User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 372 - Chaos In The Library (Breach)/@comment-1675383-20140222024355/@comment-1675383-20140222055001

I still don't entirely understand why he gave up at the end but I've just given up trying to figure out why and just chalk it up to Mashima not wanting Fairy Tail to lose when they legit should have.