Chapter Summaries

Huo Ying and Kuruyashiki fought fiercely over who would inherit the title of Kenpachi, with Huo Ying revealing Shunkō and her Shikai. The duel continued as Kuruyashiki survived her strongest attacks and Huo Ying challenged him to release his Zanpakuto.

• Kuruyashiki and Huo Ying exchanged powerful sword attacks, and Kuruyashiki wounded her thigh with his lighter weapon.
• Huo Ying healed her wound with Kido, then used her heavier greatsword to knock Kuruyashiki back and hurl the weapon at him.
• Huo Ying attacked Kuruyashiki barehanded and unleashed Shunkō, punching him out of the arena, but he returned largely unharmed.
• Huo Ying released her Shikai, Mountain Splitter, and asked Kuruyashiki whether he would release his Zanpakuto.

Huo Ying and Kuruyashiki pushed their duel to the limit, each releasing Bankai as their immense Reiatsu transformed the arena into a battlefield. Kuruyashiki’s Bankai shook Soul Society and summoned a colossal mouth beneath them, leaving the outcome of Huo Ying’s final strike uncertain.

• Huo Ying overwhelmed Kuruyashiki with the Mountain Splitting Saber until he released Gakurō Kairō, whose Pac-Men attacked her and shielded him.
• Huo Ying unleashed her Bankai, Mountain Splitting Sea Cutting, and cut through the Pac-Men’s defenses with devastating strikes.
• Kuruyashiki activated his Bankai, making Soul Society and even the Soul King Palace tremble.
• Kuruyashiki’s Bankai revealed a colossal mouth beneath him and Huo Ying, threatening to swallow the entire district.
• Huo Ying crossed her blades and struck at Kuruyashiki while his Reiatsu remained focused on his Bankai.

Yamabuki Chidori saved the arena by transferring Kuruyashiki’s uncontrollable Bankai away, and the Gotei 13 named Kuruyashiki the new Kenpachi. After the succession battle, the Captains returned to the Seireitei, where Kuruyashiki introduced himself to them.

• Captain Commander Yamamoto blocked Huo Ying’s attack, while Kuruyashiki’s Bankai erupted beyond his control.
• Yamabuki Chidori used Spacetime Transfer to send the Abyssal Maw away from the arena and into empty space near the Soul King Palace.
• Yamabuki Chidori announced that Kuruyashiki had won the selection and become the 11th Division Captain, and Huo Ying celebrated the end of her two-hundred-year wait to join the Fourth Division.
• Yamabuki Chidori encouraged Chizome Souya to train harder, while Shunshun Shidō argued with him about teaching Shunkō to his granddaughter, Yoruichi.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Shunshun Shidō wrestled, while Ōtōgawa Utsugi collected his betting winnings and Shinji Hirako distracted Yamabuki Chidori with a false claim about a loli in black stockings.
• The Captains returned to the Seireitei, where Kuruyashiki introduced himself as the new 11th Division Captain.

Kuruyashiki took command of the 11th Division while Huo Ying joined the Fourth Division and began her arduous medical studies. Meanwhile, Chizome Souya trained to grow stronger and finally met his Zanpakuto, Amatsuyu Tsuru.

• Yamabuki Chidori appointed Kuruyashiki captain of the 11th Division and arranged for Huo Ying to join the Fourth Division.
• Huo Ying arrived at the Fourth Division, where Unohana assigned her stacks of medical books to memorize, and Yamabuki Chidori added even more.
• Chizome Souya trained under Yamabuki Chidori, who explained that mastering his Zanpakuto was the next step toward becoming a proper Soul Reaper.
• Chizome Souya tried to communicate with his Zanpakuto, then saw a woman whom his sister Chizome Tsubaki could not see.
• The woman introduced herself to Chizome Souya as his Zanpakuto, Amatsuyu Tsuru.

After Chizome Souya’s Zanpakuto, Amatsuyu Tsuru, appeared as an invisible, nonstop-talking woman, his sister and Teacher Yamabuki Chidori mistook him for being mentally ill and took him to the Fourth Division’s psychiatric ward. The chapter ended when Yamabuki saw Amatsuyu Tsuru but his hand passed through her, leaving Souya uncertain whether anyone else could truly perceive her.

• Chizome Souya learned that Amatsuyu Tsuru could fuse and control Reishi, and she claimed she was already in Bankai.
• Chizome Tsubaki heard Souya talking to someone she could not see, concluded he had schizophrenia, and hurried to fetch Yamabuki Chidori.
• Yamabuki Chidori brought Souya to the Fourth Division’s mental patient ward, where a patient outanswered Souya’s trick questions.
• Amatsuyu Tsuru teased Souya, then realized Yamabuki Chidori appeared to be looking directly at her.
• Yamabuki Chidori reached for Amatsuyu Tsuru, but his fingers passed through her body.

Kuruyashiki Kenpachi refused the Zero Division’s invitation, choosing to remain with the 11th Division, and Ten years later Shihōin Yoruichi began studying under Yamabuki Chidori. The chapter ended with Yoruichi trying to drive away her new teacher just as she had driven away the others.

• Yamabuki Chidori advised Chizome Souya to release Bankai to silence Amatsuyu Tsuru, then sent him and Chizome Tsubaki home.
• The Captain Commander showed Yamabuki Chidori the Zero Division’s invitation for Kuruyashiki Kenpachi, and she agreed to respect his choice.
• Tenjirō Kirinji urged Kuruyashiki to join the Zero Division, but Kuruyashiki refused because he was content with his life and planned to pass on the Kenpachi title.
• Kuruyashiki’s subordinates mistakenly believed he had refused the invitation for the 11th Division, and he let them celebrate.
• Ten years later, Kuruyashiki had become an able captain, Aizen remained low-profile, and Kyōraku Tōshirō became the Third Division’s lieutenant.
• Ten-year-old Shihōin Yoruichi attacked Yamabuki Chidori in her office and prepared to drive away her latest teacher.

Yamabuki Chidori forced ten-year-old Yoruichi to become her disciple, then began training her with a catnip teaser to improve her speed and reactions. Yoruichi revealed exceptional Flash Step talent but ran out of stamina, while the others relaxed in the hot springs.

• After three days of fighting, Yamabuki Chidori trapped Yoruichi and threatened her with tortures until Yoruichi agreed to become her disciple.
• Yoruichi tried to escape her promise, but Yamabuki Chidori saw through her tricks and carried her home for dinner with Huo Ying, Saitō Fubōfu, and Chizome Tsubaki.
• Yamabuki Chidori took Yoruichi and the others to the underground training ground and used catnip on a fishing line to make Yoruichi practice chasing it.
• Yoruichi failed to catch the teaser despite moving faster and faster, and Yamabuki Chidori explained that the exercise trained her reactions and speed.
• Yoruichi demonstrated remarkable Flash Step speed but exhausted herself, so Unohana led the group to the normal hot springs.
• Unohana, Huo Ying, and Saitō Fubōfu traded stories about killing while Chizome Tsubaki struggled to join their conversation.

Yamabuki Chidori sent Yoruichi to Shino Academy, where she met Shiba Kukaku and Kisuke Urahara and became embroiled in a fight that ended with Urahara tricking her into thinking she had injured him. Yoruichi brought them home for dinner, where Chidori and the others revealed more of their unusual household, and the chapter left the children waiting to eat with the guests gathered.

• Yamabuki Chidori enrolled Yoruichi at Shino Academy and made her attend despite her protests.
• At school, Yoruichi sat beside Shiba Kukaku, lost her temper when Kukaku pinched her cheeks, and smashed her into a desk.
• After school, Yoruichi fought Kisuke Urahara, who dodged her attacks and pretended that her light punch had made his nose bleed.
• Yoruichi invited Urahara and Kukaku to dinner, and Yamabuki Chidori exposed the fake blood as tomato juice.
• Saitō Fubōfu arrived, Chidori teased her about her age, and Chizome Tsubaki, Huo Ying, and Chizome Souya joined the household for dinner.

Yamabuki Chidori made Yoruichi play a game of hide-and-seek, using her overwhelming speed to evade every attempt to catch her. Yoruichi lost, and Chidori ordered her to trim her long fingernails, leaving her struggling in protest.

• Yoruichi recruited Kisuke Urahara to help plan a prank on Yamabuki Chidori, and Kisuke agreed to devise a plan after warning her to gather information first.
• Yoruichi returned home and went with Yamabuki Chidori to the underground training ground, where Chidori challenged her to hide-and-seek with a bell as the condition for losing.
• Yoruichi repeatedly tried to catch Chidori, but Chidori evaded her with incredible speed and explained that she had not used her Zanpakuto's ability.
• Yoruichi tried throwing sand, using Bakudo No. 1: Sai, and grabbing Chidori, but Chidori escaped with the Shihōin Clan's Utsusemi technique.
• After Yoruichi lost, Yamabuki Chidori grabbed her and ordered her to trim her fingernails, but Yoruichi resisted.

Yoruichi tried to uncover Yamabuki Chidori’s weakness and discovered that he was terrified of centipedes. She told Kisuke Urahara, who proposed using that fear to set a trap.

• Yamabuki Chidori blasted Yoruichi out of her hiding place during their game, then sent her to bathe and ordered her to trim her toenails.
• Yoruichi arrived late at school, where Kisuke Urahara helped end the Teacher’s complaint, then she admitted she had learned only that Yamabuki Chidori was fast and strong.
• Yoruichi returned to Yamabuki Chidori’s home and handed him a centipede, causing him to panic and fire a Cero into the sky.
• Yoruichi teased Yamabuki Chidori about his fear, and he punished her by serving her only plain rice for dinner.
• Yoruichi brought a live centipede to Kisuke Urahara, who recognized Yamabuki Chidori’s weakness and suggested setting a trap around it.

Yamabuki Chidori visited Shino Academy, where he proposed cooler uniforms after hearing students complain about the heat. Meanwhile, Shihōin Yoruichi and Kisuke Urahara lured him into a warehouse for a planned prank, which ended with Kisuke dumping centipedes on him.

• Yamabuki Chidori escaped his office under the pretext of buying a watermelon and visited Shino Academy.
• Yamabuki Chidori shared watermelon with the students and heard their complaints about their hot uniforms.
• Yamabuki Chidori designed short-sleeved uniforms and skirts, then overruled a supervisor’s objections and approved the change.
• Shihōin Yoruichi spotted Yamabuki Chidori at the academy and told Kisuke Urahara to begin their secret plan.
• A young woman lured Yamabuki Chidori into the empty warehouse, where Kisuke Urahara dumped a box of centipedes after Yamabuki noticed him on a beam.

Yamabuki Chidori caught Kisuke Urahara and Shihōin Yoruichi in a prank, punished them, and frightened Yoruichi into behaving. He then briefly considered killing Kisuke over the boy’s potential threat to his plans, but let him go and invited him to seek the truth of the world someday.

• Yamabuki Chidori exposed Kisuke Urahara and Shihōin Yoruichi’s trap and captured both of them.
• Yamabuki Chidori explained how he had seen through their setup, then frightened Yoruichi with a fake poison injection until she fainted.
• Yamabuki Chidori told Yoruichi to obey him and promised to teach her Shunkō after she mastered the basics.
• Yamabuki Chidori revealed killing intent toward Kisuke because he feared the boy might obstruct his plans, then withdrew it and offered him a place in the Staff Department.
• Kisuke declined the job and said he preferred to join the 12th Division, while Yamabuki told him to come back when he wanted to learn the truth of the world.

Yoruichi returned to the Shihōin Clan estate and tattled to Shunshun Shidō about Yamabuki Chidori’s harsh training, while Aizen studied Kisuke Urahara and planned to approach him. The next day, Kisuke arrived at school and discovered that blame for the prank on the principal was cascading down the academy’s staff until it reached him.

• Yamabuki Chidori brought Yoruichi back to the Shihōin Clan estate, where she accused him of hitting, scolding, and poisoning her.
• Shunshun Shidō confronted Yamabuki Chidori, but Yamabuki escaped with his Space Ability after Yoruichi mentioned his promise to teach her Shunkō.
• Aizen examined his relationship map around Yamabuki Chidori, added Shihōin Yoruichi, and decided to approach Kisuke Urahara as a calligraphy teacher.
• Aizen recalled his failed attempts to counter Yamabuki Chidori and considered making Kisuke an experimental subject after earning his trust.
• Kisuke arrived at Shino Academy and was surrounded by staff who accused him of helping Yoruichi ambush the principal with centipedes.
• The vice principal’s reprimand had passed from the dean of discipline to Kisuke’s homeroom teacher, who then faced Kisuke without knowing what had happened.

After Aizen rescued Kisuke Urahara from punishment, he repeatedly approached the wary boy and recognized something about his character from his calligraphy. Urahara grew convinced that Aizen was dangerous and went to Yamabuki Chidori’s home, where Unohana arrived before Chidori.

• The school staff blamed Kisuke Urahara for the prank and demanded a thirty-thousand-word self-criticism, but Aizen intervened and got the punishment waived.
• Urahara became popular with his classmates for supposedly ambushing the principal, then learned the next lesson was Aizen’s crowded calligraphy class.
• Urahara met his new deskmate, Tekka Gekka, an eleven-year-old Kidō prodigy who dreamed of joining the Kidō Corps.
• Aizen praised Urahara’s calligraphy and suggested his writing reflected a cautious personality, leaving Urahara suspicious of Aizen’s insight.
• Urahara went to Yamabuki Chidori’s home after school and waited, but Unohana arrived before Chidori returned.

Kisuke Urahara learned the truth about the Soul King and the origins of the Three Realms from Yamabuki Chidori, then chose to preserve the status quo and declined to become his disciple. After Urahara left, Chizome Souya visited Yamabuki and asked to challenge him instead of Kuruyashiki Kenpachi.

• Kisuke Urahara asked Yamabuki Chidori about reading personality from handwriting and requested the truth about the world.
• Yamabuki Chidori told Urahara that the Five Noble Clans attacked and mutilated the Soul King, and revealed that he had destroyed the Tsunayashiro Clan.
• Urahara decided not to challenge the ruling order, promised to keep the secret, and declined Yamabuki's offer to become his disciple.
• After Urahara left, Chizome Souya asked Yamabuki how likely he was to defeat Kuruyashiki Kenpachi and admitted he wanted to test his strength.
• Chizome Souya challenged Yamabuki Chidori to fight him.

Chizome Souya challenged Yamabuki Chidori to test his strength and find a way to defeat Kuruyashiki Kenpachi, but Yamabuki easily endured his attacks and countered his Bankai. The spar ended with Chizome helpless against Yamabuki’s control of Reishi.

• After eating with Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana, Chizome Souya challenged his teacher in the underground training ground.
• Chizome used Amatsuyu Tsuru’s Shikai and a Flash Step sword strike, but Yamabuki’s defense stopped the blade without injury.
• Yamabuki praised Chizome’s skill while explaining that his Reiatsu was too weak to defeat a Captain or Kuruyashiki Kenpachi.
• Chizome used rapid group chanting to bind Yamabuki with Kidō, then summoned Giglio to cast Hadō #96: One Blade Incineration.
• Yamabuki walked through the flames unharmed, and Chizome released his Bankai as a last resort.
• Yamabuki used Reishi Control to seize the Reishi surrounding Chizome and neutralize his Bankai.

Chizome Souya lost his fight with Yamabuki Chidori and was assigned a stack of medical books to study. Yamabuki then spent his day off tormenting Yoruichi and clashing with Shūtara Senjumaru, before Kirimaru Tsukishima revealed that Zendouji Yuuhin planned to resign and asked Senjumaru to join the 12th Division as Captain or Lieutenant.

• Chizome Souya surrendered to Yamabuki Chidori, who praised his performance and told him to learn the Spirit Particle Suture Technique by studying a pile of medical books.
• Chizome Souya accepted the books and began studying medicine at home, trusting Yamabuki despite wondering why every Kenpachi seemed destined to practice it.
• Yoruichi interrupted Yamabuki's day off to demand training, so he stuffed her into a sack and later carried her to the 12th Division to find food.
• Shūtara Senjumaru confronted Yamabuki and Yoruichi, but Yamabuki dodged her attacks and sewed her clothes and mechanical arms to a wall.
• Kirimaru Tsukishima returned and freed Senjumaru, then told Yamabuki that Zendouji Yuuhin planned to resign and asked Senjumaru to join the 12th Division.
• Senjumaru rejected becoming a Lieutenant, so Kirimaru offered to serve as her Lieutenant if Senjumaru would take the Captain's position.

Yamabuki Chidori helped Shūtara Senjumaru agree to advise the 12th Division, then learned that Kirimaru Tsukishima had developed the destructive Spirit Core and nearly finished Wormhole Technology. Ten days later, he gathered the captains to unveil the weapons, leaving Captain Commander Yamamoto curious about the demonstration.

• Yamabuki Chidori proposed making Shūtara Senjumaru a 12th Division adviser, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Yoruichi nearly touched a dangerous reishi sphere in the underground laboratory, so researchers warned her and Kirimaru Tsukishima explained the experiment.
• Kirimaru Tsukishima demonstrated that a small amount of the reishi could cause a powerful explosion, and Yamabuki Chidori named it the Spirit Core and approved more research funding.
• Kirimaru Tsukishima revealed that Wormhole Technology would be ready in ten days, after which Yamabuki Chidori argued with her over the funding she had secured.
• Yamabuki Chidori ordered all captains to attend the next day's unveiling of a revolutionary weapon, and Captain Commander Yamamoto asked what he had been researching.

Yamabuki Chidori demonstrated the 12th Division’s upgraded Spirit Particle Cannon and wormhole technology, which enabled long-range Hollow attacks, remote healing, and battlefield resupply. Captain Commander Yamamoto approved manufacturing three thousand cannons, while Shikkōgai Musashi raised concerns that the weapons could weaken Shinigami combat skills, prompting Yamabuki to propose expanding the Hueco Mundo Extermination Squad.

• Yamabuki Chidori presented an upgraded Spirit Particle Cannon with a twenty-kilometer range and demonstrated its destructive power against a distant target.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Kirimaru Tsukishima demonstrated wormhole-delivered healing, and Yamabuki proposed teaching Shinigami to describe their injuries to Fourth Division doctors.
• Yamabuki Chidori explained that wormholes could also deliver supplies and enable precision strikes, then used the cannon to destroy three Hollows in different Rukongai districts.
• Yamabuki Chidori called for three thousand Spirit Particle Cannons, and Captain Commander Yamamoto approved the plan.
• Shikkōgai Musashi warned that relying on cannons could weaken Shinigami, so Yamabuki proposed expanding the Hueco Mundo Extermination Squad to provide more combat experience.

Aizen named his planned force of ten powerful Arrancar the Espada while the 12th Division prepared for a change in leadership. Kirimaru Tsukishima became Captain and invited Shūtara Senjumaru as an adviser and lieutenant, ending with Senjumaru humiliating Hiyori in a confrontation.

• Aizen decided to create the Espada, a force made up of the ten strongest Arrancar, to oppose Soul Society.
• Zendouji Yuuhin resigned as 12th Division Captain to sell medicine, and Yamabuki Chidori approved his departure.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Captain Commander Yamamoto appointed Kirimaru Tsukishima as the new 12th Division Captain, and she invited Shūtara Senjumaru to serve as adviser and lieutenant.
• Hiyori challenged Shūtara Senjumaru over the lieutenant appointment, but Senjumaru stopped her attack and changed her uniform into a kimono while teasing her.
• When Hiyori began to Hollowfy, Yamabuki Chidori interrupted her with Thousand Years of Death, and Hiyori fled crying after discovering Senjumaru had removed her underwear.