User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 335: The Time of Life, Review and Commentary/@comment-4829046-20130614115508/@comment-1776824-20130614121917

Because so many people were pissed about Gray dying; people finally got what they wanted: death. Now that Ultear has done this, everyone who died/was in the process of dying/was going to die in that 1 minute span got a second shot. Basically, Mashima just can't get a break.