User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 505: Trump Card, Review/@comment-5303512-20161012162418/@comment-2214433-20161012190232

Now, idk if this is true, but he is apparently made to take those breaks.

However, I'm not sure if you are following Mangastream's "Jump authors comments" thing, but whenever there was a series ending in Jump (plenty lately, Bleach included), Oda always commented in a way that made it sound like those authors were being released from prison...