Gathering at the Place of Fortune! The Man Who Makes His Move

Pinned down by rain outside Karakura Hospital, Ichigo's group is ambushed when the Bount twins Ho and Ban resurface, fusing their water dolls Guhl and Gunther into a single towering mass. The doll's caps reform no matter how many times Ichigo, Renji, and Rukia cut through the water, and its tendrils soon envelop and start drowning them. Sado and Orihime break away with the feverish Uryu, whom the enemy is determined to seize.

Elsewhere, Yoshino studies an old marionette in an antique shop as Utagawa presses her to return to Jin Kariya, only for her to reject taking orders and warn that his ambition will destroy him. Meanwhile Ganju, working a convenience-store shift alongside Hanataro, senses the spiritual pressure of the fight, recognizes it, and rushes toward the scene with him.

Ichigo works out that the twins rely on a shared resonance to steer both dolls and are only whole together. When Ho and Ban capture Uryu and try to drown the entire group from within their own bodies, Noba repeatedly teleports Ban away, finally dropping him off a ledge to knock him out and break the link. Ganju then arrives, using Seppa to open the factory wall before hurling an oversized firework straight into Guhl's core.

The blast rips the water doll apart and sets its cap alight. With their dolls destroyed, Ho and Ban age rapidly and crumble to ash, leaving only their clothes behind, as Rukia surmises the pair had long outlived any normal human span. At the Bount Mansion, Kariya assembles his followers and grins at the news of the twins' deaths.

An anime-original entry in the Bount arc, the episode ends the battle against Ho and Ban and reunites Ganju and Hanataro with the human-world cast. A comedic omake shows Izuru and Hisagi laid low not by wounds but by overworked livers, treated by Fourth Division nurses after too much sake.