User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 444: Emperor Spriggan, Review./@comment-7418318-20150713081017

I like that Sorano is now using her real name and I too hope that Lucy will remember that name from when she talked to Yukino while they were imprisoned. Maybe Sorano doesn't even know that her sister is still alive.

I wonder if that guild mark on Sorano's belly is part of her cover (like FT used Caith Shelter makrs) or if she's become part of a guild other than CS.

As the others said Makarov's beard FTW... even though I have to say it invoked associations with the Song of Ice and Fire. Tyrion too traveled to another continent to meet a person who might potentially kill him and grew a beard.

I wonder if Makarov met up with Serena while he waited for a year and I'd like to know who that guy he was playing cards with was. He talked as if he wasn't part of the 12 shields, so what does that make him? An advisor? Another subordinate of a Spriggan?

So Zeref is the Emperor... I'm getting an end-game feel here. I wonder if Zeref conquered Alvarez to gather the resources necessary to beat Acnologia and Lumen Histoire is just a little side-matter for him for sentimental reasons toward Mavis.