Lisanna looked at Natsu and Happy, seeing the burning intensity in their eyes, her heart filled with both anticipation and fear.
At the same time, everyone in Fairy Tail turned their gaze toward Lisanna, especially Elfman and Mira.
Lisanna bit her lip, using every ounce of strength in her body to speak: "I... I am Edolas Lisanna!"
Since her brother and sister had already accepted her death, there was no need to worry anymore; she couldn't let the brother and sister of this world lose their sister again.
Hearing Lisanna say this, the members of Fairy Tail all wore relaxed smiles on their faces.
Natsu and Happy, however, were filled with disappointment.
"See! I told you, this is our Edolas Lisanna, not your Earth Land Lisanna! Now that you know where the Royal City is, get out of here!"
Lucy looked at Kael with a smug expression.
Kael shook his head helplessly and said, "In that case, let's go. By the way, today seems to be the anniversary of Lisanna's death. Mira and Elfman braved the heavy rain to go to the church to mourn her, only to be sucked in by this world's King and turned into magic power."
"Because of his psychological trauma, Elfman can no longer perform a Full-Body Take Over; he can only transform his arm, becoming a trash-tier mage."
"Mira also can't use Take Over magic anymore because of her emotional scars. Now she's relegated to guild logistics. What a shame! She used to be an S-Class mage."
"Let's go!"
Kael spoke as he turned to leave.
Natsu and Happy were confused; hadn't Elfman already overcome his trauma to perform a Full-Body Take Over?
Despite their confusion, the group immediately followed after Kael.
Listening to Kael's words, Lisanna's face turned deathly pale. She never expected that because of her passing, her brother and sister would end up like that. It was all her fault.
"Lisanna... are you alright?"
Mira looked at Lisanna with concern.
Lisanna forced a smile and said, "I'm fine, Mira. I just felt a bit sick from the teleportation earlier. I'm going to go rest for a bit."
With that, Lisanna opened the door to the back kitchen, covered her mouth with both hands, and sat on the floor as tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes.
"..."
The Fairy Tail guild fell silent; no one said a word.
At this time, Kael and the others, having already left the Fairy Tail guild, were heading toward the Royal City.
"Kael, can't Elfman already use Full-Body Take Over magic? Why did you say he couldn't?"
Happy looked at Kael in confusion. During the battle between Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord, Elfman had successfully used a Full-Body Take Over.
"You little fool, do you really think she's the Lisanna of this world?"
"Isn't she?!"
The others were all confused. She had said herself that she was Edolas Lisanna, so how could she not be?
"I wasn't just talking nonsense earlier. Lisanna's body truly contains magic power, and just like us, she possesses a Magic Origin."
Now that Kael practiced breathing techniques, his latent potential had been greatly developed. Along with the increase in his magic power and continuous training, he had also unlocked the 'Transparent World,' allowing him to see through bodies and observe the flow of magic.
So, besides knowing the plot, he was also able to make a judgment based on the facts.
"Then why won't she admit it?!"
Natsu asked with wide eyes.
"I don't know about that."
"I'm going back to find her!!"
Natsu immediately wanted to go back and ask Lisanna for the truth—to ask why she wouldn't acknowledge them.
Kael grabbed Natsu by his scarf and said, "Since she won't admit it, she must have her reasons. There's no need to force it."
"But she's Lisanna!"
Lisanna used to be Natsu's best friend. They played together and found Happy together; how could he just leave Lisanna in this world and ignore her?
No matter what her reasons were, he had to ask and get it straight.
"Don't worry! I already left a mark at that guild. Once we rescue everyone from the Royal City, we can come back."
During Kael's earlier magic eruption, he had conveniently left a Flying Thunder God formula inside the Fairy Tail guild. No matter where they ran, he could find them instantly.
"The Royal City is five days away from here. Are we really just going to walk?"
Wendy asked with concern, wondering if they would still be in time after five days.
"Mhm... for some reason, my wings aren't in good shape. We have to walk."
Carla felt something was wrong.
"Same here." Happy felt the same as Carla.
Just then, a massive, toad-like monster appeared in front of them.
"It's huge!!"
The giant toad slammed its palm toward them.
"It's attacking!"
"Alright! Fire Dragon's—"
Natsu prepared to use his magic, but not even a spark appeared on his fist.
"I can't use magic!!"
"Me neither!!"
Wendy tried to use her magic, but she found she couldn't use it either.
"Kael, help!"
"Kael!"
The group immediately hid behind Kael.
Kael swung his hand like a blade.
Whoosh!
A shockwave slash erupted from Kael's palm.
Splurt!
Before the giant frog could even react, it was sliced in half.
"Whoa! Incredible!!"
"Kael, don't you use Take Over magic? And why can you use magic in this world?!"
Natsu looked at Kael with wonder; he had never seen Kael use magic in his normal state before.
"This is just a basic application of magic power, not really a spell. As for why I can use magic here, it's likely because my transformations aren't affected by the world's changes."
Kael knew this was likely due to the special nature of the magic granted by the system, which prevented him from being turned into magic power and allowed him to function in this world.
But this incident also left Kael a bit shaken; if not for the system's uniqueness, he might have been turned into a Magic Crystal just like the rest of Fairy Tail.
This was a spell that even someone as strong as the Master or Gildarts had fallen victim to without even knowing it.
"What are we supposed to do now? How are we going to save everyone if we can't use magic?" Natsu was dumbfounded.
Wendy was the same. If she could use magic, she would at least have some combat ability and could use support spells to help everyone. Without it, her fighting strength was lower than that of an ordinary person.
Kael said, "Don't worry. You can leave the mission of rescuing everyone to me."
"But the enemy has an army of a hundred thousand. Doing it all by yourself is too much, Kael!" Wendy was worried.
"It's fine. A hundred thousand people is nothing. If necessary, I'll just give them a Thunder Spear and make the Edolas Royal City disappear entirely."
"Eeeehhhh?!!"
The group was startled by Kael's words. They all knew about the Thunder Spear—it was the move Kael had used to destroy Nirvana. If that move landed on the Edolas Royal City, the entire place might really disappear just as Kael said.
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