As Qi Yan spoke, he was about to rush out, and his stance immediately startled everyone in the guild. They felt that Qi Yan was really going to kill Natsu and the others.
Gray and Elfman quickly stopped Qi Yan. The two of them, one hugging Qi Yan's waist and the other blocking his path.
"Qi Yan… don't be impulsive! Don't be impulsive!"
"Yeah! Don't be impulsive! Their crime isn't punishable by death yet!"
Makarov also broke into a sweat when he heard Qi Yan say that. He knew how persistent Qi Yan was about s-class missions, but he wanted Qi Yan to save people, not kill them.
Mira quickly said, "Wait! Natsu and the others secretly went to do the quest, and it wasn't officially accepted, so it doesn't count as taking an s-class mission. That is to say, you can still take this quest."
Qi Yan stopped when he heard Mira's words: "Really?"
"Of course, it's real."
"That's good. Master, I want to go on that s-class mission."
"Good! I approve!"
"Ding! s-class mission accepted: Save Our Island!"
Seeing the system notification, Qi Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief. If an s-class mission had been lost just like that, he wouldn't kill Natsu, but he would definitely give him a lesson he'd never forget.
"Qi Yan, this quest is for you to complete. You must bring Natsu and the others back."
"Don't worry, Master, I will definitely bring them back alive. As for whether their body parts will be intact, I'm not sure. So, I'm off."
Qi Yan gritted his teeth and left with a sinister smile. Although the quest was saved, Natsu stealing his quest couldn't be let off so easily.
Qi Yan's words made everyone in the guild sweat for Natsu and the others. Qi Yan was usually very easy to talk to and had a good personality, but he didn't expect his temper to change drastically after an s-class mission was touched. This was too scary.
"Gray, you go with him. Keep an eye on Qi Yan and don't let him cripple Natsu."
Makarov was still a little worried. Qi Yan would definitely bring Natsu back, but if he really crippled Natsu and the others, that wouldn't be good.
"Understood!"
Gray immediately agreed excitedly when he heard Makarov's words. He had long wanted to do an s-class mission, and even if he didn't need to do anything this time, he still wanted to go and see.
Elfman doing an s-class mission had made him incredibly envious.
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Hargeon Port
"Wow! It's so nostalgic! This is where we first met."
Looking at the familiar scenery, Lucy couldn't help but exclaim, "I remember this place was completely ruined by you back then. Now it has all recovered, and only Qi Yan's fist mark remains on the cliff face."
Natsu asked curiously, "Wasn't that just a while ago?! Is there any need to be so sentimental?"
"Let's find a boat to Galuna Island first."
As soon as Natsu heard Lucy mention a boat, he was startled and said with a panicked expression, "Boat?! No, no, weren't we swimming there?"
The Iron Forest incident a few days ago had left Natsu with lingering fears. He had never been on a vehicle for so long. The train was fine, he could barely endure it, but Erza's magical four-wheeled vehicle almost took his life.
Lucy looked speechless: "Isn't your idea the unreliable one?!"
The two immediately went to the port to look for a boatman, but all the boatmen refused when they heard that Natsu and the others wanted to go to Galuna Island. The reputation of the Demon Island made even pirates shy away.
Finally, a boatman said, "Although I don't know what you're going to do, there definitely won't be any boatmen going to that island. Even pirates have to go around that island."
"Ah! What should we do?"
Since all the boatmen refused to go, Lucy had no choice. Without a boat, she couldn't reach Galuna Island, and without completing the quest, she wouldn't get the Golden Key.
Natsu, on the other hand, became Happy when he heard there were no boats going: "We can just swim there!"
"Hey!"
The boatman couldn't help but say when he heard Natsu's words, "Swim there? Are you committing suicide? There are big sharks in here!"
"I'm not afraid!! I'm going to roast it into fish jerky! Then eat it!"
As Natsu spoke, he released flames from his hands.
The boatman's expression changed immediately when he saw the flames in Natsu's hand, and he said with some excitement, "Fire?! You… you are Mages?! Are you here to break the curse of that island?"
"Yes!!"
"Get on board."
"Really?!"
"Great!"
The two cheered when they heard this and quickly boarded the boat.
The boat sailed towards Galuna Island.
"Ugh~~!"
As soon as Natsu got on the boat, he started to get seasick, feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit.
"I don't know why, but I'm only starting to feel a little scared now…"
Lucy was very excited when she first got on the boat, but now that she thought about it, she was going to do an s-class mission, an s-class mission where even an S-Class Mage could lose their life if they weren't careful.
"Uncle, weren't you unwilling to sail just now? How come you're willing to sail after knowing we're Mages?"
Boatman Uncle explained, "My name is Bobo, and I used to be a resident of that island. I later escaped from that daunting little island."
Happy asked curiously, "Boatman Uncle, since you are a resident of that island, you must know what the curse is, right?"
"This is the curse…"
As the boatman Uncle spoke, he revealed his arm from under his cloak. The three of them were startled when they saw this arm. What kind of arm was it?
The arm was covered in black carapace and had sharp claws, looking like a demon's arm.
"If you go to that small island, disaster will also befall you. Can you really break that curse? Break that demon's curse."
****
"They've been gone for three or four hours."
"These idiots, they run quite fast!"
Qi Yan and Gray arrived at Hargeon Port and easily inquired about Natsu and the others' whereabouts. After all, people going to the Demon Island were rarely seen in a year, and Natsu, Lucy, and Happy, one with cherry-red hair, one with golden hair, and a small blue cat, had too obvious features, so they naturally had an impression.
"What should we do if the boatmen here refuse to go to Galuna Island?"
When Gray inquired about Natsu and the others, he naturally also asked the boatmen if they could take them there, and as expected, they all refused.
"It doesn't matter. If they won't go, we'll go ourselves."
As Qi Yan spoke, he used his Take Over Magic.
"Full Body Take Over · Ace!"
Freckles unique to Ace began to appear on Qi Yan's face, an orange cowboy hat appeared on his head, he wore black shorts, and a tattoo of the Whitebeard Pirates' flag appeared on his back. This was Qi Yan in his Ace Take Over form.
Then, Qi Yan consumed magic power, and a small boat materialized in front of him.
The small boat was not big; rather than a small boat, it was more like a single-person speedboat. There were three flame jets at the back of the speedboat, the rearmost one responsible for propulsion, and the two on the sides responsible for changing direction.
"Get on the boat, we're going to chase them."
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