Chapter Summaries

Shunshun Shidō and Katoru Hatsunoya faced Apollo and Laila’s lethal Death Aura, forcing Shunshun Shidō to reveal his Bankai. His Wailing Hell overwhelmed the Quincy with endless undead, though Apollo escaped while Laila was swallowed by the skeletons.

• Shunshun Shidō used his Shikai-enhanced speed and reactions to wound Apollo, while Katoru Hatsunoya blocked Laila from reaching him.
• Laila revealed that her Schrift, Death Breath, released Death Aura that killed anyone who inhaled it or touched it, and Apollo used an antidote to fight inside the smoke.
• Shunshun Shidō and Katoru Hatsunoya retreated from the Death Aura, but Apollo attacked them from within it and forced Shunshun Shidō to reveal his Bankai.
• Shunshun Shidō transformed into a giant black cat and summoned endless undead with Wailing Hell, overwhelming Apollo and Laila.
• Apollo burned through his Reiatsu to escape the skeletons, while Laila was engulfed by them.
• Shunshun Shidō returned to human form and warned Katoru Hatsunoya not to tell anyone that he could turn into a cat.

Apollo encountered Hane Hane Chiyo and was burned to ash, while the Quincy launched an attack on Seireitei’s East District. Shikkōgai Musashi and Saitō Fubōfu faced Mardon and Eski, whose Absolute Zero forced Musashi to sacrifice an arm.

• Apollo fled the battle but found Hane Hane Chiyo in a dead end and attacked her with golden flames.
• Hane Hane Chiyo walked through Apollo’s fire and killed him with a burst of overwhelming heat.
• Mardon led three Sternritter against Shikkōgai Musashi and Saitō Fubōfu in the East District as their Shinigami forces initially overwhelmed the Quincy troops.
• Eski froze the Shinigami who approached him, and Saitō Fubōfu’s attacks failed when they entered his ten-meter range.
• Mardon overpowered Shikkōgai Musashi and nullified Saitō Fubōfu’s Bankai with his Schrift, The Impervious.
• Shikkōgai Musashi used Bankai and tore off his left arm to escape Eski’s freezing power before Eski revealed that his Schrift was G, Absolute Zero, and that he was one of Yhwach’s elite guards.

Yamabuki Chidori rallied Shinigami to reinforce the East District while Katoru Hatsunoya encountered Karachi, a Sternritter whose dice-based domain left Katoru gravely wounded. Ōtōgawa Utsugi rescued Katoru from the killing blow, and Yamabuki began treating him as the battle continued.

• Yamabuki Chidori ordered Shijima Chiru, Shunshun Shidō, and Katoru Hatsunoya to reinforce the East District, but Zendouji Yuuhin reported that the Twelfth Division Barracks and his poison had been buried in an attack.
• Katoru Hatsunoya encountered Karachi, who trapped him in a domain where dice rolls governed their attacks and defenses.
• Katoru Hatsunoya lost successive rounds to Karachi, suffered severe wounds, and learned that triples beat all other rolls while ties favored Karachi as the house.
• Karachi stabbed Katoru Hatsunoya after winning a tied roll, but Ōtōgawa Utsugi arrived and ordered his squad to carry Katoru away for treatment.
• Yamabuki Chidori received word that Katoru Hatsunoya was gravely wounded and began treating him near the Sixth Division Barracks.

Yamabuki Chidori treated Katoru Hatsunoya's severe injuries while Ōtōgawa Utsugi used his Bankai to drain the luck of the Sternritter boy and defeat him at dice. Ōtōgawa killed the boy with a poisoned sword, and Yhwach absorbed his soul, realizing the Gotei 13 had a hidden trump card.

• Yamabuki Chidori used Advanced Kido to save Katoru Hatsunoya, who was left unable to fight while she recovered.
• Ōtōgawa Utsugi released his Bankai, Sīmìng, and challenged the little boy to a dice game after absorbing his luck.
• The little boy repeatedly rolled the lowest score, and Ōtōgawa beat him with slaps whenever he lost.
• Ōtōgawa kept rolling while the little boy hesitated to analyze his ability, causing the boy to forfeit his turn under the game's rules.
• Ōtōgawa pierced the little boy's chest with a poisoned sword, killing him, and Yhwach absorbed his soul and recognized the Gotei 13's hidden strength.

Shijima Chiru turned the East District battle around by cloaking her squad in complete invisibility, while Saitō Fubōfu faced the remaining Sternritter. The chapter ended as Bojia transformed with a giant pink cross and invoked holy power.

• Shunshun Shidō kept Mardon occupied above the Seireitei by using her speed and knowledge of the terrain to evade him.
• Eski froze Saitō Fubōfu’s Bankai attacks while the Quincy forces overwhelmed the Soul Reapers in the East District.
• Shijima Chiru arrived and used her Bankai to conceal herself and her squad as they slaughtered Quincy soldiers.
• Eski ordered two Sternritter members to help him, and Bojia reluctantly joined the battlefield.
• Bojia summoned a giant pink cross, invoked God, and grew into a towering muscular figure.

Saitō Fubōfu struggled against Bojia’s demonic branding and Bible-based attacks while the Soul Reapers abandoned the East District. Shunshun Shidō escaped Mardon after being wounded by a distant Quincy sniper, leaving the Quincy in control of the battlefield.

• Bojia branded Saitō Fubōfu as a demon, weakened her with his Schrift, and caused her intense pain by reading the Bible.
• Shijima Chiru tried to ambush Bojia, but a Quincy boy who sensed magnetic fields detected him and stopped the attack.
• Yamabuki Chidori ordered the Soul Reapers to retreat, and Shijima Chiru used his Bankai to withdraw the remaining Seventh and Sixth Division members.
• Mardon revealed that his distant ally could attack from thirty kilometers away, and her shot wounded Shunshun Shidō during their fight.
• Shunshun Shidō evaded another long-range shot and escaped Mardon, while Eski declared that the Quincy had won the first stage of the war.

At the Sixth Division, Shunshun Shidō and the wounded Shinigami recovered while Yamabuki Chidori was delayed by a battle with Sternritter Alice and Gabriel. Yamabuki’s Zanpakuto and Hollow powers were sealed, and Gabriel destroyed his arm with a touch, leaving Yamabuki facing an unknown Schrift ability.

• Shijima Chiru brought Shunshun Shidō to the Sixth Division, where Tenjirō Kirinji treated the wounded and Saitō Fubōfu learned that Yamabuki Chidori had encountered a Sternritter.
• Shūtara Senjumaru arrived with the Kidō Corps to repair the damaged Shinigami uniforms.
• Yamabuki Chidori encountered Alice and Gabriel, and Alice used the Book of Creation to prevent everyone in her barrier from fighting with blades.
• Yamabuki attacked Gabriel with Shunkō and Kidō, but Gabriel blocked his blows and endured his Ceros after transforming into a six-winged angel.
• Alice sealed Hollow Power, stopping Yamabuki’s Infinite Cero and preventing his Super Regeneration from healing the arm Gabriel shattered with a touch.

Yamabuki Chidori fought Gabriel while his Shinigami and Hollow powers were sealed, then used Genesis to force both of them to reveal the truth about their abilities. He learned Gabriel carried the Soul King's Liver and, back in the arena, obscured the battlefield with Sekienton as he prepared to act.

• Gabriel used her unexplained descent-like movement and destructive power to overwhelm Yamabuki Chidori, who escaped a lethal blow by entering Perfect Sanctification.
• Yamabuki Chidori created a world where everyone had to speak the truth, and he and Gabriel questioned each other about their powers.
• Gabriel revealed that her Schrift was T, The Angel, that she could destroy anything, and that the Soul King's Liver was inside her body.
• Yamabuki Chidori learned that Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto was the strongest Shinigami combatant and disbanded the world before it collapsed.
• Back in the arena, Yamabuki Chidori announced he would use his trump card and cast Sekienton, enveloping the area in red smoke.

Yamabuki Chidori killed Alice inside his Small World and stole the power of the Book of Creation, then fought Gabriel, who purged the Quincy seal and unleashed his full strength. Yamabuki Chidori gained the upper hand with attacks spanning different points in time and used Space Erasure, leaving Gabriel forced to dodge.

• Yamabuki Chidori pulled Alice into his Small World, where he sealed Quincy powers and wounded her with Scarlet Angel.
• Alice gave up resisting, and Yamabuki Chidori drained her power, gaining the Book of Creation temporarily.
• Yamabuki Chidori emerged with Alice's desiccated corpse and used the Book of Creation to seal Quincy powers around Gabriel.
• Gabriel used Purification, broke the seal, and shattered the Book of Creation, then attacked Yamabuki Chidori with Angel's Sword and Destructive Power.
• Yamabuki Chidori damaged Gabriel with Asura Third Sword, and Gabriel resolved to warn Yhwach about his time-spanning attacks.
• Yamabuki Chidori used Space Erasure, forcing Gabriel to dodge out of its range.

Yamabuki Chidori defeated Gabriel, devoured her Soul King's Liver, and began evolving as the Captains sensed his Reiatsu disappear. In the Seireitei's West District, Unohana Yachiru fought Arthur and struggled to get past his armor and automatic shield.

• Gabriel used a self-destructive power-up and threatened to destroy the Seireitei, but Yamabuki Chidori stopped time and beheaded her.
• Yamabuki Chidori devoured Gabriel's Quincy power and Soul King's Liver, then entered an evolution cocoon that left him unconscious and seemingly without Reiatsu.
• Katoru Hatsunoya reassured the Sixth Division that Yamabuki Chidori might have hidden his Reiatsu and sent Shunshun Shidō to investigate.
• Unohana Yachiru fought Arthur, a Sternritter who openly explained his abilities and wielded a massive greatsword and heavy armor.
• Unohana Yachiru pressed her attack and targeted Arthur's armor gaps, but his automatically appearing Knight's Shield blocked her strike.

Unohana defeated Arthur and led the 11th Division to support the devastated 12th Division, where Zendouji Yuuhin fought Karasu. Zendouji revealed that his Zanpakuto controlled gravity and hurled Karasu away with a single strike.

• Unohana overwhelmed Arthur, destroyed his Knight's Shield, and killed him with her Bankai, Kajōtenketsu.
• After the 11th Division defeated the invading Quincy, an explosion destroyed the 12th Division's barracks, and Unohana ordered her members to support it.
• Karasu introduced himself as a Sternritter whose Schrift was R and unleashed explosive black creatures that devastated the 12th Division.
• Zendouji Yuuhin attacked Karasu, but an explosion badly mangled his right hand while Karasu emerged unharmed.
• Zendouji released his Zanpakuto, Fly Toward the Sun, Hotaru, and used gravity to send Karasu crashing through buildings with one strike.

Lias used her Schrift to turn Zendouji Yuuhin’s subordinates against him, but Unohana arrived and captured her after her ability failed against the 11th Division. Meanwhile, Eski approached the cocoon surrounding Yamabuki Chidori, only to find his freezing ability had no effect on the girl guarding it.

• Zendouji Yuuhin killed Karasu and ordered his subordinates to uncover the poison buried underground.
• Lias bewitched Zendouji Yuuhin’s men and made them attack him, but he knocked them unconscious while she watched from a rooftop.
• Unohana found Lias, whose power failed against the 11th Division, and seized her as she tried to flee.
• Unohana and Zendouji Yuuhin joined forces to kill every Quincy in the West District.
• Eski approached Yamabuki Chidori’s cocoon, but a girl appeared in front of it and remained unaffected by Eski’s freezing ability.

Yamabuki Chidori completed his evolution as Yhwach entered the battle, while Soul Reapers fought the remaining Quincy across Seireitei. In the South District, Gen'en Kinra faced Alexander Lulu, whose deadly threads failed to catch him as their fight continued.

• The little girl killed Eski with a blazing sword, and Yamabuki Chidori's cocoon began to crack.
• Yhwach learned that Alice's and Gabriel's powers had not returned to him, then entered the Soul Society as Mardon ordered the remaining Knights to finish their fights.
• Lubia continued slacking off and eating while Yamabuki Chidori emerged from his cocoon with Reiatsu powerful enough to rival the Captain Commander.
• Yamabuki Chidori sensed Yhwach, ordered the Captains to clear the battlefield and surround him, and told his secret weapon to act.
• In the South District, Alexander Lulu attacked Gen'en Kinra with razor-sharp threads while searching for Yamabuki Chidori, but Gen'en Kinra cut through her trap and dodged her attacks.
• Gen'en Kinra released Smile, Purgatory, and explained that it heightened or dulled senses; Lulu retreated and fired her Spirit Bow at him.

Gen'en Kinra tortured Lulu in his Bankai, while Obana Danjirou trapped Bard and Ishida Oboro in a dream of a peaceful life together. As the two Captains left to aid the battle, Yamabuki Chidori's Reiatsu swept across Seireitei.

• Gen'en Kinra used his Bankai, Muken, to torment Lulu through eighteen layers of Hell until she was left a barely living mass of flesh.
• Obana Danjirou fought Bard and revealed his thorny whip Zanpakuto, while Ishida Oboro supported Bard with Reishi Arrows.
• Obana Danjirou's Wuyoucao Bankai drew Bard and Ishida Oboro into a dream where they escaped the war, married, and grew old together.
• Gen'en Kinra and Obana Danjirou left the sleeping Bard and Ishida Oboro behind to help elsewhere.
• Yamabuki Chidori's powerful Reiatsu swept across Seireitei.

Yhwach stalled his confrontation with Yamamoto over tea while the Sternritter suffered heavy losses and Mardon struggled to command the survivors. Dracula defected to Yamabuki Chidori and offered to reveal the remaining Quincies’ location in exchange for freedom from Yhwach’s control, leaving her motives and Chidori’s response unresolved.

• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto met Yhwach and delayed their fight by inviting him to drink tea and share food.
• Sakurane Saizo used poison to rout the Quincy in Seireitei’s North District, leaving only Gude, Dracula, and Lilith among the attackers to escape.
• Mardon gathered the surviving Sternritter and learned that Lubia was eating while Bard remained asleep in an enemy trap.
• Dracula refused Mardon’s order to attack the Sixth Division and escaped through a portal after he tried to strike her.
• Dracula met Yamabuki Chidori and offered to reveal the remaining Quincy in return for help escaping Yhwach’s control.

Yamabuki Chidori learned that the wounded Soul Reapers were about to be ambushed and arrived in time to defeat the attacking Sternritter, while Zendouji Yuuhin’s Hollow poison weakened Yhwach. Yhwach discovered that Hane Hane Chiyo had used her Bankai to impersonate Yamamoto and fled, leaving the real confrontation still to come.

• Dracula traded information about the planned ambush for a pill containing Hollow Particles, and Yamabuki Chidori rushed to the Sixth Division to protect the wounded Soul Reapers.
• Zendouji Yuuhin released poison across Seireitei, and Mardon’s Sternritter forces attacked the Sixth Division.
• Yamabuki Chidori arrived and swiftly killed Bojia, Dorothy, Gude, Walter, and Mardon, while Lilith surrendered and was taken prisoner.
• Yhwach realized Hollow Particles had poisoned him and prevented him from devouring the power of the fallen Sternritter.
• Yamamoto revealed that he was Hane Hane Chiyo in disguise, and Yhwach broke the illusion as she turned and ran.

Yamabuki Chidori fought Yhwach after leading him away from Seireitei, unveiling his Bankai and time-and-space abilities to wound and disarm him. Yhwach regenerated his arm with Self-Grant and struck Yamabuki Chidori with a devastating blow, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yamabuki Chidori rescued Hane Hane Chiyo from Yhwach and pursued him to a wilderness far from Rukongai.
• Yamabuki Chidori contacted Yamamoto for support, then began fighting Yhwach with his Shikai, Silver Radiant Angel.
• Yhwach invited Yamabuki Chidori to join the Wandenreich, but Yamabuki Chidori refused and released his Bankai, Scarlet Angel.
• Yamabuki Chidori used his Bankai’s time-based attacks to wound Yhwach and sever his left arm.
• Yhwach healed his arm with Self-Grant and attacked while Yamabuki Chidori was distracted, engulfing half his body in black Reiatsu.

Yamabuki Chidori fought Yhwach with his fused Shinigami and Hollow powers, while the surviving Sternritter abandoned the collapsing Wandenreich. Yhwach used All-Knowing All-Powerful to behead Chidori, but Chidori regenerated and struck him with Flow of Time, Flash Blossom.

• Yamabuki Chidori regenerated from Yhwach's devastating strike, Hollowfied, and forced Yhwach into an evenly matched battle.
• Lubia and Antonio left the Sternritter after learning the surviving group had been poisoned and that Yhwach had never cared about them.
• Bard and Ishida Oboro chose to retire together, opened a portal, and left Soul Society for Kyoto.
• Yhwach activated All-Knowing All-Powerful, beheaded Yamabuki Chidori, and turned toward Seireitei after purging the poison from his body.
• Yamabuki Chidori regenerated his head and stabbed Yhwach's arm with Flow of Time, Flash Blossom.

Yamabuki Chidori fused his Soul Reaper, Hollow, and Quincy powers into the Chaos Demon God state and nearly killed Yhwach, but his Reiatsu ran low and Yhwach regained All-Knowing All-Powerful. As Yhwach prepared to finish him, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto arrived with Bankai, leaving Yhwach facing a second overwhelming opponent.

• Yhwach crushed Yamabuki Chidori's bones, destroyed his twin blades, and buried him in a Reiatsu Torrent, but Yamabuki Chidori survived and awakened Perfect Sanctification.
• Yamabuki Chidori used his Chaos Demon God power to shatter Yhwach's body and reforge his blades, then both fighters sealed each other's ability to control or foresee the future.
• Yamabuki Chidori overpowered Yhwach in a close-range fight, but his Chaos Demon God state faded after three minutes and Yhwach pierced his chest with a black torrent.
• Yamabuki Chidori recovered quickly and revealed that his Reiatsu was replenishing, while Yhwach claimed he had regained All-Knowing All-Powerful.
• Yamabuki Chidori pointed out Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto in the sky, and Yamamoto released Bankai, Zanka no Tachi, as Yhwach activated All-Knowing All-Powerful and saw ten million futures.

After defeating Yhwach, Yamabuki Chidori struggled with Soul Society’s postwar rebuilding and devised a plan to control the reconstruction of Central 46. Yamamoto vowed to stop using his destructive Bankai, while Chidori offered to protect him if danger arose.

• Yamabuki Chidori and Yamamoto destroyed Yhwach with Zanka no Tachi, though the Soul King’s power could eventually allow Yhwach to revive.
• Yamamoto approved Chidori’s retirement proposal but set the retirement period at a thousand years, leaving her frustrated.
• A week after the battle, Chidori managed Seireitei’s rebuilding, recruitment, and supply work while facing nobles’ demands to fill Central 46’s vacant seats.
• Unohana brought Chidori food, agreed to marry her once matters settled, and offered to cut down anyone who troubled her.
• Chidori came up with a plan to give herself veto power over Central 46 and went to find Yamamoto to discuss it.
• At the scorched battlefield, Yamamoto said he would no longer use Bankai to protect the world, then punched Chidori and asked why she had come.