User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-74.43.16.57-20160606151741/@comment-7418318-20160606152516

I see Lucy's attempt to kill Brandish more as her waking up from the Fairy Tale that death can always be avoided and finally facing the harsh reality for what it really is. It's only hipocrisy if she keeps talking about never killing anyone after such an attempt, though altering it to "try to never kill" is a different matter since that already contains the possibility of it still going for the kill if the situation calls for it, or the chance for accidental kills in the heat of battle.

Natsu too truly tried to kill Zeref, so the same things counts for him too... and of course Mest too. I'm more angry with how sloppy his kill-attempt was, rather than him making the attempt.