# 49 - The Day of the Fateful Encounter
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Previously on Fairy Tail:
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Yup, the Battle of Fairy
Tail has been decided!
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The Fantasia went great!
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And everyone lived happily ever after!
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But Laxus ended up being expelled...
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This ain't sittin' right with me!
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Speaking of which, you sure
have bad luck with guys, Lucy.
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We weren't speaking about that!
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Why are you bringing that up now?
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It's been one week since
the Harvest Festival ended.
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The city is finally back
to its usual, calm self.
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It's true that everyone was quite
shocked when Laxus was expelled...
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Natsu was whining about it like
a little kid until yesterday.
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This ain't right, Gramps!
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Why'd you throw Laxus out?
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The Day of the Fateful Encounter!
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He's part of our family, you know?
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Fightin's just part of being a family, right?
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Enough of this, Natsu!
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I wanna fight him again!
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Next time I'll be strong enough
to win against him face to face!
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I said enough!
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Think about the master's feelings!
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Do you think he expelled
Laxus because he wanted to?
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But...
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It's because it turned out Laxus
was a Dragon Slayer like Natsu.
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No... He is not a Dragon Slayer.
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So...
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We were all really surprised
when we heard that.
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According to the master,
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Laxus was frail when he was a child,
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so Laxus's father, Master Ivan,
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embedded a lacrima that lets you use
Dragon Slayer Magic in his body.
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Dragon Slayer Magic lacrima?
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Things like that exist?
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Master said that he'd take responsibility for his
grandson's actions and step down from being the master.
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Everyone tried to convince
him to stay, but...
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Don't make Laxus's punishment
any worse, please.
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If Laxus found out that you quit, Master...
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With a haircut signifying his repentance,
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and an air of the past, it was Freed
that managed to talk him out of it.
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Speaking of Freed, he and the other Raijin Tribe
finally opened up a little bit to everyone, I think.
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Go ahead and use me as
your model, I don't mind!
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Don't go thinking anything strange now.
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I don't mean nude, okay?
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O-Oui...
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Like this? Or how do you like this?
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Hurry up and start painting.
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Are you and Loke going out?
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Are you? Are you? Are you?
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He lllllikes you...
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Ugh...
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He llllikes you!
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He likes you! He likes you!
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And, as usual, I'm mixed
up with a bunch of weirdos.
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Ever since the end of the Harvest
Festival, I saw Erza being alone a lot.
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Master, who exactly is he?
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To think he'd have the same
face as someone you know...
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Sorry. I don't really know much about him.
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He's quite the tight lipped one, he is.
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Jellal...
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So, things went like that for about a week...
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But I had another big problem left!
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Erza is the winner!
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I knew it...
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Lucy's in second?
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And third place is Juvia!
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Congrats!
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Rent: Denied!
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How about working?
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Well, that'd be nice and all...
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What'll I do...?
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I wish I had a boyfriend...
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What's with you all of a sudden?
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Men... It's men!
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Go without a boyfriend for a while and
I start gettin' the itch, you know?
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What're you all embarrassed for?
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I-I'm not...
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How many guys have you gone out with?
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Maybe like... three?
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Yup, a total lie.
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Haven't you ever wanted a boyfriend?
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Sure, a little...
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But honestly, I don't really know...
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You're so dang cute!
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Listen up, everyone! Lucy's
never had a boyfriend!
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Worry not.
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My cards have spoken.
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Today you will have a fateful encounter.
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A fateful encounter?
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Erza, what's with the dress?
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Next up is makeup! I can't stay like this!
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Shooby doo bop!
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That's odd. The Harvest Festival
is over already, so...
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Didn't you know?
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A reporter for the Weekly Sorcerer
is coming to do an interview here.
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The Weekly Sorcerer is
published every Wednesday!
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With features on new magic
and all the hot guilds,
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plus photo spreads of
beautiful female wizards,
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it's *the* magazine about magic!
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What?! The Sorce' is coming?
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He said he was writing a
special feature on Fairy Tail.
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Interview... Special Feature...
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Reporter...
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Fateful encounter?
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Oh my god!
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A magazine reporter is coming...
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My cuteness will knock him right out.
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"Ms. Lucy... Please, allow me to
photograph your cute smile..."
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Finally, I'll be in a photo spread!
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And that reporter is my fateful encounter!
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"Ms. Lucy, I want to continue
this interview... forever."
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And what's more...
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If I can get a fee from doing the interview,
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I might be able to pay my rent!
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This is like killing two
birds with one stone!
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Totally...
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I can do this! I can totally do this!
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Natsu, Lucy's broke.
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Maybe she ate something that went bad.
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Or maybe she's snapped under the
pressure of having to pay her rent.
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I can't stay like this!
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Snip, snip...
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Snip.
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Perfect-ebi.
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You think?
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It's not to your taste-ebi?
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It's just... Maybe something
a bit more cutting edge?
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How can I put it?
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Basically, you don't like it-ebi.
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Well, it's not that...
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I will go on a journey to train-ebi...
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That's not it, okay?
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How about I go to a bookstore and
buy a hairstyle and makeup magazine?
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Then I'll ask you again!
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Ebi...
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A fateful encounter, huh?
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If I pick a book this way we'll
end up touching the same book...
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Or something like that.
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So where's the development
I've been promised, huh?
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Go ahead.
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No... You can have it.
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But...
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What?!
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Fateful Encounter!
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I don't need it!
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Here!
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Hey!
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Now *that* was a shock!
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I can't believe my fateful encounter would
be with someone out of the blue like that!
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No! I can't go using up my
luck in a place like this!
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Would you wait up?
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Do you live in this city?
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Yes.
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I was wondering... Could you show me around?
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W-Why me?
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I'm writing a novel while traveling around.
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A novel?
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I use all the things I see in the cities
I visit as sources for my novel.
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Well, that's really admirable.
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All those memories will make that pen fly!
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Wait, are you also a writer?
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Oh... Well, maybe just a little.
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I see.
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Oh, yeah. That book from before.
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I'll give it to you as a present.
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So... Would you take me around for a day?
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Sorry... I'm really busy today.
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I see... That's a shame.
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I'm sorry!
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It couldn't be...
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This can't be my fateful encounter...
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Oh, welcome back, Erza!
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Shoot!
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I forgot to go buy the magazine...
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And came here instead of going back home...
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Oh! Titania!
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Holy... In the flesh!
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Cooool! Cool! Cool!
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It's Erza herself, right here before me!
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Cooool!
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Cool...
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Who's this high-strung weirdo?
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That's Mr. Jason, from the Weekly Sorcerer.
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Isn't this just the way I usually am?
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And after I went and got all dressed up...
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No problem!
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I want to capture you as you are naturally!
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Cooool... Cool! Cool!
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My fated person? Probably not...
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Anyway, no way I'm going to let my chance
at getting a photo spread slip by!
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Very cute!
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My name is Lucy!
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Erza there is my friend, see!
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Would you answer a few questions?
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I don't mind.
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Ignored!
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How many different requips
are there you can do?
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Over 100.
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Cooool!
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Which one is your favorite?
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Maybe the bunny girl?
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Bunny?
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Those ears are really cute.
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Cooooooool!
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What're your favorite foods?
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I can't do without cheesecake or soufflé.
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I knew it! Nobody knows who the heck I am!
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I don't wanna hear you laughing about it!
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Happy!
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Why are you blue?
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Because I am a cat.
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I suck!
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*stare*
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Dang...
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He's totally not my type.
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What'll I do if this is my fateful encounter?
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It's Gray!
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Gray is here, in the flesh!
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Who are you?
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He's that magazine reporter.
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Could it be... Are you...Juvia?
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Cooool!
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Gray, why do you take off
your clothes so quickly?
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I do not!
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Stop callin' people perverts!
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Gray-sama, your pants!
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It's kind of hot in here...
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I might have to strip down myself...
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So you're the reporter?!
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Natsu! Natsu, the Salamander!
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You're the one I wanted to meet most of all!
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Cool!
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Take it down a notch!
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Hey, hey! You're always writin'
nasty things about me!
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Yes!
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Like about the stuff I destroyed, or the
stuff I destroyed, or the stuff I destroyed...
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Cool! Cool! Cool!
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Whoa! It's really you!
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This is radical, to the max!
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Can I shake your hand?
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Shut up!
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Cooool!
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Whoa, he's just too cool...
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Truly a hero!
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I've never seen such a cool handshake before.
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What a pro.
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Elfman, what is being a man to you?
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And his answer... "Being a Man!"
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So cooool!
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Team Shadow Gear, is it true
you're in a love triangle?
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And their answer... "No comment."
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Dang, this rocks!
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Cana, do a photo shoot this time, okay?
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Whatever! Have a seat and drink up!
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I don't care how desperate
I am, this ain't happening.
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Master, what are your
aspirations for the guild?
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Um... To be devoted every day in
our hearts to love and justice!
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I smell a lie!
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The Raijin Tribe has been dissolved?
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No.
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No way in hell!
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We'll work hard to make up for Laxus!
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You've had a makeover!
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I'm aiming to win the next
Miss Fairy Tail Contest!
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I haven't heard from you two in a while!
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Well, haven't you grown!
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Go easy on us, got it?
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Of course!
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Hey, hey!
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He's not paying any attention to me at all!
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I have no other choice...
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It's embarrassing, but it's my only option!
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Attention, everyone!
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I'm a cute li'l bunny!
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I'll be the one to sing!
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Shooby doo bop!
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Gajeel?!
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Not you again!
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He's here!
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Iron Gajeel!
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Cooooool!
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In this world, where you look like
a fool for doin' what's right...
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You always looked like a fool, you know?
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In other words, it's right to be a fool.
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So, partner... Can you hear me?
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This is a song from my soul...
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It's like lightning up my
spine that never stops!
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Shut up, Gajeel!
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Why, you...
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Enough with you singin' your crappy songs!
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I got business with him!
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I haven't sung anything yet!
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Let me sing, you bastard Salamander!
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Take this, you!
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Come on, you two... We're in
the middle of an interview.
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It's a super battle between two Dragon
Slayers unfolding before my very eyes!
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The photo spread for this issue is gonna
be a detailed analysis of it, definitely!
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Cool...
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Cool...
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Please, look this way.
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That's it!
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A hands on report... Hands on...
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Cool...
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What a pro.
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Oh, for Pete's sake!
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I'll show you around
town, as a fellow author.
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Well, it's not really a novel
yet. Just an unhatched idea.
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Then, same as me!
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What're you making such a freaky face for?
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Scary.
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It's the same face I always have!
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Let's go on a job!
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We have to get to the client's
house by tomorrow morning,
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so we'll take a night train.
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Right now?
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I can't.
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Huh? But you're always complaining
you don't have any money.
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I can't today.
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Because...
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Would you like to get something
to eat tonight around 9?
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I'd like to talk with you some more.
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I've got a date!
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Oh...
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Aye...
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Hey! You don't have to be *that* depressed!
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What's with them?
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After Mr. Jason left,
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they were all excited about
going on a job with you, Lucy.
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Huh? Why?
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They said they found a job that'd be
perfect for you, although it's not much.
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I guess Lucy really isn't coming...
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I knew she wouldn't show...
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And yet, here I am.
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Thanks for waiting!
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Lucy!
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I thought you had a date?
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Anyway, what's this cheap
job that's perfect for me?
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It's 70,000 jewel, exactly your rent!
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Your rent is 70,000 jewel, right?
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This could last you for three months!
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Natsu, it'll last one month. Don't
you know what "exactly" means?
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Then, what about your portions?
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Without your house, where
will we weight train?
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Aye!
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What's that supposed to mean?
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Thanks.
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I'm glad I came.
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In the end, what's most important
to me are my friends at Fairy Tail.
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I guess he wasn't my
fated person after all...
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I came in her place...
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Lucy's such a helpless romantic...
This takes an experienced woman.
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She's totally my type!
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Again?
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As usual...
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It's only a little bit further.
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So hang in there? Okay?
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You can do it!
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Just as my cards foretold...
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Today you will have a fateful encounter...
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Juvia's acting weird, don't you think?
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Really? I think everyone else
in the guild is being strange.
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It's just the usual fighting, right?
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I've got a sense that there's
something different about it.
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Anyway, let's mix it up ourselves!
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Are you even listening to me?
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Next time: Special Request.
Watch out for the guy you like!
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Okay! I'll take on Lucy first!
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She seems to be avoiding you...
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Something isn't right...
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I wonder what I did?
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