User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 525: Why Did the Emperor Never Love His Child?, Review/@comment-29876114-20170305094156/@comment-7418318-20170307064148

This "confirmation" is oddly worded for a confimation and comes from a movie trailer. That could just as well just be rethorics to draw in the viewers.

As long as we don't get a clear statement from Hiro Mashima or the magazine directly I wouldn't put any stock in it.