User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 409: Wedges of Black and White, Review and Commentary/@comment-24546844-20141118002029

Ah the hype... Can't believe Mashima can manage to raise it and kill it so easily. And here I thought Jienma was going to squash those guys like flies so they'd need some major help from the rest of Sabertooth, and then he got one-shotted... Did they even go into Dragon Force? What's the point of introducing new characters if you know you have no way to make them look good. Especially when you have a timer going down.

And talking about timer, Erza is already blind and standing against Kyouka, that gives the guys about 3-5 minutes to take Marde down. But what do we get in the Marde vs Gray and Natsu fight? First, his thorns didn't got any stronger, so he opts for the physical combat scraping their heads against the walls huh? I guess Hiro should make some research in the things he puts in his manga because when that happens to a human THEY LOSE HALF OF THEIR HEADS DAMMIT. They recover and look! There's not even blood in their faces. And they're punching the "absolute demon" into the wall. I bet he's going to be pretty damaged next chapter.

Well this was a bad chapter in my opinion. I agree with you on the Twin dragons not being fodder being good, but that was at the cost of making Jiemma fodder. The dialogue was crappy too. Hiro keeps trying to make Minerva look redeemable, now by making it look like it is always Jiemma's fault but I just can't seem to believe it. Now he have 3-5 minutes in universe to make Natsu and Gray defeat Marde, which isn't supposed to be possible as he is the strongest and all.

"Memento mori" is a Latin phrase that was mostly used in medieval Europe that means "Remember, thou art mortal" (what you don't learn in some weeks of LoL?), this may be Marde's ultimate-unblockable-insta-kill-sure-to-fail (just because the scarf is back) curse or simply something someone like him would say just to look/sound badass. We still don't know what Magna Carta is... Anyway now all I want to know what Lumen Histoire can do just because it seems like the fights won't get any better for now unless E.N.D. shows up. Anyway, good job on the review.