Fairy Tail 92

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[insert text: She places her all into the sword's blade! // To sever her links to the past! To slice open the path to tomorrow!!]
Ikaruga: This is the end!!!
Shou: Nee-san!!!!

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Fairy Tail
Chapter 92: Destiny

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Erza: Ungh!
Ikaruga: And thus, you lose. // *cough* // Im... // Impossible...

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Ikaruga: Guaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
Shou: All right!!! Nee-san, you really are incredible!!!!
Erza: *pant* / *pant* / *pant*
Ikaruga: That was... impressive......

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Ikaruga: I have... never once... been defeated... not once... since the guild was founded... until this day... // However... both you and Gérard are destined for defeat...
Erza: !!
Ikaruga: Fifteen minutes... // See it plummet down... / Shining light of justice bright... / Bringing death to all... // Ah... / A beastly poem......
Erza: Fifteen minutes?! // Are you talking about Aetherion?!! // Shou, are you all right?
Shou: Y - Yeah... somehow...
Erza: You have to take Shimon and the others, and my nakama as well, and get them all far away from this tower.
Shou: !

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Shou: B... But...
Erza: You'll do it for me, won't you. // Shou.
Shou: Yeah... // But what about you?
Erza: I'm going... // ...to finish this.

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[side text: Mashima's Ramblings 1: I bought Radiohead's Best Of album. They really are pretty cool.]
Natsu: ! // WHAAH?!!
Shimon: So you are finally awake, Natsu.
Natsu: Huh? // I remember ending up on some kind of weird vehicle... // Urghhh... // Blegh...
Shimon: Stop that!!! You don't have to get sick just remembering!!!

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Shimon: You were eaten by Fukurou after that. But Gray saved you.
Natsu: GRAY?!!
Shimon: But Gray took a fair amount of damage himself. // That cat of yours is taking him outside of the tower for me.
Natsu: Gaaaaaahhh!!! No way!!! I lost to that guy, but GRAY beat him...?!!!
Shimon: Well, you didn't exactly lose... you just got eaten.
Natsu: I'm gonna be teased for like a whole month about this!!! That guy doesn't know when to stop...! / [aside]crap...![/aside]
Shimon: Whoa, whoa...
Natsu: Aaaagh, this is no good!!!! I need revenge!!!! I'm gonna go fight that owl again right now!!!! / I'll beat him with one hand tied behind my back!!!! It'd be no good without a handicap...
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Shimon: This isn't the time to be doing that!!!!

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Natsu: ...Hey, who are you again, anyway?
Shimon: Shimon. One of Erza's old nakama. // Ugh!
Natsu: Hey, are you hurt or something?!
Shimon: D... Don't worry about me... you have to listen... Natsu... // I just received a transmission from Worly and Miria. // They've found Lucy and Lluvia collapsed on the ground, along with one of the Trinity Raven. // Since they don't know what's going on, they weren't sure what to do, but I've told them to get Lucy and Lluvia out of the tower.
Worly: Weren't these chicks our enemies?
Miriana: Myaa~ But Simon's on our side~!

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Shimon: And according to a transmission from Shou, that's all three of Trinity Raven defeated.
Natsu: BUT I DIDN'T DO A THING!!!
Shimon: The only enemy left is Gérard himself. And Erza is heading for him as we speak. // She means to deal with him alone, with her own two hands. // The two of them have shared a bond of resentment for eight years now. / It may well be that their clash is a fated inevitability. // However... Gérard is simply too powerful... // Please. You must save Erza.
Natsu: I don't wanna.
Shimon: ?!!

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[side text: Mashima's Ramblings 2: What?! I forgot to draw Lluvia's eyebrows back in Issue 26~~?! Ahh... it's true...]
Gérard: Dear me... it seems the game is over already.
Erza: Is it really so entertaining, playing games with people's lives?
Gérard: Oh, but of course. / Life and death are the very basis of all things; they intensify every emotion. // Or to put it a rather different way, there is nothing quite so dull as "life".

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Gérard: It has been a while. // Erza.
Erza: Gérard.

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Gérard: You could have simply fled this place at any time. Why did you choose not to do so?
Erza: I mean to free all of my former nakama.
Gérard: Not that I care. I no longer have any use for them. // Not with the Tower of Paradise complete.
Erza: Even if it were to be destroyed only ten minutes from now?
Gérard: You mean the Aetherion? / [aside]heheh...[/aside]
Erza: You seem unconcerned... so you really were bluffing.
Gérard: Oh, no... the Aetherion will fall.

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Erza: That is what I wanted to hear!!!! / Ten minutes!!! If I can simply keep you here for that long... // I will be able to bring an end to all this!!!!
Gérard: Oh, no... you are going to die, sacrificed to Zeref. // That much is pure fact. / It is your destiny!

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Shimon: Why, you... you refuse... / ...to save Erza... to save your own nakama...?!
Natsu: He's Erza's enemy, so I say Erza should defeat him. // This isn't something I should go barging in on.
Shimon: ERZA HAS NO HOPE OF DEFEATING GÉRARD!!!!
Natsu: DON'T YOU DARE INSULT HER LIKE THAT, YOU CREEP!!!!

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Shimon: No!!! This is not a simple matter of strength, or magical power!!!! // Erza... // Erza is still hoping that she can save Gérard somehow!!!! // I know it!!! // She just doesn't have it in her to actually hate Gérard!!!!

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Shimon: Gérard is a cunning man. // He will make use of Erza's lingering feelings for him. // But it gets even worse than that. / You know that the Council is planning on firing an Aetherion down upon this place, yes? // And of course, if that does happen, then everyone inside this tower will die for certain. // According to Shou, there are only fifteen... no... only ten minutes left, now.
Natsu: What?!!
Shimon: Erza went off on her own, telling him to get everyone out of the tower. // You know Erza well enough, do you not? Though it pains me to say it... / She may well be planning on using the Aetherion to die, taking Gérard along with her.
Natsu: Why didn't you say that in the first place...?

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Natsu: WHERE THE HELL DID ERZA GO?!!!!!
[insert text: The Aetherion will reduce all to dust! Only ten minutes until all hope is lost... Can they reach the future that lies beyond?!]
[bottom text: To be continued in Chapter 93: "A Prayer To The Sacred Light"]