#I didn't make a note of it but on the previous page Kubo LIES

[troius]

There's a neat little moment here, where Byakuya sends Renji and Rukia to go help Ichigo.

One of the random character bits that actually got a lot of work in this arc was establishing how much he cares about the two of them, and vice versa, so it's nice to see that he respects them to a similar degree.

He even accommodates their feelings for him! "Your help is not needed here" is the sort of thing he would have said to either of them in the past as basically a diss, "you couldn't possibly make the difference", but here it's saying "I know you care about me, trust in me to survive", and wow, what a man he's grown into!