User blog comment:Godisme/Double Issue: Kill the Shadow 2 and The Black Rescuer/@comment-29449108-20120627185000/@comment-4957813-20120629021925

I think they are confident in the fact that Kirge would keep Ichigo at bay long enough for the Vandenreich to do some serious damage in Soul Society, not if their invention would work. Kirge, on the other hand, seemed confident because of an over inflated ego