User blog comment:Lex wa Kaiho/What is Lumen Histoire?/@comment-7418318-20141020100143/@comment-7418318-20141020101626

I doubt Mashima would call Kyouka, Layla or a Fairy "girl"... assuming that girl is an accurate translation.

But then it is 88 year old Makarov who's going to Lumen, so for him Layla or a Fairy could still be a girl, but certainly not 400+ year old Kyouka.