User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 546 - THE LAST 9DAYS/@comment-11084380-20130717174822/@comment-11051098-20130717221930

We don't even know if these 9 days have already started, or if they are starting now. And even so, Kubo might turn every one of those days into 10-15-20 chapters, he could go down to single hour-level and keep the war going until spring.

Personally I hope he does that, drags the war out into as many chapters as possible, answering unsolved questions along the road, develop more of the lieutenants and captains we still don't know about and reveal things hinted at before.

Like Mayuri and his past - why did he seem to have something personal against Yhwach, when he told Yamamoto it was his fault for failing to kill Yhwach 1000 years ago? What did he do, and how, to end up in Maggot's Nest? How did Yhwach create the Quincy? How is the medallion able to steal a Bankai, and is it released or permanently destroyed if the medallion is broken?

There's alot of questions he can and should answer during this arc, before the manga is over.