User blog comment:Henshin1971/Fairy Tail Blog Part 2/@comment-4985657-20130116083455/@comment-4985657-20130117041010

I also believe that they will not perma-death them out of the story... however it would be nice to shake the story as a whole, and one way of doing that is making one of the major cast die. It would shatter everything we were feeling "safe" about so far.