User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 437: Magnolia, Review./@comment-4449950-20150525075227/@comment-1776824-20150525081702

Actually, this whole chapter parallels Future Lucy's death, when she goes to see her guildmates in heaven or w/e. This arc was essentially a closing to the GMG problems, as evidenced by the Frosch scare, the shadow disappearing, the specific one year timeskip, and then this chapter where everyone is reunited (almost). The message here is that the future is not set in stone and that our choices can make all the difference. Also see Zeref telling Acnologia he's quite the queer fellow for not taking over the world one-handed. Literally. Hiro has done so much to prove to us that the bad future is gone and that there exists "hope" for the safety of the magic world.