User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Chapter 502 Review/@comment-24102956-20160919112456/@comment-193.190.73.129-20160920131913

I do like the fact that Mest is someone who is willing to resort to dirty play, while the others are all goody goody nakama preachers.

If it means wiping the memory of the royal family, he does it.

If it means releasing criminals from prison, he does it.

If it means resorting to manipulating ppl in order to have them kill their own allies, he does it.

At least he's got the balls to what has to be done and use whatever means needed. How many ppl would just leap in front of Zeref himself to quickly teleport out with Makarov?

He has saved them on several occasions. Furthermore, it's not like August or Brandi appear to be super mad about what happened, they just continue following their orders. So saying he fucked up and should die is simply forgetting his merit for the Guild based on one occasion which doesn't even have any grave consequences, as August would have NEVER surrendered or called of the invasion anyway.