User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 325: Unity, Review and Commentary/@comment-71.146.139.183-20130401051141/@comment-6146666-20130401223155

Yeah the whole Lord Zeref thing threw me off at first aswell I just assumed he was evil at first but as the story unfolded I just marked it off as a mistranslation or him just calling Lord Zeref out of respect.