Chapter 169

"Other guilds? Which guild?"

Following Ye Yu raised an eyebrow and asked curiously.

"Mirajane didn't say; she told me I'd know once we arrived in Rubenkarl city!"

"Working with members of other guilds? It feels like the mission is very complicated!"

Lucy thought of the Oración Seis incident and had a bad premonition in her heart.

"Rest assured, this mission is just a normal mission; maybe there are just a lot of monsters!"

Just as Following Ye Yu, Erza, and their group were talking, the carriage arrived outside a massive city.

"We're here; this is Rubenkarl city!"

After getting off the carriage, Erza looked at the massive city ahead and said to Following Ye Yu, Hearing Wendi, and their group behind her.

"Eh?"

"It feels quite ancient!"

Lucy looked at the city before her and complained casually.

"Let's go; members of the other guilds might have already arrived!"

Erza turned around and said, then walked into Rubenkarl city together with Following Ye Yu and their group.

"Target, discovered!"

Not long after Following Ye Yu, Erza, and their group entered the city, a cat-girl lying on the roof beside the street twitched her ears.

With that, the cat-girl leaped, her form turning into a black shadow, and pounced directly toward Following Ye Yu, Erza, and their group on the street below.

Once she neared Following Ye Yu and the others, the whip in the cat-girl's hand moved, and the next second, the long whip whistled toward Following Ye Yu.

Swish—

Just as the whip was about to strike Following Ye Yu, Following Ye Yu raised his hand and firmly grabbed the whip.

Then, with a forceful pull, the cat-girl holding the whip was thrown directly to the ground.

"Who is it?"

This sudden scene caused Erza's expression to change.

However, after Erza drew her long sword, the cat-girl lying on the ground bared her teeth and raised her head, saying: "Ouch, ouch, ouch!"

After seeing clearly who the attacker was, Erza shouted in surprise: "Millianna?!"

"Long time no see, Erza-chan!"

The cat-girl stood up and greeted them with a smile.

"Someone you know?"

Hearing Wendi, seeing the conversation between Erza and the cat-girl, asked in confusion.

"Yes, a companion of Erza's from when she was a child!"

Following Ye Yu looked at Millianna and answered Hearing Wendi.

"Speaking of which, Following Ye Yu, you really hit hard; you almost threw me to death!"

Millianna greeted Erza, then complained to Following Ye Yu with dissatisfaction.

"Who told you to ambush us!"

"I was just joking with you..."

Millianna originally wanted to say she was joking, but before she could finish, she noticed Carla beside Hearing Wendi.

"A cat?!"

Seeing Carla, Millianna's eyes glowed.

"Meow!"

She immediately squatted down to greet Carla, but Carla just turned her head away: "Hmph!"

Seeing Carla rejecting her, Millianna stood frozen in place as if struck by lightning.

"Millianna, you still like cats so much; speaking of which, why are you in this city?"

Erza asked Millianna.

"Here to do a mission!"

Millianna stood up, looked at Erza, and blinked.

"A mission? Could it be..."

"Yes, our guild and your guild are doing this mission together!"

"Did you join a guild?" Erza asked excitedly.

Hearing Erza's question, Millianna proudly lifted her clothes, revealing the guild emblem on her waist.

"This emblem is, Mermaid Heel?"

"After we parted last time, I joined Mermaid Heel!!"

Just as Millianna finished speaking, a female voice came from ahead: "Millianna, what are you doing?"

Hearing this voice, Following Ye Yu, Erza, and their group all looked over.

They saw a woman holding a long sword walking toward them.

The woman had long brown hair, fair skin, and a cold expression, giving off a feeling of being unapproachable.

But it was precisely this coldness that created an ice-cold beauty.

The moment he saw this woman, Following Ye Yu raised an eyebrow.

Perhaps Erza and Hearing Wendi didn't recognize this woman.

But Following Ye Yu did; this woman was none other than Kagura from Mermaid Heel.

Only, the Kagura before him was much younger than in Following Ye Yu's memory.

After all, Kagura's first appearance was at the Grand Magic Games, where she was 23 years old.

But at this time, Kagura was only 16.

However, even at just 16, Kagura still gave off a sense of composure.

"Let me introduce you; this is the strongest mage of our guild, Kagura; don't look at her youth, she might be even stronger than you, Erza-chan!"

"Stronger than Erza? You must be joking, right?"

Hearing Millianna's words, Hearing Wendi and Lucy both revealed expressions of disbelief.

After all, in Hearing Wendi and Lucy's view, Erza was an S-Class Mage.

This person before them is stronger than Erza?

But Following Ye Yu knew that Millianna wasn't exaggerating.

Kagura was indeed very strong.

While Lucy and Hearing Wendi were exclaiming, Millianna said to Kagura: "This is Erza, whom I mentioned to you before, and this is Following Ye Yu, whom you've always wanted to meet!"

"Following Ye Yu?"

"You are Following Ye Yu?"

Hearing Millianna's words, a trace of panic actually appeared on Kagura's cold, frost-like beautiful face.

Always wanted to meet?

What the heck?

And Following Ye Yu was completely dumbfounded.