Yhwach~!
Duan Mu looked at Yhwach, his brows drawing together slightly.
He could be certain that the person who had appeared before him was indeed Yhwach, but Duan Mu could not understand what gave Yhwach the confidence to face him and Captain Commander Yamamoto head-on.
Because...
Judging by the time between the Wandenreich emerging from his memories and invading the Soul Society, the final nine days were still a long way off.
As of today, only three days had passed since Yhwach invaded Hueco Mundo. That was roughly equivalent to the time in his memories when the Wandenreich first launched its full-scale invasion of Seireitei and caused Captain Commander Yamamoto's death. There should still have been at least three or four days before the "final nine days" mentioned in the song.
Although Duan Mu had considered that Yhwach might choose to attack before his Shinigami powers recovered, it had only been a hypothesis. If he were Yhwach, he absolutely would not have rashly chosen to face both himself and Captain Commander Yamamoto at such a time.
Of course, Duan Mu was not saying that he and Captain Commander Yamamoto were absolutely certain to kill Yhwach simply because Yhwach had chosen to appear at this time.
That was because Duan Mu had spent more than a year analyzing Yhwach's death from his memories.
Ichigo Kurosaki's final strike had indeed played a major role in killing Yhwach, but it could not be said to have been entirely his achievement.
Although Ichigo Kurosaki possessed the power to kill Yhwach, he lacked the ability to truly kill him—in other words, he could not prevent Yhwach from changing the future of his own death. As a result, Ichigo's power had been completely ineffective against Yhwach.
As for Ishida Sōgen's son—Ryuken Ishida—he possessed a technique capable