When Orihime begins to protest, Yoruichi asserts that they will not last one minute in Soul Society if they cannot activate their powers at will before instructing them to remember the first time they used their powers and retrace their steps. Meanwhile, in an abandoned building in Karakura Town, Orihime Inoue and Yasutora Sado yell loudly as they attempt to summon their respective powers, prompting a confused and embarrassed Yoruichi Shihōin to tell them they are doing it wrong and state that they will never get to Soul Society like this. With Ichigo incredulous that Urahara would let him die, Urahara asserts that his only two choices are to succeed or die while Tessai continues to maintain his spell a few feet away from Ichigo. After admitting that it normally takes months or even years for a broken Chain of Fate to reach this state, Urahara reveals that there is a gas in the Shattered Shaft that stimulates Encroachment and tells Ichigo that his Encroachment will be complete in 72 hours as he clarifies that Ichigo will either become a Shinigami and escape or become a Hollow and be disposed of by Urahara and his crew. As Urahara observes that they will eat Ichigo instead of the Chain of Fate if he gets too close, Ichigo collapses and grunts in pain. Kin, Ichigo slams his chest against the side of the Shattered Shaft and begins scraping the end of his Chain of Fate against it while proclaiming that he will crush the mouths, only for Urahara to warn him to not get too close to the mouths as Ichigo hears a crunching sound and falls back to discover that the mouths have taken a bite out of his torso, which spurts blood. With his arms bound by Tessai Tsukabishi's Bakudō #99. Standing at the edge of the Shattered Shaft above, Kisuke Urahara explains that a severed Chain of Fate will begin to devour itself in a process called Encroachment. Lesson2-2:Bad Endin’ In The Shaft.Īt the bottom of the Shattered Shaft in the Study Chamber beneath the Urahara Shop, Ichigo Kurosaki screams in terror while watching the end links of his Chain of Fate begin to devour themselves with tiny mouths as they undergo Encroachment. While Ichigo Kurosaki endures the suffering of the Shattered Shaft, Orihime Inoue and Yasutora Sado begin their own training with Yoruichi Shihōin. Deep beneath Kisuke Urahara's Urahara Shōten, Ichigo practices his fighting and hones his spiritual energies, and now he must face the most daunting challenge of all: prevent his Chain of Fate from consuming itself, or be forever transformed into a soul-devouring Hollow!Ĭhapters 062. But his fight with Rukia's brother, Captain Byakuya Kuchiki showed, in no uncertain terms, that Ichigo still has a great deal of rigorous study and training ahead of him. Ichigo Kurosaki knows that to retrieve Rukia Kuchiki from the Soul Society, he'll have to enter that world himself.

Abandoned well blade and soul