MAND4 said:
Oh yes, play by the tunes of foreseeable logic.
Disappointed, quite much. After this chapter, I'm removing FT from my favorites (it's been in question for a long time now ...). I desperately hoped that mangaka would have balls to actually do something beyond "FT realm" but, nope. It's okay, you don't have to kill Gray per say, but for fucks sake at least kill someone that's been there for a long time and often had a lot of screen time. But ... I guess not. Meh ... my expectations were unrealistic anyway.
Yeah, characters definitely have to be killed on a 'first come, first served' basis. I mean, though, by that logic, Ultear was introduced in the very first chapter, even before Natsu and Lucy, so doesn't that mean she should die before Gray?
As for screen time, that was the whole point of Ultear being focused on for the past few chapters, to give her death weight. Gray's last semi-significant role in the story was a simple fight against Lyon and Chelia. Him dying with no foreshadowing (in various applications of the word) and only a 3 page buildup would've been stupid