User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 398: The Final Duels, Review and Commentary/@comment-110.20.169.85-20140901103650/@comment-7418318-20140901104515

The chairman was still a normal Human, so he left a corpse like any other Human would have done.

He might have allied with Tartaros (maybe even fully joined - who knows?), but he never was turned into a Demon.