User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 472: Laxus vs. Wahl, Review/@comment-3424593-20160208143435/@comment-5303512-20160208175027

Laxus is a benevolent boss of his group, he felt proud of them for winning, but then Wahl' robot was a sore loser and blew himself up to try and take them with him. He felt that their well earned victory was besmirched by him and the only way to restore it is by defeating Wahl. Laxus probably thought so to let someone else have Wahl under normal circumstances but he knew had to be the one to do it for the Thunder God Tribe's sake.