User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 325: Unity, Review and Commentary/@comment-5708675-20130329110810/@comment-7405046-20130329122507

Now that I think about it, I was quite shocked too. I couldn't stop wondering what would happen to the series. But I forgot about that impression when everyone was shown to be safe and sound and they hadn't even grown up.

Just imagine that Elie had brought Sieg back from the past using Etherion. I think we wouldn't be talking about his sacrifice right now.