User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 545 - Blue Stripes/@comment-2211792-20130709150618/@comment-11051098-20130709152919

It's clearly the real Shunsui, the comment "I'd be happier if you were a girl though" is so typically Shunsui. When a "mere human" remember him to such details, he wish it was a female, lol.

I think he decided to go there himself because he may have felt that it was his duty, and shouldn't be left to someone else, though I wonder what about his visit could be that serious.

His message is obviously related to whatever "your parting with Ichigo" means. Is he planning to get Ichigo fill the vacant Squad 8 Captain position, even though he's a human who exist as a Shinigami in soul form? That would make the "parting" make sense, in the meaning that Ichigo wouldn't see his friends again other than very rarely.

So, what Hiyori saw several chapters ago is a breach, a sign that Soul Society is in danger of colliding with the human world? Sounds strange, it must be a consequence of the deaths of so many Shinigami at once caused by the Stern Ritters.