
Gin's lifelong scheme reaches its decisive moment. With Aizen impaled, he tears the Hogyoku from the wound and believes the fight is finally won, but the orb refuses to abandon its master and Aizen rises again in a terrible new shape.
A memory surfaces of Gin as a boy, gathering wood when he glimpses Aizen and three other soul reapers in a forest clearing, one of them holding out the Hogyoku that Aizen locks away inside a glass case. That distant sight planted the resolve that has driven him ever since.
In the present, Gin thrusts his hand into the cavity in Aizen's body and rips the Hogyoku loose an instant before a blow hurls him back. Certain that everything is over, he cradles the orb in his wounded arm, only for a pillar of light to erupt where Aizen fell. Aizen strides out whole once more, clad in an angelic form, smiling as he declares the Hogyoku still his even outside his flesh.

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As the orb blazes in his grip, Gin recalls Aizen handing the stone back to those same reapers years earlier, and the day he found Rangiku with that trio close by, which cemented his conviction that Aizen led them and was his true target. Before he can act on the thought, Aizen carves a deep gash across him with one stroke. Episode 307 adapts the chapter.
DEICIDE 17 brings Gin's lifelong scheme to its decisive moment as he tears the Hogyoku from the wound in Aizen's body, believing the fight is won. The orb refuses to abandon its master, however, and Aizen rises again in a terrible new shape.
In DEICIDE 17 Gin does rip the Hogyoku loose and cradle it in his wounded arm, but the orb stays loyal to Aizen, who erupts in a pillar of light and strides out whole once more.
In DEICIDE 17 Aizen emerges from a pillar of light clad in an angelic form, smiling as he declares the Hogyoku still belongs to him even outside his flesh.
The flashback in DEICIDE 17 shows Gin as a boy glimpsing Aizen and three other soul reapers in a forest clearing with the Hogyoku, a sight that planted the resolve driving him ever since.
DEICIDE 17 is adapted in Episode 307, Emergency Situation! Aizen, New Evolution!
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