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“It's the same for all of us... Don't ever do that again...”
Erza tried to die. She went into the Tower of Heaven's magic expecting to be destroyed ("my body should have been broken down into its component molecules," she says early in the next volume), and a few panels before this line she is still wondering how Natsu could have found her inside "that huge tornado of magic power." This is his answer, and the grammar matters: before the order about her comes a claim about everyone in the guild. Erza has spent the arc, and her whole life since the tower, as the one who protects, the childhood slave who got out and turned herself into armor, and Natsu's objection is that she has quietly exempted herself from being protected. The line refuses the exemption. It starts quietly for Natsu, who usually shouts these; the shout comes only a few panels later, through tears. The next volume mourns Simon as the man who "wanted to be the man to protect you, Erza, for so long," and Natsu's line makes the same point from the other side: a debt paid by dying is a debt the rest of them then owe.
Erza tried to die. She went into the Tower of Heaven's magic expecting to be destroyed ("my body should have been broken down into its component molecules," she says early in the next volume), and a few panels before this line she is still wondering how Natsu could have found her inside "that huge tornado of magic power." This is his answer, and the grammar matters: before the order about her comes a claim about everyone in the guild. Erza has spent the arc, and her whole life since the tower, as the one who protects, the childhood slave who got out and turned herself into armor, and Natsu's objection is that she has quietly exempted herself from being protected. The line refuses the exemption. It starts quietly for Natsu, who usually shouts these; the shout comes only a few panels later, through tears. The next volume mourns Simon as the man who "wanted to be the man to protect you, Erza, for so long," and Natsu's line makes the same point from the other side: a debt paid by dying is a debt the rest of them then owe.