As they prepared for the trial, Erza figured that the odds would be better in Natsu's favor if he both he and his wife were an analyzed by a psychiatrist. So she called up her old friend to Dr. Mirajane Strauss to talk with the both of them. She started with Natsu.

"Tell me about your marriage Mr. Dragneel." She said to him.

"What do you wanna know?" He asked her.

"Well is it a happy marriage? Do you and your wife get along?"

"You heard the police report. I threw her out a window."

"I want to hear what you think."

"We got along fine at first. She comforted me when Lucy and I broke up, when we got married she went out of her way to be a good wife. Always kept the house cleaned and had food on the table. She'd kiss me before we went to bed."

"What's changed Natsu?"

"She's become more angry and irritated. I have to be very careful about what I say and what I do."

"And why is that?"

"Because if I make her angry she'll..." He hesitated before answering. He found this to be so humiliating.

"Mr. Dragneel what will she do if you make her angry? You can tell me." Dr. Strauss said.

"She'll hit me." He admitted. "She'll hit me, she'll kick me, she'll beat me."

"Have you ever hit her back?"

"No."

"Have you ever caused her any physical pain before that night?"

"No."

"Why not? I'm sure the way she beats all the time must make you very angry."

"It does but it wouldn't be right of me to hit a woman. It would be cowardly, besides it's my fault."

"What do you mean?"

"So what do you do when she beats you?"

"I just let her do it and wait for her to stop. I deserve what she does to me."

"But something changed the other night, didn't it? She didn't something that finally made you snap."

"Yes she did."

"What did she do?"

"She hit my daughter and she probably would have done worse if I hadn't of stepped in."

"Mr. Dragneel tell me about your daughter? What kind of child is she?"

"She's very sweet, cheerful, she always has a smile on my face. She's very wild, much like I was at her age."

"Does she ever make you mad?"

"Sometimes. Typically when she doesn't listen to me."

"Do you ever hit her?"

"No! Never! I love her. I've loved her since the day I held her in my arms at the hospital seven years ago. I don't think there's anyone in my entire life who I love more than her. That's why I attacked my wife. I'm a man, I'm a big strong man so I can take whatever Touka does to me but she's just a little girl. Beatings like that could kill someone like Nashi."

"What's your wife's relationship with your daughter?"

"They seem to get along, she tends to push Nashi a little hard sometimes. She would get angry at her over some of the most ridiculous things."

"Like what?"

"A spilled cup of juice, a toy left in the backyard, an incorrect answer on her homework. She had high expectations for Nashi."

"Don't all parents?"

"Yes but nothing she did seemed to be good enough for my wife. Straight A's were the only things she would accept. She would be real snippy if Nashi got a B. Sometimes I think Touka forget that Nashi's just a kid."

"Mr. Dragneel do you believe that your wife loves you and your daughter?"

"She says that she does all the time."

"But do you believe her when she tells this?"

"I honestly don't know. I think she does love us but I don't know if it's the kind of love a wife and mother should have for her family."

"I see."

After his session she went to speak with Touka.

"Tell me about your husband Mrs. Dragneel." She said.

"What do you wanna know?" She asked.

"Well for starters do you ever hit him?"

"No but if I did he definitely deserved it."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because he's a horrible husband."

"What makes him so horrible?"

"He never puts me first. Everything else in his life always comes before me. His job, his friends, that slut Lucy, I'm not important to him."

"Why did attack you the other night?"

"I don't know. I didn't do anything wrong. I'm the perfect wife. I'm more loyal to him than anyone else he knows. I've never cheated on him."

"Your husband claims he's never cheated on you either."

"He's lying. I know he's having an affair with his old girlfriend."

"You truly believe that?"

"Yes I do and I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't the first time he cheated on me."

"What do you mean?"

"Well he spends a lot of time helping out his best friend's wife especially after she got pregnant. Makes me wonder who the real father is."

"You think he had affair with his best friend's wife? Isn't that a bit far fetched?"

"No. All the women in his want to take him from me, his trampy ex, his friend's wife, even my own child is trying to take him from me."

"You think your daughter is trying to steal your husband? Your seven year old daughter?"

"She's ungrateful, deceitful, and selfish just like her father. It wouldn't come as a shock to me at all. I don't know why she's more important to him than I am. I'm the reason he has her in the first place so why should I play second fiddle to her?"

When that session ended she went to speak with Erza about her conclusion on the two.

"So what do you think?" Erza asked her.

"Mr. Dragneel exhibits all signs of an abuse vicitm." Mirajane said. "He's ashamed of what he has to go through and he blames himself for the abuse."

"What about his wife?"

"I think she may have narcissistic personality disorder. She has an excessive need for admiration, disregard for others' feelings, an inability to handle any criticism, and a sense of entitlement. She wants him all to herself and she thinks that pretty much everyone is trying to take him from her. Even her child."

"She's jealous of her own daughter?"

"Apparently."

"Do you believe that she's the abuser not him?"

"Without a doubt. She wants to be the only person Natsu loves and she wants him to disregard everyone else in his life."

"If she loves him so much why is she abusing him? Why is she trying to get him sent to jail?

"It's a narcissistic kind of love. In other words she'd rather see him destroyed than love anyone other than her. If she can't have him no one can."

"What about the kid? Why does she want custody of their daughter if she views her as rival?"

"My theory is she views Nashi as nothing more than a means to an end. She used her pregnancy to pressure Natsu into marrying her and she knows how much he loves that child. She knows that if she just holds on to Nashi, Natsu will never leave her."

"So she is a psycho. Well I don't need any further convincing. She's going down."

"Good luck, people like her are hard to prove guilty. She's very manipulative."

"Well so am I."