Recaps

After dying, a talented young man chose random reincarnation and asked for an ordinary, carefree life in the BLEACH world. The being arranging his reincarnation calculated his requests into an extraordinary life as Sōgo Shihoin, the younger brother of Yoruichi Shihōin.

• A humanoid being told the man he had died and offered him reincarnation, so he chose a random world.
• The man learned he had saved a girl from serious harm and felt relieved that his family would be proud of him.
• He asked for an average, simple life with an older sibling and the freedom to choose his own path.
• The being interpreted his request by averaging his traits with the BLEACH world's extremes, making him Yoruichi Shihōin's younger brother and assigning him the name Sōgo Shihoin.
• The being completed the reincarnation, and Sōgo's vision went black.

Yoruichi Shihōin brought Kisuke Urahara to the Shihoin family’s forbidden courtyard, where overwhelming spiritual pressure came from her younger brother, Sōgo Shihoin. Sōgo met Kisuke and immediately challenged his suitability to join the family, leaving their introduction on a combative note.

• Yoruichi Shihōin took Kisuke Urahara to the forbidden courtyard to show him the Shihoin family’s legendary secret treasure.
• Kisuke entered the courtyard and struggled under its immense spiritual pressure.
• Yoruichi called for her younger brother, and Sōgo Shihoin emerged from a room.
• Yoruichi introduced Sōgo to Kisuke and explained that Sōgo had albinism.
• Sōgo greeted Kisuke, then insisted that strength—not good looks—mattered for marrying into the Shihoin family.

Yoruichi Shihōin introduced Kisuke Urahara to her younger brother, Sōgo Shihoin, whose immense spiritual pressure made him the Shihoin family's dangerous secret treasure. Sōgo revealed that even with his blindfold and a powerful seal suppressing his spiritual pressure, he could still crush anyone below lieutenant-level.

• Sōgo Shihoin teased Kisuke Urahara about marrying into the Shihoin family, and Yoruichi Shihōin repeatedly hit him for it.
• Yoruichi warned Kisuke not to look at Sōgo's eyes because the cloth over them restrained his spiritual pressure.
• Yoruichi revealed that Sōgo was the Shihoin family's legendary secret treasure, and Sōgo challenged Kisuke while demonstrating his speed.
• Sōgo exposed Kisuke's near-captain-level spiritual pressure, and Kisuke admitted he had been hiding his strength.
• Sōgo explained that his blindfold and the Gentei Kaichū Seal reduced his spiritual pressure to one-thirtieth of its full strength, yet his leakage could still crush spiritual bodies below lieutenant-level.

Yoruichi Shihōin brought Kisuke Urahara and her brother Sōgo Shihoin to meet Squad Zero for training, carrying Sōgo inside a spiritual pressure-suppressing sleeping bag. At the gathering, they reunited with Kūkaku and joined the children of the Five Great Noble Clans as the Monk of the Eye arrived to lead them.

• Yoruichi told Sōgo and Kisuke that their application to train with Squad Zero had been approved, but the group had to bring Sōgo.
• Sōgo climbed into a spiritual pressure-suppressing sleeping bag, and Yoruichi carried him as she and Kisuke headed to the meeting point.
• Yoruichi and Kisuke reached the gathering, where Kūkaku greeted Yoruichi and learned that Sōgo was inside the sleeping bag.
• The Monk of the Eye descended with a massive pillar and called the children of the Five Great Noble Clans to gather for training.
• Yoruichi took Kisuke by the hand and led him to the front of the line while carrying Sōgo.

The noble children traveled aboard the Tenchūren to the Soul King Palace, where the Spiritual Pressure on the Front Approach stopped nearly all of them. Yoruichi Shihōin and Kisuke Urahara remained standing alongside Kūkaku Shiba and a sleeping bag as the Big-Eyed Monk counted five successful entrants.

• Yoruichi Shihōin explained that the Shiba Cannon could launch the Tenchūren to the Soul King Palace, and the Big-Eyed Monk used Kidō to bring the group aboard.
• The Tenchūren carried the children and their escorts to the Soul King Palace, where the Big-Eyed Monk invited them onto the Front Approach.
• The noble children found themselves unable to move under the Front Approach's intense Spiritual Pressure, while Yoruichi Shihōin pulled Kisuke Urahara onto it.
• Yoruichi Shihōin revealed that she had taken Kisuke Urahara to Sōgo's courtyard to prepare him for the pressure, and Kisuke Urahara apologized for improving without her knowledge.
• The Big-Eyed Monk warned that those unable to endure the pressure risked spiritual damage, and most of the children crawled back to the Tenchūren.
• Yoruichi Shihōin, Kisuke Urahara, Kūkaku Shiba, and a sleeping bag remained standing on the Front Approach, and the Big-Eyed Monk remarked that five had passed.

Yoruichi defended Kisuke Urahara from the Tsunayashiro nobles, who then tried to force Tsunayashiro Tokinada back to their side and humiliated him for being a branch-line member. As Tokinada headed toward the Tenchūren, Sōgo emerged from his sleeping bag and shouted at the nobles for being loud.

• The Tsunayashiro nobles complained that Kisuke Urahara had been allowed to train in the Soul King Palace, and Yoruichi warned them not to insult him.
• A Tsunayashiro main-line young master called out Tokinada and ordered him to return to the clan’s side.
• The main-line nobles mocked Tokinada’s branch-line status while he hesitated and then slowly walked toward the Tenchūren.
• Sōgo woke up in Yoruichi’s sleeping bag, stepped out, and shouted that he hated loud people.

Sōgo Shihoin mocked the noble children who failed to enter the Omotesandō, while Ichibē Hyōsube sent them back to the Seireitei. Encouraged by Sōgo, Tsunayashiro Tokinada chose to keep moving forward with the selected children.

• Sōgo Shihoin called everyone unable to enter the Omotesandō small fry, angering the noble children and upsetting Kūkaku Shiba despite insisting she was exempt.
• Yoruichi Shihōin struck Sōgo for insulting her friend, while the noble children held back from challenging him because they could neither defeat him nor risk Yoruichi’s retaliation.
• Sōgo addressed Ichibē Hyōsube as the Big-Eyed Monk, and Ichibē told the rejected children to return to the Seireitei aboard the Tenchūren in fifty years.
• When the Tsunayashiro heir copied Sōgo’s nickname for Ichibē, Ichibē unleashed his spiritual pressure, prompting the heir to apologize before Ichibē gave the children instructions to pass on his regards.
• Sōgo encouraged Tokinada to rely on his talent and strength, and Tokinada left the Tsunayashiro main-line children behind to join Sōgo and the others.

Tokinada left the Tsunayashiro main line’s young masters after threatening thoughts took root, while Sōgo, Yoruichi, and Urahara reached the Soul King Palace and were assigned to Tenjirō Kirinji. The group arrived at Kirinji’s palace, where Sōgo clashed verbally with the grouchy Squad Zero member before Yoruichi stopped him from starting a fight.

• Tokinada ignored the Tsunayashiro young master’s threats and decided he might kill them when the time came.
• Sōgo teased Urahara about dating Yoruichi, and Yoruichi hit him and warned him to stop.
• Hyōsube assigned Kuchiki and Tsunayashiro children to Ōetsu Nimaiya, and Yoruichi, Urahara, and Sōgo to Tenjirō Kirinji.
• Urahara shouted for a staircase to be lowered before Hyōsube explained that the Front Approach would carry them up.
• At Kirinji’s palace, Sōgo challenged Kirinji after the man insulted him, but Yoruichi restrained Sōgo and reminded him they had come to train.

Yoruichi Shihōin, Kisuke Urahara, and Sōgo Shihoin arrived at Kirin Palace, where Tenjirō Kirinji began training Yoruichi. The chapter ended with Sōgo appearing beside Urahara as his opponent.

• Tenjirō Kirinji laughed at Sōgo Shihoin for begging Yoruichi Shihōin for mercy, then apologized when Yoruichi glared at him.
• Sōgo and Tenjirō traded crude jokes until Yoruichi threw Sōgo into Tenjirō, sending them both crashing into the training grounds.
• Tenjirō appeared before Yoruichi and Kisuke Urahara so quickly that neither noticed his Shunpo.
• Tenjirō explained that Squad Zero members rarely had time to train visitors and said he would train Yoruichi while someone else faced Urahara.
• Sōgo appeared beside Urahara and announced that he was Urahara's opponent.

Sōgo arranged to train Kisuke Urahara through a real fight while Yoruichi Shihōin began harsh training with Tenjirō Kirinji. After Urahara provoked him with a Benihime blast, Sōgo appeared behind him and kicked at his backside.

• Sōgo asked Yoruichi to let him train Urahara, and she agreed after setting limits.
• Yoruichi ordered Sōgo not to avenge her if she died and went with Kirinji to begin training.
• Sōgo threw Urahara into the training ground and insisted they train through actual combat.
• Urahara released Benihime and fired a scarlet blast that Sōgo dodged.
• Urahara taunted Sōgo about being careful, and Sōgo appeared behind him and kicked at his backside.

Kisuke Urahara tried to use Benihime, Kidō, and strategy to overcome Sōgo Shihoin’s greater strength, but Sōgo broke free and declared that Soul Reaper battles came down to Spiritual Pressure. Sōgo unleashed overwhelming pressure across Soul Society, drawing a reaction from Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto.

• Kisuke Urahara attacked Sōgo Shihoin with Benihime and provoked him, then used Bakudō No. 61 to trap him during a rear attack.
• Kisuke Urahara explained that he had anticipated Sōgo’s approach by gambling that he would use attack patterns like Yoruichi’s.
• Sōgo Shihoin effortlessly broke out of the Bakudō and asked Kisuke Urahara what decided a Soul Reaper battle.
• Kisuke Urahara listed several combat factors, but Sōgo said the answer was Spiritual Pressure and released his immense power.
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto sensed Sōgo’s Spiritual Pressure from Gotei 13 headquarters and remarked that the boy had grown stronger.

As Sōgo overwhelmed Kisuke Urahara with Spiritual Pressure and urged him to learn his Zanpakuto’s true name within three hours, Yoruichi Shihōin trained with Tenjirō Kirinji in the Kirin Palace. The chapter ended with Yoruichi and Tenjirō racing across the training ground in a contest of speed.

• Sōgo’s Spiritual Pressure made Kisuke Urahara collapse, and Sōgo told him to learn his Zanpakuto’s true name within three hours or die.
• Yoruichi Shihōin trembled under Sōgo’s Spiritual Pressure, but told Tenjirō Kirinji that Sōgo was her little brother, not a monster.
• Yoruichi stabbed her palm to overcome her fear and declared that she wanted to become strong enough not to be dead weight to Sōgo.
• Tenjirō challenged Yoruichi to catch and touch him, but evaded her Shunpo with an afterimage and stayed just out of reach.
• Yoruichi pushed her speed higher as Tenjirō matched her, and they raced around the training ground as two blurring shadows.

Sōgo Shihoin waited as Kisuke Urahara trained with Benihime in his inner world to awaken his Bankai. Meanwhile, Ōetsu Nimaiya shielded his disciples from Sōgo’s overwhelming Spiritual Pressure, which only intensified Tsunayashiro Tokinada’s desire for power.

• Sōgo Shihoin watched the unconscious Kisuke Urahara as he trained against Benihime in his inner world.
• Benihime urged Kisuke Urahara to grow stronger and learn her true name, and he released her Shikai to fight back.
• Ōetsu Nimaiya shielded Tokinada and the young master of the Kuchiki Clan from Sōgo Shihoin’s Spiritual Pressure.
• Ōetsu Nimaiya warned Tokinada and the young master of the Kuchiki Clan not to pursue power beyond their reach.
• Tsunayashiro Tokinada became more determined to gain power after hearing how extraordinary Sōgo Shihoin was, and Ōetsu Nimaiya realized his warning had backfired.

Kisuke Urahara awakened after achieving Bankai, and Sōgo Shihoin immediately tested him by attacking while he was chained. Urahara revealed Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame’s power to restructure its surroundings, then announced Sōgo had been caught in its range, but Sōgo remained unfazed.

• Sōgo Shihoin waited for Kisuke Urahara to awaken, then chained him and dropped a boulder on him as training.
• Urahara shattered the boulder with Bankai, Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame, and introduced its ability to restructure things.
• Urahara turned the ground beneath Sōgo into a swamp, warning that he could restructure people as well.
• Sōgo moved behind Urahara, believing the Bankai could not affect him outside Urahara’s field of vision.
• Urahara explained that his Bankai worked within a range centered on him and declared that Sōgo had been caught.
• Sōgo smiled and draped an arm over Urahara’s shoulders, saying he already knew.

Sōgo Shihoin defeated Kisuke Urahara by explaining that his overwhelming spiritual pressure kept Benihime’s ability from reaching him. After knocking Urahara unconscious and tossing him into a healing hot spring, Sōgo went to eat while Urahara began studying the pool’s design.

• Sōgo Shihoin revealed that he had never believed Kisuke Urahara’s lies and challenged him to understand why Benihime had failed.
• Sōgo Shihoin explained that his spiritual pressure formed a barrier Urahara could not cross, preventing Benihime’s ability from reaching him.
• Sōgo Shihoin ended the lesson by punching Urahara unconscious and carrying him to the healing hot spring.
• Sōgo Shihoin tossed Urahara into the hot spring and headed to the dining hall.
• As he recovered, Urahara studied the hot spring’s construction and considered reproducing it with Benihime.

At the Kirin Palace, Yoruichi Shihōin teased Kisuke Urahara in the shared healing hot spring until Sōgo Shihoin kicked him away. Urahara revealed he had mastered Bankai and was ordered to remodel the hot spring while Yoruichi and Sōgo went to eat.

• Tenjirō Kirinji told Sōgo Shihoin that he had put Yoruichi Shihōin in the healing hot spring, and Sōgo realized the bathhouse was not separated by sex.
• Yoruichi Shihōin teased Kisuke Urahara in the hot spring while he refused to look at her out of fear of Sōgo.
• Sōgo Shihoin rushed in and kicked Urahara in the face, then checked that Yoruichi was unharmed.
• Yoruichi stood up wearing her Stealth Force bodysuit, and Sōgo ordered Urahara to remodel the hot spring.
• Urahara activated his Bankai, Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame, surprising Yoruichi, who then left with Sōgo to get food.

Sōgo Shihoin discussed controlling his Spiritual Pressure with the Big-Eyed Monk and Squad Zero, who offered him membership. After Sōgo refused, the Big-Eyed Monk told him to leave Soul Society until he could control his power.

• The Big-Eyed Monk visited Sōgo Shihoin at night and asked when he would control his dangerous Spiritual Pressure.
• Sōgo suggested adding another eyepatch, but Tenjirō Kirinji warned that doing so could burst the seal.
• Tenjirō Kirinji and Ōetsu Nimaiya joined Sōgo and the Big-Eyed Monk in his room.
• The Big-Eyed Monk offered Sōgo promotion to Squad Zero, arguing that his sealed presence had already helped protect Soul Society.
• Sōgo declined the promotion, and the Big-Eyed Monk told him to leave Soul Society until he had mastered his Spiritual Pressure.

Sōgo Shihoin trained Kisuke Urahara at Squad Zero for half a month, repeatedly knocking him unconscious while his spiritual body grew stronger. Before leaving, Sōgo asked Urahara to look after Yoruichi when they returned to Soul Society, then clarified that he would be away for a while.

• Sōgo knocked Kisuke Urahara unconscious during their first training session, then took him to the healing hot spring.
• Sōgo warned Urahara not to tell Yoruichi about his concerns and promised to get him safely back to Soul Society if he behaved.
• Sōgo repeatedly struck Urahara unconscious during training, and Urahara's spiritual body grew strong enough to withstand an average captain's hand-to-hand techniques.
• Sōgo joined Urahara in the hot spring and asked him to look after Yoruichi and not break her trust.
• Urahara asked whether Sōgo was entrusting Yoruichi to him, and Sōgo clarified that he would be away for a while and expected Urahara to help in his absence.

Sōgo Shihoin chose to train rather than join Squad Zero, and the Big-Eyed Monk arranged for him to train in Hueco Mundo. Sōgo planned to leave after seeing his sister off and asked Squad Zero to keep his destination secret.

• The Big-Eyed Monk startled Sōgo in his room, and Sōgo kicked him to the floor before Tenjirō Kirinji and Ōetsu Nimaiya came in.
• The Big-Eyed Monk asked Sōgo to choose between leaving to train and joining Squad Zero, and Sōgo chose to train.
• The Big-Eyed Monk told Sōgo that Hueco Mundo was the safest place for him to release his spiritual pressure, despite Sōgo's reluctance to spend time with Hollows.
• Ōetsu gave Sōgo a black case containing a surprise and told him to wait until he reached Hueco Mundo to open it.
• Sōgo said he would leave the next day after seeing his sister off and told the three Squad Zero members to conceal his destination.

Yoruichi Shihōin and Sōgo Shihoin said goodbye after a month of training, and Sōgo set out for Hueco Mundo. He emerged in its desert after a rough passage and vowed to punish the Big-Eyed Monk for the journey.

• Yoruichi thanked Tenjirō Kirinji for training her Shunpo, while Kisuke Urahara thanked Sōgo for strengthening his spiritual body.
• Yoruichi learned Sōgo planned to remain behind until he could live normally outside, and the siblings exchanged a warm farewell.
• Sōgo punched Kisuke Urahara for telling Yoruichi his secret, then left Urahara with her.
• The Big-Eyed Monk opened a Senkaimon connected to Hueco Mundo, and Sōgo entered carrying Ōetsu’s black bundle.
• The bundle guided Sōgo through the Dangai, where his Spiritual Pressure carved a path through the darkness.
• Sōgo fell into Hueco Mundo’s desert, crushed nearby Hollows with his Spiritual Pressure, and blamed the Big-Eyed Monk for his arrival.

Sōgo Shihoin wandered Hueco Mundo in search of someone to talk to, then encountered the lonely Vasto Lorde Starrk. After Sōgo invited her to join his game, Starrk introduced herself as Lilynette Starrk.

• Sōgo Shihoin wandered Hueco Mundo, where his overwhelming spiritual pressure destroyed the Hollows he encountered.
• Sōgo opened Ōetsu Nimaiya’s bundle and found a Zanpakuto that absorbed Reishi and made food instead of the companion he had hoped for.
• Starrk reflected on how her immense power had left her isolated and had unintentionally killed those around her.
• Sōgo rolled an Adjuchas into a ball and hurled it into ten Gillians, destroying them and leaving the Adjuchas badly injured.
• Sōgo tried to speak with Starrk, and she eventually nodded and confirmed she understood him.
• Sōgo introduced himself and offered Starrk his hand, and she shook it and gave her name as Lilynette Starrk.

Sōgo Shihoin befriended Lilynette and offered to teach her and help her recover her memories. He convinced her to begin with Menos Grande Bowling, and they set off to find a ball-shaped Adjuchas.

• Sōgo Shihoin told Lilynette that he was not yet a Soul Reaper and would not kill Hollows, easing her fear that he might attack her.
• Sōgo Shihoin learned that Lilynette had removed her mask and remembered little beyond talking to herself while alone.
• Sōgo Shihoin gave Lilynette a shihakushō and named himself her teacher.
• Sōgo Shihoin proposed Menos Grande Bowling as a way to help Lilynette recover her memories.
• Sōgo Shihoin and Lilynette set out to find a ball-shaped Adjuchas to start their game.

Baraggan ordered Szayelaporro to warn Lilynette and her Soul Reaper companion to stay away from Las Noches. Elsewhere, Sōgo Shihoin trained with Lilynette and prepared hot pot, but realized he had no pot.

• A Vasto Lorde subordinate told Baraggan that Lilynette and her Soul Reaper companion had been killing Menos Grande and asked permission to attack them.
• Baraggan dismissed the subordinate’s threat and ordered Szayelaporro to forbid Lilynette and her companion from coming within a thousand li of Las Noches.
• Sōgo Shihoin praised Lilynette as she defeated several Menos Grande during their training.
• Sōgo Shihoin used Ōetsu’s food-making machine to produce ingredients for hot pot after Lilynette said she did not need food.
• Sōgo Shihoin realized he had forgotten to bring a pot.

Sōgo Shihoin and Lilynette shared Sichuan hot pot with the pink-haired Menos Grande, who introduced himself as Szayelaporro and became obsessed with Sōgo’s power. The chapter ended with Szayelaporro declaring Sōgo the ultimate life-form he had long sought and asking to study him.

• A pink-haired Menos Grande approached Sōgo Shihoin and Lilynette with an offer of a medicinal cauldron in exchange for seeing Sōgo’s matter-generating machine.
• Sōgo used the cauldron to cook spicy hot pot, and Lilynette and the Menos Grande eagerly ate with him.
• Sōgo learned that the Menos Grande was named Szayelaporro and that he had evolved to Vasto Lorde class through special means.
• Szayelaporro asked Sōgo how he had become so powerful, and Sōgo said he had been born that way.
• Szayelaporro asked to study Sōgo, then declared him the ultimate life-form he had been searching for.

Sōgo Shihoin, Szayelaporro, and Lilynette discussed how Hollows evolved and whether removing a mask made someone an Arrancar. Szayelaporro offered to help control their Spiritual Pressure, and Sōgo promised to take him and Lilynette to Soul Society if he succeeded.

• Sōgo Shihoin and Szayelaporro discussed how Lilynette's broken mask and Soul Reaper-like appearance suggested that Hollows and Soul Reapers shared an origin.
• Szayelaporro asked Lilynette how she became an Arrancar, and she explained that she removed her mask because it was heavy and frightened potential friends.
• Sōgo wondered whether Soul Reapers could evolve by putting on masks, and Szayelaporro agreed the idea was possible.
• Szayelaporro offered to conduct tests and make devices to help Sōgo and Lilynette control their Spiritual Pressure, requesting Sōgo's cooperation and hair.
• Sōgo promised to take Szayelaporro and Lilynette to Soul Society for entertainment if Szayelaporro solved their Spiritual Pressure problem.