"Hehe... I seem to... understand a little..."
"Why did you join Fairy Tail..."
The inexplicable words made Gajeel a little confused.
Raising his eyebrows, Gajeel asked, "What are you talking about?"
"You probably don't remember... I was just a bald kid back then, a kid who admired you and your [Phantom Lord]..." Rogue said slowly.
Hearing Rogue's words, Gajeel frowned slightly.
Seeming to be recalling something.
"I always thought that I could join Phantom Lord when I grew up... but I didn't expect Phantom Lord to fail in the war with Fairy Tail... and the guild was disbanded..."
Speaking of this, Rogue involuntarily clenched his fists, and his tone became a little excited.
"Not only that, you actually..."
"Joined the hateful Fairy Tail, it's unbelievable that you would join the guild that destroyed Phantom Lord!"
"But..." His words changed, and his excited tone also became calm.
"I've always thought that there must be some meaning, and now I seem to understand."
Speaking of this, that picture seemed to float into his mind again.
The picture that had been twining in his mind these few days.
That was on the second day of the Grand Magic Games, that group of people who broke into Sabertooth for someone who was unrelated.
He still couldn't forget the words of that man named Finn that day.
[If you just treat your companions as tools that can be discarded at any time, then you don't deserve to be called a guild]
After that, he had been thinking about what the word [companion] meant.
Until that day, when he was defeated by Natsu and Gajeel with overwhelming power.
He seemed to finally understand something.
He raised his head, looked at Gajeel, and showed a smile: "It's a companion... right!"
But that smile quickly disappeared, and what replaced it was sorrow.
"Sabertooth doesn't have such thoughts at all, we are just the captain's soldiers, the order is absolute, and victory is absolute..."
"What is a guild?"
"What is a companion?"
"What... are we fighting for?"
He asked a series of questions that had plagued him for a long time.
Laughing self-deprecatingly, "I finally understand now, the reason for your strength, no wonder we can't beat you."
"Even though we have a young lady whose strength level is higher than ours, and Sting, who has awakened after losing Lector, I still think that we simply can't win..."
"Natsu and you, Erza, and that Laxus whose depth is unknown... and Finn, who has unimaginable powerful power..."
"Your strength seems to come from the feelings between your companions, right?"
His words made Gajeel frown.
"Stand up!" A cold voice rang out in his ears.
"I'm telling you that you don't understand anything at all!" He bent over slightly, looking directly at Rogue.
A smile appeared on his face: "Frogs!"
"Frogs are also partners, right!"
Rogue's mind seemed to be request what the so-called frog was.
And finally settled on the appearance of Frosch.
"Frosch isn't a frog, he's a cat!" Rogue retorted.
"It's all the same, isn't it?" Gajeel responded.
Rogue was stunned, and after a long silence, he curled the corners of his mouth again.
"That's right... Frosch is my companion!"
"I really can't win against you!" He sighed softly, and slowly closed his eyes.
"Rogue~" A voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
Rogue suddenly opened his eyes and started looking around.
"Look in front of you!"
That voice rang out again, as if reminding him of something.
Rogue didn't know why, but he had an instinctive sense of fear for this voice that was spreading.
"The enemy! Is still in front of you!"
"Kill Gajeel!"
"Kill! Him!"
The voice seemed to be ringing out from all directions, but...
It was as if it was coming from the depths of his heart...
"Who is it?!"
"Who exactly are you? Where are you?!"
Constantly looking around, he couldn't help but make a horrified cry.
"What's wrong?" Looking at Rogue's appearance, Gajeel didn't quite understand.
But Rogue didn't have any energy to pay attention to Gajeel at this moment, and his heart began to beat violently involuntarily.
"That is your destined fate!"
The shadow under Rogue's body began to twist inexplicably.
"No need to look around."
"I am your shadow!"
Rogue couldn't help but lower his head, looking at his shadow that was illuminated by the sunlight.
The shadow opened its eyes that revealed a deep light.
It seemed to be smiling!
"I will give you power, kill Gajeel!"
The shadow seemed to stretch out tentacles and began to entangled on Rogue's body.
"Ugh ah ah ah ah~~" Rogue began to hold his head and let out an abnormal scream.
"Cheer up!" Gajeel seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and immediately came to Rogue's side.
"Kill! Him!!"
Boom——!!
'Rogue' suddenly stretched out his palm, and the Dragon's Claw, wrapped in a jet-black shadow stream, slammed heavily on Gajeel's body.
The sudden attack caught Gajeel a little off guard.
He was directly knocked back several meters.
He suddenly raised his head: "You're not that kid!"
"Who are you?!"
"Hmph hmph hmph, Shadow!" 'Rogue' chuckled.
A jet-black aura enveloped his body, and black stripes gradually appeared on his face.
That originally loose hair also began to float towards the sky.
He slowly raised his palm.
"The one who controls fate - Shadow!"
"I don't care what you are." Gajeel slowly straightened his body.
Surging magic power began to surge from his body.
"Get out of this kid's body for me, otherwise..."
The corners of his mouth slowly curved up, and that smile was so ferocious.
"I'll personally drag you out!!"
At the Fairy Tail viewing platform.
Everyone was completely unprepared for Rogue's sudden attack.
Romeo crossed his arms, his brows furrowed tightly.
"What the hell is going on, the two of them seemed to be about to reconcile just now?"
Even Makarov's old face was full of seriousness.
"It seems like the situation is a little wrong..."
And at this moment, on the magic crystal screen, 'Rogue' had already launched an attack.
When facing Gajeel's arm transforming into a blade attack.
'Rogue's' figure transformed into a black shadow, dodging this attack.
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