For the Sake of Revenge, Lead Us to Death

Uryu confirms he wants a game that will teach Ichigo how the world could get by without Shinigami at all. Outside the Urahara Shop, Jinta and Ururu pass the time with rock-paper-scissors, the girl losing again and again by looking away whenever told, until Tessai hoists a bickering Jinta into the air. Rukia arrives, kicks the unmovable Tessai, and hurts her own foot before storming inside to fling her ignored communicator at Urahara's face, complaining she called a hundred times. She has come with something urgent to ask him.

On the street, Ichigo refuses the duel outright, saying Uryu's grudge belongs with a therapist, so the Quincy needles him as a mere Substitute Shinigami helpless without Rukia. Inside the shop, Urahara lays out the Quincy's story: a clan devoted to destroying Hollows, once spread across the world, wiped out two hundred years ago. Where Shinigami cleanse Hollows and guide them to Soul Society, the Quincy, whose loved ones the monsters had devoured, could not accept letting their killers find peace, so they annihilated them for revenge, a path that ultimately doomed the clan.

Provoked past his patience, Ichigo agrees to play and swallows Kon's soul candy, ejecting his spirit so the mod-soul can mind his body, just as Rukia had once insisted he carry it against exactly this kind of moment. When Ichigo asks for the rules, Uryu produces a small tablet of Hollow Bait, explaining that scattering it will lure Hollows to swarm Karakura Town, with victory going to whoever destroys the most within a day. Ichigo balks at the danger to innocents and refuses, but Uryu crushes the tablet between his fingers, vowing to slay every Hollow that comes and daring Ichigo to accept if he truly has the courage to protect people.

The chapter delivers the foundational backstory of the Quincy and their feud with the Shinigami, lore that pays off across the entire series. Its Japanese title translates as For the Sake of Revenge, Lead Us to Death; Viz shortened it to They Died for Vengeance. It was adapted across the anime's eleventh and twelfth episodes, The Legendary Quincy and A Gentle Right Arm, and appears in the fifth collected volume.