User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapters 338, 339, 340: Review and Commentary/@comment-86.66.207.63-20130706094810/@comment-5598380-20130707043706

Yukino is still around because it's still early for Lucy to collect the 12 Zodiac keys. Something may happen if the 12 keys is possessed by a single Celestial mage.