User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 505: Trump Card, Review/@comment-5303512-20161012162418/@comment-7418318-20161012175135

The only thing I could find for octobre would be the "health and care day" or somesuch on the 2nd monday of octobre, but I doubt that the manga mangazines won't publish because of that.

Maybe Oda's just taking a break.