User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 291: Naval Battle, Review./@comment-98.194.162.89-20120712224550/@comment-219.87.176.11-20120713012757

Possibly:

(1) Lucy is the Damsel in distress of FT, especially if you took the back drop into account. (2) Same as other people mentioned, make us hate Sabertooth even more, an apathetic fragmented but powerful guild ruthlessly teaching a guild with very strong sense of comradeship a 'lesson', giving us both a reason to sympathize with FT and hate Saber even more. (3) She possibly gets this treatment because she is one of the central characters who doesn't get nearly as much success (serious or comical) as any other character. From here on we maybe able to see her character development in greater detail. Assuming she survived Minerva's brutal beating