Recaps

Shiraishi stopped at a remote tea shop, where he discovered that its server was Soi Fon, captain of the Second Division, sent to kill him for murdering Hasegawa Taizo. After they argued over his guilt, Shiraishi launched an attack.

• Shiraishi reached a tea shop and flirted with its server, Fon, while ordering dumplings and tea.
• Shiraishi explained that he had arrived in Soul Society with Yasuo's appearance, skills, and a permanently Shikai Zanpakuto, and that it had taken him three years to learn Japanese.
• Shiraishi recognized Fon as Soi Fon and said her suspicious tea shop gave her away.
• Soi Fon revealed her combat uniform and announced that the Central 46 Chambers had ordered her to eliminate Shiraishi for killing Hasegawa Taizo.
• Shiraishi defended killing Hasegawa Taizo, insisted he should be called the Unforgiven, and attacked Soi Fon with Steel Tempest.

Shiraishi fought Soi Fon, using Steel Tempest and other abilities to wound her before escaping. Soi Fon failed to track his spiritual pressure and ordered the Stealth Force to issue a wanted notice and report any sightings.

• Soi Fon attacked Shiraishi with her Zanpakuto, but their blades clashed and the force of the impact wrecked the tea shop.
• Soi Fon released Suzumebachi, while Shiraishi waited for Steel Tempest's cooldown to end.
• Shiraishi charged through Soi Fon with Steel Tempest, then followed with a circular slash that wounded her despite her use of Utsusemi.
• Shiraishi built two Gathering Storm stacks and unleashed a tornado that lifted Soi Fon's kick before he struck her with three slashes.
• Shiraishi escaped, and Soi Fon failed to locate him with Bakudō number fifty-eight: Kakushitsuijaku.
• Soi Fon ordered a portrait of Shiraishi and a wanted notice for the Stealth Force, demanding reports of his whereabouts.

Shiraishi reached a safe house in Ban Village after fleeing the Stealth Force and arranged passage to the Shiba Clan in West District 4. He left with a map to Kūkaku Shiba’s home, hoping she would shelter him.

• Shiraishi used Steel Tempest to slip through Ban Village and found the house marked by three blue stones.
• Shiraishi showed the resident Adachi’s token and revealed that he had killed Hasegawa Taizo, the Stealth Force’s Fifth Seat.
• Shiraishi refused the resident’s invitation to join the Jingi Group and asked about paying for a hiding place.
• Shiraishi rejected a costly escape to outer Rukongai and chose the nearby Shiba Clan as his destination.
• Shiraishi paid five thousand kan, took a map to Kūkaku Shiba’s home, and disappeared from the room.

Shiraishi reached the Shiba Clan estate and asked Kūkaku Shiba to marry him before explaining that he needed a place to hide after killing a Stealth Force Fifth Seat. Kūkaku agreed to shelter him, but sensed the Stealth Force arriving and went to confront them, where she encountered an uncontrolled Captain-level Reiatsu.

• Shiraishi found the Shiba Clan estate, and gatekeepers Koganehiko and Shiroganehiko let him inside.
• Shiraishi proposed to Kūkaku Shiba, who laughed at him and said she was not interested in his type of man.
• Shiraishi told Kūkaku he had killed Hasegawa Taizo, a Stealth Force Fifth Seat, and asked to stay with the Shiba Clan until the trouble passed.
• Kūkaku agreed to let Shiraishi stay and sensed the Stealth Force approaching the estate.
• Kūkaku went to meet the intruders and witnessed a vast, uncontrolled Captain-level Reiatsu erupt.

Kūkaku Shiba received Kaien’s body after a female Soul Reaper admitted killing him, and she suppressed her grief to honor his wishes and prepare him for burial. Shiraishi tried to comfort her with spicy rice crackers, leaving her alone with Ganju and Kaien’s coffin.

• The female Soul Reaper brought Kaien’s corpse to the Shiba estate and said she had killed him, while Kūkaku Shiba ordered her to leave.
• Ganju saw Kaien’s body and broke down crying as Kūkaku Shiba told him their brother would never wake again.
• Kūkaku Shiba carried Kaien’s body away to make him presentable and asked Shiroganehiko to prepare water.
• Shiraishi found Kūkaku Shiba keeping watch beside Kaien’s coffin with Ganju asleep on her lap.
• Shiraishi left Kūkaku Shiba a packet of spicy rice crackers, and she ate them while silently crying from the heat.

Shiraishi joined Kūkaku Shiba for her brother Kaien's funeral preparations and learned that the Shiba Clan would fire Kaien's ashes into the sky with fireworks. As they prepared the Kūkaku Cannon, Jūshirō Ukitake arrived, drawing Kūkaku's furious hostility.

• Kūkaku Shiba woke Shiraishi and enforced her household's strict breakfast rules before inviting him to Kaien's funeral.
• Kūkaku explained that the Shiba Clan celebrated funerals to honor the convictions of the dead, and Ganju vowed not to cry.
• Kūkaku had Shiraishi raise the Kūkaku Cannon and told him she planned to launch Kaien's ashes with fireworks, fulfilling a promise between them.
• Kūkaku and Shiraishi prepared the cannon for the ceremony by tying on a shimenawa and painting the Shiba Clan crest.
• Jūshirō Ukitake arrived, and Kūkaku greeted him with intense killing intent.

Jūshirō Ukitake told Kūkaku Shiba how Kaien died after a Hollow fused with him, while Kaien’s spirit body rapidly dissolved into Reishi. As Kūkaku grieved beside the ruined coffin, Shiraishi sensed an attacker behind him and drew his sword.

• Jūshirō Ukitake apologized to Kūkaku Shiba and explained that Miyako and the squad members had died to a Hollow, prompting Kaien to confront it alone.
• Jūshirō Ukitake recounted how the Hollow made Kaien’s Zanpakuto disappear, then fused with his spirit body while Ukitake stopped Rukia from intervening to protect Kaien’s dignity.
• Kūkaku Shiba recognized that Rukia and Jūshirō Ukitake had both suffered, and she blamed the Hollow for her brother’s death.
• Shiraishi noticed that Kaien’s spirit body was dissolving into Reishi, and Jūshirō Ukitake and Kūkaku Shiba hurried to the coffin.
• Kaien’s body vanished into blue motes of light, and Kūkaku Shiba destroyed the coffin in fury.
• Shiraishi sensed someone attacking from behind, released his Reiatsu, and swung his sword.

Shiraishi and Kūkaku Shiba discovered that an unseen, powerful attacker had approached Shiraishi, while Jūshirō Ukitake tested Shiraishi’s spiritual senses and warned him to stay alert. Shiraishi suspected Sōsuke Aizen might be involved, but kept that suspicion from Kūkaku, who demanded the truth or he would have to leave her home.

• Shiraishi drew his Zanpakuto after sensing someone sneaking up behind him, but the attacker disappeared before he could identify them.
• Kūkaku Shiba and Jūshirō Ukitake said they had noticed no one, so Ukitake attacked Shiraishi to test his claim; Shiraishi blocked the strike, and Ukitake coughed blood.
• Ukitake confirmed that someone had approached Shiraishi without either of them noticing, warned Shiraishi to be careful, and returned to the Seireitei to recuperate.
• Kūkaku questioned Shiraishi about who might hold a grudge against him, and he suspected that Sōsuke Aizen’s Reiatsu-concealing cloak could explain the attack.
• Shiraishi wondered whether Aizen’s presence was connected to Kaien Shiba, but Kūkaku demanded that he tell her what he knew or leave her home.

After refusing to tell Kūkaku Shiba what he knew about Aizen, Shiraishi left the Shiba household and headed for an odd-jobs shop in Stone Village. While traveling through West District 4, he sensed a Hollow and hurried to reach it before the Shinigami so he could gain experience.

• Shiraishi refused to explain his suspicions about Aizen, and Kūkaku told him to leave her house.
• Kūkaku softened and directed Shiraishi to Ichirō Yagyū's odd-jobs shop in Stone Village.
• Shiraishi set out across the mountains, enjoyed a swim in a lake, and learned that the region had no wild animals or fish.
• Shiraishi sensed a Hollow's spiritual pressure to the north, dressed, grabbed his Zanpakuto, and raced toward it to claim the experience.

Rin Tsubokura detected a Hollow entering Soul Society and discovered that Shiraishi had killed it before the assigned Soul Reaper arrived. Yachiru Kusajishi stopped Rin from alerting the Second Division, intending to let Ken-chan face the wanted man.

• Rin Tsubokura tracked a Hollow's Garganta to a mountain near Stone Village and struggled to send the warning because cracker crumbs jammed his keyboard.
• Yachiru Kusajishi cleared the keyboard, and Rin sent the Hollow's location to the Soul Reaper responsible for the area.
• Yachiru noticed that a silver-haired man had killed the Hollow, and Rin identified him as Shiraishi, wanted by the Second Division for killing Hasegawa Taizo.
• Rin tried to notify the Second Division, but Yachiru restrained him with her spiritual pressure and said the 11th Division would take the murderer.
• Yachiru left for the 11th Division barracks, planning to let Ken-chan fight Shiraishi.

Shiraishi paid Ichirō Yagyū to arrange a quiet place in West District Ten where Hollows often appeared, agreeing to repay the remaining fee later. He reached the district and detected several nearby Reiatsu signatures as he searched for his new home.

• Shiraishi visited the Odd Jobs Shop and asked Ichirō Yagyū to find him a quiet place where Hollows appeared often.
• Shiraishi told Ichirō Yagyū that he had killed Hasegawa Taizo, and Ichirō offered him a place in West District Ten for five thousand kan.
• Shiraishi paid Ichirō Yagyū thirty-eight hundred kan and agreed to repay the rest; Ichirō gave him a map to Kawakami Saburō’s station and explained that some Outer Rukongai residents had been sent there to kill Hollows.
• Shiraishi left Stone Village and traveled toward West District Ten using Steel Tempest and E-ing forward with a light breeze.
• Shiraishi reached West District Ten, searched for Ox Horn Mountain, and detected several Reiatsu signatures nearby.

Shiraishi arrived in Beginning of Summer and stopped Kenji and his companions from terrorizing children, then killed them after they betrayed Kenji to save themselves. He left to find the Soul Reaper stationed in the district, having forgotten to ask for directions.

• Kenji threatened a boy in Rice Village and forced him to play a deadly blindfold game while his four companions watched.
• Shiraishi appeared, chased Kenji and his companions away from the children, and promised to kill them if they failed to escape for one minute.
• Shiraishi caught up with the group in a grove, where Kenji’s four companions stabbed him and begged Shiraishi to spare them.
• Shiraishi killed all four companions with Steel Tempest and continued on to search for the stationed Soul Reaper.

Shiraishi visited Kawakami Saburō, agreed to hunt Hollows in West District Ten for payment, and left to retrieve Kenji’s Denreishinki. Kawakami was pleased that Shiraishi had killed Kenji and his companions, while Shiraishi headed to their nearby location.

• Shiraishi entered the Kawakami residence and flirted with the maid who welcomed him.
• Kawakami Saburō introduced Shiraishi to Akimoto Osamu and praised him for killing Hasegawa Taizo.
• Shiraishi revealed that he had killed Kenji and his companions, and Kawakami Saburō celebrated the news.
• Kawakami Saburō offered Shiraishi five hundred kan for each Hollow he killed in West District Ten, and Shiraishi accepted.
• Shiraishi agreed to retrieve Kenji’s Denreishinki and vanished from the hall.

Shiraishi killed another small Hollow and headed toward a reported Hollow attack, hoping to earn enough experience and money. When a Gillian appeared, someone far away killed it before Shiraishi could strike, and he set out to find the culprit.

• Shiraishi checked his status and found that he needed 220 more experience to reach the next level, while deciding against entering Hueco Mundo because returning and finding food would be too risky.
• Shiraishi returned to Rice Village to look for odd jobs and received a Denreishinki alert about a Hollow eighteen li south of Bamboo Village.
• Shiraishi raced to the coordinates and saw a Gillian-class Menos Grande emerge through cracks in the sky.
• An unseen attacker killed the Gillian from more than three kilometers away, and Shiraishi headed toward the nearby mountain to identify who had stolen his kill.

Shiraishi met Retsu Unohana at a mountain hot spring, recognized her fearsome identity, and pretended to be a wandering ronin. When Isane Kotetsu arrived, he proposed to her and then suggested he wanted to marry both women, leaving Isane stunned and Unohana threatening.

• Shiraishi approached Retsu Unohana after seeing her defeat a Gillian Menos Grande and introduced himself as the Unforgiven.
• Retsu Unohana hid her identity as a Soul Reaper captain and invited Shiraishi to join the 11th Division, but he refused because he valued his freedom.
• Isane Kotetsu arrived with herbs and shyly introduced herself to Shiraishi.
• Shiraishi proposed to Isane, and Retsu Unohana warned him she could treat his lustful impulses with drastic remedies.
• Shiraishi claimed he wanted both Isane and Retsu as wives, leaving Isane shocked.

Shiraishi joined Retsu Unohana and Isane Kotetsu in a hot spring, where Unohana drew information from him about his Zanpakuto and his status as a fugitive. Unohana invited him to West District Twenty-Six to search for Dragon Lantern Fungus, and Shiraishi became alarmed when he learned her informant was a knowledgeable man with glasses.

• Retsu Unohana invited Shiraishi to bathe with her and Isane Kotetsu, and Isane reluctantly joined them under Kyokkō.
• Unohana sat beside Shiraishi in the spring and asked about the Zanpakuto at his waist.
• Shiraishi said his Zanpakuto was named Infinity and concealed his Reiatsu, then told Unohana he was being hunted over Hasegawa Taizo's death.
• Unohana invited Shiraishi to accompany her to West District Twenty-Six to find Dragon Lantern Fungus.
• Shiraishi learned that Unohana's source was a knowledgeable man with glasses and reacted with alarm.

Shiraishi grew suspicious that Aizen was behind the Gillian's appearance and agreed to accompany Retsu Unohana to West District Twenty-Six. In Hueco Mundo, Aizen sent Nnoitra and Tesla to Soul Society to test Shiraishi, while advancing his Hollowfication experiment in the World of the Living.

• Shiraishi suspected Aizen had arranged events around the Gillian and agreed to gather herbs with Retsu Unohana in West District Twenty-Six.
• Aizen met Nnoitra outside Las Noches and showed him a photograph of Shiraishi, explaining that Shiraishi had detected and attacked him despite Aizen concealing his Reiatsu.
• Aizen ordered Nnoitra to go to Soul Society, meet Takehiko Tsunayashiro, and wait until his hiding place was discovered before fighting Shiraishi.
• Aizen told Nnoitra about his Hollowfication experiment and promised him a fight to the death with Nelliel if he completed the assignment.
• Aizen summoned Tesla and ordered him to accompany Nnoitra to Soul Society, and they were told to leave at once.

Nnoitra entered the Research and Development Institute under Aizen’s concealment and sensed a powerful Reiatsu far to the east. Meanwhile, Shiraishi searched a mountain with Retsu Unohana and Isane Kotetsu for Dragon Lantern Fungus, then stumbled upon Kūkaku’s camp.

• Takehiko Tsunayashiro told Nnoitra and Tesla to pose as experimental Hollows and keep Aizen’s involvement secret.
• Nnoitra sensed an immense Reiatsu response from a thousand li to the east while probing the floor.
• Retsu Unohana offered Shiraishi a kiss as a reward for finding Dragon Lantern Fungus, and Isane Kotetsu joined the search after hearing the offer.
• Shiraishi became lost in the dark forest and climbed toward a clearing to find a place to rest.
• Shiraishi found Kūkaku roasting meat at a campsite and asked what she was doing there.

Shiraishi encountered Kūkaku Shiba in the forest and learned that she suspected Takehiko Tsunayashiro of arranging her brother’s death and taking his body for a Hollowfication Experiment. After clearing up their misunderstanding, Shiraishi agreed to investigate the Tsunayashiro branch family’s compound while Kūkaku searched for Dragon Lantern Fungus.

• Kūkaku Shiba mistook Shiraishi for someone investigating Takehiko Tsunayashiro and attacked him before he explained why he was there.
• Kūkaku Shiba told Shiraishi that she suspected Takehiko had modified the Hollow that killed her brother and stolen his body for the Hollowfication Experiment.
• Kūkaku Shiba explained that Isshin Shiba had investigated her brother’s death and concluded that someone had come for his body.
• Shiraishi realized Aizen might be using the investigation to frame Takehiko and draw him into the matter.
• Shiraishi offered to investigate the Tsunayashiro branch family’s compound if Kūkaku helped him find Dragon Lantern Fungus, and she agreed.

Shiraishi infiltrated the Tsunayashiro branch family compound to investigate Takehiko Tsunayashiro, but a Reishi trap exposed him and brought the guards and a Captain-level fighter into the fight. He escaped after deflecting a powerful Kidō attack, while Takehiko watched him leave and remarked that the actors had not all arrived yet.

• Shiraishi surveyed the compound and decided the six-story central building likely housed Takehiko Tsunayashiro, who still held real power despite his son being the branch family head.
• Shiraishi sneaked into the upper district but triggered a Reishi trap that immobilized his feet and sounded an alarm.
• The guards attacked Shiraishi with Kidō while a barrier slowed his movements, and a Captain-level Reiatsu erupted from the central building.
• Shiraishi blocked Hadō #63: Raikōhō with Steel Tempest, struck an outer guard, and fled rather than continue the fight.
• Takehiko Tsunayashiro watched Shiraishi leave and said there was no need to hurry because the actors had not all arrived.

Shiraishi infiltrated the Tsunayashiro compound again and hid in Takehiko Tsunayashiro’s study, where he overheard Takehiko’s meeting with Soi Fon. Takehiko denied the break-in and dismissed Soi Fon, while she warned him against using forbidden techniques to gain Hollow powers.

• Shiraishi used his knowledge of the traps to reach the main building and slipped through its barrier while cleaners entered.
• Shiraishi followed the cleaners to the sixth floor and hid in the study while Takehiko Tsunayashiro worked nearby.
• Shiraishi overheard that Soi Fon had arrived and noticed that Takehiko seemed to have expected her.
• Takehiko Tsunayashiro denied that anyone had infiltrated the compound and belittled Soi Fon’s noble status as he refused her help.
• Soi Fon warned Takehiko about forbidden techniques used to obtain a Hollow’s power, and Takehiko dismissed her.

Takehiko Tsunayashiro arranged for the Stealth Force to uncover his Hollowfication operation, intending to die for Aizen, but Shiraishi assassinated him first. Shiraishi escaped the estate and clashed with Soi Fon until a Menos Grande’s arrival disrupted their fight.

• Takehiko Tsunayashiro ordered Musashi to kill the Two Poles Flower supplier Meowth, expecting the Stealth Force to capture him and expose the operation.
• Takehiko Tsunayashiro wrote “the world” on a sheet of paper as Shiraishi secretly attacked and killed him.
• Shiraishi escaped through the estate’s barriers, and the alarm sounded after guards found Takehiko Tsunayashiro’s body.
• Soi Fon intercepted Shiraishi, and the two prepared to fight after he taunted her.
• A Menos Grande erupted from the ground, forcing Soi Fon to change direction and interrupting the confrontation.

Nnoitra attacked Soi Fon, badly wounding her after her strikes failed to penetrate his Hierro. Shiraishi rescued Soi Fon and left to confront Nnoitra after Tesla’s Reiatsu disappeared.

• Nnoitra emerged from underground and challenged Soi Fon over Takehiko Tsunayashiro’s death.
• Nnoitra sent Tesla to kill the Tsunayashiro Clan guards and Stealth Force members while he attacked Soi Fon.
• Soi Fon struck Nnoitra with Suzumebachi, but his Hierro blocked her follow-up attack and he overpowered her.
• Nnoitra hit Soi Fon with a Gran Rey Cero and nearly cleaved her in two with his crescent blade.
• Shiraishi rescued Soi Fon beneath a tree, then left after Tesla’s Reiatsu vanished.

Shiraishi fought Nnoitra, whose overwhelming Hierro stopped Shiraishi’s sword from piercing him. After drawing Nnoitra into a tornado with his wind-based attacks, Shiraishi caught him in the air and prepared to unleash his ultimate.

• Shiraishi met Nnoitra in the countryside north of the Tsunayashiro Clan's encampment, and Nnoitra attacked him with his crescent blade.
• Shiraishi’s Way of the Wanderer shield absorbed most of Nnoitra’s blow, but Shiraishi’s counterattack failed to pierce Nnoitra’s Hierro.
• Nnoitra fired a Gran Rey Cero, but Shiraishi blocked it with a wall of wind.
• Shiraishi dodged Nnoitra’s attack, struck him twice, and built up two stacks of Steel Tempest’s Gathering Storm.
• Shiraishi provoked Nnoitra and swept him into a tornado that he could not escape, then unleashed his ultimate.

Shiraishi defeated Nnoitra, who died fighting rather than surrendering. After gaining experience from the Espada, Shiraishi met Kūkaku Shiba and directed her to investigate beneath the barracks while he left to deal with Soi Fon.

• Shiraishi critically wounded Nnoitra, cutting through his Hierro and severing his hand despite Nnoitra's desperate resistance.
• Nnoitra refused to die before using Resurrección and charged Shiraishi, who thrust Steel Tempest through his heart.
• Shiraishi reflected briefly on Nnoitra's death, then checked his status and gained 650 experience points.
• Kūkaku Shiba arrived and asked whether Nnoitra had been Takehiko Tsunayashiro's test subject.
• Shiraishi told Kūkaku to search beneath the barracks and left to attend to Soi Fon.