User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-73.191.17.103-20160609020656/@comment-7418318-20160609071708

You really don't seem to get what people are complaining about. It's not that he tried to kill an enemy that we mind, it's his timing and his choice of method. If you want to kill an enemy, you don't make a half-hearted attack and then call it a day, you keep at it until the job is done. He didn't do that. He just gave Brandish this one non-specific suggestion to do something to August and when he saw it fail, he didn't even try to finish the job, but just stood there grinning evily.

And to make matters worse it attacked at a moment when there was an actual chance of at the very least buying time before the attack. With most of the guild's forces off at the front-lines extra time to regroup is beyond valuable.

Yes Mest was trying to protect the guild... noone is desputing that. But both in terms of method and timing he chose the worst available option and predictably made everything worse as a result.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."