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The logic of him trying to swim up but actually going down in the process makes sense actually. For a real life example it’s akin to someone drowning who doesn’t know how to swim. They hit the water and panic sets in and start flailing about but to no avail it doesn’t help them at all. They yell and scream for help and try desperately but they still go under. This is what we have here with the X-axis and Danyo’s abyss. By the way Kubo drew the lettering and the X-axis reaction he desperately did not want to be there. We can’t forget up until this point he had knowledge of Shunsui; at this point of the fight he’s in foreign territory unbeknownst to him. He only has the cryptic words of a trolling Shunsui to rely on. Furthermore, the gist of Shunsui’s zanpaktou powers aside from the games are reflection based albeit not always directly. What happens to one person’s body the same will apply to the others. Shunsui activated Danyo’s abyss willingly and he accepted his fate by being submerged by it; again what affects Shunsui must affects X-axis so he had no choice but to stay as well. This is what Shunsui implied to when he said “he’s in the same boat as he is.” But since this is Shunsui’s ability he’s not panicking (knowing how to swim/knows his ability) as opposed to a panicking X-axis who was desperately flailing to the surface because of experiencing something not witnessed by himself before (doesn’t know how to swim/doesn’t know the ability). One final note to further reinforce my opinion on the matter of him being panicked, some people when reaction to an unknown situation get nervous and act uncharacteristically. This can be said of X-axis who before the end of the chapter hadn’t fired a single shot to counter attack Shunsui. As a long distance fighter this was unlike him up to this point; furthermore he even went as so far to do a head on charge at him leaving himself wide open for Shunsui’s Final Dan.