043. Princess & Dragon Part 3: Six Flowers

The specks circling Orihime reveal themselves as six small spirits who call themselves the Shun Shun Rikka, the living form of a power that has woken inside her. Their leader Shun'o explains that they are essentially fragments of her own soul and that only a rare few, Ichigo among them, could ever see them, while the blunt Tsubaki cuts the pleasantries short and insists she simply learn to wield them.

Guided by spoken incantations, Orihime first raises Santen Kesshun, a triangular barrier that swallows Numb Chandelier's next seed barrage, then casts Soten Kisshun to enclose the fallen Tatsuki and mend her wounds. Finally, with Tsubaki as her offensive spirit, she looses Koten Zanshun, which bores into the Hollow and splits it lengthwise. As Numb Chandelier dissolves into the sky, a spent Orihime manages a faint cheer before crumpling, and the spirits settle back into their hairpin shapes just as Urahara appears with Tessai carrying an injured Sado.

The Shun Shun Rikka spirits introduce themselves as Orihime's manifested power. Orihime blocks Numb Chandelier's seeds with Santen Kesshun. She heals Tatsuki with Soten Kisshun and destroys the Hollow with Koten Zanshun. Orihime collapses from the strain as Urahara and Tessai arrive with Sado.

Adapted within Episode 13, Flower and Hollow, the chapter closes the Hollow-bait incident of Volume 5's Agent of the Shinigami arc. It debuts all three of Orihime's core techniques.