Fairy Tail 85

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Fairy Tail
[Top: LUCY]
[Circle: This week's beautiful young mage~!]
[left insert: Only 17! It's the big-breasted Stellar Spirit user!♡]
[right insert: -Favourite colour? / Blue. / -What kind of animal are you most like? / A rabbit. / -Hobbies? / Reading, shopping, cooking. / -How do you spend your days off? / Writing my novel, hanging out with friends.]
[bottom-left: Guild / FAIRY TAIL]
[bottom-right: Lucy - Born May 1st, 767 - From Hibiscus Town - Her "three sizes": Bust 86, Waist 58, Hip 87 / (we think!♡)]
[bottom-left note: Lucy's fantasy of appearing in Weekly Sorcerer Magazine♡]

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Natsu: Happy~!!! You need to pull harder!!!
Happy: I'm pulling as hard as I can!!!
Natsu: Nnnnguaaaah!!! You're gonna snap my neck~~!
Happy: Nnnnngh!
[Chapter 85: Paradise Game]

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Natsu: It's off~!!!
Worly: Ugh... // Ngh!
Natsu: Now it's on the square-dude's head!! / [aside]ahahah![/aside]
Happy: ...What's wrong with that crazy mask-thing...?
Worly: This match isn't over yet, Salamander... // Nghh...

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Natsu: Well, I've got you back now... / And Erza and Happy are both safe, so I don't see much point in fighting you any more...
Happy: [aside]uh-huh[/aside]
Worly: Our goal is Paradise... // The true freedom of which Gérard speaks... // A world where we rule over the people...
Happy: What are those, Natsu...?! They're creepy!!
Natsu: Mouths?! They're everywhere...!

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Gérard: Welcome, all of you...
Worly: Gérard?!
Gérard: ...to the Tower of Paradise!
Gray: What are these stupid mouths?!
Lluvia: They... they spoke!!!
Shimon: They seem to be conveying Gérard's words throughout the entire tower.
Lucy: These mouths are covering the whole tower...?!
Gérard: I am Gérard, ruler of this tower. // The pieces of both sides are now in place. // I think it's about time for us to begin...

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Gérard: ...the Paradise Game.

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Natsu: A game~?
Worly: Gérard... what is all this...?
Gérard: The rules are simple.
Gray: He's screwing with us...
Gérard: My goal is to use Erza as a sacrifice to revive Zeref.
Shou: Gérard......!
Gérard: In other words, if I can open the gateway to Paradise, I win. // And if you people can stop me from doing that... / ...then you win. // However... that in and of itself wouldn't be too much fun. / So I've arranged for three warriors to fight on my behalf.
Shimon: Three warriors...? // Who are they?
Gérard: If you cannot first get past them, you will be unable to reach me. // In other words, this is a battle royale. Three versus seven.

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Gérard: And there's one last rule I should probably tell you about. // There's a possibility that the Council could launch an attack on this place using the Satellite Square.
Gray: !!!
Lluvia: !!!
Shimon: !!!
Lucy: !!!
Gérard: They possess the ultimate magic of destruction, Aetherion, with the power to reduce everything to naught.
Vithaldas: You never said anything about that, Gérard!!! / If we got hit by a thing like that, every one of us would be going to hell!!!
Ikaruga: Why, Vithaldas, are you afraid?
Vithaldas: Not a bit!!! Just the opposite!!! The reverse~~~!!!! // That's the best news I've ever heard!!! A treacherous job like this is just what I've been waiting for~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!
Gérard: The time limit is unknown. / But the moment that Aetherion strikes... // Everybody here will die. / It will be Game Over, and this game will end without a victor.

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Lucy: Th - That's insane... What on Earth is that Gérard thinking......?! / Playing a "game" when he himself could die any moment...!
Erza: Aetherion...? / The Council...? // Im... Impossible!!! / I mean...! // !!!
Gray: Erza!!!
Shimon: Shou!!! What are you doing?!!!
Gérard: Now... // Let's have a little fun.

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Shou: I'm not gonna let anybody lay a single finger on Nee-san. // I'll defeat that asshole Gérard myself!!!
Erza: H - Hey!!! Shou!!!
Shimon: Stop!!! You can't do this alone!!! // Shit!!! I'll go after Shou!!! // You guys have to search for Natsu!!!
Gray: Gaaaaahhh!!! Every single one of 'em...!!!
Lluvia: Lluvia will go this way with Gray-sama. / Lucy-san, you go that way.
Lucy: Wait a minute!!! You're sending the weakest of us off on her own?!!

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Natsu: i'm not sure exactly what's going on... / But it sounds like this fight's over if I beat up that Gérard guy. // Okay!! I'm up for that!!!
Happy: I guess he really is the guy in charge...
Worly: Wh... What are you doing, Gérard...?! Aetherion, you say...?! // If we take a blast like that, every one of us will die! // All we ever wanted was true freedom...!
Natsu: I don't know what kind of freedom you're after... // But at Fairy Tail, you can be free, and have lots of fun, too!

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Natsu: Happy!!! I think we've got a little cheat for this game.
Happy: Aye!
Natsu: Let's skip straight to the final level!!!!
Happy: Aye, sir!!!!

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Worly: Salamander... // You've got... // ...a great... // ...scarf...
Natsu: !!!
Happy: What is it?
Natsu: Something's coming.

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Fukurou: Who-whoo~!!!!
Natsu: Guahh! // Aghh!
Shimon: !!! // Salamander?!! // Are you all right?!
Natsu: Who're you? / And who's he?

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Fukurou: Breaking of the rules will not be permitted. // I am the Warrior of Justice, Fukurou!!! / Who-whoo!
Natsu: IT'S A BIRD!!! A BIRD TALKING ABOUT JUSTICE AND STUFF!!!
Shimon: !!! // Is - is he...?!! // This is bad!!! Quickly, this way!!!
Natsu: ?!
Happy: Natsu!!! This guy... he's the square guy's nakama!!!
Shimon: I'm on your side now!!! // And you mustn't fight against this guy!!!

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Shimon: Yami Setsuna!!!!
Natsu: ! // Nguaaahh!!! It's pitch black!
[TN: Using darkness against an owl? Is he a complete idiot?]
Happy: I knew it! He's -
Natsu: Now's our chance!!!
Happy: ?
Fukurou: Who-whoo!
Shimon: !!!!

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Fukurou: The owl of justice strikes through the blackest night!
Shimon: ...!!!!
Fukurou: Justice Ho-ho-hou!!!
[TN: It's a pun on the who-whoo owl noises and the word "hou" = "cannon".]

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Shimon: He's... // ...so strong...!
Fukurou: Who-whoo...

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Shimon: It's the Assassins' Guild... // The Skull Order!!!!
Happy: Assassins' Guild?!!
Shimon: They're one of the Dark Guilds... // A most evil of guilds, who ended up specialising on assassination missions rather than honest work. // And most legendary among them are the team of three known as "Trinity Raven"... in the Capria War, they assassinated all the officers of the Western army...
Happy: And this... is one of those three men... er, birds...? / Is that right?!
Fukurou: Who-whoo... I merely struck down the forces of evil.
Shimon: Those guys are professional killers!!! You mustn't try to fight them!!!!

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Fukurou: Salamander... your infamy has reached even the ears of our guild!!! // It is time for this Warrior of Justice to strike down evil!!!!
Natsu: A guild is a place filled with dreams and aspirations... // It's not a place to take on screwed-up jobs.
[insert text: Natsu's flames are ready to burn evil to the ground!! / [aside]even though he still doesn't actually know what's going on... *sweatdrop*[/aside]]
[bottom text: To be continued in Chapter 86: "Lock Of Succubus"!]