Fairy Tail 176

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Fairy Tail
Chapter 176: Extalia
[Insert text: Manifesting the shape of one's own heart... That's the beauty of magic!!]
[Bottom-left: Lucy's Ramblings // I get the feeling Gray could get by even if he didn't take on all these dangerous missions... A talent is a great thing to have, huh... Aaaaghh, what am I going to do about this month's rent~~~~?!!!]

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[Insert text: "Escorting" Natsu and the others is the mission of the Exceed?! Charle and Happy... what secrets do they hold?!!]
Wendy: Aahhh!
Natsu: Ngahhh! // ...Damn you...!! // WHERE ARE THE OTHERS?!!!
Hughes: The others?
Wendy: Lucy-san, Charle and Happy!!
Hughes: "Lucy"... / Oh... you mean that girl.

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Hughes: Sorry, but we don't have any use for her. // I guess she'll be executed.
Natsu: You just try and harm Lucy! // I'll turn every last one of you to ash!

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Hughes: Oh, wow, I'm so scared. / Are all Earthland mages as ferocious as this?
Wendy: Why is only Lucy...? / ...What about Charle and Happy?!!
Hughes: You mean the Exceed?
Natsu: That's not what Happy's called!!!
Hughes: The Exceed have completed their mission and returned to their motherland. // I'd say they'll be receiving their rewards and eating good food about now, yeah?
Wendy: Completed their mission?
Flashback!Charle: If I return to Edoras, then I will be abandoning my duty.
Wendy: !!

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Wendy: That isn't possible. / I don't know exactly what their mission is... // But I know Charle abandoned it!
Hughes: No, no, she completed it just fine.
Wendy: What was it? Charle and Happy's mission...
Hughes: Have you not figured it out yet?

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Happy: ! // Huh? // Where am I? // Charle, wake up!!
Charle: Tomcat... // What... happened to us?
Happy: It looks like they put us to sleep... and then... / What is this place...?
Charle: ......
Happy: Charle?

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[Side text: Mashima's Ramblings: I drew the cover for the new Idoling!!! album, "Sunrise"!!!
Charle: The "information" I gave them was a trap...
Happy: No!! They must have just happened to find us!!! // It wasn't your fault!!!
Charle: I swore... // I swore I would protect Wendy...!

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Nichiya: Are you the ones who have just completed your mission in Earthland? // Mm... a fine perfume.
Happy: Ichiya?!!!
Charle: ?!
Happy: ...Wait...... he's a cat?
Nichiya: Why the surprised faces? We are fellow Exceed!
Nadi: Nichiya-san... // This is their first time coming to Edoras! // They've probably never even seen another Exceed before!
Nichiya: Ah! I see.

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Nichiya: I am Chief of the Royal Guard of Extalia. / My name is Nichiya.
[Box: Chief of the Extalia Royal Guard / Nichiya]
Nadi: And I'm Nadi! Good work on your mission, guys!
[Box: Extalia Minister of State / Nadi]
Happy: Mission...?
Charle: ......
Nichiya: Now, this may be a little sudden, but the Queen wishes to see you! // Follow me.
Happy: The Queen?! // Charle... leave this to me. / We should just play along for the moment. // I'll protect you, no matter what!

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Exceed: And the caterpillar was thi~~s big! // Yeah, sure it was. // And so you see, even the human King... // ...is managed by the Exceed... // This way~~~! // Wait up~~~! // Heheheh!

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Exceed: Ah! Look, over there! // They're the ones who completed their mission in Earthland!
Happy: It's a country of cats...!
Exceed: No way!! They're, like, heroes!! // Look at that girl! She's so hot!♡
Nadi: No, no, we aren't cats. We're Exceed. // Exceed - beings that stand above humans and lend them guidance.
Happy: Exceed...
Nadi: And this is the Kingdom of the Exceed... // Extalia.

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Nadi: Humans are such foolish and inferior beings, you see. // That's why we have to keep an eye on them!
Nichiya: And their scent is hideous...
Nadi: This is where the Queen carries our her "management" of the humans.
Nichiya: The Queen has such a glorious scent...
Nadi: It would be a pain if they multiplied too much, you see. / So the Queen picks out the unnecessary humans... // ...and kills them.

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Happy: Wh... Why would she...?
Nadi: In order to restore balance to the depleting magic power. // That's what the Queen said. // The Queen doesn't just manage the humans in this world; she manages Earthland too.
Happy: She decides when people die?
Nadi: She has the right to. // She is, after all... // ...a god.
Happy: God...?!!

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Charle: What exactly is our "mission"?
Happy: !
Charle: Ever since I was born, I was aware of the mission I had been given... // To find the Dragon Slayer Wendy, who had been selected in the Queen's "human management"... // ...and to eliminate her.
Happy: Wha...? // Wh... What's that supposed to mean?!! Charle!!!
Charle: Be quiet.
Happy: What do you mean, eliminate Wendy?!!!!

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Happy: !!! // Huh? ...Then... // My mission... / Huh? It can't be...
Charle: You must have been happy not knowing.
Happy: My... // My mission was to kill Natsu.........?!!!!
Charle: Calm down, tomcat!!! / We have not carried out our missions, and we had no intention to do so!!!! // So why is it that you claim we have?!!
Nichiya: Are their memories damaged?
Nadi: Well, there's no helping it. The side-effects of the "overwriting" are an unknown quantity.
Charle: Answer the question!!!!
Nadi: All right, I'll explain.

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Nadi: In accordance with the Queen's human management, one hundred Exceed were sent to Earthland six years ago.
[Labels: Edoras // Earthland]
Nadi: They were all implanted with information to allow them to seek out Dragon Slayers and eliminate them. // But then the situation changed. / The Anima that the humans came up with provided a better option, you see. // Instead of killing the people of Earthland... we would be able to make use of them as magical power. // The Dragon Slayers, especially, possess levels of magical power that are on a completely different scale. // So your mission was hurriedly replaced with a new one. // To "escort the Dragon Slayers to Edoras".

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Hughes: You're the ones we really wanted. // The power of the dragons. // Hahah!

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Nadi: I guess the long-range overwriting didn't work out too well in the end, though, huh?
Nichiya: But there is no need for worry, since you have brought the Dragon Slayers here now! // The Magicalisation will be carried out by the humans. / They are more skilled when it comes to such matters.
Charle: N... No... I brought them to Edoras... of my own... will...
Nadi: No, no... you just carried out your mission.
Charle: I took them to the mine... to save the others...
Nadi: Oh, did you not realise? We were the ones who led you there.

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Charle: I... // I... loved Wendy... I wanted to protect her...
Nadi: Oh, that'll just be a little mental mix-up. // When your mission was changed from "elimination" to "escort"... in other words, you received orders that you "mustn't kill her". That'll be the culprit.
[TN: Nadi's hypnotic-face is so creepy ><]
Charle: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Nichiya: All of the actions you took were based upon our orders.

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Happy: WE ARE NOT YOUR PUPPETS!!!!
Charle: T... Tomca...
Happy: We are... // MAGES OF FAIRY TAIL!!!!!
Charle: Happy...
[Insert text: Living to be true to themselves!! // The warmth of the tears they shed... is the proof of their hearts!!]
[Bottom text: To be continued in Chapter 177: Fly To Your Friends!]