~ Hundreds of meters in the air, Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna were shocked, wearing expressions of disbelief… Igor, standing beside the three of them, had been prepared, but when he saw Warrod’s personal power — power enough to change an entire terrain with a simple gesture — he was still shocked.
Well, manga is manga, and reality is reality.
It was as if a manga scene had become reality.
The shock could not be expressed in words.
“Goodbye, Teacher Warrod!!” In the sky, Igor, Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna waved goodbye to Warrod, who grew smaller and smaller until he became a black dot on the ground.
“Goodbye, little ones who will now join the Fairy Tail Guild~.” “From now on, Mavis’s guild is entrusted to your young people’s hands.
So you must give it your all and work hard!” Warrod laughed quietly.
The spring breeze swaying the stretching vines made his loose robe flutter, and the shining “Fairy Tail” emblem appeared.
After seeing Igor and the others off, Warrod took a letter from his pocket.
The sender of the letter was Gildarts Clive.
[“Ahem, respected Lord Warrior Sequen, I am Gildarts Clive.
I am a junior from ‘Fairy Tail’…”] [“Recently, some rather unusual little demons may visit your quiet place.
They expect generous treatment from you.
It would be no exaggeration to say they are the ones who will bear the future of Fairy Tail Guild — and that the most handsome Wizard in Fairy Tail is Gildarts Clive.”] That letter Gildarts sent had reached Warrod five months ago.
That was why Warrod took such good care of Igor and the others.
After all, they were children who would now join the Wizard Guild founded by Mavis, and Warrod had to act as a senior.
… Meanwhile, in a certain city in the Fiore Kingdom, Gildarts stood outside a pleasure quarter, looking up at the sky with a faint smile.
“Igor and his group should already have left Lord Warrod’s place…” “Everyone, I’ve arrived!” “Just which lucky girl will be able to have a happy romance with me, the strongest Wizard on the continent, today?” Then Gildarts laughed loudly and rushed into that “brothel.” Indeed, Gildarts was always very reliable in critical situations, but in daily life he often ruined things.
As said before… When in a tight spot, please believe in Gildarts.
In daily life, never let your guard down around Gildarts.
… Meanwhile, in the southern Ishgar Continent…
in the largest magic beast forest on the entire continent…
“BOOM!!” Accompanied by an earsplitting roar and terrifying magic, a gigantic vine over ten meters in diameter tore through the sky, crossed tens of thousands of kilometers, and stabbed into the monster forest.
Under the astonished gazes of countless Beast Kings lurking in the forest, it directly invaded the depths of the forest that magic beasts regarded as an absolute forbidden land, and with an earsplitting roar, it violently crashed in front of a wooden house, creating a crater over ten meters in diameter in the ground before the house.
“Are you kidding me?” “We arrived at the destination this fast?” When the vine touched the ground, Igor, Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna were surprised by the vine’s speed, then got down from the vine and hurried toward the front of the wooden house.
“Thud!
Thud!
Thud!” After lightly knocking on the cottage door, Igor very politely asked, “Excuse me, is Mr.
Wolfheim home?” After knocking on the door, Igor quietly stepped aside and waited.
“…” Unfortunately, about fifteen minutes passed, but no one responded from inside the room.
Seeing this, Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna were at a loss for words.
After a while, Mirajane suddenly asked, “Igor, could Wolfheim be away on a trip and not home right now?” “No way?” Igor’s eyes twitched slightly.
In other words, Lord Warrod had sent four children directly into the most dangerous primeval forest on the Ishgar Continent without even confirming whether Lord Wolfheim was home?
“Lord Warrod, aren’t you overestimating our abilities?” Igor kept talking to himself as he considered how unstable this situation was.
“Since Wolfheim is away, shall we go back the way we came?” Saying that, Mirajane looked at the vine beside them.
“Splash…” The instant Mirajane finished speaking, the vine that had teleported everyone here vanished before their eyes, becoming green stardust.
“…” Mirajane said nothing and fell silent.
“All right, now there’s no going back.” Igor said there was nothing he could do, his lips twitching slightly.
“Maybe Wolfheim is nearby.” At that moment, after thinking for a while, Lisanna tilted her head and looked around at everyone.
“That’s true.” Igor nodded in agreement with Lisanna’s words.
In his thinking, that great Lord Warrod would not do something so reckless as abandoning four teenagers in a monster forest.
After all, Warrod isn’t Gildarts, right?!
… “Achoo!” Meanwhile, in a certain city in the Fiore Kingdom, Gildarts, who had been hitting on girls in a tavern, sneezed repeatedly.
Wiping his nose, he muttered to himself, “Strange.
Could some cute girl be thinking about me again?” “What a shame.
I’m like a free wind.
I won’t stay for any woman.” Gildarts shook his head.
A faint sense of powerlessness appeared in his eyes.
He admitted he was tremendously charming and always captivated women, and he also admitted he couldn’t live without women.
But that was one thing, and it didn’t mean he would stay with a woman forever because of that.
Gildarts was a free man.
Cough cough.
… In the center of the forest.
“Look, there’s a mountain over there.” Since arriving in the monster forest, Elfman had been quietly observing the surroundings.
Then he suddenly noticed that not far from the center of the forest there was a towering mountain that was probably over a thousand meters, and a faint curiosity appeared in his eyes.
“Huh?” Igor looked in the direction Elfman pointed.
The instant he saw the mountain that had suddenly appeared in the forest, his pupils rapidly contracted, and he shouted, “Everyone watch out!
That’s not a mountain!” “BOOM!” The instant Igor finished speaking, the towering mountain began to move, and a living creature appeared.
“Take Over…” The next instant, Igor, Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna instantly completed Take Over.