The magic merchant who mingled with Fairy Tail

Ice...lots of ice...

There was darkness before his eyes, and the cold temperature spread from the tips of his hair to his toes, as if his body and mind were completely blocked, and it was even difficult to breathe. The kind of coldness that spread throughout his body and felt from the inside out was something he had never experienced before. .

So cold!

I don’t know how long it took, but a beam of fire suddenly lit up in the darkness.

The fire burned brighter and brighter, and soon illuminated this dark world. It exuded indescribable warmth, and soon melted the ice on the body.

So warm!

So warm! !

So warm! ! !

…

"It's so hot!!!!"

Lucy opened her eyes, and what she saw was a familiar face, with short cherry-colored hair, a white scarf, hanging eyes... and a smiling face full of 'wisdom'.

"Natsu..."

"You're finally awake, Lucy!"

Lucy blinked in confusion, and finally realized something was wrong: Natsu's face was so close to hers, and he was rubbing a fire in his hand, heating up the small tent.

"What are you doing?! - It hurts so much!! What am I...??"

She suddenly opened the quilt and stood up, feeling a faint pain. Only then did Lucy realize that she had bandages in several places on her body. It seemed that she had suffered a lot of injuries, or was suffering from frostbite.

Now under Natsu's flames, there was a slight burning sensation.

Good guy, you're going to use some stupid method to make me more injured, right?

While he was complaining secretly, a figure opened the tent and walked in: "Are you awake? The operation was successful. You are now a boy!"

"Eh?!!!"

Lucy was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head quickly, then reached into the quilt and found that her body was no more or less, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I'm scared to death! What kind of bastard is making this joke on me? ! !

Lucy looked up angrily at the person who came in... Kira? That's okay, don't dare to lose your temper.

"What am I...??"

After a brief period of thought, Lucy finally remembered what happened before she fell into coma, "Ah, by the way! I faced off against Gray in the previous assessment!! What was the result?"

"You lost! You were frozen by Gray's move, and you've been sleeping since then." Kira explained.

"Haha...I think so...how long have I been asleep?"

"It's been a day, now everyone is getting ready for dinner, I'm here to call you!" Kira said, lifting the cover and walking out, "Come out when you're done talking!"

"Eh?! Is it true?! I slept for so long?!"

In the room, Lucy was stunned.

I didn’t expect Gray to be so good at beating outsiders, but he was quite ruthless when beating his own people! ! No, no, no…it’s better not to say this kind of thing that hinders unity between friends…

"Are you okay, Lucy?"

"Yeah! I'm fine! I'm so sorry for worrying you, Natsu."

"It's good that you're okay. I saw you being frozen into an iceman by Gray before. I thought you were going to die..."

Natsu's smile was as warm as a flame, and Lucy couldn't help but think of the fire she felt in her dream, which brought her out of the darkness and cold.

Wait...fire? !

"Did you use fire to melt the ice on my body?"

Lucy asked cautiously. She couldn't imagine what would happen if she was frozen and melted by fire.

I guess the best case scenario is that the nerve tissue is damaged...

"How can it be?!"

Natsu straightened his back as a matter of course, "Although I planned to do this at first, Kira said that your body is frozen into ice, which will hurt you, so I am useless."

"Huh... that's good..."

Hearing this, Lucy breathed a sigh of relief, but the next moment, she saw Natsu rubbing two balls of flame with his hands, with an innocent and confident smile on his face: "So I used my magic to help you melt it. of!"

"Eh?! Magic?" Lucy was stunned.

"Uh-huh!!"

Natsu didn't realize anything was wrong and just nodded.

Three seconds later, an exclamation startled the birds living in the Darus Mountains: "What's the difference?! What did you do to my body while I was unconscious?!"

Lucy yelled and burst out, grabbing Natsu's collar and slapping him hard in the face.

Bang bang bang...

"I...I also want to...help..."

After a long time, Lucy finally stopped: "I really can't stand you! Forget it, seeing that there are no big problems with me, I'll forgive you this time..."

"Lucy!"

Natsu suddenly came up to Lucy and looked at her lovingly, making her heart skip a beat and she nervously grabbed the sheets in her hands.

"What...what's wrong, Natsu?"

When their eyes met, Lucy felt her blood pressure suddenly soar, a ketchup-like blush crawled from her toes to the top of her head, and her head was buzzing and confused.

The atmosphere has arrived.

Hey, hey? ? what happened? Why is Natsu looking like this at me? I feel that the current atmosphere is a bit anxious...could he...could he be thinking...

“Going to eat!!!”

A loud roar directly turned the hormones that Lucy had finally brewed into cholesterol, and her originally shy expression instantly became indifferent.

"……Okay, I get it now."

Lucy, Lucy, what were you expecting just now? !

"Ah, by the way! How was your and Juvia's assessment?"

Lucy suddenly remembered that she was fainted by Gray, but what about Juvia?

"Juvia is in the same situation as you. She was instantly knocked out by Natsu and is still unconscious. But don't worry, she has a special constitution and her injuries are not as severe as yours!"

"Nani?!" Lucy was stunned for a moment.

These words were not said by Natsu, but Kira's voice came from outside the tent.

"..."

This guy didn't leave, he was eavesdropping outside... Fortunately, Natsu didn't talk nonsense just now! Otherwise, if he says something that shouldn't be said and he hears it and spreads it in the guild, then...

Just thinking about it makes me feel shy!

After a moment of silence, Kira's voice outside the tent sounded again: "By the way, you and Juvia can't continue the assessment, so you can only come here this year."

"Eh?! Got eliminated? I just took a nap and the assessment was over?!"

"Yes!"

hateful! How unwilling! ! but……

Although there is something missing, and although this development seems to be a little different from the rules she heard this morning, Lucy also knows in her heart that her strength is not comparable to Natsu and Gray, and even compared to Juvia, she is only half a pound. It is normal to fail the assessment.

etc! If Juvia and I are eliminated, then one of Natsu and Gray should be promoted to S-Class, right? So who won in the end?

Thinking of this, Lucy immediately looked at Natsu: "Natsu, have you and Gray decided the winner?"

"No." Natsu shook his head.

Kira's voice appeared again: "You and Juvia have become like this, how can they still think about continuing the assessment? They just postponed the assessment."

How long are you going to stay outside and listen to the wall...

Lucy felt deeply puzzled and helpless about Kira's behavior: You are going to listen to the wall, why don't you just say nothing? I still wanted to talk to Natsu alone, but now I want to say it but I feel embarrassed...

After three seconds of silence in her heart for this ups and downs of the assessment, Lucy crossed her hands and raised them above her head, stretched vigorously, showing off her proud figure in front of Natsu without any scruples, and then stood up and sat down. The tent was lifted.

"Hey... forget it, let's go out, Natsu!"

Before she finished speaking, Lucy was stunned.

I saw not only Kira outside the tent, but also Habi, Mira, Erza, Lebby, Wendy, Makarov, Brandish... Everyone was pressing one on top of another like a stack of Arhats, each with their own hands. The aunt smiled and listened to the corner with her ears. Now when the tent curtain was lifted, her actions were immediately exposed in front of the person involved.

Lucy suddenly had countless complaints in her heart: Why didn't she realize before that people in this guild love to listen to other people's whispers...

"You...what are you doing??"

"Come and call you to eat!"

Everyone was not embarrassed at all by being caught. Instead, they looked at Lucy teasingly. Everyone had clearly heard the exchange between her and Natsu just now.

Lucy's face twitched: Can you make up a decent reason?

"Do we need so many people to call us for dinner?"

"Isn't this because I'm afraid Natsu won't be able to shout alone..."

On the fourth day of the S-class assessment, Lucy was frozen by Gray's move and turned into an iceman. It took her half a day to recover. Juvia was also frozen by Natsu's move, and her whole body almost evaporated into water vapor.

Although the two of them were rescued in the end, this time, Natsu and Gray really punched each other's girlfriends, and a fierce battle was inevitable.

…

The next day, the final battle, Natsu VS Gray.

"The assessment has been delayed again and again. Today is the fifth day!"

"It's not all because you are causing trouble to me..."

Makarov complained in his voice. He thought he could host a grand and almost perfect assessment before retiring, and witness the birth of another new star in the guild, but he didn't expect that so many things would be eliminated.

"The trouble started on the third day, so it's all the president's fault..."

"What did you say?!"

On the other side, a group of magicians were discussing the outcome of today's battle between Natsu and Gray.

"I said, who do you think will win?"

"Do you want to open the market?"

"Hmph! The S-level assessment is such a serious matter, what kind of offer is it?!...I'll bet 10,000 J to help the fun!"

"Juvia supports Gray-sama!!"

"Natsu will definitely win!"

"The modeling magic of ice will not lose to fire!"

Everyone had their own opinions and the quarrel was fierce, but few people placed bets.

Kira held the banknotes in one hand and kept scratching them gently, looking at Natsu and Gray who were getting ready next to her, her sapphire eyes sparkling.

"These two guys have always been equally matched... I wonder if blocking the target of the S-class assessment this time can inspire deeper potential in them..."

"Natsu and Gray's potential? I'm really looking forward to it!"

Erza has always regarded these two as her younger brothers. Obviously they did not grow up particularly well-behaved, but in the end they did not disappoint her in terms of character and strength.

"With the strength of the two of them, they might be able to surpass us!"

Whether he can surpass it or not is irrelevant, but since he is his younger brother and a close teammate at the same time, Erza will definitely brag to her death.

The 'we' she said naturally refers to the S-class magicians present.

Mira tilted her head with a smile: "I'm also looking forward to their performance today!"

As the gentlest and most caring sister in the guild, and one who has taken great care of her younger siblings since she was a child, Mira naturally has high expectations for Natsu and Gray. But the way he tilted his head and smiled seemed a bit sinister, as if he was saying "I'm looking forward to it" on the surface, but secretly complaining "it's still early" in his heart.

"They're still early!"

Laxus was as arrogant as usual. After making a complaint, he turned around and pretended to look at the scenery in the distance, but his eyes were still secretly observing the two figures who were gearing up.

"I think Laxus is right. At least they have surpassed Kana now..."

"What did you say?!"

Kana was furious when she heard this, picked up the wine in her hand and threw it towards Kira, "Asshole Kira! How long are you going to mock my 'S-class title'?! Even if I'm not as good as you, it's still me. I got it through strength and luck!!"

"It's just... don't say that, Kira! We Kana-chan have already worked very hard!!"

"Don't call me Kana-chan!! It's disgusting, you stinky daddy!!"

"Why……"

The sudden sigh caught Erza's attention. She looked at the sighing person curiously: "What's wrong, Mira?"

"No, it's nothing! I just feel like I owe something to this battle..."

Kira had an idea and said, "It must be a 'lucky kiss'!"

"Eh?? Lucky kiss?"

"Yes! It's like in fairy tales. Before a duel between a man and a man, their female partner will give them a kiss as a blessing that they will win..."

"Which fairy tale contains these?! Are you reading a serious fairy tale book?!"

Mira felt that what Kira said was very reasonable, and she hammered her palms as if she suddenly realized: "Ah! After you said that..."

"Hey! You don't believe it, do you, Mira?"

Look what you said! Does it matter whether you believe it or not? The important thing is that I want to eat melon and push CP! !

Mira ignored Erza's shock and followed Kira's words, pretending to say: "Ah! If you want to send a 'lucky kiss' to Natsu and Gray, who should be sent?"

Can you act more realistically? The expression in his eyes is too obvious!

Kira questioned Mira's acting level for the first time. Before that, he had always thought that Mira's acting talent was very high...

Fortunately, several like-minded companions did not disappoint Kira. After briefly looking at each other, they said in unison: "There is no doubt that it is Lucy and Juvia!"

very good! I am not alone!

At this moment, several S-class magicians present achieved the achievement of ‘tacit understanding’.

There was only one Laxus who was very unsociable and did not join the melon-eating group.

snort! Kick him out of the group chat later!