Just like some teenagers with issues in their original families, even if they grow up and successfully emerge from their darkness in the future...
They are still affected by the problems of their original family in their youth, sometimes even experiencing stress reactions, trying to escape the shadow their entire lives.
August was trying hard to convince himself, and also to tell Medivh...
He only had one Father, and that was Medivh.
Everything else was not important to him.
"August, listen to me!"
"You must learn to accept everything about yourself, including your imperfections."
"Your imperfections will never become your mark or your shame; they will only make you stronger."
Medivh looked at August and spoke earnestly.
"August, I know you've always known who your mother is in your heart..."
"In fact, you also know that if your mother were to find out she has such an excellent, obedient, and sensible child like you, she would definitely do everything in her power to love you!"
"An obedient child receiving more love is an eternal truth in this world! Good parents never hurt the heart of an obedient child..."
"So go, go to the Magic Guild Fairy Tail that your mother created, and open your eyes wide and see! What is this Magic Guild like, the one your mother poured all her heart into?!"
"Then, accept your origins! Accept your imperfections! Accept your past and everything! Make peace with yourself, August..."
"You will eventually be crowned king on the path of magic! Becoming an indelible mark in the history books of Magic in the entire Earth-land World! The most significant mark."
Medivh patted August's shoulder, speaking forcefully...
These were all his heartfelt words to August.
"I understand, Father."
August's expression was moved, his eyes had already reddened, and tears streamed down his face, one by one, forming a continuous string.
"August, why are you crying?"
Medivh looked at the silently weeping August and couldn't help but smile. He reached out, trying to gently wipe away the tears from August's eyes, just as he would have done for a young August. However, as Medivh reached out, he realized his hands had become illusory, turning into specks of starlight, floating towards the sky.
"Your time seems to be up, Father." August tried to tilt his head back to prevent the tears from falling, his neck stiff, sobbing and choking as he spoke: "Don't worry, from now on, I will always think twice before acting! I will never make you worry, and I will live on, growing up healthy! Until we reunite in the 'future'."
"Oh, August, you even know that?!"
Medivh looked at August somewhat awkwardly. This little rascal really knew a lot.
"I asked Asuna and the others..."
"After all, when you're free, you always like to stare at the clock hanging on the wall."
August explained how he learned that Medivh was from the future.
"So, I have three little traitors."
Medivh chuckled softly. He didn't really care that Asuna and the others told August about his time travel...
August was his child, a child he had raised himself. He had absolute trust in August; there were no secrets he couldn't share with August.
Of course, except for something as incredible as transmigration.
However, even if August truly knew, he probably wouldn't say much. He would most likely just assume Medivh's previous life was a parallel world without magic.
As for the Fairy Tail manga, August would only consider it a record of this world, in a form called manga, from Medivh's world.
"Father, can you pat my head like you used to when I was little?!"
Just as Medivh was lost in thought, August lowered his head and requested of Medivh.
"Of course."
Medivh smiled. He could still grant August this small request.
Medivh reached out and gently touched August's head.
Time, at this moment, stood still.
August never looked up. He knew his Father had returned to the time he was supposed to return to.
But it didn't matter. In the near future, he would be reunited with his Father.
In the time that followed...
August, as Medivh had instructed, went alone to the Magic Guild Fairy Tail in Magnolia Town. This was his mother's legacy...
However, August created a cognitive barrier for himself, so that the Mages of Fairy Tail wouldn't notice him. With his strength, even Precht was fooled.
In the days that followed...
August lived among the Mages of the Fairy Tail Guild, always secretly observing these boisterous individuals.
This guild had Porlyusica, who was kind and lovely, but had a sharp tongue and a soft heart, always doing her utmost to heal her guildmates when they were injured. Whenever she focused on treating the injured, she would shine brightly.
There was Goldmine, who wore sunglasses, had a mohawk, dressed like a hooligan, but claimed to be a noble Western cowboy...
Although he had a face that looked like he would bully his companions at any moment, he never did anything to betray them. Again and again, under the guise of loyalty, he lent the money he earned from hard work to his companions, but never asked for it back.
According to Goldmine: "A man must be wild! Money given out is like spilled water, how can it be taken back?!"
Even so...
August often saw him starving because he had no money.
Besides him, there was Bob, whose sharp tongue was no weaker than Porlyusica's. He always wore a proper suit, had a handsome appearance, and his style seemed out of place in Fairy Tail.
Although he always complained about the poor taste of his guildmates and how standing with them would embarrass him and affect his image outside, in reality, a large amount of the guild's funds were earned solely by Bob's hard work, though August found Bob's methods of earning money somewhat shameful.
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