User blog comment:Godisme/The Drop/@comment-4620155-20130123065213/@comment-3250274-20130124003322

my feelings are that since zaraki becomes stonger everytime he crosses the border of death, she is actually bringing him across that border, and pulling him back each time. That's why we see the loss of consciousness that seemed like a hallucination, but the blood from the strike is still on her cheek.