Chapter 61: The Devil Who Calls Himself a Princess
While Kira was exploring the cave, the other two teams also started their own missions.
"Where should we start looking now?" Gray asked Erza who was walking in front of him.
Erza said without even turning back: "Don't worry about the angel Kira mentioned, let's go find Natsu and Lucy first!"
The tone was firm and could not be refused.
"I knew you would do this." Gray scratched his hair helplessly, "Your joining the discussion is fake. Your real purpose is to take Natsu and Lucy back on Kira's airship, right?"
"Yes, any comments?"
Erza turned around, and her fierce eyes frightened Gray: "No... No!! If you want to deal with Natsu, please let me join in!"
"Well... okay, just this once!" Erza nodded, "But you two have to get along well with each other the rest of the time!"
Gray showed an awkward smile, with cold sweat on his face: "Yes... yes..."
The two of them walked forward again, one in front and one behind.
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"Really? We agreed to act together before we came out, but he just ran away after getting off the airship. Kira always does this!"
On the snow, Cana, Loki, and Elfman were also wandering around aimlessly. Unlike Erza, they had no intention of forcibly bringing Natsu and the other two back.
The reason why I came along this time, besides being in a spur of the moment, was also because I wanted to get on Kira's airship for a free trip. Otherwise, wouldn't it be nice to stay in the guild, drink and chat with the young ladies?
"I thought he would want to hold a skiing competition here. He lost badly last year. With his personality, he would definitely seek revenge. Maybe he ran away just now to practice secretly."
"Hahaha, you really do understand him," Kana laughed and took a sip of wine to keep away the cold: "This is indeed something he would do."
Elfman also laughed: "Kira's personality has always been easy to guess. A man should be simple and straightforward like this!"
"That's right. You're obviously worried about Natsu and Lucy, but you still have to find an excuse to come out."
If Kira knew that they thought of him like this, he would definitely feel surprised and relieved. He would be surprised that they were really wrong because he was really not worried about Natsu; he would be relieved that it seemed that his long-term care for the guild members was not in vain. In the hearts of the guild members, he was such a good brother who cared for his younger brothers and sisters.
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At the same time, Natsu, Lucy and Happy went to the snowy mountains to hunt the demon wolf at the request of the tavern uncle Poole.
"I say, are there really wolves in this place? We have been walking for so long and haven't seen any."
The harpy flew down and said, "I didn't see it in the sky either."
"But, since the bartender said there is, then there must be something, right?" Natsu replied to Lucy, "Besides, I also smelled a scent that didn't belong to a human from that girl just now."
"Nani?!" Lucy looked at Natsu in horror, "Not human?!"
"It must be the wolves the uncle in the tavern was talking about. Besides that, there's also the smell of blood."
Lucy recalled: "But the girl named Winter didn't seem to have any wounds on her body, so did she go to hunt wolves? How amazing!"
"This is..." Suddenly, Natsu sniffed the air, "The same smell as that girl."
He sniffed the air for a long time and finally decided on a direction and ran.
Lucy's cheeks flushed. "Really? Could this guy stop talking like a pervert?"
"Is Lucy jealous?" Habby began to speak with his tongue rolled, which was his best move.
"No way!" Lucy grabbed Happy and started to beat him up: "You stinky cat, you don't learn good things and you learn bad things!"
"Wait for me, Natsu!"
I trotted over to catch up with Natsu and found him standing at the edge of the snow cliff, silent.
"Is there anything down there?" Lucy took two steps forward curiously and looked down. She saw that under the snow cliff, the corpses of the wolves had piled up into a mountain of flesh, and the blood had dyed a large area of snow red.
"This is..." Lucy looked at the pile of corpses at her feet in shock, "Could Winter have done all this alone ?"
The melted snow and the wolf's blood intertwined together, adding some bright colors to the pure white earth. It felt as if an artist had painted a rose on white paper, dazzling and gorgeous.
Before Lucy could react, Natsu jumped down. Lucy had no choice but to let Happy take her down with him.
"That's amazing," Happy exclaimed, "I didn't expect that little girl to be so strong."
Lucy looked at the pile of wolf corpses in front of her, gestured a little, and concluded that there were probably three of them as tall as her, and each one was bigger than her.
If Kira saw this scene, he would find that these wolf corpses were the same batch of snow wolves he was tracking, and they fought with humans here.
"Being able to take out so many wolves on her own, that little girl named Winter is stronger than many people in our guild. With such strength, she doesn't need our help at all."
"Is this the wolf pack that the uncle was talking about? Aren't they all solved?"
Hearing the conversation between Lucy and Happy, Natsu was a little depressed: "This doesn't feel like an S-rank mission at all! If we can't accomplish anything, then wouldn't it be a waste of time?"
"But now that the wolves have been defeated, what can we do?"
"Don't the enemies still have those demons that created the demon wolves? Let's teach them a lesson on behalf of the tavern uncle!"
"But now I have no idea!"
Natsu sniffed the air, "No, it's not like there's no way! I can smell that some of the wolves have left. It looks like they weren't all defeated. Even though the smell is faint, the scent they left behind hasn't dissipated yet."
"Oh, I see! As long as we catch up with the remaining wolves, we can follow them to find the demons that created the demon wolves!"
"Hehe, Happy is right! Let's catch up!"
Happy responded excitedly, "Hey!"
Just when Lucy was about to catch up, an accident happened!
Several hard white guns shot down from the sky, carrying with them an indescribable murderous intent, and were about to hit the unsuspecting Lucy.
"careful!"
Natsu, who grew up in the mountains and was raised by Igner to be as sharp as a wild beast, was the first to react. He turned around and pounced on Lucy, holding her in his arms, and slid out on the snow with the inertia of the forward rush.
It was a smooth, fluid and silky motion, totally incomparable to Kira's clumsy skiing skills.
"What?" Lucy was pressed down before she could react. The heat from Natsu's body hit her face, burning it red.
"That's a good reaction! Could it be that you are the wizards who were commissioned here?"
A loli voice that sounded very proud interrupted Lucy's thoughts. When she looked up, she saw a girl with twin ponytails standing on top of the wolf corpse with her hands on her hips, a look of contempt on her face, and a look of scrutiny in her eyes.
Obviously, the attack just now came from her.
"Who are you? Why did you suddenly attack Lucy?" Natsu shouted angrily. Although they had only known each other for a short time, he had already regarded Lucy as his important companion and would never allow anyone to hurt her.
"Me? Humph, listen carefully! Foolish human! I am the master of this ice and snow kingdom beneath your feet, Princess Klaue of the Clouds!"
"What? It turns out there is a patient with princess syndrome."
Natsu turned to Happy and complained that he had learned this word from Kira, who had been his literacy teacher when he first joined the guild. He remembered Kira had said that this word was used to describe women who called themselves princesses.
"Natsu, I remember Kira said this disease is called Chuunibyou." Happy retorted with his fists clenched.
"No, you remembered it wrong, it's Princess Syndrome!"
"No, it's Chuunibyou! The one who got it wrong is Natsu!"
Claude was furious at what the two guys said. Because she had been staying in the snowy mountains for many years, the information she received was a little outdated, so she didn't know what princess syndrome and middle school syndrome were, but her intuition told her that they were not good words.
The most obvious thing is that this man and this cat don't take me seriously at all.
"You two guys are making so much noise!"
Just as Claue was stamping his feet and shouting in anger, Natsu's fire attack hit him directly in the face.
