Chapter 50

【But there is no time now, so she can only extend an invitation to Natsu.】

【Inviting him to be a guest inside the Wang Gong.】

【To this, Natsu had no reason to refuse, only asking one question.】

【"Is there food?"】

【"Rest assured, once we reach the Wang Gong, you can eat as much as you want and do whatever you like!"】

【Eileen, eager to bind such a powerful combat force as Natsu to her side, could not care about anything else and agreed on the spot.】

【Thus, after relocating the villagers, Natsu followed Eileen and Belserion as they flew toward the Wang Gong of the Dragonov Kingdom!】

【Everything, so magnificent, was incredibly novel to Natsu at this moment.】

【He had never seen such magnificent architecture before.】

【He had never seen so many humans before.】

【And he had never seen such a variety of lighting displays before.】

【So much so that, on the way there, Natsu completely transformed into a creature of pure astonishment.】

【From time to time, he would point at something and let out continuous exclamations.】

【And Eileen, sitting behind Natsu, looked like a big sister, watching Natsu, who seemed like a country bumpkin entering the city, with a smile constantly blooming on her face.】

【In her eyes, Natsu was like a child who had been locked behind closed doors since he was small, holding an innocent view toward everything in the outside world.】

【Or rather... it should be the purest curiosity, a curiosity untainted by any ulterior motive, which made Eileen, who as a queen had seen so much complex human nature, feel very comfortable.】

【Even the fatigue from the consecutive battles she had just experienced vanished.】

【She just watched Natsu with a smile in her eyes, answering his questions from time to time, and enthusiastically introduced to Natsu the significance of various buildings, their historical anecdotes, and so on...】

Eileen: "I always feel... that the me in this sky screen is a bit strange!"

August: "Strange? Hahaha, I personally think that the fate of the Eileen in the dark world seems to be starting to diverge from yours!"

August's aged eyes gazed at the scene on the sky screen where Eileen and Natsu were interacting.

He narrowed his eyes slightly.

He murmured with an ambiguous meaning:

"The gears of fate... have begun to turn!"

【"Delicious! Delicious! This is delicious, and that is delicious too!! Wow, are there really so many delicacies in the human world?"】

【Inside the Wang Gong at the center of the Dragonov Kingdom.】

【Natsu sat alone at the dining table, with rare delicacies he had never seen before laid out in front of him.】

【Various high-quality ingredients, after being cooked by the famous chefs of the Dragonov Kingdom, all possessed excellent flavors, causing Natsu, who had never seen the world, to devour dozens of pounds!】

【And so, by now, empty plates taller than Natsu himself were already piled up beside him.】

【But even so, a continuous stream of food was still being cooked in the kitchen.】

【There was no helping it; Natsu was truly starving.】

【After making an agreement with Eileen earlier that she would keep him well-fed, Natsu had been looking forward to this until now.】

【And the facts proved that the grand feast he had anticipated for so long did not disappoint.】

【Beside the dining table, the maid dispatched to serve Natsu twitched the corners of her mouth as she watched him.】

【Fish bones, grease, meat scraps, and the like were flying everywhere.】

【To be honest, they had almost never seen anyone who could eat so much.】

【"I find it hard to imagine how such a small body can hold so much food?"】

【A maid dressed in a bunny-girl outfit blinked her eyes, whispering in disbelief to her companion beside her.】

【"Actually, if you look closely, he's not that small; he can only be considered a minor. His height seems to be around 1.5 meters, so it's understandable since he's still in a growth spurt."】

【Another maid responded.】

【Indeed, although Natsu was only about ten years old, due to years of training, his height had already reached about 1.5 meters, and he didn't look like a child of ten at all.】

【More so, he looked like a teenager of fourteen or fifteen who had not yet reached adulthood.】

【And he was a powerful teenager, so it was understandable that he ate a lot during his growth phase.】

But, only Lucy outside the sky screen knew this deeply.

What growth spurt? Natsu could always eat that much, okay?

To this day, Lucy could still recall the first time she met Natsu and Happy.

At that time, these two guys were like starving ghosts reincarnated.

They ate frantically, and one meal cost nearly half of her savings at the time.

That had made Lucy's heart ache for several days.

Natsu: "Hehe, eating a lot gives me strength!"

Lucy: "That's way too much! You'd better shut up; just looking at you makes me angry!"

【"By the way!"】

【Abruptly, Natsu, who was in the middle of eating, stopped his movements and asked the maid beside him.】

【"Where is your queen? Why haven't I seen her since we entered the city?"】

【The maids naturally knew that Natsu was asking about Queen Eileen.】

【So one maid stepped forward and bowed slightly.】

【She said: "Due to urgent national affairs, Queen Eileen and the guardian beast, Lord Belserion, gathered the kingdom's high-ranking officials upon their return to discuss how to counter the evil dragon race."】

【As she spoke, the maid looked at the huge pendulum clock behind her and said.】

【"Calculating the time, this meeting should have been going on for over three hours now."】

【"Over three hours?"】

【Natsu bit into a whole ham, nodded gently, and as if thinking of something else, immediately asked.】

【"By the way, you should be very familiar with this kingdom, right?"】

【After all, he was a newcomer, and although everyone here had been friendly to him so far, letting his guard down was not Natsu's style.】

【He still maintained a high level of vigilance toward these strangers and intended to thoroughly understand this kingdom.】

【If things went as expected, Natsu would need to stay here for a while longer.】

【To consolidate the new insights he had gained from the previous battle with the giant dragon.】

【Therefore, for the sake of safety, Natsu had to thoroughly understand this kingdom, including the crises it was currently facing, and so on...】

【And for all of this, asking a local might yield the most authentic evaluation.】

【Of course, Natsu would not be foolish enough to believe everything the other party said; he had his own ability to judge right from wrong.】

【"I am a newcomer and don't know too much, so please tell me about it."】

【"No, no, since Lord Natsu wants to know, I will naturally tell you everything I know." The maid waved her hands hurriedly.】

【Then she paused, organized her thoughts, and spoke slowly.】

【"If we are talking about our kingdom, the most worth mentioning is our queen."】

【"Eileen?" Natsu nodded gently.】

【"Yes, Queen Eileen." A trace of pride flashed across the maid's face!】

【"She is a... perfect queen who combines beauty, wisdom, talent, and kindness!"】

August: "Ho, Eileen, it seems your prestige among your people was very high back then!"

Ajeel: "Indeed, the pride in that maid's eyes cannot be hidden; they truly loved and respected you."

Brandish: "After all, it is Lady Eileen; I don't think it's strange that she could achieve this."

Eileen: "Perhaps... but it's a pity that they betrayed me later."

"Led by that man, the entire kingdom came to view me as an omen of misfortune..."

Eileen's tone was very low.

It also made everyone in the world channel at this moment vaguely feel that some unspeakable hidden story must have happened back then.

But, even though countless people wanted to know what exactly happened.

Eileen did not mention this matter again, as if she were unwilling to recall it.

Therefore, everyone could only forcibly suppress their curiosity.

Turning their gaze back to the sky screen, perhaps there would be an answer there.

【At this moment, just as the maid was talking endlessly to Natsu about the history of the kingdom.】