User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 435 & 436: The Cry of Victory & Memoirs, Review and Commentary/@comment-1839664-20150520022330/@comment-967403-20150520040815

I saw this the other day on tumblr.

@LilithArcher: I wondered the same thing too. XD If Makarov was not fooled and knew who "Mest" was even before all that went down, why was he selected to go to Tenrou Island in the first place anyway? Also, he tended to know details about Fairy Tail normal people wouldn't know.