Chapter Summaries

Yamabuki Chidori defeated Ellers Bard, but Alexander Momo and Chariel Eugene joined the fight against her and Saitō Fubōfu. The battle became a three-on-two, with another enemy still hidden in the ruins.

• Yamabuki Chidori revealed herself as a Gotei 13 chief strategist and fought Ellers Bard, who identified himself as Sternritter H and attacked with sandstorms.
• Yamabuki Chidori survived Bard’s attacks, healed rapidly, and knocked him down before preparing to capture him.
• Alexander Momo used an indestructible chain to bind Yamabuki Chidori and drain her Reiatsu, but Yamabuki cut off her own wrist and severed Bard’s arm when he attacked her.
• Saitō Fubōfu challenged Momo, dodged her chains, and drove her into the ruins, where a giant man attacked Saitō from behind.
• Chariel Eugene identified himself as Sternritter F of the Wandenreich and explained that his strength increased with his anger.

Yamabuki Chidori and Saitō Fubōfu fought their way out of an ambush by Bard, Momo, Eugene, and a hidden attacker, but the Quincies pursued them and called for reinforcements. Saitō released Wolf Fang and Yamabuki revealed Silver Radiant Angel, yet the battle remained unresolved when Saitō suddenly cried out in pain.

• Yamabuki Chidori and Saitō Fubōfu tried to escape Bard, Momo, Eugene, and a hidden attacker, but the unseen enemy repeatedly wounded Yamabuki.
• Saitō Fubōfu freed Yamabuki from Momo’s chains, and Yamabuki used Goryū Tenmetsu to open a path out of the encirclement.
• Bard and the others pursued the pair, while a blue firework summoned reinforcements; Yamabuki and Saitō turned to fight rather than keep retreating.
• Saitō released Wolf Fang and struck the ground with her warhammer, injuring the three Quincy with its shockwave.
• Yamabuki released Silver Radiant Angel and used Space Severance to cut off Momo’s right arm, but Bard struck Yamabuki with a sand whip as Eugene charged.
• Yamabuki prepared to use Space Erasure, but Saitō suddenly cried out in pain.

Yamabuki Chidori escaped the Quincy ambush with the wounded Saitō Fubōfu, then decided to attack the sleeping Yhwach at the Quincy Palace. As they approached the stronghold, Ishida Oboro warned the Sternritter that the Soul Reapers knew its location, but they dismissed her.

• A hidden attacker wounded Saitō Fubōfu, and Yamabuki Chidori fought off five Quincy with his Bankai before fleeing with her.
• Yamabuki Chidori treated Saitō Fubōfu in an attic, and they agreed to try to kill the sleeping Yhwach rather than return to Soul Society.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Saitō Fubōfu traveled to the Quincy Palace, arriving at dusk the following day.
• The Sternritter put Ishida Oboro in chains for revealing Yhwach's secret, and she warned their commander that the Soul Reapers might attack.
• The Sternritter laughed off Ishida Oboro's warning and assumed the Soul Reapers had already fled.

Yamabuki Chidori and Saitō Fubōfu infiltrated the Wandenreich palace in disguise and learned where Yhwach was sleeping. Their progress stalled when a Sternritter officer ordered Saitō Fubōfu to spend the night with him.

• Bard urged the Sternritter captain to strengthen the palace defenses, and the captain agreed while leaving Ishida Oboro’s fate to Yhwach.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Saitō Fubōfu hid from a patrol, then strangled two Quincy and took their uniforms.
• The pair disguised themselves as Quincy and knocked out two guards after Saitō Fubōfu tricked them into turning around.
• Yamabuki Chidori interrogated a Quincy, who revealed that Yhwach slept in the central palace behind a golden door guarded by Sternritter.
• A Sternritter officer recognized Saitō Fubōfu as unfamiliar and ordered her to come spend the night with him, prompting her to threaten to hit him.

Yamabuki Chidori and Saitō Fubōfu fought through the Wandenreich, defeating Walter Meta and unleashing Saitō’s devastating Bankai against the Quincy gathering around them. They pressed toward Yhwach’s sleeping palace as the Sternritter assembled in the Front Hall to stop them.

• Saitō Fubōfu struck Walter Meta and countered his Schrift, The World, while Yamabuki Chidori identified that Walter could control only one kind of object at a time.
• Walter fled and attacked them with obstacles, but Saitō released her Bankai and blasted the surrounding Quincy, including Walter and Momo, with a deafening Lion’s Roar.
• Yamabuki Chidori healed Saitō’s damaged throat, and the two fought through more Quincy soldiers while heading for Yhwach’s sleeping quarters.
• The Sternritter gathered in the Front Hall, where Bard warned that the two Shinigami were dangerous and the blond captain ordered everyone not to attack without his command.

Yamabuki Chidori and Saitō Fubōfu attacked the Quincy headquarters, but Isaac Mardon nullified their abilities until Shijima Chiru rescued them with his Bankai. Back in Soul Society, Yamamoto punished Chidori and Fubōfu and heard their intelligence about the Sternritter, while Chidori predicted that the Quincies had fled to Hueco Mundo.

• Yamabuki Chidori and Saitō Fubōfu attacked the Quincy palace, where Isaac Mardon blocked Fubōfu’s Bankai and resisted Chidori’s Space Severance.
• Mardon’s Sternritter overwhelmed the pair until Shijima Chiru poisoned Mardon and used All Living Things to conceal and extract Chidori and Fubōfu.
• The Quincy moved their palace and withdrew to Hueco Mundo after Mardon warned that their base had been exposed.
• Yamamoto ordered Chidori to write a ten-thousand-word apology and Fubōfu to write a five-thousand-word apology for entering the enemy headquarters.
• Chidori reported the Sternritter’s abilities, Yhwach’s unconscious state, and an unknown powerful attacker to the Soul Reapers.
• Chidori predicted that the Quincy would establish their new headquarters somewhere in Hueco Mundo.

Yamabuki Chidori spent his leave with Unohana before Tsunayashiro Fūka took him to a Rukongai tavern to watch dancers. When bandits threatened the performers, an unknown straw-hatted man secretly broke their leader’s sword, and Chidori recognized him as the likely intervener.

• Unohana welcomed Yamabuki Chidori home, gave him a lap pillow, and served him a painfully spicy dinner.
• Unohana joined Yamabuki Chidori’s planned Hueco Mundo mission, while she spent his first day off at the 11th Division and gave her squad the day off.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka invited Yamabuki Chidori to a Rukongai tavern, and Hane Hane Chiyo joined them on the way.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka revealed that he owned the tavern, where dancers performed for the patrons, but Yamabuki Chidori declined his offer to keep some dancers for him.
• Wandering swordsmen tried to seize the dancers, but an unseen attacker broke their leader’s sword, and Yamabuki Chidori identified a straw-hatted drinker as the likely culprit.
• Yamabuki Chidori sent the straw-hatted man a flask of sake charged to Tsunayashiro Fūka, and the man looked up to meet his gaze.

Yamabuki Chidori recruited Obana Danjirou to the Gotei 13 and arranged for Baraggan to help search Hueco Mundo for the Quincies. As the expedition preparations began, Baraggan secretly planned to escape and hide once he returned home.

• Unohana Yachiru arrived at the tavern and escorted Yamabuki Chidori and Tsunayashiro Fūka away, while the straw-hat man left with rice balls for the children he cared for.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana found the straw-hat man at the temple and offered him a Gotei 13 job and support for the children; he introduced himself as Obana Danjirou.
• Yamabuki Chidori revealed that a catastrophe would strike in six months and decided to lead a Captain-only expedition to Hueco Mundo, including Unohana and Katoru Hatsunoya.
• Yamabuki Chidori visited Zendouji Yuuhin and secured Baraggan's help searching Hueco Mundo for the Quincies, fitting him with a bracelet to suppress his Reiatsu.
• Baraggan agreed to the mission but privately planned to escape into Hueco Mundo and hide for several hundred years.

Yamabuki Chidori defeated the Hollows opposing him and claimed the title of King of Hueco Mundo, then sent a scouting force to find the Quincy palace. The Sternritter revealed they had lured him away and prepared Justin to use a poisoned wound-transfer attack against him.

• A Hollow was destroyed by Coyote Starrk's overwhelming Reiatsu, and Starrk reflected on his long loneliness before Baraggan and Yamabuki Chidori's group arrived in Hueco Mundo.
• At Las Noches, Baraggan tried to reclaim his throne, but Yamabuki Chidori defeated the challenging Hollows and declared himself King of Hueco Mundo.
• Starrk challenged Yamabuki Chidori, accepted his invitation to drink instead, and joined the group at Las Noches.
• Yamabuki Chidori ordered the Hollows to locate the Quincy palace, and a scout soon reported that they had found it.
• After Yamabuki Chidori and his companions left Las Noches, Sternritter agents revealed they had tracked him and planned to kill him using Justin's injury-transfer ability and a poisoned dagger.

Justin transferred his poison and wound to Yamabuki Chidori, who died before rising again through Hollowfication as a monstrous creature. As Yamabuki Chidori began slaughtering the Quincy fighters, Bard launched a sandstorm attack against him.

• Justin used Self-Harm, Damage Transfer to transfer his poisoned wound to Yamabuki Chidori, who collapsed and died despite Unohana's efforts to help him.
• Unohana and Katoru Hatsunoya confronted the six Quincies, and both sides activated their abilities as Starrk noticed Yamabuki Chidori's corpse changing.
• Yamabuki Chidori rose again, covered in a masklike substance, as a Hollow hole formed in his chest and his body transformed.
• Momo bound Yamabuki Chidori with her chain, but he broke free, grew tentacles, and killed her by taking and crushing her head.
• Bard summoned a raging sandstorm dragon to attack Yamabuki Chidori, but the monster vanished from his sight.

Complete Hollowfication Yamabuki Chidori killed several fighters and overwhelmed the Soul Reapers and Quincies, forcing them into an alliance until Coyote Starrk intervened. Starrk suppressed Yamabuki Chidori with rapid Cero attacks, but Yamabuki Chidori evolved and began matching his attacks.

• Yamabuki Chidori tore apart Eugene, destroyed Momo's corpse, and attacked Unohana and Katoru Hatsunoya.
• Wolian and Bard restrained Yamabuki Chidori while the Soul Reapers and Quincies agreed to join forces against him.
• Yamabuki Chidori killed Valk the Werewolf with Space Severance and nearly struck down Unohana before Starrk blasted his wrist and disarmed him.
• Starrk repeatedly blasted Yamabuki Chidori with Cero, destroying parts of his body faster than he could retaliate.
• Yamabuki Chidori evolved into a more human form and began firing Cero at the same frequency as Starrk.

Yamabuki Chidori evolved by combining Hollowfication with Perfect Sanctification, then killed Justin and Wolian while the others struggled to stop him. Coyote Starrk and Baraggan restrained him with an iron chain, and Unohana and Katoru Hatsunoya broke his transformation; Yamabuki Chidori later woke up thirsty in Unohana’s care.

• Yamabuki Chidori absorbed surrounding Reishi and transformed into a winged, haloed form that left the others unable to sense his Reiatsu.
• Yamabuki Chidori killed Justin and blasted his corpse apart, then killed Wolian after Bard fled to carry news to Wandenreich headquarters.
• Katoru Hatsunoya and the others attacked Yamabuki Chidori, while Coyote Starrk shot out one of his eyes and Baraggan bound him with the Reiatsu-suppressing iron chain.
• Unohana distracted Yamabuki Chidori with a promise to wear Black Silk Stockings, then stabbed him and used Kajōtenketsu to damage his Hollowfied state.
• Katoru Hatsunoya shattered Yamabuki Chidori’s mask, wings, and halo, and Unohana caught him as he collapsed unconscious.
• Yamabuki Chidori woke up thirsty, and Unohana gave him water.

After losing control and undergoing Hollowfication, Yamabuki Chidori returned to Soul Society and told Yamamoto he needed leave to master his Hollow Power. In his Inner World, he met Hollow Spirit, who explained that his power came from his negative emotions and demanded that he find a way to make her happy.

• Yamabuki Chidori woke in Unohana's lap and learned that his Hollowfication had made him kill five Sternritter before the others subdued him.
• Yamabuki Chidori blamed the change on a fragment of the Soul King, then led the group back to Soul Society and said goodbye to Coyote Starrk.
• Yamabuki Chidori told Yamamoto about his Hollowfication, received extended leave, and admitted to Unohana that he had Quincy and Hollow powers as well as his Soul Reaper abilities.
• Yamabuki Chidori entered his Inner World to investigate his Hollow Power and found it warped, with Little Red and Little White missing.
• Hollow Spirit appeared and explained that she represented Yamabuki Chidori's negative emotions and that he could gain control by doing things that made her happy.
• Yamabuki Chidori suggested that Hollow Spirit put on black silk stockings and step on him, and she angrily told him to go to hell.

Yamabuki Chidori’s Hollow Spirit separated from him to help him master his Hollow Power, and he chose to fuse his Shinigami, Hollow, and Quincy powers. Hollow Spirit then teamed up with Unohana and Sakurane Saizo to confront his fear of centipedes, causing his Hollow Power to surge and his mask to form.

• Hollow Spirit explained that she had separated Yamabuki Chidori’s Hollow Power and revealed that a Quincy fragment also existed within him.
• Hollow Spirit said Yamabuki Chidori could balance or fuse his three powers, and he chose fusion while agreeing to meet her for fear training.
• Yamabuki Chidori found Unohana pretending to be dead in a ketchup-covered scene, then discovered that Hollow Spirit and Sakurane Saizo were waiting in the underground training ground.
• Hollow Spirit trapped Yamabuki Chidori in a dark room full of centipedes, and he unleashed Goryū Tenmetsu in panic.
• Sakurane Saizo dropped more centipedes on Yamabuki Chidori, whose fear overwhelmed him as his Hollow Power surged and formed a mask over his face.

Yamabuki Chidori tried to fuse with Hollow Spirit so he could control his Hollow Power, but the captains mistook his transformed body for a mindless Hollow and attacked him. After Yamabuki accidentally killed Unohana, Yamamoto unleashed his Bankai as Yamabuki watched the sun descend.

• Yamamoto subdued Yamabuki Chidori after he Hollowfied in response to the centipedes, and Yamabuki beat Sakurane Saizo and scolded Hollow Spirit for their part in the scheme.
• Gen'en Kinra warned that Yamabuki's unstable Hollow Power was dangerous, so Yamamoto arranged a training session with the captains to help him control it.
• Obana Danjirou entered the Seireitei with Yamabuki's letter of introduction to apply for a position in the Gotei 13.
• Yamabuki absorbed Hollow Spirit, but his body transformed into a monstrous form while his mind remained clear, and the captains attacked him.
• Yamabuki tried to explain himself, but he accidentally slashed Unohana's throat when he fought back and could not heal her or use his Bankai to save her.
• Yamamoto activated his Bankai, and Yamabuki held Unohana's body as the sun descended.

Yamabuki Chidori lost control after absorbing Hollow Spirit, became a powerful Hollow, and fled to Hueco Mundo while the Gotei 13 mobilized to bring him back alive. Hollow Spirit later found him in the desert and began testing whether devouring Quincy could strengthen his Quincy powers enough to restore his mind.

• Yamabuki Chidori transformed during Hollowfication, suffered a mental breakdown, and escaped Soul Society after absorbing thousands of Hollows.
• Yamamoto ordered the Gotei 13 to pursue Yamabuki Chidori and bring him back alive, and Shunshun Shidō recruited Obana Danjirou into the operation.
• Yamabuki Chidori wandered Hueco Mundo, devouring Hollows as his memories and sense of identity deteriorated.
• Hollow Spirit warned Yamabuki Chidori that eating more Hollows could let his Hollow Power overwhelm his other powers, then hid with him from two Quincy patrols.
• Hollow Spirit sent Yamabuki Chidori to devour the Quincy, observed his Quincy power grow, and proposed going to Quincy headquarters.

The Gotei 13 entered Hueco Mundo to search for Yamabuki Chidori, while Mardon ordered the Wandenreich to prepare a transfer rather than face them. Chidori attacked the Quincy Palace, and Alice Hainley went out to stop him as the transfer countdown continued.

• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto split the Captains into pairs to search for Yamabuki Chidori, assigning Obana Danjirou to work with Shihōin.
• Mardon learned that the Shinigami had mobilized and ordered the Quincies to prepare a transfer, dismissing a warning that patrol groups had vanished along a route.
• Yamabuki Chidori killed Cryst and moved toward the Quincy Palace, drawn by the powerful Quincy presence inside.
• After learning Chidori had killed five Sternritter, Mardon tried to attack him, but Alice Hainley intervened and ordered the Wandenreich to hold out until the transfer.
• Yamabuki Chidori entered the palace and devoured Quincies as his strength grew, then encountered a golden-haired woman approaching him.

Alice trapped Yamabuki Chidori in her rule-bound world, where his attacks turned against him, but he regained his senses by accepting his Hollow self and merging with it. He exploited a loophole to tease Alice until she added a rule that punished lewd thoughts and behavior with lightning, leaving Yamabuki Chidori repeatedly struck and unable to think about her safely.

• Alice used the Book of Creation to make Yamabuki Chidori's attacks rebound on himself and plunge his consciousness into an abyss.
• Yamabuki Chidori met the Soul King within his mind and realized that his Hollow and Soul Reaper powers were both parts of himself.
• Yamabuki Chidori merged with his Hollow self, absorbed the remaining Soul King power within him, and returned to consciousness as the Soul King let a hidden girl devour his remaining power.
• Yamabuki Chidori found a loophole in Alice's rules and teased her, prompting her to decree that indecent thoughts and actions would bring divine punishment.
• Alice's lightning rule repeatedly struck Yamabuki Chidori whenever he behaved lewdly or thought about Alice, while his attempts to attack her also injured himself.

Yamabuki Chidori awakened his Fullbring and used it to break Alice’s rules by creating a Small World of his own. He then trapped Alice in an extreme-cold world, where she struggled to survive as the temperature continued to fall.

• After Alice’s rule-based ability repeatedly struck him with lightning, Yamabuki Chidori met You in his Inner World and learned she controlled his newly awakened Fullbring.
• Yamabuki Chidori returned outside and punched Alice, explaining that his Fullbring had moved them into a Small World where he controlled the rules.
• Alice summoned her Spirit Bow, but Yamabuki Chidori ended the first Small World and then created a new one filled with ice and snow.
• Yamabuki Chidori made the temperature drop by one degree each second, while Alice fired explosive Reishi Arrows and tried to endure the cold.
• As the temperature reached minus ninety degrees, Alice became numb and struggled to stay conscious while Yamabuki Chidori endured the cold with his Reiatsu.

Yamabuki Chidori escaped the Quincy Palace after defeating Alice, then recovered his senses and returned to the Soul Society, where rumors spread that he had fallen in love with a Hollow. He appointed Obana Danjirou as Fifth Division Reserve Captain and warned him that the Quincy invasion was only five months away.

• Alice froze Yamabuki Chidori in her Small World, but the Book of Creation’s rule turned his Reishi Arrow back on her before Quincy Palace transported him away from her.
• Yamabuki Chidori lamented losing his meal in the desert, where Shunshun Shidō and Obana Danjirou watched and summoned the Gotei 13 captains.
• The captains attacked Yamabuki Chidori while he tried to explain, then realized he had regained his senses when he wrote “miserable” in the sand.
• Yamabuki Chidori explained that he had realized he was still himself despite being a Hollow or Quincy, and he warned the captains about the Book of Creation and its rule-based power.
• The Gotei 13 members mistook Yamabuki Chidori’s encounter with Alice for a romance with a Hollow, and the rumor later became a popular tragic love story.
• Yamabuki Chidori appointed Obana Danjirou as Fifth Division Reserve Captain and told him the Quincy would invade in five months.