Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11398218-20140521105018/@comment-26815511-20150724095223

What if swallow, really meant to sacrifice something closest to you, to compensate for newly given power, so when Kenpachi activated his shikai, it "swallowed" yachiru to give kenpachi power? And i mean, she has a shikai, is it REALLY possible for a zanpakuto to have its own hikai, SEPERATE from the one the shinigami uses? i believe she was just consumed by kenpachis shikai. For example: it probrably absorbs reishi (spirit energy). And since he was surpressing his power this entire time, the zanpakuto, when going into shikai, was feeding off of Yachiru, but it was so hungry for reishi, that Yachiru ran out of reishi, and was consumed whole