Quincy Archer Hates You Part 2 (Blind but Bleed Mix)

Split open along its entire length, the colossal Hollow bellows in agony and hauls itself back through the tear in the sky, choosing retreat over a final assault. Ichigo flings a defiant victory sign skyward, drawing amazed looks from Uryu and grudging praise from Urahara's helpers, who remark that the boy might grow into his gift if he ever learns to rein it in. The triumph is brief. Moments after the rift seals, Ichigo crumples, unable to command his own limbs as the sword in his raised hand begins to warp.

Uryu recognizes that the single massive burst Ichigo unleashed has left his blade unraveling, and that the loose energy is now pouring into his own bow, swelling it past the point he can hold its shape. Rather than let it detonate, he repeatedly siphons off the surplus and launches it upward as gigantic arrows, each shot flaying his arm a little more. He ignores Ichigo's pleas to stop, insisting that neither of them can settle their grudge unless both live. As he works, he finally admits the truth he had buried: his grandfather Soken always wished the Quincy and Shinigami would stand together, and Uryu's hatred was only a mask for his shame at failing to save the old man as a child.

Watching the archer break himself apart in penance, Ichigo quietly concedes he could never bring himself to strike someone so wretched. Nearby, Urahara's crew starts clearing the wreckage and mending the fractured heavens, while Rukia realizes that word of a Menos falling in the living world will race back to her homeland. Unnoticed among them, a mechanical fly that Jinta swats at relays its discovery to Central 46: the fugitive Rukia Kuchiki of the Thirteenth Division has been pinpointed. The chapter was adapted into episode 14, Back to Back, a Fight to the Death.