User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 474: In the Moment of Complete Silence, Review./@comment-4449950-20160222214714/@comment-7418318-20160222231005

Except for the overenthusiastic fan girling I agree with everything you said. ^^

I wouldn't rule out the possibility of MacBeth and Sawyer being involved just yet.

MacBeth certainly is capable of creating an illusion of Ultear to screw with Dimaria (or rather the readers ^^). And both his Refractor and Racer's slowing magic can potentially interfere with the time-stop.

At least I really hope it'll turn out to be this, rather than Ultear herself returning.

Or maybe Ultear is doing all this from afar and what we saw is a thought projection that she uses to communicate with the present people.

Whatever it'll be, we'll see soon. But after the decable that was Wahl vs. Laxus, even Ultear being returned to her old (young) body would still be a step up, even if just a small one compared to the other possibilities. ^^