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Youbetrippin wrote: Maybe it's not a hierro, but Ichigo surrounding himself in his own spiritual pressure as a sort of armor.

You might be right but he blocks with his hand just like Ulquiorra used to and besides isn't blocking attacks using condensed spiritual pressure without visible effort essentially what a hierro is in the first place?