Sting and Rogue battle Mard Geer to cover for Erza and Minerva's escape. Erza and Minerva learn that Keyes is using Crawford's reanimated corpse to manually activate the Face bombs. They soon discover Franmalth embedded in Happy's head and force him to take them to Tartaros' main control room. Meanwhile, Gray finds himself in a private confrontation with Silver, whom he recognizes as his father previously killed by Deliora. When Gray refuses to believe it is him, Silver states that he is actually Deliora resurrected in the body of Gray's father to take revenge against Gray.