[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-in-fairy-tail-sorry-i-really-am-the-mastermind-b":3,"chapter-in-fairy-tail-sorry-i-really-am-the-mastermind-b-in-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-chapter-42":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","In Fairy Tail: Apologies, I Am the Mastermind",{"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},2126597,3474,"Chapter 42","in-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-chapter-42",42,"\u003Cp>\"The smell of time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Sosuke Aizen, what do you mean by that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Sosuke Aizen's expression, Erza's brows also furrowed slightly, and she asked with some confusion, \"Will anything bad happen if there is such a so-called aura of time on the body?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Sosuke Aizen had shown very strong strength just now, when Sosuke Aizen showed an expression that seemed a bit wrong, Erza would be a bit nervous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought that something bad might happen to Natsu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's no need to worry about anything bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whether there is an aura of time on the body does not affect anything; it is equivalent to a small label.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn't I say before?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sosuke Aizen looked at Erza's worried expression and smiled gently, \"I am a Soul Reaper, so I might be a little more sensitive to some special things in terms of perception.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Judging by the aura of time, Mr. Natsu, strictly speaking, should already be over four hundred years old this year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As Sosuke Aizen's voice fell, the scene directly entered into a silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone, including Natsu, had their expressions become somewhat dull the moment Sosuke Aizen's voice fell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"W, what!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Sosuke Aizen, you said, you said that Natsu is actually already four hundred years old this year?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The expression on Lucy's face was full of disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, no matter how you look at it, from any angle, Natsu looks like a young boy in his teens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He has absolutely nothing to do with the age of four hundred, which sounds exceptionally vicissitudinous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, that's right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"According to what I have observed so far, Mr. Natsu should have crossed time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sosuke Aizen used his index finger to push the glasses on the bridge of his nose slightly and smiled, \"That's why it shows four hundred years old.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for Mr. Natsu's own physical age, it is still a normal age.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Crossed time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gray, who hadn't spoken much, noticed the key point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Sosuke Aizen, Gray asked with some curiosity, \"Crossed time, what does that mean?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In layman's terms, Mr. Natsu should have traveled from the era four hundred years ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because he experienced the time tunnel, the smell on Natsu is slightly strange compared to ordinary people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sosuke Aizen gave his final conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, all the above statements of Sosuke Aizen were nonsense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sosuke Aizen didn't know, nor could he smell or feel the so-called aura of time; it was entirely because Lin Cheng had finished reading the entire Fairy Tail and deduced the process from the known results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, since he already knew that Natsu came from four hundred years ago through the Eclipse Gate, as for how he knew, he could just find a reason that sounded very powerful to deal with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And similarly, relying on this little revelation about Natsu, Lin Cheng completely squeezed out the last bit of emotional value from Erza and the others. If he wanted Erza and the others to contribute emotional value to himself, he would have to wait until tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So that's how it is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In other words, Natsu is a person from four hundred years ago who came to our era because of some special reasons.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this very moment, whether it was Erza, Lucy, or Gray, they all suddenly realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After getting this explanation from Sosuke Aizen, many things that they couldn't figure out before were suddenly figured out. Why Natsu's foster father was a dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, things like dragons hadn't appeared for hundreds of years and had almost become legendary existences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then why Natsu searched all over the world for his foster father, the Fire Dragon King Igneel, for seven full years without finding him. It was entirely because, from the beginning, the two were not on the same timeline at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natsu's foster father, the Fire Dragon King Igneel, might have already died four hundred years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone present thought of this possibility, but no one said it out loud. After all, this was too cruel for Natsu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The lifespan of a dragon is still very long.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Four hundred years is not particularly short for a dragon, but it occupies at most a small part of a dragon's life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Natsu's foster father, the Fire Dragon King Igneel, might still be alive in some corner of the world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even, perhaps when Natsu was still looking for Igneel, Igneel had already found Natsu first, but just didn't come out to recognize you, Natsu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While speaking, Sosuke Aizen took a thoughtful look at Natsu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the foster father Natsu had been searching for for seven years, the Fire Dragon King Igneel, was inside Natsu's body at this very moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So Natsu came across time from the era four hundred years ago?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By the way, Mr. Sosuke Aizen, I am actually a bit curious about you yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erza also took a thoughtful look at Natsu beside her. All along, Erza had regarded Natsu as her dearest younger brother. She didn't expect Natsu's identity to be so complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Much more complex than imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the question of Natsu's identity could be discussed slowly later. What Erza was more concerned about right now was the question of Sosuke Aizen himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Erza's expression became calm again, and she asked Sosuke Aizen, \"I just heard you say, Mr. Sosuke Aizen, that you are already a deceased person, a Soul Reaper...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't quite understand what you mean, Mr. Sosuke Aizen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Undoubtedly, at this very moment, Sosuke Aizen was very similar to Ace in Erza's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both were strong people who appeared very suddenly and had never been heard of before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This might be a bit complicated to explain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"People have souls. After people die, their souls don't disappear; they go to a very special place.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I call that place Rukongai.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sosuke Aizen looked at Erza, who was staring at him seriously, paused slightly, and took a look at the R-System, which had begun to shake, and said, \"It doesn't seem to be very stable here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And, after talking for so long, I'm also a bit hungry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How about we find a place where we can eat and talk while we eat?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the voice fell, Natsu's eyes suddenly became bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eating, that's great!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natsu touched his stomach and wiped the drool that couldn't help but flow from the corner of his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, because Erza was suddenly kidnapped, Natsu hadn't eaten for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining emotional value!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 75145 emotional value!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 54247 emotional value!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the small tavern, a system prompt made Lin Cheng's spirit shake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hahahaha, I knew it.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'How could the emotional value provided by a Dragon King-level existence be small?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the emotional value that had increased by more than 200,000 in an instant, Lin Cheng couldn't stop smiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erza and the others had all reached the daily emotional value limit. Now, the only one who could continue to contribute emotional value to Lin Cheng was the Fire Dragon King Igneel inside Natsu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the Fire Dragon King Igneel, this terrifying existence standing at the pinnacle of the world, could provide Lin Cheng with so much emotional value at once in a short period of time.\u003C\u002Fp>",1222,"2026-06-16T12:13:33.210Z","2026-06-16T12:23:18.059Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","4927aab99c6f4d37d912947db7e8bc3162da91021c1c37baeca5af3a73c472dd","in-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-chapter-43","in-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-chapter-41",660,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fin-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-cover.jpg"]