User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-7418318-20160606133552

I too don't believe that Gajeel is gone for good... but I sure hope Mashima will keep him locked away for a few chapters, rather than right next chapter... but with that title, I doubt even that.

Anyway, I loved this chapter. The Gajeel stuff was awesome!

Maybe except for that rock coming out of nowhere behind Levy for Gajeel to fix her to... that was odd, but totally worth it anyway.

And Levy using Solid Script with her feet was also cool (reminded me of Erza in "Erza vs. Erza" ^^).

Brandish was revealed to not be someone without a clue about the world after all, but she actually did have an idea of what she's doing thanks to knowing August well. So she's not a hopelessly optimistic fool after all, but just acted like that toward Natsu and Lucy due to that being how she behaves.

Mest... well... I don't mind too much for him to actually do such an attack, but just a single stab in the belly? Not a stab through the heart or head, a stabbing frenzy or a decapitation or anything else 100% fatal, but just a regular stab in the gut that even a regular joe-average non-mage Human would survive for at least a few minutes? Fuck off you idiot. You ruined the situation both ways by both ruining the negotiations (and yet I'm now fine with actually calling them that, despite my comments in previous chapters) and wasted a perfect chance to actually kill him.