She cuts herself off. That much is a surprise enough. But he doesn't look up until after she speaks again. His head lifts, expression hardened, cut off and cold.

"Is that it? I'm your burden, the curse on your family, so it's your responsibility to tamp me down? You know I'd wonder but, no, you probably could do it couldn't you? Try and kill me if it really came down to it, I mean. Key word being try of course, but it wouldn't be much of a family tradition if you didn't attempt. And hey, maybe third time's the charm."

At all that, he's not surprised. He shrugs his shoulders.

"That won't change anything. Try it if you've got to. I'm still going to set everything the way it should be. But if it makes you feel better, I only went to that stupid thing to get information, which I got. I don't need to deal with anyone else again and I have no interest in trying. You and Ichigo are the only ones that matter."