User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 464: Natsu vs Zeref, Review./@comment-24546844-20151130220956/@comment-24546844-20151201122755

@FTGM I understand what you say and it makes sense, it's just that I sort of dislike those kind of destiny tropes. I mean, normal girl meets special guy, but turns out that the girl is also special and she is related to the guy in some way. I'd like it better if Lucy was just some random girl getting involved by accident. She's already special for having such a rare magic (though that connects her to Zeref already through the Eclipse gate). And about the hints, to me it would be the most awesome twist ever if by the end Lucy tried to find Layla's conection to the events that happened just to find out that her death on that date was just a coincidence.

On a side note, it's interesting how Hiro actually managed to make all of those things interconnect so nicely (I'd have to reread the whole manga with that in mind to get all of that, so maybe it's my fault for not noticing most of those). I wonder if the next flashbacks will tie up all the loose threads (at least on Zeref's part, Acnologia will probably have his own flashbacks) so we can focus on the present and future.