Chapter 226: The person who shouldn't exist, the crimson figure brushed past

Time in the screen flew by.

Soon, nearly a year had passed since Black Natsu joined the guild.

During this period, Black Natsu had thoroughly familiarized himself with life inside Fairy Tail.

First, regarding the issue of accommodation, Black Natsu showed all the members of Fairy Tail what it meant to be a tycoon!

He bought a villa priced at tens of millions of J without a second thought, as if he didn't care about money at all.

The interior decoration of the entire villa was even countless times better than the Fairy Tail guild hall.

Even the grounds were not a bit inferior.

It made Makarov drool, and he couldn't help but sigh that this kid was simply a spendthrift who didn't understand the hardship of earning money.

However, strictly speaking, this guy didn't seem to have a hard time earning money.

Although Black Natsu had not yet become an S-Class mage, the highest-difficulty missions below S-Class were as simple as eating a meal in his hands.

Usually, you could often see that the mission he accepted in the morning would be announced as completed by the afternoon.

If it weren't for the time spent on the road, completing a high-difficulty mission would probably take less than an hour.

What kind of concept is this?

Simply put, every mission Black Natsu performed belonged to the high-difficulty category below S-Class.

The rewards were almost all above one million J.

In other words, this guy could earn one million J in an hour. Terrifying!

Of course, such strength also made Makarov start preparing for the S-Class mage promotion test.

Gildarts, who was far away in another country, had already received Makarov's message and was preparing to return to the guild to serve as an examiner for the S-Class mage test.

Outside the screen.

What puzzled everyone in the Fairy Tail guild the most.

Was still the issue regarding Erza.

In the year shown on the screen, indeed, Erza's figure had never appeared.

As the Queen of the Fairies.

Someone with such high popularity and credibility in the guild, everyone in the guild was naturally very concerned.

Yet, she hadn't appeared in the screen at all.

Even...

She hadn't even been mentioned.

In other words, the possibility that Erza of the Black World was on a mission and hadn't returned did not exist.

The time in the screen had already reached the year X778.

Logically speaking, Erza should have joined the Fairy Tail guild back in X776.

Yet, there had been no movement at all until now.

This forced one to ponder.

Lucy: "Could it be... that Erza of that world didn't join Fairy Tail?"

Gray: "Maybe Erza of the Black World didn't escape from the Tower of Heaven?"

Mirajane: "That possibility isn't non-existent, but the key is... everyone else has appeared, there's no reason for Erza not to appear, right?"

Makarov: "Could it be because the worlds are different? Look, isn't Black Natsu completely different from the Natsu of our world?"

"Maybe the life trajectory of Erza in that world is also completely different?"

Mavis: "I don't exclude that possibility, but if that's the case, then it's a bit of a pity. Not being able to recruit a talent like Erza into the guild is truly a loss."

Irene: "Erza..."

Far away in the West Continent, Irene in the Alvarez Empire could not help but fall into deep thought.

Actually, from the moment the screen appeared.

When she saw Erza's remarks, Irene felt something was wrong.

That sense of closeness originating from the bottom of her heart could not be faked.

However, because of the vast distance, Irene could not verify her thoughts.

Thus, she had once secretly sent people to the East Continent to investigate this person named Erza.

And the results were placed on Irene's desk some time ago.

Erza Scarlet.

An orphan since childhood, raised by the village of Rosemary.

Midway, the village was attacked by the Dark Magic Cult.

No one in the village was spared.

All the adults were killed, leaving only a group of children who were sent as slaves to the Tower of Heaven for construction work. ===== CHAPTER 227 =====