User blog comment:BlackWizardZeref/Fairy Tail Chapter 382: Alegria/@comment-24748439-20140501015948/@comment-7418318-20140501092326

That's a hurdle but not a reason (stupid translation of a phrase sounds stupid...).

Anyway... what I wanted to say is, that while this would be true if Yukino would just go "Oh here, have my keys" and Lucy was "Okay, thanks, bye" then yes, it would make both of them hypocrites. BUT Mashima can find ways to construct situations in which it would make sense for Yukino's keys to go to Lucy.

Let's get the most stupid (and thus unlikely) one out of the way first: Yukino starts to abuse her spirits or otherwise does something to destroy the bond of trust and friendship with them.

Now the more likely ones:


 * Yukino dies.
 * Yukino is wounded or ill, leaving her unable to fight in the upcoming war against Zeref. She temporarily gives her keys to Lucy, for the sake of the world.
 * Yukino suffers from a condition similar to Layla and has to give up being a mage.
 * Yukino loses another fight and is so convinced of her own uselessness and bringing bad luck, that she gives up being a mage (at least temporarily) and this time she manages to convince Lucy to accept the keys.
 * Yukino learns some other kind of magic (maybe Angel summoning from Sorano?). After confering with her spirits they together decide to temporarily give the keys into Lucy's possession for the final conflict.
 * Somehow someone finds out that a Celestial Wizard in possession of the full Zodiac set is necessary to defeat Zeref and thus Yukino and her spirits decide to (against temporarily until the fight is won) give the keys to Lucy.
 * Yukino is attacked by Zeref or one of his followers and falls into a coma. Her spirits approach Lucy so they can participate in the fight against Zeref. This could either be out of revenge against the ones who hurt their owner, or for more dramatic effect, Yukino is in a magically induced coma and can only wake up if the mage who did this is defeated.

And that's all I got for the moment.