User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 456: Orders, Review and Commentary/@comment-1359322-20151010095330/@comment-7418318-20151010121004

He wasn't a jerk to them... well except to Kyouka perhaps, but she was smiling after the torture, so she might even have liked it...

He was fixated on the goal they were created to fulfill. And even after being ordered to die for the cause Kyouka didn't just accept the order, but embraced it happily, after she overcame the initial shock.

And Sayla voluntarily sacrificed her powers to Kyouka to get the job done, without an order from Mard.

So why would you say that Mard was being a jerk to the others?