User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 506: The Broken Bond, Review/@comment-4933386-20161017220150/@comment-7418318-20161019183331

I think it's like Stockholm syndrome or something alike.

The town has depended on, was saved by and to a small degree was terrorized by Fairy Tail for so long/so often that they couldn't help but develop a psychological dependency for them. :P