Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25199543-20140719134821/@comment-8986886-20140723200454

@Ten Tailed Fox

Something must have happened to the Zanpakuto when Kenpachi first held it, after looting it from a corpse, to make him believe, without a doubt, that it was in fact released. He wouldn't make a statement like that without something to back it up with.