After Yoruichi's introduction and the intimidation of Jindanbo's massive size, the bullet comment audience was momentarily stunned.
"Is the gatekeeper really this strong? Can Ichigo actually get past him?"
"Hey, hey, they didn't come all the way to the Soul Society just to lose to the gatekeeper, right?"
Clearly, viewers who hadn't seen the gatekeeper in other players' streams had misjudged Jindanbo's strength.
However, Ichigo was fully aware of Jindanbo's capabilities.
He stepped forward confidently and said, "No one has passed through your gate in three hundred years simply because I hadn't arrived yet!"
"Now that I'm here, to avoid unnecessary casualties, I advise you to open the gate!"
"Huh?" Hearing Ichigo's words, Jindanbo's thick eyebrows furrowed, clearly angered. "Are you looking down on me?"
"It's not about looking down on you. It's just that I don't know how to say it without hurting your feelings..."
Ichigo shook his head and gripped Zangetsu on his back.
Then, he swung it forward violently!
The next moment, powerful Reiatsu vibrated, compressing the air like water, forming a massive air tsunami!
"How is this possible? Just from swinging his sword?!"
Looking at the air tsunami before him, Jindanbo's pupils contracted. He hurriedly swung his giant axe forward to block.
However, facing Ichigo's air tsunami, Jindanbo was like a small child in a typhoon. His massive body was easily lifted and slammed heavily against the White Road Gate he guarded!
Hitting a person like hanging a painting!
The powerful wind pinned Jindanbo against the White Road Gate, actually lifting his feet off the ground!
"This is... how?"
Merely the sword wind from a single swing left everyone who witnessed it shocked!
The most shocked was Jindanbo, the guardian of the White Road Gate.
Three seconds later, a crestfallen Jindanbo fell from mid-air!
"You..." Jindanbo looked at Ichigo in disbelief.
Now he finally understood what Ichigo meant by 'not knowing how to say it without hurting you'.
"Because saying 'you're too weak' is hard to put into words, so you use actions instead?"
"Wuu wuu, you... are so gentle!"
"I have to admit, as a man, as a gatekeeper, I've lost!"
Under everyone's astonished gazes, despite his image as a peerless tough guy, Jindanbo started crying.
Then, after some self-persuasion, Jindanbo decided to open the gate for Ichigo and the others.
His immensely powerful hands gripped the lower edge of the White Path Gate!
Then.
"Hu- Ha-"
Jindanbo exerted force, and the entire White Road Gate was lifted by his hands!
However, before everyone could marvel at his great strength for long...
Jindanbo, holding up the White Road Gate with both hands and continuously grunting with effort, suddenly fell silent.
"What's wrong? Why did he stop talking?" Uryu noticed the issue.
Only then did everyone see that Jindanbo's huge body was trembling violently!
Because, ahead of him, a man as foxy as a snake had appeared!
"3rd Division's Captain, Ichimaru Gin!"
Jindanbo uttered his name in a tone of fear!
Ichimaru Gin, also a Captain of the Gotei 13 like the previous Byakuya, had arrived!
The moment they saw him, everyone felt as if wrapped by a venomous snake, a sinister chill spontaneously arising!
Seeing this, Ichigo intended to step forward.
But the next moment, a sudden change occurred here as well.
100 million, 200 million, 300 million!
From the moment they saw Gin, the game coins betting on Ichigo's death began to explode.
"What's going on? What happened?"
"Who's betting against Ichigo? That's not right, we didn't bet!"
The audience who discovered this were both shocked and furious.
But the game coins betting on Ichigo's death continued to increase relentlessly.
In just an instant, the coins betting on Ichigo's death reached a massive 10 billion!
Then in the next instant, it reached 23 billion! (T/N: The RAW is written as 230 billion, but such thing was impossible since the population is stated to be less than 10 billion and one person only has 10 coins a day.)
This meant that over one-third of the global population was currently betting on Ichigo's death!
At this point, the bullet comments finally understood what was happening.
"Brothers, it's the Xiguo people! The Xiguo people are afraid of Ichigo, so they conspired to spend money betting against him when he encounters a powerful Captain!"
"Damn it! These people have been secretly organizing since last night! They were even bragging about their execution power in posts just now!"