# 155 - Crocus, the Blooming Capital
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The Grand Magic Games are held once a year.
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Seeking to fill in the blank of the last
seven years, Natsu and the rest of the Tenrou group
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began a three-month-long training camp.
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And so...
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Their three-month training camp over,
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Natsu and the others returned to the guild.
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We're here!
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Why are all of you so exhausted?!
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Get a hold of yourselves!
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That's what a Man is!
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Crocus, the Blooming Capital!
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Elfman! You sure bulked up!
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Mira-nee and I secluded ourselves
in the mountains and trained there.
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Muscles are a Man's romantic adventure!
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In these last three months, I became able
to eat natto, my former most-hated food!
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I conquered my fear of heights!
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I don't think that'll really come in handy...
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Our firing accuracy has got even better.
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Yep.
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I finished reading a 30-volume
horror novel series.
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Just reading?!
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First, you need to work on
keeping that stomach in!
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My Sandstorm has become more powerful yet.
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If we fight once more, I'll beat even Natsu!
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What?!
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Good job, everyone!
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Gramps!
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It looks like you've all done your best
to prepare for the Grand Magic Games.
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That's not precisely the case...
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For now, gather inside the guild.
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Alright...
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I'm going to announce the five members
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who will participate in the Grand
Magic Games as our representatives.
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Natsu!
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Yeah!
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Gray!
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Naturally.
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Erza!
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Leave it to me.
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Well, of course those three would be chosen.
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Two left.
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Being chosen like that is a Man!
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Juvia is going to be
separated from Gray... No!
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The remaining two...
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...are Lucy and Wendy!
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Dang!
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So this is how it shakes out...
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Juvia and Gray-sama will be apart...
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It's unthinkable!
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I can't do this! You could
choose Laxus or Gajeel instead!
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Well, after all, they haven't come back yet!
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Master based his decision on teamwork
more than individual power.
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And since we were chosen,
let's do our utmost.
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Yeah. You're right.
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Yes! I have to do my best!
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To make a serious grab for the win,
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I really wanted to have Gildarts
or Laxus, I thought...
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But you're sayin' it!
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Everyone!
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These Grand Magic Games are the perfect
chance for Fairy Tail to regain its reputation!
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We'll beat Sabertooth, the
strongest guild in Fiore,
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and Fairy Tail will become the
number one guild in Fiore!
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I'm fired up!
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And so...
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This is Crocus, the blooming
capital of the kingdom of Fiore.
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The Grand Magic Games, the annual
wizards' festival, is held here.
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The city teems with wizards and
spectators from all over Fiore.
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In the center of the city is
the king of Fiore's castle,
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the Flower Light Palace, Mercurius.
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The arena of the Grand Magic Games,
Domus Flau, is in the western mountains.
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And...
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...here we are, in the middle of the city...
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We still don't feel well...?!
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Did it really work?!
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The magic to unleash Second Origin...
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I do feel that my magic power's increased,
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even though I still have a
little pain in the joints.
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Yeesh.
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You people are pathetic.
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How is it you're totally fine, Erza?!
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I bet she had her Second Origin all along.
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I buy that.
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At any rate, I've never been
to a city this huge before.
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Me neither!
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It's bigger than Edolas's castle town.
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So you finally made it...
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Master!
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I took care of all the entry paperwork.
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You better show me the power of Fairy Tail!
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Hey! Fairy Tail, he says!
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Those chumps?!
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The perennial last place losers?!
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Who just laughed?!
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Stifle it.
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I'm sure you'll be in last
place again this year, too!
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And Sabertooth is sure to win it.
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Anybody that wants to laugh, let 'em.
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Then I won't hold back...
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Don't look at us and laugh!
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Listen! I've got 30 million jewel...
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I mean, do your best to aim for
the number one guild in Fiore!
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The way things are now, we can't face
the first master, who saved our lives!
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Well, the competition begins tomorrow,
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but unfortunately, I have no idea what it is!
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Fairy Tail's been in this a
number of years, though, right?
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The competition changes every year.
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Pick me up!
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For instance, one year we weren't in
it, they had a shooting contest...
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The year I wasn't in it, they had a race...
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The team with the greatest cumulative points
over a number of events is the winner...
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I looked at the past records,
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but it seems there's no
consistency with the events.
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Well, then we'll just play it by ear.
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I hope it's a battle, though!
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Every year, when the Games are held,
we sense a strange magical force.
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A mysterious force... and
mysterious contests...
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Erza!
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Read the official rulebook by tomorrow.
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Read this...?
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Leave it to me! I've got Windreading Glasses!
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You're always prepared, Levy-chan!
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To put it in a nutshell,
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I'd say there are three important things.
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The first is that a guild
master can't participate.
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Well, that makes sense.
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Anyone who doesn't have the guild emblem
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is counted as a spectator
and may not participate.
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That's a pretty obvious one, too.
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And to maintain secrecy,
the rules for each event
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won't be revealed until right
before the event starts.
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Not much info of use there.
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There is a warning at the end.
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It says that all the participants have to
be back at their designated inn by midnight.
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Midnight?
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When?
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It must mean tonight, right?
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Back by midnight...
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It's like that story, the princess
with the glass slippers.
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How can Gray-sama be saying romantic
things when Juvia isn't around?!
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Oh, my prince!
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If it's midnight, we
still got plenty of time!
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It's not every day you get a chance to
visit a town this big! Let's go exploring!
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Aye, sir!
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Let's go!
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Hey! Do you even know the
inn we're staying at?!
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Honeybone, right?!
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Just make sure you're back
by midnight! Got it?!
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Aye!
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Midnight... at the designated inn...
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And this is that designated inn, Honeybone.
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For some reason, six beds
have been prepared...
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So we're all supposed to
sleep in the same room?
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Doesn't look like there's anything
suspicious here, but still...
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Gray-sama!
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Juvia! What are you doing here?!
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It's not only Juvia!
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Everyone in the guild came to cheer you on.
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Jeez. Those guys have too much free time...
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Um... Would you like to have dinner together?
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Now that you mention it, I am hungry.
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In that case, I know a
good restaurant in town.
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Lyon!
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It's combined with the aquarium.
A really fashionable restaurant.
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Huh? Wait... What is this?
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Hey! Don't just walk off
with one of my members!
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I hear you're going to be in
the Grand Magic Games, Gray.
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My guild, Lamia Scale,
is going to win, though.
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I hear you guys come in second every year.
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And you guys are in last place every year.
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Until last year, we've always
been in second place,
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but that was without Jura-san
or me participating.
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You understand what I'm
getting at, don't you?
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Are you forgetting?
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We got this monster named Erza on our side!
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Let's make a wager.
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When Lamia Scale achieves victory,
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Juvia will join our guild!
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What the hell is that?!
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And if we win...?
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I'll return Juvia to your guild.
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She's ours to begin with!
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This is a gentleman's agreement.
Don't forget it, Gray.
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Gimme a break! That's no kind of bet!
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Are you afraid of losing?
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What's that?!
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Gray-sama!
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Do you want Juvia?! Or Lyon-sama?!
Please make up your mind!
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You're not following the
conversation, are you?
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You're always right.
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That's not true.
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In my own clumsy way, I live
my life to the fullest.
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That's all...
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Erza...
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Men! You have the same
beguiling parfum as always.
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How dare you enter someone's room uninvited?!
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Men!
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You're beautiful when you're angry.
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We didn't come here especially
to cheer you up, though.
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Have a hot washcloth.
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That goes the same for you!
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Forever Trimens!
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Carla, look at that!
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Wow!
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This says it's the Flower
Light Palace, Mercurius.
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I wonder what the king is like...
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I wonder if he has a mustache...
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I bet he does.
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They've got flowers everywhere in this town.
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No wonder it's called the "blooming capital".
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A fight!
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You can't have a festival
without a fight! Where is it?!
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This is what I'd expect with all
the guilds of Fiore gathering here.
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Natsu, wait!
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This smell...
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What's wrong?
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It smells similar to a dragon...
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Don't tell me...
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Move it! Move it! Move it!
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Anybody else?
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These guys are beneath
us, literally, oh yeah!
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Fro thinks so, too.
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What the...?!
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You!
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Natsu Dragneel!
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Cats?!
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What's up with this stupid-looking cat?
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Stupid!
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They talk!
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Do I have to say something here...?
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Who the hell are you guys?
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Hey, haven't you heard of Sabertooth's
Twin Dragons, Sting and Rogue?!
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They're the cornerstone of
Fiore's strongest guild!
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Then these two are...
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...Sabertooth, huh?
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Rumor has it you're gonna be in the
Grand Magic Games. Is that true?
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You know about me?
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Acnologia...
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You're the Dragon Slayer who
couldn't slay a dragon, right?
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Are you sure you should keep
calling yourself a Dragon Slayer?
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You know, I used to look up to you.
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Incidentally, this guy was into Gajeel-san.
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I was just interested as
a fellow Dragon Slayer.
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Dragon Slayer?!
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Both of you?!
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Maybe you oughta call us
true Dragon Slayers...
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We would've beaten Acnologia.
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That's easy for you two to say when you've
never even laid eyes on Acnologia!
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That's right!
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You don't seem too bright, cat.
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Lecter is smart, right?
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It doesn't matter if we've seen it or not.
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The point here is the difference
in our aptitude as Dragon Slayers.
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I'll explain.
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Natsu-kun and the rest learned
Dragon Slaying Magic from dragons.
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They're the so-called First Generation.
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Your Laxus-kun and Oracion Seis's Cobra-kun
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are known as the Second Generation.
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They can use Dragon Slaying Magic through
a Dragon Lacrima embedded in their body.
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As for Sting-kun and Rogue-kun,
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like you, they were raised by Dragons,
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but also have a Dragon Lacrima implanted in
their body... the hybrid Third Generation!
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Third Generation?!
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In other words, they're the
strongest Dragon Slayers!
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Strongest Dragon Slayers, you say?
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There's a world of difference in ability
between the First Generation and Third Generation.
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It's not even worth talking about.
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Did your dragons disappear
in the year 777, too?!
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Well, in a manner of speaking...
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I'll give it to you straight.
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The dragons who taught us Dragon Slayer Magic
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were slain by our own hand,
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so we could become true Dragon Slayers...
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You killed dragons?!
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Humans killed dragons...?
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You murdered your own parents?!
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They're late...
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You guys...
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Where the hell were you all this time?!
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I had dinner that was no fun at all...
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We got into a weird tangle with some
people... or maybe we started it...
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Well, if we get the chance to
fight each other during the Games,
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I'll show you the power that
can slay a real dragon!
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Let's go. I'm not interested
in the older generation.
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Both the outdated Dragon Slayer and
his cat companion are lame-o's!
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Fro thinks so, too!
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I'm not gonna let 'em get away with it!
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By the way, Wendy's not back yet?
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Come to think of it...
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She's late...
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I'm sure she's with Carla,
so I doubt she's lost...
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It's almost midnight...
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That little girl is out this late...
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Staying out late... Bad company...
Juvenile delinquency!
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This town is mine!
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What should we do?!
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Do all fiction writers have
this kind of imagination?
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Hey! We brought treats!
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Tomorrow's the big day!
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Elfman! Lisanna!
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Are you guys gonna watch the
Grand Magic Games, too?!
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Yeah.
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To be honest, I wanted to be in it myself
and show off for Lisanna and Nee-chan,
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but giving up is also a Man!
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Good timing. Can I ask you a favor?
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What is it?
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Actually, Wendy hasn't
come back to the inn yet.
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And we're apparently not supposed
to do anything until after midnight.
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Is something going to happen at midnight?
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I don't really know, but there's a rule
that says we have to be here by midnight.
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And as I say that, I notice
it is midnight now...
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What's gonna happen?!
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Everyone in the guilds who have gathered
together for the Grand Magic Games...
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Good morning!
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Outside?!
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What the hell is that?! It's huge!
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A three-dimensional image!
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A pumpkin!
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Beginning now, we're going to
take the 113 participating teams
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and have an elimination round
to pare them down to eight!
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Elimination round?!
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We didn't hear about this!
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Was there an elimination round last time?
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No.
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What does this mean?
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So midnight is the time the
elimination round starts?
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And it'll suddenly narrow
down 113 guilds to eight?
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113...
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Huh? That's more than the
number of guilds in Fiore...
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They couldn't have notified everyone
beforehand about an elimination round?
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Peculiar behavior...
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Too many guilds...
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Mysterious magic power...
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Is the sponsor the one we
should be suspicious of?
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Every year, the number of
participating guilds increases
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and it was pointed out that
the events were getting stale.
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This year, there will be only eight
teams competing in the official games.
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The elimination rules are simple!
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What the...?!
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What is this?!
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The inn is transforming!
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Look! It's the same with the other inns!
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Transforming is a Man's romantic fantasy!
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All of you are going to race each other.
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The goal is the Games arena, Domus Flau.
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The first eight teams to
arrive there will go on.
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Paths!
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We have to take the path?
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You're free to use your magic.
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There are no restrictions.
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But remember, only the first eight teams
to get to the goal will survive this round.
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However, all five members must arrive
together or it doesn't count!
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And one more thing!
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We take no responsibility for
any lives lost in the labyrinth.
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Labyrinth?!
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The Grand Magic Games elimination round!
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Sky Labyrinth... begin!
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Oh, man! What the hell is that?!
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A giant labyrinth in the sky?
**[23:59] ---**
It looks like that's the venue
for the elimination round.
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I suck at mazes!
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Like he said, the first eight teams to get
to the goal will make it past this round.
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So it's a competition!
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But I guess all five members of the
team have to get to the goal together.
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Crap! Wendy's not here!
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Next time: Sky Labyrinth!
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Hey, how about if I fill in for Wendy...?
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Elfman says he'll join the team!
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Figures...