User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 485: Five Days' Worth of Food, Review/@comment-61.18.34.115-20160516120859/@comment-7418318-20160516121304

At least he saved Levy from being hit by Laxus, which should go a long way for making himself forgive himself.

But if he apologized, he should also do so to Lucy as well... or rather he has a bigger reason to apologize to Lucy than to Levy. What he did to Levy was, while not outright ordered by Jose, part of his mission. Torturing Lucy and almost killing her on the other hand was something he did entirely of his own accord to have fun. And really killing her would have even been against Jose's orders, since Jose wanted to use Lucy to blackmail Jude.