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's main control room. Meanwhile, Silver separates Gray from the others for a private confrontation. Gray recognizes Silver as his father, who is supposedly dead, and denies his identity. Silver states that he is actually Deliora, the demon responsible for killing Silver, whose corpse he is currently possessing, enraging Gray.