User blog comment:Mrlmm0605/Let's Talk Bleach! - Part 7: Bazz-B/@comment-24744083-20150713095540/@comment-25121259-20150714020114

Either one needs to read "direct hit" as "critical attack", so his flames could offset his, hence why they even survived a critical attack/direct hit. Or, more likely, he was referring to the flames that continued to burn after the initial attack (we see As being engulfed by them), especially seeing as he wouldn't be able to block the initial attack, when he was the last person in line (so it's probably those flames he was talking about and not the inital blast-slash-burn-thing).