Fairy Tail 74

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Fairy Tail
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"Monster Hunter Orage"!
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Mashima Hiro and Monster Hunter... A combination of these two visions should be something worth anticipating!!
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[insert text: Even Mira seems to be in high spirits!♡]

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[insert text: Loki's life is flickering into nothingness! Lucy's wish echoes vainly in this unmovable (?) reality...!]
Lucy: Don't give up!!! // Loki!!!
Loki: Give my regards to the guys back at Fairy Tail...
Lucy: If you can just get back to the Stellar Plane... / ...your life-force will come rushing straight back!!! // I'll get you back there, no matter what!!!
Loki: I'm telling you, you can't do that.........
Chapter 74: The Stellar King

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Lucy: But don't you think it's strange?!!! / You didn't really even kill Karen at all!!! // It was just an accident!!!! // OPEN!!!! GATE OF THE LION!!!! // SEND LOKI BACK TO THE STELLAR PLANE!!!!

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Lucy: OPEN!!! // PLEASE!!!!
Loki: Lucy... // That's enough...... / Please, stop......
Lucy: This is NOT okay!!! // How could I abandon a nakama who's disappearing right in front of my eyes?!!!!

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Lucy: Nghhhhh!!
Loki: Lucy!!! You can't use up all your magic at once like that!!!!
Lucy: I told you!!! I'll save you, no matter what!!! // I'll open the gate to the Stellar Plane by force if I have to!!!
Loki: It's not going to open!!! A Spirit who has rebelled against his contract with a human can never return to the Stellar Plane!!!! // Stop, please!!! You're starting to be absorbed into the fabric of the Stellar Plane yourself!!!! // At this rate, you're going to disappear along with me!!!!

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Loki: Please, don't make me responsible for any more sins than I already bear...!!!!
Lucy: You haven't sinned at all!!!! // And if the laws of the Stellar Plane say you have, then I'll do whatever it takes to change them!!!!

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Lucy: !!

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Lucy: Huh? // What?!
Loki: Don't... don't tell me...! // No way...!!

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Loki: The Stellar King...!!!!!

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Loki: Wh - What are you doing here?!!
Lucy: King...?!!! You mean, the greatest of all the Stellar Spirits?!!
King: By the pact we formed long ago with our companions of old, the humans, we Stellar Spirits are forbidden from harming those who bear the Keys. // Though thy sin was indirect, Leo, thou standest nevertheless in violation of this pact. // Thou art forbidden from returning to the Stellar Plane.

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Lucy: Wait!!! Surely that's going too far!!!
Loki: W - Won't you just give it up, Lucy?!!!
King: Companion of old... // This Law alone can never be changed.
Loki: (Don't tell me... he showed up here because of what Lucy said about "changing the law"?!! // The King himself... for such a trifling matter...!)
Lucy: He has lived in pain for three whole years!!! // For the sake of his nakama!!! He did nothing more or less than what he had to, for Aries!!!!
King: Truly, my heart is moved by thy pleas, companion of old...

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Lucy: This has nothing to do with "companions of old"!!!! / I'm talking about my friend, right here, right now!!! // So try opening your ears and listening... beardy old fool!!!!
Loki: !!
Lucy: This was just a terrible accident!!! What did Loki ever do that was so wrong?!!! // He's innocent, and I won't stand for anything less!!!!
Loki: Give it up, Lucy!!! / I'm not asking for anybody to forgive me!!! // I want to atone for my sins!!! / I want to disappear, right here, right now!!!
Lucy: I won't let you do that!!!!
King: Hrmph.

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Lucy: How is what he did a sin?!!!! // How can it ever be a sin to care for your own nakama?!!!!

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Loki: (The Spirits... // All of them at once... she...!)
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Loki: LUCY!!!
Lucy: See... all of my friends feel the same way. // If you're a Stellar Spirit too, you should be able to understand how Loki and Aries felt!!!!

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Loki: Stop doing such crazy things!!!!
Lucy: Uunhh...
Loki: Even just for a moment, you could kill yourself doing that!!!!
King: ...... // To be addressed in such a manner by our companions of old...
Loki: !
King: ...Perhaps it is truly the Law which is wrong. // Leo, ye who sinned for the sake of your kinsman, Aries... // Companion of old, ye who seek deliverance for Leo...

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King: In honour of this most wondrous bond... / I shall allow an exception to be made of this case. // Leo... I hereby authorise your return to the Stellar Plane.
Lucy: Huh, you're not such a bad guy after all... Old Beardy. // ♥
King: Offer thy thanks not to me, but to the guidance of the stars.
Loki: Wait... please...... // I...

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King: If, despite this pardon, thou still desirest to atone for thy sins... // Then I order thee to lend thy power to this companion of thine, and live on in her service. // For I deem that she has earned such service. // And thou shouldst lay down thy life to protect hers.
Lucy: ...Well, you heard him!

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Loki: ...This doesn't mean that my sin can just disappear... // ...But you have given me the courage to walk onward. // Thank you. / I guess I'll be seeing you around... I look forward to working with you.
Lucy: ...Yeah... me too.
[insert text: Two hearts joined together... and a new bond is born!!]
[side text: Next issue, moving straight into a new arc with a 24-page chapter!!]
[bottom text: To be continued in Chapter 75: "Butterfly's Dream"]