# 177 - The Eclipse Project
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***SIGN*** Fairy Tail
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Previously on Fairy Tail...
***SIGN*** Grand Magic Games 4th Day Results 1st Place: Fairy Tail 2nd Place: Sabertooth 3rd Place: Mermaid Heel 3rd Place: Lamia Scale 5th Place: Blue Pegasus
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The Grand Magic Games,
a festival for wizards.
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Fairy Tail started off in last place,
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but they dominated the Tag Team Battle
and rose to first place.
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However, as for Sabertooth,
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the failure of the Twin Dragons
triggered a certain incident.
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Meanwhile, at the sprawling dragon graveyard
underneath the tournament venue, Domus Flau,
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Natsu and friends learned the truth about
the Festival of the Dragon King and Acnologia.
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I am Arcadios, Captain of the
Cherry Blossom Holy Knights,
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the kingdom of Fiore's military
corps stationed in Crocus.
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I am Yukino Agria, temporary
sergeant of same.
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What's a military big cheese doing here?
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Yukino... But you...
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...were a member of Sabertooth.
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You said they kicked you out, right?
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Yes. That's correct.
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I'll explain.
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The power of a Celestial Spirit Wizard was
necessary to the secrecy of the operation.
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And so, I'm relying on the
assistance of Sergeant Yukino.
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A Celestial Spirit Wizard...
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The Eclipse Project!
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U-Um, what do you mean you needed the
power of a Celestial Spirit Wizard?
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Wait a second! I'm lost here!
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Skip the annoying details!
Just tell me what you want!
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Natsu Dragneel-kun, yes?
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Your previous event was
a marvelous magic battle.
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I don't give a damn about that.
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I wanna know about this
"Celestial Spirit Wizard is necessary" business.
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If you got somethin' to say, spit it out!
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Natsu...
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Yeesh...
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Natsu, I think you already know
this, but that guy's a VIP.
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If you think so, then I don't know
about calling him "that guy"...
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A white knight...
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Follow me.
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Hey, jackass! Wait!
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Lucy-sama, I also have a favor to ask.
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If this operation is a success,
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Zeref and Acnologia will be defeated.
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Acnologia...
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What the hell is this?!
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It's huge!
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It's the Flower Light Palace,
right, Mercurius?
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His Majesty's palace.
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That's really something...
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It's okay for us to go inside?
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But first, I would like
to apologize to Lucy-dono
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for her mistaken attempted
abduction several days ago.
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W-What?!
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That's right. Wendy was mistaken
for Lucy and kidnapped.
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You were behind that?
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Of course, I didn't intend
to cause you any harm,
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but I imprudently took
somewhat forceful measures.
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At the time, I was convinced we needed
a Celestial Spirit Wizard immediately,
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and made an error in judgment.
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I apologize.
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The Grand Magic Games were camouflage to
absorb a great quantity of wizards' magic power.
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So every year, you stole magic from wizards?
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Camouflage?!
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That's terrible!
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That's really low.
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Exactly.
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Say what you wish.
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I did it all for a certain plan.
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What is it?
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Eclipse, the portal that
will change the world.
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A great deal of magic power
was required to construct it.
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Portal?
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What the hell is it?
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When the sun and moon are in conjunction,
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the 12 Keys will be used to open the door.
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When it's opened, the plan is
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to travel back 400 years in time and murder
Zeref before he can become immortal.
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That is the Eclipse Project!
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T-Travel through time?!
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Lucy-sama, I've heard time flows differently
between the Celestial Spirit World and our own.
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Yes, now that you mention it, but...
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The idea is to use the Celestial Spirit World's
dimensional boundary line
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and the power of a Celestial Spirit Wizard
to open this door.
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Originally, the plan called
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for the possible use of pseudo-Celestial Spirit
magic in place of the real thing.
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But having a true Celestial Spirit Wizard
and the 12 Keys
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would guarantee the success of the project.
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I could say that aspect is indispensable.
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The sun and moon will overlap
three days hence, on July 7th.
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I would like your assistance, Lucy-dono.
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July 7th...
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The day our dragons disappeared...
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Is it just a coincidence?
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The eclipse, when the sun and
moon are in conjunction...
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A solar eclipse...
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That's enough! Don't move!
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The royal army?!
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What is this?!
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What the hell?!
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What's going on?!
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You dumbasses wanna rumble?!
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Surrender peacefully, Captain Arcadios.
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Minister of Defense, what
is the meaning of this?!
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That is my line.
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Leaking details of a top secret plan and
state military secrets to outsiders is abominable.
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They're not outsiders! You know this.
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These people have a critical role to
play in the success of the operation.
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That's not a simple matter for
you to arbitrarily decide on.
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You're just opposed to the plan, aren't you?!
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I want you to stop this nonsense immediately!
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Of course I'm opposed to it!
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Changing history! Can you even slightly
imagine the inherent dangers, boy?!
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What the hell are they arguin' about?
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So there's a faction that's against the plan.
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Even so...
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Change history...
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I see. If you change the past...
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...the present will change too!
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That's what would happen.
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Arrest Captain Arcadios
on suspicion of treason!
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Arrest Yukino Agria and Lucy Heartfilia too!
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Throw everyone else out!
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Yes, sir!
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What?!
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Wait, me too?!
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Jackasses! You're not gettin'
Lucy involved in this...
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Don't! You mustn't use magic here!
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Wha...?! This...
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The hell is this?!
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Natsu!
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Perhaps he didn't tell you.
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The Grand Magic Games is a
system to steal a small amount
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of magic power from wizards
and send it to Eclipse.
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If magic is activated this close to Eclipse,
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all of the person's magic
power will be siphoned.
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Don't cause a fuss.
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Wizards who can't use magic
are no threat to our kingdom.
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Hey! Let go of me!
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Isn't Arcadios-sama your commander?!
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Lucy!
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Yukino-san!
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Darton!
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I will not let Eclipse be activated.
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Natsu...
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He has magic deficiency syndrome. I don't
think he'll be able to move for a while...
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Bastard...
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I want you to understand
that this isn't my own will.
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It's all on behalf of the state.
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But I can give you one piece of advice.
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His Majesty is fond of Fairy Tail.
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If you win the Grand Magic Games,
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I'll grant you an audience with the king.
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Knowing how kind he is,
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he may consider the matter
of your friend's treatment.
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May you have grand magic battles.
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Lucy...
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July 5th. The second-to-last
day of the Grand Magic Games.
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What?!
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Lucy was captured by the royal army?!
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So they involved her in a plan
we know almost nothing about...
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In other words, what? Unless we win the
Grand Magic Games, we won't get Lucy back?
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Although I don't know
if we can trust that, either.
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Right.
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Who gives a crap about that?!
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I'm gonna rescue Lucy right now!
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Please calm down, Natsu-san.
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You're a real piece of work...
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Your opponent is the kingdom!
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Master...
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We can't act recklessly against the kingdom,
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but on the other hand, they can't afford to
treat their citizens too shabbily either.
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Maybe we can think of her as a hostage who'll
be kept until this Project Eclipse is cancelled.
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That's a pain in the ass.
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A hostage...
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But that don't make sense.
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Why would they let the rest of us go
when we heard the same state secrets?
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It's got nothin' to do with makin' sense!
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It's also possible we've been released as
witnesses to eventually help convict Arcadios.
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Why?
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When there's the danger of top secret
information spreading...
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Maybe they decided it can't
be hidden any longer.
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If they'd captured the whole lot of us,
we wouldn't be able to leak info, right?
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But...
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I don't know about that.
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Gray, you and the others are participants
in the Grand Magic Games, right?
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If you suddenly didn't appear tomorrow,
people would take notice.
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I don't think even the kingdom wants
to make an enemy out of a wizard guild.
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To us, it's ridiculous that
Lucy's been taken captive,
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but it isn't a breach of the
royal army's sense of justice.
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Enough jawin'! I'm gonna rescue her!
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Stifle it!
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Squished...
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This ain't a festival where the
whole family gets captured.
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We all feel the same way.
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This time, just charging ahead
without thinking isn't gonna work.
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Still, we're not cowards who're
gonna take it lying down either.
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We're Fairy Tail!
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I never expected this to happen.
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I really am a bad luck magnet.
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What are you talking about?!
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If you've got enough free time to be depressed,
use it to find a way out of here instead!
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Lucy-sama...
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If we do escape, the first thing
we need to do is get the keys back.
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I'm so sorry about this.
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It's not your fault!
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Both of us have gotten caught up in the
kingdom's internal strife. That's all.
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It's all about whether to go ahead with
the Eclipse Project or not, right?
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I don't exactly know which is
the right way to go myself.
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It should be done.
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I had an older sister. Her name was Solano.
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No matter what I did, I fouled things up,
which infuriated my parents.
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But my sister always protected me.
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It's not Yukino's fault!
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She was so kind and pretty.
I loved my sister.
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But one day, a group blindly devoted
to Zeref murdered my parents
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and took away my big sister.
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All I could do was flee with my life.
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With the Eclipse Project,
Zeref can be killed.
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Without him in this world, my sister...
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Maybe she would never have been taken away...
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But there's no guarantee the world
would change the way you wanted it to.
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That's the danger of changing history
the defense minister was talking about.
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Changing the past...
Is that really possible?
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July 6th, the final day
of the Grand Magic Games.
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At last! At last, it's here!
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The final day of the wizards' passionate
festival, the Grand Magic Games!
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Like it or not, only one guild
will be victorious today!
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I'm your emcee, Chapati,
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and next to me is a former Council member,
Yajima-san, who will provide the commentary.
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Good to be here.
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Our special guest is none other than
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the mascot of the Grand
Magic Games, Mato-kun!
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Kabo!
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You don't have to judge today, Mato-kun?
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Not today-kabo! Everyone, do your best-kabo!
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Now then, the teams are about
to take the field-kabo!
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Currently in 6th place!
Can they turn it around?!
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Formerly a hunting dog,
now a puppy! Quatro Puppy!
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Although he's been trounced once,
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you can't underestimate the power
of the drunken hawk, Bacchus.
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Alright! Next up on the field is...
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...Blue Pegasus, led by the current
master of parfum, Ichiya Wanderlei Kotobuki!
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They're currently in 5th place...
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...but in the end, will they be able
to grasp the parfum of victory-kabo?
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Here they are! Lamia Scale is on the field!
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Right now, they're in 3rd place,
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but will Ice Wizard Lyon Vastia, who rivals
or surpasses Fairy Tail's Gray Fullbuster,
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lead his team to victory?!
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And we mustn't forget Cheria Blendy,
the God Slayer,
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or Jura Neekis, one of the
Ten Great Wizard Saints!
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A team you'd never get tired of.
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And sharing 3rd place with Lamia Scale is...
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...Mermaid Heel!
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They're large flowers that have
bloomed during the tournament,
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but they're not only glamorous...
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The team leader, Kagura Mikazuchi,
is as calm as ever.
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There's something scary about her-kabo.
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And currently in second place!
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Will they remain dethroned?!
Will the two Dragon Slayers,
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the Twin Dragons,
Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney,
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challenge Natsu and Gajeel again?!
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And if so, what will the
results of that rematch be?!
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Sabertooth takes the field!
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Huh? It seems their mood has changed somehow.
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Maybe they've jump-started
their fighting spirit.
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That's cool-kabo!
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Hey, over there...
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The cats in the rooting section...
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One of them's not there.
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Yeah, right?
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Lector...
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Sting-kun!
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Sting-kun! Please do your best!
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With your strength,
and just being one point behind...!
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Leave it to me. I'm not gonna lose anymore.
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And currently in first place!
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Will this be the day the so-called strongest
guild seven years ago comes back in full force?!
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Fairy Tail is taking the field!
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Soon, Sting...
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Yeah.
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From getting booed on the tournament's first day
to being more popular than I'd imagined...
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Huh?!
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K-Kabo?
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W-What?! They've changed the members!
This is an unexpected development!
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In place of Natsu Dragneel, we've got...
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Juvia!
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Natsu Dragneel isn't here?
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That's fine, Rogue.
Think of it as lucking out.
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Yeah...
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Natsu was instrumental in the
Tag Team Battle, so why isn't he here?
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Maybe something happened?
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Why isn't he here?
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I wanted to see him!
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I suppose he hasn't recovered yet.
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You put some thought into it,
Number Six.
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In the end, it was all
I could do, Number One.
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If we win the Grand Magic Games, they may
release Lucy, fair and square. But...
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...we can't put all our faith in that,
so there had to be an alternate plan.
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With everyone absorbed in the tournament,
this is the perfect chance.
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We'll cheer the team on, as usual.
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Meanwhile, behind the scenes, a separate
team is heading to rescue Lucy.
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A war fought on two fronts, right?
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I'm counting on you, brats!
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Oh, no, Natsu!
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Lucy's been captured by kingdom bigwigs!
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Relax, Happy! We'll spring her for sure!
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But how are we going to free her?
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One of our buddies is fantastic at
comin' up with strategies, right?
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Next time: Fairy Tactician!
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That's well and good, Natsu, but will
you be able to remember the strategy?
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I'll muddle through it somehow
with fightin' spirit!