Outside the royal capital, on the magic airship.
Kenichi, Erza, Kagura, and Wendy sat around a circular table on the airship's deck.
"Mira-san, this world is really interesting! Next time, you should come explore with us!"
Wendy looked excitedly at Mirajane, who was busy inside the airship's cabin.
"Okay!"
Hearing Wendy's words, Mirajane stopped what she was doing, turned to look at Wendy, and replied with a smile.
After saying that, Mirajane came out carrying a tray.
When she reached the circular table on the deck, she handed out plates of desserts from the tray to Erza, Wendy, Kagura, and the others.
"Desserts I've never had before!"
Erza took the dessert, her eyes sparkling with unusual brilliance, an expression of eager anticipation on her face.
"Here!"
After giving Erza, Wendy, and Kagura each a dessert, Mirajane turned and went to where Seilah and Brandish were.
Seilah, as usual, was sitting upright in her spot, holding a thick book in both hands.
She seemed completely unconcerned with the outside world.
When Mirajane placed the dessert in front of Seilah, she was still reading her book.
Brandish was a bit better.
At least she was somewhat interested in food.
"Thank you."
Brandish took the dessert handed to her by Mirajane and thanked her.
Just as the women were enjoying their leisure time, Kenichi seemed to sense something, his expression shifting slightly.
"Hmm?"
Kagura, noticing Kenichi's unusual reaction, looked at him and asked, 'What's wrong?'
"An acquaintance is coming."
A curve lifted the corner of Kenichi's mouth. After saying this to Kagura, he stood up and walked to the edge of the magic airship, looking down.
Soon, his gaze fell upon three people on the ground below.
These three were none other than the Captain of the Black Scripture and his two companions, who had recently bid farewell to the Blue Roses' members.
When Kenichi first crossed over from the Fairy Tail World to this one, he had witnessed the scene of Shalltear attacking the Black Scripture.
Therefore, Kenichi had seen the Captain once before.
And the 'acquaintance' Kenichi just mentioned to Kagura was precisely the Captain of the Black Scripture.
The magic airship wasn't flying particularly high.
While Kenichi was looking at the Captain and his two companions, the Captain also noticed the huge magic airship suspended in mid-air.
"Using magic to suspend a ship in the air?"
"How much magical power would that require?"
Perhaps in the Fairy Tail World, magic airships weren't particularly rare magical items.
But in the Overlord World, such magical items had never existed before.
Now, as the Captain and his two companions saw the huge magic airship held aloft by a magic circle in the sky, they couldn't help but marvel.
Soon, the gazes of the Captain and his companions shifted from the magic airship to Kenichi, who stood at its edge.
'Such immense magical power!'
'Just facing him, I feel a powerful pressure!'
'It seems we found the right person. This man must be the leader of Fairy Tail, who repelled the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth… Kenichi!'
The Captain stared at Kenichi, thinking this to himself, then said to the two behind him, "Let's go!"
With that, the Captain and his two companions activated their flight magic items and flew up towards Kenichi's location in the sky.
…
Kenichi, standing at the edge of the magic airship, looked down from his elevated position at the approaching Captain and his two companions.
Soon, under Kenichi's gaze, the Captain stopped at a height level with the magic airship.
"Is that a demon?"
The Captain immediately recognized that Seilah, who was reading over there, was a demon.
"Wasn't it said that Fairy Tail only had 5 members? Why are there 8 here?"
"It seems the intelligence is seriously inaccurate!"
The Time Turbulence, the flaxen-haired woman following behind the Captain, spoke with some dissatisfaction.
"Hmph, it's just three more people. It doesn't affect our plan at all!"
The massively built 'Strongest Human' snorted, unconcerned.
While the Time Turbulence and the Strongest Human were talking, the Captain looked at Kenichi and spoke first: "I presume you are the leader of the Adamantite-ranked adventurer team, Fairy Tail, Kenichi?"
"Correct."
Kenichi stared at the Captain and his two companions, his tone neutral.
Hearing the conversation between the Captain and Kenichi, Wendy, Erza, and the others behind Kenichi also stepped forward.
"Ah, it's that person we met that night!"
Perhaps Erza and Kagura didn't immediately recognize the Captain upon seeing him.
But Wendy, the Dragon Slayer, recognized the person in front of her the moment she saw him.
He was one of the group that was attacked by Shalltear when they first arrived in this world.
Although Wendy's voice wasn't very loud, the Captain and his two companions heard it clearly.
At that moment, the gazes of the Captain and his companions simultaneously fell upon Wendy.
"Have you seen this woman before?"
The Time Turbulence stared at Wendy and asked the Captain in front of her.
"Never seen her before!"
While answering the Time Turbulence, the Captain's brows unconsciously furrowed.
The feeling Wendy gave the Captain was... weak.
In the Captain's view, if he had encountered someone as strong as Wendy before, he would definitely remember.
But right now, the Captain truly had never seen Wendy before.
'What exactly is going on?'
'She said she met me that night.'
'What night exactly is...?'
The Captain pondered briefly in his mind.
Just as he was about to take the initiative to ask Wendy when she had met him, he suddenly thought of something.
'Could it be... that night we encountered the vampire?'
'At that time, my attention was completely focused on that vampire. If the Fairy Tail's members were aboard this airship in the sky, it's indeed possible I overlooked them!'
Thinking of this, the Captain's expression sharpened.
"Could it be that you all saw me in the Katze Plains before?"
'Katze Plains?'
Hearing the Captain's words, a look of confusion appeared on Wendy's face.
After all, she wasn't familiar with the place names of this world yet.
Naturally, she didn't know that the plain where they encountered Shalltear that night was the Katze Plains.
"Correct. We did witness your battle with Shalltear."
Just as Wendy was confused, Kenichi looked at the Captain and his two companions and spoke with keen interest.
"Shalltear?"
Although the Captain guessed that the 'Shalltear' Kenichi mentioned referred to the vampire they encountered that night, he still frowned and sought confirmation from Kenichi.
Kenichi did not answer the Captain.
He simply waved his hand and summoned Shalltear from the different dimension.
The moment Shalltear appeared, the Captain's face changed dramatically as if he had seen a ghost.
"Fall back!"
Immediately after, the Captain and the other two explosively retreated away from the magic airship.