Tears?
Hey, what the hell happened here?
Where's Inoue?!
Inoue... sacrificed her soul...
to put an end to Yhwach.
Are you all right?
Yeah...
Inoue used everything she had...
to keep us together.
Ichigo...
This means the world was saved, right?
Not yet.
Huh?
Ichigo, what are you...
planning to do?
Ichigo!
Is it that damned priest?
Ichigo!
You fool!
Why?
Why do you turn your back to me?
Inoue...
It's morning.
Haschwalth!
The time limit has already passed.
The Almighty.
Yhwach...
Why are you here? You're...
What are you talking about?
That version of the future never existed.
THE CALAMITY
I've lived my way full of shame
"Envy" comes from the ways of the eventual end
The ambiguous balance
I want to cut ties at once
It's too late to back down now
Before this senile body dies
My shadow will fade away soon, but
Even if I disappear, my journey won't stop
Uncertain days, certain endings
My stories fill the in-betweens
Beyond the wall blocking my way, there is a calm morning
Like the rising sun, I stand with the wind at my back
A burst of hope?
Break through an endless night
Show the sun waiting at the end of darkness
The promise is yet to be fulfilled
but I stand in solitude not to let it go
At the moment, I'm connecting numerous lights
to form a constellation that paves tomorrow
Even if the rain clouds hide the night sky away
there certainly is a flame in my heart
God is no longer reliable
I glance up towards the silver lining
The destiny of bursting fate
BLEACH THOUSAND-YEAR BLOOD WAR
It's understandable that you failed to notice,
in the depths of Wahr Welt, where the light cannot reach.
Moments before you activated Leiden Hant,
His Majesty's power and mine were swapped.
My original power is more suited for battle than His Majesty's.
Especially for an enemy like you, whose errors need rectifying!
The balance has shifted.
I'll let you in on something good...
The true terror of The Almighty is not the power to see the future.
What does that—?
I'll tell you when our fight is over.
Now...
Put all that you are onto the balance, Uryu Ishida!
On your broken balance that points to the path of no return!
Guys!
Did you think you are the only one who can wield dual swords?
You're looking for a hole in my ability, aren't you?
Ichigo...
You have the wrong idea.
The future does not lie on a single path.
The future is like the infinite grains of sand
scattered before me.
Each of those seemingly isolated and scattered grains of sand
is the future.
Put another way, they can also be called possibilities.
Ichigo...
I enjoy speaking of hope.
The future can be changed. That is a fact.
A wonderful fact filled with such great hope.
But changing the future simply means
jumping from one grain of sand to another.
And I can see every grain of sand from high above,
and intervene.
The Almighty is not the power to see the future.
It is the power to alter the future!
Inoue!
I'm... sorry...
Ichigo...
She could not protect you...
That is that woman's future.
You see, I altered her future.
Please do not give up hope, Ichigo.
Continue blindly jumping from
the rolling grains of sand called fate or possibility
as you always have until now.
That is hope for humans.
All of us walk on a balance.
We sort what is right or wrong for ourselves.
The sorted pieces of right and wrong
pile on top of each other and give us form.
That is who we are.
I know you too have done the same, Uryu Ishida.
But I do not see your form.
I do not see the form you've shaped for yourself
with the choices that you've made.
Who are you, Uryu Ishida?
Is it truly your desire to risk your life
for those shallow humans?
You really talk too much.
"Who am I," you ask?
How the hell am I supposed to answer that?
That's something...
I'll finally find out when I defeat you people!
I see.
ANOMALY DETECTED Boundary depth is increasing!
ANOMALY DETECTED
It's not stopping!
What are the Quincies trying to do?
The world will be destroyed!
I tried hitting it with Reishi via the Garganta,
but it only decreases for a moment before reverting back!
So it decreased momentarily?
It did, but don't get your hopes up.
Mutual annihilation is the only effective way.
Do you mean we have no choice
but to hit it with an equal amount of energy?
Where do we find that kind of energy?
We wouldn't have a problem if we knew!
We've tried everything we can.
What do we do, Akon?
This distortion is spreading because the balance of souls
in the World of the Living and Soul Society is destroyed.
Huh?! What are you even talking about at this point?!
What if we create balance here?
Huh?!
We open the gate to Hueco Mundo.
Let me ask a question.
Why are you asking me what sort of person I am?
Before even asking such a question,
shouldn't you defeat me as fast as you can
and race back to Yhwach's side?
They will die.
No matter how much I toy with you here,
His Majesty will not be exposed to any danger.
You are a lucky man, Uryu Ishida.
You succeeded in placing Leiden Hant on me
and shot me full of Heilig Pfeil.
An equivalent amount of misfortune will rain down on you.
My Schrift is B.
The Balance.
By allocating the misfortunes that occur in my domain
to the fortunate,
I maintain harmony in the world.
You do not stand a chance, Uryu Ishida.
There are probably no more answers I can get from you.
If you have nothing to say, then so be it.
This is where it ends.
Wait...
Don't you want to see it?
My Schrift?
Don't bother trying to prolong the inevitable.
If it was enough to beat me, you would've used it already.
It's quite the opposite.
I was just thinking now's the time to use it.
What do you mean?
My Schrift is...
A.
Antithesis.
Antithesis...
It reverses events that have already taken place
between two designated points.
This time I kept it simple—
I revered our wounds.
I see...
What a magnificent power!
No wonder His Majesty took an interest in you.
With the power to reverse events that already taken place,
perhaps you are the only one
who can challenge His Majesty's power.
What does that mean?
Are you talking about the true power of The Almighty?
Interpret it any way you wish.
All I can say is...
I was correct in stopping you here.
Do you think I would let you go?!
Your Antithesis is remarkable,
but it does not match up well with The Balance.
I told you, I can allocate misfortunes
and all misfortunes that occur to me
are received with this Freund Schild.
In other words...
The good fortune of you wounding me
has rained down on you as misfortune in the same amount.
The misfortune you inflicted on my body
is transferred to and absorbed by Freund Schild...
and will rain down on you as additional misfortune.
As I said before, you don't stand a chance, Uryu Ishida.
Still won't give up, will you?
You're a smart man...
I know you realize you don't stand a chance
against me or His Majesty.
I said I couldn't see you...
but I take that back.
You are very much like...
those unbelievably foolish humans.
You don't understand.
The Wahr Welt I desire is also the world which that woman desires.
A serene world without conflict,
without pain and without hatred or sadness.
That is exactly the Wahr Welt I desire.
Do not lose hope, Ichigo.
There is nothing more painful for a parent
than killing a child who is in throes of despair.
So you can still move?
I'm...
a lot like Kurosaki and the others, you say?
Everything I have done so far...
I've done calmly...
made decisions based on your so-called balance.
But Kurosaki is an idiot, so he can't do that...
If he wants to help someone, he'll just go and help.
Regardless of which way the balance tilts,
that guy isn't even looking at it.
Inoue's also an idiot.
Sado's also an idiot.
Kuchiki's also an idiot.
And Abarai's also an idiot.
If I appear to be the same as those idiots...
...that makes me happy.
Is that so?
You are afraid of both hope and despair, aren't you?
You call it The Almighty,
but it seems you can't see deep into people's hearts.
What about despair?
I know all about it.
I've overcome it...
time and time again!
It is for this moment,
that I needed you, my son!
"Happy," you say?
I wasn't calling into question how you felt.
I can't imagine how being with them benefits you in any way.
That's what I'm saying.
Have you grown by being with them?
Compared to the few years you've spent with them...
you should've grown much more
in the instant His Majesty gave you power.
If friends are there to heighten one another...
It is not them, but His Majesty you should risk your life for.
You said the balance is a choice.
I chose to be with them.
There is no self-interest there.
No right, no wrong...
Because we're friends.
I see. I understand now.
So, you have no intention of forsaking anything...
even though you were accepted by His Majesty.
Then at least forsake your life, Uryu Ishida!
Bankai!
Tensa Zangetsu!
Don't look so grim, Ichigo.
I paid respect to your power.
A new Tensa Zangetsu...
I concluded that it's a formidable Bankai,
so I broke it in the future.
Bankai!
Bankai, huh?
I like that word.
Ren—!
It's because it's a powerful word that allows you Soul Reapers
to rise up no matter what the circumstances.
Thanks to that word,
I was able to crush the hearts of the Soul Reapers that rose up,
many times over.
You've overcome despair countless times,
and changed the future, right?
Do you understand why you were able to do that?
It was because I wasn't there.
My dear Ichigo...
Try and change the future. Show me.
No matter how magnificent that future may be...
I will be watching it.
And... I shall cut apart the future you've changed.
Now, do not despair,
Ichigo...
Retracing memories
An unexpected gaze
The world I didn't want
I've started breaking it down
Lean on each other and face forward
I want to change my fate
All the voices shout
The sound rang out
I saw countless scattered shadows
and I laughed
A world that's lost its color
I'll illuminate it again
Broken and lamenting
The end of the dream
Shaking free from it over and over again with a still-connected heart
I'll protect today, the path I've walked all this time
Break it
Tear the future apart, call my name
Turn your back on your predetermined past
Today keeps playing with fate
Reclaim it here and now
To the ends of the earth, an unseen dream
With eyes that know the strength that lies in words
Notice the distorted spiral
My fate has been set in motion
BLEACH: THOUSAND-YEAR BLOOD WAR
Why are you looking at me like that?
Did you think I was disappointed
that His Majesty robbed me of my power?
Quite the opposite.
I'm actually honored he didn't take your power...
I'm honored that he chose to take my power.
Because that means
I'm the only one who can be of service to him.
Is that so?
Wait, Uryu Ishida.
Transfer your wounds onto me before you go.
I will... die soon.
Wounded or not...
...that won't change.
What are you saying?!
What's the matter?
Is that pity?
Weren't you trying to kill me just a moment ago?
But—!
Why are you hesitating?
I thought I told you to put everything on a balance.
Decisions made without weighing them on a balance,
made hastily in doubt...
will all end up as regret.
Then weigh that on a balance as well, Uryu Ishida.
You should go help your friends...
Even if the results won't change...
The point is to decide as you please.
To move forward as you please.
I have no regrets.
Not one...
We are drawn to each other
Like drops of water
Like the planets
We repulse each other
Like magnets
Like the colors of our skin...