Chapter Summaries

Yhwach ordered the Sternritter to prepare for war against Soul Society and sent Quilge to gather Hollows in Hueco Mundo. After Quilge ignored orders and entered Las Noches, Baraggan killed him and his two Quincy followers, so Yhwach assigned Bambietta to take over the mission.

• Bambietta, Candice, Giselle, and Meninas joined the other Sternritter as Yhwach announced an all-out war against Soul Society.
• Yhwach ordered Quilge to capture Arrancars outside Las Noches and use them as the vanguard for the invasion.
• Quilge ignored his men’s warnings and entered Las Noches to demand that Baraggan submit to Yhwach.
• Baraggan killed Quilge instantly, and Loly Aivirrne and Menoly Mallia killed the two remaining Quincy.
• Yhwach learned of Quilge’s death and ordered Bambietta to gather Hollows while warning her not to provoke Baraggan.

The Sternritter invaded Soul Society, drawing the Kuchiki family, the Second Division, and Kaien Shiba into separate battles. By the end, Kaien had killed his opponent, while the Second Division fight was about to begin and the outcome elsewhere remained uncertain.

• Around thirty Sternritter attacked Seireitei and overwhelmed its Soul Reapers as the Gotei 13 captains faced enemies of their own.
• As Nodt confronted Byakuya Kuchiki at the Kuchiki estate, where the arrivals of Kōga Kuchiki, Rukia Kuchiki, and Sōjun Kuchiki caused his Spiritual Pressure meter to overload.
• Bambietta, Liltotto Lamperd, Meninas McAllon, Candice, and Giselle invaded the Second Division, where Lilynette, Shaoling Fon, Tier Harribel, Aura Michibane, and Szayelaporro opposed them.
• Kaien Shiba realized his opponent's attacks were being diverted and gave the Quincy water that he had secretly poisoned.
• The Quincy drank the water and exploded, and Kaien explained that The Detour could not deflect an attack he did not instinctively recognize.

The Sternritter fought Shaoling Fon, Aura Michibane, and Lilynette Starrk in the Second Division barracks, where their opponents’ overwhelming abilities pushed the battle toward a nuclear catastrophe. Shaoling Fon’s missile missed Candice but struck Nananana Najahkoop, leaving the fight in the glow of a mushroom cloud.

• Lilynette Starrk overwhelmed Bambietta by destroying her explosive Reishi with a stream of Ceros.
• Aura Michibane outclassed Liltotto Lamperd with relentless Kidō, prompting Liltotto to consider retreat.
• Shaoling Fon used her Bankai, Hōjaku Raikōgō, to absorb Candice’s Electrocution and increase the mecha’s energy.
• Candice found that the Quincy Medallions could not steal Shaoling Fon’s Bankai, while Shaoling Fon’s nuclear missile missed her.
• Renji Abarai broke free of Nananana Najahkoop’s ability and warned him as Shaoling Fon’s missile flew toward them.
• Shaoling Fon’s missile struck Najahkoop and exploded into an enormous mushroom cloud.

Soul Reapers and Quincy fought amid the devastation of a nuclear blast, while Shaoling Fon battled Candice and Lilynette’s group overwhelmed several other Sternritter. The chapter ended with Bambietta escaping on Hirenkyaku and Lilynette realizing her opponent was gone.

• Shaoling Fon’s nuclear bomb devastated the battlefield, and Soul Reapers and Quincy briefly joined forces to shield themselves from the blast.
• Shaoling Fon argued with Candice before fighting her in the air after Candice entered Vollständig.
• Lilynette pressured Bambietta with Ceros, while Aura Michibane captured Liltotto using her Bakudō.
• Tier Harribel kept Meninas McAllon under pressure, and Meninas considered fleeing as the other Sternritter struggled.
• Bambietta used Hirenkyaku to escape, and Lilynette noticed that her opponent had disappeared.

Bambietta escaped the Second Division while Cang Du fought Kuruyashiki Kenpachi at the Shihōin ancestral residence. Near the Sixth Division barracks, Renji Abarai survived one Sternritter only to face another, before Ichigo Kurosaki arrived and accidentally fired Getsuga Tenshō at him.

• Bambietta fled through the noble district, saw the overwhelming Spiritual Pressure near the Kuchiki Clan residence, and then noticed a battle at the Shihōin Clan estate.
• Cang Du confronted Kuruyashiki Kenpachi and attacked with his iron claws, but Kuruyashiki easily overpowered him and demanded that he surrender.
• Renji Abarai lay injured beside a charred, dead Sternritter and cursed the fighter whose actions had put him in danger.
• Another Sternritter approached Renji, who begged for a moment of rest before recognizing Ichigo Kurosaki's voice.
• Ichigo Kurosaki arrived, fired Getsuga Tenshō at Renji Abarai, and accused the nearby Quincy of killing him.

Ichigo Kurosaki defeated a Sternritter and Yamamoto unleashed Zanka no Tachi against six Quincy, while Yhwach used Yukio’s spatial ability to enter the Soul King Palace. The chapter ended with Ichibē Hyōsube activating his Shin'uchi, Shirafude Ichimonji, to face Yhwach.

• Ichigo Kurosaki killed a Sternritter with a black-flamed Getsuga Tenshō, then mocked Renji Abarai and asked where the strongest enemy was.
• Renji Abarai told Ichigo that the strongest enemy was likely with either Yamamoto or Sōgo Shihoin.
• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai activated Bankai, Zanka no Tachi, and burned away the Heilig Pfeil fired by six Sternritter.
• Yhwach used Yukio’s spatial ability to bypass the Soul King Palace’s restrictions and arrived there with four others.
• Tenjirō Kirinji, Senjumaru Shutara, Ōetsu Nimaiya, Kirio Hikifune, and Ichibē Hyōsube confronted Yhwach as he claimed Sōgo Shihoin could not intervene.
• Ichibē Hyōsube activated his Shin'uchi, Shirafude Ichimonji, and filled the Soul King Palace with oppressive Spiritual Pressure.

Squad Zero and the Schutzstaffel began fighting across the Soul King Palace as Ichibē Hyōsube isolated Yhwach for a one-on-one confrontation. The other battles remained unresolved, with Tenjirō Kirinji unaware that his opponent was using The Deathdealing against him.

• Kirio Hikifune trapped several Quincy in her Spiritual Pressure-absorbing noodles while Ichibē Hyōsube used his Bankai to remove everyone from the great hall except himself and Yhwach.
• Ōetsu Nimaiya faced a Quincy armed with guns, and the two exchanged threats before stopping to stare each other down.
• Gerard Valkyrie transformed into a giant and attacked Senjumaru Shutara and Kirio Hikifune, who prepared to fight him together.
• Tenjirō Kirinji introduced himself to his Quincy opponent and attacked, while the man secretly used The Deathdealing to manipulate nutrients in Tenjirō Kirinji’s body.

Tenjirō Kirinji countered the Quincy’s blood-based ability with the restorative hot spring, while Kirio Hikifune and Senjumaru Shutara apparently killed Gerard Valkyrie with restraints and an iron maiden. Gerard revived with his Vollständig and immense strength, forcing the women to resume fighting as Senjumaru evaded his attacks.

• Tenjirō Kirinji recognized that the Quincy needed proximity to use his ability, then moved their fight to a healing hot spring and survived a Heilig Pfeil by rapidly recovering.
• Kirio Hikifune restrained Gerard Valkyrie with fragrant tendrils and a chocolate swamp while Senjumaru Shutara encased him in Hulkbuster armor fitted with spikes.
• Gerard died during his boast, so Senjumaru and Kirio decided to go help their allies, especially the monk facing Yhwach.
• Gerard revived with his Vollständig, The Power of God, broke free, and demonstrated his strength while boasting about his physique.
• Senjumaru evaded Gerard’s punches from the air and mocked him for expecting her to fight him one-on-one.

Kenpachi Zaraki tore through the Quincy forces and killed BG9 with one strike before facing the child who claimed to be the Sternritter’s strongest. After Kenpachi shrugged off the child’s imagined attacks and prepared to kill him, an immensely powerful figure appeared behind him and asked to take the child for themselves.

• Kenpachi Zaraki and Ikkaku Madarame’s forces overwhelmed the Quincy, while Yumichika Ayasegawa complained about being sent to fight ordinary troops.
• BG9 attacked Kenpachi with machine-gun fire, but Kenpachi’s Spiritual Pressure deflected the bullets, and he split BG9 in two with one stroke.
• A child who claimed to be the strongest Sternritter challenged Kenpachi and attacked him with an imagined blizzard, magma, lightning, and seawater.
• Kenpachi blew away the blizzard, endured the other attacks, and cut through the water surrounding him before deciding to kill the child.
• A powerful figure appeared behind Kenpachi and asked to have the child, leaving Kenpachi stiff with recognition.

Sōgo Shihoin faced Gremmy Thoumeaux and destroyed the enormous meteorite Gremmy imagined, with Yamamoto-Genryūsai burning away its fragments. Gremmy then imagined a duplicate of Sōgo, who declared that he had come to erase him, and Sōgo prepared to test the impostor.

• Sōgo Shihoin took Gremmy Thoumeaux away from Kenpachi Zaraki and challenged him to show the power of his imagination.
• Gremmy created a second version of himself and imagined a meteorite large enough to destroy Soul Society.
• Sōgo released his Bankai, Final super ultimate technique! One Pillar Holds Up the Sky, and smashed the meteorite with a punch.
• Yamamoto-Genryūsai used Ryūjin Jakka to destroy the meteorite fragments before they could devastate Soul Society.
• Gremmy tried to imagine a version of Sōgo but could not comprehend his power, then created an identical-looking being after giving up thinking.
• The duplicate claimed he would erase Sōgo, and Sōgo agreed to play with him for a while.

Sōgo Shihoin toyed with and defeated his counterfeit while Shaoling Fon arrived with a captured Quincy and refused to join the fake. Afterward, Sōgo reassured Shaoling Fon that the danger at the Soul King Palace was a replay of events from long ago, leaving its outcome to unfold.

• The fake Sōgo Shihoin attacked the real Sōgo Shihoin, who dodged his blows and broke his fist with one finger.
• Shaoling Fon arrived in her Gundam with an unconscious Quincy woman and refused the fake Sōgo Shihoin's request to team up against Sōgo.
• Shaoling Fon declared that only the invincible deserved the name Sōgo Shihoin, and the fake gave up on conquering Soul Society.
• Sōgo Shihoin killed the fake with Sayafushi and told Shaoling Fon that the danger at the Soul King Palace was a replay of events from countless years earlier.
• Shaoling Fon worried about the malice coming from the Soul King Palace, but Sōgo Shihoin urged her to wait calmly for events to unfold.

Yhwach defeated Ichibē Hyōsube, freed and merged with the Soul King, then confronted Sōgo Shihoin, who challenged him for control of the new world. As Yhwach summoned his twenty-six Sternritter, Sōgo began assembling an equal force, starting with several powerful Soul Reapers.

• Ichibē Hyōsube turned Yhwach into an ant, but Yhwach reversed the attack and killed him before entering the Soul King Palace.
• Yhwach shattered the Soul King's crystal prison and merged with his father, unleashing immense Spiritual Pressure across Soul Society.
• Sōgo Shihoin told Shaoling Fon that he had planned to create a stronger Soul King, then went to face Yhwach in the Soul King Palace.
• Yhwach summoned all twenty-six Sternritter and offered Sōgo Shihoin a place in his new world, but Sōgo demanded that Yhwach become his subordinate.
• Sōgo Shihoin began summoning his own knights, bringing back Ichibē Hyōsube and calling Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai, Sōsuke Aizen, Kenpachi Zaraki, and Kuruyashiki Kenpachi.

Sōgo Shihoin assembled a knight order to face the Sternritter, eventually expanding it from twenty-six members to fifty-two. The chapter ended with the enormous team confronting the enemy under the weight of their combined Spiritual Pressure.

• Sōgo Shihoin summoned Retsu Unohana, Lilynette, Ōetsu Nimaiya, Tenjirō Kirinji, Senjumaru Shutara, and Kirio Hikifune as knights.
• Sōgo Shihoin summoned Ichigo Kurosaki, Isshin Kurosaki, Aura Michibane, Kisuke Urahara, Yoruichi Shihōin, Szayelaporro, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, and Shunsui Kyōraku.
• Sōgo Azashiro and Tsunayashiro Tokinada asked Sōgo Shihoin to let them fight, and he accepted their offer.
• Sōgo Shihoin named Byakuya Kuchiki, Kaien Shiba, Shinji Hirako, Gin Ichimaru, Kōga Kuchiki, and Rukia Kuchiki among his remaining knights.
• Sōgo Shihoin expanded the knight order to fifty-two members, adding more Soul Reapers, Tier Harribel, Baraggan, and Shaoling Fon.
• The fifty-two knights released overwhelming Spiritual Pressure as they faced the Sternritter.

Sōgo Shihoin and Yhwach agreed to settle their conflict through battles between their subordinates, and Kenpachi Zaraki volunteered to face Askin Nakk Le Vaar. Kenpachi resisted Askin’s Famine ability and severed one of his arms, but Askin prepared to fight on with The Deathdealing.

• Sōgo Shihoin challenged Yhwach to a contest between their forces, and Yhwach agreed to king-against-king and general-against-general battles.
• Yhwach sent Askin Nakk Le Vaar to fight first, and Kenpachi Zaraki stepped forward to face him alone.
• Askin used his evolved Famine ability to drain Kenpachi’s nutrients and make him hungry.
• Kenpachi dismissed the effect, explaining that he lived with hunger every day, and slashed Askin’s arm off.
• Askin acknowledged that Famine did not work on Kenpachi and resolved to use his original power, The Deathdealing.

Kenpachi Zaraki fought Askin Nakk Le Vaar, whose nutrient control let him survive devastating attacks and transform into a giant. Kenpachi revealed Nozarashi’s Shikai and then Bankai, ending the chapter as his broken blade’s strike engulfed Askin in light.

• Askin Nakk Le Vaar failed to injure berserk Kenpachi Zaraki with Heilig Pfeil, then restored Kenpachi’s mind.
• Kenpachi cut Askin in half, but Askin survived by supplying nutrients to his cells and activated his Vollständig.
• Askin grew stronger and larger, while Kenpachi’s attacks barely harmed him; Askin wounded Kenpachi and knocked off his eyepatch.
• Kenpachi released Nozarashi’s Shikai and sliced the giant Askin into countless pieces.
• Kenpachi activated Bankai, releasing immense Spiritual Pressure and taking on a demonic form with a broken blade.
• Kenpachi swung his Bankai blade, and light engulfed Askin.

Kenpachi Zaraki, Sōsuke Aizen, and Retsu Unohana defeated three Sternritter in succession while Sōgo Shihoin taunted Yhwach. Yhwach absorbed the fallen Quincies’ power and insisted the contest had only begun.

• Kenpachi Zaraki killed Askin Nakk Le Vaar with his Bankai, then challenged the remaining Sternritter to fight him together.
• Sōgo Shihoin pulled Kenpachi Zaraki aside, declared himself the protagonist, and sent Sōsuke Aizen to fight Yhwach’s chosen warrior, PePe Waccabrada.
• Sōsuke Aizen killed PePe Waccabrada with Hadō #90: Kurohitsugi, and Yhwach absorbed the power that returned to him.
• Yhwach sent BG9 to fight Retsu Unohana, who swiftly beheaded him with a single strike.
• Sōgo Shihoin taunted Yhwach after the victories, while Yhwach declared that the game had only just begun.

Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai defeated Bazz-B with his Bankai, even after Bazz-B transformed into Vollständig, while Shaoling Fon overwhelmed Driscoll Berci with her Bankai. Yhwach then chose Lille Barro, captain of the Schutzstaffel, for the next battle.

• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai accepted Yhwach's challenge and faced Bazz-B, who attacked from five hundred meters away with a flaming arrow.
• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai unleashed Zanka no Tachi and struck Bazz-B with flames, but Bazz-B survived and entered Vollständig.
• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai burned Bazz-B with another attack and returned to Sōgo Shihoin's group, declaring his blade both faster and accurate.
• Yhwach sent Driscoll Berci to fight, and Sōgo Shihoin ordered Shaoling Fon to use Bankai against him.
• Shaoling Fon deployed Hōjaku Raikōgō and blasted Driscoll Berci with sixteen Super Hōjaku Raikōben, causing a massive explosion that shook Soul Society.
• Yhwach named Lille Barro, captain of the Schutzstaffel, as his next fighter.

Sōgo Shihoin assessed Lille Barro’s deadly X-Axis while Aura Michibane challenged him to shoot her. Though Lille Barro repeatedly blasted Aura apart, she survived, bound him with a new Bankin technique, and unleashed her strongest Hadō.

• Sōgo Shihoin read Lille Barro’s abilities and asked Aura Michibane whether her incorporeal body could withstand The X-Axis.
• Aura Michibane let Lille Barro shoot her in the head, then survived and trapped him in a fully incanted Hadō #90: Black Coffin.
• Lille Barro emerged badly wounded and attacked with his rifle, but Aura Michibane prepared Hadō #91: Senju Kōten Taihō.
• Lille Barro transformed, grew wings, and blasted Aura Michibane into pieces, but she remained alive and restrained him with the fourth stage of Bankin, Chains of Heaven.
• Aura Michibane cast Hadō #99: Goryū Tenmetsu, and its dragons swallowed Lille Barro.

After Aura Michibane and Ichibē Hyōsube defeated Lille Barro and Pernida Parnkgjas, Yhwach absorbed Pernida’s power and sent Gerard Valkyrie to fight. Kuruyashiki Kenpachi stepped forward to face Gerard, whose remarks about women angered both the female Sternritter and the Soul Reapers.

• Aura Michibane swallowed Lille Barro with her dragon, and Sōgo Shihoin taunted Yhwach about losing another subordinate.
• Yhwach sent Pernida Parnkgjas into battle, and Sōgo assigned Ichibē Hyōsube to confront him.
• Ichibē used Ichimonji and Shin'uchi: Shirafude Ichimonji to turn Pernida into an ant and crush him.
• Yhwach absorbed Pernida’s power, grew stronger, and called on his knights to punish the Soul Reapers.
• Gerard Valkyrie volunteered to fight, and Kuruyashiki Kenpachi stepped forward as his opponent.
• Gerard urged Kuruyashiki to focus on battle rather than women, angering the female Sternritter and the female Soul Reapers.

Kuruyashiki Kenpachi fought Gerard Valkyrie, whose bizarre boasting and enormous body concealed the Quincy power The Miracle. After Gerard revived from being devoured, Kuruyashiki donned his Hollow-like mask and blasted away Gerard’s upper body with a Cero, unsure whether the attack had finally defeated him.

• Gerard Valkyrie taunted Kuruyashiki Kenpachi by showing off his muscles, then grew to over a hundred meters tall.
• Kuruyashiki released Garōgairō, and its beasts devoured Gerard until he appeared dead.
• Gerard revived with greater power and urged Kuruyashiki to become a Quincy.
• Kuruyashiki put on a white skull mask and accused Gerard of leaving him no choice but to fight.
• Kuruyashiki fired a Cero that blasted away Gerard’s upper body and shook the Soul King Palace.