Bleach: The White Abyss
Eight hundred years ago, a captain vanished.
His name was erased from history. His deeds faded into rumor. The few who still remembered him believed he would never walk beneath the sky again.
Deep within Muken—the lowest prison of Soul Society—Ren Arashi spent eight centuries in complete isolation. To the world above, he was a criminal too dangerous to be released. To himself, he was simply a swordsman with nothing left but time.
When the impossible finally happens and Ren is set free, he discovers that Soul Society has become almost unrecognizable. The Gotei Thirteen has changed, old comrades have become legends, and an entire era has passed without him. Most believe he is nothing more than a forgotten relic of the past.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
After an unfinished battle with the Captain of the Eleventh Division, Ren is forced into an ancient challenge for the title of Kenpachi—a battle that will shake the foundations of the Seireitei. But while the world sees only an ancient swordsman returning from prison, no one knows the true power sleeping within his white Zanpakutō… not even Ren himself.
As forgotten enemies stir, buried truths begin to surface, and the scars of the First Quincy War refuse to remain buried, the man once sealed away must decide what kind of warrior he will become.
The monster that was imprisoned…
Or the protector who returned.