User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 357: The Nine Demon Gates, Review and Commentary/@comment-4489126-20131025101054/@comment-7418318-20131025101905

Do we?

Makarov was never on the council, was distrusted by virtually every council member save Jajima (and maybe later Org) and isn't even all that much liked among the guild masters.

Why would the Nine Demon/Ghost/Whatever Gates bother to go after "just" a regular guild master?