Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-26475399-20160220225549/@comment-44061-20160220231257

That reference was in the fact that he had shinigami powers at all in the first place. Which was never explained, how he ended up in a situation that allowed him to have shinigami powers in order to become the first Substitute. We know what happened with Ichigo. 1st Rukia and then via the Shattered Shaft training with Urahara. We dont know how it came about that Kugo got Shinigami powers. The insinuation being made is that Soul Society figured the powers may have been stolen somehow. Similar to how Renji felt toward ichigo at first.