Fairy Tail: You Call This Celestial Spirit Magic?!

Chapter 594 594

"Mira? Stop worrying. He'll definitely be back soon."

Seeing the sorrow on Mirajane's face deepen and deepen, Erza came over and patted her on the shoulder to comfort her.

She could understand Mirajane's feelings.

She knew how intense Mirajane's feelings for Marco were, just like she knew how worried she herself was about Marco.

All along, Marco and Mirajane had always been very close, and their relationship had progressed very quickly.

That had once made Erza extremely anxious.

Clearly, she had joined Fairy Tail earlier than Mirajane.

She had known Marco earlier too.

And yet Marco and Mirajane's relationship had already developed to the point where he regularly went to Mirajane's house for meals, had already become something like "family."

Erza's response to that had been to frequently go to Mirajane's house to learn cooking, deeply involving herself in Mirajane and Marco's time together.

For her, that had already been an act of extraordinary courage.

At first, she had been awkward, still unable to relax.

But with Marco's help, she had quickly blended into it and Mirajane had not rejected her either.

She had accepted her with ease, and the relationship between the two of them had gradually changed from their former head-to-head hostility into something more and more harmonious.

As for this relationship, Erza's mentality had gone through several changes.

At first, it had been "I was here first."

Then it became "forcing my way into Marco and Mirajane's relationship."

And finally it became "the three of us getting along harmoniously."

Deep down, Erza actually felt a faint sense of guilt—guilt toward Mirajane.

When Mirajane and Marco's relationship had been developing so quickly, Erza had stepped in and turned the story of two people into the life of three.

She did feel some guilt about that.

She felt like "the third person." Even though Marco and Mirajane had never made her feel that way, she herself could not quite get past it.

But asking her to give up and withdraw—she could not do that either.

It could only be said that their relationship with one another was too good, their moral bottom line too high, and their emotional instincts too slow, which had put Erza in this situation and made her develop these extremely awkward thoughts.

As for the emotional upheaval that was likely waiting ahead, Erza actually had not noticed it at all.

She had not even realized that anything was unusual with Juvia, because there were simply too many young girls who admired and liked Marco in the same way.

Only Mirajane had ever given Erza a sense of crisis, and Erza felt that crisis had already been resolved.

She felt things were actually pretty good now.

Even though no relationship had been formally named, as long as they were happy and at ease together, that was already enough.

Although Erza herself sometimes secretly read risque novels, when it came to actual feelings, she was in fact extremely passive and slow to realize things.

Even bringing up topics like "marriage" would make her embarrassingly shy.

In her heart, she felt that continuing to maintain their current relationship was not bad at all.

It was good for everyone.

Mirajane, on the other hand, simply could not cut herself free.

Whether it was friendship or love, she could not let go of either, so she truly had no solution.

Erza, meanwhile, had simply never thought of needing a solution in the first place.

She just did not want to lose anything again, did not want to lose people who were incomparably important to her.

"Sigh…"

Looking at Erza's face full of concern, Mirajane let out a long sigh and for a moment did not know what to say.

Looking at the Erza before her, Mirajane felt utterly lost.

'What exactly will our future become…?'

...

And as for this possible emotional storm to come, Marco currently had no awareness of it whatsoever.

At the moment, he had not thought of it at all.

Marco was currently looking at his missions.

This encounter had triggered two missions for him—one concerning Grimoire Heart, the other concerning the Black Dragon. At present, he had not completed either of them.

The people of Grimoire Heart had not all been dealt with yet.

They were all currently sealed inside Fairy Sphere, so for the time being there was nothing he could do.

And the Black Dragon was not something that could be dealt with in the short term either.

For now, he could only look at those two missions.

"I should have dealt with Grimoire Heart earlier."

Marco was summarizing the mistake this time, although it was not really much of a mistake.

After all, no one had expected the Black Dragon to suddenly attack.

Originally, Grimoire Heart had been meant as an exam question for the candidates, but the appearance of the Black Dragon had thrown all arrangements into chaos.

Although Mavis' Fairy Sphere had trapped the people of Grimoire Heart, the system had not judged that as "resolved."

Clearly, they had to be completely defeated before the mission requirements would count as fulfilled. Simply trapping them was not enough, because Fairy Sphere could not last forever.

Those Grimoire Heart people would break free sooner or later.

Just as Marco was reviewing gains and losses, Laxus came out of the woods carrying several rabbit-like creatures.

Magic could not be used in this world, so Laxus had spent quite a bit of effort catching those things.

Starting a fire next would take some effort too.

"You recovered?"

Seeing that Marco had sat up and no longer looked as weak as before, Laxus casually asked.

"Much better. You… what are you doing?"

Marco nodded, then asked with some confusion as he looked at Laxus.

"Starting a fire."

Laxus answered matter-of-factly while preparing to drill wood for fire.

"Uh… why are you starting a fire like that?"

Marco still looked surprised.

He was thinking that Laxus really was in quite the mood—he had actually started playing at primitive fire-making.

"Obviously because I can't use magic. And I didn't bring that pill. The one I took earlier seems to have stopped working already. So it apparently wasn't permanent."

Laxus answered irritably.

He wanted to use magic too. His own magic power had not been consumed much; if he had one of Mystogan's custom pills, he could still use magic.

"Why not ask me first?" Marco said darkly, then tossed Laxus a small bottle.

Inside were Mystogan's specially made pills.

Those pills really were not permanent in effect. In fact, that had been intentional, done to protect Edolas.

Earlier, when Laxus had suddenly gotten up and walked away without saying anything, Marco had not thought of that at all.

And Laxus had not asked him either.

"…"

After catching the bottle, Laxus fell silent for a moment.

In truth, he had never imagined that Marco would actually carry this stuff around with him, which was why he had not asked.

"Forget it. No need to bother with that. I'll recover enough to open a gate very soon, and then we'll just go back directly. Everyone's probably already getting anxious."

Seeing Laxus take the pill and use lightning to start a fire, preparing to roast the "rabbits," Marco hurriedly stopped him.

By the time Laxus finished all that, Marco would already have recovered enough to take him back to Earth-land anyway.

There was no time to eat.

"That fast? I thought it would take several days."

Hearing Marco say that, Laxus looked shocked.

The kind of attack Marco had used was so far beyond his understanding that he had thought Marco must have overdrawn himself terribly.

He had not expected that after only half a day or so, Marco would already have recovered this much.

"Not fully recovered. Just enough to open a gate and go back."

Marco smiled and explained.

Even for him, this was considered very slow recovery. He had never experienced anything like this before.

"Good. Maybe if we go back now, we can still chase down that Black Dragon and finish him off!"

Laxus threw the rabbits away and gave up on roasting them.

He spoke excitedly, still obsessed with hunting the Black Dragon down to the very end!

"Forget it. He ran a long time ago."

Marco smacked his forehead, utterly helpless.

Laxus really was unwilling to give up.

And the guy still refused to believe that even a Black Dragon injured to that degree was someone he could not beat!

"…"

Laxus did not argue. He just went silent.

His feelings were complicated, because Marco had already surpassed him by far too much.

The Marco of now, compared to when Laxus had left Fairy Tail, had grown far stronger yet again—far beyond anything Laxus could comprehend.

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