Season 9, Episode 171 - "Kenryuu, the Profusion of Blooming Crimson Flowers"
21 May, 2008
Ichigo and Rukia take Lurichiyo through the town, and have dinner at her house. After Ichigo starts an argument with Lurichiyo over her refusal to eat carrots, he accidentally reveals that Kenryuu and Enryuu hired him as a bodyguard. Furious, Lurichiyo runs towards the river, where she meets Orihime Inoue. They are attacked by a guandao-wielding assassin who can fire energy blasts that solidify into rock walls. Ichigo, Rukia, Kenryuu, and Enryuu arrive and Kenryuu uses his shikai to immobilize the assassin, allowing Ichigo to defeat him. However, the assassin commits suicide by collapsing a rock wall on himself, and after the group leaves, Kumoi's head assassin retrieves the dead assassin's weapon. The next morning, Kenryuu realizes that Lurichiyo is missing.
