User blog comment:ChocolateSquirrel/Ice Trail Chapter 3 Review/@comment-50.26.21.250-20141016073014

If that was Gildarts, I think it was actually because the prison, Black Vox, or Fairy Tail expected a prison break, so they recruited the Gildarts to make sure things didn't get out of hand. It doesn't make sense for the prison to go through a hostage trade so easily unless they had an ace up their sleeve; perhaps the Ace of Fairy Tail?