User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 545 - Blue Stripes/@comment-4794735-20130709220725/@comment-5398287-20130709223823

Seeing as how Ichigo was gone from Nimaiya's palace for at least half a day...

I'm not sure what time-lapse you're talking about, this all matches up in the timeline and Kubo just doesn't want to screw up crap.