Fairy Tail 83

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Fairy Tail
Chapter 83: Find The Way
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[insert text: Gérard's designs shake even the Magic Council itself!]
[box: Magic Council Hall: Era]
Sieglein: To wipe that Tower of Paradise from the face of the Earth... // To stop Gérard activating the R-System...!!! // Right now... there is nothing left for us to do but use the Satellite Square and fire an Aetherion!!!
Councillors: But still... // Hmm...
Urtear: R-System is a forbidden magic that we must not allow to be recorded in history. // I hope you are all fully aware of its significance.

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Councillors: But an Aetherion blast would reduce the entire area to nothing... / ...Even if there were innocent civilians present! // Every living being in that tower would be killed!
Sieglein: If that is the price of protecting the order of the magical world... // ...then it is a price that we must pay.
Councillors: It is just as Sieg says. We have always made sacrifices for the sake of progress. That much is clear from the history of the magical world. // But Elder Reiji!! We would be forever condemning ourselves to be remembered as the madmen who fired an unannounced attack upon Ka Elm soil!!!
Peruno: If we too must be sacrificed, then so be it.
Councillors: Elder Peruno!!

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Peruno: "Those who have died can never return." / This proof of the ultimate value of life is something that we must be able to pass on to our children. / We have no choice. I approve the firing of Aetherion.
Councillors: WHAT?!! // ......
Sieglein: Just one more!
Gérard: Just one more... heh.
Vithaldas: Hmm? / Did you just say something, Gérard-sama?
Gérard: No... just thinking aloud.

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Gérard: Just one more, and it's Game Over... // Hahahah...
Gray: Wait a minute, Erza... / That "Zeref" you mentioned in the story...
Erza: That's right... the legendary Dark Mage referred to in the history of this world as the "Ultimate Evil".

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Lucy: I... I'm pretty sure the beast that emerged from the Lullaby called itself a "Demon of Zeref"...
Erza: That's not all... I daresay Deliora was one of Zeref's demons, as well.
Gray: !!!
Erza: With the level of magic Zeref possessed, he could create demons of that terrifying level with ease.
Lluvia: And that is the man Gérard is attempting to bring back to life...?!

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Erza: I don't know why he would do such a thing...... // Shou... / One of my former nakama told me that they plan to rule over a "paradise" world of their own once they have revived Zeref...
Lucy: Speaking of which, I just can't understand what's going on with those old nakama of yours... // They all called you a "traitor"... // ...but wasn't it Gérard who betrayed you all?
Erza: I daresay Gérard has been planting strange ideas in their heads since I was chased out of that tower. // But... I left them in his hands for eight years. // Either way, I certainly betrayed them.

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Lucy: But that was only because there was nothing you could do - Gérard threatened you with their lives!! // And after all that, they -
Erza: Stop that now, Lucy. // If I defeat Gérard, this will all be over.
Gray: (But is that really true?)
Flashback!Erza: This fight... Whether I win or lose... / I'm going to end up vanishing from the outside world.
Gray: (Those words are still bugging me...)

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Shou: Nee-san. // What... // What do you... think you're saying?
Erza: Shou...

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Shou: Trying to win over your nakama's hearts with some stupid made-up sob story?!!! // Stop screwing around!!! That's not what happened at all!!! // Eight years ago, Nee-san, you planted a bomb on our escape ship, and ran away all by yourself!!! // If it hadn't been for Gérard noticing your treachery just in time, we would all have been killed in the blast!!! // Gérard told us!!! / That is the fate of those who fail to learn magic properly!!! // You were drunk on the power of your newfound magic and tried to destroy any trace of the past you had shared with us!!!

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Gray: And Gérard... // ...told you that?
Lucy: Was the Erza you knew the sort of person who would do a thing like that?
Shou: Wh... What do you people think you know about us?!!! // You don't know the first thing about us, okay!!! // GÉRARD'S WORDS WERE OUR SOLE SALVATION BACK THEN!!!! // That's why...!!! Why we spent eight long years bringing this tower to completion!!! // All for Gérard...!!!!

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Shou: You're trying to tell me... // ...it was all a lie?! // That Nee-san was in the right... // ...and Gérard was the evil one here all along?!!!
Shimon: That's right.
Shou: !!!

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Shou: Shimon?!!
Gray: Why, you...
Lluvia: Wait a moment, Gray-sama!! // Back then, that man attacked your clone knowing perfectly well that it was only a fake!
Gray: What?!!
Lluvia: He uses darkness magic... he must have been able to see everything in that blackness. // That was one of the reasons I came along... to find out his true intentions.
Shimon: As I would expect of one of Phantom's famous Element Four.

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Shimon: I had no intention of killing anybody. // I had originally intended simply to knock you out to deceive Shou and the others, but since you made that duplicate, I decided to use it to create a more convincing deception.
Shou: You... were deceiving us...?!
Shimon: You, and Worly, and Miriana... all of you were deceived by Gérard. // I pretended to have been deceived as well... waiting for you to come to your senses.
Erza: Shimon... You...
Shimon: I never stopped believing in you, Erza. // All these eight long years.

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Shimon: I'm so happy to see you again, Erza... / ...from the bottom of my heart.
Erza: Shimon...
Shou: Why... can you all trust in Nee-san so much...? // Why...? // Why couldn't I... / ...trust Nee-san like that?!

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Shou: DAMMITAAAAAAAAAAAALL!!!!! // WAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH!!!! // I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S TRUE ANY MORE!!! // WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN?!!!

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Erza: I'm sure it's difficult for you to take this all in so quickly. // But just let me say this one thing. // I never forgot any of you, not even once, during all those eight years. // I just couldn't do anything...... / I was... so weak... // I'm sorry...
Shimon: But we can do something now. // Isn't that right? // This is the day I have been waiting for. // The day many powerful mages would gather at this place.
Lucy: Powerful mages...? // [aside]what, even me?[/aside]

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Shimon: We must rise against Gérard. // Combining all our powers. // But first, we must intercept the Salamander before he hurts Worly or Miriana.

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Shimon: If we are to fight Gérard, then we absolutely must have that man's power on our side. // Natsu the Salamander.
Natsu: Hm? // What's up with this room? // There's cats everywhere! // Hahahah! // I kinda like this~!!!

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Natsu: ...... // Huh? // It won't come off... // Man... that's a pain. // Oh, well, at least it's cool.
[insert text: A terrible situation swiftly approaches! Let's hope that everyone's feelings reach them in time!!]
[side text: Looks like the Salamander is the key! And he's got no nerves at all!♡ Will he live up to everyone's hopes?!]
[bottom text: To be continued in Chapter 84: "NatsuNeko Fight!!"]