User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 397: Steel, Review and Commentary/@comment-9468724-20140825223634/@comment-1359322-20140825224525

Knowing Mashima, Torafusa is most probably out. And it's not only Jackal, Sayla, Ezel, and Keith were on the same boat as well, they never lived up to the hype. Franmalth did sort of live up to expectation at one point, though it was only at that specific point. Now he's just a mushroom prepared to be boiled.