User blog comment:Real Godisme/469. What I want to do/@comment-4449950-20160118221454/@comment-1776824-20160118234705

It's been heavily implied that there is no power-up waiting Natsu. I don't even know why he doesn't remember anything, given that Igneel forbade memory modification. I'm pretty sure Zeref would have said something about modifying Natsu's memory if he did do it. You know, during his text dump. This is just shoddy writing on Hiro's part, and he's taking too long to fill in the pieces. Look at the Grand Magic Games. It took him 130 chapters to properly explain why the Grand Magic Games Eclipse Gate functioned the way it did, and why everything ended up so convoluted, and even that wasn't honestly the best explanation he could have given. The pacing of his story is fast, but the pacing of his ability to fill in his own fuck-ups isn't.