regeneration.

Under the shop, Urahara chants and enacts the Keikaigi ceremony, opening a large oval Garganta between two posts driven into facing rock formations where Ichigo, Sado, and Uryu stand ready. He warns them that the passage the Arrancar use to cross over holds no ground beneath it, only a turbulent expanse of spirit particles they must shape a path through, steering toward the darkness until they surface in Hueco Mundo. Ichigo entrusts a message for his family to Urahara and swears to make amends with his friends afterward, then jumps in with the others as the tear closes.

Once they are away, Urahara coaxes Tatsuki, Keigo, and Mizuiro out from hiding, admitting he had known of their pursuit before they even arrived and had deliberately left his door unlatched. He muses that Ichigo foolishly thinks harsh words could ever cut those bonds, then turns to his own tasks.

Far away in Las Noches, Aizen receives Orihime beneath his throne, flanked by Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, Luppi, Yammy, and Wonderweiss. Pressing down with his reiatsu, he asks for a display of her ability and points to the injured, partly frozen Luppi, who sneers that no girl could be worth the battle waged as her decoy. Aizen suggests she mend Grimmjow's missing left arm. Over Luppi's jeers, Orihime works Soten Kisshun and the limb reforms flawlessly. Aizen describes the feat not as a rewinding of time or space but as a denial of events themselves, a power reaching into territory reserved for gods.

The chapter sits within volume 27, goodbye, halcyon days., and carried the magazine title "Regeneration" in Weekly Shonen Jump. Its final turn is savage: with his arm and Espada mark both restored, Grimmjow drives his fist through Luppi and erases him with a close-range Cero to reclaim his standing. The chapter fed into episodes 142 and 143 of the anime.