User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 397: Steel, Review and Commentary/@comment-25111584-20140826105558/@comment-7418318-20140826110711

Regarding 2: Tempesta might not interfere because Torafusa, who was going on and on about dignity, would have been very... upset... if he did. Or maybe he can't fight properly in that black water and thus opted for conserving his breath by not moving until the battle is over one way or the other.