(Second update...)
(The power was out, so I updated early. I hope you'll support me for the trouble Ru Qing went through to get to an internet café...)
Noah had no desire to fight Laxus at all.
Noah knew that Laxus had become so arrogant and unruly, looking down on others and treating everyone weaker than himself as trash, only because he had not handled his relationship with Makarov very well.
Laxus's father, Makarov's son, had once been a member of Fairy Tail.
However, that man had caused Fairy Tail a certain degree of harm and had therefore been expelled from the guild by Makarov.
Because of that, Laxus's relationship with Makarov had become strained.
It was simply because Laxus could not understand why Makarov, despite them being family, could so heartlessly expel his own son from the guild.
Just as Noah had thought, that incident had marked Laxus's complete descent into rebellion, making his relationship with Makarov increasingly tense.
And even aside from that, Noah, who had once lived under the same roof as Laxus and dealt with him many times, knew that Laxus was not truly a bad person by nature.
But not being bad did not necessarily mean being good.
At the very least, if Laxus continued like this, then even if his nature was not bad, he would sooner or later set foot on a road of no return.
Noah knew that there was nothing he could do.
Even Makarov had no way to make Laxus realize his mistakes, so Noah did not believe he could accomplish it either.
But if Laxus had to fight him in order to realize what he truly lacked, then Noah certainly would not mind—
Defeating the monster before him, who thought so highly of himself, was far stronger than Mira