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Originally Posted by Ryus

Oh least I forget... Hiro's twitter confirmed even though he doesn't really plan much for FT he does have at least 3 more arcs minimum actually that he wants to do (each arc pushing 1-2 years of late would mean 3-6 more years worth on FT,but based on the ever increasing amount of characters I'd wager 6 on the high end). However he did previously mention arcs like Fighting Festival just randomly came about on a whim. So we could get a lot more than 3 more arcs too.

That wasn't on his twitter account, that was in the volume 35 afterword. Here's the afterword as translated by ChaosKnight over at the Fairy Tail wiki:

Spoiler for Volume 35 afterward:

This arc sure is long. Every arc that I drew ends in about three volumes. While I do plan my stories out very vaguely, I have been continuing to draw very long arcs recently. Still, I wonder if I should draw shorter stories after Grand Magic Game ends. I should also be more careful not to draw so many characters. When I counted how many characters there are in this arc, there were over 80 (TT^TT). It really wears me out every week drawing so many. While it's pretty much impossible for 80+ characters to show up all normal in one chapter, but seems like there will be even more characters added in around next volume or so. Just what's going on with this series....?

This arc originally started out as "it's a festival" kind of thing, with the story right now feeling like it’s a compilation of everything up to now. But because it's getting towards a major climax feeling, there has been lots of rumors like "Fairy Tail might be coming to an end". Fairy Tail is not coming to an end yet. While I know that it will end someday, there are at least three more arcs I want to do. Maybe around 15-20 more volumes? there are at minimum of three arcs I want to do after this. Maybe they'll be around 15-20 volumes? Of course it can end earlier than that, and it might continue beyond that. I have yet to think about how I will end the series.

Anyways, this is the 35th volume. I have written it last time, but this volume matched the amount of volumes of my last major work. Starting from volume 36 will be a "new" territory for me. Please do continue to support my work from here on out.

Originally Posted by kitten320

Sigh, I hate dragged out fights but that was way too fast! They are freaking executioners of high skill and yet they got destroyed in one chapter! What was the purpose of it all again?

Acradios gets thrown into the deathtrap area. The princess drops them down there on the pretext of them being "thieves" in hopes that they'll help and rescue Arcadios. But relying on starvation and death traps to deal with half a dozen or so people, one of whom is quite possibly familiar with the area they're in is pretty stupid, so her plan backfires and we get the executioners going down to kill them. Arcadios gets to demonstrate his conviction and win trust, whether or not he's actually really a villain, and now that the executioners are defeated, we can get a quick way out instead of aimless wandering.

Originally Posted by Nvis

BTW, what happened to Yukino's "13th" key?

Unknown. The only speculation I've seen on the subject thus far is that the key was property of Sabertooth and Yukino had it on loan. Though I suppose it's possible as well that Yukino losing while using it resulted in a broken contract.