User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 372: Breach, Review and Commentary/@comment-2214433-20140221094034/@comment-121.54.54.33-20140221095104

The path may have just been inevitable for them if not for Kyouka's direction. Otherwise, if it's somewhere unknown, I could have believed in that statement more. Are those guards demons too? For me, Zeref was indirectly referring to his demons.