User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-24546844-20160606192748/@comment-24800928-20160609203327

@Sane

I cant say it was absolute nonsense that August was started to be convinced. After all, Zeref's plan to the average man is completely bonkers. The idea that a guy just wants total annihilation, and it seemed that August already had his doubts when he was introduced. At the end, August was looking out for numero uno. Also, the fact that FT hadnt appeared to be the villain Alvares and Zeref made them out to be it also kind of helped their case that they arent the enemy. I mean Brandish was clearly alive and well despite being captured.