Like much of what Kisuke says, Dean can't decide if this missive is literal or poetry, the roadmap Kisuke lays ever littered with metaphor.

"That sounds like more than 'don't mix business with pleasure'," he says. "Does that mean I can't use the blade unless I'm like this?" He thinks back to Rukia extracting his soul with a neat little push, how much he could see once free of his body. "I have to be just a soul?"