Bleach Chapter 414 – Deicide 16
Deicide Six-frickin-teen! I’m beginning to think that deicide won’t end until the actual deicide (killing of Aizen, or the Soul King) takes place. Anyways, this chapter more than makes up for the filler-type lack of progression last chapter. All suspicions are put to rest of the most interesting character of the series; Mr. Ichimaru.

It starts where the last one left off, with Gin interrupting Aizen from killing once again. The tension between the two has been building for quite a few chapters now. Ever since his little encounter with Ichigo, my suspicions of Gin have been on the high, but this chapter pretty much answers that question.
Gin tells Aizen that he killed Matsumoto. I doubt he did, considering Gin’s following actions, but I am curious how he made her reiatsu disappear. When Aizen is about to finally finish off Ichigo’s friends so he can begin creating the key, Gin insists that he will do it instead. On his “way” toward them, he pushes Aizen’s sword down nonchalantly. In an instant, he finally makes his move, and he pierces Aizen right through the heart from behind his enormous sleeves.

Apparently, the only way to escape Kyouka Suigetsu’s abilities is to be touching the blade itself before it is activated. It took Gin decades and decades of patiently waiting to learn that one piece of vital information. That makes you think just how long he has been planning this move. A scheme of this caliber is on par, if not better than Aizen himself. Even Gin’s wardrobe was planned out from the beginning, with the enormous sleeves to mask his move. This, to me, speaks miles for Gin overall. Aizen admits that he knew about Gin’s intentions, but led him along out of curiosity. Well curiosity killed the cat…
You see, not only does Gin’s bankai make his zanpakuto the fastest, and longest, but also the sneakiest. When extending and retracting, Gin’s blade becomes dust for the slightest moment, then rematerializes. This happens so fast, not even Aizen can catch it. When he pierced Aizen’s heart, Gin left a small fragment of the blade within the heart. Conveniently, the interior of Gin’s blade secretes a poison capable of breaking down all cells in the body, ultimately killing them.

Gin has been called many things; a snake, a fox, a traitor, but I’m gonna go with a badass. For the first time in his new form, Aizen is experiencing something known as fear. I honestly believe that if Gin attempted this before Aizen’s ascension, this would have worked, but unfortunately I don’t think this is the end of Aizen yet. Which makes me wonder just what Ichigo will have to do to really kill him off.
The last thing I want to mention is Gin’s loyalty. Obviously he isn’t loyal to Aizen. However, the question still remains as to whether he is doing this all for himself, or if he is the Gotei’s greatest double agent ever. It would explain why he whisked Matsumoto away, told Ichigo to run for his life, interrupted Aizen from killing Ichigo’s friends, and even manipulated the hallways back in Hueco Mundo to keep Ichigo’s friends safe. But his speech about being like a snake at the beginning of the chapter makes me wonder if he really is just doing this because Aizen looked so “tasty.”














