User blog comment:Stone Roger/The Boy In The Latest Manga Chapter/@comment-68.98.70.3-20111001232746/@comment-3290324-20111002005903

None of them are dead. Hiro Mashima, much like Tite Kubo, doesn't kill off any good characters. Also no Gildarts couldn't have because there is a huge' difference between the power of Natsu's and Acnologia's attacks.