User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-24039234-20160607143931/@comment-7418318-20160608163558

@last anon: The difference is that we already know that Natsu is an idiot, so we expect him to do idiotic things (I would still have been pissed at him if he had attacked in the same instant that Mest did though).

Mest on the other hand is supposed to be smart. He managed to infiltrate the Magic Council, rise in their ranks and become one of their best agents. He's a freaking undercover agent. Those people should have ice-water instead of blood running through their veins and be really, REALLY smart to avoid being discovered.

But in the last two chapters he's neither smart nor cool and collected. He's acting even less like the high-profile undercover agent he's supposed to be than Jacob acted like an assassin.