User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-74.43.16.57-20160606151741

I said this in a couple places just want to say it here: this chapter gives a different meaning or new perspective. Which of course, how this gives Brandish a lot more of a reason to be pissed at one of them(Mest) and August understandably pissed especially his words stating "this is how they do things" giving FT a bad impression. Mest's plan was understandable as a way to protect the guild and his family, however it was the idea of him literally giving a person a false memory to kill someone their incredibly close to like what he did to Brandish against August for example.

Now if that had happened to Fairy Tail like as an example: if Seilah had continued to make Elfman strangle Lisanna to death that would have them pissed off and lose something important. Going with that should August have actually died because of what just happened this would make Fairy Tail no different from any past villain they faced and extremely hypocritical. In fact Lucy was planning on killing(with Aquarius key) Brandish back then and morality never stopped her from finishing the deed but the mention of her mother did, making her seemingly hypocritical.

Overall, there were two risks to all of this from both sides: Brandish took a risk to be branded as a traitor to convince August into a talk/negotiation and it almost worked; Mest took a risk to protect something dear to him while causing despair/pain to another(as shown with Brandish's tear) and that ended up causing dangerous consequences.