Fairy Tail 216

*Only for use by MS.

tl by molokidan

1)
Chapter 216 - "The Essence of Magic"
slanted: Praying for better luck?!
The First Lucy of 2011 <3

2)
slanted: The inherited soul has now become a vile evil, and stands before FT!!
1: Why...
2: are...you...
3: Guahh

4)
[Mashima's Musing] I think I played Monster Hunter all through New Year's.
1: Why are you
2: in a Dark Guild?
3: What is the exterior, and what is the interior, Makarov?
4: This world is full of things that cannot be measured as merely good or evil.
5: Good or evil, the Fairy Tail mentality should never change.
6: Ha ha ha!
7: You really learned how to talk, kid.
8: Don't call me kid.
9: You aren't a part of my family anymore.

5)
1: But I don't want to fight with you.
2: Will you leave here at once?
3: My...heart also pains me, just a little.
4: To think the day would come when I would have to crush Fairy Tail in this fashion.
5: I won't give you my Guild!!!
6: So you intend to defy me,
7: kid?

6)
1: An Amaterasu 28-formula Magic seal!!?
2: In an instant!!?
3: You cannot beat me.

7)
1: Nuuu
2: Haaah!!!
3: Hmph
4: Guhohhh

8)
1: I dance with magic.
2: Freely.
3: Gahah
4: Kuuuh

9)
1: Wh...what is this...!!?
2: Maximum Defense Seal
3: Three Pillar Gods!!!
4: Amaterasu 100-formula

12)
1: What the!!?
2: Uwaah
3: Gyaah
4: What magic power...?!
5: Concentrate on the enemy in front of you!

13)
1: Hooo
2(2b): hoo hooo
3: As expected from the man had hope for.
4: I can see now why you were able to support the guild for 48 whole years.
5: Ugggh...
6: Ahh...
7: Hm?
8: Something wrong? Makarov.
9-10(2b): Haa haa
11: Haa

14)
1: We've both grown old...
2: Uggh...
3: Here is the point where men who have walked different paths meet...
4: Is this the day when the continuum of this world will become complete?
5(2b): Haa haa
6: Haa
7: Y...you were a great master...
8(2b): You taught "harmony" to us...and led us on the proper path.
9: What...
10: happened?!

15)
1: Guaaaahh
2: "Magic" was originally born in darkness.
3: The power was oppressed and feared.
4: But gradually, "magic" became an everyday phenomenon, and a time when it could even be called human culture came...
5(2b): But tracing back the roots of "magic," when I arrived at Zeref...

16)
1: I saw
2: what can be called the "essence of magic."
3: Sleep...
4: Fairy Tail's history is over.
5: throb

19)
1: It isn't...
2: over yet...
3: Reach...
4: The one who will inherit my will...

20)
1: What's
2: this feeling?

slanted: The one who shall inherit...Makarov's soul hands over Fairy Tail and entrusts the future to his "kids!!"
small black: As Makarov's life is in peril, the excommunicated Laxus is...?!

TBC in Chapter 217 - "Lost Magic"