It would seem he was wrong. There was one thing worse than whatever Erza was going to do with them. Seeing Lucy like that again. That's why he quickly slapped his cheeky grin back in place

"Sorry I was just uh....thinking how to make our getaway in case Erza tries taking a dizzy swipe at us." Hopefully he managed to convince her with that. Hopefully. Keeping secrets, big secrets like this was hard.