Volume 2 GOODBYE PARAKEET, GOODNITE MY SISTA

"People have and obtain wishes
Because they cannot look death in the eye."

8. Chase Chad Around
9. Monster and a Transfer [Struck Down]
10. Monster and a Transfer pt 2 [The Deathberry]
11. Back. [Leachbomb or Mom]
12. The Gate of the End
13. BAD STANDARD
14. School Daze!!!
15. Jumpin' Jack, Jolted
16. Wasted but Wanted
    
    Extra: Orihime Inoue's Profile
    Extra: Yasutora "Chad" Sado's Profile

Author's Comments

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General Overview

This volume begins when Yasutora "Chad" Sado, who had been injured by a hollow and admitted into Kurosaki Clinic, goes missing along with his parakeet that has a plus in it. Worried about him, Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki skip school to search for him, but they don't have any luck finding him until Ichigo decides to use spirit threads to track down Yuuichi Shibata, the plus in the parakeet. But when they finally find Chad, they're forced to split up because Karin is also there sick, so Ichigo takes her home, while Rukia continues to follow Chad. Rukia and Chad end up fighting the hollow together because Rukia doesn't have the powers or strength to fight while Chad can't see it. But when Yuuichi gets threatened, they separate. Soon after that Ichigo returns and beats the hollow, which descends to hell because it was a mass murderer in life and a soul cutter can only clean the sins of a hollow after death. Then they perform a soul burial on Yuuichi Shibata.

Later Rukia is low on supplies, so she goes to Urahara's Store to get more. In addition to the normal supplies, she's made a special order of Soul Candy, which forcibly extracts a soul from its body and replaces it with a temporary fake soul, making it perfect for Ichigo when she's not around to punch out his soul with her glove. Ichigo tries it out immediately and then goes off to take care of a hollow. But all is not well because the fake soul actually turns out to be an underpod mod soul and starts causing chaos in Ichigo's class and then flees off when confronted by Ichigo and Rukia, unwilling to let Ichigo have his body back now that it's obtained a body. Once Kisuke Urahara and the employees of his store realize they've sold a bad product they prepare to go retrieve their bad product, by force if necessary. Everything converges at Karakura Primary, where the mod soul protects some brats from a hollow. He and Ichigo kill the hollow together while arguing, and afterwards Urahara shows up and punches his cane through the head of Ichigo's body to knock out the mod soul, but Rukia convinces Urahara to let her keep it because they feel sorry it hasn't had a chance to really live.

In Depth Chapter Summaries

8. Chase Chad Around
   Corresponding TV Episode - episode 4
   Characters Appearing - Tatsuki Arisawa, Keigo Asano, Orihime Inoue, Mizuiro Kojima, Rukia Kuchiki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Isshin Kurosaki, Karin Kurosaki, Yuzu Kurosaki, Misato Ochi, Yasutora "Chad" Sado, Yuuichi Shibata, Midori Toono
   Kidou - None
   Locations - Karakura, Karakura High, Karakura Primary, Kurosaki Clinic
   Released Soul Cutters - None
   Relevant Terminology - denreishinki, hollow, shinigami, Soul Society, spirit thread

   The next morning Karin feels bad and doesn't want breakfast and Chad is discovered to be missing! The title page shows Ichigo, Chad, Tatsuki, Inoue, Mizuiro, Asano, and Rukia in school uniform. Everyone but Rukia seems to be having fun. Chad is a blowing a bubble with the highly stylized words "Killerpop Blues #1" written on it.

   Ichigo rushes to school to see if Chad is there, but finds he isn't (which is unusual for him as he's usually there early). Despite the teacher walking in to start class, Ichigo runs out, saying he's sick. The teacher pays him no notice, however.

   At Kamakura Primary, we see Karin sick and throwing up in a girl's bathroom. Yuzu and their friend Midoriko are there, worried about her. At last Karin emerges from a stall and says she's going home. She tells Yuzu to get her bag and bullies Midoriko to leave as well.

   Next we see Ichigo running down a street. Rukia jumps over a wall behind him and asks her if she's seen Chad. She says she hasn't seen him and she hasn't gotten information from Soul Society via her denreishinki. She adds that Soul Society can only detect hollows that are on earth, but usually they hide in the dimension between worlds. Ichigo is worried about him, but then comes up with the bright idea of trying to find the spirit in the parakeet Chad was carrying. Rukia says it's impossible to sense such a weak spirit from this distance (plus the spirit has mingled with the parakeet's soul, which make it that much harder to detect), but Ichigo ignores her. Suddenly these white things like ticker tape appear around Ichigo. He opens his eyes and grabs one, saying he's found it, and runs off. Rukia thinks that was spirit threads, or a visualization of a spirit's aura, and only high-level shinigami can do it. Stunned, she follows him.

   We next see Chad hiding in a boiler room. Shibata thanks Chad for protecting him, but asks Chad to leave him so he can save himself. Chad doesn't listen, though. Then there's an explosion behind Chad and they realize they've been found. Chad runs off, telling the parakeet he'll definitely save its mother. When he exits the building he runs into Rukia and Ichigo, but turns and runs in the other direction. They chase after him, only to get stopped by Karin, who is still sick. Not wanting to loose Chad again, but not wanting to leave Karin there, they split up: Rukia tails Chad while Ichigo takes Karin home. On the way home Karin explains that because she was closest to Shibata in age she saw his strongest memory and that's what was making her sick. And that memory was seeing his mother killed before his eyes! She begs Ichigo to save him.

   The last sceen shows Yuzu wanting to go home, too, because she's worried about Karin. Midoriko asks her what she should do because their teacher won't believe her.

   Differences in episode 4:

   • They skip Ichigo going to school and showing Karin sick in the bathroom and go right to Ichigo talking to Rukia, but rather than having them meet by Rukia jumping over a wall, they run into each other at a street intersection.
   • They break up both Ichigo locating Chad using spirit threads and the hollow finding Chad. It goes like this: 1) Ichigo starts sensing for Shibata. 2) Shibata asks Chad to leave him as Chad enters the building. 3) Karin is shown in bed thinking about Shibata. She says she needs to tell Ichigo something and gets out of bed. 4) Ichigo finds Shibata using the spirit threads. 5) The hollow attacks Chad and Shibata.
   • Chad seems to be able to see the hollow a tiny bit.
   • The last scene isn't shown.
9. Monster and a Transfer [Struck Down]
   Corresponding TV Episode - episode 4 and episode 5
   Characters Appearing - Rukia Kuchiki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Karin Kurosaki, Yasutora "Chad" Sado, Yuuichi Shibata, Shrieker
   Kidou - Hadou 33: Soukatsui
   Locations - Karakura, Kurosaki Clinic
   Released Soul Cutters - None
   Relevant Terminology - artificial body, hollow, kidou, shinigami

   Rukia continues to chase Chad, but because of the limitations of her artificial body, she's having trouble catching up to him. Then she hears a voice saying she smells tasty. The hollow is right behind her! The title page shows Rukia (with her hair in weird buns), Chad, and Ichigo sitting on a bizarre couch in front of a screen. They're all wearing punkish getups, and Rukia and Ichigo are sharing two earbuds of the same pair of headphones.

   Meanwhile, Ichigo has gotten home. He thinks about before his mother died both Yuzu and Karin were crybabies, but after Yuzu tried to filled his mother's place in terms of housework. Karin, on the hand, was determined never to cry again so she didn't worry anybody - not even when she got in trouble with the principal or when she broke her leg or when she got beat up by a 6th grader. So her crying is a big deal and makes him more determined to do what it takes to save the parakeet.

   Meanwhile, Rukia has managed to dodge the hollow's attack. It's amazed that she did and that she seems to be able to see it. She even manages to attack it and then tries to do some kidou on it, but that fails to injure it at all. At this point the hollow realizes she's a shinigami, just a very weak one. It says it's eaten two shinigami that tried to save the parakeet, and Rukia realizes it's been following the parakeet around, but it won't say why unless she lets it eat her.

   Chad hears the sounds of Rukia and the hollow fighting and Shibata explains what's going on. At this point Chad puts Shibata's cage down and goes to help her. Shibata protests saying it's too dangerous, so Chad moves the cage up on top of a wall. Shibata says he meant that Chad cannot even see ghosts, but Chad leaves anyway.

   By this time the hollow has Rukia pinned to a wall and is asking her to come out of her artificial body. It gets interrupted when Chad shows up and punches it. Chad is surprised he hit it and Rukia thinks he might be able to see the hollow until he starts punching far away from where the hollow is. However, Chad is lucky and manages to land a second punch. Rukia's stunned that he can be so calm when he can't see it (although all humans can touch hollows because they all have high-density spirits). The hollow, meanwhile, gets annoyed and starts flying so Rukia tells Chad to stop punching (he's a bit surprised that she can see it, though). He has other ideas, though, and uproots a telephone pole to hit it once Rukia points him in the right direction.

   The last scene shows a random house with a kid watching the TV when it suddenly goes out. Simultaneously, the toilet stops working (according to the grandfather's shouts from behind the bathroom door). Differences in episodes 4 and 5:

   • Ichigo leaving his house and Chad and Rukia fighting the hollow take place in episode 5. Everything else occurs in episode 4.
   • The order is different. After the hollow shows up behind Rukia, she attacks it immediately. Then Chad hears the explosion and goes to help her. Then the hollow realizes she's a shinigami. At this point Ichigo has gotten home and puts Karin in bed.
   • There's an extra scene after the hollow realizes Rukia is a shinigami where Karin begs Ichigo to tell Shibata if he passes on he can see his mother.
   • Rukia doesn't explain why Chad can hit the hollow even if he can't see it.
   • The last scene wasn't shown.
10. Monster and a Transfer pt 2 [The Deathberry]
    Corresponding TV Episode - episode 5
    Characters Appearing - Rukia Kuchiki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Yasutora "Chad" Sado, Yuuichi Shibata, Shrieker
    Kidou - None
    Locations - Karakura
    Released Soul Cutters - None
    Relevant Terminology - hollow, shinigami

    It seems like they have the hollow beat, but then it calls on some reinforcements - these little dog-like creatures. Then we see the title page: Chad standing sideways lifing up his left sleeve to reveal his tattoo. It's a winged heart with a snake wrapped around it and a banner in front saying "Love and Death" in Italian.

    The dog-things pin down both Rukia and Chad and then the hollow gloats that shinigami stupidly assume it has no allies just because they fight it alone for awhile. However, Chad doesn't stay pinned down for long before he throws all of them off and starts punching into thin air again. He connects after Rukia again points him in the right direction, and the hollow takes to the air again, this time too high to be reached even by phone poles. This time Rukia has Chad launch her at the hollow, but before she can hit it, one of dog-like creatures squeezes its head and pops out a bunch of leeches at Rukia, which attach to her and knock her back to the ground. The hollow lands and makes its tongue vibrate like a tuning fork, causing the leeches on Rukia to explode. It gloats more as some of its allies show up with Shibata in his birdcage. He threatens to blow it up unless it can chase Rukia while Chad does nothing, so Rukia tells Chad to stay and runs off.

    After running and most of the time successfully dodging the leeches (she gets hit once), the hollow tells her she can try to fight if she wants. Eventually she stops, not because she wants to fight, but because Ichigo has returned. He jumps on the hollow's head and yells at Rukia for taking on more than she could handle. Rukia retorts only someone who's worried would say stuff like that, and then the hollow gets mad at Ichigo for standing on its head. Ichigo jumps off and then says the hollow should fight him.

    The last scene shows Chad looking off wondering if that was just Ichigo, as Shibata tells him it's ok to move.

    Differences in episode 5:

    • The last scene isn't shown.
11. Back. [Leachbomb or Mom]
    Corresponding TV Episode - episode 5
    Characters Appearing - Tatsuki Arisawa, Orihime Inoue, Rukia Kuchiki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Yasutora "Chad" Sado, Yuuichi Shibata, Shrieker
    Kidou - None
    Locations - Karakura
    Released Soul Cutters - none
    Relevant Terminology - hollow, shinigami, soul cutter

    The hollow comments Ichigo smells even better than Rukia and then attacks him. Luckily Rukia has put on her glove and punches out Ichigo's soul just in time. We then see the title page: Tatsuki and Inoue sitting on some stairs outdoors in fall eating apples.

    Ichigo and the hollow battle, and Rukia warns Ichigo about the leeches. Ichigo comments that this hollow is a complete jerk. Then Chad runs up with Shibata's birdcage. He's startled to see Ichigo's body on the ground when she tells him to take Ichigo's body and the parakeet to someplace safe. Rukia then tells him that Ichigo's in the middle of a battle.

    Rather than getting hit by the leeches, Ichigo has been cutting up the dog-things. Unfortunately the leeches spilled out of their wounds all around Ichigo and the hollow blew them up. Luckily, that wasn't enough to kill Ichigo or even wound him and Ichigo puts his sword to its neck. He then asks it if it's the one that killed Shibata's mother.

    Back with Rukia, Chad, and Shibata, Shibata apologizes for everything, saying it's because he wanted to bring his mother back to life. Rukia is shocked that someone told him it was possible.

    Meanwhile, the hollow answer Ichigo, "Yes." It goes on to explain that in life it was a serial killer and that Shibata's mom was his last victim. He enjoyed chasing her around as she tried to protect Shibata, but at last cornered her on the balcony and killed her. However, Shibata grabbed his shoelaces and caused him to fall to his death. To punish Shibata, the hollow put his soul in the parakeet and told him if he could run for 3 months, the hollow would bring his mother back to life (although it couldn't do that.) It would then kill the humans that tried to protect Shibata and when Shibata complained it'd say something about his mother to force Shibata to continue the game. This makes Ichigo angry and the hollow takes advantage of it by shooting some leeches at it, which Ichigo catches in his hand. But when it sticks out its tongue to make them explode, Ichigo shoves the hand with the leeches in its mouth through its teeth and pulls out its tongue.

    The last scene shows some dog-things listening to the hollow scream about its tongue. It also explains that they're basically secretions from the hollow, have little willpower, and can't even feel pain.

    Differences in episode 5:

    • The last scene isn't shown.
12. The Gate of the End
    Corresponding TV Episode - episode 5
    Characters Appearing - Rukia Kuchiki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Karin Kurosaki, Yasutora "Chad" Sado, Yuuichi Shibata, Shrieker
    Kidou - none
    Locations - Karakura, Kurosaki Clinic
    Released Soul Cutters - None
    Relevant Terminology - hell, hollow, shinigami, soul burial, soul cutter, Soul Society

    Next Ichigo chops off one of its legs. We then see the title page: Ichigo and Chad wearing scarves, heavy coats, gloves, and sunglasses in front of leaveless trees. Ichigo is holding his soul cutter.

    Ichigo then asks it how it feels to be so scared. It tries to fly off, but he jumps after it and cleanly slices its head. However, he's startled when a huge gate appears from the hollow's broken mask. Rukia walks up and explains that's the gate of hell. A soul cutter can only cleanse a hollow of its sins after death. For those hollows that have committed a lot of sins in life, the gates of hell open and they descend into hell. The hollow's body is then pierced by a giant creepy looking guy (the devil?) holding a sword. After that the gate closes and then breaks apart.

    After that they return to Chad and Shibata. Rukia attempts to return him to his body, but it's been too long and she can find no trace of his body. Shibata is crestfallen, at least until Ichigo says that although he can't come back to life, he can get sent on to Soul Society, where his mother is. Rukia adds that Soul Society is a nice place where you won't get hungry and your body is light. Before he gets sent off, however, Shibata thanks Chad and Chad asks if they can run around together again after he dies. After that Ichigo sends him to Soul Society. Then you see Karin asleep in bed thanking Ichigo.

    The last scene shows the parakeet's back.

    Differences in episode 5:

    • Ichigo doesn't chop off the hollow's leg and it doesn't fly off. Instead he slices its head immediately after pulling out its tongue.
    • The creepy guy's face can't be seen.
    • The last scene isn't shown.
13. BAD STANDARD
    Corresponding TV Episode - episode 6
    Characters Appearing - Acid Wire, Tatsuki Arisawa, Keigo Asano, Fishbone D, Hexapodus, Jinta Hanakari, Orihime Inoue, Mizuiro Kojima, Kon, Rukia Kuchiki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Yuzu Kurosaki, Yasutora "Chad" Sado, Shrieker, Tessai Tsukabishi, Ururu Tsumugiya, Kisuke Urahara
    Kidou - None
    Locations - Karakura High, Urahara's Store
    Released Soul Cutters - None
    Relevant Terminology - denreishinki, hollow, memory changer, shinigami, soul candy, Soul Society

    Later you see Rukia sitting alone on the school roof examining her memory changer and the condition of her body. She decides she needs to get more supplies. Then we see the title page: Ichigo, Tatsuki, Chad, Orihime, Rukia, Asano, and Keigo wearing odd jumpsuits with kneepads and suspenders (each character is in a different color) sitting on a couch.

    Ichigo, however, is at home and knocking on the door of his closet so he can give Rukia breakfast. He's surprised to see she's not there and then Yuzu yells at him for taking breakfast upstairs to eat.

    Rukia is now outside of Urahara Store where two kids are playing (or rather the boy, Jinta, is picking on the girl, Ururu.) The store is closed, but they let her in anyway. Tessai, the employee working inside, is just about to get the owner when Kisuke Urahara himself comes out. He turns out to be the guy wearing Japanese sandles that we saw the foot of earlier. He recognizes Rukia and offers some new products from the other world. She ends up getting the cheapest fuel for the Memory Changer and something to help her use her body better. She pays via the credit on hollows Ichigo has killed so far (all but the last one didn't have any bounty on them, though.) After that Rukia asks if her order arrived and Urahara replies that it has. He then asks Ururu to get it from the back, and she finds it in a box marked "merchandise." Rukia's a bit disappointed that it's only the second most popular one, but takes it.

    Back at school, Keigo and Kojima are playing with the parakeet and are a bit disappointed that it can't talk very well anymore. When they ask Chad what happened to it, all he says is that it was like that when he woke up (probably the result of Rukia's Memory Changer.) Rukia shows up and after dodging some questions about being late, asks Ichigo to come with her so they can talk. Ichigo says they can talk there, so she punches him and drags him out of the classroom, claiming to be taking him to the nurse's office. Everyone is a bit stunned that she punched him.

    On the roof she hands him her order - what looks like a pez dispenser marked "Soul Candy." She explains that it is used to force a soul out of a body (and is usually used on a dead body whose spirit doesn't want to leave.) It will also replace the soul with a temporary one (which has a specially crafted personality) so no one will even notice that Ichigo's soul is not really there. Ichigo doesn't understand how it works very well, so Rukia has him try it. His soul does indeed pop out, but he's not very impressed with the temporary soul's personality - it doesn't seem like him at all. However, just then Rukia receives orders about a hollow from her denreishinki and drags Ichigo away whether he likes it or not. As he's being dragged away, Ichigo reminds him to go back to the classroom. After they leave Ichigo's body looks a bit creepy and says "Take your time."

    Meanwhile, at Urahara's Store, Urahara has just discovered that the box Ururu took Rukia's order from was actually marked "Poor Merchandise."

    The last scene shows Ururu sweeping the floor with a broom, happy she was able to help out.

    Differences in episode 6:

    • Instead of Yuzu yelling at Ichigo for eating upstairs, the dad and Yuzu discuss Ichigo at the breakfast table. Ichigo then kicks his dad in the face.
    • Rukia paying for the items using hollow bounties is left out.
    • After buying her stuff, Urahara gives Rukia a vague warning about not being able to hide it forever.
    • They leave out Mizuiro and Keigo playing with Chad's parakeet.
    • The last scene isn't shown.
14. School Daze!!!
    Corresponding TV Episode - episode 6
    Characters Appearing - Tatsuki Arisawa, Jinta Hanakiri, Chizuru Honsho, Orihime Inoue, Kon, Rukia Kuchiki, Ryou Kunieda, Ichigo Kurosaki, Mahana Natsui, Michiru Ogawa, Tessai Tsukabishi, Ururu Tsumugiya, Kisuke Urahara
    Kidou - None
    Locations - Karakura, Karakura High, Urahara's Store
    Released Soul Cutters - None
    Relevant Terminology - mod soul, shinigami

    At Urahara's Store all of the employees have gathered what to do about the situation. They need to act quick because there's no telling what the guy in Ichigo's body (from here he will be referred to as Kon for reasons that will be explained later) will do once he obtains a body. We then see the title page: Ichigo the shinigami in a speech bubble above the title and Kon in Ichigo's body below the title in a speech bubble.

    At the school, Kon tests out Ichigo's body by stretching and then kicking a wall (and seriously denting it). This attracts the attention of a teacher, and he really freaks the guy out by walking towards him and then jumping clear over him and onto the roof nearly 30 feet away. Kon thinks he's surprised and the guy drops to his knees.

    In the classroom it's lunchtime. One of Orihime's friends, Chizuru, a lesbian, makes a pass at her as Orihime eats her odd lunch of a loaf of bread and sweet bean paste. Tatsuki tries to protect her, but the antics are ended prematurely when Orihime goes to the window and says she can smell Ichigo. Moments later Kon shows up in the classroom by jumping from the ground up to the second floor. The whole class stares at him, and Kon eyes the girls especially. He ends up making a pass at Orihime (because of her huge breasts) and Tatsuki again tries to protect her. Chaos insues.

    Ichigo has managed to take care of the hollow and is racing back to the classroom. Rukia doesn't understand why and Ichigo says he has a bad feeling. It turns out with good reason because when they arrive back at the school someone has chucked a desk out of his classroom window. Tatsuki is the one doing the desk tossing at Kon because he kissed her on the cheek. Everyone else in the class is totally scared. Rukia then shows up at the classroom door and Kon runs to the window. Even though Ichigo shows up at the window, Kon manages to jump out of it and land safely. He then takes off running at rocket speeds. As Rukia watches him run, she realizes Kon is a mod soul.

    The last scene shows Chizuru and Ogawa, still shocked, wondering if that scary girl was Rukia.

    Differences in episode 6:

    • They toned down Chizuru's lesbian innuendos. She merely says Orihime is so cute eating the bread. They also leave out Tatsuki trying to protect Orihime and Orihime sniffing around the window.
    • Before the class's reaction to Kon jumping into the classroom is shown, Ichigo is shown defeating a random hollow. He then says he has a bad feeling.
    • Keigo Asano, Mizuiro Kojima, and Yasutora "Chad" Sado are in the classroom during lunch and witness the whole incident with Kon.
    • Kon fights Ichigo before jumping out the window. They hint that Orihime can see Ichigo.
    • The last scene wasn't shown.
15. Jumpin' Jack, Jolted
    Corresponding TV Episode - episode 6 and episode 7
    Characters Appearing - Keigo Asano, Tatsuki Arisawa, Jinta Hanakari, Orihime Inoue, Mizuiro Kojima, Kon, Rukia Kuchiki, Ryou Kunieda, Ichigo Kurosaki, Karin Kurosaki, Yuzu Kurosaki, Michiru Ogawa, Yasutora "Chad" Sado, Midoriko Toono, Tessai Tsukabishi, Ururu Tsumugiya, Kisuke Urahara
    Kidou - None
    Locations - Karakura, Karakura High, Karakura Primary, Urahara's Store
    Released Soul Cutters - None
    Relevant Terminology - hollow, mod soul, shinigami, soul cutter, Soul Society

    This chapter starts with Keigo and Mizuiru wondering why Ichigo never turned up for lunch. When they return to the classroom they find it in shambles with Tatsuki standing in the middle of the destruction looking nothing so much as a demon. They freak out and run. After that a teacher stops by to investigates the noise and has a similar reaction. Ogawa explains the situation by saying a strange had jumped in the window and Tatsuki tossed desks at him to drive him away. The teacher doesn't believe her and thinks she's trying to cover up for Tatsuki when Ryou Kunieda, the class representative and a model student, backs her up. After that he orders them to clean up the classroom and leaves. After that they wonder about Ichigo's odd behavior, but Inoue says it wasn't really Ichigo. We next see the title page. Ichigo is wearing a jacket, goggles, and a T-shirt that says "VERE IZ DA MAN?" A tiny Rukia is floating above his head with her hands barely keeping her skirt from flying up.

    Ichigo and Rukia, meanwhile, have lost Kon and Ichigo's body. He's totally freaked out about Kon kissing Tatsuki, but Rukia thinks it's nothing because of all the trashy novels she's read to practice modern Japanese. She then starts explaining what a Mod Soul is. They were created as part of Operation Spearhead as soul specifically designed for combat. The general idea is they would insert them into dead human bodies and use them for combat. Most Mod Souls have super-human abilites in one area, such as singing well, running fast, being smart, hearing well, or being strong. However, this operation was cancelled before it even got its feet off the ground and all the Mod Souls were ordered to be destroyed. Kon somehow managed to escape this, and since he obviously has enhanced leg abilites is an "underpod" type. Ichigo wonders how Kon must feel, being slated to die so soon after he was born and then finally managing to get a body, but being afraid that he'll get captured and killed.

    Kon is actually having a ball, though, jumping 30 feet high and he skips down a random street and drawing everyone's attention. Yuzu and Midoriko actually manage to see him jumping over their school wall, but when Karin sees it, too, she forces both of them to keep quiet about it. Kon eventually comes across a couple boys from their class who are skipping their physical education class so they can play video games. One of them causually deletes a video game character he created earlier and doesn't like now.

    At Urahara's Store, everyone has finished their preparations for retrieving Kon - Ururu has this huge wrapped package, Jinta has some sort of bat/gun, but both Urahara and Tessai are apparently unarmed. They set off.

    The last page shows Keigo fretting over his trashed desk.

    Differences in episode 6 and episode 7:

    • The parts with Keigo, Mizuiro, Chad, and the teacher showing up in the classroom are left out.
    • The conversation between Rukia and Ichigo occurs in a building, rather than outside.
    • They leave out Yuzu, Karin, and Midoriko seeing Ichigo jumping.
    • Kon is actually shown attacking the kids and Ichigo defends them from him.
    • The scene showing Urahara and employees ready for battle isn't shown until episode 7.
    • The last scene isn't shown.
16. Wasted but Wanted
    Corresponding TV Episode - episode 7
    Characters Appearing - Jinta Hanakari, Rukia Kuchiki, Ichigo Kurosaki, Kon, Karin Kurosaki, Yuzu Kurosaki, Midoriko Toono, Tessai Tsukabishi, Ururu Tsumugiya, Unnamed Hollow, Kisuke Urahara
    Kidou - None
    Locations - Karakura, Karakura Primary
    Released Soul Cutters - None
    Relevant Terminology - denreishinki, hollow, mod soul, shinigami, soul cutter, Soul Society

    Since they've lost Kon, Rukia decides to ask a nearby storekeeper for help. Ichigo drags her away just in time since the guy was trying to convince her to buy a melon before he tells her anything. Just then her denreishinki goes off and they receive orders about a hollow (which is this chapter's title page).

    Back at Karakura Primary, the kids with the video games start shouting and everyone comes running. The kids claim a high school kid with orange hair showed up and busted their games. No one believes them, however, and they're punished for skipping class by having to clean up. Kon, who's running away on some rooftop, is mad at them for destroying something they created so casually. But then he senses a hollow near those kids and runs back to save them.

    The kids are griping about their teacher, unaware that a centipede-like hollow is looming over them. Kon manages to get there in time to push them out of the way. They start yelling at Kon, but he tells him to run away. They don't listen until he gets torn up by the hollow and they see him start bleeding.

    When Ichigo and Rukia show up they find Kon on the school roof fighting the hollow. As soon as Ichigo realizes it's Kon, he speeds off ahead angrily, leaving Rukia behind. Just in time, too. He manages to save Kon from getting killed by the hollow. At first Kon is touched, until Ichigo tells him off for getting his body hurt. After that the two start arguing, seemingly oblivious to the hollow, until it tries to butt in and gets a face full of both Sword Cutter and Kon's foot. This breaks up the argument, however, since Kon dashes off to kick the hollow up in the air. He nearly gets himself killed by falling off the building, but Ichigo manages to catch him by the shirt. At first he's mad because hollows disappear once they're killed, but then realizes Kon did it to stop it from falling on a colony of ants. Kon says he doesn't want to kill anything because of he was born the day before Operation Spearhead was cancelled, and spent so much time afraid of getting destroyed. Their conversation is interrupted when Urahara and company show up. Urahara simply takes his cane and shoves Kon out of Ichigo's body with its tip. After that he picks up Kon-the-Soul-Candy and says the retrieval operation is complete. Ichigo tries to stop him from taking Kon away and is startled that Urahara can see him. Rukia finally arrives and takes Kon from Urahara and after haggling convinces him to let her keep Kon.

    Later Rukia and Ichigo are watching the news, which is showing a video clip of Kon jumping in the streets, and wonder what they should do about it.

    The last page shows Urahara walking away saying there's going to be trouble.

    As an extra for the volume it shows all the possible soul candy dispensers. The most popular is Chappy the bunny, followed by Yuki the duck, and Papyrus the dog (who has a graduation cap on his head). Other mascots include Diana the cobra, Alfred the skull (wearing a top hat and a bandage), Claudia the penguin, Ginnosuke the cat, Gringo the panda (with a cigar in his mouth), Blues the monkey, Kaneshiro the frog, and Steiner the ghost.

    Differences in episodes 7:

    • Instead of Rukia talking to the fruit vendor, she and Ichigo are already at Karakura Primary and Ichigo is fighting Kon. Kon runs off and when Ichigo tries to follow Rukia's denreishinki goes off so they go after a hollow.
    • Yuzu, Karin, Midoriko, and the rest of the class aren't there when the teacher talks to the video game kids.
    • Between when the hollow appears near the video game kids and when Kon shows up to save them there is a short scene showing Rukia's denreishinki acting up. She says she's unable to locate the hollow.
    • Instead of telling the kids to run, Kon fights the hollow and when he gets hurt during the fight the kids flee.
    • When Kon kicks up the hollow and nearly falls off the building, it is to save the kids, not the ants (though the ants are still there).
    • The news story about Kon jumping around Karakura was not shown.
    • The last scene isn't shown, nor is the bit about the different mascots.
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