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Soul Reaper Commander-General Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai calls for a meeting of all the Soul Reaper captains to discuss the Bount threat. Captain Tōshirō Hitsugaya is tasked with defeating the Bount, and Yamamoto gives a standing order to kill all suspected intruders without hesitation. In Rukongai, the area outside the Soul Reaper fortress of Sereitei, the Bounts Jin Kariya and Gō Koga defeat the Soul Reapers sent to capture them. Meanwhile, Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends enter Soul Society, and Yoruichi Shihōin explains that Maki Ichinose, a Soul Reaper under Kariya's command, manipulated captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi into opening the gate into Soul Society.