User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 429 & 430: Code Blue & Purification Ritual, Review and Commentary/@comment-26263257-20150420183315

I have to admit, I am happy about how things are turning out. :-)

But still, there is a part of me that thinks Arlock is Makarov in disguise... I hope Mashima goes classic-crazy-Fairy-Tail mode as Arlock/Makarov reveals himself to Team Natsu while they lay waste to Avatar members. Arlock/Makarov would look all pi$$ed and scream, "You brats! What have you done! It's me, Makarov!"... Natsu: What the f**k, gramps!?! First you disband the guild! Now, you're cosplaying with these cultists?... Happy: Natsu, I think he's gone senile. There's no other way to explain it!... Arlock/Makarov: Shut up, you fish-eating blue furball! I see you're still useless except for your wings and crazy theories! I am undercover!!!... Gray: You old geezer have been hiding under that creepy mask for months, and you never even bothered to tell me?!?... Arlock/Makarov: Are you deaf, you ice brat? I said, I am undercover! Your magic may have grown stronger, but you are still slow to pick up as ever! Unbelievable!... Gray: Undercover, eh? Well so was I, you senile old fool! A little heads up would have been nice!... Arlock/Makarov: Why should I reveal myself?! You were undercover. I was undercover. It's a job! Besides, your acting s**ks anyway! Why they haven't caught you yet is beyond me!... Erza: But Master... Arlock/Makarov: Erza... Erza: I think Gray's acting was amazing! It's exactly how I instructed him to act! *shiny eyes with the look of approval*... Happy: Erza's standards are as bizarre as ever... Lucy: But Master, what was your plan anyway?... Makarov: I was going to bring down Avatar, of course! Now you ruined it!... Lucy: You're going to let the people of Malba be slaughtered just for a job? Happy's right! You have gone senile!... Makarov: Foolish children! You still have no sense of strategy even after a year! I intended to trap them in Malba! We have evacuated all the citizens out of the city, and the only ones inside there are the Raijinshu and the Strausses! All the random people you see there are just illusion magic!... Natsu: Well, that is a clever plan, gramps! We shold have thought of that!... Makarov: Now you've ruined it!... Erza: But Master, why go through all the trouble?... Makarov: This is a big job with a reward of 60 million jewels! They will get 2 million jewels each while I get the remainder! Plus I get free lifetime subscription to the Sorcerer Magazine!...