User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 566 (not out yet, but dis gon b gud)/@comment-26420452-20140202184043/@comment-5398287-20140202191041

Well, I think we all had a feeling it would last longer than that, but it's nice to have some sort of visual confirmation.

Yes, but it wasn't really focused upon as much as it was in this chapter, where Rukia explicitly points it out.

See above comment.

That may have been a little embellishing on my part, but he did scream in quite a scared manner after the poison finally got through to him.