei. Yamamoto annihilated the invading Hollows with Bankai, making the Gotei 13 famous and leaving Soul Reapers eager to join.

• Yamabuki Chidori suggested that Yamamoto establish an academy, then proposed a scheme to make the nobles willingly give money to the Gotei 13.
• Yamamoto gathered the Gotei 13 members, who agreed to draw Hollows into Seireitei while Tenjirō Kirinji took Delia and Sashō Chōjirō out of the city.
• Shunshun Shidō released the Shihōin Clan’s Hollow Lures, bringing thousands of Hollows into Seireitei and sending its nobles and guards into chaos.
• Yamabuki Chidori, Shunshun Shidō, and Saitō Fubōfu fought the Hollows as the noble clans struggled to defend themselves.
• Yamamoto unleashed Bankai, Zanka no Tachi, and destroyed the Hollows with a single strike before declaring that the Gotei 13 would defend Soul Society.
• Yamamoto’s display of strength made him and the Gotei 13 famous across Seireitei, and Soul Reapers began planning to join.

After Yamamoto destroyed the Hollows, Tsunayashiro Fūka visited the Shihōin estate with gifts and offered support to the Gotei 13. Yamabuki Chidori and Shunshun Shidō used the visit to show the nobles that the Gotei 13 would not serve them, while Tsunayashiro Fūka sought a Captain’s position for his clan.

• Yamamoto wiped out every Hollow with one strike, then returned to practicing calligraphy as the Seireitei learned of his power.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka arrived at the Shihōin estate with gifts, and Yamabuki Chidori pinned two of his servants down with Reiatsu before identifying himself as Yamamoto’s adjutant.
• Shunshun Shidō appeared, and Yamabuki addressed him as Captain, revealing to the nobles that Shunshun had joined the Gotei 13.
• Shunshun took Tsunayashiro Fūka to meet Yamamoto, while Yamabuki led the other nobles to the reception hall.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka warned Yamamoto that Central 46’s approval and resources would be needed for the Gotei 13, and offered his clan’s support.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka asked for a Captain’s position in return, and Yamabuki said that anyone who could fight best could become a Captain, even the Captain Commander.

Tsunayashiro Fūka secured support from the Four Great Noble Clans for establishing the Gotei 13, and Central 46 agreed to meet with Yamamoto about formally recognizing it. Yamabuki Chidori prepared Yamamoto and the captains for the meeting, urging them to act forcefully and bring their swords.

• Tsunayashiro Fūka agreed to promote the Gotei 13 and its fighting academy in exchange for a promised captain's position.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka gathered the heads of the Shihōin, Shiba, and Kuchiki Clans, and they agreed to submit a joint petition supporting the Gotei 13.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka presented the petition to Central 46, explained the Gotei 13's purpose, and persuaded the Sages to summon Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto for a meeting.
• Yamabuki Chidori told Yamamoto that Central 46 had agreed to meet and instructed him to be firm and let Chidori lead the discussion.
• Before the meeting, Yamabuki Chidori told the group to bring their swords and urged Yamamoto to be ready to release Ryūjin Jakka, despite Shunshun Shidō warning that weapons were forbidden.

Yamabuki Chidori led Yamamoto and the others into Central 46, where they rejected the sages’ demands for control over the Gotei 13 and countered with terms that would leave the organization independent. After insulting Central 46 and revealing that its guards had been dealt with, Chidori told Yamamoto to destroy the Seireitei, and Yamamoto began to release Ryūjin Jakka.

• Yamabuki Chidori, Yamamoto, Shunshun Shidō, and Saitō Fubōfu forced their way into Central 46 with their Reiatsu and swords.
• Yamamoto named Yamabuki Chidori the Gotei 13’s Chief Strategist and authorized him to negotiate on his behalf.
• Central 46 demanded command over the Gotei 13, noble control of captain appointments and recruitment, and the power to assess captain candidates.
• Yamabuki Chidori demanded that the Gotei 13 answer only to Yamamoto, admit commoners, control its own discipline, and receive priority resources from Central 46.
• After the sages rejected his terms, Yamabuki Chidori called them garbage and revealed that the group had already dealt with the guards.
• Yamabuki Chidori told Yamamoto to destroy the Seireitei, and Yamamoto drew Ryūjin Jakka and began to say, “Bankai...”

Yamabuki Chidori used the threat of Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto’s Ryūjin Jakka to force Central 46 to recognize the Gotei 13 and provide resources. The Gotei 13 left with official standing, while Central 46 plotted to find a counter to Yamamoto and Tsunayashiro Fūka hoped for a Captain’s post.

• Yamabuki Chidori and Yamamoto pressured Central 46 into accepting the Gotei 13’s terms, including authority over its members and criminals.
• Yamabuki Chidori forced the Great Sages to stamp the agreement, officially establishing the Gotei 13 as a Seireitei organization that could recruit nobles.
• After the Gotei 13 left, Great Sage proposed searching Rukongai for strong fighters and delaying the resources the new organization needed.
• Yamabuki Chidori returned to Central 46 and demanded the listed resources by sunset, prompting Great Sage to order their immediate delivery.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka asked Yamabuki Chidori about becoming a Captain, but Yamabuki Chidori put him off because the first-generation Captain positions were already decided.
• Yamamoto praised Yamabuki Chidori’s success, and Yamabuki Chidori wondered why Tenjirō Kirinji and the two children had not returned from gathering herbs.

Yamabuki Chidori helped establish the Gotei 13 by proposing captain selection rules and organizing recruitment in Rukongai, then rushed to rescue Delia after she was abducted. He and Tenjirō Kirinji tracked her to a mountain, where her captor brought her to a cave and threatened her.

• Yamamoto named the academy Genji Academy, and Yamabuki Chidori proposed three ways to qualify as a Gotei 13 captain.
• Yamabuki Chidori sent two hundred helpers to recruit in Rukongai, then napped while they worked.
• Sashō Chōjirō told Yamabuki Chidori that Delia had been kidnapped while Tenjirō Kirinji was gathering herbs, so Yamabuki sent Hachisato back with a message and set out to help.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Tenjirō Kirinji learned that children had been disappearing near a mountain and hurried there with Sashō Chōjirō.
• Delia awoke in the kidnapper's grasp as he carried her to a hidden cave and threatened her with a so-called game.

Yamabuki Chidori and Tenjirō Kirinji found Delia safe with Gen'en Kinra, who had tortured and killed the child murderer. Chidori persuaded Gen'en Kinra to join the Gotei 13 temporarily, then returned to the Seireitei and found its recruitment area overflowing with applicants.

• Gen'en Kinra rescued Delia from the sleazy man and tortured him while waiting for him to die.
• Yamabuki Chidori attacked Gen'en Kinra, but Delia explained that he was not the murderer and had saved her.
• Chidori invited Gen'en Kinra to join the Gotei 13, and Gen'en Kinra agreed to stay for the time being.
• Saitō Fubōfu met the group and told Chidori that Yamamoto and Shihōin were busy handling the many recruits.
• Chidori returned to the Seireitei and found the Gotei 13 recruitment area packed with nobles and commoners.

Yamabuki Chidori and Yamamoto spent four days selecting recruits for the Gotei 13, while Gen'en Kinra and Tsunayashiro Fūka emerged as powerful candidates. As Chidori slept after finishing the work, Central 46 learned that Unohana Yachiru had slaughtered its forces and was coming for them.

• Yamamoto ordered Yamabuki Chidori to test recruits by Spiritual Power and sort those who needed training according to noble or commoner status.
• Yamabuki Chidori granted Hachisato Low-Ranking Noble status and registered Gen'en Kinra, whose Spiritual Power ranked three.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka cut in line by persuading a Middle-Ranking Noble to trade places for the promise of a concubine, then tested at rank five.
• After four days and three nights of testing, Yamabuki Chidori selected 151 official members and 314 students before collapsing into bed.
• A Central 46 staff member reported that Unohana Yachiru had killed the force sent to recruit her and threatened to come for the Great Sages.

After waking from a day and night of sleep, Yamabuki Chidori learned that the Gotei 13’s facilities were nearly complete and decided to study medicine for a future medical unit. He persuaded Tenjirō Kirinji to teach him Kido, and the chapter ended with Tenjirō challenging him to heal a repeatedly wounded fish.

• Yamabuki Chidori woke hungry, found the newly built cafeteria, and learned the barracks were nearly complete with help from the Five Noble Clans.
• Yamabuki Chidori discovered that Yamamoto and the others had been playing mahjong while he worked, then lost a hand and was forced to write an IOU.
• Yamabuki Chidori proposed establishing a medical unit, but Yamamoto postponed the plan until the Gotei 13 had more members.
• Yamabuki Chidori asked Tenjirō Kirinji to teach him medicine, and Tenjirō agreed after making him promise not to use healing Kido to prolong his victims’ deaths.
• Tenjirō Kirinji demonstrated healing Kido on a wounded fish, and Yamabuki Chidori claimed he had grasped the technique after watching once.
• Tenjirō Kirinji wounded the fish again and challenged Yamabuki Chidori to heal it as a test of his skill.

Yamabuki Chidori learned Tenjirō Kirinji’s most advanced healing Kido almost instantly, then went to Yamamoto for Hakuda training. The chapter left Yamabuki injured and scrambling to dodge as Yamamoto pushed him through a harsh training session.

• Yamabuki Chidori healed a fish and mastered Tenjirō Kirinji’s advanced and Ultimate Kido, astonishing Tenjirō.
• Tenjirō agreed to teach Yamabuki medicine, including herbal identification, and Yamabuki shared his plan to introduce future foods and make money after the war.
• Yamabuki visited Yamamoto to begin Hakuda training and failed to break through the Captain Commander’s defense with a barrage of attacks.
• Yamamoto struck Yamabuki with Single Bone, breaking a rib, and Yamabuki healed himself with Kido.
• Yamamoto attacked Yamabuki to teach him defense, nearly sending him to the afterlife with a body blow.
• Yamamoto ordered Yamabuki to get up and continue, so Yamabuki used the Lazy Donkey Roll to dodge another uppercut.

Yamamoto trained Yamabuki Chidori in hand-to-hand combat and swordsmanship, then assigned him to teach the Gotei 13 recruits and serve as a teacher for Genryūsai. Chidori turned the recruits’ training into brutal competitions, and after fifteen days the rival teams had each won once and grown stronger.

• Yamamoto taught Yamabuki Chidori to focus his power in a punch, then demonstrated the Twin Bone technique and sent him crashing through two walls.
• Yamamoto tested Chidori’s swordsmanship, praised his skill, and assigned him to train the Gotei 13 recruits and teach at Genryūsai without extra pay.
• Chidori made the recruits fight in a free-for-all to choose a leader, then divided them into two teams and used rivalry and the threat of becoming servants to motivate them.
• After three days, Chidori’s teams fought a brutal match, and Second Team won; a young noble from First Squad asked for harsher training so his team could reclaim its pride.
• Over fifteen days, the teams trained desperately and competed twice, each winning once, while all the recruits improved their strength.

Yamabuki Chidori took his trainees to hunt Hollows, then rushed to save Katoru Chimu after a Hollow pierced her chest. The next day, he escorted her home and planned to meet her sister, Katoru Hatsunoya, in hopes of recruiting her.

• Yamabuki Chidori armed the trainees with real Zanpakuto and sent them to northern Rukongai to hunt Hollows in squads.
• When thugs tried to abduct two trainees, Yamabuki Chidori executed one and ordered his students to deal with such attackers themselves.
• The trainees fought Hollows and returned with casualties, but Yamabuki Chidori found one squad late and discovered Katoru Chimu mortally wounded.
• Yamabuki Chidori used Kido to remove the bone blade and heal Chimu, then brought her to Tenjirō Kirinji for further treatment.
• After Chimu recovered, she revealed that Katoru Hatsunoya was her sister, and Yamabuki Chidori decided to visit her and seek her recruitment.
• The next day, Yamabuki Chidori drove Chimu by carriage to the Katori Family estate.

Yamabuki Chidori failed to persuade Katoru Hatsunoya to join the Gotei 13, while she privately confronted her violent desires and resentment of noble expectations. Later, Sashō Chōjirō revealed his Shikai, and Yamabuki finally heard his own Zanpakuto spirit respond as he tried to learn her name.

• Katoru Hatsunoya welcomed Yamabuki Chidori and Senbu, but declined his invitation to join the Gotei 13.
• Yamabuki Chidori hinted that Katoru Hatsunoya's eyes resembled those of a murderer, prompting her to remember how witnessing bloodshed as a child awakened her desire to fight.
• Katoru Hatsunoya recalled how her family and noble society had confined her to the role of a proper young lady, then crushed a butterfly as she felt herself nearing her limit.
• Sashō Chōjirō told Yamabuki Chidori that his Zanpakuto, Genryūmaru, had achieved Shikai, and demonstrated its lightning-wreathed rapier form.
• Yamabuki Chidori caught Sashō Chōjirō's attack between two fingers, then returned to his room and called out to his Zanpakuto spirit.
• The white-haired Zanpakuto spirit answered Yamabuki Chidori with a single “Eek!”