SWDnovel Chapter 73 Fairy Tail has always been like this.
Chapter 73 Fairy Tail has always been like this.
Following Lucy's gaze, whose lips were twitching, I looked over.
Under the purple moonlight, there were four people—no, to be precise, four perverts.
All their clothes had vanished, leaving them completely naked except for their most basic undershirts, a truly shameless sight!
"Oh, don't worry about such a small thing. It feels a bit cooler this way."
Uru was the first to notice Lucy's flushed face. She raised her fair arm to fan her face and said with a smile, "Even your complicated and chaotic state of mind has calmed down quite a bit."
"It feels so good, it's been a long time since I've had this feeling." Gray nodded in affirmation.
"It's like going back to the old days."
Having come to terms with himself, Leon became much more cheerful, no longer looking so bitter and resentful. He opened his arms wide, exposing his chest pain to greet the refreshing night sea breeze.
Lucy: "..."
She found herself thinking she knew exactly where Gray's striptease came from.
"Those three are one thing, but why did Miss Ultear also...?"
After a brief pause, Lucy's gaze swept past the three perverted masters and disciples and landed on Ultear.
Although it was their first meeting, her woman's intuition told her that Miss Ultia was the dignified and elegant type, clearly not like the other three.
"I always feel that if I don't do it this way, I won't be able to fit in."
Ultear's cheeks flushed under Lucy's gaze. She tossed her long black hair and murmured, "Besides, it does feel much cooler this way."
Having only learned the truth about being "abandoned" back then today, she definitely needs to calm down now.
Lucy understood her feelings, but found it difficult to empathize with this bizarre approach.
"Compared to such a trivial matter..."
Uru strode up to Chase. "I've heard everything from Gray and Leon, Chase. Thank you so much. You gave me a new lease on life and the chance to see my two good-for-nothing idiot apprentices again."
"And my daughter, Urutia."
After speaking, she bowed deeply to Chase with a serious and solemn expression.
Urtia followed suit, bowing to Chess in thanks as well.
However, the expression on her face, hidden by her long, flowing black hair, conveyed even greater respect and gratitude.
If Chase saved Uru's life, then for her it was a redemption of her will and beliefs.
Uru's rebirth made her realize how real the world she now lived in was, and how difficult it was to change.
If it weren't for the man before her, she might have remained more and more immersed in the dream of the "Great Magical World," committing even more unforgivable sins...
Thinking of Gerald, whom she had misled, and Melty, whose hometown she had personally destroyed, Ultear's sorrow grew even heavier.
She seemed to have made up her mind.
"It's really hard to imagine that you, Mr. Chase, and that idiot junior brother Gray would be in the same guild."
Leon also sincerely expressed his gratitude, and then took the opportunity to put Grey down.
"Hey! Don't be fooled by Chase's facade! He's our guild's number one destroyer!"
Gray, his face flushed, retorted.
Compared to Uru and the other two, he was far too familiar with Chess, so much so that when he tried to thank him properly, he felt awkward and uncomfortable.
Finally, feeling too awkward, he simply stopped bowing, turned his head to the side, and silently engraved Chase's kindness deep in his heart.
"Um……"
Looking at the four people in front of him, Chase rested his chin on his hand and pondered for a moment.
"Is that all you want to say?" He didn't offer any fancy platitudes.
"I can never repay this kindness of being reborn. I will do anything I can to help you," Uru said earnestly.
"I am the same as Uru," Urutia then promised.
Although Leon and Gray did not speak, the resolute expressions on their faces clearly demonstrated their stance.
"Really, anything is possible?"
Chase sized up the group of seemingly sincere people, and suddenly a malicious smile crept onto his lips.
"Yes!" Uru and Urutia nodded emphatically without even thinking.
Only Lucy frowned slightly, vaguely guessing what was going on.
"In that case, once you've adjusted your mindset, let's have a proper fight!" Chase laughed.
After two days and two nights of hard work, there should be some reward, right?
If you're lucky, you should be able to get some pretty good cards from Ultias and Ultear, who are at the level of the Ten Saints.
Although the S-class Leon is a bit lacking, it's still passable.
As for Gray...
Forget it, let's just pretend he never existed.
"what?"
Upon hearing this unexpected request, Uru, her daughter, and Leon, who had all prepared themselves mentally, were completely dumbfounded.
However, the guild members were in an uproar.
"So it really is this! Chess, you battle maniac!!"
"Hey Chess! That contemptuous look of yours is inexplicably infuriating!"
"Hahaha! Is a fight about to break out? Gray's master seems like a worthy opponent! I'm getting fired up!"
"Love~!"
"...You really do come here just by smelling it."
"Ha, a tiny flame lighting a birthday cake dares to challenge Uruguay? How presumptuous of them."
"What did you say? Perverted droopy eyes!"
"Hey Lucy, you can smell it? Then I'll treat you to some fish."
"I'm talking about Natsu!"
When two people don't see eye to eye, they start arguing right away. In the blink of an eye, Natsu and Gray were fighting.
Having anticipated this outcome, Lucy politely declined the extra-spicy fish that Happy pulled out of his pocket and quickly hid in the distance.
The scene, which inexplicably became so lively, left Uru and his two companions completely bewildered.
Have these people always been like this?
"They're all adorable kids. Gray seems to have joined a pretty good guild..."
After a moment of stunned silence, Ul looked at Gray, who was face-to-face with Natsu, and a smile crept onto his lips as he murmured a sigh.
"Fairy Tail has always been like this," Ultear said with a smile, shaking her head.
Working in the council, she had heard quite a bit about this guild.
"Guild, huh..." Leon's eyes flickered as he fell into deep thought.
Uru moved closer to Chess, who was relatively more mature and had not joined the battle (actually, he had no magic).
"Although doing this might be a bit offensive to my benefactor, but..."
After some hesitation, the straightforward Uru couldn't help but ask the question that had been bothering him, "Brother Chess, can you tell me how you broke through Absolute Freeze?"
For all ice-type mages, "Absolute Freeze" is the most forbidden of all magic, and once cast, there is no turning back.
Even the only solution—the Moon Drop, which gathers the power of moonlight—only turns the never-melting ice into water.
Moreover, the entire process requires a long time and human sacrifices!
She had never heard of a mage who used Absolute Freeze being able to restore their physical body and consciousness like she was doing now!
Chase had anticipated Uru's question and went over his explanation to Lucy in detail again.
"The idea of using shape magic to restore ice water to its original human form was just a theory that came about during a casual discussion with someone."
Chase met Uru's gaze, which was almost touching him, and sighed softly. "So if Absolute Freeze is not broken and its magical properties remain, there's nothing I can do."
"A theory discussed casually with someone?" Uru noticed the key point.
"Among my card spirits, there is a wise man who has been immersed in the study of magic for many years."
"I see."
Uru looked on with a sudden realization, then turned his gaze back to the night sky and sighed softly, "The world outside the Northern Continent is truly vast..."
Although her intuition told her that the whole process was definitely not as simple as Chase had described.
However, since Chase didn't seem inclined to make it clear, she naturally wouldn't press the issue relentlessly.
For her, being able to see Greyryon again, and her daughter who had grown up, was already the greatest gift and blessing from fate!
Compared to this, breaking the absolute freeze is completely unimportant!