Fairy Tail 94

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[insert text: Must precious lives be sacrificed for Gérard's terrible ambitions?! // The Aetherion finally descends!!]
Shimon: It's over...

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Fairy Tail
Chapter 94: A Single Person
[insert text: The sacred light has been released! This destruction brings only despair... to what manner of future will it lead?!]

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[no text just capsizing]

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Gray: Aetherion.........

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[box: Era]
Scientists: Aetherion successfully fired! A direct hit!!! / I repeat!!! A direct hit!!!
Councillors: Has it been successfully destroyed?!! We need confirmation!!!
Scientists: Aether Nano fusion density increasing steadily. // Unusual weather conditions are likely to result.
Ogue: Just how many people were inside that tower...?
Michelo: We have prevented the resurrection of Zeref. / If a few were sacrificed, then it was with good cause.

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Ogue: We can try to justify our action as much as we like... // ...but it will not heal the hearts of the families of those who perished.
Happy: Natsu...! // Erza......!

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Erza: What...? // We're alive?
Gérard: Heheh...
Erza: Gérard?
[sFX: AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!]
Scientists: Something seems to be counteracting the Aether Nano in the very epicentre of the blast...... / ...N... No... this is...!!! // Fusion density has gone into rapid decline!!! // We're getting readings of a separate energy, an incredible magical power!!! // Our equipment can't keep up!!! // What is this?!! // Restoring visuals now!!!

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Lluvia: Wh... what... // ...is that...?!
Gray: The outside walls crumbled... // ...leaving some kind of crystal?
Lucy: Hey... they're okay, right...? // Natsu, and Erza, and that Shimon guy........

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Natsu: Owwww...... // What the hell's going on here?
Shimon: The Aetherion descended...... // Wh... Why am I still alive?

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[side text: Mashima's Ramblings 1: My iPod broke down, so I went and bought an iPod touch! Ahh, it's so fun just playing around with it...]
[TN: I can vouch for that! I did the same thing the weekend before last! ^^]
Gérard: Finally...
[sFX: HAHAHAHAHAH]
Gérard: Finally, the time has come!!!!
Erza: You...!
Gérard: Heheheh... // Surprised, are you, Erza? // This is the true form of the Tower of Paradise. // A gigantic pillar of Lachryma. // And through the power of the Council's Aetherion...

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Gérard: I have succeeded in gathering two billion, seven hundred million Ideas of magical energy!!!! // Finally, the R-System is truly complete!!!!

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Scientists: The target is still standing!!! / N... no!!! What... what is that? // It's a giant Lachryma crystal!!! // The Lachryma has... absorbed the Aetherion's magical energy?!!
Ogue: WHAT...?!!
Yajima: Sieg!!! What exactly is the meaning of this...? // !!

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[side text: Mashima's Ramblings 2: I'm enjoying "Ylva-chan" and "Negima?! neo". I wonder if anyone would do a spin-off of Fairy Tail... (lol)]
Erza: Y... You tricked me......!
Sieglein: Oh, you were very cute, Erza.
Erza: Wha - ?!

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Sieglein: Neither I nor Gérard could provide the necessary power. // It was a truly troubling situation; I had no choice but to deceive you.
Erza: Sieglein?!!

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[side text: I finished Metal Gear 4! (Three times.) I was very impressed. Just the highest difficulty left to play, huh...]
Erza: Wh... What are you doing here?!!
Sieglein: Think back to the first time we ever met, Erza. / You and Makarov came to present me with a written apology. // But you mistook me for Gérard, and attacked me at once. // Well, we do have the same face, so I can hardly blame you...
Erza: ......
Sieglein: I finally managed to calm you down by telling you that I was his twin brother. // But I don't think you ever truly lost your hostility towards me.

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Erza: And why should I have?!!! You're his elder brother, and yet you did nothing to stop what he was trying to do...!!! // No, worse, you were keeping watch over me for him!!!
Sieglein: Yes... I made a mistake there. / I should probably have said something like "I will find Gérard and kill him, without fail," back then. // But my greatest miscalculation was meeting you at all, after I had finally managed to become a member of the Council. // Having to come up with an excuse on the spot isn't easy.
Erza: I knew it... the two of you were in on this together......
Yajima: He's gone... // Sieg's... gone...
Sieglein: "In on this together"? You're still not getting it, Erza.

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Gérard: The two of us are one and the same. // We always were.
Erza: N... No... / You can't be...!

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Erza: A psychic projection?!!!
Gérard: Yes. // Sieg is me, plain and simple.
Erza: Impossible!!! // B... But then, it was you who just fired the Aetherion... upon your own body!!! // You're telling that's why you wormed your way into the Council?!!
Gérard: I hope you enjoyed your fleeting freedom, Erza. // It was all part of my plan... a plan to resurrect Zeref.

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Erza: EXACTLY HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU INTEND TO DECEIVE, YOU SWINE?!!!!
Zeref: Hahah... // My power... // My magic has returned.
[insert text: An apparition of Zeref, powerful as he ever was...! What can be done to stop his raging evil...?!]
[bottom text: To be continued in Chapter 95: "The Slumbering Princess Of The Tower"]
[TN: For the record, the Chapter 95 title is clearly inspired by fairytales. More specifically, Sleeping Beauty, whose usual Japanese title is 眠れる森の美女, "The Slumbering Beauty Of The Forest", but I've also seen it under the title 眠れる森のお姫様, "The Slumbering Princess Of The Forest", which is even closer.]