User blog comment:BlackWizardZeref/Fairy Tail: Chapter 380 Hell's Core/@comment-24066070-20140411152356

Interesting chapter this week.

First we see Natsu, Lucy and Happy ponder over Precht's parting message and Happy goes off to find Makarov, nothing interesting happened there.

Then we see Franky going on about being immortal and he displays the ability to transport himself to the rejuvenation lab, this "ability" is shared with all of these demons as Ezel uses the same "ability" to show up in the lab.

Now we get to the interesting part: Mira vs Sayla.

Mira apparently can't use TO on Sayla, but Sayla can't use Macro on Mira either, so they have some sort of stalemate. Sayla then reveals she can regain the control of anyone who was affected by the Macro, but this might be a bluff.

Ezel loses the little patience he has and starts going apeshit when Sayla tells him to wait a bit. Mira and Catgirl ask some questions about Hell's Core and once they know it revives the demons, Mira uses her TO to destroy Hell's Core. Fran showing up right as the lab explodes was hilarious.

Since Mira had control over these revival-demons, I wonder if she can use the revival effect on herself. Perhaps not an insta-heal, but something that takes some time or drains her magic when she uses it.

Then Mira and Sayla decide to duke it out with hand-to-hand combat, gotta mention Lamy's "Ichiya-pose" was ... disturbing.

Mira thinks the fight is in the bag now thta it has come down to melee fighting, but Sayla releases her true form. Even though she no longer has feet, she can still kick ass and sends Mira crashing into Lamy and follows up with a blast generated from an eye on her hand. Here I thought of Deidara, since the eye made me think of Deidara's mouth and there were also the explosions generated by the eye, just like how Deidara causes explosions.

Anyway, as the dust settles Mira has lost her Sitri form and Sayla shows no expression of fatigue at all (actually, she shows no expression whatsoever), now we just gotta wait for the nakama power-up or the partypoopers (Natsu & Co).

Elsewhere, we see a guy called Marde Guille, who is Tartaros' Demon King. He's holding E.N.D.'s book (Is it just me or does it look slightly burned?) and seems to be talking to it. He refers the Nine Demon Gates as "Etherias".

Just who the F is this guy? E.N.D.'s host? A former librarian who found some demon books and decided to let the "Etherias" out? A part of Zeref that got split from the original? The Guild's caretaker? I wouldn't know.

In my opinion he resembles Cobra and Zeref a bit, but he likely has no connection to the former. I do know he's not E.N.D, since this guy seems pretty awake and Kyouka spoke about "waking E.N.D. up".