User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 410: Memento Mori, Review and Commentary/@comment-25111584-20141123101351/@comment-5268982-20141123105309

Ah, so some people did bother solving the puzzle :P I always hated finding differences between pictures... >__>

The other bastards just got lucky that FT randomly appeared a day and some hours earlier than usual >__> as for Natsu managing to hit Mard, it normally wouldn't work that way. Mashima just probably wanted to show that even at their best and with combined powers they still couldn't hurt Mard Geer. And it worked! I sort of agree with your other points though!