Recaps

Ichigo carried Nozomi Kujō to an empty park while Tōshirō Hitsugaya and Byakuya Kuchiki pursued them. After the two reigai released their Bankai, Ichigo prepared to fight them at full strength.

• Tōshirō Hitsugaya released Bankai and attacked Ichigo with ice spikes, piercing both of Ichigo's arms as he shielded Nozomi Kujō.
• Nozomi Kujō urged Ichigo to hand her over, but Ichigo insisted he would keep his promise to protect her.
• Ichigo brought Nozomi Kujō to a park, removed the ice spikes, and told her to stay back while he faced his pursuers.
• Tōshirō Hitsugaya and Byakuya Kuchiki arrived, agreed to eliminate Ichigo, and Byakuya released Bankai.
• Ichigo released Bankai, Tensa Zangetsu, and declared that he would no longer hold back.

Ichigo fought the Byakuya Kuchiki and Tōshirō Hitsugaya Reigai in Bankai, but Gin Ichimaru joined them and left Ichigo badly wounded. Nozomi Kujō offered to surrender to save him, but Ichigo stood by his promise to protect her as a Senkaimon opened overhead and someone called out to him.

• Ichigo used Bankai to battle Byakuya Kuchiki and Tōshirō Hitsugaya, breaking through their attacks but struggling to get close to Byakuya.
• Byakuya and Tōshirō kept Ichigo occupied while Gin Ichimaru attacked from the shadows with Shinsō and pierced his chest.
• Byakuya and Tōshirō struck Ichigo with their Bankai attacks, crushing his Getsuga Tenshō and sending him into a crater.
• Gin Ichimaru appeared and criticized Byakuya and Tōshirō for taking so long to capture Ichigo.
• Nozomi Kujō offered to go with the Reigai to spare Ichigo, but Ichigo rose and insisted on protecting her.
• A Senkaimon opened overhead, and a voice called to Ichigo.

Yoriichi arrived in the World of the Living and destroyed the three Captain-level Reigai pursuing Nozomi Kujō. After Mayuri Kurotsuchi asked for Nozomi to be brought in for research, Yoriichi questioned whether she would be safe, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Yoriichi emerged from the Senkaimon and joined the injured Ichigo, who explained that the Reigai were pursuing Nozomi Kujō.
• Yoriichi stopped Gin Ichimaru's Shinsō with two fingers, then defeated the Tōshirō Hitsugaya and Byakuya Kuchiki Reigai and destroyed their Reishi cores.
• Yoriichi immobilized Gin Ichimaru when he aimed Shinsō at Nozomi, then cut down the Gin Ichimaru Reigai.
• Yoriichi contacted Mayuri Kurotsuchi and reported the three defeated Reigai and Nozomi's identity.
• Mayuri asked Yoriichi to bring Nozomi to Soul Society for research, while Ichigo objected and Nozomi recoiled from Mayuri.
• Yoriichi asked Mayuri whether Nozomi's life would be in danger, and Mayuri claimed he only needed to analyze her Reiatsu.

After defeating three Captain-level Reigai, Yoriichi told Ichigo and Nozomi that Kagerōza had attacked Soul Society and urged Nozomi to return with him for protection. Ichigo agreed to go despite his injuries, while Nozomi hesitated until Yoriichi revealed he would take her by force if she chose to stay behind.

• Mayuri ended the communication after ordering the group to bring Nozomi back and recover the Reigai remains.
• Yoriichi told Ichigo and Nozomi that Kagerōza had likely launched a large-scale attack on Soul Society.
• Nozomi feared being handed over to Mayuri, but Yoriichi promised to protect her and explained that staying in the World of the Living left her vulnerable.
• Yoriichi told Ichigo to come to Soul Society, and Ichigo agreed to help protect Nozomi despite his wound.
• Nozomi asked whether she still had a choice, and Yoriichi said he would knock her out and take her if she stayed.

Inaba Kagerōza monitored his Reigai laboratory in the Dangai and learned that Ichigo Kurosaki and Yoriichi Tsugikuni’s battle was destabilizing the area. When Nozomi Kujō escaped amid the chaos, Kagerōza ordered his forces to retrieve her while he went to collect the fighters’ Reishi.

• Inaba Kagerōza watched his Reigai stabilize and planned to use them to destroy the Seireitei.
• A powerful Reiatsu collision shook the laboratory, and Kagerōza examined damaged surveillance feeds.
• Kagerōza saw Ichigo Kurosaki and Yoriichi Tsugikuni battling in the Dangai and resolved to collect the Reishi they left behind.
• A Reigai told Kagerōza that Nozomi Kujō had escaped through the weakened barrier, and Kagerōza struck him in anger.
• Kagerōza ordered his Reigai to bring Nozomi Kujō back and set out to collect Ichigo Kurosaki and Yoriichi Tsugikuni’s Reishi himself.

Inaba Kagerōza collected the lingering Reishi from the devastated Dangai, hoping to replicate Ichigo Kurosaki and Yoriichi Tsugikuni’s powers. When Twelfth Division Soul Reapers arrived to investigate, Kagerōza used his Reigai of Shunsui Kyōraku and Jūshirō Ukitake to kill them and continue collecting.

• Inaba Kagerōza entered the ruined Dangai with Reigai resembling Shunsui Kyōraku and Jūshirō Ukitake.
• Kagerōza used a device to collect lingering Reishi, including traces of Ichigo Kurosaki and Yoriichi Tsugikuni’s Reiatsu.
• Twelfth Division Soul Reapers arrived to investigate the Dangai, and Kagerōza told them Kyōraku and Ukitake were assisting him.
• Kagerōza stabbed the leading Soul Reaper and ordered the two Reigai to kill the others.
• Kagerōza told the Reigai to dispose of the bodies while he continued collecting Reishi.

Kagerōza rushed the final fusion of his unfinished Reigai after Yoriichi Tsugikuni uncovered two of his creations in the Dangai. He succeeded in creating powerful Reigai modeled on Ichigo Kurosaki in Mugetsu form and Yoriichi, but admitted he could not fully control them and still needed to find Nozomi Kujō.

• Kagerōza failed to stabilize Reigai using the residual Reiatsu of Ichigo Kurosaki and Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
• Kagerōza learned that Yoriichi had entered the Dangai and sent Kyōraku's and Ukitake's Reigai to delay him.
• Yoriichi defeated both Reigai and took their remains, prompting Kagerōza to fear that Mayuri Kurotsuchi would uncover his research.
• Kagerōza ordered the final fusion procedure and poured the laboratory's reserve Reishi into two unfinished vessels.
• Kagerōza successfully awakened Reigai modeled on Mugetsu Ichigo and Yoriichi, then vowed to find Nozomi Kujō and destroy the Soul Society with her.

The Reigai Army attacked the Seireitei across multiple sectors while the Gotei 13 fought to contain it. Reigai Yoriichi ambushed Yamamoto at the First Division Barracks, and their battle left Yamamoto wounded but determined to trust the real Yoriichi and the Gotei 13.

• Reigai forces emerged from spatial rifts throughout the Seireitei and attacked several divisions at once.
• Kenpachi Zaraki fought the Reigai in the 11th Division's sector, while Soi Fon directed the Stealth Force to destroy devices near the rifts.
• Yoriichi Tsugikuni arrived at the First Division Barracks, but Yamamoto recognized that he was an impostor.
• Reigai Yoriichi attacked Yamamoto with Hekyō and used Kidō to restrain Chōjirō Sasakibe.
• Yamamoto released Ryūjin Jakka and clashed with Reigai Yoriichi, who wounded his left shoulder.
• Yamamoto declared that he believed in the Gotei 13 and the real Yoriichi as the battle continued.

A powerful Reigai resembling Ichigo Kurosaki attacked the Seireitei, forcing Shunsui Kyōraku and Jūshirō Ukitake to fight him together. While the captains tried to hold him back, Inaba Kagerōza reached the Maggot's Nest to retrieve Yushima Oko's original body.

• The Reigai Ichigo devastated the street between the Eighth and Thirteenth Divisions, and Shunsui Kyōraku and Jūshirō Ukitake confronted him.
• The Reigai Ichigo overpowered both captains, while Ukitake's Sōgyo no Kotowari reflected his Getsuga Tenshō back at him.
• Kyōraku noticed cracks forming in the Reigai Ichigo's body and coordinated with Ukitake to exploit its instability.
• Kyōraku and Ukitake continued fighting together, deciding to stall the Reigai Ichigo until the Twelfth Division made a breakthrough.
• Inaba Kagerōza entered the Maggot's Nest with several Reigai and prepared to retrieve Yushima Oko's original body.

Kagerōza attacked the Maggot's Nest to retrieve what lay inside and capture Nozomi Kujō, but Nemu Kurotsuchi stood in his way. After the Reigai badly wounded Nemu, Mayuri Kurotsuchi emerged from the passage.

• Kagerōza used Laikū to breach the Maggot's Nest defenses, and his Reigai killed the Second Division guards.
• Nemu Kurotsuchi confronted Kagerōza and fought his Reigai while blocking the prison entrance.
• Kagerōza redirected Nemu into an encirclement, and the Reigai severed her right leg and left arm.
• Nemu declared that she would obey Mayuri's order and prepared to release toxins from her body.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi appeared and called Nemu useless for failing to stall Kagerōza.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi restored Nemu Kurotsuchi’s severed limbs before confronting Kagerōza and his Reigai. He unleashed Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo, which bound and swallowed the attacking Reigai, leaving Kagerōza facing Mayuri alone.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi injected Nemu Kurotsuchi’s arm and leg stumps, rapidly regrowing both limbs.
• Kagerōza and Mayuri Kurotsuchi traded insults over their research and treatment of their creations.
• Kagerōza ordered the Reigai to attack, while Mayuri Kurotsuchi told Nemu Kurotsuchi to stand aside.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi released Bankai, summoning Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo and filling the underground space with poisonous mist.
• Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo bound the charging Reigai with tentacles and swallowed them all.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi used Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo to dismantle Kagerōza’s Reigai into powerless Mod-Souls, exposing the flaws in his technology. Kagerōza escaped Mayuri’s attack and warned that Soul Society had already lost, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo swallowed Kagerōza’s Reigai, cutting off Kagerōza’s control signals.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo spewed out the Reigai as stripped-down Mod-Souls, and Mayuri explained how he had dismantled them.
• Kagerōza denounced Mayuri’s methods and insisted that the Reigai were expendable and that Soul Society had already lost.
• Mayuri ordered Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo to attack Kagerōza, who escaped through spatial ripples and vowed the game was not over.
• Mayuri watched Kagerōza vanish and called him a rat for running away.

Inaba Kagerōza gathered his surviving Reigai at the Senkaimon Management Office as the captains closed in, then removed Ichigo Kurosaki’s Reigai’s combat restrictions to unleash its overwhelming power. With the battle raging and Kagerōza guarded by Yoriichi’s Reigai, three figures arrived through the Senkaimon.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi ordered Nemu to collect the Mod-Souls after Kagerōza recalled his Reigai, and Reigai across Seireitei withdrew toward the Senkaimon Management Office.
• Inaba Kagerōza arrived at the office and saw that only a handful of damaged Reigai had returned as Yamamoto and the other captains gathered around him.
• Kagerōza released all combat restrictions on Ichigo Kurosaki’s Reigai, which surged with Reiatsu and overwhelmed several captains in combat.
• Yoriichi’s Reigai guarded Kagerōza while the captains fought both Reigai, and the Senkaimon opened to admit three figures.

Yoriichi Tsugikuni, Ichigo Kurosaki, and Nozomi Kujō returned to Soul Society amid a battle against Kagerōza’s Reigai, including copies of Yoriichi and Ichigo. Kagerōza ordered his Reigai Yoriichi to capture Nozomi, and Yoriichi intercepted the attack as their identical blades clashed.

• Yoriichi, Ichigo, and Nozomi emerged from the Senkaimon and found the administration office devastated by the fight between the captains and the Reigai.
• Ichigo recognized the black-haired Reigai Ichigo as a copy of his Final Getsuga Tenshō, while Yoriichi judged that its body was close to breaking down.
• Yoriichi saw that Reigai Yoriichi was more stable and dangerous because Kagerōza had adjusted its Sun Reiatsu and given it combat data.
• Kagerōza spotted Nozomi and ordered Reigai Yoriichi to bring her to him so he could complete his fusion and become Yushima Oko again.
• Reigai Yoriichi sped toward Nozomi, evading the captains, and Yoriichi drew his blade to intercept him.
• Reigai Yoriichi’s blade struck Yoriichi’s identical blade, and their clash tore up the ground.

Yoriichi dragged Reigai Yoriichi away from the Senkaimon administration office, while the Soul Reapers cornered Kagerōza after Mayuri Kurotsuchi destroyed the remaining Reigai and sealed the area against spatial escape. The battle paused when another clash between Yoriichi and his Reigai sent Sun Reiatsu blazing across the wasteland.

• Yoriichi used Nisshun to take Reigai Yoriichi to a distant wasteland, drawing their fight away from the other Soul Reapers.
• Kira and Rukia tried to reach Kagerōza but were blocked by their Reigai counterparts.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi used needles to destroy the battered Reigai, revealing the Mod-Souls inside them.
• Reigai Ichigo crumbled, while Unohana began treating the wounded Soul Reapers and Yamamoto stopped Zaraki from joining the fight against Reigai Yoriichi.
• Kagerōza tried to escape through space, but Mayuri's devices blocked Laikū's transfer and trapped him inside a barrier.
• Yoriichi and Reigai Yoriichi clashed again, sending Sun Reiatsu skyward and halting the Soul Reapers around Kagerōza.

Yoriichi Tsugikuni overwhelmed Reigai Yoriichi despite the copy activating Bankai, then defeated him and declared the battle over. As everyone watched the fight, Kagerōza secretly moved toward Nozomi Kujō, seeking to complete their fusion.

• Reigai Yoriichi attacked with copied techniques, but Yoriichi countered them and explained that copied power could not match the original.
• Kagerōza secretly removed Reigai Yoriichi's restrictions, causing him to activate Bankai and unleash powerful attacks across the battlefield.
• Yoriichi defended against Reigai Yoriichi's Bankai and defeated him with Kidō and sword techniques, leaving him subdued beneath Hekyō.
• While the Soul Reapers focused on the defeated Reigai Yoriichi, Kagerōza used the smoke and dust to approach Nozomi Kujō unseen.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi captures Inaba Kagerōza, and Reigai Yoriichi destroys himself after accepting that he is only an imperfect copy. Kagerōza is sentenced to ten thousand years in the Maggot's Nest, while Nozomi Kujō survives and leaves for the World of the Living with Ichigo.

• Kagerōza ambushes Nozomi Kujō, but Mayuri Kurotsuchi traps him with a device that blocks Laikū's spatial transference.
• Yoriichi defeats Reigai Yoriichi, who recognizes that he is a fake and burns away, leaving an artificial soul pill behind.
• Two days later, Mayuri explains that killing Kagerōza could also destroy Nozomi Kujō, and Yoriichi argues that she should not suffer for Kagerōza's crimes.
• The Central 46 sentences Kagerōza to have his spiritual power sealed and serve ten thousand years in the Maggot's Nest.
• Nozomi Kujō thanks Yoriichi and leaves through the Senkaimon with Ichigo to begin a new life in the World of the Living.

Yachiru Kusajishi set out on patrol and accidentally swallowed Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s Reiatsu-amplifying pill, causing her to race through Seireitei and damage its freshly repaired buildings. Yoriichi eventually escaped with her, and she fell asleep before delivering Rangiku’s document to the Sixth Division.

• Yachiru woke Kenpachi Zaraki, decorated Ikkaku Madarame’s head with a turtle, and raided Tōshirō Hitsugaya’s snacks before Rangiku Matsumoto gave her a document to deliver to the Sixth Division.
• Yachiru lost her way to the Sixth Division and arrived at the Twelfth Division, where she mistook Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s experimental pill for candy and swallowed it.
• The pill amplified Yachiru’s Reiatsu and energy, so she sped through Seireitei, wrecked repaired walls, and attracted a growing group of pursuers.
• Yoriichi examined Yachiru with the Transparent World and determined that the pill’s effects would last three hours; when Mayuri described his proposed antidote, Yachiru spat medicinal liquid in his face and Yoriichi fled with her.
• By evening, the pill had worn off and Yachiru fell asleep on Yoriichi’s back, still holding the undelivered document; Kenpachi Zaraki carried her away as she promised to patrol again tomorrow.

Yachiru and Kenpachi went on another chaotic patrol through the Seireitei, sending division members into hiding and leaving damage in their wake. After Renji challenged Kenpachi and was repeatedly punched through a wall, Yoriichi defeated Kenpachi at Shogi, prompting him to announce a new contest for the next day.

• Yachiru woke Kenpachi and persuaded him to patrol, causing division members across the Seireitei to hide as they approached.
• Hitsugaya hid in his office while Shunsui and Ukitake tried to conceal themselves from Yachiru; Shunsui fell through a roof beam onto Ukitake.
• Renji challenged Kenpachi to a spar and was punched through the Sixth Division entrance wall twice, but kept asking to fight again.
• Kenpachi challenged Yoriichi, who made him play Shogi first, and Yoriichi beat him repeatedly.
• Kenpachi left after losing and challenged Yoriichi to arm wrestling the next day.

Rangiku Matsumoto failed to collect the Tenth Division’s debts and borrowed money from Yoriichi to cover the extra bills she incurred. Tōshirō Hitsugaya caught her at the Third Division and threatened to dock her entire booze allowance.

• Rangiku climbed over the Third Division’s wall and told Yoriichi that the Tenth Division had gone over budget and Hitsugaya had ordered her to collect its debts.
• Rangiku explained that Ōmaeda had cried about his finances, Kyōraku had turned debt discussions into drinking, and Kurotsuchi had refused to pay while threatening to use her hair for experiments.
• Rangiku accidentally ruined medicine being delivered by the Fourth Division, leaving the Tenth Division with an even longer bill than before.
• Yoriichi gave Rangiku money to cover the shortfall and told her not to visit the Twelfth Division again.
• Rangiku hugged Yoriichi’s arm and promised to repay him until Hitsugaya arrived and announced that her entire booze allowance would be docked.

Izuru Kira recounted a disastrous day of mishaps to Yoriichi, who offered him food and tea. After Kira fell again and scattered his reports across the courtyard, he wondered whether he was destined to sit in a corner and grow mold.

• Tōshirō Hitsugaya dragged Rangiku away and forbade her from drinking until she repaid her debts, while Yoriichi kept her money pouch.
• Izuru Kira arrived with reports and told Yoriichi he had lost most of the originals in a gutter and then had his breakfast stolen by Yachiru Kusajishi.
• Kira explained that Hanatarō Yamada mistook him for a patient and forced him to take nutrient solution at the Fourth Division.
• Kira said Ikkaku Madarame and Yumichika Ayasegawa had fought, causing Ikkaku to crash into him and his Wabisuke to destroy the Third Division's repaired gate.
• Kira fell when a courtyard board snapped, scattering his reports into Yoriichi's teacup, and asked if he was born to sit in a corner and grow mold.

Yachiru wandered into the Fourth Division, where she scrambled the medicine jars and swapped Hanatarō’s medical bag for one filled with stones. After Unohana caught her reaching for candy, she let Yachiru leave with a piece, then asked a trembling Isane why she found her frightening.

• After Zaraki returned to the 11th Division to sleep, Yachiru stole Kira’s entire breakfast and ate it in a tree.
• Yachiru followed a medicinal fragrance to the Fourth Division and rearranged the jars in the pharmacy.
• Yachiru replaced Hanatarō’s medical bag with a bag of stones, leaving him to discover the swap when he tried to treat a patient in Ward Twelve.
• Yachiru searched the pharmacy for candy and fell while climbing toward a jar on a high cabinet.
• Unohana caught Yachiru, gave her fruit candy, and let her leave; Isane trembled as Unohana asked if she looked frightening.

The Seireitei held a fireworks festival to celebrate the end of the Invasion Army Incident, but Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s experimental fireworks released purple smoke that made people across the venue shrink into children. The chapter ended with Shunsui Kyōraku demanding to know what Mayuri had put in the fireworks.

• Isane was ordered by Unohana to put away the medicine jars Yachiru had jumbled up.
• The Seireitei held a fireworks festival outside Rukongai, where division members ate, played games, and watched the displays.
• Yoriichi noticed that the purple smoke from Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s unusual firework was invading people’s bodies with reishi.
• Shunsui Kyōraku, Jūshirō Ukitake, Rangiku, Tōshirō Hitsugaya, Byakuya Kuchiki, Kenpachi Zaraki, and others shrank into children as the smoke spread.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi also shrank, and Shunsui Kyōraku shouted at him to explain what he had put in the fireworks.

A fireworks mishap caused the Soul Reapers at the festival to turn into children, though their Reiatsu remained intact. Mayuri Kurotsuchi traced the cause to Age-Returning Grass and led the captains toward the Fourth Division to find an antidote, while the festival was suspended.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi analyzed the detector and discovered that Age-Returning Grass had been mixed into the activation agent, apparently due to a Fourth Division supply error.
• Yamamoto ordered Mayuri to explain the incident, then suspended the fireworks festival and directed the captains to the Fourth Division.
• Mayuri said he could prepare a neutralizer if they found the herb that grew alongside Age-Returning Grass, and pointed to the Fourth Division pharmacy.
• Isane Kotetsu feared she might have misplaced medicine jars, while Unohana questioned her about where the Age-Returning Grass had been kept.
• Yoriichi and the other shrunken Soul Reapers marched toward the Fourth Division, and Kira tripped over his clothes and fell beneath Hekyō.

The captains searched the Fourth Division pharmacy for the companion ingredient needed to reverse their age regression, and Yoriichi helped Mayuri Kurotsuchi prepare an antidote. Mayuri drank it first and returned to normal, leaving him to dispense medicine to the other shrunken captains.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi discovered that the pharmacy shelves were mislabelled and used his detector to search for the companion ingredient to age-returning grass.
• Yoriichi used the Transparent World to spot a candy jar containing Dewdrop Fruit, which Mayuri identified as the missing ingredient.
• Mayuri instructed Yoriichi to grind the ingredients while Unohana checked their properties, and they prepared a bowl of antidote.
• Yamamoto ordered Mayuri to test the antidote, and Mayuri drank a little and regained his original build.
• The shrunken captains crowded around Mayuri for medicine, turning him into the Fourth Division's temporary medicine dispenser.