Chapter Summaries

Kisuke Urahara used Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame to restore his eyes and remodel Askin’s arm and poison Barrier. Askin countered by sealing them inside an adaptive Poison Domain, and Urahara’s repeated attempts to reconstruct his body began to fail as the toxins intensified.

• Kisuke Urahara summoned his Bankai, which stitched his ruined eyes back together.
• Urahara struck Askin and used Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame to remodel his arm, then changed Askin’s poison Barrier into water.
• Askin unleashed a sealed Poison Domain that filled the area with lethal, corrosive gas.
• Urahara remodeled his respiratory system to filter the poison, but Askin adapted the toxin to Urahara’s Reiatsu and overwhelmed the new defenses.
• Urahara fell to one knee as the intensifying poison ruptured his blood vessels faster than his Bankai could repair them.

Askin nearly killed Kisuke Urahara inside his poison Barrier, but Gin Ichimaru arrived and struck Askin through the abdomen with Kamishini no Yari. Askin healed and expanded the Barrier to trap Gin as well, leaving both captains inside while he mocked them.

• Askin overwhelmed the weakened Kisuke Urahara, whose Reiatsu had fallen too low for Benihime to penetrate Askin's defense.
• Askin prepared to finish Urahara, who appeared to surrender as a tactic.
• Gin Ichimaru called Bankai and pierced Askin's abdomen with Kamishini no Yari from outside the poison Barrier.
• Askin escaped the strike with Shunpo and healed the wound using the poison domain's material.
• Askin expanded his Barrier, trapping Gin inside with himself and Urahara.
• Urahara questioned why Gin had not aimed for Askin's head, while Gin told him not to worry.

Gin Ichimaru revealed that Kisuke Urahara had helped him recover from Askin’s poison and that Urahara’s desperate efforts had bought time for outside support. Askin believed the two Soul Reapers had no way to escape his Poison Domain, but Gin hinted that their plan had already succeeded and challenged Askin’s understanding of his Zanpakuto.

• Askin questioned how Gin Ichimaru had recovered from the paralysis, and Gin credited Kisuke Urahara with giving him something useful.
• Askin deduced that Urahara had been buying time for backup, and Urahara explained that he had hoped an attack from outside might breach the Poison Domain.
• Askin praised Urahara’s preparations but insisted that his domain and defensive ability left the Soul Reapers with no chance to turn the fight around.
• Gin Ichimaru declared that they had already succeeded, but Askin dismissed his claim and advanced as the poison condensed around them.
• Gin showed Askin a chipped spot on his Zanpakuto and asked how much the Wandenreich knew about its abilities.
• Askin recited his intelligence on Shinsō and Kamishini no Yari, and Gin said his account was almost right but missing one detail.

Gin Ichimaru revealed that Kamishini no Yari was a Kidō-type Zanpakuto whose hidden poison left a fragment inside Askin, then detonated it and disintegrated him. With Askin dead, his poisonous domain vanished, leaving Kisuke Urahara to recover and ask Gin whether he would silence him for what he had overheard.

• Gin Ichimaru explained that he had concealed Kamishini no Yari’s true ability for over a century while preparing to use it against Sōsuke Aizen.
• Gin revealed that Kamishini no Yari was Kidō-type and that its blade left a poisonous fragment inside Askin when it struck him.
• Gin detonated the fragment, and Askin disintegrated into powder before he could escape or speak.
• Askin’s death caused the poisonous barrier and miasma to disperse, freeing Kisuke Urahara from the domain.
• Kisuke Urahara recovered enough to ask Gin Ichimaru whether he planned to silence him for overhearing the revelation.

Gin Ichimaru and Kisuke Urahara watched the fighting continue in Wahrwelt as Lille Barro used The X-Axis to devastate the Soul Reapers. Shunsui Kyōraku intervened to protect them and drew his twin Zanpakuto to face Lille Barro.

• Gin Ichimaru sheathed Kamishini no Yari, warned Kisuke Urahara about his poison, and looked toward the fighting in Wahrwelt with him.
• Lille Barro used The X-Axis to shoot through stone cover and kill or injure Soul Reapers, leaving Shūhei Hisagi and Marechiyo Ōmaeda unable to fight back.
• Shūhei Hisagi attacked Lille Barro from the air, but Shunsui Kyōraku deflected the shot and carried Hisagi to safety.
• Nanao Ise set up a defensive line while Shunsui Kyōraku confronted Lille Barro, who claimed to be the creation closest to God.
• Shunsui Kyōraku drew his twin Zanpakuto and released Katen Kyōkotsu.

Shunsui Kyōraku fought Lille Barro with the rules of his sword games, but Lille’s piercing shots overwhelmed his tactics. After Nanao Ise tried to intervene, Shunsui took a fatal-looking shot meant for her and collapsed in front of her.

• Shunsui Kyōraku used Kageoni and Takaoni to attack Lille Barro, but Lille identified how the games worked and took the advantage of height while destroying the shadows.
• Lille Barro’s relentless shots forced Shunsui to dodge across the ruins and destroyed his hat, while Shunsui warned Nanao Ise to stay behind cover.
• Shunsui used Bushōgoma to obscure Lille’s aim, then tried to strike him with Irooni, but Lille blocked the blow and wounded Shunsui’s left shoulder with a grazing shot.
• Nanao Ise left cover and cast Bakudō #61, Rikujōkō at Lille, drawing his attention and prompting him to target her.
• Shunsui Kyōraku rushed in front of Nanao and took Lille’s piercing shot, which tore a bowl-sized hole through his waist and ribs.

Shunsui Kyōraku took a fatal wound while protecting Nanao Ise from Lille Barro, then recalled his promise to keep her safe. As Lille fired to finish them, Kyōraku released his Bankai.

• Nanao Ise tried to heal Shunsui Kyōraku and blamed herself for his wound, but he reassured her that protecting his lieutenant was his duty.
• Lille Barro mocked Kyōraku for sacrificing his advantage to protect Nanao and aimed his rifle at him.
• Kyōraku pulled Nanao behind him as Lille prepared to shoot, determined to keep the promise he had made to his brother and sister-in-law to protect her.
• Kyōraku dropped two curved blades into his hands, plunged them into the ground, and released his Bankai.

Shunsui Kyōraku activated Katen Kyōkotsu: Karamatsu Shinju and trapped Lille Barro in a deadly play where they shared wounds and Lille developed a fatal illness. As the third and final acts drew near, Kyōraku warned Lille not to underestimate him.

• Shunsui Kyōraku plunged his twin blades into the ground, shrouding Wahrwelt in darkness and creating a stage for his play.
• Lille Barro fired at Kyōraku, but Act One caused an identical wound to appear on Lille’s body.
• Shunsui Kyōraku explained that Act One made the two opponents share their wounds without dying from them during that stage.
• Lille Barro prepared to shoot again, but Act Two covered his body in black spots that Shunsui said would drain his strength.
• Black water rose around Shunsui Kyōraku and Lille Barro as the play’s third and final acts began to draw together.

Sōsuke Aizen and Sōya Azashiro walked through Wahrwelt as Aizen explained that the decisive clash would come at the summit. When Kyōraku’s ominous Reiatsu spread across the city, Aizen rushed toward it and Azashiro followed.

• Sōya Azashiro escorted the restrained Sōsuke Aizen through Wahrwelt while Urozakuro complained that Azashiro was acting like a lackey.
• Aizen told Azashiro that Yoriichi’s plan had a deeper purpose and that the true battle awaited at the doors atop Wahrwelt.
• A cold, despairing Reiatsu swept across the city, and Azashiro recognized it as Kyōraku’s.
• Aizen invited Azashiro to investigate, then used Shunpo to race toward the source without waiting for an answer.
• Azashiro followed Aizen across the ruins.

Shunsui Kyōraku defeated Lille Barro by using the final act of his Zanpakuto, but Lille transformed into Vollständig: Jiliel and renewed his attack. The chapter ended with Shunsui and Nanao Ise facing Lille’s overwhelming new form.

• Shunsui Kyōraku and Lille Barro sank into a black pool created by Shunsui’s Takaoni, where Lille’s attempts to escape only weakened him.
• Shunsui remembered his promises and used Itokiribasami: Blood-Stained Throat to sever Lille Barro’s head, ending the black pool.
• Shunsui collapsed among the ruins as Nanao Ise rushed to him, believing the crisis was over.
• Lille Barro’s headless body surged with Reiatsu and transformed into Vollständig: Jiliel, then threatened Shunsui and Nanao.

Shunsui Kyōraku escaped Lille Barro’s light attack with Nanao Ise, but his injuries and exhausted Reiatsu left him near death. After Lille found them and destroyed their hiding place, Nanao stood between him and the approaching attack until someone cast Black Coffin.

• Shunsui Kyōraku carried Nanao Ise through Lille Barro’s web of light and hid with her in a ruined castle.
• Lille Barro searched the castle, declaring that he would destroy every shadow until he found them.
• Shunsui Kyōraku weakened from blood loss and exhaustion while Nanao tried to keep pressure on his wound.
• Nanao decided to draw Lille Barro away, but a crumbling stone alerted him to their hiding place.
• Lille Barro destroyed the castle and prepared to attack the exposed pair as Nanao shielded Kyōraku.
• An unseen speaker cast Hadō #90, Black Coffin.

Sōsuke Aizen’s enormous Black Coffin crushed Lille Barro, but the Quincy survived and resumed firing wildly. Sōya Azashiro healed Shunsui Kyōraku as the group faced Lille Barro’s renewed attack.

• Sōsuke Aizen appeared after the Black Coffin collapsed, and Nanao Ise stood protectively in front of the wounded Shunsui Kyōraku.
• Shunsui Kyōraku told Nanao Ise to stand down and traded barbed remarks with Aizen.
• Sōya Azashiro arrived and used Kaido to heal Shunsui Kyōraku’s wounds.
• Aizen and Shunsui Kyōraku warned that the Black Coffin might not have finished Lille Barro.
• Lille Barro burst out of the crater, spread his eight wings, and unleashed piercing light in every direction.

Lille Barro’s rampage threatened the ruined hall as Sōya Azashiro’s Kidō was weakened by Wahrwelt’s dense Quincy Reishi. Aizen stepped forward to face Lille, who fired a massive beam at him.

• Lille Barro raged and unleashed beams of light across the ruined hall while Nanao Ise shielded the injured Shunsui Kyōraku.
• Sōya Azashiro cast Hadō #96: Ittō Kasō, but Wahrwelt’s Reishi weakened the flames, and Lille shattered them with a burst of light.
• Lille Barro resumed his attack, raining beams through the hall as Sōya Azashiro noted that the Reishi was disrupting his Kidō.
• Sōsuke Aizen told Sōya Azashiro to tend to Shunsui Kyōraku and mocked Kyōraku’s condition before agreeing to handle Lille.
• Aizen challenged Lille Barro, and Lille answered by firing a massive pillar of light straight at him.

Sōsuke Aizen evaded Lille Barro’s attacks while explaining that Lille’s power could be avoided by reacting to his intent. Lille unleashed his full area-destruction attack, and Aizen answered with Bakudo #81, Dankū.

• Lille Barro fired hundreds of pillars of light at Aizen, who calmly dodged them with precise movements.
• Nanao Ise watched in disbelief, while Shunsui Kyōraku explained Aizen’s extraordinary perception and ability.
• Lille Barro lost control of his emotions and accused Aizen of blasphemy as Aizen mocked his claim to godhood.
• Lille Barro gathered Reishi and released Eye of Judgment, full release, threatening to destroy the entire area.
• As Lille’s vast torrent of light surged toward him, Aizen raised his sleeve and cast Bakudo #81, Dankū.

Lille Barro appeared to kill Sōsuke Aizen with a blast that pierced through Dankū, then turned his attention to the surviving Soul Reapers. Sōya Azashiro shielded Shunsui Kyōraku and Nanao Ise by making himself untargetable and counterattacking, but Lille Barro prepared to unleash another attack.

• Lille Barro pierced Dankū and blasted a hole through Sōsuke Aizen’s chest, and Aizen fell motionless into the rubble.
• Nanao Ise and Shunsui Kyōraku were shocked by Aizen’s apparent death as Lille Barro targeted them next.
• Sōya Azashiro stepped in front of Nanao Ise and Shunsui Kyōraku and drew his Asauchi, saying he would become something Lille Barro could not target.
• Lille Barro’s beams passed through Azashiro, who used the air, dust, and rubble to attack with air blades and Hadō #33, Sōkatsui.
• Azashiro criticized Lille Barro’s deteriorated senses, and Lille Barro spread his wings and locked his piercing power onto the survivors.

Lille Barro overwhelmed the defenders in the Imperial Palace ruins, killing Sōya Azashiro, Nanao Ise, and Shunsui Kyōraku. As he celebrated his victory, Aizen unexpectedly spoke from the ground where Lille had believed him dead.

• Lille Barro's attacks broke through Sōya Azashiro's defenses, and he erased Azashiro with a beam of light.
• Nanao Ise refused to abandon the wounded Shunsui Kyōraku, but Lille Barro killed her with a beam through the heart.
• Shunsui Kyōraku challenged Lille Barro, who killed him with three pillars of light.
• Lille Barro celebrated before Yhwach and boasted that he had eliminated the Soul Reaper obstacles.
• Aizen, whom Lille Barro had believed dead, spoke from the ruins and challenged him to look around.

Sōsuke Aizen revealed that Lille Barro’s apparent victory and the destruction around them had been illusions created by Kyōka Suigetsu, causing Lille’s attacks to strike his own body. Aizen explained that his existence itself was now equivalent to Kyōka Suigetsu, and left Lille unable to tell when the hypnosis had begun.

• Lille Barro realized the Soul Reapers and the ruined hall had been restored, while holes matching his sacred beams pierced his own body.
• Sōsuke Aizen told Lille that he had made Lille unleash slaughter upon himself.
• Nanao Ise questioned Shunsui Kyōraku, who suspected Aizen had controlled their senses upon their arrival at the Imperial Palace.
• Sōya Azashiro recalled warning that Aizen’s allies should be more wary of him than his enemies.
• Lille argued that Aizen could not have activated Kyōka Suigetsu without drawing his Zanpakuto, but Aizen said his existence had become equivalent to it.
• Aizen asked Lille what made him think he had not been hypnotized while watching Aizen.

Aizen killed Lille Barro by revealing that his apparent death had been an illusion, leaving Shunsui Kyōraku and Sōya Azashiro wary of his growing power. Meanwhile, Byakuya Kuchiki and the newly arrived Tōshirō Hitsugaya faced Gerard Valkyrie in Wahrwelt, where Gerard shrugged off their attacks and challenged them to do better.

• Aizen's illusion ended as Lille Barro disintegrated, and Shunsui Kyōraku and Sōya Azashiro recognized how dangerous Aizen had become.
• Shunsui Kyōraku thanked Aizen for saving his life, then looked toward the battles raging elsewhere in Wahrwelt.
• Byakuya Kuchiki used Senbonzakura Kageyoshi: Senkei to pierce Gerard Valkyrie, but Gerard grew larger and stronger from the damage.
• Tōshirō Hitsugaya arrived after Mayuri Kurotsuchi's modifications and froze Gerard's right arm and sword with Hyōrinmaru.
• Gerard broke free of the ice unharmed and mocked Byakuya Kuchiki and Tōshirō Hitsugaya as they prepared to face him.

Tōshirō Hitsugaya and Byakuya Kuchiki attacked Gerard, but The Miracle made him grow stronger after he broke free of Hitsugaya’s ice. Hitsugaya released Daiguren Hyōrinmaru, while Byakuya noticed its ice petals disappearing.

• Byakuya Kuchiki restrained Gerard’s sword arm with Senbonzakura as Tōshirō Hitsugaya pierced him with Ryūsenka and froze his body.
• Gerard shattered the ice, grew even larger, and explained that pain fed The Miracle.
• Hitsugaya realized ordinary freezing could not stop Gerard and released Daiguren Hyōrinmaru.
• Byakuya Kuchiki noticed the ice-crystal petals above Hitsugaya disappearing one by one.

Tōshirō Hitsugaya awakened Daiguren Hyōrinmaru’s mature form and froze Gerard, but Gerard broke free and grew even stronger. Byakuya held off the giant’s attack and ordered Rukia and Renji to leave and support Ichigo.

• Gerard mocked Byakuya and claimed Hitsugaya’s Bankai had ended, but Hitsugaya revealed that the vanished ice petals meant his mature form was awakening.
• Hitsugaya froze Gerard’s sword and then encased the giant in ice with Cross Flower, temporarily stopping his functions.
• Renji and Rukia arrived, mistook the adult-looking Hitsugaya for his older brother, and learned that he was their captain.
• Gerard shattered the ice, transformed into a larger golden giant, and struck at the Soul Reapers.
• Byakuya blocked Gerard’s golden fist with Senbonzakura Kageyoshi and ordered Rukia and Renji to go support Ichigo.