User blog comment:Real Godisme/Chapter 479/@comment-25111584-20160328140249/@comment-25111584-20160328164516

Ummm, Nick, are we forgetting the beginning of the Avatar arc? Of course Lucy knew that Natsu was holding back. Otherwise it's more character regression we're looking at.

Natsu pretty much OHKOed Jacob when he was let loose. After rendering him completely helpless with his aura alone. Nobody would have died. Yes, this is an outside perspective. But, from Lucy's perspective, it's weighing the risk of everybody possibly getting captured as opposed to having Jacob relax and maybe even focus on not allowing Mavis to escape, which would give Natsu enough opportunity to do his work. For me, the latter is obviously the better choice.

Nobody should have been able to get in Jacob's way, no matter their numbers. That's a bad assumption to begin with. But I've ranted enough about the lack of respect for alertness in FT. .-.