Monster and a Transfer [Struck Down]

Karin urges Ichigo to promise Yūichi a reunion with his mother in the afterlife so the boy need never be alone. As Rukia races after Sado, she curses her sluggish gigai for lacking the strength and flight she needs, resolving to complain to the research division. Distracted, she fails to guard her back, and Shrieker ambushes her, declaring he will devour her soul. Elsewhere, having tucked Karin into bed, Ichigo reflects on how rarely his sister cries and steels himself to reunite Yūichi with his mother.

Rukia recovers from Shrieker's blow and stuns him simply by surviving, then knees him and fires a point-blank Sōkatsui at his skull, hoping her powers have finally returned. The Hollow shrugs off the spell unharmed, gashes her arm, and taunts her as a feeble soul reaper. He boasts of already eating two soul reapers sent to claim Yūichi, but refuses to explain his obsession unless she lets him bite her.

Hearing the fight, Sado sets Yūichi's cage atop a fence and charges in blind, punching Shrieker squarely and freeing Rukia despite being unable to see the creature. Rukia marvels that an ordinary human would strike a lethal foe he cannot perceive. Enraged, Shrieker takes to the air and dares Sado to hit him, but Sado simply asks Rukia for the Hollow's position, wrenches a telephone pole from the ground, and, on her direction, smashes Shrieker down into the earth.

Shrieker reveals he has already consumed two soul reapers. Rukia's returning powers prove too weak to harm him, and Sado saves her by attacking on faith and her spoken coordinates, felling the airborne Hollow with an uprooted telephone pole.

Set in the second volume and the Agent of the Shinigami arc, this chapter demonstrates Sado's budding spiritual resilience. Its events span the anime's fourth and fifth episodes, Cursed Parakeet and Beat the Invisible Enemy!. Viz Media publishes it as Monster Vs. New Girl (Smack Down).