Fai said:
hungry_bunny said:
WARNING, major speculations incoming...
Kirio Hikifune... that's her name, the name of the person who caused the explosion in the last panel, the name of the person who held a sword to Urahara's face, the name of the person that Hiyori got a scent of in the second chapter of this arc. Hikifune was the person who preceeded Urahara as Hiyori's captain of the 12th squad after all.
Hikifune for sure should be in Royal Guard/0th Squad (that is if promoteed ones are actually promoted and not just used somehow by existing members. , its left up to interpretation), but I doubt they will introduce RG by one. Most likely we will get some "epic entrance" of many of them and I doubt they would just react this fast Of course everything can happen, .Agreed, about her not coming alone. But imo, sending 2-4 seated officers of the Zero Squad to chase off the Quincies would have more impact than showing all of them at once... kinda like when Byakuya and Renji first appeared.
And about Ichigo's powers... we know this, a half-dead Quincy easily trapped him in the realm between worlds. He needs time to improve. Cause, even though he's strong in Hueco Mundo and Soul Society... he's always been terrible at controlling his powers in the space between the different worlds, at least compared to Ishida and others. I have a feeling that the Quincy headquarters is in that space too.