User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 538: When the Flame Goes Out, Review/@comment-24053170-20170603033520

So Natsu is now non-existent. I guess the only way they could kill off such a character was by making it seem like he was never there...

I guess leaving a body behind would make things to anti-climatic, so they had to go with the whole- "Without him I would never have existed, fade away into nothingness" style death instead.

Still, Mashima does know how to tug at heartstrings at least.