Goodbye..., Kurosaki

In her apartment, Orihime leaves careful household notes for Hitsugaya and Rangiku and studies the bracelet Ulquiorra forced on her, which wraps her in a membrane that renders her invisible and intangible to everyone but Arrancar. She is granted a single goodbye before departing for Hueco Mundo at midnight, on the condition that the chosen person never learns she was there. Testing the bracelet, she phases through glass and moves unseen through the city.

She lingers at the high school, hiding while Keigo and Mizuiro puzzle over their friends' sudden absences, and tries to reach Tatsuki at the gym, only for a soccer ball to sail straight through her head. Unable to be perceived, she is forced to settle on just one farewell. Meanwhile Rukia keeps watch over a battered, sleeping Ichigo, recalling Hachigen's warning that only rest far from the Visored can mend wounds tangled with Hollow reiatsu.

At the Kurosaki home, Yuzu coaxes an embarrassed Rukia into eating dinner in Ichigo's room, and Isshin gently thanks her for keeping his son safe. After Rukia sets out for Orihime's apartment, Orihime slips through Ichigo's window and speaks at last to his sleeping form.

Taking his hand, she leans in to kiss him but stops, weeping, unable to go through with it. She pours out the futures she wanted, wishing there were five of her so she could fall in love with Ichigo five separate times, then bids him farewell. At dawn, light falls across the words she left in her notebook: "good bye, halcyon days."

Adapting a single quiet chapter, the episode leans heavily on added material, from Orihime's full list of instructions to her wanderings through town and Rukia's evening with the Kurosaki family. An omake finds Keigo horrified by Mizuiro's suggestion that Ikkaku might one day become his brother-in-law through Mizuho.