Chapter Summaries

Yamabuki Chidori and Captain Commander Yamamoto moved to take control of Central 46 by giving its two Great Sages veto power, then presented the plan to the nobles. After Yamabuki Chidori killed the first noble to oppose it, the rest accepted the restructuring.

• Yamabuki Chidori told Captain Commander Yamamoto that nobles were trying to rebuild Central 46 to seize power, and proposed that they each hold one of its seats with veto authority.
• Tsunayashiro Fūka warned a gathering of nobles to show respect at the negotiations with Yamabuki Chidori and Captain Commander Yamamoto.
• At the ruins of Central 46, Yamabuki Chidori proposed selecting its forty-six members from Soul Society's strongest fighters and reducing its Great Sages to two, each with veto power.
• The head of the Sato Family objected to Yamabuki Chidori's plan, and Yamabuki Chidori killed him with a flick of his finger.
• Mr. Honda and Katoru Hatsunoya supported the proposal, and the other nobles accepted it out of fear.

Yamabuki Chidori established a strength-based selection for Central 46, became a Great Sage, and built a Staff Department to handle his workload. As his wedding to Unohana Yachiru approached, he asked Shunshun Shidō for help with the preparations.

• Yamabuki Chidori announced that he and Unohana Yachiru would marry the following month and invited the nobles to the wedding.
• Yamabuki Chidori opened the Central 46 selection, where Captain Commander Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto defeated Chōjirō Sasakibe in the first round.
• After half a month of matches, Yamabuki Chidori and Yamamoto took the top two places, and Central 46 was rebuilt with forty-four other Sages.
• Yamabuki Chidori rejected a proposed promotion from Low-Ranking Noble, while Tsunayashiro Fūka warned the nobles to submit and prepare for the wedding.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto appointed Hane Hane Chiyo Commander of the Kidō Corps, and Yamabuki Chidori selected more than fifty Staff Officers to help with his work.
• Yamabuki Chidori asked Shunshun Shidō for advice on wedding preparations after learning that he had experience with marriage.

Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana celebrated their wedding in Seireitei, then opened the gifts their friends had given them. Tsunayashiro Fūka’s final gift proved to be a significant token connected to the Great Spirit Library Corridor.

• Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana married in a ceremony witnessed by Captain Commander Yamamoto, with Ōtōgawa Utsugi using her Bankai to clear the skies.
• After the wedding banquet, Yamabuki Chidori returned home to Unohana, and he chased away Hane Hane Chiyo, Katoru Hatsunoya, Saitō Fubōfu, and Senbu when they spied on the newlyweds.
• The next morning, Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana opened their wedding gifts, and they found that Captain Commander Yamamoto had given them two signed leave forms for their honeymoon.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana examined gifts from their friends, including a kimono from Shūtara Senjumaru and a smoking pipe from Shunshun Shidō.
• Yamabuki Chidori opened Tsunayashiro Fūka’s heavy gift box and realized its golden token represented access to the Great Spirit Library Corridor.

Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana began their honeymoon in Kyoto, where they discovered an old monk who treated illnesses while pretending to exorcise spirits. When a real spirit possessed the shogun’s daughter, a Quincy destroyed it before Chidori and Unohana could intervene, leaving them to realize that a Quincy had survived.

• Yamabuki Chidori secured a month of leave and traveled with Unohana to the Human World for their honeymoon.
• In Kyoto, Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana watched an old monk cure a sick child with acupuncture and medicine while claiming to exorcise a spirit.
• The old monk was summoned to the shogun’s residence to treat the shogun’s daughter, who was truly possessed by a powerful spirit.
• The spirit attacked the old monk, but a streak of blue light pierced and destroyed it before Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana stepped in.
• Yamabuki Chidori recognized the blue light as Quincy power and remarked that one had escaped, while the shogun credited the old monk with saving his daughter.

Yamabuki Chidori spared Ishida Oboro and Bard, then demanded that the Quincy stop destroying Hollows and surrender their bodies after death so he could prepare to counter Yhwach’s surviving power. After explaining his plan to Unohana, he continued their honeymoon and reached the seaside with her.

• Ishida Oboro destroyed a Hollow, but Yamabuki Chidori seized her and threatened to kill her and Bard’s family until Dracula pleaded for mercy and Unohana cut off Dracula’s arm for flirting with him.
• Yamabuki Chidori spared the Quincy because he wanted to preserve them for research into silver thrombosis and remembered that Ishida Oboro might be connected to future Quincy families.
• Yamabuki Chidori ordered the Quincy to stop using their powers to destroy Hollows and to give him their bodies after death, and he asked Dracula to find Quincy hiding in Japan and watch for anyone named Kurosaki.
• At a hot spring, Yamabuki Chidori told Unohana that Yhwach’s power could return and that he planned to produce silver thrombosis to defeat him in the future.
• Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana resumed their honeymoon, traveled for five days, and reached the seaside, where Unohana suggested going out on the water.

Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana hired Kuroto to take them out to sea, where they discovered signs that he was hiding a murder and planned to rob them. After reaching a deserted island, they left Kuroto to prepare a poisoned breakfast while they explored.

• Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana hired Kuroto’s boat, and Unohana noticed his concealed blade and the frightened child hiding aboard.
• Unohana found bloodstains in the cabin and met the spirit of a murdered little boy, while she and Yamabuki Chidori pretended not to suspect Kuroto.
• Kuroto watched the pair’s valuables and tried to approach them with his dagger, but Yamabuki Chidori’s swordsmanship made him abandon the attack.
• Kuroto poisoned the fish he planned to serve for breakfast, while Yamabuki Chidori sent the little boy’s spirit to Soul Society.
• Kuroto brought Yamabuki Chidori and Unohana to a deserted island and prepared the poisoned fish soup as they stepped ashore.

Unohana and Yamabuki Chidori discovered the souls of Kuroto’s victims, and Yamabuki killed the murderous fisherman. Hell claimed Kuroto, but Yamabuki followed him through the Hell Gate, leaving Unohana to send the victims’ souls to Soul Society and await his return.

• A group of souls led Unohana to a ruined village and asked her to send them away.
• Kuroto poisoned Yamabuki Chidori’s soup and planned to rob Unohana, unaware that Yamabuki was already dead and immune to the poison.
• Kuroto confronted Unohana with a dagger, but Yamabuki appeared, revealed the victims’ souls to him, and killed him.
• A Hell Gate opened and seized Kuroto’s soul, and Yamabuki entered Hell to investigate.
• Unohana sent the victims’ souls to Soul Society and waited as Yamabuki’s Reiatsu repelled Hell’s corrosive aura.

Yamabuki Chidori explored Hell, where sinners revived endlessly, and reflected on the world Yhwach had wanted to create. He found Alice and tested whether devouring her could yield lasting power, then searched her heart for Silver Thrombosis before she revived and fled.

• Yamabuki Chidori fought Hell Skeleton Monsters while Kuroto revived repeatedly and begged to escape.
• Yamabuki Chidori cut down the sinners who pleaded for him to break their Hell Chains and considered how Hell resembled Yhwach’s imagined world.
• Yamabuki Chidori found Alice, learned that only a month had passed outside Hell, and told her that he had killed Yhwach.
• Yamabuki Chidori devoured Alice’s power, but Hell’s laws returned it to her when she revived.
• Yamabuki Chidori cut open Alice’s chest and searched her heart for Silver Thrombosis, then killed her and called for her to return when she fled.

Yamabuki Chidori interrogated Alice about Silver Thrombosis, then learned from Gabriel how Yhwach’s power creates it. He escaped Hell and returned to Soul Society with Unohana, only to find a month’s backlog of paperwork waiting for him.

• Yamabuki Chidori dissected Alice while searching for Silver Thrombosis, then took her to find Gabriel when she said Gabriel might know about it.
• Yamabuki Chidori absorbed Hell Power, restrained the pursuing sinners with Hell Chains, and flew with Alice to Gabriel’s underwater home.
• Gabriel explained that Yhwach first gives Quincies his power, allowing him to take it back later and form Silver Thrombosis.
• Yamabuki Chidori opened the Hell Gate by absorbing Hell Power and left Hell while demons and Kuroto tried unsuccessfully to escape behind him.
• Yamabuki Chidori reunited with Unohana and continued their vacation, then returned with her to Seireitei a month later.
• Hane Hane Chiyo showed Yamabuki Chidori the mountain of documents that had accumulated during his absence.

Yamabuki Chidori celebrated the end of his salary suspension, only to discover Unohana had collected his pay for him. Five months after the Wandenreich invasion, he secretly infused Bard and Ishida Oboro’s unborn child with his power, planning to use the child’s Quincy descendants to imitate Auswählen and extract Silver Thrombosis.

• Yamabuki Chidori celebrated payday, but Unohana revealed she had collected his salary and intended to keep it.
• Yamabuki Chidori became the first headmaster of the newly renamed Shino Academy, while Obana Danjirou became the director of Soul Society’s first public orphanage.
• Yamabuki Chidori visited the Human World and watched Ishida Oboro, who was six months pregnant with Bard’s child.
• After Ishida Oboro and Bard fell asleep, Yamabuki Chidori secretly entered their room and confirmed the fetus was healthy.
• Yamabuki Chidori dripped his blood onto Ishida Oboro’s belly, infusing the fetus and its future descendants with his power so he could extract Silver Thrombosis from Quincy hearts.

Ishida Aoi grew up under Yamabuki Chidori’s secret guidance, unaware that Yamabuki intended to cultivate and eventually take his power. At fifteen, Aoi fell for Kyoko and, after Yamabuki urged him not to choose between love and family expectations, told his parents he wanted to marry her.

• Ishida Oboro gave birth to twin boys, Ishida Aki and Ishida Aoi, and Yamabuki Chidori arranged for Aoi alone to inherit his power.
• At eight, Ishida Aoi met Yamabuki Chidori, secretly began learning to form Spirit Bows, and promised not to tell his parents.
• Over the next ten years, Ishida Aoi grew far stronger than Ishida Aki, while Yamabuki warned him that killing Hollows with Quincy power could destroy the balance of the Three Realms.
• When Ishida Aoi said his parents had arranged a match for him, Yamabuki encouraged him to marry both the arranged bride and Kyoko, the girl he loved.
• Ishida Aoi told Ishida Oboro and Bard that he wanted to marry Kyoko, and Ishida Oboro was surprised but pleased that he had spoken up for himself.

Aoi lived a long, happy life before Chidori secretly drained his soul to obtain Silver Thrombosis, then continued building his influence and businesses in Soul Society. Years later, a silver-haired noblewoman brought her gravely ill son, Jūshirō Ukitake, to Chidori and Unohana for help.

• Oboro and Bard supported Aoi's wish to marry both Kyoko and another woman, while Bard encouraged him to have many children.
• Over the next five years, Aoi married two wives and had six children, while Aki left the family home and established a branch of the Ishida Family.
• Aoi and his grandchildren recovered overnight from a plague, and decades later Oboro and Bard died after Oboro left a warning about a future war between Soul Reapers and Quincy.
• When Aoi grew old, Chidori visited him, drained his power, and found a tiny clot of Silver Thrombosis in his heart.
• Chidori continued supporting the Ishida branch while expanding his businesses, and he and Unohana maintained a peaceful life together.
• A silver-haired woman brought her sick child to Chidori, and Unohana learned that Jūshirō Ukitake had been frail since birth after a Hollow injured his mother during pregnancy.

Yamabuki Chidori took the gravely ill young Jūshirō Ukitake beyond Seireitei and cured him by placing the Soul King's Right Arm inside his body. After returning home, he observed Ukitake for two days and found no side effects.

• Yamabuki Chidori promised Ukitake's mother he would cure the child and took young Ukitake out of Seireitei to find the Soul King's Right Hand.
• Yamabuki Chidori struggled to locate the vanished village and learned from an elderly couple that its residents had moved south after a giant fireball destroyed their mountain.
• Yamabuki Chidori found the shrine beside a great lake and put the Soul King's Right Arm into Ukitake's body, greatly improving his health.
• Yamabuki Chidori brought Ukitake back to Seireitei, where he and Unohana fed the child and watched for complications.
• Yamabuki Chidori observed Ukitake for two days and confirmed that the Soul King's Right Arm caused no side effects.

After recovering Jūshirō Ukitake and seeing him off with his mother, Yamabuki Chidori joined Unohana on patrol, where they discovered a mound of slain people and encountered the young Kenpachi Zaraki. Unohana fought him and was overwhelmed by his instinctive strength as he grew stronger, leaving the battle unresolved after his sword struck her shoulder and her uniform’s shield activated.

• Ukitake's mother took her recovering son home after thanking Yamabuki Chidori for caring for him.
• Unohana insisted that Yamabuki Chidori accompany her and the 11th Division patrol to Gomukui District.
• Yamabuki Chidori detected blood and decay, leading the patrol to a mound of corpses that Unohana determined had been killed with swords.
• The young Kenpachi Zaraki attacked Unohana, and Yamabuki Chidori pulled her out of the way before she was wounded.
• Unohana fought the young Kenpachi, but his raw strength and speed overwhelmed her, and he grew stronger as they exchanged blows.
• The young Kenpachi struck Unohana's shoulder, triggering her uniform's shield as he reveled in the battle.

Young Kenpachi fought Unohana until Yamabuki Chidori intervened and overwhelmed him, then kept attacking as Chidori taught him to wield his sword with both hands. Kenpachi’s power continued rising until his arm snapped under the strain, leaving his limits uncertain.

• Young Kenpachi weakened himself to match Unohana, traded wounds with her, and broke her Zanpakuto before Yamabuki Chidori stopped his finishing blow.
• Yamabuki Chidori flicked Kenpachi’s sword away with one finger, then defeated his next attack with a single clash of blades.
• Chidori parried Kenpachi’s frenzied attacks, tripped him, and advised him to hold his sword with both hands.
• Kenpachi adopted two-handed swordsmanship and repeatedly charged Chidori, growing more than twice as strong while Chidori casually blocked him.
• Kenpachi pushed his strength to its limit, and the arm swinging his sword snapped under the strain.

Yamabuki Chidori defeated the young Kenpachi Zaraki, gave him his name, and left him inspired to grow stronger after he first heard his Zanpakuto speak. Back in Seireitei, Shijima Chiru resigned from the Fourth Division, and Yamabuki Chidori was assigned to replace Unohana Yachiru as the 11th Division Captain while she took charge of the planned medical division.

• Yamabuki Chidori overwhelmed the young Kenpachi Zaraki, treated his injuries, and invited him to join the Gotei 13 when he was ready.
• The young Kenpachi Zaraki resolved to surpass Yamabuki Chidori and heard a woman’s voice from his Zanpakuto.
• Chōjirō Sasakibe brought Yamabuki Chidori to the Captain Commander, who showed him Shijima Chiru’s resignation letter.
• Yamabuki Chidori approved Shijima Chiru’s resignation and proposed turning the Fourth Division into a medical unit led by Unohana Yachiru.
• The Captain Commander appointed Yamabuki Chidori as the next 11th Division Captain, and Yamabuki Chidori visited Shijima Chiru to ask why he was leaving.
• Shijima Chiru told Yamabuki Chidori that he wanted a break from fighting now that the Wandenreich’s greatest threat had passed.

Shijima Chiru retired, Unohana took over the Fourth Division and transformed it into a medical unit, while Yamabuki Chidori became Captain of the 11th Division. After a Hollow attack nearly killed a Shinigami, Yamabuki began considering ranged weapons to reduce battlefield casualties and went to study technology in the 12th Division.

• Shijima Chiru rejected Yamabuki Chidori’s appeal to stay, retired, and opened an acupuncture clinic in East District.
• Yamabuki Chidori became Captain of the 11th Division and Second Generation Kenpachi, while Unohana took command of the Fourth Division.
• The Captain Commander reassigned the Fourth Division to medical support, and Unohana trained its members as medics under the name Retsu Unohana.
• Decades later, Yamabuki operated on a Shinigami whose shoulder a Menos Grande had bitten off and learned that the Hollow had escaped despite being decapitated.
• Yamabuki considered developing ranged weapons to fight Hollows more safely and went to the 12th Division to investigate its technology.

Yamabuki Chidori developed the Spirit Particle Musket with Zendouji Yuuhin, giving lower-ranking Shinigami a ranged weapon that proved effective against ordinary Hollows but weak against a Menos Grande. After testing it in the Human World, Chidori returned home to work on an upgraded version.

• Yamabuki Chidori experimented with an early Reiatsu-powered gun, waking Unohana, but found it too weak to be useful.
• Chidori asked Zendouji Yuuhin to create Reishi bullets, and they developed a bolt-action musket that fired them with a new Kidō.
• After half a month of testing, Chidori and Yuuhin completed prototypes with a range of up to two thousand five hundred meters.
• Chidori led twenty members of the 11th Division to hunt Hollows in the Human World, where volleys from their muskets quickly killed ordinary Hollows.
• The Shinigami wounded a Menos Grande but could not stop its regeneration, so Chidori killed it with White Lightning.
• Chidori returned to his underground training ground to research an upgraded Spirit Particle Musket.

Yamabuki Chidori struggled to make Spirit Particle Bullets unleash Kidō, while Unohana forced him to drink a potent tonic after worrying about his late-night experiments. Hoping to identify his mistake, Yamabuki visited a beginner Kidō class, where he watched the young Kyoraku cast Cremation Cannon successfully but still found no answer.

• Yamabuki Chidori spent two months developing bullets meant to release Kidō’s destructive power, but his experiments repeatedly caused explosions.
• Unohana’s Fourth Division had less work after Spirit Particle Muskets entered service and reduced Soul Reaper casualties, while Unohana complained that Yamabuki’s nightly experiments kept her awake.
• Unohana brought Yamabuki a bowl of powerful tonics and made him drink it, then dragged him to bed; they both arrived late for work the next morning.
• Yamabuki visited Shino Academy and sat in on a beginner Kidō lesson to investigate whether he had learned the art incorrectly.
• Kyoraku demonstrated Hadō #31, Cremation Cannon, destroying a Wooden Dummy, but Yamabuki still could not determine why his bullets failed.

Yamabuki Chidori realized Kidō incantations could be inscribed into Reishi bullets to give them power, though doing so would make them difficult to manufacture. After he freed Shunsui Kyōraku, whom he had accidentally pinned with Kidō, the two went for a meal, leaving Shunsui’s father to find them getting along over food.

• Yamabuki Chidori asked a former Kidō Corps Teacher about incantations and learned that they amplified Kidō for ordinary Soul Reapers, even though his own instant-cast spells lost no power.
• Yamabuki Chidori concluded that Kidō incantations would need to be inscribed on Spirit Particle Musket bullets or inside the barrel, making the bullets difficult to mass-produce.
• Shunsui Kyōraku complained that Yamabuki Chidori had pinned him with Kidō, then struck Yamabuki’s head with a wooden sword after learning he was the principal.
• Yamabuki Chidori took Shunsui Kyōraku to his restaurant for tea and food, and told the Teacher to summon Shunsui’s family.
• Shunsui’s father arrived with gifts, found Shunsui eating and joking with Yamabuki Chidori, and was invited to join them.