User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 265: Tartaros arc: That Is the Power of Life, Review/@comment-7418318-20151226095353/@comment-7418318-20151226110054

Even in the manga, the scene felt sad to me. Lucy was crushed after losing Aquarius even before getting the "other bad news" and crying. There was nothing that felt happy to me in that scene from her.

Also to me Natsu's actions don't speak of resolve at all. If it was resolve he would have faced Lucy personally and told her how he's going to train to avenge his father. Instead he snuck off, avoiding everyone, just leaving a poorly done letter to smooth his concious. To me that's not moving on, it's running away.

And that sentence that Lucy should tell the others is probably the real killer. He himself doesn't have the courage and resolve to personally say good-bye so he passes that burden on to Lucy. Now she's even more crushed then before and instead of just crying to herslef she has something of an obligation to go to the others and tell them.

No... absolutely no reason at all to be happy in that scene if you ask me.

No wonder that the time-skip went the way it did for her.