"Long time no see, Erza!"
A girl dressed like a cat girl slowly walked over.
The moment she saw this cat girl, Erza exclaimed in surprise: "Milliana?!"
As soon as Erza finished speaking, the cat girl named Milliana swung her hand, and a whip shadow whistled towards Kenichi.
However, just as the whip was about to hit Kenichi, he raised his arm and firmly caught the whip.
"Eh? Pretty good!"
The cat girl looked at Kenichi and said with a smile.
"Milliana, what are you doing? They are my companions!"
Seeing the cat girl attack Kenichi, Erza immediately spoke up to stop her.
"Companions? Weren't we companions before too?"
Just then, a male voice suddenly came through the air.
Immediately after, under the watchful eyes of Kenichi, Erza, and the others, numerous small, three-dimensional cubes appeared out of thin air where Natsu was standing.
Those cubes continuously arranged and combined like building blocks, eventually forming a person.
The person was like a cube robot, with a square head and a square body.
"Square, square...!"
Natsu, Happy, and the others looked at this person as if seeing some strange animal, their faces full of astonishment.
And the system's mechanical prompt sounded in Kenichi's mind.
[Ding, congratulations Host, obtained Magic Power attribute +4]
[Ding, congratulations Host, obtained Body Split Magic attribute!]
Hearing this system prompt, Kenichi's eyebrows raised.
Body Split Magic, just like the person before him, allowed the body to split into countless cubes, move through space, and then reassemble.
This magic wasn't very strong.
But August, one of the Spriggan 12, used a similar body-splitting magic when fighting Gildarts to neutralize Gildarts' Crush Magic.
In other words, this Body Split Magic countered crushing-type magic.
[Host, would you like to collect the Body Split Magic?]
'Collect!'
With Kenichi's command, the two golden attributes beneath the square-shaped person, along with the Magic Power attribute dropped by the system earlier, all converged towards Kenichi.
After all those attributes merged into Kenichi's body, the Magic Power attribute on the virtual screen in front of Kenichi rose from the initial 15546 to 15558.
Furthermore, the [Body Split] magic attribute was added to the Magic attribute column.
'If I ever fight Gildarts in the future, I won't have to fear his Crush Magic anymore!'
Looking at the [Body Split] magic attribute on the system screen, Kenichi thought to himself with satisfaction.
While Kenichi was collecting the Body Split Magic attribute, Erza looked at the square-shaped person and exclaimed in surprise: "This way of speaking... is it Wally?"
"8 years have really brought big changes! If I hadn't recognized your voice, I almost wouldn't have known you. Also, you can use magic now?"
Hearing Erza's words, before Wally could answer, the man who had used Darkness Magic earlier descended from the sky and said to Erza: "As for magic, isn't it something anyone can use if they learn it?"
Erza looked at the suddenly appearing man, her pretty face changing slightly: "Even Simon..."
"Erza, we've come to take you back!"
Simon, wearing a headscarf, said to Erza.
"Back? Back where?"
Hearing Simon's words, Gray shifted his gaze from the three people who had suddenly appeared to Erza and asked.
Before Erza could answer, the cat girl Milliana over there said with a laugh: "Of course, it's the place where we started, the Tower of Heaven!"
With that, Milliana violently pulled back the whip in her hand.
It seemed she wanted to pull the whip out of Kenichi's grasp.
But after the cat girl pulled with all her strength, the whip remained motionless, as if welded into Kenichi's hand.
Seeing this, an unwilling expression appeared on the cat girl's face, and she pulled several more times with force.
But the result was the same as before… she couldn't pull the whip out of Kenichi's hand.
Seeing that she couldn't pull the whip out, the cat girl discarded it, and she assumed an attacking stance.
"Wally, Simon, let's do it!"
After calling out to Simon and Wally, the cat girl directly pounced on Kenichi.
And the square-shaped Wally immediately activated his Body Split Magic, his figure transforming into numerous cubes and vanishing from the spot.
"Oh, a fight?"
Natsu, seeing the cat girl and Wally suddenly attack, instantly ignited his fighting spirit.
With that, he directly launched an attack on Simon.
Just as Natsu charged towards Simon, Wally, who had turned into cubes, had already moved next to Lucy and reassembled himself.
"Eek..."
Seeing the elusive Wally, Lucy was shocked.
And Wally raised his handgun towards Lucy: "Don't..."
Before Wally could say the word 'move', a piercing cold air swept out from Kenichi's body.
In the blink of an eye, Wally's figure was frozen in ice.
Furthermore, the cat girl, who was still some distance from Kenichi, was also frozen into an ice sculpture.
The fight ended before it even began.
"This is... Ice Magic!"
Gray, who was about to make a move, was startled upon seeing both Wally and the cat girl instantly frozen.
Then, he shifted his gaze from the frozen Wally to Kenichi.
"Such powerful Ice Magic! Even I, an Ice Mage, feel extremely coldness!"
Compared to Gray's shock, Lucy beside him was much calmer.
After all, she had been present during Kenichi's fight with Juvia.
She had seen Kenichi instantly freeze Juvia with her own eyes.
Now, seeing Kenichi freeze Wally and Milliana again, she wasn't as surprised anymore.
Natsu and Simon over there, who had just started fighting fiercely, stopped simultaneously when they saw Kenichi freeze Milliana and Wally.
"So awesome! As expected of Kenichi!"
Natsu said with admiration.
'Such terrifying magical power. With this level of power, perhaps he could defeat Jellal!'
Simon looked at Kenichi, his eyes flickering.