User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 392: I Must Not Forget, Review./@comment-4449950-20140712011520/@comment-108.28.233.191-20140712070525

@TheCarrotSaysYumYum "Yes, sad things can be touching if a fate is left hanging, but here I again saw those "goodbye/sorry" panels as wasting space, especially since Gray knew himself that he wasn't using Iced Shell."

Those panels aren't a waste. When you first read through, they look like goodbye panels. Then Gray doesn't use Iced Shell, and apologizes for considering it, and you realize that those panels of Gray thinking of Natsu's words and of the people he'd leave behind were what stopped Gray from using Iced Shell.