User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 361: The Two Bombs, Review./@comment-8153438-20131122193928/@comment-7418318-20131122200202

All the more reason to delay Natsu's arrival until after she chose.

He should have let Lucy choose with Jackal retorting something along the lines of "Oh, you really thought I'd let you go when it's so much more fun to blow up all of you?" and only let Natsu arrive at that moment.