User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Fairy Tail Chapter 494: The Hill Extending Towards Tomorrow Review/@comment-130.105.225.146-20160716155209/@comment-4829046-20160716171144

Indeed and as I've assured you before, "He will get what's coming to him". Not that I will feel the least bit of joy when that happens, but meh, Mashima has structured it as so. Zeref will experience something big prior to the likely loss of his immortality(death) which will fit whatever you have going on in your head.

Quick question though, as some say around here, Zeref isn't even a proper villain. How do you bear to watch other series that have actual unrepentant but badass villains? Especially villains that do not get punished as well as they should? I mean, look at Aizen from Bleach. He committed so much atrocity but in latest chapter is fighting to save the world(universe?), even though he is still the cold manipulating bastard he always was.(which is great mind you) Heck, look at One Piece; some villains got the stuffing kicked out of them, but were twisted enough to bounce back and enjoy causing more suffering. We all like those seeing those characters and what they stand for, it's just that they attack innocents and emotionally break people and thus piss off the protagonists(and audiences). In Zeref's case, it isn't the same. He is very direct. His subordinates however, are not as direct, and he does not have full control over ANY of his Spriggans from the looks of it. They always make their own decisions and he allows it simply because it helps him meet his end goal.