Chapter 371 Daily Life - Winter Competition
Remember, Fairy Tail has a sports competition at the end of every year?
The content of the competition is naturally in line with the winter characteristics of snowball fights, snowman building, ice sculptures, ice hockey, skiing, and skating. It is considered a relatively large-scale competitive event in the guild.
Kira secretly trained for quite a while, but the effect was not great because he was still slightly inferior to Erza and others in athletic talent.
Naturally, the use of magic to cheat is not allowed in the competition. For example, Gray's shape does not count as an ice sculpture, so even if Kira can use magic to control snowballs and ice balls, he is not allowed to use it.
The event was held on Christmas Day, at the back of the Guild.
Originally there was the sea, but now it has become a large piece of ice. The ice is more than ten meters thick and is closely connected to the land of Magnolia . In addition, there was a good snowfall last night, which covered the ice surface with silver, making it particularly enchanting under the sunny day.
More than a hundred people from the guild gathered here, playing or competing, and returning to the tavern to rest when they were tired, having a great time.
At this time, several young men and women were gathering together to make a snowman in preparation for the subsequent competition.
A voice rang out among the crowd: "It's real! There really is a Santa Claus! We all saw it! Right, Happy?"
It was Natsu who was shouting. In winter, his scarf finally played the role of keeping warm. He told others what he saw and heard last night, but no one believed him.
"That's right! Natsu and I saw him when we came out of Lucy's house!" Happy echoed Natsu's words, "It was around 2 o'clock. He was wearing a red hat, red clothes, a white beard, and carrying a big red package in his hand!"
"So! Those are all lies, just like Kira and the others also received the commission to 'pretend to be Santa Claus and deliver gifts'. What you saw must have been someone else pretending to be Santa Claus!" Although he changed into winter clothes, Gray was still the coolest one on the field.
Natsu and Happy were not giving up yet and said indignantly: "But Santa Claus did deliver presents to us!"
"So, what did you receive?" Erza asked as she walked over pushing a snowball that was half a person's height.
"Meat!"
"fish!"
When it comes to Christmas gifts, their expressions changed instantly and joyful smiles appeared on their faces.
"So, am I the only one who cares that they're at Lucy's so late?"
Kira couldn't help but speak. He thought he would see their gossiping looks, but unexpectedly, several of them turned around and looked at Kira curiously, and asked curiously: "Isn't this normal?"
“…”
I was completely speechless, it seemed quite normal indeed.
Just as everyone was excitedly discussing last night's Christmas presents, Makarov slowly came over in a cotton jacket: "Everyone is having a great time... Are you ready? The 'Winter Competition' is about to begin!!"
Makarov's nose was red, he had dark circles under his eyes, his voice was hoarse, and he sneezed a few times in each sentence, which made everyone worry : "Does the president have a cold?"
Kira knew that this must be because he had delivered Christmas presents to the guild members in the snow last night, and he couldn't help but advise him, "Really, now that you're old, you shouldn't always do things that force yourself!"
"What did the president do?"
Natsu and Happy were confused, causing Lucy to complain: "These two are really slow to react..."
"Let me take a look!" Little girl Wendy stepped forward to treat him consciously. After a round of healing magic, Makarov's face finally became a little rosy.
No magic, all skill, the 'Fairy Tail Winter Contest' has officially begun.
The first thing to do is to build a snowman. The judging criteria for this competition are whether it is big and looks good.
“Dang dang dang… this is my work!”
Erza showed off her work, which was a three-meter-tall snowman, round and white all over, with a sword, shield, armor, and helmet, looking very handsome.
"Ohhhhh!!! It's the Snow Knight! As expected of Erza!"
"So big! So white! So round! So handsome!"
Boom——!!
Before everyone could finish exclaiming in amazement, the snowman collapsed!
"Eh hey hey??!! How could this happen?!" Erza was heartbroken to see that all her hard work was gone.
"Is it because I added too much equipment?"
The snowmen made by others were similar and there were not many highlights, but the ice sculptures in the second round were different. This competition tested the contestants' imagination and creativity.
"Isn't it just an ice sculpture? Easy!"
The ice sculpture competition was added back to the "Winter Competition", and Gray was the happiest. Even though he couldn't use modeling magic, this competition was not a difficult task for him. In just a few minutes, he carved out an ice man that looked exactly like him.
"Ohhhh!! Can it be so similar even without magic? As expected of Gray!"
"But...why are you not wearing any clothes again??!!"
Iceman Gray was lifelike and the best work on the field. Unfortunately, he was naked and was disqualified by Makarov. In the end, he became Juvia's collection.
So Juvia got two ice sculptures of Gray.
“I also know a little bit about ice sculpture~”
Lucy was carving a famous work. She should be the most artistic one on the scene. Although not as good as Gray, she was also very good.
Natsu's voice came from behind: "Lucy, look at my ice sculpture, he is Igneel!"
Lucy turned around and saw a lump of ice that was almost as tall as Natsu: "This... this is Igneel? Isn't it too abstract?"
Happy couldn't help but complain, "Natsu, everyone has seen Acnorolia. Dragons may be scary, but they definitely don't look like this."
"I know, the real Igneel is much bigger than this!"
"No... I don't think it's a matter of size..."
"Really? As expected, I also feel like something is missing!"
"What's missing is your artistic talent!!"
After Natsu pondered for a few seconds, he thought of the key point and said with a smile: "I know, there is no momentum! Let me add some fuel to his fire!!"
"Eh?!" Lucy was stunned, because her work was right in front of Natsu's ice sculpture. Her face suddenly changed, "No!! Wait a minute..."
"Roar of the Fire Dragon!!!"
“My ice sculpture!!!”
Natsu's magic was so powerful that it directly melted many people's unfinished ice sculptures into water, and the familiar guild group battle returned.
Kira had no intention of joining the group battle, and just watched other people's work silently.
"Harpy, what's your ice sculpture?"
"It's a fish!" Habib excitedly showed his work.
Kira was silent for a moment, then said, "Harpy, freezing the fish directly into ice doesn't count!"
"Wendy, who are you carving?"
Wendy blushed and hesitantly recovered. Kira asked, "It's... it's me when I grew up..."
Although she said so, Kira immediately noticed that the two lumps of ice on the chest of this female ice sculpture did not fit the image of the character: "Is this too..."
Snap!
Before Kira could say anything, two lumps of ice suddenly fell from the ice sculpture with a loud thud. This was because her image was really... unbalanced.
Kira sighed, patted Wendy's head distressedly, and comforted her: "Don't be discouraged! There are some things in this world that can't be forced!"
“Woo woo woo~”
Mira and her brother carved a witch, a beast, and a kitten, which were all pretty standard; the Thunder Gods worked together to carve a Laxus, which was also very similar; Cana directly dug an ice bucket to hold the wine, and was drinking happily at this time; Gildarts carved a Cana, but because it was too ugly, Cana broke it directly due to the alcohol; Erza continued her style and made an "Ice Knight", and because ice is stronger than snow, it didn't collapse this time...
Kira doesn't have much creativity, so he carved the guild emblem. Although it doesn't look very good, it won Makarov's praise - it turns out that the content of the work is more important than the appearance!
Gray still won the skating and skiing competitions. Compared to Kira's useless training and Erza's extraordinary talent, his foundation was more solid.
By the time all five events were over, it was already dusk.
"I declare that the champion of this winter tournament is... Kira!!"
Although Kira didn't get first place in every category, his total score was the highest!
"Thank you... Thank you everyone... I think I can win this game thanks to Gray's accident and Natsu's destruction. They helped me a lot... Of course, the president also had a good eye..."
After a clichéd thank you speech, Kira accepted the prize for this tournament from Makarov.
Winter hot spring invitation ticket!
