The Starter 2

When Obuta sics his crew on Uryu Ishida, Ichigo intercepts the charge, pins the lead thug in a joint lock, and calmly counts off the seconds until Uryu boots him in the back. The two friends launch into a squabble over whose fight this really is, pausing only to break several of Obuta's teeth once the slow-witted leader finally recognizes his target. Even as they mop up the stragglers, they bicker about Uryu's zeal for exterminating Hollows and the fact that his assignments now flow from the recently pardoned Urahara Shop.

A former victim named Yokochini resurfaces, still bitter over a beating from years earlier, but a mysterious attacker drops him and the rest of the gang cold. The assailant proves to be Ikumi Unagiya, Ichigo's boss, who is fed up with his slacking and simply bundles him into her van. Back at her odd-jobs shop she ties him up, whipsaws between a fierce business persona and sudden doting warmth when her son Kaoru wanders in, and piles a stack of work orders on him. The chapter ends as the stranger from before strolls in carrying takeout ramen.

The joint fight cements the easy rivalry between Ichigo and Uryu and shows how thoroughly Uryu has absorbed Karakura's Hollow duties. It introduces Ikumi Unagiya and her son Kaoru, establishing Ichigo's part-time workplace, and quietly reconnects him with the bag's owner, who deliberately follows him to the Unagiya Shop.

The third chapter of The Lost Agent volume, adapted within anime Episode 344. It marks the debut of Ikumi Unagiya, Kaoru Unagiya, and the one-off character Yokochini, and it references Urahara's former fugitive status in Soul Society.