Fairy Tail 176

Cat-drama and angst. Always a winning formula.
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Pg01
black text line 1: The Exceed's mission was to "capture" Natsu's group?!
black text line 2: Charle and Happy... what secret are they hiding?!
Gah!
Aah!

... bastards...!!
Where's everyone else!!!

sfx: clang
Everyone else?

Lucy, Charle and Happy!!

Lucy... // ah, you mean that girl...

Pg02
Chapter 176: Extalia
TL note: In the last chapter, I made a mistake and translated this as 'Exterior'. Sorry!

text across gray's back: The ability to embody the "shape of your heart"...
That's the allure of magic!!
text in box: A word from Lucy
text next to box: Even if he doesn't handle his dangerous reliance easily, Gray looks like he can still kind of live with it... I guess you really do need special skills.
...aaaargh, the rent this month--!!

text along left: Edoras infiltration!! The newest volume of the manga (volume 20) selling fast!!

Pg03
'fraid we don't have a use for her.
Guess she'll probably be executed?

sfx: kl-ang

You bastards lay one finger on Lucy
and I'll turn all of you to ash.

Pg04
Oh! I'm quaking in fear! // Geez, are all of Earthland's mages so violent?

Why only Lucy... // what about Charle and Happy?!

You mean the Exceed?
Don't call Happy that!!

Since they've accomplished their mission, the Exceed have been returned to their native land.
They're probably getting their reward and stuffing their faces right about now.

Accomplished their mission?

By returning to Edoras, I am abandoning my 'mission'.

!!

Pg05
That can't be. // I don't know what the mission was about
but Charle said she'd abandoned it.

Nope, they completed it perfectly.

What is it? The mission that Charle and Happy had to accomplish...

Haven't you realised it yet?

Pg06
!

Huh?
This is...

Charle, wake up!
Male cat.

What... happened?

We were put to sleep... and... // I wonder where this place is?
...

Charle?

Pg07
That my 'information' would be a trap...

That's not true!! We were just really unlucky!!
It's not your fault!

I swore...

Even though I swore to protect Wendy...

sfx: creak

Pg08
Are you the ones who have completed your mission on Earthland?
Mm... a lovely perfume.

Ichiya?!!!
!?

... more importantly, he's a cat?

What is there to be surprised about? Are we not one and the same, the Exceed?
Nichiya-san

You do realise this is the first time they have been in Edoras.
It is definitely their first time seeing Exceed, no?

Oh! So that's how it is.

Pg09
I serve as the Captain of Extalia's Imperial Guard // and I am called Nichiya.
box: Extalia
Captain of the Imperial Guards
Nichiya

Nya'm Nadi. Good job on your mission.
box: Extalia
Minister of State
Nadi

Mission...?
...

I am afraid time is of the essence. The Queen awaits.
Please follow me.
T-the Queen?!

Charle... leave this to me. // For now we gotta look at the situation.

I'll definitely protect you.

Pg10
Green caterpillars! This big!
's a lie if I ever saw one.

In other words even the human king...
Ruled according to the Exceed...

This way, this way!
Wait~!
Kya kya!

Pg11
Happy: It's a country of cats.
Oh! They must be the rumoured -
The ones who completed the mission on Earthland!
How wonderful! Heroes!
Check it out, the chick's pretty hot <3

We're nyot cats, we're Exceed.
Standing above the humans; guiding them; we are the Exceed!

Exceed...
And this is our kingdom
Extalia.

Pg12
You see, humans are an incredibly foolish, inferior people.
We have to manage them carefully.

On top of that, they smell terrible.

The Queen governs the humans from here.
clack // clack
clack // clack

The Queen has a lovely perfume.
text at bottom right: turn

It's troublesome when they start to increase in number at their own discretion. // Thus the Queen has determined that any additional humans

are to be killed.

Pg13
W... why would you do that...?

In order to normalize the magic that we are steadily losing.
That is what Her Majesty has said.

The Queen not only governs the humans of this world, but those of Earthland as well.

Does she decide the 'death' of a human being?
Her Majesty has the power to do that

because she is a god.

A god...!!

Pg14
What was our mission?
!

It's been ground into me since the time I was born.

That I was chosen in accordance with the Queen's human management plans
to obliterate the Dragon Slayer Wendy.

What?

W... what are you talking about!? Charle!!!
Be quiet.

What do you mean, obliterate Wendy?!!

Pg15
!!!

Huh? ...then...
My mission... // huh? It can't be...

I guess this is what they call 'ignorance is bliss', huh.
To... Natsu...

To obliterate Natsu... that was my mission?!!!

Calm yourself, male cat. // We have not completed our missions, and we have never intended to do so!! // Despite all this, why have we been told that we have?!!

Memory loss?

We didn't have any other option. "Superimposition" causes various side effects.

Answer me!!!
Nya'll explain.

Pg16
In accordance with Her Majesty's human management plans, 100 Exceed were sent to Earthland 6 years ago.
They were provided 'information' in order to find and destroy the Dragon Slayers after they hatched.
Diagram text on top: Edoras
Diagram text at bottom: Earthland

However the situation changed. // The man-made 'Anima' created other possibilities.

It was something created not to kill humans... but to make use of their magical energy.

But it appeared that the Dragon Slayers were also absorbed and turned into special magical energy.

Thus your missions were modified at the last minute.
Modified to 'capture the Dragon Slayers', that is.

Pg17
What we really wanted was you.
The dragon's magical energy.

Kaha!

Pg18
As I thought, it looks like commands don't get transmitted well through long-distance "superimposition".
But it was all right in the end, since you led the Dragon Slayers here.

We leave the magicalization to the humans. // They are better at that sort of thing.

T... that's not right... I came to Edoras of my own accord...
Nope... you were just carrying out the order.

I brought them to the tunnel... to help everyone...
Didn't you notice? We were guiding nyou there.

Pg19
I...
Wanting to protect Wendy... because I care for her...

That was simply a kind of illusion.
Your mission was changed from "obliteration" to "capture"... In other words, it was modified to "do not kill the target".

That's a lie---!!!

All your actions were subject to our commands.

Pg20
We aren't your puppets!!!

text between frames 1: We live!! For our own sakes!!

M... male..

We are...

text between frames 2: Tears that trace their cheeks... their warmth is the proof of their "hearts"!!

mages of Fairy Tail!!!
Happy...

text at bottom left: To be continued. Chapter 177: Fly! To where your friends are!