User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 402: Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon, Review./@comment-24546844-20140930003119

Don't know, this chapter felt a bit strange to me. mainly becasue of the fight I guess. After all this hype with Marde he getting hit so easily by Natsu was sort of a let down to me. Some of you have said "Natsu is stronger than Sting and Rogue" but that isn't enough to me. The problem here isn't that Natsu is stronger than the twin dragons therefore he stands a better chance, it's that Marde simply didn't block the frontal assault of Natsu while he could easily block the combined efforts of the Sabretooth DS. Natsu scored two hits while they scored none. At least to me, with all the hype that Marde got, there should at least be a brief fight before Natsu gains the (temporary) upperhand. That's the guy who fought on par with the CSK after all.

While I may say this I wouldn't really call that nakama power, not yet at least. I know (or hope) Marde is holding back and will probably fight seriously later. But now with him wanting Kyouka to hasten the activation of face he don't look so overconfident as before. Maybe he sees the dragons and the mages as true threats now? And why nobody try to attack them while they're talking?

Now Kyouka is conected to face huh? And knowing that if she dies the plan will fail she still go and start fighting Erza... Guess she don't know how fights works in the FT universe. Anyway she's rellly confident in her powers and her etherious form resemble one of Mira's transformations. Does she have a new curse? I hope yes because just tretching your nails is a bit boring, add that to Erza fighting and well, yeah, hope next chapter to be at least a bit interesting.