User blog comment:TVthePunisher/Translations of Interviews in MASKED - Past and Future of Bleach?/@comment-1351982-20100816002703

Nel will return soon, she was talking with Yachiru in volume 39. Ichigo knew she would be ok, I mean he left her when Kenpachi was still there and Nnoitora was dead and Tersa was incapacitated so she was not really in any danger...unlike Orihime. But its pretty much a given that Nel will come back.