Throughout the journey, Natsu was still woozy from motion sickness.
He staggered around, struggling with every step.
Lucy’s curiosity finally couldn’t be contained any longer.
“Natsu!
You get motion sick so easily, but why don’t you ever get sick when Happy flies you around?” Natsu and Happy looked at each other, then simultaneously stared at Lucy with condescending expressions.
“Lucy is so dumb!” A double critical hit!
Lucy furrowed her brows.
“What do you mean dumb?!
I was just curious!” “Besides!
Why does it feel like my IQ drops every time I talk to you two?!” she cursed in annoyance.
“Of course it’s different!” Natsu retorted, his gaze still condescending.
“Have you ever seen a vehicle that looks like Happy?” Lucy secretly glanced at the annoying flying cat.
Who knows how many times her pride had been trampled by this tiny creature.
An evil glint flashed in the corner of the blonde girl’s eye.
She secretly imagined various ways to torture the blue cat later…
yes, later, when she officially became the lady of Natsu’s house.
“Women hold grudges, you know, Happy…
Just wait for my revenge.
One day, I will definitely…” Lucy began formulating various psychological torture plans in her head.
“Ohohohoho!” Lucy suddenly burst into slightly deranged laughter, making Natsu and Happy instinctively take a step back in horror.
“It seems there really is something wrong with Lucy’s IQ, what do we do?” Natsu whispered worriedly.
“I don’t think it’s her IQ that’s the problem, her brain is just broken.
This is a huge issue, I don’t know what to do either!” Happy replied, equally horrified.
Lucy’s face instantly turned gloomy.
She complained in a dark tone, “Hey!
If you’re going to badmouth me right to my face, do you two have to whisper that loudly, huh?!” “I can hear everything, you know!” After walking for quite a distance, hunger and weakness struck Natsu again, slowing his walking pace even further.
The sound of his growling stomach accompanied them the entire way.
Occasionally, they hunted wild animals in the forest, but it wasn’t nearly enough to satisfy Natsu’s dragon stomach.
Of course, Lucy had to do all the manual labor of hunting, while Natsu’s only job was roasting the food with his fire magic.
Lucy furrowed her brow, seeing Natsu’s pitiful condition.
“Our mission target this time is a mansion belonging to an incredibly wealthy Duke.
There should be plenty of food there!” Hearing the word ‘food’, Natsu’s eyes suddenly lit up brightly, and his movements instantly became agile again.
“I’M FIRED UP!!” Happy was actually way more excited than him.
“There must be tons of big fish there!!” “Besides, since when is there a Duke shaped like a fish?!” Lucy couldn’t hold back her complaint.
“Is your brain filled with nothing but fish?!” A sly glint flashed in Happy’s eyes.
“Lucy is so dumb!” “Why are you calling me dumb again?!
I’m smart, you know!” Lucy clutched her chest tightly.
She felt that one day her heart might actually explode from getting too emotional dealing with these two.
Happy replied as if it were an absolute law of the world.
“It’s only natural for cats to eat fish.
If I don’t eat fish, am I supposed to eat a dumb Lucy?” “Why does that reason sound so logical?!
I can’t even argue with it!” Lucy wailed in despair.
Not long after, a grand and luxurious building came into view.
Seeing the mansion, Natsu’s motivation instantly skyrocketed a hundredfold.
His empty stomach no longer seemed to sting.
In Natsu’s eyes, the entire mansion building transformed into a giant pile of food.
Drool began to drip from the corner of his mouth.
“Wahahaha!
Food!
Food!
Here I cooome!!” “For some reason, my gut tells me this is going to end very badly,” Lucy complained sorrowfully, watching the overly eager Natsu.
BAM!
Lucy flinched in shock at the sudden explosion.
By the time she realized what was happening, Natsu had already dashed forward, charging at the mansion with his body engulfed in blazing flames.
“HEY!
Our goal here is to infiltrate and steal the book quietly!” the girl screamed in a panic.
The moment those words slipped from her lips, she reflexively glanced at Happy beside her.
She could sense that Happy was definitely going to make an annoying comment about what she had just said.
And that was the last thing she wanted to hear right now!
With an incredibly gloomy look in her eyes, Lucy threatened in an ice-cold tone, “Natsu isn’t here to defend you, you know.
If you dare to say those words…” “Eeep!” Happy was scared half to death.
Tears immediately streamed down his face as he spread his wings and dove, flying after Natsu at lightning speed.
“Natsuuu!
Dumb Lucy wants to bully meee!” Lucy’s face was further covered by dark clouds.
“See!
In the end, you still said that word anyway!” “Damn flying cat!
Just wait until I become your lady, I’ll pay back all this mental suffering many times over!” BOOM!
Natsu, engulfed in flames, crashed into the mansion like a hurricane.
He tore through the entire building in a straight line, turning and plowing through corridor after corridor, completely ignoring the servants running around in a panic.
“Food!
Where is the food?!
Hurry up and tell me where the food is!” he roared wildly.
This hunger was truly driving him crazy!
Even in his weakened condition, leveling a noble’s mansion was a trivial matter for Natsu, who could now access Dragon Force mode at will.
A green light suddenly flashed ahead.
A giant, plump maid figure standing nearly three meters tall lunged toward him.
However, in Natsu’s frenzied vision, that figure was nothing more than an extra lump of food.
His flame-engulfed right fist directly smashed the giant maid named Virgo squarely in the face!
BAM!
Virgo’s giant body was instantly sent flying into the air by Natsu’s punch.
Only after the massive figure was airborne could Natsu clearly see her form.
Natsu snorted disdainfully.
“How dare you get in my way when you aren’t even food?!” After sniffing the air a few times with his sharp dragon nose, he managed to track down the location of the mansion’s food storage.
Natsu then bolted in that direction again, leaving a scorched trail on the floor.
Meanwhile, in another room inside the mansion, someone stared at the chaos Natsu caused with a pale, dumbfounded face.
“T-this…
where did that destructive monster come from?!” Duke Everlue muttered in disbelief.
“And why was he staring right at me?!” “I need to go and see what’s actually going on!” His body suddenly sank into the ground.
He created a magic tunnel beneath the mansion floor and hurried to chase after Natsu.
The incredible commotion Natsu created successfully drew the attention of every inhabitant in the mansion, so absolutely no guards noticed Lucy and Happy sneaking in behind him.