This is the catalyst for all of the Mir/San angst from here on out - Miroku sucks up so much poison that he's hovering on the brink of death each time he opens the wind tunnel.

*headdesk* Okay, I knew that. I guess it made me so unhappy that I blocked it out of my mind. They don't take the time to say whether getting rid of the Wind Tunnel cures him or not in the last chapter, so it just was a series of D: moments that was never really resolved (not enough for my neurotic self anyway - unless I'm forgetting something else... it's been awhile, lol).

I've got my fingers crossed, if only because the Hell arc is pivotal to the sword upgrades still to come.

Yes. Keep hope alive! :D