[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-comparing-two-fairies-this-natsu-is-actually-sla":3,"chapter-comparing-two-fairies-this-natsu-is-actually-sla-fairy-tail-a-tale-of-two-natsus-this-one-truly-s-chapter-108":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Fairy Tail Comparison: This Natsu Is Really Slaying Dragons!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1993507,2878,"Chapter 108: The person who shouldn't exist, a crimson figure passing by","fairy-tail-a-tale-of-two-natsus-this-one-truly-s-chapter-108",108,"\u003Cp>【Time in the screen flies by.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Soon, nearly a year has passed since Black Natsu joined the guild.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【During this period, Black Natsu has become thoroughly accustomed to life within Fairy Tail.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【First, regarding the issue of accommodation, Black Natsu showed all the members of Fairy Tail what it means to be a tycoon!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【He bought a villa worth tens of millions of J without a second thought, as if money meant nothing to him.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The entire villa's decoration is even countless times better than the Fairy Tail guild hall.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Even the grounds are not a bit inferior.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Makarov drooled just looking at it, unable to help but sigh that this kid is simply a spendthrift who doesn't understand the hardship of earning money.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【However, strictly speaking, this guy doesn't seem to have a hard time earning money.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Although Black Natsu has not yet become an S-Class Black Mage, tasks of the highest difficulty below S-Class are as simple as eating a meal in his hands.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Usually, you can often see that the tasks this guy accepts in the morning are declared complete by the afternoon.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【If it weren't for the time spent on the road, I'm afraid completing a high-difficulty task would take less than an hour.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【What kind of concept is this?】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Simply put, every task Black Natsu performs belongs to the high-difficulty category below S-Class.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The rewards are almost all one million J and up.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【In other words, this guy can earn one million J in an hour. Terrifying!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Of course, such strength has also led Makarov to start preparing for the S-Class Black Mage promotion exam.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Gildarts, far away in another country, has already received Makarov's message and is preparing to return to the guild to serve as an examiner for the S-Class Black Mage exam.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the sky screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What puzzles everyone in the Fairy Tail guild the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is still the issue regarding Erza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the year shown on the sky screen, indeed, Erza's figure has never appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Queen of the Fairies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone with super high popularity and credibility in the guild, everyone in the guild is naturally very concerned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, she hasn't appeared at all on the sky screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hasn't even been mentioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the possibility that Erza of the Black World is away on a mission and hasn't returned does not exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The time on the sky screen has already reached the year X778.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically, Erza should have joined the Fairy Tail guild back in X776.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, there is absolutely no sign of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This forces one to ponder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucy: \"Could it be... that Erza of that world didn't join Fairy Tail?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gray: \"Maybe Erza of the Black World didn't escape the Tower of Heaven?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mirajane: \"That possibility isn't non-existent, the key is... everyone else has appeared, there's no reason for Erza not to appear, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Makarov: \"Could it be because the worlds are different? Look, isn't Black Natsu completely different from the Natsu of our world?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe the life trajectory of Erza in that world is also completely different?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mavis: \"That possibility cannot be ruled out, but if that's the case, it's a bit of a pity. Not being able to recruit a talent like Erza into the guild is truly a loss.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Irene: \"Erza...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Irene, far away in the Alvarez Empire on the Western Continent, also couldn't help but fall into deep thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, as early as the moment the sky screen appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Erza's remarks, Irene felt something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That sense of closeness originating from the bottom of her heart could not be faked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, because of the great distance, Irene could not verify her thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, she had secretly sent people to the Eastern Continent to investigate this person named Erza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the results were placed on Irene's desk some time ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erza Scarlet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An orphan since childhood, raised by the village of Rosemary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Midway, the village was attacked by a dark magic cult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one in the village was spared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the adults were killed, leaving only a group of children to be sent as slaves to the Tower of Heaven for construction work.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Living in dire, hellish conditions since childhood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once identified as the mastermind behind a collective escape attempt, which resulted in the loss of her right eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, she awakened magic during a rebellion and successfully gained freedom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she was tragically betrayed by Jellal, and in the end, she was the only one who escaped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she joined Fairy Tail, having an artificial eye installed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up until today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the series of documents placed before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Irene already understood everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erza...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is her child!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, this is a past that makes even Irene feel incomparably sorrowful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than four hundred years ago, the Irene of this world was forced to accept an arranged marriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, after the war was won, she became pregnant with a child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, because of her own Dragon Slayer Black Mage dragonification.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was loathed by the general of the neighboring country, who deemed her a monster like Acnologia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was imprisoned for three years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And tortured for three years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During these three years, Irene applied magic to the child in her womb, forcibly preventing her from being born in the prison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was this very act that even led the general of the neighboring country to believe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That it wasn't a child at all, but a monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to forcibly cut open Irene's abdomen to execute this monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Irene could no longer endure such despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, she stopped suppressing her dragonification, completely transformed into a dragon, and wiped out that general.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She destroyed the palace and flew into a forest where few people ventured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This flight lasted four hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For four hundred years, the dragonified Irene could no longer return to a normal human form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until four hundred years later, she met Zeref.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zeref, a magic genius, easily restored Irene to a human appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was only a restoration of form and appearance; in essence, Irene was still a dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This result was unacceptable to Irene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to become human again, and on the verge of madness, she pinned her hopes on the child in her womb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to use Enchantment magic to completely attach her personality to the newborn child; wouldn't Irene then successfully become human?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the child was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, perhaps due to maternal instinct, in the end, Irene could not bring herself to harm the newborn child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To prevent herself from constantly having such thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Irene finally decided to abandon the child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the place of abandonment... was the village of Rosemary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that child's name was Erza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, Erza Scarlet is her child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon learning all this, Irene fell into silence on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her own child?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Irene didn't know how to face Erza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the various hardships on the resume, Irene felt it was her own fault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she hadn't abandoned her... would Erza have had a wonderful childhood?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren't for her, could Erza have been like a normal child?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are no \"ifs\" in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a doubt, Irene has failed Erza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, she has truly become human, and all worries have been completely resolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, because of this, the guilt toward Erza has become even more intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Irene doesn't even know how to face Erza at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, until now, Irene hasn't had the courage to take the initiative to say all of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh... what is this all about?\" Irene sat alone in the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze fixed on the sky screen, lost in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Erza would no longer appear on the sky screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because, in the Black World, Erza wasn't even born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were like the Black World, maybe she wouldn't be so conflicted right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, sometimes, the development of events is always so dramatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Irene inadvertently glanced at the sky screen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her pupils suddenly contracted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mouth opened involuntarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw... a crimson figure flashing by on the sky screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【On the sky screen.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Black Natsu is walking alone on the bustling street.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The noise around him seems to have had no effect on him at all.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【He just looks at the map in his hand, constantly weaving through the crowd.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Suddenly, a girl wearing armor with crimson hair brushes past Black Natsu.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucy: \"Wait! Look! That back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mirajane: \"Crimson long hair, and that armor that never leaves her side? Is that... Erza??\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erza: \"Eh? Have I finally appeared?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gray: \"Doesn't that prove that Erza has already escaped from the Tower of Heaven by now? Then why not join Fairy Tail?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gajeel: \"Who knows, maybe the Erza over there joined the Kingdom Army, just like in Edolas.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Edolas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, in another parallel world, Erza's counterpart, Erza Knightwalker, did not join Fairy Tail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary, she joined the Kingdom Army and became an enemy of Fairy Tail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunting fairies all over the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gajeel's conjecture made everyone present nod involuntarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, Irene on the other side couldn't sit still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Erza??!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Irene, who was just thinking about Erza, couldn't help but exclaim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had already stood up from her seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze was fixed on the sky screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An expression of disbelief filled her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... how is this possible?!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Black Natsu clearly didn't notice the figure that had just brushed past him.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Looking at the map, he soon left the small town.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【He boarded a carriage and began heading toward his destination, a dark guild hidden in the desert not far from the town.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Task target: Dark Guild Black Shark Vortex】\u003C\u002Fp>",1616,"2026-06-15T13:50:31.687Z","2026-06-15T13:55:36.354Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","97ead5f4754444426b70045ff2a0714bbae798f61f92334d6b39997acf5cd09e","fairy-tail-a-tale-of-two-natsus-this-one-truly-s-chapter-109","fairy-tail-a-tale-of-two-natsus-this-one-truly-s-chapter-107",287,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffairy-tail-a-tale-of-two-natsus-this-one-truly-s-cover.jpg"]