User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 549 - The Stormbringer/@comment-4620155-20130917204342/@comment-1332195-20130917230204

Who knows, maybe old man Marenoshin'll come out of retirement for his kids (I do believe it is officially stated that he is, or at least was, the stronger of the two); there has to be some reason he outranked Kisuke in 2nd division back then.