User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 497: The Winter Mage, Review./@comment-24951162-20160810202218/@comment-198.21.194.144-20160815173819

Either side is not proven and only has ambiguous ideas and slight statements to help one side or the other. No matter what outcome, Mashima is going to have certain lingering thoughts and statements from previous chapters that wont quite align with the outcome. At the end of the day Mashima should be blamed for his lack of consistency. Although how many popular mangakas are that consistent nowadays.