Chapter 501 is... interesting.
So, we learn that As Nodt's power is to germ fear in the heart of anyone who touches the 'thorns' of light that seem to float around him. An interesting power, if only a bit predictable, but here's what I certainly didn't see coming: Byakuya starts hallucinating and sees Rukia suddenly melting away into a decaying corpse. That's a lot more graphic than anything we're really used to see in Bleach, so... Yeah, I guess that's something. However, the fact that Rukia's tongue is hanging out and that she turns bald just makes the picture kinda silly and it'd probably help if the whole was accompanied by some sort of rotting sound effect... But anyway.
So, Byakuya further hallucinates that his body is covered with what I can only assume to be locusts and kinda goes nuts. Following that, As Nodt uses Byakuya's Bankai against him to strike him down and a lil' caption reads 'Farewell'.
I certainly hope Kubo isn't going to kill off Byakuya because that would essentially be the lamest death ever. Made to scream like a carp and killed by your own ability? Yeah, that's not the way a classic protagonist should go. Hopefully, he's just 'wounded' or something.
So, we learn that As Nodt's power is to germ fear in the heart of anyone who touches the 'thorns' of light that seem to float around him. An interesting power, if only a bit predictable, but here's what I certainly didn't see coming: Byakuya starts hallucinating and sees Rukia suddenly melting away into a decaying corpse. That's a lot more graphic than anything we're really used to see in Bleach, so... Yeah, I guess that's something. However, the fact that Rukia's tongue is hanging out and that she turns bald just makes the picture kinda silly and it'd probably help if the whole was accompanied by some sort of rotting sound effect... But anyway.
So, Byakuya further hallucinates that his body is covered with what I can only assume to be locusts and kinda goes nuts. Following that, As Nodt uses Byakuya's Bankai against him to strike him down and a lil' caption reads 'Farewell'.
I certainly hope Kubo isn't going to kill off Byakuya because that would essentially be the lamest death ever. Made to scream like a carp and killed by your own ability? Yeah, that's not the way a classic protagonist should go. Hopefully, he's just 'wounded' or something.