Chapter 213

【He also saw with his own eyes that woman with scarlet hair use a single sword stroke to cut his powerful friend in half at the waist!】

【He also saw with his own eyes!】

【That white-haired woman transformed into a terrifying demon and tore his other friend into shreds with a single claw!】

【He even saw with his own eyes! No! He experienced it!】

【A blue cat! It picked up a salted fish and smacked him with it.】

【It sent him flying dozens of meters!! Dozens of meters!!】

【Even now, his mouth still tastes of salt, and he can't get rid of it.】

【Oh, right, there was also a blonde woman carrying a whip!】

【She was simply a lunatic!】

【Who else could scream "I'm so scared" while frantically whipping him as he lay unable to move?】

【Every whip! It tore his skin and flesh, leaving him a bloody mess.】

【The bandages covering his entire upper body are that woman's handiwork.】

【At the time, he really wanted to ask: who the hell is the one who's scared??】

【The entire guild, two hundred mages!】

【All wiped out by those few demons!】

【Yes, demons. In his eyes, those guys are not from a legal guild at all.】

【They are even more ruthless than dark guilds!】

【Even he, who had always been tough, was scared to tears!】

【Even now, he cannot forget the sight of his guild's big brother, Erigor, being caught in a pincer attack by the scarlet-haired witch and the white-haired witch.】

【No, or rather, they were fighting over Erigor's life!】

【It was too brutal. In any case, Erigor, already beaten to a near-death state, crawled to his side.】

【With blood clogging his throat, he could barely speak.】

【But Yamazu heard him clearly.】

【He heard Erigor's final cry!】

【"Take Lullaby! Run!!!"】

【"Get out of here!!"】

【"Escape their clutches!"】

【"And then... revenge!!"】

【"Our blood, our lives, our faith! Everything is entrusted to you! Yamazu! Run! I believe in you!!"】

【The words had barely fallen.】

【Yamazu saw with his own eyes Erigor's face twist in agony.】

【His trembling form was dragged back by the demons behind him.】

【That tragic, extreme scream still echoes in his ears even now!】

【Ten minutes!】

【No, perhaps not even ten minutes...】

【He was the only one left in the entire guild.】

【Everyone else had fallen victim to those demons.】

【Perhaps even the heavens were looking out for Yamazu.】

【Those two witches started arguing.】

【They seemed to be at odds!】

【Well, after all, demons are always fighting demons; how could they possibly cooperate?】

【In any case, those two demons started bickering over who would get the final kill.】

【They even started fighting.】

【The demon leaders started brawling, and the other demons rushed over to break up the fight.】

【It was taking advantage of this opportunity that Yamazu finally found a chance to escape that hellish battlefield.】

【His eyes filled with tears; his once light body now felt as if it were carrying ten thousand tons of weight!】

【That was hope! The final hope of everyone in the guild!】

【He was the only one who inherited the faith of Phantom Lord.】

【All the beautiful fantasies of the deceased were entrusted to him!】

【He had to escape! And then fulfill this hope!】

【He had to live on, to see the scenery that those who had passed away could not see!】

【Such a thought seemed to give him infinite motivation.】

【And it really did allow him to escape successfully and arrive here.】

【Familiar faces seemed to flash through his mind.】

【Yamazu's eyes were already eroded by tears.】

["Big Brother Erigor... I... will absolutely not let you down!"]

【Yamazu's words were broken, and the pain contained within them was something only he knew.】

【He reached out to wipe away his tears.】

【He was just about to blow the flute in his hand.】

【Suddenly, a burst of laughter came, interrupting Yamazu's actions.】

【He hurriedly put his flute away.】

【He looked in the direction of the laughter with a panicked expression.】

【"Hehe... this girl, that girl, they are all quite good!"】

【He saw a little old man wearing a clown outfit hiding behind a tree trunk, holding a photo album, laughing with a flushed face.】

【"The mages these days have really improved, both in appearance and substance~"】

【He closed the book, seemingly unsatisfied.】

【"As expected, nothing beats a photo album of Black Mage girls~"】

【Abruptly, he turned his head inadvertently and immediately saw Yamazu, who had been stunned behind him.】

【He was instantly startled!】

【The man became flustered: "That... that, don't misunderstand, this is actually a form of study..."】

【"Uh... there's nothing to be ashamed of."】

【Yamazu twitched his mouth: "We're both men, you don't need to explain..."】

【Makarov seemed to notice the bandages on Yamazu and immediately changed the subject.】

【"What's this? So you're a patient? What are you doing sneaking around here in the middle of the night?"】

【Yamazu also recognized the person in front of him: the famous Master of Fairy Tail, Makarov!】

【Wait! Fairy Tail?!】

【Yamazu's pupils contracted, and the terror from just moments ago seemed to surface in his heart again.】

【However, the flute in his hand seemed to give him confidence.】

【This fear gradually transformed into excitement; this was a case of finding exactly what he was looking for without even trying!】

【Immediately, Yamazu expressed that he wanted to play a tune for Makarov.】

【Makarov was here for that very purpose, so naturally, he wouldn't refuse.】

【Learning of this result, the corners of Yamazu's mouth curled up slightly.】

【"Got him!"】

【On the hillside not far away.】

【"Found him! That guy Yamazu!" Erza and the others appeared here.】

【Rushing and hurrying, they finally arrived before Yamazu could play.】

【"Damn it! I was the one who found him first this time!"】

【Mirajane, standing to the side, immediately prepared to rush forward.】

【"You get back here, I was clearly the one who found him first." Erza refused to give in.】

【Lucy held her head in speechlessness.】

"I say... you two big sisters, is it really necessary to argue at a time like this? Just now, because you were arguing for half an hour, we discovered that Yagiyama had escaped..."

Gray and Happy at the side couldn't stop nodding.

Seeming to feel that Lucy's words made sense.

The two immediately decided that whatever the issue was, it could be discussed later; right now, they had to blood-sacrifice Yagiyama first.

Otherwise, who knows how many people would die.

Thinking and doing, Erza raised her blade, Mirajane turned her right hand into a sharp claw, and the two prepared to rush up and finish off Yagiyama.

"Shh!!"

The sudden appearance of Bob gave Erza and Mirajane a fright.

The two immediately retreated several meters.

Erza even changed her long sword into a long spear, aiming it at Bob.

"Who is this okama?!!"

The people behind were also startled.

"Master Bob?" Mirajane, having reacted, couldn't help but exclaim.

"That one from Blue Pegasus?" Erza also noticed something and immediately retracted the long spear.

[Sighing in relief.]

However, Bob caught sight of Gray standing in the back at a glance.

His eyes lit up.

"Speaking of which, you are really cute!"

Saying this, Bob stepped in a swan-like gait, pressing closer to Gray step by step.

Lucy's eye twitched wildly: "This person... is the master of Blue Pegasus??"

Erza frowned tightly: "There's no time, that guy is about to blow that flute."

"It's fine, it's quite exciting right now, you guys be a little quieter."

Just then, a familiar voice rang out.

Erza, Mirajane, and the others immediately discovered Black Natsu sitting on a broken stone, as well as Gao Gao Deman, Ichiya, Jura, and others leaning against a tree trunk.

"This... what exactly is going on?" Mirajane and Erza walked to Black Natsu's side, looking at him in confusion.

"You'll know soon enough. Don't worry, that thing Lullaby is useless."

Black Natsu's gaze was fixed on Makarov's direction as he responded softly.

Just as Black Natsu said.

At this moment, Yagiyama was already prepared to blow the flute in his hand.

But... for some reason, he couldn't make up his mind.

Clearly... so many people had already sacrificed themselves.

Clearly, victory was right before his eyes.

Clearly, as long as he blew it, he could change everything...

"Nothing can be changed."

Suddenly, Makarov spoke up.

Those deep eyes seemed to be able to see through everything about Yagiyama.

Earnest words followed.

Sometimes, Black Natsu really felt that it was fortunate Makarov was in a light guild.

Otherwise, with this eloquence, if he had joined some evil cult or something.

He could probably bewitch hundreds or thousands of people in minutes.

At the very least, right now, it was like this; under Makarov's spiritual encouragement.

And earnest persuasion, the flute fell powerlessly from Yagiyama's hand.

Yagiyama... lost his will to fight.

"Master!!"

The people watching from the side all rushed out at this moment.

The moment they saw Erza, Mirajane, and the others!

Yagiyama seemed to have encountered extreme terror.

His body began to tremble, and he couldn't stop retreating backward.

Tears and snot gushed out in an instant.

"Demon! Demon!! Don't come over, don't get near me~~~"

Looking at Yagiyama, who was almost becoming a nervous wreck, Black Natsu couldn't help but look at the two girls on his left and right.

"Speaking of which, what exactly did you guys do to him? He seems very afraid of you?"

Mirajane spread her hands: "We didn't do anything? We were just normally subjugating the dark guild; I didn't even attack him."

"If you want to talk about the most likely culprit, it should be Lucy, right? Lucy whipped him over a hundred times."

"O... over a hundred whips??"

Black Natsu looked at Lucy with some astonishment.

This woman has a cruel heart; could this even be called torture?

Lucy, being stared at, also scratched her head awkwardly: "That... I was too scared at the time..."

"Scared..."

Yagiyama was about to collapse; your family's version of 'scared' is like this??

And, what are you afraid of? I had no power to fight back at the time; what exactly were you afraid of??

Although he had countless grievances he wanted to roar out, due to the fact that there were too many people from Fairy Tail present.

Yagiyama still endured the grievance, and even his crying was forcibly held back.

"Ara ara~ Little Yagiyama is even cuter than Little Gray!!"

Just then, a fat male figure appeared in front of Yagiyama.

Bob seemed to like Yagiyama unusually much, and immediately gave him a bear hug!!

Directly squeezing Yagiyama until he was almost out of breath.

His hands slid powerlessly in mid-air.

It took a long while before Bob let him go.

"Sorry, I just couldn't help myself. You know? You really look like me when I was young!"

Bob said with a smile.

Hum...

Just as everyone was chatting happily, Lullaby, which had fallen to the ground, emitted a wave of magic power.

The eyes of the skull-shaped flute glowed with an eerie purple-red light.

A hoarse voice rang out at this moment.

"It's too ridiculous, too ridiculous! You are all just a bunch of useless mages!!"

Endless black smoke rose into mid-air, and a huge magic circle unfolded accordingly.

A terrifying monster, larger than a mountain, slowly emerged from that magic circle.

"I can't watch this anymore; I'll just eat your souls myself!!"

The demon from the Book of Zeref, Lullaby!

Officially makes its appearance! [End of chapter]

— Author's Notes —

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