Fairy Tail: Capturing the Demon Mirajane at the Start

The mages grumbled and cursed as they were blasted away by the explosives amidst a series of ear-piercing explosions.

Although a mage's physical abilities are extraordinary, being hit in the face with explosives at such close range would still leave them completely stunned.

"what?"

The middle-aged mage, who had been shielding the black-clad men in front of him and was clearly their leader, suddenly changed his expression and angrily shouted, "Impossible! This destructive power... is at least that of an 'S-rank' mage from a top guild! I don't recall ever offending any of the major mage guilds within the 'Fiore' Kingdom!"

"Sorry, this road is closed."

Before the middle-aged mage could think any further, Igor, transformed into a 'bomb demon', descended from the sky and landed right in front of him.

"What kind of magic is that?"

When this middle-aged mage, who was also the guild master of the only mage guild in Viola City, 'Deadly Rattlesnake', saw Igor, whose head resembled a torpedo and whose body was covered in a battle skirt made of explosives, exuding an extremely strong sense of oppression, his expression suddenly changed. Even though he was very knowledgeable, he could not recognize what kind of magic Igor was using.

"Boom!"

Igor had no intention of wasting words with the middle-aged man in front of him. Without hesitation, he swung his iron fist straight at the man's cheek, and the moment his fist touched the man's cheek, it transformed into a missile-like posture.

"Uh."

"Boom!!"

Then, another ear-piercing roar rang out in the street, and the middle-aged man, who was the guild master of the Mage Guild 'Deadly Rattlesnake', was sent flying into the night sky by explosives.

"Damn it, what force have I offended?"

Before the middle-aged man's consciousness completely dissipated, he still couldn't figure out which deity he had offended that would spend a fortune to hire an 'S-class' mage from a major guild to come to this remote, impoverished place near the kingdom's border to punish him.

"Alright, now it's time for the finishing blow."

After Igor dealt with the middle-aged man, he punched each of the mages and men in black who were lying on the ground, unable to get up, to make sure they could lie on the ground for a few days.

"Uh."

Not far away, Gildarts turned his head to watch Igor finish off these men in black and mages, and his eye twitched slightly.

Although Igor is tough, his style of doing things is too steady.

As Igor's teammate, you can always rest assured.

As Igor's enemy, you're really in for a rough time.

"As expected, bringing Ig and Mirajane into the Fairy Tail guild was the most correct decision I've made in all these decades."

After Gildarts put down Elfman, Lisanna, and the scantily clad girl who looked like a bar hostess, he stood there muttering to himself.

"Igor, well done."

After seeing Igor's added insult to injury, Mirajane waved her little fists and laughed with great satisfaction.

"Solved."

After ensuring that none of the enemies could stand up, Igor silently turned around, walked to Mirajane, and said calmly, as if everything was under his control.

"Ah."

"Thanks to you, Igor."

"This is the first time I've ever seen so many mages... I was a little overwhelmed just now."

Mirajane praised Ig for being reliable; she was indeed somewhat overwhelmed when she saw so many magic circles light up before her eyes.

"Do not."

"With Mirajane's strength, if you were serious, you could probably take care of those third-rate mages in an instant, right?! You just lack combat experience."

What Ig said was indeed the truth.

With Mirajane's current strength, she could indeed easily defeat these men in black and third-rate mages.

Although those mages looked impressive, and each of them seemed to have mastered considerable magic, in reality, most of them were only at the E-rank to D-rank according to the system.

Even that middle-aged man who was the president of the Mage Guild only had a C-level magic power according to the system.

According to the system's assessment, these people's magical abilities are far inferior to Mirajane's.

After all, Mirajane possesses dual-core drive technology, namely 'magic particles' and 'magic barrier particles', both of which are rated around B by the system.

"Is...is that so?"

Mirajane paused for a moment, then put her hands on her hips and nodded, saying, "I see! It seems I still need to fight more and accumulate enough combat experience."

"Sister Mira~"

Just then, Lisanna and Elfman, who had been put down by Gildarts, ran excitedly toward Mirajane and Igor. Their expressions were full of excitement, without any panic or fear of being chased by bad guys.

"Yo~"

"Lisanna and Elfman, I'm sorry to have startled you, but it's all over now~"

As Igor spoke, he gently patted Lisanna and Elfman on the shoulder, looking at them with a tender expression.

"We're not afraid at all!"

Lisanna clenched her little fists, seemingly unafraid of these bad guys at all.

"That's right."

Elfman nodded slightly, his eyes showing no fear either.

"As expected of my younger brother and sister, they are so brave."

Mirajane smiled, praising her younger siblings' courage without restraint, then turned to Gildarts and said coldly, "So what exactly is going on here? Mr. Gildarts, the strongest man on the continent of 'Ishugar'..."

"Uh."

"That's a long story..."

Gildarts, who was originally 'flirting' with the girl beside him, saw Mirajane sneer at him and said helplessly, "Actually, after I went to the 'nightclub' in Viola City, I was shocked to find that the local mage guild was actually colluding with the local gangs to force some outside girls to work in the bar."

"Aha?"

"You actually took Lisana and Elfman to a bar?"

Mirajane is stunned; this Gildarts is far too reliable.

"Nonsense."

“Even I know that ‘bars’ are not places for children! So I let Lisanna and Elfman play freely in the street, and then I went to ‘bars’ by myself.”

Gildarts refuted Mirajane's words with a serious expression.

"Then I should thank you, right?"

As Mirajane spoke, she took deep breaths repeatedly to calm her volatile emotions.

As an adult, Gildarts is far too unreliable, isn't he?

"Mainly because you know..."

"As a grown man, I absolutely cannot refuse women's cries for help and calls for help..."

As Gildarts finished speaking, he winked at Igor and said with a smile, "Igor, you should be able to understand me, right? Even if you don't understand me now, you will definitely understand me when you grow up."

"Uh."

Igor fell silent, thinking to himself, "Gildas, don't you dare try to shift the topic to me like that?!"

"Igor, is this true?"

"When you grow up, will you become as unreliable as Gildarts?!"

Mirajane turned to Igor and asked a potentially fatal question.

"Cough cough..."

"Of course not."

"Don't you know who I am, Mirajane?"

Igor never expected that he would be dragged into this mess by Gildarts, even though he had done nothing wrong. After a series of tactical coughs, he looked at the black-clad men and mages lying scattered on the ground, and seemed to have thought of something. His eyes lit up slightly.

Chapter 16 Fairy Tail Guild's Style of Operation~

"Speaking of which, if the perpetrators are the entire Mage Guild, there must be more than just this many people, right?"

Looking at the dozen or so men in black he had easily defeated, and the four or five mages who were paralyzed on the ground and unable to get up, Igor tried to change the subject and asked Gildarts a question.

In any case, since the enemy is a mage guild that controls an entire city, there must be at least a hundred or so people, right?

"That's right, there are over a hundred enemies."

Gildarts smiled at Igor, a hint of curiosity in his eyes, and asked, "So what do you plan to do? Will you choose to run away? Or..."

"Hehe, is there even a need to say it?"

As Igor spoke, he and Mirajane exchanged a glance. Their long-standing understanding allowed them to instantly read each other's eyes, and they said in unison, "Escape? The word 'escape' doesn't exist in our dictionary!! Of course, we'll defeat all the evildoers here!"

"Haha."

Gildarts smiled faintly, knowing he hadn't misjudged him.

Then Gildarts gently patted Igor and Mirajane on the shoulder, and pulled Lisanna and Elfman to his side, nodding and saying, "Then you can go without worry! I'll take care of Lisanna and Elfman's safety."

"Ah."

After a brief moment of thought, Igor and Mirajane headed in the direction Gildarts had pointed out, towards the location of the Mage Guild 'Fatal Rattlesnake'.

The Mage Guild 'Deadly Rattlesnake'.

This is a five-story villa located in the heart of Viola, occupying the best location in the city, exuding luxury and dominance.

"The president is really something... It's just some people causing trouble at a bar. Doesn't this kind of thing happen every day?! Couldn't you just send a few people over to deal with the troublemakers? Why did you have to take action yourself?"

Hundreds of guild members gathered together, drinking and chatting.

"Heh, you think the president doesn't want to?!"

"According to the guild master, the people who caused trouble at the bar this time also seem to be members of the Mage's Guild..."

One of the more knowledgeable guild members, sitting on the sofa in the center of the hall, spoke up to explain.

"I think the guild leader is overthinking it. How could members of a renowned mage guild possibly come to such a remote and impoverished place?"

In response, the other mage members in the guild all showed disdain. They had become so used to being domineering in this border city that they had long lost the vigilance that mages should have.

"Too."

The mage sitting on the sofa picked up a bottle of wine from the table, took a swig, and muttered to himself, "Those high-ranking mages from famous guilds wouldn't come to a resource-poor city like ours to do missions."

"Boom!"

Just as these mages were chatting, their guild's main gate was suddenly kicked open with a loud bang, silencing the entire guild.

"Who is it?"

The mages in the guild hall all turned their heads to look, and saw two teenagers standing at the entrance of their guild, coldly looking at everyone present.

"Hey, hey, hey, this isn't a place for brats. If you don't want to die, you'd better get lost..."

"You wretched brat, go home and find your parents! Don't disturb our drinking, or you'll be sorry."

When the mages discovered that the intruders were just two children, they immediately became dismissive, their eyes filled with disdain.

"take over……"

Instead of being frightened away by the mages' threats, the two teenagers released their magic circle on their own.

"Buzz!"

Accompanied by extremely powerful magical energy waves emanating from their bodies, a dazzling purple magic circle instantly lit up the guild hall.

A white-haired demon covered in black scales and with demonic wings on his back, and a bomb-wielding demon with a torpedo-like head and wearing an explosive battle skirt, appeared just like that in the indescribable scene.

"Oh no, these two brats are actually mages from other guilds?!"

When the members of the mage guild 'Deadly Rattlesnake' saw the newcomer's appearance, their pupils trembled as if an earthquake had struck, and they screamed loudly.

Unfortunately, their nerves, already numbed by alcohol and tobacco, were too slow to react.

"Soul Ripper..."

The next second, a dazzling magic circle lit up in front of the white-haired demon, and a black, oil-like demonic hand immediately burst out from the magic circle, immobilizing hundreds of members of the 'Deadly Rattlesnake' in place.

"It's time to end all of this!"