Chapter Summaries

Yamabuki Chidori perfected a way to sustain Perfect Sanctification by shifting its strain into miniature spaces. Meanwhile, Unohana reached Rukongai and attacked Shijima Chiru, whose response revealed that he could withstand her blows and fight back.

• Shūtara Senjumaru finished Soul Society’s first Shinigami Uniform and Captain’s Haori, and Yamamoto funded their production.
• Yamabuki Chidori trained Perfect Sanctification in the Bone Pool and Blood Pool but found his body could endure it for only thirty seconds.
• After Chōjirō Sasakibe suggested using more cups to hold a pot of tea, Yamabuki Chidori created miniature spaces to bear Perfect Sanctification’s strain and maintained it indefinitely.
• Unohana rested by a stream in Rukongai beside a pile of corpses, then attacked Shijima Chiru when he tried to leave.
• Shijima Chiru blocked Unohana’s strike, endured her attacks, and threw two darts at her after she wounded his shoulder.

Unohana Yachiru forced her way into Seireitei seeking its strongest fighters and fought Saitō Fubōfu and Gen'en Kinra. She wounded Saitō and drove Gen'en through two walls, then brought her sword down as he struggled to block.

• Unohana defeated Shijima Chiru’s concealed-weapon attack and continued toward Seireitei in search of a worthy opponent.
• Unohana entered Seireitei and knocked out Chōjirō Sasakibe and Hachisato before Saitō Fubōfu and Gen'en Kinra confronted her.
• Saitō fought Unohana, who exploited openings in her swordsmanship and pierced her ribs.
• Gen'en challenged Unohana after Saitō retreated to tend her wound, and they clashed with rapid sword strikes.
• Unohana shifted to a powerful two-handed attack, kicked Gen'en through two walls, and brought her sword down as he raised his blade to block.

Unohana Yachiru attacked Central 46 and defeated Gen'en Kinra and Saitō Fubōfu before Yamabuki Chidori arrived to face her. Chidori’s rapid healing and improving swordsmanship let him pressure Unohana, but their fight remained unresolved when her sword suddenly vanished.

• Saitō Fubōfu joined Gen'en Kinra against Unohana, but Unohana overpowered them and kicked Saitō through Central 46’s doors.
• Saitō warned the sages to flee, but Unohana entered Central 46, killed several of them, and reduced the judicial complex to ruins while fighting both captains.
• Yamabuki Chidori arrived, rescued Saitō, treated her wounds, and ordered the area evacuated and sealed off before facing Unohana alone.
• Unohana wounded Chidori, but he healed himself with healing Kido and Reishi, then adapted his swordsmanship to exploit openings and force her onto the defensive.
• As Chidori continued his attacks, Unohana’s sword suddenly vanished, leaving him momentarily stunned.

Yamabuki Chidori discovered that his body could regenerate at astonishing speed and fought Unohana, rapidly learning her advanced swordsmanship. After he unveiled Reishi flying swords and a bomb, Unohana released her suppressed Reiatsu and overwhelmed his weapons with Sword Pressure, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Unohana pierced Yamabuki Chidori, but he recovered through Super-Speed Regeneration and asked her to wound him again.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana escalated their duel, and he learned Sen no Sen while Unohana gained the upper hand.
• Yamabuki Chidori copied Unohana's blind-spot attack, cut her neck, and forced her to release Minazuki to heal.
• Yamabuki Chidori attacked Unohana with five Reishi swords and a Reishi Bomb, but she survived and revealed she had been suppressing her Reiatsu.
• Unohana unleashed her full Reiatsu, outpaced Yamabuki Chidori's flying swords, and severed them with Sword Pressure.

Yamabuki Chidori fought Unohana after her Bankai, Kajōtenketsu, nearly overwhelmed him, and he countered with Perfect Sanctification and his combined powers. Both survived their final clash, and Yamabuki carried the wounded Unohana away as Central 46 ordered him to kill her.

• Yamabuki Chidori used Hadō #99, Goryū Tenmetsu, to devastate the Seireitei, but Unohana emerged from the ruins alive.
• Unohana released Bankai, Kajōtenketsu, whose blood accelerated the decay of anything it touched, and Yamabuki struggled to withstand it.
• Yamabuki activated Perfect Sanctification and Silver Radiant Angel, strengthening his space abilities to fight Unohana at her Bankai's level.
• Yamabuki and Unohana exchanged their ultimate attacks, impaling each other; Yamabuki survived through Hard Skin, Blut Vene, and Super-Speed Regeneration, while Unohana fell unconscious.
• Yamabuki treated Unohana's wounds, called her his spoil of war, and carried her from the battlefield as Central 46 demanded that he kill her.

After defeating Unohana, Yamabuki Chidori guarded her and persuaded her to join the Gotei 13 in his squad. As Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto returned, Central 46 gathered to plot how to punish Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana.

• Yamabuki Chidori threatened the surviving Sages of Central 46, killed one who demanded Unohana’s execution, and carried her home.
• Yamabuki Chidori treated Unohana’s injuries, gave her reiatsu-suppressing manacles, and guarded her while she recovered.
• Chōjirō Sasakibe brought food from Delia, and Unohana ate, washed the dishes, and spoke with Yamabuki Chidori over tea.
• Unohana concluded that Yamabuki Chidori was not human, and he urged her to join the Gotei 13 to avoid execution.
• Unohana agreed to join the Gotei 13 on the condition that she serve in Yamabuki Chidori’s squad, and he accepted.
• The surviving Sages of Central 46 discussed punishing Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana, then learned that Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto had returned.

Yamamoto overruled Central 46’s demand to expel Yamabuki Chidori and learned that Yamabuki had awakened Quincy and Hollow powers. He took Yamabuki to Rukongai for a spar, which ended with Yamamoto activating Bankai despite Yamabuki’s surrender.

• The Great Sage complained to Yamamoto about Yamabuki killing a Central 46 member, but Yamamoto gave Yamabuki only a written reprimand, a public apology, and six months of pay toward repairs.
• Yamamoto backed Yamabuki’s decision to keep Unohana Yachiru in Gotei 13 custody, then heard Yamabuki explain that he had killed the official because the man annoyed him.
• After learning from Yamabuki that he had awakened Quincy and Hollow abilities, Yamamoto decided to test his strength in a fight.
• In Rukongai, Yamabuki used Hollowfication and Perfect Sanctification, then erased Yamamoto’s flames with Space Erasure.
• Yamamoto activated Zanka no Tachi after declaring that he would not concede, and Yamabuki shouted that he surrendered.

Unohana joined the Gotei 13 as its Reserve Captain of the 11th Division, while Yamabuki Chidori became her Lieutenant and Chōjirō Sasakibe took over as First Division Lieutenant. Yamabuki offered to house Unohana, drawing contemptuous looks from the other Captains.

• Yamamoto offered Unohana the choice of joining the Gotei 13 or facing trial, and she chose to join.
• Yamabuki asked to transfer to Unohana’s division, and Yamamoto appointed Unohana Reserve Captain of the 11th Division and Yamabuki its Lieutenant.
• Yamamoto approved Yamabuki’s recommendation of Chōjirō Sasakibe as First Division Lieutenant, and Yamabuki began handing over his work to him.
• Yamabuki advised Chōjirō to seek help when needed, while Yamamoto welcomed Unohana to the Gotei 13.
• Yamabuki offered to let Unohana stay at his house, and the other Captains looked at him with contempt.

After the Central 46 learned that Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana Yachiru had both joined the Gotei 13, the Great Sage urged his people to keep their heads down. At home, Yamabuki Chidori discovered that Shijima Chiru was nearby and began training Chōjirō Sasakibe by sending him to spar with Unohana.

• The Great Sage learned that Yamabuki Chidori had received only an apology, a letter of self-criticism, and six months without pay for killing a Sage, while Unohana Yachiru had become Captain of the 11th Division.
• The Great Sage told his subordinates not to provoke the Gotei 13 and privately wished he could retire from his position.
• While collecting mushrooms in Rukongai, Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana encountered a pile of bodies, which Yamabuki burned, and Unohana told him she had met a powerful man named Shijima Chiru.
• Chōjirō Sasakibe visited Yamabuki Chidori, who promised to train him until he reached standard Lieutenant-level strength.
• After dinner, Yamabuki Chidori took Chōjirō and Unohana to his underground training ground and revealed that Unohana would train Chōjirō in real combat.
• Chōjirō tried to flee from Unohana, but Yamabuki Chidori dragged him back and told Unohana to begin.

Unohana’s brutal training raised Chōjirō Sasakibe’s Reiatsu as Yamabuki Chidori helped her take command of the 11th Division. After Hane Hane Chiaki arranged to sell his sister Chiyo in marriage, Shijima Chiru murdered him and left Chiyo alive under threat; the chapter ended as 11th Division members arrived to tell Yamabuki about the killing.

• Unohana repeatedly injured and healed Chōjirō Sasakibe during training, increasing his Reiatsu while leaving him exhausted and losing hair.
• Unohana took office as Captain of the 11th Division, and Yamabuki Chidori prepared uniforms and paperwork for its new members.
• Hane Hane Chiaki drunkenly insulted the Gotei 13, and Yamabuki Chidori told Chōjirō Sasakibe that nobles and commoners would always find reasons to look down on others.
• Hane Hane Chiaki revealed that he had arranged a political marriage for Hane Hane Chiyo in exchange for gold, and Shijima Chiru killed him and warned Chiyo to wait before calling for help.
• After Chiyo summoned help and patrol members found Hane Hane Chiaki dead, Yamabuki Chidori sensed visitors during his training with Unohana and went to answer the door.
• Two 11th Division members arrived at Yamabuki Chidori’s residence, but they hesitated after seeing him sweaty and breathless.

Yamabuki Chidori investigated the murder of Hane Hane Chiaki and questioned his sister, Hane Hane Chiyo, while the Gotei 13 detained her would-be fiancé, Yamashita Ushio. Chiyo refused to go with Ushio, and the investigation remained unresolved as Chidori suspected a powerful killer and a hidden mastermind.

• Yamabuki Chidori examined Hane Hane Chiaki's wounds and concluded that the killer had exceptional control and technique.
• Yamabuki Chidori questioned Hane Hane Chiyo and found her lack of grief suspicious, but Saitō Fubōfu jabbed Chidori in the eyes for looking at the girl strangely.
• Yamashita Ushio arrived claiming to be Chiyo's fiancé and explained that he had paid Hane Hane Chiaki a large betrothal sum to marry her.
• Yamabuki Chidori ordered Yamashita Ushio detained and interrogated, while the Gotei 13 beat him after he demanded to take Chiyo home.
• Chiyo refused to go with Yamashita Ushio and offered to repay the money he had given her brother, so Yamabuki Chidori agreed to protect her.

Yamabuki Chidori investigated Hane Hane Chiaki’s murder and arranged for Chiyo to be guarded at Yamabuki Apparel Store. When the killer, Shijima Chiru, came for her three days later, Shūtara Senjumaru and Saitō Fubōfu fought him, and he fled onto the roof—only to face Unohana.

• Yamabuki Chidori questioned Chiyo about the killer, found that Hane Hane Chiaki had spent most of his betrothal gold, and arranged for Chiyo to stay with Shūtara Senjumaru.
• The Gotei 13 investigated Hane Hane Chiaki’s associates and gambling dens, while the 11th Division beat Yamashita Ushio and made him promise not to harass Chiyo.
• Three days later, Shijima Chiru attacked Yamabuki Apparel Store, fought Shūtara Senjumaru, and entered the bedroom to kill the person he believed was Chiyo.
• Saitō Fubōfu revealed herself as the decoy and struck Shijima Chiru, while Katoru Hatsunoya joined the fight and helped drive him off.
• Shijima Chiru escaped to the roof, where Unohana confronted him after hearing him claim that he would not lose to anyone.

Shijima Chiru tried to escape after Unohana Yachiru and Yamabuki Chidori cornered him, but Yamabuki pursued him and revealed that he was the Gotei 13's Chief Strategist. After Yamabuki identified Chiru as the assassin he had been searching for, Chiru unleashed a forbidden technique and attacked with everything he had, only to discover that Yamabuki could regenerate from seemingly fatal injuries.

• Shijima Chiru escaped Unohana Yachiru and Yamabuki Chidori, but Yamabuki caught up with him in Rukongai.
• Yamabuki struck Chiru and endured his attacks, then identified him as the assassin who left gentian flowers at his victims' scenes.
• Chiru used a forbidden technique to boost his strength and landed a powerful punch on Yamabuki.
• Chiru stabbed Yamabuki, pierced his neck, and twisted it until he collapsed.
• Yamabuki regenerated, stood up smiling, and urged the exhausted Chiru to keep fighting.

Yamabuki Chidori defeated Shijima Chiru, treated his injuries, and persuaded him to join the Gotei 13 in exchange for revealing what he knew about the murders. The gold he received from his unseen employer matched coins from Yamabuki Chidori’s past insurance fraud scheme, and she later returned the money to Hane Hane Chiyo as her brother’s betrothal gift.

• Shijima Chiru drove Steel Needles into his body and launched a final attack, but Yamabuki Chidori stopped his sword between two fingers.
• Yamabuki Chidori captured Shijima Chiru, brought him back to the Seireitei, and healed his serious injuries in a medicinal bath.
• Shijima Chiru agreed to join the Gotei 13 rather than face execution, then said his employer had communicated by letters and ordered two murders.
• Yamabuki Chidori compared the gold coins from Shijima Chiru’s pouch with her own and realized her old insurance fraud scheme had come true.
• Yamabuki Chidori visited Hane Hane Chiyo and returned the gold, explaining that it had been her brother’s betrothal gift.

Yamabuki Chidori exposed Hane Hane Chiyo’s role in arranging her brother’s murder, then brought her into the Genji Academy. He left Chiyo standing outside as punishment while teaching the students Kidō.

• Yamabuki Chidori revealed that Hane Hane Chiyo had hired Shijima Chiru to kill Hane Hane Chiaki and had used her Zanpakuto to deceive the investigators.
• Hane Hane Chiyo admitted her motive was to escape her brother’s control and readily agreed to join the Gotei 13.
• Unohana caught Yamabuki Chidori with Chiyo and took her to the Genji Academy after unleashing Bankai on him.
• Yamabuki Chidori made Chiyo call him Teacher and sent her outside to stand at attention with buckets as punishment.
• Yamabuki Chidori demonstrated Hadō #31, Sōkatsui, to the students, and a student soon blasted apart a training target with a scarlet fireball.

Yamabuki Chidori proposed a Kidō Corps, while Hane Hane Chiyo schemed her way into a job at his clothing shop. He learned that the Royal Guard would arrive in the Seireitei in three days and later asked Shūtara Senjumaru to join the Gotei 13.

• Hane Hane Chiyo impressed Yamabuki Chidori’s students with her Kidō skills, then tried to move into his home; after he threw her out, she secured a job at his clothing shop by signing his harsh contract.
• Yamabuki Chidori proposed a unit for Kidō specialists to Yamamoto, who approved the Kidō Corps without hesitation.
• Yamamoto told Yamabuki Chidori that the Royal Guard would arrive in the Seireitei in three days and ordered him to arrange a Reserve Captain position for Shijima Chiru.
• Yamabuki Chidori visited his shop and found Hane Hane Chiyo greeting customers in a maid outfit while Shūtara Senjumaru discussed expanding the clothing selection.
• Yamabuki Chidori gave Shūtara Senjumaru a black trench-coat design and asked whether she would join the Gotei 13 as a Lieutenant.

Hane Hane Chiyo proved hopeless at swordsmanship despite her powerful Reiatsu, while Yamabuki Chidori learned that the Royal Guard would descend on the Seireitei. When they arrived, Ichibē Hyōsube said the Soul King wanted to see Yamabuki Chidori, who agreed to go to the Soul King Palace despite his suspicions.

• Hane Hane Chiyo was knocked unconscious during combat drills, then struck herself with a wooden sword while practicing and was told to focus on Kidō.
• Yamabuki Chidori attended a Gotei 13 gathering where Yamamoto announced the Royal Guard would visit the Seireitei in two days.
• The Royal Guard arrived in a descending craft, and Ichibē Hyōsube greeted Yamamoto while Nimaiya Ōetsu asked for Yamabuki Chidori.
• Yamabuki Chidori refused to go with the Royal Guard, fearing they would exploit his unusual powers, but Ichibē Hyōsube said the Soul King wanted to meet him.
• Yamabuki Chidori agreed to accompany Ichibē Hyōsube to the Soul King Palace.

Yamabuki Chidori met the Soul King, who revealed that Yamabuki would die in the Quincy war and offered him a way to grow stronger. The Soul King said the war would arrive in six months and presented a piece of his flesh, leaving Yamabuki to decide whether to absorb it.

• Ichibē Hyōsube and Nimaiya Ōetsu took Yamabuki Chidori to the Soul King Palace, where Ichibē assured him that the Soul King wanted to meet him rather than replace him.
• The Soul King asked Yamabuki to become the new Soul King, but Yamabuki refused and tried to leave.
• The Soul King warned Yamabuki that Yhwach would kill him in an approaching catastrophe, though Yamabuki’s arrival had changed the future.
• The Soul King said Yamabuki could survive only by gaining enough power to face Yhwach and offered him a shortcut.
• The Soul King showed Yamabuki a piece of his flesh, saying that absorbing it would greatly increase Yamabuki’s Reiatsu without side effects.
• The Soul King revealed that the war would begin in six months, and Yamabuki hesitated over whether to absorb the flesh.

After absorbing a piece of the Soul King's flesh, Yamabuki Chidori learned that the Quincy invasion would come in six months and returned to warn the Gotei 13. He began trying to learn Bankai, but his Blade Spirit refused until he mastered all of Shikai, so he turned to Unohana for a fight.

• Yamabuki Chidori absorbed the Soul King's power, and the Soul King revealed that he could have offered another way before falling into a deep slumber.
• Monk Ichibē Hyōsube and Nimaiya Ōetsu tried to recruit Yamabuki Chidori into Zero Division, but he refused and was sent back to the First Division Barracks.
• Yamabuki Chidori told the Gotei 13 Captains that the Quincy army would invade in six months and urged them to strengthen their forces.
• Yamabuki Chidori entered his Inner World to ask his Blade Spirit to teach him Bankai, but she refused and told him to master all of Shikai first.
• Yamabuki Chidori asked Unohana how she had learned Bankai, then challenged her to fight so he could improve.

Yamabuki Chidori trained Unohana in Kidō, pushed his Genji Academy students toward a live Hollow-hunting exercise, and helped Shunshun Shidō test a prototype Shunkō technique. After quickly copying Shunshun Shidō’s Kidō-infused punch and making it even stronger, Yamabuki agreed to teach him how he had done it.

• Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana fought through the night, then he taught her Kidō, which she learned quickly enough to treat simple injuries.
• Yamabuki Chidori began harshly training his students for a live combat exercise, and Hane Hane Chiyo suspected that a crisis was approaching in Seireitei.
• Yamabuki Chidori sent the students to hunt Hollows without him, while Shunshun Shidō arrived and asked him to test some new moves.
• At the Shihōin Clan training hall, Shunshun Shidō demonstrated a punch that combined Hakuda with Kidō and blasted Yamabuki Chidori backward.
• Yamabuki Chidori quickly developed his own version of the technique and struck Shunshun Shidō through more than ten walls.
• Shunshun Shidō asked Yamabuki Chidori to explain how he had copied the technique, and Yamabuki offered to teach him.