User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 365: Fairy in the Jail!, Review and Commentary/@comment-7397924-20131229083136/@comment-7418318-20131230125405

In the scenes during the GMG, in prison and now he didn't seem like he was blind to me.

But then Racer, Angel and Grim Reaper got their sacrifices back too (even though it was only with the help of magic in the latter two cases), so even if he can see out of his remaining eye, that still wouldn't necessarily contradict the filler.