Chapter 43

BURST is the forty-third chapter of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail.

Full Summary
Gray, now facing Deliora, meets Natsu who wants to kill it. Lyon interrupts, and crawling near them, announces he will kill it. He is reminded of the first time he looked for Ur and about the time when he scolded her for taking Gray as a second apprentice (Lyon asks her if he wasn’t enough a replacement for her dead daughter, and Ur, after slapping him, confesses that he never saw him as a replacement, but as a beloved apprentice.). This makes him stand up, but Gray knocks him out. Gray resorts to Iced Shell, but Natsu walks in front of him, and proclaims that he will fight it. He wonders if before he didn’t get through to him, and when Deliora punches Natsu, he punches back with his fiery fists. His power is great, and Deliora crumbles to pieces. Natsu then says it wasn’t because of him, and in fact, it wasn’t. Ur’s ice had been slowly dissipating Deliora’s Life Force, and what they saw where Deliora’s final moments. Finally, the Demon of Destruction is no more.

Natsu compliments Gray on his teacher, and Gray, remembering Ur’s words “I will seal your darkness”, cries in gratitude and longing. Lucy then explains to the reader, that Ur is still alive, part of the World’s ocean, looking after her apprentices, and wanting them to get along…