User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 512: Sting, the White Shadow Dragon, Review/@comment-4449950-20161128234405/@comment-172.58.40.101-20161129211110

Sane, it seems more like the ones forcing this to be NaLu are the fans not Mashima. And I agree on there not being a need for an explanation which is why I said he is most likely just trying to fill up the pages of this chapter so he can move on to the next one.