User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 506: The Broken Bond, Review/@comment-5840892-20161017133557

I've heard around the rumor mill that Msahima promised us a character death on the FT side of the war that will emotionally shake them up, kinda looks like it might be Makorov, which means he MIGHT actually stay dead.

But I agree this was a great chapter.