User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 411: Quid Pro Quo, Review./@comment-24102956-20141203005053/@comment-1359322-20141203090657

If you want to have any of the main characters kill off it better be done properly, not randomly. But in FT's case, it's completely out of story. Natsu and Lucy is out of story. Erza, Gray, Happy, Wendy and Carla each faced close to death scenario (one of them died literally). So trying to do kill them after putting them in death's gate and let them survive would just be like be slapping ones own face.