Fairy Tail 68

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Fairy Tail
Chapter 68: "Goodbye"
Question: What is Erza doing in the picture? Choose from the four options below!
1: Sizing up the katana
2: It's a photoshoot
3: Lost in thought
4: She's playing "Red Light, Green Light", and so she's frozen in position
- I'm not telling which is the right answer! Sorry 'bout that!♡

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[box: The Heartfilia residence]
[insert text: After running away from home, Lucy returns for the first time in a whole year! Does this mean... she's leaving Fairy Tail?!!]
Spett: ! // O - O - O - O -... // Ojou-sama!!!

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Gardener: What was that?!!
Servants: It's the ojou-sama!! // The ojou-sama has returned!! // Aaaaaaahhhhh!
Spett: Ojou-sama... I'm so glad you're all right... I'm so glad... you're home... / *sniff*
Lucy: Sorry I made you worried, Spett-san!
Spett: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
BookDude: Ojou-sama! We have your new books from the East!
Belo: I hope you haven't been neglecting your magical studies! Stellar Spirit magic is all about confidence and heart, you know!
Servants: Lucy-sama! // Ojou-sama! // Welcome home! // Where have you been for a whole year?!

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Chef: Well, the young lady's reached that age... we should expect an elopement or two, eh? / Eh? // [aside]Ah, the joys of youth...[/aside]
[sFX: nod nod]
Lucy: ...I didn't elope, you know.
Belo: Lucy-chama... you haven't been neglecting your magical studies, have you, now?
Lucy: Nope!! Don't worry about that!!
Spett: I... I...!!!!
[sFX: waaaaaaahhhh]
Servant: Ye~s... quite...
BookDude: Ahahahah!
Belo: Lucy-chama, I hope you haven't been neglecting -
Gardener: Belo-jii! You're repeating yourself!!! [aside]and anyway, the ojou-sama's THIS way...[/aside]
Chef: Now, now, eloping isn't a crime... isn't that right?
Lucy: (They haven't changed a bit......)
Servant: Ojou-sama! The master wishes to see you in the study!
Lucy: ! // (His runaway daughter finally comes home, and he's just like "I'd like to have a little chat with you in my room"... // He hasn't changed one bit, either...)

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Servant: Come now, come now, you can't go and see the master in tatty old rags like those!
Lucy: No, it's okay, really...... // Excuse me... // Otou-sama.

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Father: So you decided to show your face here again... // Lucy.
Lucy: I'm very sorry I left home without even saying a word. // I have reflected deeply and come to repent my actions.

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Father: A wise decision. If you had stayed at that guild any longer, // I would have been forced to use my money and my influence to destroy the guild utterly. // It would appear you have finally grown up, Lucy. // I should hope you now understand that selfish acts cause no end of trouble to those around you. // You are the daughter of the Heartfilia family. / You are different from others; you live in a different world. // There is a reason why I have brought you back home. // I have arranged for you to be married.

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Father: Your husband is to be the heir of the Jureneel family, Duke Sawarue. // I'm sure you are aware that he has expressed interest in you.
Sawarue: Oho~~!♥ // Lucy-sama~!♥
Lucy: ...That is true.

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Father: A marriage link with the Jureneel family will enable us to secure the necessary support to extend our railroads into the South. // This marriage is vital to the future of the Heartfilia family. // And you will need to bear a son as soon as possible. // The Heartfilia family is in need of an heir. // That will be all. // Return to your room.
Lucy: Otou-sama...

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Lucy: Don't get the wrong idea.
Father: !!!
Lucy: The reason I have returned is to inform you of my own intentions; nothing more. // Certainly, it was wrong of me to leave the family home without a word. Indeed, that makes it little more than running away. // As such, this time I intend to make my position extremely clear... // ...before I leave!

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Father: Lucy...?
Lucy: I am going to continue down my own path!!! // Don't you try and arrange marriages for me!!! // And don't you dare lay a finger on Fairy Tail ever again!!!!

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Lucy: If you ever do anything to harm Fairy Tail... // I... and everyone in the guild... will consider you an enemy!!!! // If you had not taken such action, perhaps we would have been able to talk this over nicely. // But it's too late for that now. You have caused far too much pain to my nakama already.

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Lucy: I don't need money, and I don't need any of these fancy clothes. // All I need is somewhere that accepts me as an individual! // Fairy Tail is like a second family to me. // And it's a big improvement over my family here. // Leaving this house, which is home to what few memories I have of Mama, is painful for me...

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Lucy: And leaving Spett-san, Pero-jii, Ribbon-san and Eid-san...
Servants: !!! // ...... // ...... // Ahhhh...
Lucy: Leaving all of them behind is painful, too... // But... if Mama were still alive today... // I think she'd tell me I should do what I feel is right.

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Lucy: Goodbye... // Papa.
[TN: The box is just a translation of what's on the grave... although it's perhaps worth noting that the "X748" and "X777" are interpreted as "the year 748" and "the year 747"]

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[no text just happys]

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[no text just more happys]

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Natsu: Visiting your mother's grave?!!
Lucy: Yep!♥
Happy: Oh... so Lucy, your mother, she......
Natsu: Happy, shaddup.
Lucy: Sorry I made you all so worried, everyone!
Gray: Guess we got ourselves all worked up over nothing...
Lucy: Hey, your clothes...
Erza: Don't worry about it, Lucy... it's our fault, really, for jumping to conclusions.
Natsu: Hell, Happy wouldn't stop crying for ages!
Happy: I - I wasn't crying!!!

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[box: To my Mama in heaven...]
Natsu: But man, this is a big town...
[box: You know what I think?]
[Text: A hooligan, a cat, even an ojou-sama!]
Lucy: Ahh... no, no, this is just the garden. Our estate goes up to the other side of that mountain.
[Text: "Anything goes" - that's the secret of friendship!!]
[box: I think if I didn't have these guys, I just wouldn't be able to go on.]
Lucy: Huh? What's wrong, guys...?
Natsu: Whoa, an ojou-sama~~~~~!
Gray: I can't believe it~~~~~!
Happy: Natsu and Gray have lost it!!! Captain Erza, you have to do something!!!
Erza: The sky... it's so blue...
Happy: CAPTAIN ERZA HAS LOST IT TOO~~~~~!!!
[box: After all, Fairy Tail is a part of me, too, now.]
[bottom text: To be continued in Chapter 69, "Next Generation"]