User blog comment:Bato of the Heavy Iron Rock Hammer/Zeira dead or alive?/@comment-108.72.244.112-20150317010513

I think she's alive. She learned magic from Zereph, which she shouldn't have been able to do if she was a ghost. Also if she had died it would have been when red lizard burned down when she and Mavis were little kids. She wouldn't have grown up since then as a ghost, and Hiro Mashima has proven that she couldn't since Mavis is over a hundred years old and still looks thirteen. Also, whether you think Yuriy is confused because she is a ghost or not the fact is that he can see her and he wouldn't know she was there at all if she wasn't alive. Someone in the other comments said that she didn't interact with anyone besides Mavis through most of the chapters, but that isn't true. She was definitely noticed by Yuriy and also Zereph or else he wouldn't have been able to teach her magic. Also, if you're going to go with that theory I'm pretty sure that Warrod has never directly talked to Mavis or Zeira (I'm not sure, I haven't read the older chapters in a while). Also you can see Zeira hiding in the second and third chapters, so it's not like Zuriy didn't notice her standing in plain sight. The manga is probably going to be ending soon, and I think the main point of it is to highlight the death of Mavis, so if Zeira was dead we would probably know by now.