User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 555 - THE HERO/@comment-4207271-20131030053245

We all know the Shinigami are going to loose this battle, and that gave me a thought: There are only two places that they can retreat to, the world of the living (Unlikely, we have barely seen anything from there) and of course, The Soul King's Palace.They have all the character's laid out, the locations prepared and the atmosphere will make all the Shinigami more powerful, just to survive it. It seems a Kyoraku move to me, as retreating to the world of the living will definitely be too risky for the population and violate one of the Gotei 13's core focuses, protecting the world of the living.