Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10587310-20130620071127/@comment-5551986-20130707165153

Will-O-Wisp wrote: Ikkaku isn't big fish enough to be taken on a trip to Soul King's realm. Apparently, neither is Mayuri. Squad 0 doesn't like to meddle in Gotei 13's affairs. If 0 squad doesn't meddle in Gotei 13's affairs, then they wouldn't have even arrived in Soul Society at all. Even though they are under order from the Soul King or whatever, they still do meddle. Besides, its ignorant to forget your roots. You should have said, they don't personally meddle with the Gotei.

I don't think Ikkaku was taken to the King of Soul palace because he will get on fine without his bankai, anyway, from what we know about the King of Souls is we don't know what he can do, for all I care he could be able to foresee events in the future and may have deemed that Renji, Rukia and Byakuya as well as Ichigo will play major roles in the outcome of the war. Or he has some omnipotent/omnipresent/transcendent godly power, it would explain how he knows so much seeing as he sits in his palace sleeping all day.