User blog comment:Godisme/End of All Bonds/@comment-893506-20110727160529

Yeah, this was a very interesting twist. It does explain why Ichigo couldn't sense Kugo's intentions as well. I'm still wondering what the whole point was though. There has to be a reason why they advanced Ichigo's power the way they did. If they didn't want him to have power at all, I don't see everything that has happened happening, and they could have just killed him in earlier chapters.