User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 537: The Power of Life, Review/@comment-25324252-20170526171355/@comment-7418318-20170526234024

Maybe we'll get a sort of reverse Rave Master with Lucy seemingly dying, only to turn up a year or however long later in the epilogue... and if that's the case, the rescue will surely come from the Celestial Spirit World, which also explains why she was gone so long, what with the difference in the flow of time.