Chapter 618: Heading to Kurokas
Most of the cities in Ishgar are named after flowers, such as Magnolia, Impatiens, Garnia...
As the capital of the Kingdom of Fiore, Kurokas has always been known as the 'Flower City', or the 'City of Flowers'. Even in the entire Ishgar, it is a premier city.
It goes without saying that the economy here is developed. The most important thing is that there is a large population flow and a wide variety of shops. The number of shops related to the magic industry alone is more than three times the total number of shops in Magnolia.
In a city like this, no matter who comes for the first time, they will be shocked by its prosperity without exception.
"It's so huge! This is my first time in such a big capital city!!"
"Not to mention the capital of Edras, even the capital of the Albares Empire is not as big as this!"
Although Kira wasn't here for the first time, the others were!
Especially Natsu and Happy, they were as cheerful as country bumpkins who had never seen the world, attracting frequent attention from people around them.
Fortunately, under the rule of the Fiore royal family, the people of this country are really warm, friendly and loving. At least in this royal capital, there are no street thugs who look down on others, nor brainless nobles who are eager to jump out and show their ugly faces. There are only passers-by with ordinary looks and ordinary personalities.
Seeing the noisy scene of Natsu and others, the local residents did not feel annoyed or come up to scold them. They just thought they were lively, cute, innocent and natural.
Of course, there were inevitably some people's looks mixed with curiosity or impatience, but for the Fairy Tail wizards who had long been accustomed to such looks, these strange looks were not worth mentioning at all.
"I say, can you two be quiet for a moment!"
Lucy chased after Natsu and Happy, using her hands, feet and words to persuade the man and the cat to stay in their proper place and not run around to avoid causing trouble. However, these little actions fell on deaf ears to this carefree pair, who listened to every word.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk...Lucy is only nineteen years old, but she already shows signs of being a housewife!"
"You're right! They look like a family of three right now!"
At this moment, Kira and Gray reached a consensus. They smiled at each other and clapped their hands in tacit understanding.
"Well... we are not good at saying this behind their backs, right?"
Wendy's voice sounded like a soft little lamb.
Kira waved his hand indifferently: "Don't worry, when they come back later, I will tell them again in front of them."
“…”
The little girl seemed not yet old enough to gossip about love, and felt vague and slightly resistant to the teenage love happening around her.
"Wendy, you can't do this!"
Kira spoke earnestly, and at the same time reached out and touched Wendy's head, "If a wizard wants to grow quickly, he should activate the nature hidden inside the human body, that is, to have fun! Only by doing this can you stand out from the ordinary wizards!"
The double ponytails feel pretty good!
"Is it true, Erza-san?" Wendy looked at Erza.
Erza snorted and said, "Don't listen to Kira's nonsense!"
"Oh...oh!" Wendy's bright big eyes twinkled, emitting a curious light.
"The nature of the human body is not to have fun! It's to enjoy delicious food!!"
“Huh?!”
"Let's go raid Kurokas's dessert shop!"
“Ehhhhh??!!!”
Amid the exclamations, Erza grabbed the bewildered Wendy, and Wendy grabbed the equally bewildered Xia Lulu, and the two of them and the cat rushed towards the nearest dessert shop.
They came here together, but one group went out to date and the other group went out to enjoy the food, leaving Kira and Gray standing there, looking at each other.
After just one glance, Kira turned his head away and couldn't help wiping his eyes: "Gray, put on your clothes, otherwise people will think I'm a pervert!"
Damn, how can this person take off his clothes so fast? !
"What?! My clothes!?"
After a flurry of activity, Gray finally put on his clothes. He then looked at the street where Natsu and the others had long disappeared and complained, "What the hell are these people? Have they completely forgotten our purpose this time? Especially Natsu, we're here just for him!"
This operation was mainly to dig out Natsu's dragon bones, so he was brought here by the intelligence agent Kira. However, the people in Erza's team always like to act together, so they followed them to Crocus.
"It doesn't matter. That place is in a special location. We can go there at night!"
"What do we do now?"
"It's a rare opportunity for me to come here, so of course I have to go to the nearby magic shop to have a look. You can just wander around!"
Kira waved his hand, looked around, and walked straight in a certain direction. "You are already a grown-up, so it doesn't matter if you get lost, right?"
A few seconds later, the stunned Gray finally came to his senses and reluctantly accepted the fact that he was abandoned by his teammates.
"Who would get lost?!"
“Really… If I had known they would be like this, I would have brought Juvia with me…”
After muttering to himself, Gray suddenly realized something was wrong, shook his head, and walked forward, "Strange... Why did I think of being with Juvia?"
This young man who has always rejected love has not yet realized that he has already fallen into the whirlpool of love.
…
Kurokas has the largest magic market in the Kingdom of Fiore, with magic items as numerous as stars. It has an extraordinary appeal to most people in this world.
Kira strolled along the street of the magic market, admiring the beautifully decorated magic shops on both sides, his heart filled with envy.
"As expected, they can open a shop in a place like the capital where every inch of land is worth a lot of money. They are all rich people!"
Every store that came into view was a famous magic shop. There were at least dozens of chain stores throughout the kingdom. The more people came, the more they rushed over to taste the irresistible sugar like ants attracted to sweets.
Kira's Hope Hut is different from these well-known stores in front of him. The most fundamental difference is that he sells magic props only as a part-time job, and most of what he sells are magic toys, magic novels, magic explanation daily necessities and other things. There are very few magic equipment that can really help wizards fight.
Although he had sold some very good combat magic equipment, most of them were specially customized for guild members, and a small part was sold to the Magic Chamber of Commerce. Almost none of them were used by ordinary people.
Of course, given Kira's flexible business hours of opening the store for three days and closing for two days, which is only seen in self-employed businesses, he has never had many customers.
The only people who still patronize his store from time to time are a few die-hard fans, some middle school kids, guild mates, and older uncles who are too old and can no longer support themselves and need some medicine to fill the gap.
Thirty minutes later, Kira had walked through most of the magic market and observed dozens of magic shops. The only thing he gained was some architectural experience. Other than that...
"Magic weapons are no good, they break after a few hits; magic potions are no good, they are too low-quality; magic books are no good either, they only record low-grade magic, learning them is completely useless..."
Kira made comments to himself while walking towards another magic shop that looked pretty good.
"See if there's anything good here..."
It didn't take long for Kira to discover something he hadn't seen in the previous few stores - on the store shelves, there were more than a dozen silver- white keys lying in plain sight, with strange patterns engraved on the keys.
"Is this the Star Spirit Key?"
Kira was very familiar with the Star Keys. In order to collect all the twelve zodiac signs, he had specially collected them for a period of time. Until now, there were still several silver keys gathering dust in his warehouse.
"My guest, are you interested in the Star Spirit Key?"
The shop owner seized the opportunity to come forward. He was a chubby, fat uncle with a grin and a mercenary look.
