Experiment

In another corridor, a young blonde woman and a blue cat walked together desperately looking for one of Eisenwald's members who ran away from Erza's hands.

She looked at each direction of the corridor but unfortunately still did not find the person who might be heading to Erigor's place. She looked at each direction of the corridor but unfortunately still did not find that person who might be heading to Erigor's place, but all she found was the large knight statues holding down his sword.

"Sigh... we totally lost him" Lucy sighed as her eyes keep looking for clues to the person they wanted to find.

"Aye" Happy responds briefly.

Lucy looked down at Happy who followed her tail as she hesitantly pushes forward her suggestion, "Hey ... why don't we go to Erza for now?"

The Lucy's suggest leaving Happy amazed as he saw Lucy as if seeing a ghost, "I see... Lucy is incredible.. she is gonna ignore Erza's request, 'that' Erza request!... I wouldn't want to see Erza doing this and that to Lucy later..."

"Wh-what is she gonna do to me!!?" Lucy is even more scared than Happy now.

After seeing Erza fight alone against the bunch of Eisenwald, she became even more horrified at Erza's ferocity. She did not want to imagine what would happen if she defies a direct 'request' from Erza.

"A-all right!!! I'll look for him! I'll look for him until we find him!!!"

"You change your mind pretty quick, Lucy"

"Geeze, sheesh!!! I mean, why are you so attached to me, you kitty cat!!?"

...

"Wh-what are you trying to do!!?"

Kageyama desperately shouted at the young boy who was standing watching himself lying on the floor as his body gripped down firmly by the large shadow bird the young boy made. He wants to struggle but it's useless, the grip of the bird's foot is too strong for a weak mage like him.

Every time he wanted to run away using his Shadow Magic, the young boy could easily see through his plan. The young boy has even locked the movements of his shadows using the Shadow Magic that he imitates from him.

"Oh, nothing much" Nathan smiled, "I want to do some experiments on magic tools that I just got recently"

With that, he took out a flute. Its size is nearly 50 centimeters in length. The skull with three eyes on one end, and an oval-cutout in the skull's brow. On the other end, there are root-like cutouts.

"L-Lu-Lullaby!!!?" Kageyama's complexion was alarmed after seeing the familiar instrument that was shown by the young boy.

Nathan's smile didn't fade, "You know well"

"H-how can it end up in your hands!!?... w-wait!! what are you planning to do to me?" recalling the word 'experiment' from the word of the young boy, Kageyama cried out in alarm as his instincts said he had to run away from the young boy's grip as soon as possible.

Of course, he knows what Lullaby means. After all, he was the one who directly removed the seal in the Lullaby which had been sealed in hundreds of years. Also, he gave Lullaby to Erigor directly, then, how could it suddenly be in the hands of this young boy? don't tell me that Erigor betrayed me?

Heard a shocked question from Kageyama mouth, Nathan still stood motionlessly, not even the slightest reaction can be seen from Nathan's facade smile as if he wasn't really bothered by answering Kageyama's curiosity.

He stroked gently the flute in his hand from its head to toe as he said lightly, "You know, I'm very curious about how this cursed instrument works"

"W-what!!? you want to use that Lullaby on me!!?" Kageyama struggling even harder under the bird's grip as he desperately wants to run away from this incarnation of Devil.

"What are you excited about? you only need to listen to its melody!" Nathan tilted his head towards the man who was struggling to free himself from the clutches of the bird.

"No-no... please don't! you can't do that to me!!!... I can be useful to you, I can get you out of here, Erigor's plan is actually..."

However, before even Kageyama completed an explanation of the actual Erigor's plan to use Lullaby not for use at this station, but for Guild Masters who were attending regular meetings in Clover Town, Nathan cut off Kageyama's life offer as he utterly said,

"Erigor makes a Wall Wind covering the station so Fairy Tail cannot catch up to Clover Town to warn the Guild Masters who are busy conducting regular meetings..."

"H-how did you know!!?" Kageyama's face filled with horror because he was aghast that he felt this Devil already can see through everything.

Nathan answered faintly, "I also know how the end of Erigor is, and of course Eisenwald too... as for an escape from this place, it's like a piece of cake for me, even if I and you aren't here, Fairy Tail can still get out of this situation without so much effort"

"Oh crap! I have talked too much, I feel a little thirsty, let's play this flute already!"

"Nooo!!!"

Nathan was not bothered by the desperate cry of the object of his experiment, he brought the flute blender closer to his small lips, the flute and his lips touched, Nathan immediately began to play it softly.

The sound of marvelous melody lines created by the flute, each tone gives a magnificent and intoxicating that makes everyone who hears it feel being storytelling and wants to fall asleep.

In fact, he had never played the flute before, yet for some reason a moment he put on a flute, he felt he had been playing flute for a long time.

Meanwhile, Kagemaya who was made a fruitless attempt to struggle free from the bird's iron grip as he looked at the young boy who played the flute, his divine ear couldn't help listening to the chant of the flute melody played by him.

Suddenly Kageyama felt his soul being sucked, his vision blurred out as he feels everything is white, in the end, Nathan could see Kageyama's souls fly off from his body and drifting towards the flute that he was playing.

Pluph

Kageyama's white soul was devoured by Lullaby in the blink of an eye. And then, it let out a purple glow in a blink as if indicating that it had finished swallowing the soul of its prey.

Nathan immediately stopped playing it as he stared at the flute in his hand with full astonishment, "So this is the Lullaby?! so fast and so scary!! what a terrifying cursed magic!"

Killing its enemies with just one hearing and in a short amount of time. Truly frightening magic.

"Hey Lullaby, can you hear m... hmm?..."

He intended to have a good conversation with Lullaby, but suddenly he heard the sound of footsteps that were not far towards him. Are that Erza and the others?

He shifted his gaze to Kageyama's lifeless body, after thinking for a moment, he stabbed Kageyama's chest and moved his body in a sitting position to lean against the wall, then he smashed the wall behind Kageyama's body to form a big hole from behind.

"Perfect!" Nathan nodded with satisfaction with his work.

With this, he could shift a blame Kageyama's death to one of Eisenwald's members who escaped from Erza's hands.

In the original storyline, the man named Karacka was ordered by one of his colleagues who had been defeated by Erza to kill Kageyama so as not to obstruct Erigor's plan.

Unfortunately, Kageyama did not die and he was saved by Natsu's team. However, now Kageyama died in Nathan's hands. Will this change the storyline? I don't think so, maybe! Nathan scratched his cheek.

"Nathan?" the voice calling for his name suddenly came from behind

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