User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 467: Mother's Key, Review and Commentary/@comment-7418318-20160107102332/@comment-4829046-20160107104631

I was actually imagining the latter, but the former is also very plausible. I guess it will boil down to the number of panels Mashima wants to dedicate this to, coz I doubt he wants to spend too much time on this when he could be drawing more fan service. :P