# 225 - The Lightning Man
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I wanna eat...
**[00:05] ---**
I'm so hungry...
**[00:07] ---**
What happened to your
reward from that last job?
**[00:09] ---**
I spent it all...
**[00:12] ---**
I know! Why not sell Lucy's novel?!
**[00:16] ---**
We could probably make enough
to eat something!
**[00:19] ---**
Hey!
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Hold it right there!
**[00:23] ---**
What'd you just say?
**[00:24] ---**
Hungry.
**[00:26] ---**
Not that! How is it you figure on
selling my novel to pay for a meal?!
**[00:30] ---**
Okay, okay, calm down, Lucy.
**[00:34] ---**
This is perfect! Lend me some money, Lucy!
**[00:36] ---**
I can't! I'm on a tight budget this month.
**[00:39] ---**
And both of you, "He who does
not work shall not eat"!
**[00:43] ---**
So why not just get back to work?
**[00:45] ---**
Work?
**[00:46] ---**
That's right!
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Look, there's a job up there.
**[00:52] ---**
Oh, they can't take that one.
**[00:54] ---**
Why not?
**[00:55] ---**
After all, that's...
**[01:04] ---**
...a request for Laxus specifically.
**[02:42] ---**
Certainly, it's directed at Laxus.
**[02:46] ---**
There, see?
**[02:48] ---**
It wasn't a lie.
**[02:51] ---**
It looks like Master called him here.
**[02:53] ---**
Hi, Laxus! What kind of request is it?
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What do you care?
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H-Hey!
**[02:59] ---**
Don't be swallowed up by lightning.
**[03:02] ---**
Don't drown in booze.
**[03:07] ---**
Sheesh. The cheeky brat...
**[03:10] ---**
What was that request?
**[03:12] ---**
It said there was lightning
throughout the town.
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Lightning?
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All crackly, huh?
**[03:21] ---**
The Lightning Man!
**[03:28] ---**
The place is the post town of Borwatt,
where there's been lightning every day.
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So it's a lightning rod exhibition, huh?
**[03:40] ---**
Nobody's here!
**[03:42] ---**
Well, under the circumstances...
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Static electricity.
**[03:47] ---**
I'm getting a kick out of your hair.
**[03:53] ---**
Yours, too.
**[03:55] ---**
Shut up. Who are you to talk?
**[03:59] ---**
Here it comes.
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Aw, man!
**[04:15] ---**
No wonder the whole town
is electrically charged.
**[04:20] ---**
Laxus, where are you going?
**[04:22] ---**
To talk to the client.
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Laxus!
**[04:29] ---**
Hey, now!
**[04:53] ---**
It's still coming down?!
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Seriously?! At this rate, it'll never stop!
**[04:57] ---**
With this much lightning,
even Laxus won't be able to hold out!
**[05:01] ---**
I'll use my Leprechaun!
**[05:08] ---**
This place is too dangerous
for the villagers to live here.
**[05:13] ---**
Jeez. Pain in the ass...
**[05:16] ---**
Roar of the Lightning Dragon!
**[05:27] ---**
I knew you could do it.
**[05:28] ---**
It's just a stopgap measure.
The thunderclouds will gather again.
**[05:32] ---**
And the static electricity is still here.
**[05:34] ---**
But we need it to be quiet for at least
a while so we can investigate, right?
**[05:39] ---**
Yeah.
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Right, right, right, right.
**[05:46] ---**
Hey, what's this?!
**[05:54] ---**
You're Laxus from Fairy Tail, right?
**[05:56] ---**
You're the mega-strong wizard who
beat Jura at the Grand Magic Games!
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Well, from what I just saw of your power,
you're a man to be reckoned with.
**[06:05] ---**
This is the first time in a month
we've seen a blue sky!
**[06:08] ---**
Thank you!
**[06:10] ---**
I saw you at the Grand Magic Games, too!
You're so strong!
**[06:15] ---**
U-Um...
**[06:17] ---**
P-Please shake my hand!
**[06:20] ---**
Mine, too!
**[06:21] ---**
Please sign your name on my back!
**[06:24] ---**
No, I...
**[06:25] ---**
Sending those clouds away
was godlike, you know?
**[06:28] ---**
I could see myself being with Laxus!
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And he's an S Class Wizard! So cool!
**[06:32] ---**
Please shake my hand, too!
**[06:33] ---**
Mine, too!
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That's our Laxus.
**[06:43] ---**
I'm envious.
**[06:45] ---**
It's just an annoyance.
**[06:46] ---**
Sure it is. You know you love it!
**[06:53] ---**
C-Cool...
**[06:56] ---**
Such powerful eyes...
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I just know our problems will be solved
now that Laxus is here!
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Please shake my hand!
**[07:03] ---**
Sorry, but these fists are made
for fighting, not shaking hands.
**[07:11] ---**
Cool!
**[07:14] ---**
Someone would want to be with me...
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Well, well, well! Hello, hello, hello!
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Oh, the mayor.
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Mayor...
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You sent the request, right?
**[07:32] ---**
Hello. It's a pleasure to meet you.
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This is the mayor of Borwatt, Mr. De Cybele.
**[07:38] ---**
Yeah, yeah!
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And I am his executive secretary, Ga Maille.
**[07:44] ---**
Yes, I am the one who sent out
that request to you.
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I watched. Yeah, I watched you!
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You're amazing! The world's
greatest lightning man!
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I like you! Yeah, very impressive!
**[08:04] ---**
You have a sharp eye, Mayor Cybele.
**[08:10] ---**
Let's return our town to
a state of prosperity!
**[08:16] ---**
Yeah, yeah! Exactly!
**[08:21] ---**
Thanks to you, we have fine weather again,
but we needn't chat in the street.
**[08:25] ---**
If you don't mind, may I ask you to
accompany us to the mayor's mansion,
**[08:30] ---**
where I can explain our
circumstances in detail?
**[08:35] ---**
Sure.
**[08:35] ---**
Then please give Laxus-san a big
round of applause, everyone!
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He's our hero!
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Yeah, yeah. I like you people.
**[09:03] ---**
Getting to the point,
when did this phenomenon begin?
**[09:10] ---**
Since you came here, Laxus, yeah!
**[09:15] ---**
What?!
**[09:16] ---**
You don't remember?
**[09:18] ---**
It happened about a week
before the Grand Magic Games.
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I didn't get enough to drink.
**[09:36] ---**
Hey, old man!
**[09:38] ---**
Who you callin' an old man?
**[09:40] ---**
You, old man!
**[09:42] ---**
You're the only old man I see here.
What, are you senile already?
**[09:47] ---**
You guys must be the senile ones.
**[09:49] ---**
I'm not that old.
**[09:52] ---**
Unless you figure you'll be senior
citizens in another ten years.
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Now go home, take a dump,
and get to bed, brats.
**[09:58] ---**
Whoa, you gotta pay the toll to pass.
**[10:02] ---**
This is our turf, so consider it a tribute.
**[10:07] ---**
This is stupid.
That's why I called you brats.
**[10:10] ---**
Now get the hell out of my way.
**[10:13] ---**
Bastard! You don't diss us!
**[10:20] ---**
Son of a bitch!
**[10:21] ---**
You kicked him!
**[10:23] ---**
You're dead!
**[10:24] ---**
I told you to go home and get to bed.
**[10:27] ---**
Shut up!
**[10:35] ---**
C-Crap! He's a wizard!
**[10:37] ---**
H-He should've said so in the first place!
**[10:39] ---**
The next one's gonna hit you.
**[10:44] ---**
That's...
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He's from Fairy Tail!
**[10:48] ---**
What?!
**[10:50] ---**
We're sorry for the trouble!
We didn't know you were a wizard!
**[10:54] ---**
H-Here, for your trouble!
**[10:56] ---**
Please, take it!
**[10:58] ---**
You think you can bribe me?
**[11:01] ---**
N-No, that's not...
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Now get your asses home!
**[11:13] ---**
This was that town...
**[11:15] ---**
Did something happen?
**[11:17] ---**
I was on my way back home from a job.
**[11:21] ---**
Yeah, that did happen.
**[11:23] ---**
You're saying all the lightning
started coming after that?
**[11:26] ---**
That's right, yeah!
**[11:29] ---**
The mayor's personality changed.
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He's on home ground.
**[11:34] ---**
Borwatt was a prosperous post town,
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but because of the lightning, nobody comes,
so now we're more like a ghost town.
**[11:43] ---**
And what started this
whole plague of lightning
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was your initial lightning that night.
**[11:49] ---**
That's an unfounded accusation!
**[11:51] ---**
Wait.
**[11:52] ---**
What do you want me to do?
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Well, rid the town of lightning.
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Rid it?
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Yeah. After all, you're the one who
started it. So take responsibility.
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That's only natural, right? Yeah.
**[12:10] ---**
The townspeople see you as a hero,
**[12:14] ---**
but your silly alleyway brawl
brought this upon us.
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If they knew the truth, your reputation,
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not to mention the reputation of Fairy Tail,
victors of the Grand Magic Games, would fall.
**[12:25] ---**
Do we have an understanding?
**[12:38] ---**
That piss-ant mayor!
**[12:40] ---**
If that's his true character...
**[12:42] ---**
There's something else going on here.
**[12:43] ---**
How do you know?
**[12:44] ---**
A woman's intuition!
**[12:46] ---**
That's not much to go on.
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A man wouldn't understand.
There's something about the mayor.
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After all, the original request didn't give
any details. Don't you think that's strange?
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Laxus?
**[12:59] ---**
The old man's words are coming back to me.
**[13:02] ---**
What's that?
**[13:03] ---**
Don't be swallowed up by lightning.
**[13:06] ---**
Don't drown in booze.
**[13:08] ---**
That night, it was as if I had been swallowed up
by lightning and drowned in booze.
**[13:16] ---**
The thunderclouds are back.
**[13:18] ---**
Are you gonna be a lightning rod again?
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I started this mess. If I don't clean it up,
it'll cause trouble for all of Fairy Tail.
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I'll help you.
**[13:27] ---**
Count me in!
**[13:29] ---**
The Raijin-shuu has followed you because
we believe in you. Just tell us what to do.
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I'm sorry for bringing you into this.
**[13:37] ---**
No problem!
**[13:40] ---**
What's wrong?
**[13:42] ---**
Ever since we've come to this town,
I've been crackling with electricity.
**[13:51] ---**
I have a feeling my magic
is being pulled that way.
**[13:54] ---**
Then we'll just have to check it out.
**[13:56] ---**
Yeah. Let's investigate.
**[13:58] ---**
That crackling? Or the mayor?
**[14:01] ---**
Both.
**[14:04] ---**
Everything is going as planned.
**[14:07] ---**
Yeah. I'm in awe of your cunning. Yeah.
**[14:11] ---**
Oh, you still do me shame
in that department, Mayor.
**[14:14] ---**
Using the damage to the town to
extort compensation is brilliant.
**[14:19] ---**
Your words sully my reputation, yeah.
**[14:23] ---**
Besides, it's true that lightning man
left behind all the electricity.
**[14:29] ---**
Certainly, all of our residents' problems
**[14:32] ---**
were caused by that electric man's deeds.
**[14:36] ---**
So how much should we charge him?
**[14:39] ---**
Yeah, good question.
**[14:42] ---**
I want five million jewel for every house.
**[14:45] ---**
Yes. Perhaps ten million jewel
would be even better.
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Yeah. You see, I'm no match for you, yeah.
**[14:53] ---**
You are too modest.
**[15:02] ---**
True, there's more electricity
in the air than before.
**[15:04] ---**
Yeah.
**[15:08] ---**
What is that?!
**[15:10] ---**
It's coming our way!
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It's all electricity.
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Electricity?! Laxus?!
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Are you okay?! Aren't you getting
overloaded with electricity?!
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I've gotta absorb it! Otherwise, you guys
and the town are gonna get hurt!
**[15:39] ---**
It's coming from behind, too!
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There's too much for even Laxus to absorb!
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Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun!
**[15:48] ---**
Now there are more?!
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Looks like you gotta totally destroy it!
**[15:54] ---**
Baryon Formation!
**[15:59] ---**
There!
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In that case, Fairy Bomb: Gremlin!
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It's coming from below...
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What's that?
**[16:19] ---**
Laxus!
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I'm okay.
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Look at that.
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That statue...
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It seems something's under it.
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Come to think of it, this area is where
I scrapped with the delinquents.
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You two, go!
**[16:33] ---**
Leave this to us!
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All right.
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Underground sewer system?
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What's that?
**[16:49] ---**
This is my electricity.
**[16:51] ---**
You can tell?
**[16:53] ---**
Electricity-wielding wizards all use
different wavelengths. They're like fingerprints.
**[16:58] ---**
This is definitely the electricity
I struck the ground with that night.
**[17:02] ---**
The electricity from that night attracted
lightning, and stored up even more electricity.
**[17:07] ---**
Is that even possible?
**[17:09] ---**
It happened, so it must be possible.
**[17:12] ---**
But that's a lot of electricity.
**[17:14] ---**
I don't care. I'm going to end this.
**[17:17] ---**
How?
**[17:18] ---**
I'm gonna neutralize it by hitting it
with the electricity I've been taking in.
**[17:21] ---**
Are you sure about this?
You already look pretty uncomfortable.
**[17:24] ---**
There's no other way.
**[17:26] ---**
That mayor pissed me off, but it doesn't
change the fact that I am responsible.
**[17:45] ---**
It's too much for you to handle alone!
**[17:47] ---**
Don't worry about me! Just think
about protecting the town!
**[18:02] ---**
Dragon Slayer's Secret Art! Roaring Thunder!
**[18:10] ---**
Laxus!
**[18:18] ---**
That must've been Laxus.
**[18:19] ---**
Figures!
**[18:21] ---**
Huh?
**[18:22] ---**
Yeah, I put one of my guys in there.
**[18:25] ---**
So, what did you hear? Tell me.
**[18:40] ---**
That was really something.
**[18:42] ---**
I'm surprised you were able
to withstand all that power.
**[18:45] ---**
It didn't explode?
**[18:49] ---**
While you were doing your best,
I set up my runes to destroy it.
**[18:58] ---**
You set that up really nicely.
**[19:00] ---**
I passed the Level 1 Rune Magic
Shorthand Exam.
**[19:08] ---**
Lacrima...
**[19:10] ---**
I've got it.
**[19:11] ---**
That lacrima must have amplified
your electricity power.
**[19:16] ---**
My electricity... How could that happen?
**[19:20] ---**
I can only think that it was a setup.
**[19:23] ---**
But who would...?
**[19:25] ---**
Laxus!
**[19:27] ---**
Ever's gut instinct was right!
That mayor planned the whole thing!
**[19:39] ---**
Hot-hot-hot-hot!
**[19:39] ---**
Mayor!
**[19:46] ---**
W-What is it?! Huh?!
**[19:48] ---**
I-I don't know!
**[19:52] ---**
Mayor! Over there!
**[19:54] ---**
Huh?!
**[20:01] ---**
Lightning striking!
**[20:03] ---**
Huh?! Why is it coming closer?!
**[20:07] ---**
Are you okay?!
**[20:17] ---**
You!
**[20:22] ---**
Mayor! What is that?!
**[20:36] ---**
Grandpa, I'm scared!
**[20:38] ---**
Don't come in here!
**[20:49] ---**
So you can protect something.
**[20:52] ---**
I thought you were a good-for-nothing
who only thought of himself.
**[20:57] ---**
Next time, make an effort on behalf
of the town's citizens.
**[21:16] ---**
What?! You should've sent him
flying with a sock to the jaw.
**[21:21] ---**
You don't understand. At a time like that,
a glare is more effective than violence.
**[21:27] ---**
So did you get paid?
**[21:30] ---**
You didn't...
**[21:32] ---**
W-Well, it wasn't a job that
was worth getting paid for...
**[21:37] ---**
Besides, everyone in town was grateful
to us. That's good enough for me.
**[21:42] ---**
Yeah! Work is about heart, not money.
**[21:46] ---**
You guys sound like altruists now!
**[21:48] ---**
I guess you wouldn't understand this spirit.
**[21:51] ---**
Things like this happen, too.
**[21:59] ---**
The repair costs for this will be exorbitant.
**[22:03] ---**
What are you just standing around for? Huh?
**[22:06] ---**
I bet Blue Pegasus will pay, yeah!
**[22:13] ---**
Shall we do it again?
**[22:14] ---**
Of course! Yeah!
**[22:18] ---**
Hey, Grandpa!
**[22:20] ---**
Yes? You're cute as always today. Yeah!
**[23:55] ---**
Hey, Happy!
**[23:57] ---**
Oh. It's just you, Natsu.
**[23:58] ---**
What are you so jumpy for?
**[24:00] ---**
Natsu, there's an emergency!
It's Magnolia! The city of Magnolia...
**[24:04] ---**
What?! What happened?!
**[24:05] ---**
It scares me just to recall it...
**[24:08] ---**
Hey, quit beating around
the bush and tell me!
**[24:10] ---**
It's... Natsu, behind you!
**[24:15] ---**
Next time: Fairy Tail of the Dead Meeeen!
**[24:19] ---**
What is this?! It's terrible!
Worse than terrible!
**[24:21] ---**
It's like a depiction of Hell!