User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 512: Sting, the White Shadow Dragon, Review/@comment-1776824-20161130012603

My volume 57 came today, and the afterword had Mashima talk about Gajeel's "death." He said apparently people were sad about it, and acknowledged (again) that he has this habit of making it look like people die a lot when they really don't. He also acknowledged that there will be more of this (lel Mirajane in volume 58), but he also hopes that people won't stop trusting him about killing people.

I guess he's talking about Makarov? Maybe he's talking about more characters in the future, but lol, at least he acknowledges the foot he's put in the grave with the fandom.