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Amidst tensions in the Rukongai, Kariya seeks support to challenge the Soul Reapers, while Ichigo and his allies continue searching for threats involving the Bounts. Encounters between key characters intensify as the conflict escalates during this arc.

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Byakuya sends Rukia to the Kuchiki clan's house to recuperate. In the Rukongai, Kariya enters Kusajishi, one of the most crime-ridden parts of Rukongai, and asks the populace to aid him in fighting the Soul Reapers. Ichigo, Uryuu Ishida, and Yasutora "Chad" Sado begin searching for the Bounts again, and Ichigo takes the modified soul Ririn with him. Elsewhere in a forest in the Rukongai, Byakuya encounters Kariya.