Ichigo Rages! The Assassin's Secret

'''Ichigo Rages! The Assassin's Secret''' is the one-hundred eighty-seventh episode of the Bleach anime.

Amagai reveals his true intentions to Yamamoto.

Summary
After Captain Shūsuke Amagai reveals himself as a traitor and takes off with Rurichiyo Kasumiōji, Ichigo Kurosaki wonders what he has done and Rukia Kuchiki says that he used a Kidō spell he has never seen before. She theorizes that it is a unique move that he knows that allows him to move freely and hide his reiatsu. Ichigo becomes angry and Rukia says that there is no way to find him. Ichigo yells that there has to be but before he can finish his sentence, a Jigokuchō arrives.

At his office, Captain-Commander Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto is approached by Amagai who has arrived with Rurichiyo. Yamamoto asks what he wants and why he has Rurichiyo. Amagai asks if Yamamoto has never considered that there might be people who would murder him if they had the chance. Yamamoto asks to what end someone would murder him but Amagai merely says Shin'etsu Kisaragi and says that he has come in his stead from the depths of hell to end Yamamoto's life. He draws his Zanpakutō but before he can do anything, Ryūsei Kenzaki arrives and unleashes his 'Benishidare. As a purple mist covers the area, Amagai states that he thought he completely hid his reiatsu and that the princess has dedicated bodyguards. Kenryū tells him to shut up and fires his Sange technique at Amagai, firing many pink spikes at the traitorous captain. Rurichiyo runs for Kenryū and Amagai reaches for her but is interrupted by Rusaburō Enkōgawa and his Daichimaru. Amagai is trapped within the Tatami and Enryū rushes to Rurichiyo as Kenryū unties her. Rurichiyo comments on Enryū's voice which she is hearing for the first time. Enryū becomes embarrassed but Rurichiyo says she likes it.

Kenryū says that it is their chance and Rurichiyo gets up but Amagai breaks out of the Tatami, forcing Enryū to jump in front of the flying pieces of rock to save Rurichiyo. Amagai goes to Yamamoto's desk and grabs the Bakkōtō sitting on it. Yamamoto asks what he plans to do with it and Amagai smiles as he pulls the eye out of it, saying that it is the nucleus. He says during previous fights, they were set to devour the reiatsu of their wielders and when he feeds them to his own Bakkōtō, the tuning fork like weapon that he carries around, its true power activates. He takes the end cap off of his weapon revealing a nucleus of its own inside. The nucleus pops up and devours the one in Amagai's hand. He taps the weapon against his blade and the nucleus stretches out and wraps itself around his arm, taking on a new form of a black dragon shaped gauntlet with a green blade of energy coming from the mouth and sever nuclei lining it.

Yamamoto comments that he was not sure what Amagai was planning and that he did not know he had a Bakkōtō. Yamamoto then removes his Haori and frees his Zanpakutō from its cane. He releases Ryūjin Jakka and sets the area aflame, causing Kenryū and Enryū to use Shunpo to move Rurichiyo to safety. Yamamoto sends his flames towards Amagai, who merely stabs the ground with his Bakkōtō, causing the flames to dissipate. Yamamoto looks at his sword curiously and asks what Amagai did. Amagai reveals that his Bakkōtō's ability is to totally negate the powers of a Shinigami. He says that as long as it is activated all Zanpakutō are useless except for his own Raika. He unleashes his Bankai as a torrent of flame surrounds him. He twirls his blade above his head before slamming it to the ground, launching a wave of fire at Yamamoto and destroying the wall behind the old man.

On the ground below, Enryū pushes two large rocks off of himself and Rurichiyo. Rurichiyo asks her bodyguards if they are all right and Kenryū, out of breath, says that it is nothing. Amagai looks their way and is surprised that they are still alive. He angrily asks what Rurichiyo is looking at and asks if she wants to die first. Yamamoto, safe, tells Amagai to cease his threats, saying he is his opponent and those three have no part in this. Amagai says he is wrong and that Yamamoto is not the only one he is after. He says he is taking down the successor of the Kasumiōji clan with Yamamoto.

Shinigami Illustrated Picture Book
Chojiro Sasakibe is seen to have witnessed two English gentlemen having tea in the past, which apparently had such a profound impact upon his life that he now grows his own tea leaves. He is seen placing tea inside his heating implement, to which he turns the switch vehemently, as Ichigo and the others witness a huge explosion in the 1st Division quarters, to which Sasakibe denies any involvement.

Powers and Techniques used
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