Bleached Ichigo

Bleach Manga Chapter 176: End Of Hypnosis 8 – The Transfixion

The chapter starts off with Komamura having a flashback of his first meeting with Tousen and how they became friends. Later Tousen would introduce Komamura to Aizen.
The scene is changed to the present and Aizen is shown blocking Komamura’s sword with his bare hand. The 7th division captain gets angry and releases his bankai, but is immediately captured by one of Aizen’s binding spells. Even though it’s one of the strongest known spells, which almost kills Komamura, Aizen does it with ease and claims it to be only 30% successful.
Aizen then resumes the explanation of his plan. After he is finished, he preforms a ritual, with which he extracts the Hougyouku from inside Rukia’s soul, whitout killing Rukia herself. After the ritual is complete, Aizen orders Gin to kill Rukia, but Byakuya suddenly appears and takes the hit that was meant for Rukia.