User blog comment:Caesarea37/Chapter 557: "I Already Threw Away My Life" Review/@comment-4639012-20131113145621

This chapter goes a long way to confirming what I think a lot of us have been thinking. That Komamura is going one of two ways after this battle: either he remains in his human form and retains his immortality (which would be EPIC), though it's not certain how long he can remain in this form; or he reverts to his wolf form and probably dies, having honoured both Yamamoto and his clan to some extent. I feel the latter is more likely, much as I would love him to remain as he is now.