A Man In a Black Robe

In addition, Nathan already told Mirajane to report to Guild Master that Natsu Team would send a 'gift' to his regular meeting place, Clover Town.

If even a guild member knew about Eisenwald's movements, it wouldn't be possible if the Guild Master didn't know about that. After all, one of the things that most legal Guild Masters pay attention to is the suspicious movements of the dark guild.

Since Mirajane unconsciously had given a hint of that, at least the Guild Master of Fairy Tail, Makarov understood what was meant by the 'gift'.

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Currently, Erza and the others were experiencing problems which they could not get out of this Wind Wall even though they tried to penetrate with their brutal magic.

Nathan looked at Lucy who still didn't seem to come up with an idea about how to get out of here. He sighed. I don't understand whether she was forgetful or really stupid! he thought as he asked Lucy,

"Lucy-san, don't you have Virgo? isn't you made contact with her right already?"

Lucy responds to Nathan and tilts her head as if he doesn't understand what his point is, "Virgo? yeah I am"

"Lucy, you have the Virgo key? That's good, then we can get out of here!" Happy excitedly floated around.

Lucy was struck by lightning as she realized her stupidity, "Oh right Happy!! why didn't I think about it earlier"

"What are you talking about?" Gray curiously asks.

"Virgo can dive underground, so I thought that way we could go under the magic Wind Wall and get out of here" Nathan explained lightly.

Though he has shadow magic, he still doesn't want to expose his magic already as he better to use the original plot and hone Lucy's slightly rusty way of thinking.

"What!?" Gray and Erza were excitedly inquiring the truth.

"Good job, my beloved cousin! sheesh... why didn't you remind me earlier!?"

"Good for you Lucy-san, you are finally useful in this team"

"Shut up!!!"

Lucy was sullen as she thought, it was true she was only useful this time since Erza could take care of the bunch of Eisenwald alone.

"[Open! The door to Virgin! Virgo]"

Buff

Suddenly a puff of mist appeared in front of Lucy, revealing a figure of a young woman dressed in a maid uniform with shackles around her wrists, short, pink hair, and blue eyes. She appeared with great respect for Lucy as his owner.

"How may I help you, princess?"

Virgo's appearance was very different from her first appearance at the Mansion of the Duke Everlue. She explains that out of loyalty for her owner, she changes her appearance according to their wishes.

"Waw, young Nathan she calls Lucy 'princess'!" Happy.

"How narcissistic" Nathan.

"He is cuter than her owner" Gray.

"Lucy ... heh ... she's great after all" Erza.

I can hear you!! Lucy retort them in her mind, she gives an order to Virgo, "We have no time to explain it, can you get us out of this station area?"

"As you wish princess, then! here we go!"

Virgo starts digging up the soil that is of sufficient size for them to enter the hole. Soon they finally came out using a hole dug by Virgo.

"We will use Magical Four-Wheeled Vehicle to catch up with Erigor to Clover Town, we don't have much time" Erza said.

"Um ... Erza-san ..." Nathan hesitantly wanted to say, but he was afraid to say it.

Erza looked at the young boy who seemed to want to say something, she smiled and said, "You have a mission in this town, you don't need to come with us"

"Right, you don't need to worry, we can solve this problem" Gray smiled as his hand patted Nathan's head.

Erza immediately moved her sight towards Natsu who was still unconscious as she sighed helplessly, "This kid, how long will he continue to sleep!?" she then turned to the blue cat flying, "Happy you take Natsu to the inn in this city, you too Lucy, you should accompany your this small cousin to go on his first mission!"

Seeing the two of them looking hesitant, Erza explained emphatically as if she did not want to listen any sentence of rejection, "There is a high possibility that the Lullaby which held by Erigor is a fake one. Natsu is still unconscious, even though we carry him, he will only be a burden. And you Lucy, it's not good to let new members do their first mission alone, so you're the right person to accompany your own cousin"

Seeing no objection, Erza assumed that they agreed with her decision, "Well, Gray and I will leave now ..."

"Wait Erza-san! this is for you..." Nathan took out a small glass bottle filled with green liquid and handed it to Erza who was curious about the gift, "This elixir is useful to restore at least 50% of the mage's magic power that has been drained"

He bought this potion along with the time he bought a fake Lullaby at the magic store and indeed intended to give it to Erza. After all, he rather felt guilty toward Erza who had spent a lot of magic power to chase after Erigor over nothing. At least he must compensate her.

Using Magical Four-Wheeled Vehicle several times a day, Erza's magic power must be very much drained, furthermore she had used her magic against Eisenwald's men. Then again, Nathan was also so impressed with Erza's amount of magic power, as expected S-Class Mage.

Erza immediately opened the bottle cap and sniffed it inside. She lit up her eyes as a fragrant scent of herbal smell on her pinky nose, she could feel the density of magic power from that green liquid, "Such a good elixir" she nodded in affirmation.

Nathan smiled. Of course, he spent 70,000 jewels to buy the elixir, the price was the same as the monthly rent for Lucy's apartment. Luckily he still left a lot of money, he got a large amount of money from Everlue's Mansion. The amount of wealth he has right now will not be depleted just by buying one of that kind of elixirs, he is still even afforded to buy ten such elixirs.

Erza expressed her gratitude to Nathan as she and Gray immediately gave farewell and hurried to Clover Town to confirm the situation there.

As the duo left, glints of awkwardness across on Nathan's face as he took a glance at the corner of his eyes towards the trio. Naturally, he didn't expect this final outcome. He thought that Erza would still bring Natsu even though he was still unconscious, even Lucy was left behind! as for Happy, of course, he accompanied Natsu wherever he was.

In the original storyline, it was Natsu who chased Erigor along with Happy who used Aera in Max Speed mode. After that, he managed to defeat Erigor with his Will power.

Then followed by Erza, Gray, and Lucy who also brought Kageyama who was seriously injured due to an attempted murdered by his own friend. Later on, Kageyama secretly seizes the Lullaby dropped by Erigor and he then heads straight to Clover Town, leaving the group dumbfounded at his ungratefulness action.

It's changed too much...he somewhat scratched his cheek as he asked, "Should we look for lodging?" turning his to Lucy who didn't seem to mind anything.

"Sure"

Above a building near the station, a man in a black robe stood motionlessly as he looked down at Nathan and the others. The tip of his lips smirked up mysteriously, "As expected Royal Prince of Fiore, Nathan E. Fiore..."

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