Chapter Summaries

Yushima Oko resurrected a hundred Soul Society captains who had died over the past thousand years, intending to use them to overthrow the present Soul Society and defeat Sōgo Shihoin. As the dead captains prepared to test the modern era, hidden figures watched the coming clash, and Sōgo recognized the challenge and welcomed it.

• Yushima Oko activated his machines and awakened more than a hundred Gigai containing the souls of dead captains, including the former heads of the Five Great Noble Clans.
• Yushima Oko explained that he had gathered the captains’ records from the abandoned Central 46 Chambers and planned to use their power against Soul Society and Sōgo Shihoin.
• Kenpachi Kuruyashiki and a former Kuchiki clan head condemned Yushima Oko, while the resurrected captains decided to judge whether the present Soul Society was worth protecting.
• The hundred captains released immense Spiritual Pressure, and one captain wondered whether Shunsui Kyōraku had changed the Kyōraku Family’s ways.
• A mysterious figure from the past declared that the past would challenge the present, while Yhwach watched the changing future from a space beyond past and present.
• Sōgo Shihoin sensed the disturbance, recognized the resurrection as an Impure World Reincarnation, and accepted the challenge.

More than a hundred captains from the past emerged in Rukongai and began invading Soul Society. As they confronted the present era, Mika fought an ancestor at the Shihōin estate, Shunsui killed his brother, and Lilynette revealed her power to an old Stealth Force leader.

• More than a hundred former captains emerged from Senkaimon in Rukongai, and the man wearing the Sixth Division Captain's Haori declared that they would test their descendants before beginning the invasion.
• At the Shihōin Clan estate, a purple-haired ancestor mistook Mika for his descendant and challenged her; Mika unleashed Shunkō and attacked him.
• Shunsui met his scholar brother beneath a cherry tree, fought him, and watched him die before apologizing to Little Nanao.
• A former Stealth Force leader attacked Lilynette after mistaking her for a Menos Grande, but she revealed herself as a Vasto Lorde and fired a Gran Rey Cero that blasted the Second Division grounds.
• Tier Harribel headed toward Lilynette to reprimand her, while the former captains sensed her Spiritual Pressure and realized the old era was outmatched by the new.

Kenpachi Zaraki and Byakuya Kuchiki faced powerful predecessors who had come to test the Gotei 13’s current generation, while battles erupted across the Seireitei. The chapter ended with the former Second Division captain recognizing Kuruyashiki Kenpachi and realizing he could not defeat him.

• Kenpachi Zaraki killed the bearded Kenpachi with a single serious strike, then the Second challenged him after realizing he was the fighter Yachiru Unohana had sought.
• Byakuya Kuchiki released Senbonzakura and then destroyed the pavilion containing three Kuchiki Clan seniors with his Bankai, which they accepted as proof the clan was in capable hands.
• Kōga Kuchiki, Sōjun Kuchiki, and Kuchiki Ginrei restrained and killed the Kuchiki Clan head from a thousand years ago, who faced his descendants’ attack with relief.
• Retsu Unohana told Isane to stay in the quiet Fourth Division, sensing that the Spiritual Pressure outside came from tests rather than malice.
• The former Second Division captain recognized Kuruyashiki Kenpachi and worried that he had no chance of defeating him.

Kuruyashiki Kenpachi challenged a supposedly dead former Second Division captain, who struggled to accept the strength and unusual allies of the current Second Division. As Soul Reapers, Menos Grande, Quincy, and Fullbring users gathered and their Spiritual Pressure clashed, the senior concluded that he had to be dreaming and stabbed himself to test it.

• Kuruyashiki Kenpachi told the former Second Division captain that he was not invincible and challenged him to fight, but the senior panicked and accused him of treating him as prey.
• Shaoling Fon and Marechiyo Ōmaeda arrived, and Shaoling Fon confirmed that she was the current Second Division captain and the one truly in charge.
• Lilynette and two other Vasto Lorde-class Menos Grande appeared, and Szayelaporro explained why the senior feared them; Sōya Azashiro then warned them against releasing their Spiritual Pressure recklessly.
• A Reishi arrow aimed at the senior was blocked by Ginjo, and Aura Michibane appeared among the Quincy, bringing powerful forces into a tense standoff.
• Shaoling Fon released her Spiritual Pressure, and the senior collapsed under the combined pressure before stabbing himself with his Zanpakuto to check whether he was dreaming.

The original Gotei 13 returned as ten powerful invaders attacked the Seireitei, forcing the current captains to fight them. Shunsui Kyōraku trapped the original Third Division Captain with his Bankai, while Shūhei Hisagi confronted the enemy who had defeated Kensei Muguruma.

• Tenjirō Kirinji recognized the ten attackers as the surviving original Gotei 13 captains, and the invaders split up to hunt the strongest opponents.
• Shunsui Kyōraku faced the original Third Division Captain and activated Katen Kyōkotsu: Karamatsu Shinjū before his opponent could release his Zanpakuto.
• Shunsui Kyōraku used his Bankai’s rules to drain and immobilize the original captain, who urged him to protect the Gotei 13.
• Kensei Muguruma’s attacks were turned against him by a glasses-wearing invader, who restrained him and prepared to finish him with Ittō Kasō.
• Shūhei Hisagi arrived to defend Kensei Muguruma and activated Bankai: Kazeshini Kōjō, binding himself and the invader in chains.

Shūhei Hisagi used his Bankai to link his Spiritual Pressure with a bespectacled original Gotei 13 captain, forcing them to share injuries and energy until they collapsed. Meanwhile, Shinji Hirako sensed an intruder inside the Fifth Division and called a hidden woman out of hiding.

• Shūhei Hisagi bound himself and the bespectacled man with his Bankai’s chains, which restored themselves after the man destroyed them.
• The bespectacled man burned Shūhei Hisagi with Ittō Kasō, but the Bankai made them share the damage and drained both their Spiritual Pressure.
• Shūhei Hisagi explained that his Bankai would continue until both fighters exhausted their Spiritual Pressure, leaving the bespectacled man with no way to escape the fight.
• In the Fifth Division barracks, Shinji Hirako sensed an intruder and told Momo Hinamori that someone had infiltrated the Gotei 13.
• Shinji Hirako called for the intruder to reveal herself, and a beautiful, voluptuous woman stepped out.

Shinji Hirako fought a woman whose living-type Zanpakuto unleashed a swarm of explosive bees, using his Bankai to make them attack one another before switching to Sakanade. He wounded her by misleading her about whether his Shikai’s spatial inversion was active, then prepared to continue attacking as she struggled to trust her senses.

• Shinji escaped the woman’s blast with Momo Hinamori and identified her Zanpakuto, Hikone, as a powerful living-type weapon.
• Shinji knocked Momo unconscious and activated his Bankai, causing the woman’s bees to attack one another in explosive collisions.
• The woman transformed into a bee-like queen and proved immune to Shinji’s Bankai, so he withdrew it and released Sakanade.
• Shinji confused the woman with Sakanade’s spatial inversion, then cut her while secretly leaving the ability inactive.
• Shinji warned the wounded woman that he would keep attacking as she tried to judge the direction of his next strike.

The original Gotei 13’s battle against their juniors turned as Shunsui Kyōraku and Shūhei Hisagi defeated their opponents, while the Second Division began hunting through Soul Society. Lilynette’s fight with Shaoling Fon escalated into a Menos Grande Resurrección, prompting Soul Reapers across Seireitei to reveal Hollow-like forms and leaving the attacking captains convinced Menos Grande had taken over.

• Shunsui Kyōraku defeated the short-haired senior, while Shūhei Hisagi admitted his weakness and let Kensei Muguruma finish off the bespectacled man, who vanished into a red Mod Soul Pill.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi analyzed ten Mod Soul Pills, and Kenpachi Zaraki left the Eleventh Division seeking stronger enemies as the Second Division launched its hunting game.
• Shaoling Fon used Hōjaku Raikōgō to draw in an enemy, but Lilynette blasted the enemy through Seireitei’s barrier before Shaoling Fon struck Lilynette with a golden missile.
• Lilynette survived the blast and unleashed her Resurrección, while Tier Harribel and Szayelaporro also transformed as the original Gotei 13 captains rushed toward the powerful Spiritual Pressures.
• Kuruyashiki Kenpachi, Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi, Kensei Muguruma, Lisa Yadōmaru, Love Aikawa, and Shinji Hirako revealed masked forms, and Mayuri Kurotsuchi released his Menos Grande puppets.
• The attacking captains sensed more than a dozen Menos Grande-like Spiritual Pressures across Seireitei and resolved to drive out the apparent invaders.

Shinji Hirako explained that the Central 46 Chambers had fallen and that a godlike monster now surpassed Soul Reapers. As Soul Reapers, Hollows, and Quincy battled across Soul Society, Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai returned, unleashed his Bankai, and faced Kenpachi Zaraki as the others watched.

• Shinji Hirako told a woman that the Central 46 Chambers was gone and that a being stronger than Yachiru Unohana and Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai dominated the new era.
• Kenpachi Zaraki, Lilynette, Aura Michibane, and the Quincy attacked the seven original division captains, turning Soul Society into a chaotic battlefield.
• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai and Chōjirō Sasakibe arrived through a Senkaimon and saw that the fighting had destroyed much of Soul Society.
• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai activated Bankai: Zanka no Tachi, silencing the combatants with his immense Spiritual Pressure and prompting the Quincy to retreat.
• Kenpachi Zaraki approached Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai, and the others watched as their fight appeared poised to decide who was strongest.
• Sōgo Shihoin questioned whether he was still the strongest.

Sōgo Shihoin accidentally used his Zanpakuto to impose One Piece roles on Soul Society, triggering a chaotic battle between Yamamoto and Kenpachi. The invaders vanished after Kenpachi killed Kagerōza Inaba, leaving Sōgo to face the consequences of his power.

• Kenpachi challenged Yamamoto to prove who was strongest, and their clash devastated the area as Yamamoto began to lose ground.
• Sōgo recalled that he had tried to summon One Piece characters with his Zanpakuto and instead given their roles to people in Soul Society.
• Yamamoto gathered the original Gotei 13 captains, while Byakuya and Pesche joined Kenpachi and Ichigo; Sōgo lent Pesche Spiritual Pressure to keep him from disappearing.
• Byakuya attacked Yamamoto, Ichigo intercepted the strike, and Unohana tested Yamamoto with a powerful slash that he easily blocked.
• Yamamoto rushed to save Kagerōza Inaba, but Kenpachi killed him with one thrust, causing the invaders in Seireitei to collapse and turn into Mod Soul Pills.

Sōgo Shihoin’s Bankai made the Soul Reapers act out distorted memories, driving Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai and Kenpachi Zaraki into a battle that threatened Soul Society. Sōgo restored everyone’s minds, though he left the fabricated memories behind, and Shunsui Kyōraku was tasked with rebuilding the Seireitei.

• Kenpachi Zaraki confronted Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai and fought him as Yamamoto summoned the souls of warriors he had slain.
• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai unleashed Zanka no Tachi: South-Kaka Jūmanokushi Daisōjin and planned to destroy the world to bring back his sons.
• Sōgo Shihoin revealed that his Bankai had altered everyone’s minds and used his Zanpakuto to dispel the effects and stop the fight.
• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai and the others protested when Sōgo admitted he had left the fabricated memories in their minds, then Byakuya Kuchiki chased Sōgo.
• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai ordered Shunsui Kyōraku to rebuild the Seireitei.

Sōgo Shihoin and Shaoling Fon’s wedding began with the Gotei captains creating a spectacle across Soul Society. The ceremony ended in chaos when Lilynette and Tier Harribel arrived in wedding dresses, and the author announced the story was finished for now.

• Squad Zero changed Soul Society’s weather, while Tōshirō Hitsugaya and Byakuya Kuchiki displayed their powers in the sky for Sōgo Shihoin’s wedding.
• Yoruichi Shihōin, Yūshirō Shihoin, and Sanka Shihoin congratulated Sōgo Shihoin and Shaoling Fon at the small wedding banquet.
• Lilynette and Tier Harribel arrived in wedding dresses and embraced Sōgo Shihoin, angering Shaoling Fon.
• Lilynette blocked Shaoling Fon’s attack, and Sōgo Shihoin caused further commotion by grabbing the women as their clothes came loose.
• Mika covered Yushiro’s eyes while Yoruichi Shihōin photographed the scene, and the wedding ended amid chaos.
• The author said the novel was finished for now and thanked readers.