284 - Memoirs

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    My word...
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    Th-This dissertation...
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    You wrote this?
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    Yes.
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    I see...
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    It's wonderfully written,
    but the topic is a bit heavy.
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    This subject matter is not
    meant for children like you.
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    The fact is, magic pertaining to life and death
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    has always been considered
    forbidden territory.
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    It's too dangerous, even for adults.
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    Mm. It would anger Ankhselam,
    the god of life and death.
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    You will never study this sort of magic again.
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    Is that clear, Zeref?
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    Yes.
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    I just want to know why
    people live and why they die.
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    That's all...
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    A dream?
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    No matter how far, far away we are
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    you just need to keep on believing
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    So, please, stop crying, look up...
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    ...and let's move forward together
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    Why do you look down
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    and stare at the tears you've shed?
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    Even if today is a bust
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    we can always walk forward with faith in tomorrow
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    Having someone who can reach out to me
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    and someone I can laugh with
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    gives me a new strength
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    that can change the world as we know it
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    No matter how far, far away we are
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    you just need to keep on believing
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    everything is for you for you
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    The morning sun has driven the night away
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    I won't be afraid or hesitate anymore
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    I'm going to turn my dream into reality
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    So, please, stop crying, look up...
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    ...and let's move forward together
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    A dream?
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    How rare.
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    Natsu.
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    I once had a younger brother.
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    But he passed away
    several years after being born.
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    I just couldn't make sense of it,
    however hard I tried.
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    So I began to study life and death.
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    "Memoirs"
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    It's still only a hypothesis,
    but if we can just figure out a way
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    to amass the 2.7 billion Idea
    of magic power needed,
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    the Revive System will be realized.
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    --Incredible!
    --A flawless magical framework!
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    This would bring dead people back to life?
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    He's the greatest prodigy
    in the Academy's history...
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    How many times must I tell you, Zeref?
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    Reviving the dead is taboo.
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    What's more, your design pays little care
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    for the human lives that must be sacrificed.
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    Life and death are a law of nature.
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    It is not our place to meddle with life itself.
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    Life, at least, has an aspect
    of intentionality to it, does it not?
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    In which case, so should death
    and the life beyond that.
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    O Ankhselam! Please have mercy on this boy!
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    Zeref.
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    Yes?
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    You were told to cease work on
    your Eclipse project, were you not?
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    The design is almost complete.
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    It also avoids the ethical dilemma.
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    The Eclipse... A door backward in time.
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    Why would you go back in time anyway?
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    Well...
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    I assume your Revive System,
    the Eclipse, and everything else
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    are intended to bring your
    younger brother back to life.
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    It seems you are obsessed after all
    with the dangerous idea of reviving the dead.
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    The board has decided to expel you.
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    Everyone had such high hopes for you, too.
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    What a shame.
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    But, I--
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    Your brother won't come back.
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    He will never come back to life!
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    Zeref?!
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    P-Professor...
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    I-Is this the wrath of Ankhselam?!
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    Before I knew it, every teacher
    and student at the academy was dead.
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    I must have angered the god Ankhselam.
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    I was given the Curse of Contradiction.
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    The more I care for life,
    the more everything around me dies.
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    I'm sorry...
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    The only way to suppress it
    is to not care for life.
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    I also lost the ability to age and die.
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    I was tormented by the guilt
    of taking so many lives...
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    ...and I was disgusted with myself
    for feeling pleased
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    that I could study to my heart's
    delight, for all eternity.
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    Then, after wandering through
    that maze of thought for years...
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    ...I decided I wanted to die.
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    So I began working with
    the most taboo magic of all...
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    ...creating life itself.
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    I created demons that could kill me...
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    The demons of the Book of Zeref,
    as they'd later be known.
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    At the time, I called them the "Etherious,"
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    because they were made of ether,
    the building blocks of magic.
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    But none of my demons were able to kill me.
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    Eventually, I decided to produce
    my final, ultimate creation...
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    That creation was you, E.N.D.
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    Etherious Natsu Dragneel.
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    No, I shouldn't say "creation."
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    You were human to begin with.
    You had flesh and blood.
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    Yes. I looked after my brother's
    body all those years
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    for this very day.
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    The ultimate Etherious and
    my brother's resurrection...
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    I obtained both at the same time.
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    I'm Zeref Dragneel.
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    I'm your big brother, Natsu.
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    Etherious Natsu Dragneel...
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    As for how you met Igneel,
    and my connection with Mavis...
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    I'll save those for another time.
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    There's a person I need to go see now.
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    Or is he even a person?
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    I didn't think you'd actually meet with me.
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    That's how you normally look, huh?
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    How's your arm...
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    ...Acnologia?
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    What do you want, black wizard?
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    You seek destruction.
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    Yet you hardly partake.
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    You could conquer the world with
    your power if you felt like it.
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    But you haven't.
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    Your principles and
    motivations are quite unclear.
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    I could say the same about you.
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    I've remained on the sidelines
    because I couldn't decide.
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    Do I side with the humans and fight you,
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    or do I side with you and fight the humans?
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    It turns out that question itself was flawed.
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    Wiping out you and the humans...
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    That's been my mission all along.
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    You've been waiting for someone
    to offer a serious challenge, right?
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    I will make that happen.
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    The time will soon come...
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    ...for the final battle between
    a dragon, an immortal, and a human.
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    In eastern Fiore lies the city of Magnolia.
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    This city was once home to
    the Fairy Tail wizard guild.
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    We've returned after a year away.
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    Oh! This brings back memories!
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    Look!
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    Kardia Cathedral got fixed!
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    All the others supported
    the idea of reviving Fairy Tail.
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    It was a total wreck just a year ago, too.
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    This is one strong city, all right.
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    Yeah.
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    Everyone temporarily went
    their own ways again,
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    but we agreed to meet up here in Magnolia.
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    I must report to Jellal first.
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    Gajeel.
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    Don't tell the higher-ups about us.
    It'd be a big hassle.
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    It's a secret that we shacked up together!
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    --No! I meant me and Erza!
    --Shacked up...?
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    We'll head to Magnolia too after we report in.
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    I thought working for the
    Council was my true calling.
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    Save your jokes for your face.
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    I bet that old tree'll be sad to see me go.
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    Now that's a joke for sure!
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    --You little...!
    --I'm just joking, too!
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    Come to think of it,
    apparently there's little hope
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    of getting any info about Zeref out of Avatar.
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    They were just a group
    of worshippers, after all.
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    Are you okay, Lucy?
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    You don't seem in high spirits.
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    Oh, no, it's nothing.
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    I was just reminiscing about the past, is all.
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    Indeed, this city holds too many memories...
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    Of happy times...
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    Sad times...
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    Fun times...
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    All right alongside Fairy Tail.
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    But that same Fairy Tail
    suddenly disbanded one year ago.
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    --What's the deal, Master?!
    --Stop joking around!
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    How are we supposed to earn a living now?!
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    --You can't just decide this!
    --Yeah! Yeah!
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    You can't be serious, Master!
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    I am disbanding Fairy Tail.
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    You must follow your own paths forward now.
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    That is all.
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    This is unacceptable, Master!
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    Fairy Tail is my path forward!
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    If you wanna quit, leave your own damn self!
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    Yeah!
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    I ain't quitting! Fairy Tail is right here!
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    As of this moment,
    Fairy Tail is hereby disbanded!
[15:52] ---
    You are never to speak its name again!
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    Our master disappeared before we
    had time to grasp what happened.
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    Everyone gradually started
    to go their own ways.
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    Fairy Tail really was gone.
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    Memories were all that remained.
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    What's wrong, Lucy?
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    The guildhall is just up ahead.
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    I'm...
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    I'm scared to go any further...
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    Is it 'cause the old building is gone?
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    The building doesn't matter.
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    This is where it all starts!
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    It's how everyone else feels that worries me.
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    You suddenly showed up and
    talked about reviving Fairy Tail...
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    So I let myself get excited...
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    I sent letters to everyone,
    or at least everyone I could find.
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    Right out of the blue, after a year of silence.
[17:12] ---
    I asked them to gather in
    Magnolia to rebuild Fairy Tail...
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    But when I think about it,
    they're all following their own paths now.
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    I have no idea if we all feel
    the same way anymore.
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    Maybe they've even forgotten
    about the guild.
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    I just...
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    As if we'd forget after just one year!
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    Cana?!
[17:45] ---
    Cana!
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    Yo!
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    Natsu, Happy, and Charle!
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    Oh, Wendy! Have you "grown" a bit?
[17:55] ---
    No... Not really...
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    Wow, you're as stacked as ever!
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    Cana...
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    I gotta say, this past year's
    been eye-opening for me.
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    I figured I might as well go find Gildarts,
    so I went on a little trip.
[18:10] ---
    It was lucky I managed to get your letter.
[18:15] ---
    I bet it's the same for the others.
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    In my case, I'd been in
    the guild since I was little.
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    So this sudden disbanding thing
    didn't make much sense to me,
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    and I didn't even really know
    how I'd make a living afterward.
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    It was good for life experience, basically.
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    The whole situation felt weird for all of us,
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    so none of us had the courage to reach out.
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    But you broke that wall for us, Lucy.
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    So come on!
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    Everyone's waiting!
[19:05] ---
    Everyone...?
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    Oh! Long time, no see!
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    Your hair got longer, Lucy!
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    Natsu and the others are back!
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    --We got your letter, Lucy!
    --Oui.
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    Heard you caused a real stir at the capital!
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    Wendy! Charle! How are you?!
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    You look well, Happy!
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    Took you long enough.
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    It's definitely nice to be back in Magnolia.
[19:50] ---
    Warren...
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    I created the portable
    communication lacrimas!
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    Nab...
[19:56] ---
    Nab says he always read Sorcerer Weekly!
[19:59] ---
    I did, too, actually!
[20:01] ---
    Reedus... Max...
[20:03] ---
    --Oui.
    --How's it goin'?
[20:06] ---
    Alzack, Bisca, and Asca!
[20:09] ---
    The whole family seems to be doing well!
[20:12] ---
    Jet! Droy!
[20:13] ---
    Team Shadow Gear is back together!
[20:16] ---
    Ahaha! I had to leave the Council, though!
[20:19] ---
    You worked for the Council?!
[20:21] ---
    Macao, Wakaba, and Romeo!
[20:24] ---
    You three are under arrest for being chumps.
[20:27] ---
    --Laki!
    --You cut your hair.
[20:30] ---
    --Vijeeter!
    --That's a reunion dance, I suppose.
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    --Kinana!
    --Says she learned some magic!
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    You're as manly as ever, Lucy!
[20:42] ---
    Lisanna! Elfman!
[20:44] ---
    This is a manly reunion!
[20:47] ---
    Lucy.
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    Mira...
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    Welcome back.
[21:03] ---
    I'm home.
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    The fact that we were together
    again like it was no big deal...
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    ...made me so happy that it hurt.
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    I'm home!
[21:30] ---
    Mira!
[21:35] ---
    Here it is!
[21:37] ---
    It's all tattered, but oh, well!
[21:43] ---
    Our guild is back in action!
[21:45] ---
    We're Fairy Tail!
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    Until you fall asleep, until you give that smile
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    You are beautiful to me more than anything
[22:24] ---
    Under the same sky,
    we look up at the same stars
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    May the dream we shared come true now
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    There's no doubt we can achieve
    the future we wished for
[22:59] ---
    as our harmonies connect
    and stretch endlessly along this path
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    The Fairy Tail members celebrate
    their reunion in Magnolia
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    and vow to restore the
    guild to its former glory.
[23:27] ---
    With faith that the missing
    Makarov will return someday,
[23:32] ---
    Natsu and friends begin to
    rebuild the wrecked guildhall.
[23:36] ---
    One day, as the guild
    begins to get back on its feet,
[23:38] ---
    a lone man bearing the guild's crest appears...
[23:43] ---
    Next Episode: "The 7th Guild Master."
[23:43] ---
    "The 7th Guild Master"
[23:46] ---
    The secret door will soon be opened.