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Months flew by in a flash. After Deliora's incident, everything became normal again. The three kids, Lyon, Gray, and Ultear, all joined Fairy Tail under Makarov's extreme happiness. As for Ur, she decided to become a staff member in Akira's magic shop.
The reason why she didn't join Fairy Tail is that she is now tired and only wants to train her two apprentices and live a life with her daughter. In addition, Ur now joining Fairy Tail would definitely bring unwanted trouble, so Makarov didn't really push it further.
So that's how Akira got a very capable receptionist for his shop. And with Ur's presence, Akira's sales from male customers doubled, making him very happy.
On the council's side, everything happened as Akira expected. The council did speak honestly of Gildart's achievements in subjugating Deliora, the calamity demon. Due to this incident, Fairy Tail's reputation soured, and many more clients began to send requests to the guild, making Makarov very happy. But Akira noticed that in the following days, the chaos caused by Fairy Tail members was in almost every single newspaper.
'As expected, the council will absolutely not let Fairy Tail grow so easily, ' Akira thought with a sneer. This situation further made him hardened his resolve to start his genius plan that would shake this whole magic world.
But this plan also comes at a great risk, so Akira decided to collect enough trump cards and find a suitable time to implement this plan.
And until then, all Akira could do was wait.
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"Hey, get up, you red sloth, " an annoying voice sounded in Akira's ears as he frowned and turned away and covered himself with a quilt.
Laxus, who came to wake him up, raised an eyebrow in interest, and a wicked smile appeared on his face. And without any hesitation, lightning gathered on his palms and flew towards Akira.
"Ahhhhhh! Damn you, Laxus, take this Sage Dragon's seventy-two combo ranging kick of doom. "
Akira's scream rang through the room, and the next moment, a huge explosion happened, and Laxus was kicked out of the house.
Sera, who came to see what was going on, sighed in exasperation as she watched the two kids fighting each other early in the morning.
Well, these days, this is nothing new. After Akira's last quest, Laxus and he seem to become primary students, as they would pick fights with each other for the simplest reasons.
If one were to come from the future and witness this, they would suddenly realize that both Laxus and Akira had become the same as Natsu and Gray.
But unlike Natsu and Gray, who are somewhat tame in their fights, Laxus and Akira go all out during their brawls. The guild had been renovated more than 4 times due to their fights.
So Makarov, in extreme anger, punished the two brats by beating them until they lost consciousness. After that, he made them pay up for all the damages by doing odd jobs and running errands for the townspeople.
And unfortunately, this didn't solve anything other than the fact that many townspeople complained to Makarov about how destructive these two brats are.
Just as Makarov was at his wits' end, Akira came up with a rather interesting way to solve the problem.
"Akira, breakfast is ready. Bring Laxus along and remember to fix the house. " Sera shouted as she turned back and headed inside to prepare the dining table. She completely ignored the scenery where the fallen rocks and rubble floated in mid-air and began to reassemble themselves into the broken house.
This is Akira's new and favorite magic Arc of Time. This magic was something he found in Fairy Tail's library's forbidden section. Next to it was the magic of Arc of Embodiment and Fire God Slayer Magic.
Akira was so happy to see these three magics that he laughed like a crazy madman, scaring Makarov so much that he met with a big punch that knocked him unconscious.
Second, Master Precht is really a good person. He only took a few copies and left the original magic books inside the library for future generations. Akira decided that when Fairy Tail would inevitably clash with Grimoire Heart, he would go easy on the old man.
After some time, the two kids were already disheveled and looked like beggars coming to the dining table.
Sera watched them silently as both of them took seats opposite each other and began eating breakfast in an orderly manner. After seeing that these two didn't start fighting, she breathed a sigh of relief in her mind.
Although the house could be repaired anytime with the Arc of Time magic, Sera, as someone wanting to be a capable maid, didn't like it if her home was destroyed every 5 hours.
Furthermore, these two brats have been fighting each other way too much lately. It seems grounding them in Magnolia may have made them unable to vent their frustrations.
Should she have a talk with Master about this? Since the Deliora incident has died down, it wouldn't be impossible to send these two on a mission nearby.
Otherwise, Sera was really worried about the psychological welfare of the people in Magnolia. Although these two only fought in the guild or here, where there would be no innocent civilians who would get caught up in the crossfire, Sera estimated it would only take a matter of time before they duke it out in the middle of the street.
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Arriving at the Guild, both Laxus and Akira went straight towards the training ground. This has become a habit of theirs after Makarov kicked them out for destroying the guild the 10th time.
Usually, at this hour, no one would use the training ground, but this time the training ground is occupied by two little girls.
These two were none other than Cana and Ultear. Sharing a similar age and both being girls, they quickly became friends.
So it is quite rare to see these two fight each other.
"Wind's Edge, " Cana shouted as she shot two cards that turned into a violent gust of wind that headed towards Ultear.
Ultear also didn't back down as she shouted, " Ice Make: Rose Shield."
A giant shield made out of ice that was shaped like a rose appeared in front of her and blocked Cana's magic attack.
After she blocked Cana's attack, she didn't stop there and pressed forward, " Ice-Make: Bloom."
Magic power gathered on her hands and moved downwards. Soon, vines made out of ice came out of the ground and went straight towards Cana.
Cana skillfully dodged the vines. But as the number of vines began to increase, Cana realized just dodging would not be enough. So she took another card.
"Tremor, " Cana shouted as she jumped high and threw the card towards the vines.
The card shone brightly in white, and soon all the ice vines were crushed into tiny particles.
Just as Cana was smug about being able to resolve Ultear's attack. Ultear's voice came from behind her, making her shiver.
"Ice make: Bind"
A rope made of ice appeared in Ultear's hand, and she swung towards Cana, binding her completely. And with a tug of her hand, Cana fell down completely immobilized.
"Hehe, I win, " Ultear said proudly as she placed her hands on her hips.
Cana didn't say anything, but the pout on her face said everything.
Suddenly, the sound of someone clapping was heard, and along with it came the slightly teasing, "My, my, what a wonderful battle. Big Brother is greatly satisfied. "
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