Fairy Tail 175

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Fairy Tail
Chapter 175: Welcome Home
[Insert text: Everyone! // Good luck!♡]
[Bottom-right note: There is no particular meaning to this pose. No naughty thoughts now!!]
[Bottom-left text: "Aaaaghh!! What the...?!!! This isn't me!! It's Gemini, all right?!! Gemini!!!" / - Lucy]

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[Insert text: Their comrades turned to Lachryma crystal in the parallel world of Edoras!! And there's no time left to lose!! Natsu and friends have no idea what action to take...!]

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Charle: [aside]hmmmmm...[/aside]
Natsu: Screw it!!! I can't just sit around here!!! // I'm gonna charge right into that damn castle~~!!!!

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[Side text: Mashima's Ramblings (1): I was lucky enough to meet the members of FUNKIST! They're all so lively, and they're about the same age as me, too... it was like talking to a group of old friends. (TBC)]
Charle: I would suggest you wait a little longer.
Natsu: Why's that?!
Charle: If we do not prepare a proper strategy... // ...we will never turn the others back to normal.
Wendy: With everyone... transformed into that huge crystal...... / How would we even begin to go about changing them back?
Charle: ...... // We have no choice but to ask the King himself.
Wendy: There's no way he'd tell us that...
Natsu: He will if we punch him enough!!
Lucy: !

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Lucy: So the King knows how to turn everyone back to normal?
Charle: Presumably, yes.
Lucy: Then there might be a way... // Just as long as we can get close to him...
Natsu: Really?!
Wendy: Wh... What are you talking about?
Lucy: Gemini! // Gemini have the ability to transform into anyone they're able to touch. / And when they do, they can even read that person's thoughts! // In other words, if they could transform into the King, then they might be able to find out how to change everyone back!
Natsu: Aahhh!!!

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[Side text: Mashima's Ramblings (2): And what's more... they let me take part in the recording of their new song! It's only a short phrase, but a bit of guitar-playing that I did is going to be on their CD. Isn't that amazing?! For more info, check out the chapters of Mou, Shimasen Kara in issues 17 and 18!]
[Bottom text: The "Fairy Tail Edition" of FUNKIST's new song, "Feet" (released on the same date as the regular edition) contains a version with a guitar solo by Mashima-san!! Check it out, everyone!!]
Gemini: But we can only transform into a person for five minutes! // And we can only store a total of two people in our "memory"! // If we add another person after that, then we lose access to the oldest transformation we have stored!
Lucy: The real issue is how we're going to get that close to the King...
Wendy: With all those guards, getting close enough to touch him won't be easy...
Charle: There is a way to get close to the King.
Natsu/Happy: !!!

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Charle: This passage originally existed to provide an escape route from the castle to the outside world... / ...but if we go through the exit, in the mine just outside town, we should be able to reach the basement of the castle.
Wendy: No way!! How do you know about that?!
Charle: It's information. Bits and pieces of it are just there in my head. // Since we arrived here in Edoras, it seems as though information about the area is slowly being added to the things I already know.
Happy: I don't know anything like that...!
Lucy: At any rate, if we can use that passage to infiltrate the castle, we just might be able to pull this off.
Natsu: All right!! We're gonna turn everyone back to normal!!
Charle: We should set out at night. / Let's get what rest we can for now.

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Natsu: It feels pretty weird walking about with a torch like this.
Happy: Normally, you can just make fire whenever you want, after all.
Charle: Here we are.
Taurus: Hnnnnnghhhhh....!

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Taurus: MOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Wendy: This is amazing, Charle!
Lucy: There really is a passage...
Charle: I hope it really is connected to the castle basement...
Natsu: What's wrong, Happy?
Happy: Why is it that I don't have this "information"? / We're both cats from Edoras, and we were both sent to Earthland on the same "mission", right?
Charle: I believe we agreed not to discuss this?
Happy: Aye...

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Charle: I do not know how to explain your unusual case myself.
Happy: .........
People: Let's keep on walking. // Right.
Natsu: This place looks like it could fall apart at any moment...
Lucy: Don't say such unlucky things~~~!
Wendy: Still... this really is a very old mine.
Happy: You think there might be ghosts?
Natsu: !
Lucy: What's wrong, Natsu?! Did something happen?
Natsu: Lucy... hold this for me, would you?
Lucy: Wh... What is it~~~?!
Natsu: Hold real still.

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Natsu: This here place is my territory~~!
Lucy: STOP PLAYING AROUND!!
Natsu: Mngfhh!
Charle: This way. // [aside]hmmmmm...[/aside] // This way next. // Turn that corner. / Ah... turn left here.
People: Whoahh!!! // We seem to have reached a very open space... / Wooow...

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Charle: It would seem that this area is connected to the castle basement.
Lucy: I don't know how all this works, but it's a good thing we have you around, Charle!
Charle: I don't understand it properly myself. The information just seems to come to me.
Happy: Thanks, Charle!
Charle: If you want to thank me, do it after we have saved the others. // The difficulties are only just beginning. We have to reach the King's sleeping chambers without being seen, and then escape without being found. / If we run into any soldiers, we have no chance of defeating them as we are now.
Lucy: We do have my magic to fall back on if push comes to shove...
Natsu: Not that it's exactly reliable.
Lucy: What's that supposed to mean?! We wouldn't even have this plan if it weren't for Gemini, you know!
Natsu: Yeah, yeah...
Charle: Let's keep moving.
Happy: Aye.

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Lucy: Aahh!
Natsu: Lucy!!
Lucy: Wh... What is this...?!
Wendy: Aaahhh!
Charle: Wendy!!
Natsu: Guehhh!
Lucy: I... I can't move...!

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Everyone: Soldiers?!!!
Lucy: What are all these soldiers doing down here in the...?!
Happy: How did they know where to find us...?!
EdoErza: So these are the Earthland mages.

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EdoErza: They really are their spitting images. // Natsu Dragion. / Lucy Ashley. / ...Are these truly not the same people?
Lucy: Erza!!!
Natsu: Mmnngghhhh!
EdoErza: Take them away.
Soldiers: Yessir!

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Natsu: Mnnnghhhhh!
Lucy: Erza!! You have to listen!!! / Please!!
Wendy: Charle!!!
Charle: Wendy!! // !!

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EdoErza: Exceed.
Happy/Charle: Eh?!

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EdoErza: We bid you welcome home. // Exceed.

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Lucy: "Exceed"?
Wendy: Happy... Charle... // What on Earth...
EdoErza: Excellent work in leading the intruders to us.
Happy: (Charle?)
[Insert text: Charle and Happy, citizens of Edoras!! // Is their "mission" to betray their friends?!]
[TN: Okay, personal speculation. First of all, I doubt Charle actually intended to betray them. I trust her, just about. However, I think it's extremely likely she's going to end up making it look like she's a dirty traitor. She's a very sharp, logical thinker, and assuming she doesn't let the shock of the situation get the better of her, she's almost certain to realise pretty quickly that their best chance for coming back from this situation is if she manages to get the Edoras soldiers (and unfortunately by extension, everyone else) thinking her allegiance lies with them.]
[Bottom text: To be continued in Chapter 176: Extalia]