User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 572 (inb4 "Kenpachi doesn't have Shikai")/@comment-1387259-20140312133545

Going with other people here, I have a feeling the two are probably not dead. Maybe this kid (who I swear I thought was Yukio for about a page or two) is making others imagine they're dead.

Or maybe he imagined them dead and it happened.

Or maybe.....

Nope, I got nothing.