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In the peaceful and quiet days, another week slipped away.
This day, inside the Guild Tavern.
Weston and his guild companions were playing a self-made card game: "Fairy Kill".
The prototype was a certain game that veteran players love to give bad reviews to.
Weston had made character cards with special skills for the Fairy Tail Wizards, as well as the opponents or friends they had met so far, and also created "Magic Cards", "Trap Cards", and "Item Cards".
Of course, before officially playing, he also used Super Archive Magic to test it to ensure that no specific character's power level was off the charts.
In this round, only Weston and Yuri were left.
Weston's identity was [Master], and the character he used was [Yuri], possessing the two skills [Thunder Prince] and [Greedy for Wealth].
[Thunder Prince]: At the start of your turn, obtain a "Thunder" mark. Then, if the number of "Thunder" marks is greater than or equal to the number of surviving characters on the field, deal one point of thunder attribute damage to all other players and discard all "Thunder" marks.
[Greedy for Wealth]: A locking skill. During your draw phase, the number of cards drawn is equal to your maximum health points. During your discard phase, your hand card limit is equal to your maximum health points.
Yuri's identity was [Black Mage], and the character he used was [Rita], possessing the two skills [Disguise] and [Chef Girl].
[Disguise]: During the play phase, you can obtain an Item Card from the deck or from the field.
[Chef Girl]: During the play phase, you can discard two Item Cards to let a player recover one point of health or draw two cards.
"It's my turn!"
"Activate skill [Thunder Prince], dealing one point of damage to you".
"Activate skill [Greedy for Wealth]".
[Yuri] was originally a 3-health character, but because Weston's identity this round was [Master], he became 4-health, and along with that, the draw quantity and hand limit also became 4 cards.
Adding the fact that it was now the end of the game, the [Thunder Prince] skill was maximized, dealing one point of damage to the enemy every fixed two turns.
Although the [Rita] character Yuri was playing could also recover one point of health every fixed two turns and had an item advantage, she only had 3 health points and was essentially a blank slate outside of her turn.
"Amaterasu: Formula 100!"
"Molding-Shield Card!"
"Fire God's Feast, I take one of your cards!"
"..."
"Tenrou Roar!"
"Ugh... deduct one point of health".
"Kill".
"Dodge".
"Kill again".
"Dodge again".
"Thunder Dragon!"
"...Dead".
The card disadvantage plus direct damage allowed Weston to hold the upper hand in the battle.
When the game ended, everyone pushed the cards in front of them toward the center of the table and began laughing and chatting.
"Using [Yuri] to fight [Rita], this scene really is interesting!"
"Hahaha... That's so true!"
Weston was laughing and agreeing, but when he looked up, he found Yuri staring at him resentfully. His heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly waved his hands to deflect responsibility.
"You can't blame me, I revealed my identity first".
"It was you who insisted on using [Rita] to fight me even knowing my identity".
Yuri's face stiffened, and having nothing to say, he could only irritably scratch his hair: "I know, I know!"
Seeing this, Precht couldn't help but interject: "By the way, why is Yuri's skill called [Greedy for Wealth]?!"
"He designed it himself".
Weston chatted with Precht while tilting his chin and glancing at Yuri opposite him: "When he saw me designing this game, he came running over excitedly saying he wanted to design his own character skills, and then he designed this one".
"Originally, the name he designed was [Collecting Treasure], but I thought [Greedy for Wealth] was more suitable".
"Hahaha... Indeed!"
Just then—
"Oh no!!"
Yuri gave a loud cry and stood up: "Everyone, I still have something to do, I have to hurry".
As he spoke, he hurried toward the door.
Seeing this, Weston was stunned and quickly grabbed him: "What are you doing? You wouldn't be quitting just because you lost a round, right?"
Yuri looked anxious, pulling at Weston's hand while explaining: "No, I just remembered, I have a date with Rita this afternoon..."
"Ehhh?!!"
"No way?! You actually forgot something like a date?!"
"What time did you agree on?"
"Two o'clock".
Weston looked at the time and immediately sucked in a breath of cold air: "It's already 1:50 now! Where did you agree to meet?"
"Where is it?"
"We agreed to go to the western forest, so we met near the West Gate".
Everyone fell speechless upon hearing this.
"From the guild to the West Gate takes at least 20 minutes... You're definitely going to be late!"
"Yeah, so I have to hurry!"
After Yuri finished speaking, he didn't care about anyone else and started running.
Just as he stepped out of the guild entrance, his whole body turned into lightning, disappearing with a "crackle".
"Oh!"
Weston's eyes lit up at the sight, and he couldn't help but praise: "This Elemental Transformation magic, he's using it more and more skillfully. This way, he might really make it in ten minutes!"
Yuri had developed the move of elementalizing his body into lightning a long time ago.
However, this mode consumes a great deal of physical strength and magic power, so it can only be used as a means for short-distance bursts; long-distance movement is not feasible.
But Yuri's physical strength, magic power, and endurance were all amazing. If used intermittently with pauses, it shouldn't be a big problem.
"Seriously..."
"This guy has acted like an idiot ever since he started dating".
Precht looked at the street and shook his head helplessly, looking like a big brother doting on a younger brother.
Weston's gaze fell on the [Yuri] character card on the table, and his thoughts couldn't help but drift back to his first meeting with Yuri on Tenrou Island three years ago.
"Speaking of which, Rita really has changed Yuri a lot".
"I remember when I first met him, he was still a money-grubber, but now I feel like I haven't heard him say things like 'save money' or 'live the good life' for a long time".
"Fortunately, Rita is a gentle, kind, and simple woman".
Precht gave Weston a strange look: "You're wrong. The person who truly changed Yuri isn't Rita, but you!"
"Huh?"
Weston blinked: "Me??"
"A group of companions worth entrusting your back to, a stable place to settle, a job you like, and a compatible lover".
"For the vast majority of people in the world, possessing any one of these four can be called 'having a valuable life'; possessing two is considered 'happy'".
"Current Yuri has obtained all four of these; his life can be said to have no regrets".
"And all of this is because he met you!"
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