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【XVIII】

【【Seeing the uncharacteristic evil smile in front of her easily kill the two young guards, Erza couldn't help trembling.

"Jeral... cheer up...it must be because you were arrested and tortured for most of the day!" Erza looked at the strange boy in front of her at a loss, and tried her best to be ashamed of the unreasonable behavior. Find a reason.

"No, I'm normal." Gerald laughed a few times before continuing, "Elusha, let's go together R system... No, let's finish [Tower of Paradise]! Then revive Jeref ! Lopez has done his part for this great cause!!"

"Eh...what...you mean Lopez looks like...!!?"

"Yes, yes. How about it? You think it's great too, I... no, it's the despair bestowed upon her by [the lord], it's very wonderful!!" Gerald looked at Erza and her eyes widened , still maintaining that somewhat exaggerated smile, "Well, don't worry, that kind of attack won't kill her. She will survive and continue to serve her under the curse given to her by [the lord] We provide the necessary desperation to fulfill [that lord's] wish!! Hahahahaha!"

"Stop talking stupid things! We're going to escape from this island!!" Erza yelled, denying Gerald's crazy words in her opinion.

Gerald's expression was vague, but after a while, his eyes became strange.He raised his hand slowly, swung it in the air, Erza received a strong force and flew out.

"Ah!... Mmm..."

Erza, who was lying on the ground, looked at Gerald whose face was covered with haze and spoke slowly. The words of redemption that he had been looking forward to day and night in the past made people extremely panicked at this moment:

"Okay, if you want to escape so much, you can leave this island alone."

"One, alone?"

"The other guys are all owned by me. To build the tower of Paradise, there must be enough people. Don't worry, I am different from those guys. I will give everyone clothes, give everyone food and let everyone rest, because relying on terror and force to oppress the subordinates The work efficiency is too low."

"What are you talking about? Everyone is on the boat now! They are waiting for us! They will definitely not return to this island to work now!"

"No, I'll tell you the real meaning. It's a labor for a great magister named 'Jerf'."

The laughing blue-haired boy sentenced the future of many people to death. He ignored the pleading voice of the girl on the ground, and once again choked her neck with a demon transformed into magic.

"Okay... I don't need you anymore, but I won't kill you, because I appreciate you clearing away those who got in the way."

That pair of dark and terrifying eyes stared at the girl.

"Get out of this island, and do whatever you want to satisfy your short-lived freedom."

"However, you are not allowed to tell others about the existence of this place, and you are not allowed to get close to it... If I hear you appear here... Ah, right, let's start with them first."

The crimson-haired girl clenched her teeth and tried hard to stop the tears from falling, but to no avail.

"That's your freedom!!! Live with the lives of your companions on your shoulders!!!—Eluza!!! Hahahahaha!!!"

Tears fell feebly to the ground.

Whose expectations were ruthlessly broken by the cruel reality.

That is, endless despair. 】】

After listening to Erza's memories, several people were silent.

"...Ai, Ersha..." The girl in the cloak lowered her head at the moment, and it was not difficult to hear that she had started to choke, and the hands hanging beside her were unconsciously clenched into fists, with a faint pain in the joints.All she knew was that her eyes were extremely sour, and some unknown emotion in her chest was clamoring for an explosion, "...how, how could this happen..."

"...Sorry, Lopez." The female knight smiled helplessly at the moment, her eyes were full of bitterness, "I think, let you..."

"No, needless to say... Erza, I know..." Lopez shook his head vigorously and interrupted Erza. After a few seconds of silence, tears suddenly flowed out uncontrollably, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry ...Really, I'm sorry...I didn't even know what happened!...In the past few years, you have been burdened so much by yourself...Really..."

The female knight stepped forward, put her hand on her head, and sighed softly.

"Already, it's okay...it's over. I...will fight Gerald."

"Wait a minute, Erza," Gray said, "is the 'Jerph' you just mentioned...?"

"...Ah, it is the legendary black mage who is known as the most evil in the history of the magic world. Larabai and Deliola are probably also part of Zeref's book of demons..."

"Is it that Jeref that Gerald wants to resurrect!" Juvia exclaimed.

"But, speaking of it, it's really hard for me to understand what your former companions did..." Lucy gave her own opinion based on what Ersha said, "Those guys said that Erza is a betrayer , but the traitor should be Gerald, right?"

"It's probably because he instilled some strange ideas... But I did abandon them for eight years... This is indeed a kind of betrayal."

"But that bastard Gerald is using them to blackmail you! How can they do it now!..." Lopez couldn't help shouting excitedly.

"Enough, Lopez." Erza interrupted her, "As long as I finish Gerald...it will be over."

"……elder sister?!……"

Several people followed the source of the sound and looked over, only to see the other end of the nearby stone gate, with a look of surprise on his face, the whole person staggered and trembled and said:

"The words just now... are... what do you mean?"

"L!?" Lopez was surprised.

"Sheng..." The female knight silently turned her eyes away.

"Are you trying to win the sympathy of your companions with those nonsense you just said!? Stop joking!! The fact is not like this!!" Sheng shouted to refute what Erza said just now, "It wasn't my sister eight years ago. Did you run away with a bomb installed on the boat!? If Gerald hadn’t found out about your sister’s betrayal, we’d all have been blown to death!!”

"Geral said it! This is the way for people who can't learn the correct form of magic! Sister, driven by the power of magic, has already abandoned these pasts and us all!!!"

Lopez lowered his head slightly, moved his footsteps slightly, raised his hand and punched him.

"Oh!"

"Hey Lopez!" Lucy yelled at her action.

Sheng had to fall to the ground due to the momentum, staring blankly at the front, his unfocused eyes embedded in a face full of surprise: "...what...Lopez...what do you know!"

Lopez gritted his teeth, reached out and grabbed Sheng's collar:

"It's true that I don't know much about what happened after that, but—"

"You don't even trust your own companion, the person you call 'sister'! Sheng!!"

"..." The blond boy stared blankly at Lopez, who was acting a little rough. His whole body was shaken by the collar, and the cross pendant by his ear kept swinging in the air one after another.Who will ruthlessly break whose salvation.

"Then...if what my sister said is true...then what Gerald said is a lie!?!!! Everything we have believed in for the past eight years has been blinded by lies!!"

The sound of footsteps mixed with a strange voice suddenly sounded:

"exactly."

Several people turned their heads to look at it, and a tall man dressed in a strange turban came from the other side of the door.

"...Simon!!?" Erza murmured.

Lopez loosened the restraint on Sheng and returned to the original state. He looked at Simon and felt a little uncomfortable.

The skinny boy at the beginning has also grown up.

Carrying such a heavy burden of memory and deception.

"Bastard...!!" Gray took a step to attack Simon, but was stopped by Juvia at the side.

"Master Gray, please be careful. That person attacked only when he knew that Lord Gray was using a substitute. It is impossible for a user of the Dark Arts to fail to see this. Juvia came here just to confirm his purpose. .”

"It is indeed one of the four elements of the ghost ruler." Simon praised Juvia's analysis, and continued, "I didn't intend to kill you. I did this to hide them."

"You mean to hide it from us?!" Sheng couldn't believe it.

"You, Wally, and Millianna, everyone was deceived by Gerald. In order to wait for the time to mature... I have also been pretending to be kept in the dark."

"Simon...you..." Erza was stunned.

"I believed in Erza from the very beginning," Simon slowly took off the mask covering his face, "It's been like this for eight years."

"From the bottom of my heart, I think it's really great to meet you again, Erza."

Tears kept rolling in the female knight's eyes. She stepped forward and opened her arms to embrace the partner who once believed in herself and persisted until now:

"Simon..."

Sheng, who fell to the ground, put his hands on the ground weakly, his face full of remorse: "How...how could I trust my sister so much...why, why can't I...can't trust my sister...Damn it ah ah ah Ahh!!!!!!"

The boy on the ground had already burst into tears, and his hands hung down on the ground as if venting his anger:

"What is the truth!!!?? Who should I trust!!!?"

The blond boy lingered in Gerald's lies for eight years, and what he almost believed in was broken by Erza's words.

His world nearly collapsed.

Erza walked up to him slowly, squatted down:

"It is indeed difficult to accept it for a while now, but please let me say another word,"

"—I have never forgotten you in these eight years."

Sheng broke down in tears.

After waiting for Sheng to calm down a little, Lopez said: "Now that our enemy has been identified, Simon, do you know where Gerald is?"

"Probably on the top floor of the tower." Simon thought for a while and then replied, "However, I think the first thing to do is to prevent Natsu from fighting with Wally and Miriana. If you want to fight Gerald to the death, you need That man's power—the fire dragon Natsu."

"Also..." Lopez nodded, "What about the positions of Wally and Milianna?"

Simon pointed to his head with one hand and closed his eyes, but after a moment, he opened them suddenly.

"Do thoughts convey magic... how's the situation?" Juvia asked.

"Damn it! Both Wally and Millianna have turned off their communicators, so they won't know where they are!" Simon's face was full of unwillingness.

"Well...it's useless to stay here, let's go up and see." Lopez walked to the stone gate, looked at the corridors leading to both sides, "this way leads to the top, let's go."

"what."

The corridor is not too spacious, and the whole is curved. There are some stone statues carved on the stone walls on both sides, and at the end is a staircase leading to the upper floor.

After walking a few steps, the heads of the stone statues on the stone walls on both sides suddenly moved, and countless mouths began to open and close.

From it came Gerald's voice.

"Everyone, welcome to the Tower of Paradise. I am Gerald, the ruler of this tower."

The alarm immediately sounded in the hearts of everyone.

"The chess pieces on both sides have arrived, so it's almost time to start. The rules are very simple," Gerald paused, his tone still calm.

"I will make Erza a living sacrifice in the ritual of resurrecting Zeref."

"Eh!?" Lucy was surprised.

"...Are you kidding me!" Gray clicked his tongue.

Lopez slammed his fist against the wall: "...Jeral...!"

The mouth of the stone statue on the wall was still moving, indifferent to everyone's reaction:

"That is to say, I win when the gate to the paradise opens. If you can stop me, you win. But...it's not fun at all, so I prepared three fighters, and I have to break through them to Get to where I am."

"Ah, by the way, I declare a special rule for you: the Senate may use hyperspace magic to attack here, which is the ultimate destruction magic 'magic spirit power' that can destroy everything. The rest of the time is unclear, when the magic spirit When the power falls, everyone must die, there is no winner, that is, GAME OVER."

"This is a three-on-eight fight. Well, not necessarily... After all," Gerald paused strangely, "Lopez, you have to think about it."

"Want to come, come here?"

Before everyone recovered from the shock of the magic elf power, Gerald threw another blockbuster.

Lopez trembled all over, widened his eyes and retorted loudly:

"Are you kidding!! How can I help you!!"

Gerald didn't care about her overreaction, he seemed to chuckle a few times, and then spoke again in a slow tone, the tone was cryptic and ambiguous, which made people feel weird, and he spoke again:

"Ah, yes, then ask again,"

"—Lopez, want, come to my place?"

She was about to give a negative answer again, but she felt unable to speak, her whole body was suddenly frozen in place by something, and the nerves seemed to be torn apart in pain overwhelmingly.

The author has something to say: Hhhh, this chapter is more than half of memory killing + plot flow... I actually like the original work very much, well, of course, if I don't like it, there won't be this article 233333... and 嘤嘤嘤I'm definitely not trying to make up word count Mina-san take my word for it! ! ! 【Wait what logic is this

Yes, you read that right, after the brother-in-law cursed Lopez when she was a child, she is now abducting her again 233 [What's wrong

But it's just purely wanting her to choose power again, there is no other meaning at all!If you want to be crooked, go face the wall! ! 【etc

Then Lopez's whole body is not good~【Hey