User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 572 (inb4 "Kenpachi doesn't have Shikai")/@comment-1351982-20140312125723/@comment-5303512-20140312130220

I pray that your right, because that was too sudden to just kill them off like that.

Plus, I think their "deaths" are just products of that Stern Ritter's "imagination" just like Yachiru's arms, I bet once he is killed or what ever the effects will be lifted.