User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 524: Black Future, Review/@comment-7418318-20170225074632/@comment-7418318-20170225080127

Ah screw it, Acno's appearance made Irene's death even more stupid and pointless.

He turned up less than 5 minutes after she died. All Mashima had to do is let Acnologia arrive one or two minutes earlier or let Irene just stop attacking after realizing she can't bring herself to kill Erza isntead of killing herself.

When Acno arrived, Mashima could have tossed in Acnologia wondering how she was able to hide her presence and smell from his senses. I wouldn't even need an answer from Irene, just Acnologia asking the question would have been nice. And then he could have just gone "Bah, whatever" and killed her without even giving her the chance to answer and it would have been a far more satisfying end for Irene from my perspective than that terribly stupid out of nowhere suicide. She didn't even feel guilty about abondoning and later trying to kill her daughter for crying out loud! At least toss in a line like "I couldn't bear to live in this body any longer." or some other last words after she stabbed herself to give us any kind of explanation why she'd do something so incredibly FUCKING STUPID and out of nowhere!

Okay... I feel better now. And here I thought this chapter wouldn't get my emotions up... guess I was wrong about that.