User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 666 (NOT YET RELEASED)/@comment-29183117-20160316205023/@comment-3430033-20160316205752

Yeah, I fond that kinda weird too as to how he was still able to talk saying that his gift ball deluxe gets stronger upon his "death" but it got stronger before he even died..

The thing with nel and grimmjow is that if Askin really is dead, we may not see any new abilities displayed anytime soon.