Greetings from a Stuffed Lion

Ichigo confronts the modified soul possessing his body, but is then distracted by an emerging hollow. Together, they defeat the hollow. When Kisuke Urahara, the merchant who sold Rukia her gigai, comes for the "defective" merchandise, Ichigo takes the modified soul back. He places the modified soul into a stuffed lion plushie and names it "Kon". Meanwhile in the Soul Society, another Soul Reaper is sent to track down Rukia, who has spent too much time in the living world and needs retrieving.