User blog comment:Dispelling Mage/Chapter: Prelude to the Final Battle (452) - Review/@comment-120.29.74.92-20150914160207/@comment-25395791-20150914163138

Probably, but who knows? ;P Yeah. It would've opened so much questions as to why he'd joined Zeref/Spriggan in the first place, his motives and such. But it looks like Mashima has something else in mind.