In the morning, Chen Fan woke up early and stood in the Guild hallway, swaying from side to side, which made the Guild members very curious. By now, everyone knew Chen Fan was notoriously lazy, usually just sitting next to the Master and barely moving.
"Why is he so unusually diligent today?" A question flashed through their minds, yet they didn't dare to ask, worried they might disturb this strange tranquility.
Suddenly, Natsu ran to Chen Fan's side, his energy radiating like uncontrolled fire. When the Guild members saw this, they thought, "As expected, this reckless guy can't hide his thoughts at all. He says whatever he thinks." But they also wanted to hear what Chen Fan and Natsu would say, so they all pricked up their ears to eavesdrop, ready for new drama.
They heard Natsu happily say, "Chen Fan, are you finally going to play with us today?!"
THUD!
The sound of several objects falling to the ground echoed, accompanying the fall of hopes. Those who had just managed to get up from the ground thought, "Natsu, no matter how idiotic you are, you can't be this idiotic. How could Chen Fan want to play with us?" Chen Fan's personality of not wanting to play with children was already deeply ingrained in their minds.
Chen Fan was also a little annoyed, thinking, "Why are the items I ordered yesterday taking so long to arrive?" He waved his hand at Natsu and said impatiently, "Go, go, go! Kids shouldn't meddle in adult affairs! Go play in the mud!"
"What do you mean?! Hmph, you're not an adult either!" Natsu retorted somewhat angrily, almost spitting fire, but he didn't argue with Chen Fan because Chen Fan's "fragility" was now famous throughout the Guild, a rapidly growing myth.
At this moment, a voice sounded at the Guild entrance, attracting everyone's attention. "Is Mr. Chen Fan here? Your custom-made items have arrived!"
Hearing this, Chen Fan didn't care what Natsu was saying and immediately ran to the entrance, as fast as lightning. "I'm Chen Fan! Have all the items I ordered arrived?!"
The delivery man looked at the young Chen Fan in confusion, his face showing doubt, and seeing no one else around speaking, he said, "Mr. Chen Fan, correct? Please sign here."
Chen Fan arrogantly signed two large characters 'Chen Fan' in an exaggerated style, then took his items and entered the Guild.
The delivery man, holding Chen Fan's signature, was stunned, his face turning into a clear expression of 'shame'. "What on earth was that?!" He saw that the two characters were crooked and twisted, not even better than an old earthworm's crawling script. He casually crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the trash can, walking away without looking back.
After entering the Guild, Chen Fan carefully chose a corner, finding the perfect spot for his plan. He set up a table, covered it with a clean white cloth, and took out a white lab coat from his package—exactly what doctors wore, a professional costume that contrasted with the chaos of the Guild. However, on the back, at the nape of the neck, was the Fairy Tail Guild emblem, and below this emblem were two large characters.
"VIRTUE."
The writing almost covered the entire back of the coat, a striking declaration. Then he took out a few more things from the package: a stethoscope, some shiny surgical instruments, and a moderate amount of disinfectant. Soon, a small 'hospital' was finished, an impromptu clinic in the midst of the Guild's chaos.
After that, he took out two banners and stood beside his setup. One banner read "MIRACLE HANDS BRING BACK SPRING," and the other read "HAND'S APPROACH, ILLNESS VANISHES." A promise too grand, even for magical standards.
Then he took out a pair of glasses from the package, put them on, pushed them up on the bridge of his nose, and sat in a chair, waiting for people to come to him, looking exactly like a quack doctor selling fake medicine from a comedy anime, complete with a sly smile.
While Chen Fan was busy with all this, everyone in the Guild stopped what they were doing and quietly watched Chen Fan set this and that up. Finally, they saw Chen Fan finish tidying, but they didn't know what Chen Fan was doing with all this. And whenever this happened, everyone in the Guild, except Chen Fan, shifted their gaze to Natsu, the instigator of chaos.
Sure enough, the person came again, as if pulled by threads of fate. The other people in the Guild were so moved; "This is clearly the type who always becomes a 'guinea pig' when something happens," they thought, so they pricked up their ears and continued to eavesdrop, not wanting to miss the drama.
Natsu walked in front of Chen Fan and asked hesitantly, "Chen Fan, what are you doing? Also, what are those two characters on your back?"
"Can't you see?! I'm a doctor! If you get any major or minor injuries in the future, I can help you treat them!" Chen Fan pointed at his lab coat arrogantly, a proud expression on his face. "As for the two characters on my back, isn't that 'Virtue'? You don't even know that? You're truly uncultured!" Chen Fan told Natsu with great disdain, his gaze clearly saying, "You're so stupid."
Natsu was furious, veins bulging on his forehead, trying hard to suppress the urge to attack, and yelled at Chen Fan, "What do you mean I'm uncultured?! Look at the way you wrote those two characters!"
Chen Fan took off his lab coat, held it in front of him, and examined it carefully. He didn't feel there was anything wrong. "This is very good, very good, and very much my own style!"
He saw that the two characters on the coat were the same as Chen Fan's previous signature—equally crooked and twisted. No wonder it disgusted the delivery man earlier.
"And this is even worse!" Natsu tried hard to suppress the urge to complain, restraining himself with all his might, took a pen from Chen Fan's table, and wrote the two characters for 'Virtue' in a beautiful style. It must be said that Natsu's handwriting was quite good, at least far better than Chen Fan's. When the two were compared side by side, Chen Fan felt his face flush slightly, a rare display of shame. "This is truly a case of comparing goods and wanting to throw yours away!" he thought, annoyed.
He used his Superpower to calm the blood flow in his face, controlling his simmering emotions, and said expressionlessly, "This is art, understand? Do you understand what art is, hmm?" He finished with a questioning tone, challenging Natsu.
That one sentence startled Natsu. He truly didn't understand what art was. Many question marks appeared above his head. He thought hard, and soon smoke even began to billow from his head, like an overheating machine.
Seeing the smoke, Gray, who wasn't far away, immediately jumped up and used his Ice-Make Magic on Natsu's head, a cold surprise attack, making Natsu shiver from the cold.
He turned and yelled at Gray, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! DO YOU WANT TO FIGHT?!" At the same time, he swung his fist at Gray, fire dancing around his fist.
Gray also returned Natsu's punch and said, "Smoke was coming out of your head! I saved you!" He punched Natsu, sending him flying and hitting several other people in the Guild, triggering a chain reaction.
Immediately, Natsu ran back, punched Gray, and said, "I'm not even afraid of fire, let alone a little smoke! You clearly just want to fight!"
So, they began to fight, exchanging blows, word for word, punch for punch. Soon, the entire Guild was in chaos, everyone fighting, turning into a typical Fairy Tail Guild war scene, a familiar symphony of destruction.
The Master, Makarov, diligently noted who violated what, intending to demand compensation afterwards, a sly smile on his face, like a Master who knew very well how to extort money from his unruly children.
Meanwhile, Chen Fan was currently curled up in a corner, chuckling to himself, thinking, "I didn't expect business to come so quickly, ga ha ha ha!" The more he thought about it, the happier he became, and in the end, he even let out a bone-chilling laugh, which for some reason sounded a little sinister, like the laugh of a villain who had just plotted a perfect crime.
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