Interesting chapter. It raised many questions for me. One of which is the whole "who will reach me, you or END?". The other being Zeref, the all mighty demonic magician refering to one of his creations as "Master END". You don't refer to another by an honorable like that unless you are beneath said person. In Japanese they pay tons of attneiton and meaning to that. In Manga Panda, the translation is also different. It makes it seem that Natsu will have to make a choice between letting END live or kill it where as here it makes it seem as the choice is simply to die trying to kill it or leave it be. Furthermore, the way Zeref speaks to Natsu continues to intrigue me. Its as if they are old acquaintances when they actually only met twice. Face has activated and you have 41 minutes to stop it. That is interesting indeed considering they appear to be far from it.
Now, the downsides is that I don't specially appreciate the predicatibility of Hiro's match ups. Wendy and Lucy always end up taking a lower level enemy, Erza's enemy is always some guey lovey dovey emotional train wreck, Makarov barely makes an apperance worthy of that name, Mira always ends up protecting her sister while showing only a fraction of what she is supposed to be and showed against Freid. I dunno. Hiro should revamp it a bit and try to make them chance up. I miss the Erza of the first chapters that was so amazingly uncomprimisingly aggressive and powerful and cold that she was like an Iron Maiden of sorts. I miss the Makarov we saw against Jose. The overwhelming power. I feel he is now resorting to copying the same type of match ups he used before just changing the plot around it. Its not that its bad its just that I wanted a small change in that and I think he did it better in the first chapters of the story up to the tower of heaven arc finish.
Btw, Mira is epic O___O
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