User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 561 - THE VILLAN/@comment-28861328-20131211160420/@comment-5695542-20131211200214

Maybe we are looking at it wrong. Maybe he didn't destroy his eardrums but created the illioion that he did just to create the opening of Rose pausing for a moment thinking his bankai was now useless so Mask could blast him.

[Kubo bull****ed this entire chapter]

Agreed

[makes it almost laughable that Rose lost.]

I believe the word is pathetic.