# 324 - When the Fire Dies
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**[00:15] ---**
*This spell we're under*
**[00:16] ---**
*is the real deal, I'm watching closely*
**[00:19] ---**
*Oh, I wonder if we can change*
*this shattered world*
**[00:35] ---**
*Let's keep on journeying and*
*picking up the pieces, every last one*
**[00:39] ---**
*Oh, if we can reach beyond*
*the shattered tears*
**[00:45] ---**
*You think other people are*
*impossible to understand*
**[00:47] ---**
*I'm gonna take away that sad notion*
**[00:53] ---**
*Let's begin*
**[00:55] ---**
*I just can't let it go*
**[00:59] ---**
*because it's just too sad*
**[01:04] ---**
*Your words, more than anyone else's*
**[01:09] ---**
*Your answers, more than anything else*
**[01:13] ---**
*are what I want to know*
**[01:15] ---**
*I want to keep shaking them up*
**[01:17] ---**
*Even if now isn't the time*
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*My words, more than anyone else's*
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*My answers, more than anything else*
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*are what I want to give*
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*So hear them and know*
**[01:36] ---**
*I want to see the same things as you*
**[02:04] ---**
"When the Fire Dies"
**[02:09] ---**
I can't move at all...
**[02:13] ---**
Have I lost?
**[02:19] ---**
Natsu is really something...
**[02:23] ---**
But he's also naïve.
**[02:27] ---**
I'll always come back to life.
**[02:31] ---**
In just a few minutes, I'll be fully healed.
**[02:36] ---**
Zeref...
**[02:39] ---**
You've put my friends through
so much pain and agony.
**[02:45] ---**
I can *never* forgive you for that.
**[02:50] ---**
As Fairy Tail's first guild master...
**[02:54] ---**
As one who has always valued
tightly-knit bonds over blood...
**[02:59] ---**
...I want to rid this world
of you right this instant.
**[03:04] ---**
Having you kill me wouldn't be so bad.
**[03:08] ---**
But... I'm...
**[03:15] ---**
It's okay. You can rest in peace now.
**[03:19] ---**
If... only I could...
**[03:23] ---**
If...
**[03:26] ---**
If only I'd had more faith in you then...
**[03:31] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[03:37] ---**
You loved me with all of your heart.
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And, because of that, your
Curse of Contradiction took my life.
**[03:46] ---**
Yet, my curse, which was
assumedly the same as yours...
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...couldn't take your life.
**[04:00] ---**
Deep down...
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...in some part of my heart,
I must not have had full faith in you.
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My love wasn't strong enough.
**[04:15] ---**
You needn't blame yourself.
**[04:18] ---**
No one has ever felt love for me, anyway.
**[04:23] ---**
I realized that it wasn't love you felt for me...
**[04:29] ---**
...but compassion.
**[04:32] ---**
That's not true!
**[04:33] ---**
I felt conflicted, not compassion!
**[04:38] ---**
I learned to use magic thanks to you.
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I was able to save Magnolia thanks to you!
**[04:49] ---**
It was thanks to you...
**[04:52] ---**
...that Fairy Tail was born!
**[04:59] ---**
I deeply admired you.
**[05:03] ---**
But...
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You were also a bringer of death...
**[05:09] ---**
...and forced this fate upon me.
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You hurt my friends...
**[05:15] ---**
...you used me...
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...and you tried to destroy Fairy Tail.
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I hated you so much... but I loved you, too.
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Because I was the only other one
who knew your loneliness...
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The only other one who understood it!
**[05:40] ---**
That conflict makes it impossible to
think straight... Impossible to calculate right!
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The more I love you, the more I can kill you!
**[05:51] ---**
The more I care for you
from the bottom of my heart...
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...the more I'm able to kill you!
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That was the key to my plan, but...
**[06:05] ---**
Mavis...
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...in truth...
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...I don't really want you to die!
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I want us to be together, forever!
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The more love you give someone...
**[06:27] ---**
...the more of their life
the Curse of Contradiction takes.
**[06:32] ---**
Now I see...
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The answer all along... was to be loved.
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Thank you, Mavis...
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I'm sorry...
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Don't die!
**[06:55] ---**
I hate you! I hate you!
I hate everything about you!
**[07:00] ---**
You destroyed the guildhall!
**[07:03] ---**
You hurt my friends!
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You... killed Makarov...
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Die! Die! Die! Die!
**[07:15] ---**
I don't love you one bit!
**[07:18] ---**
Just die!
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I never want to see your face ever again!
**[07:23] ---**
I don't love you! I don't love you!
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You're our guild's mortal enemy!
**[07:29] ---**
Our world's mortal enemy!
**[07:33] ---**
So, please...
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...just...
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...die.
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Please don't die...
**[08:13] ---**
I... feel truly happy.
**[08:18] ---**
Thanks to you... I think...
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...I can finally rest...
**[08:32] ---**
I wish we could've talked more...
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I wish I could've made up with Natsu, too...
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Take me with you...
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...Zeref.
**[08:54] ---**
You need to live.
**[08:59] ---**
Do you really feel that way,
from the bottom of your heart?
**[09:07] ---**
Oh, no... This means
the curse will take you, too...
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Let's go together, Zeref.
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Mavis...
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It's so nice and warm...
**[09:38] ---**
Of course it is.
**[09:41] ---**
This is the heart of Fairy Tail, after all.
**[09:45] ---**
Ah...
**[09:47] ---**
So this is what death is like...
**[09:51] ---**
This is the power that
surpasses immortality itself...
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The power of love...
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The essence of magic.
**[10:34] ---**
What was that?
**[10:40] ---**
Is... the battle over...?
**[10:53] ---**
I... had a dream...
**[10:59] ---**
--Master!
--You're alive!
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Old man...
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Such an odd dream, it was...
**[11:19] ---**
A warm life force flowed through me...
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And I saw a barefooted girl smiling joyfully
with a boy dressed in black...
**[12:10] ---**
--The book!
--What happened?!
**[12:19] ---**
The writing is going back into the book.
**[12:30] ---**
I've done all that I can.
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I wrote all of our memories into it.
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Natsu...
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The Natsu that *we* know...
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...*isn't* some demon.
**[12:59] ---**
Lucy!
**[13:02] ---**
You messed with a demon's book.
**[13:06] ---**
I knew it'd be risky, but...
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Now it's my turn.
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I'll use my demon-slaying powers
to clear it out of you.
**[13:32] ---**
Lucy...
**[13:42] ---**
Are you okay?
**[13:44] ---**
Thank you, Gray!
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The patterns on your body are gone...
**[13:52] ---**
Look!
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The book is disappearing.
**[13:59] ---**
Does that mean...?!
**[14:02] ---**
We beat Zeref.
**[14:09] ---**
When this book disappears... Natsu will, too.
**[14:56] ---**
Yo!
**[14:59] ---**
Natsu...?
**[15:02] ---**
Natsu!
**[15:09] ---**
Natsu...!
**[15:11] ---**
Yep!
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It's over!
**[15:16] ---**
Yeah.
**[15:18] ---**
Nice work, Natsu!
**[15:21] ---**
Natsu!
**[15:22] ---**
Whoa, gross! You're getting
snot all over me, Happy!
**[15:26] ---**
No, it's emotion juice!
There's nothing gross about that!
**[15:30] ---**
No, it's gross!
**[15:34] ---**
Natsu...
**[15:37] ---**
So, um...
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I think the First Master passed away.
**[15:43] ---**
Huh?
**[15:47] ---**
First Master...
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But something tells me
we shouldn't feel so glum.
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I don't know how to explain it,
but I feel like this was what she wanted.
**[16:03] ---**
Ah.
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So...
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...let's go back to
our guildhall with a smile!
**[16:13] ---**
Aye!
**[16:15] ---**
Yeah!
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Mm!
**[16:29] ---**
I... survived?
**[16:34] ---**
It seems so.
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But why? I was--
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Because you still have
something you need to do.
**[16:45] ---**
Something I need to do...
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You need to live.
**[16:49] ---**
For Ichiya and Anna, too.
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You need to make the most of your life.
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My life...
**[17:06] ---**
Huh?
**[17:07] ---**
A portable communication lacrima?
**[17:10] ---**
I forgot all about it.
**[17:13] ---**
Warren?
**[17:15] ---**
Whew! It still works!
**[17:18] ---**
I dropped this thing during all the fighting,
but I finally found it again!
**[17:22] ---**
What's your situation, Erza?!
**[17:25] ---**
I'm with Jellal, Wendy,
and members of Blue Pegasus.
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Gah! I can barely hear
you through all this noise!
**[17:34] ---**
Listen! I'll get right to the point!
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We've sealed Acnologia inside a time rift!
**[17:41] ---**
Huh? Sealed? In a rift?
**[17:46] ---**
Two had to make
the ultimate sacrifice, though.
**[17:49] ---**
Huh? What?! Say again--
**[17:54] ---**
We got cut off...
**[17:55] ---**
Well, we'll have plenty of time
to talk later anyway.
**[18:00] ---**
What has happened to Natsu? To Zeref?
**[18:05] ---**
We need to return to Magnolia.
**[18:09] ---**
Did she say they sealed Acnologia away?
**[18:12] ---**
I gotta tell the others!
**[18:17] ---**
Huh? Acnologia?!
**[18:20] ---**
Yeah! They sealed him away or something.
**[18:23] ---**
Does this mean the fighting really is over?!
**[18:26] ---**
For real?!
**[18:28] ---**
Man! I was hoping for one last fight
so I could thrash him myself!
**[18:32] ---**
Get real. You're all busted up.
**[18:35] ---**
Say what?! You want a piece of me, Gray?!
**[18:37] ---**
Shut it, Hothead!
**[18:40] ---**
Urgh. You seriously need some rest, man.
**[18:46] ---**
What?
**[18:48] ---**
Gray...
**[18:58] ---**
Oww! That hurts!
**[19:01] ---**
Oops. My bad.
**[19:02] ---**
What's the big idea, Droopy Eyes?!
I oughta scorch ya!
**[19:06] ---**
See, you *are* all busted up,
Porcupine Hair! Go sit on an icicle!
**[19:11] ---**
Thank goodness! They're back to normal!
**[19:14] ---**
Aye!
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Let's head back to the guild already!
**[19:19] ---**
Yeah!
**[19:24] ---**
Your right hand is really hurt.
**[19:27] ---**
Yeah, I got a little *too* fired up.
**[19:30] ---**
But I can just have Wendy heal me up later!
**[19:34] ---**
There's the guildhall.
**[19:37] ---**
It brings back so many memories,
even though we were just there.
**[19:43] ---**
It's finally over.
**[19:47] ---**
I can't wait to relax at home.
**[19:50] ---**
I have books I need to finish reading,
and some manuscripts I have to finish writing!
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As for me...
**[20:02] ---**
I need to thank Juvia properly.
**[20:07] ---**
I'd love to go on another
adventure once things calm down!
**[20:12] ---**
Sounds good to me!
**[20:14] ---**
Count me in, too!
**[20:17] ---**
It'll be an adventure to
track down Aquarius's key.
**[20:19] ---**
Aye!
**[20:20] ---**
I love fish!
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She's only a half-fish creature, you know!
**[20:26] ---**
You mean mermaid.
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That reminds me...
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You said there was something you wanted
to do once the fighting was over.
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Aye!
**[20:34] ---**
Should we announce it, Natsu?
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Natsu?
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Wha...?
**[21:00] ---**
Natsu... Where are you?
**[21:04] ---**
Come on. This isn't funny!
**[21:09] ---**
Why--?
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I rewrote it and everything...
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So why?!
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Natsu?! Where are you?!
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This can't be happening...!
**[21:29] ---**
Natsu!
**[22:01] ---**
*At the top of this hill,*
*you can look down at the city*
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*I'm sure the person you want to see*
*is doing the same*
**[22:16] ---**
*I still remember what you said that day*
**[22:23] ---**
*"I'm fighting for someone."*
**[22:31] ---**
*You even have wounds that will never heal*
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*So you lament that*
*we'll never understand each other*
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*and put on such a sad smile*
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*I'll take you to a place where you can fly*
*as far and as long as you want*
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*So don't let go of me*
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*If we can accept everything*
*and reach that place*
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*then I just know we'll be unbeatable*
**[23:20] ---**
The battle should be over,
and peace should reign,
**[23:24] ---**
but these "shoulds" fall apart with a bang.
**[23:28] ---**
Just as Natsu suddenly
disappears from Lucy's group,
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an ominous crack opens in the sky.
**[23:34] ---**
This fissure, a shrieking amassment
of negative emotions,
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threatens to destroy the world entirely.
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Next Episode: "World Destruction."
**[23:44] ---**
"World Destruction"
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The countdown to the world's end begins.
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