User blog comment:GotMilk5101520/Silver Backstory & Tartarus and the Tower of Heaven/@comment-4829046-20140603095341

The text below are a bit long so before reading that let me just say it simply.

Who do you think really killed Simon? Hiro Mashima. It is the author who decides that some spells kill people, others don't so yes, it is down to Mashima. Plenty of people survived worse attacks than that but we needed a replica of Rob's death so this worked fine.

The rest of the questions, I'm not really sure. I'll applaud you if they are right, but don't really have anything to say.