Nozomi Awakens

Nozomi Awakens is the event of Nozomi Kujō manifesting her "Zanpakutō" and training to awaken its Shikai as Reigai enter the World of the Living in an attempt to capture Nozomi Kujō, battling with the Ichigo Kurosaki's group and seated officers of the Gotei 13.

Prologue
After Ichigo Kurosaki decided to head to Soul Society to go help stop Kageroza Inaba, he is confronted by the 7th Seat member himself. Kageroza transports Ichigo into the Dangai, where he is swept up by the Kōtotsu. At the Urahara Shop, Ichigo's friends are keeping track of the situation in Soul Society through Kisuke Urahara who is monitoring the progress of Ichigo and the Gotei 13 captains. They are surprised when Urahara finds that he no longer can detect Ichigo, stating that his reiatsu has completely disappeared. As Urahara continues to try to find Ichigo, the group is only able to wait for news on Ichigo's status. Urahara then suddenly picks up a reading of Ichigo's reiatsu and heads out to go find him with Renji Abarai. The others follow Urahara out of the room. After rescuing Ichigo from the Dangai, Urahara explains about several aspects of the Dangai. He tells about those wander from the fixed Dangai are doomed to wander in it forever until the Kōtotsu or Kōryū swallows them, at which point they die. He reveals that there are several ways to escape, but no way exists to be swallowed by the Kōtotsu and survive. He reveals that he does not know how Ichigo survived, but states that he will investigate it. Urahara also reveals the reason Kageroza is interested in the Dangai is because there is certain information concealed in it. This information was in regards to Mod-Souls. Rukia then explains about the Mod-Souls' origins and Project Spearhead when Inoue asks what is a Mod-Soul. This revelation prompts Uryū to asks how Urahara knew about the Mod-Soul information hidden in the Dangai. Urahara then answers that when he and Renji rescued Ichigo from the Dangai, he noticed an anomaly with the Reishi surrounding Ichigo. When analyzing this, he found data fragments relating to the development of Mod-Souls. He reveals that Inaba used that data to create Mod-Souls of the Gotei 13 captains. Nozomi confirms that Urahara's statement. She then claims that Kageroza developed the Mod-Souls and reveals that Kageroza studied the Dangai for a long time to retrieve the information that was inside the Kōtotsu. Hearing this, Kon then comes to the conclusion that Nozomi did not trust him because she thought he was simply another Mod-Soul of Kageroza's creation. Nozomi denies this, saying that Inaba did not create him. As Kon asks how can she know this, she informs them all that she was the very first Mod-Soul to be developed.