Chapter 636: Centennial Celebration
April, late spring.
It's a time for celebration for all of Magnolia, because April X786 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Fairy Tail!
The atmosphere in the guild tavern was far more lively than usual, and the magicians were three times happier than usual.
Makao, Wakaba and Gildarts, three middle-aged uncles, stood in a row, hugging each other's shoulders, holding their wine glasses, maintaining the same posture, singing and dancing.
“Oh, oh, oh…”
"One hundred years! One hundred years! Is there any magic guild in the entire Kingdom of Fiore that is older than ours?"
"Even if there is, it must not be as strong as us!"
"'Fairy Tail' is the best!!"
"That's right! Hahaha..."
Makarov sat at the bar, drinking wine, listening to music, and watching a group of beautiful wizards rehearsing a dance for more than half a month. He felt so relaxed.
Bunny girls, maid outfits, Lolita, miniskirts, lace stockings, high heels... all of them are constantly raising the precarious blood pressure of this 90-year-old man.
"It's really... worth my life!"
Suddenly, he noticed the strange looks from the three people around him, and Makarov immediately changed his words: "I have managed the guild for fifty years without failing, and it is thriving and has a bright future. My life is truly worthwhile!"
"You are right, right, Second Generation, Volod-senpai, and August?"
"Oooooohhhh... That's indeed the case, Makarov!"
Compared to the other two, Volod, who has been growing flowers and trees for many years, has a younger mentality and is more compatible with Makarov in terms of personality. "I am very happy that I can still appreciate such a grand occasion at this age!!"
"That was a joke!"
"Very! Very! Very happy!!!"
“Oh, oh, oh…”
Although he is over 120 years old this year, Volodymyr still insists on telling these boring jokes full of twists and turns every day. According to him, this is "the secret to staying young"!
"Admit it, little brat! You lost your composure because you saw the little girl!"
Preshito rudely exposed Makarov's dishonesty.
Today, he broke the health plan he had maintained for more than a year and drank some wine for once.
If it were two years ago, Preshito would never have thought that he would be able to sit in Fairy Tail and celebrate such a memorable festival.
"Eh? What are you talking about, second generation? I don't understand a word you say!"
Makarov tilted his head and started to act stupid. His acting was even worse than Erza's, but none of the three old men present had the heart to complain about him.
After all, looking at these young, beautiful and energetic girls singing and dancing in the guild can really make people relax and give rise to a mentality that they are still strong and immortal even with age.
"Humph! Women are like a knife that scrapes your bones. You, a lustful fellow, better be careful that your integrity will be ruined in your later years!"
Preshito tried to remind him, but unfortunately, Makarov was already drunk, and the redness on his old face was getting darker and darker: "Humph! I've been a soldier all my life, can't I enjoy myself?"
"Keep on playing! Keep on dancing!"
After receiving Makarov's order, the young people in the guild became even more excited. They were like wild horses that had broken free from their reins, releasing their nature.
For example, fighting, drinking, streaking...
Auguste was probably one of the few people who was not interested in the young lady. He sat at the old man's table and didn't say a word from beginning to end.
This old man, who was about the same age as Makarov, had no worldly desires in his heart, so he turned a blind eye to the performances of "Fairy Tail".
In his heart, as long as his mother is happy, he is happy.
Thinking of this, Auguste couldn't help but look at Mavis.
At this time, Mavis was sitting at the children's table, and next to her were Wendy and Leibi, two young people who were about her age.
Of course, since they look similar in age, have similar hobbies, and their breasts are both undeveloped, Mavis prefers playing with Wendy to Levi.
"Wendy, look! This pudding looks delicious..."
"This is the sign of the most popular dessert shop in Magnolia! It's very expensive, and I can only afford to eat there once a month..."
The two lolis stared at the two pieces of pudding on the table with their eyes wide open, their cheeks flushed, their saliva flowing, and they sniffed lightly, looking like they wanted to eat them but were reluctant to do so.
“If only we could eat more pudding after we’ve finished it!”
"Why is there nothing left after I finish eating? Damn it!"
The more the two girls thought about it, the angrier they became, and the more depressed they became, their chests rising and falling.
"Food disappears once you finish eating it. What kind of world is this?! It's totally unreasonable!"
“Aaaaaah!! I want to create a world where there is still food to eat after all the pudding is eaten!!”
Listening to the two girls' outrageous remarks, Lucy's forehead was dripping with sweat of embarrassment: "What's going on with these two people? Why do they feel like they are going to turn evil? They are just eating a pudding!"
"The pudding is gone once it's eaten. It's common sense!"
As a fellow dessert lover, Erza immediately stepped forward to correct the two girls' wrong ideas in order to prevent them from destroying their values that have not yet grown up: "It is precisely because of this regret that we need to take every bite of pudding seriously and taste it as if it were our last. Only in this way can we be worthy of the sweat and hard work of the dessert chef!"
"Ohhhh!! So amazing! To be able to say such a thought-provoking thing, it's really worthy of Erza!!"
"It's decided! I will take pudding seriously from now on and never let a single bite of it go to waste!!"
"Well said! As a dessert lover, you should have this awareness! Come on, let's devour the pudding in front of us with this awareness!"
“Ohhhh!! I feel like my whole body is on fire!!”
Lucy: “…”
At this moment, Kira Amon suddenly appeared in front of the girls and said in his bewitching voice: "Want to eat the pudding? You can do it!"
"What?!"
"Really?!"
"How is that possible?!"
Erza, Wendy, Mavis, and Lucy, who was in charge of making complaints, were instantly confused: "It's common sense that food will disappear once it's eaten!"
"Hehehe...that's why you are too naive! You don't know enough about this world!"
Kira said mysteriously: "So-called common sense is also relative! Just like for the first generation, many magic theories are easy to come by, but not for Erza and Wendy!"
"Hey...what you said seems to make sense..."
"Right? So 'the pudding is eaten when it's finished' is common sense to some people, but not necessarily to others!"
The worldviews of several people seemed to be greatly stimulated: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! They have already been eaten, how could they still be there?"
“It’s definitely possible!”
Kira sneered, like the strongest magician in the world looking at a Muggle, "As long as I use the time magic I just learned, 'Time and Space Return', I can restore things to the state at a certain moment before. But now this magic can only work on things that interfere with me!"
"What?!" Mavis was horrified. "I've never heard of this kind of magic before. Can it really be done?"
Kira was calm and composed, and gave himself a new setting: "You all know my talent for magic! In fact, I am a person cursed by 'magic', so as long as I want, there is no magic that I can't study and use!"
"Jane...it's unbelievable..."
Mavis' pupils shrank and she stared at Kira in a daze, as if she was shocked by his aura and words. She took two steps back with her bare feet.
"If you don't believe me, just give me the pudding in your hand and I'll show you right away!"
"this……"
Wendy and Mavis both looked hesitant, as this was the only pudding they had left.
Erza and Lucy warned loudly at the same time: "It's a lie! This is absolutely a lie! Kira is obviously lying to you! Don't be fooled!"
"If you miss this opportunity, you will miss this store!"
"How about this, you can just give me one portion. Even if I can't recover, don't you still have one portion to share?"
Finally, the temptation of delicious food overcame reason. Wendy and Mavis looked at each other and as if they had mustered up a whole year's courage to make a decision, they walked forward and reluctantly handed the pudding to Kira.
"You must keep your word!"
"Of course!"
Under the girl's heartbroken gaze, Kira picked up the plate and poured the pudding directly into his mouth.
Sweet, soft, delicious...
"Ah! This is the smell of money! And the smell of happiness!"
"Hey! Hey! Kirasan, where's my pudding?"
"Watch carefully!"
Kira smiled mysteriously, stretched out his hand and touched the plate, and then he saw a pudding exactly the same as the one before appeared out of thin air on the white porcelain plate!
With another wave of the hand, two are divided into four!
Four servings of pudding lay on a white porcelain plate, slippery and reflecting a crystal clear luster.
"Miracle!! This is simply a miracle!!!"
"I can't believe you actually did that?!"
"Please teach me this magic, Kira!!"
"No! This is magic that will change the world! You must not use it lightly!!"
"But you used it to copy puddings..."
Kira's eyes widened when he heard this, and he asked back, "Is copying pudding a small matter? That means breaking the common sense that 'pudding will disappear if it is eaten'!!"
“I say, you are obviously fans of pudding, why can’t you give pudding a little more trust?! Don’t underestimate the power of pudding!!”
The girls were speechless for a moment, feeling ashamed of their lack of trust in Pudding, and they stammered, unable to say anything.
"But... although I can't teach you, I can help you copy! How about it, first generation? Give me your pudding too? And these cakes, ice cream, chocolate, marshmallows..."
" Mmmmm ... here you go! All for you!"
"You actually have so much food?! Where did you hide it before? Forget it, I'll take it aside and eat it first!"
"Then... then you must help us copy it back after you finish eating!!"
"Don't worry, I never lie to children!"
"I'm not a child anymore!"
"Mmmmm...I know!"
Kira was in a very good mood at the moment, having spent the money for two puddings and successfully scammed a bunch of snacks.
After returning to his seat with the snacks, Kira began to mutter to himself: "So, this story teaches us several lessons!"
“Only the food you eat is yours!”
"Don't be easily deceived by illusions!"
"You should stop when you are ahead and not be too greedy!"
"Also... the pudding is gone once it's eaten. That's common sense!"
I'm not Doraemon. I don't have growth fluid or candy, snacks or fodder. How can I possibly "have more food left after eating it"?
"You even cheated children out of their snacks. You are such a jerk!"
Urrutia, who came to attend the centennial celebration, looked at the guy in front of him who was trying to steal snacks from children, and couldn't understand how there could be such a bad person in the world.
But Kira completely ignored her rolling eyes and argued, "The first generation is not a child, she said so herself!"
"What about Wendy?"
"Wendy lived four hundred years ago. If you don't believe me, write out a spell and see!"
"Besides, I just said that I developed the magic of 'time and space regression', and I didn't say that I would use it on the pudding just now. They misunderstood it, so they can't blame me!"
Urrutia was speechless and just continued to look at Kira as if he were trash.
How dare you look at me like this? You are so rebellious! Do you know that you still owe me money?
"Have you really researched that magic?" Urrutia's eyes flickered as he looked at Kira curiously.
As a wizard of time magic, she knew clearly how outrageous and difficult it was to create resources out of thin air. But the opponent was Kira, a man whose talent far exceeded that of everyone she knew. It was not particularly surprising that he could create this kind of magic.
It was just like when she heard that there was a solar eclipse in the world that could travel through time, she felt it was incredible, but when she learned that this magic was created by Jellal, she felt it made sense.
Unconsciously, she had compared Kira's talent with a legendary being like Zeref.
"Well... hehehe... who knows?"
His evasive words made Urrutia believe the matter a little more.
Kira showed no shame at all for having cheated. "Actually, they didn't lose out. That pudding is really expensive! After offsetting the original two servings, the price of the other two puddings is more than enough to buy the snacks I have! And eating too many sweets is bad for your teeth!"
"Otherwise, do you think that Mr. Auguste can tolerate me until now?"
Urrutia turned around and saw Auguste staring at Kira with a malicious look, as if he had a deep hatred for Kira. Even though the murderous aura was hidden, it was still so terrifying that Urrutia could not help but shiver.
"You are really bold..."
He even dares to provoke this old man. He is simply courting death!
