User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 457: Naked Battle, Review./@comment-26572767-20151020002055/@comment-24.54.209.55-20151020094116

I can totally see this happening with August. In chapter 452 when Makarov was talking about the Shields, we saw how the match ups were going to be given the reactions of the main characters (even though none of those battles are actually happening now); Gray vs Invel, Natsu vs Ajeel and Erza vs Brandish/Dimaria, but when Makarov introduced "Magic King" August it was Lucy who had the first reaction. So initially, I thought that August would take an intrest in Lucy (because of Layla); maybe they would be related or something like grandfather/grandaughter. However it seems that in this recent chapter it's Brandish that has some connection to Lucy. Hopefully it's not some petty revenge story or another "celestial spirit stuck in the human world" story. It'd be actually intresting to see Layla have some background connection in Alvarez, especially with August and Zeref.