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The upcoming BLEACH novel "Spirits Are Forever With You" will be released on June 4th. The novel is divided into 2 volumes.
The novel takes place in the 17 month gap after the Aizen arc.
Four previews have been published in Jump so far:
Summary: A captain meeting takes place. Apparently the name Kenpachi is passed on to every new 11th division captain. And former captain, Azashiro Kenpachi, who was imprisoned in the Muken has disappeared.
Summary: After his defeat Aizen was imprisoned in the Muken. There Aizen talks with Azashiro Kenpachi and a woman in a white kimono.
thanks to mangateers
Summary: Don Kanonji runs into a female Hollow at an abandoned hospital. Unbeknownst to him this meeting will lead him to a path full of danger.
thanks to Minerva @BA
translation thanks to verduister 
The novel takes place in the 17 month gap after the Aizen arc.
Four previews have been published in Jump so far:
Summary: Don Kanonji runs into a female Hollow at an abandoned hospital. Unbeknownst to him this meeting will lead him to a path full of danger.
Vol.04
Soul Society is shaken by the attack of a mysterious Arrancar----
The person who appears at the Research and Development Institute is----
Amongst the researchers there was no one who could’ve predicted "this" beforehand.
Though perhaps the Institute’s president, Kurotsuchi Mayuri, could have predicted "it" if he had closely examined "it".
But Mayuri was currently absent because of a trial and to the ones who didn’t know what "this" was there was no reason to closely examine the change of reiatsu in the air.
"It" was floating in Soul Society’s airspace --- Far thinner than the silk thread of a silkworm: an invisible thread of Negación. No one in the Institute knew of its existence and it proceeded to stretch out and crawl into the institution.
As if watching the tendrils of a morning glory grow at high speed, the thread of Negación stretched out further and further, staying glued to the walls.
But when it entered a room filled with countless computer units and hastily working researchers, the thread stopped moving.
And then ----
"Oh, for the love of--, what’s up with these Arrancars!? They don’t seem to be taking along weak Hollows and all of their movements are out of control!"
In contrast to Hiyosu and his shouts of frustration, Akon muttered calmly as he looked at the footage that was sent in.
"It really looks like a meeting of little brats."
"Oooh, there are some cute girls too! I wonder if we can capture a few of them alive..."
Niko, eyes shining behind his glasses, muttered inappropriate comments but his hands slid over the keyboard at a high speed as he processed the incoming data.
The other members also analysed the data with their hands and eyes while letting their mouths move fluently.
"Speaking of female Arrancars, what happened to that weird Hollow in Karakura Town? This group of Arrancars also came via Karakura Town. Is there any connection?"
"Kurumadani is tenacious when it comes to reports, isn’t he? It hasn’t been settled yet. The President got interested and tried to send Nemu-san over there to investigate but then he got called to court.."
Akon scolded the members for having such conversations.
"That’s enough pointless talk. In this situation the trial will be dropped anyway. Hurry up and collect all the data before the President comes ba---!?"
At that moment a chill ran down Akon’s spine and his words got stuck in his throat.
They noticed it.
Somewhere in this observation room an ominous reiatsu was welling up.
Then, the member with the lowest reiatsu sensory skills started shouting while looking at his monitor.
"!? That's impossible...! A large hollow reading somewhere inside Seireitei! Ah.... It's an Arrancar! Its location... is...."
His entire body froze as he shouted. At the exact moment he finished double-checking the information on his monitor, he felt the sensation that filled the entire room.
"Wha... Its location... I-It’s inside this.... room."
The members all broke into a cold sweat and no one in the room made a single move.
But from a desk at the back of the room came the sound of someone steadily typing away at a keyboard.
None of the members were typing. After all, that desk was the President’s desk. There was no member so suicidal as to dare use the President’s computer. And of course the reiatsu pouring out from there was completely different from the President’s reiatsu.
When the members, Akon first, slowly looked towards the desk---
A final pang rang through the room as the typing stopped and the man who was suddenly sitting behind the desk opened his mouth with a small smile.
"Oh my.... The man who killed me is this place’s President?"
Staring at the data on the monitor the male Arrancar with a glasses-shaped mask spoke to the members in a voice that made his intelligence apparent.
"H-hey, he..."
"He’s the specimen that was kept in the back of the warehouse, preserved in fluid....?"
Specimen.
The moment he heard that single word, the Arrancar narrowed his eyes and suddenly started yelling with an ever so small smile lingering on his lips.
"Specimen....Ha! I became a specimen! Though it’s true I lost for the moment, that is simply a disgrace beyond all imagination! Be it as a corpse, my body actually ended up on the observed side!"
---- This is bad.
Akon pondered to himself as he watched the unstable-looking Arrancar.
---- That specimen and this guy are the same person.... If I assume he’s "something" that at least possesses the same powers...
---- He... was one of the Espada, wasn’t he?
{ Sz... }
Nearly at the same time that Akon and the others remembered the name written on the specimen’s label, the Arrancar slowly rose from his seat.
"How about you show me that "specimen" right now? After all, it’s extremely rare to get a chance to observe my own corpse. Well, I don’t clearly remember the moment when I died in the Living World."
Soul Society is shaken by the attack of a mysterious Arrancar----
The person who appears at the Research and Development Institute is----
Amongst the researchers there was no one who could’ve predicted "this" beforehand.
Though perhaps the Institute’s president, Kurotsuchi Mayuri, could have predicted "it" if he had closely examined "it".
But Mayuri was currently absent because of a trial and to the ones who didn’t know what "this" was there was no reason to closely examine the change of reiatsu in the air.
"It" was floating in Soul Society’s airspace --- Far thinner than the silk thread of a silkworm: an invisible thread of Negación. No one in the Institute knew of its existence and it proceeded to stretch out and crawl into the institution.
As if watching the tendrils of a morning glory grow at high speed, the thread of Negación stretched out further and further, staying glued to the walls.
But when it entered a room filled with countless computer units and hastily working researchers, the thread stopped moving.
And then ----
"Oh, for the love of--, what’s up with these Arrancars!? They don’t seem to be taking along weak Hollows and all of their movements are out of control!"
In contrast to Hiyosu and his shouts of frustration, Akon muttered calmly as he looked at the footage that was sent in.
"It really looks like a meeting of little brats."
"Oooh, there are some cute girls too! I wonder if we can capture a few of them alive..."
Niko, eyes shining behind his glasses, muttered inappropriate comments but his hands slid over the keyboard at a high speed as he processed the incoming data.
The other members also analysed the data with their hands and eyes while letting their mouths move fluently.
"Speaking of female Arrancars, what happened to that weird Hollow in Karakura Town? This group of Arrancars also came via Karakura Town. Is there any connection?"
"Kurumadani is tenacious when it comes to reports, isn’t he? It hasn’t been settled yet. The President got interested and tried to send Nemu-san over there to investigate but then he got called to court.."
Akon scolded the members for having such conversations.
"That’s enough pointless talk. In this situation the trial will be dropped anyway. Hurry up and collect all the data before the President comes ba---!?"
At that moment a chill ran down Akon’s spine and his words got stuck in his throat.
They noticed it.
Somewhere in this observation room an ominous reiatsu was welling up.
Then, the member with the lowest reiatsu sensory skills started shouting while looking at his monitor.
"!? That's impossible...! A large hollow reading somewhere inside Seireitei! Ah.... It's an Arrancar! Its location... is...."
His entire body froze as he shouted. At the exact moment he finished double-checking the information on his monitor, he felt the sensation that filled the entire room.
"Wha... Its location... I-It’s inside this.... room."
The members all broke into a cold sweat and no one in the room made a single move.
But from a desk at the back of the room came the sound of someone steadily typing away at a keyboard.
None of the members were typing. After all, that desk was the President’s desk. There was no member so suicidal as to dare use the President’s computer. And of course the reiatsu pouring out from there was completely different from the President’s reiatsu.
When the members, Akon first, slowly looked towards the desk---
A final pang rang through the room as the typing stopped and the man who was suddenly sitting behind the desk opened his mouth with a small smile.
"Oh my.... The man who killed me is this place’s President?"
Staring at the data on the monitor the male Arrancar with a glasses-shaped mask spoke to the members in a voice that made his intelligence apparent.
"H-hey, he..."
"He’s the specimen that was kept in the back of the warehouse, preserved in fluid....?"
Specimen.
The moment he heard that single word, the Arrancar narrowed his eyes and suddenly started yelling with an ever so small smile lingering on his lips.
"Specimen....Ha! I became a specimen! Though it’s true I lost for the moment, that is simply a disgrace beyond all imagination! Be it as a corpse, my body actually ended up on the observed side!"
---- This is bad.
Akon pondered to himself as he watched the unstable-looking Arrancar.
---- That specimen and this guy are the same person.... If I assume he’s "something" that at least possesses the same powers...
---- He... was one of the Espada, wasn’t he?
{ Sz... }
Nearly at the same time that Akon and the others remembered the name written on the specimen’s label, the Arrancar slowly rose from his seat.
"How about you show me that "specimen" right now? After all, it’s extremely rare to get a chance to observe my own corpse. Well, I don’t clearly remember the moment when I died in the Living World."
At the present Tokyo Prefecture Karakura town.
On the way back from the Christmas party, a boy name Asano Keigo, a high school student is walking with his friend, Kojima Mizuiro. He had his hair cut shorter during the party because he lost a game. Keigo complains that his new hairstyle looks like Robert De Niro’s hairstyle from Taxi Driver movie, it doesn’t look really good so he is crying. However, he comforts himself, saying it doesn’t look so bad, Keigo then turned his face to Mizuiro. Mizuiro remained expressionless but mocking Keigo thoroughly. Mizuiro also tells Keigo that he is not as intelligent as Inoue, who tries to comfort Keigo during the party. Keigo was shock at Mizuiro’s words and blamed his behavior in the party. Keigo then stated “if the police finds me, they will definitely sees me as a burglar.” or similar. While he was wondering arround, a young woman who was giving him a sidelong glance caught his attention, she has a shoulder length hair and looks tired. But what makes Keigo shitting his pants is the skull mask that covers half of her face on the right side.
He was in a cold sweat (fear) as he recognized the mask, being white and skull look. He remembers it was a kind of evil spirit that Afro-san was chasing, Mizuiro also sensed a strange reiatsu. When they were looking at her, she looks puzzled / confused and then disappears. Keigo is shocked but Mizuiro remains calm. Behind them, there were a group of University students who also seem to be surprised by what they have witness. Keigo felt strange about the situation, he thought he is becoming a spiritual person but everyone can see that half skull mask woman. It was during the night time, a downtown between Karakura Town and Naruki city which crowded with workers and students who are on their way back home, they were all pointing or even taking pictures of the spot where the woman disappeared. An afro man with a black costume later ran into the spot. He named himself Kurumadani Zennosuke and regretted that he missed the evil spirit.
“Ah, Afro-san!” shouted Keigo,
Afro man noticed Keigo, he says Keigo is the thief, asked him whats with that hairstyle and also got angry because Keigo didn’t call him with his full name, but Keigo doesn’t care about it. Keigo knew that man was a shinigami who was fighting against evil spirits. However, people did not noticed Afro san and they were still chatting about the disappearance of the woman, he started to feel something strange again because people can see the half skull mask woman but couldn’t see Afrosan. Keigo and Mizuiro look at each other but soon went back to their normal state of minds, thinking there’s nothing special happens to them.
But for the surrounding of the ‘town’, it is just the beginning. After that, many people have seen the ‘woman with the skull mask’ nearby in many towns and this incident not just happens on several days but over a year. She suddenly appears then disappears again; it was weird that even a normal citizen could see her and it became a rumour as time passes. In the end, someone recorded her figure and broadcasted on the Internet until it became famous around the nationwide.
A year later, a producer of spiritual TV program found her existence on the Internet, he is worried that the popularity of his program drops, so he came up with an idea. It was about a new program and the title is "Don Kannonji’s sudden trip to the spiritual place/scene –Let’s chase a women with a skull mask who appears and disappears in the dark! Featuring Karakura Town, which marked the highest record of rating in this program will be broadcasted again!’’ And so ‘he’ appears again with his posture and smile. Don Kannonji, the Master of Spiritual Media (霊媒師) off to the Karakura Town, where he could call the town as his second hometown.
On the way back from the Christmas party, a boy name Asano Keigo, a high school student is walking with his friend, Kojima Mizuiro. He had his hair cut shorter during the party because he lost a game. Keigo complains that his new hairstyle looks like Robert De Niro’s hairstyle from Taxi Driver movie, it doesn’t look really good so he is crying. However, he comforts himself, saying it doesn’t look so bad, Keigo then turned his face to Mizuiro. Mizuiro remained expressionless but mocking Keigo thoroughly. Mizuiro also tells Keigo that he is not as intelligent as Inoue, who tries to comfort Keigo during the party. Keigo was shock at Mizuiro’s words and blamed his behavior in the party. Keigo then stated “if the police finds me, they will definitely sees me as a burglar.” or similar. While he was wondering arround, a young woman who was giving him a sidelong glance caught his attention, she has a shoulder length hair and looks tired. But what makes Keigo shitting his pants is the skull mask that covers half of her face on the right side.
He was in a cold sweat (fear) as he recognized the mask, being white and skull look. He remembers it was a kind of evil spirit that Afro-san was chasing, Mizuiro also sensed a strange reiatsu. When they were looking at her, she looks puzzled / confused and then disappears. Keigo is shocked but Mizuiro remains calm. Behind them, there were a group of University students who also seem to be surprised by what they have witness. Keigo felt strange about the situation, he thought he is becoming a spiritual person but everyone can see that half skull mask woman. It was during the night time, a downtown between Karakura Town and Naruki city which crowded with workers and students who are on their way back home, they were all pointing or even taking pictures of the spot where the woman disappeared. An afro man with a black costume later ran into the spot. He named himself Kurumadani Zennosuke and regretted that he missed the evil spirit.
“Ah, Afro-san!” shouted Keigo,
Afro man noticed Keigo, he says Keigo is the thief, asked him whats with that hairstyle and also got angry because Keigo didn’t call him with his full name, but Keigo doesn’t care about it. Keigo knew that man was a shinigami who was fighting against evil spirits. However, people did not noticed Afro san and they were still chatting about the disappearance of the woman, he started to feel something strange again because people can see the half skull mask woman but couldn’t see Afrosan. Keigo and Mizuiro look at each other but soon went back to their normal state of minds, thinking there’s nothing special happens to them.
But for the surrounding of the ‘town’, it is just the beginning. After that, many people have seen the ‘woman with the skull mask’ nearby in many towns and this incident not just happens on several days but over a year. She suddenly appears then disappears again; it was weird that even a normal citizen could see her and it became a rumour as time passes. In the end, someone recorded her figure and broadcasted on the Internet until it became famous around the nationwide.
A year later, a producer of spiritual TV program found her existence on the Internet, he is worried that the popularity of his program drops, so he came up with an idea. It was about a new program and the title is "Don Kannonji’s sudden trip to the spiritual place/scene –Let’s chase a women with a skull mask who appears and disappears in the dark! Featuring Karakura Town, which marked the highest record of rating in this program will be broadcasted again!’’ And so ‘he’ appears again with his posture and smile. Don Kannonji, the Master of Spiritual Media (霊媒師) off to the Karakura Town, where he could call the town as his second hometown.
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