User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 557 - He Already Set His Life Aside/I Already Threw Away My Life/@comment-9096222-20131113152848/@comment-11051098-20131114001000

That last slash looks like it would make anyone toast, but she might not die from it. After all, Quilge was shot through the chest by an attack from Kisuke, but he used Ransôtengai to get back up and keep fighting. Bambietta might be able to use that technique too.

In the end, it took a vertically bisecting blow to kill him, and for all that we know, he might not even have been among the strongest Sternritters.