My two-dimensional resident

The moment Lin Tian mentioned Erza's disappearance, the entire guild of mages erupted in a frenzy. Tension, concern, worry, and confusion—a variety of emotions were displayed on their faces.

Seeing their reactions, Lin Tian thought to himself that Erza had really made a group of very reliable friends.

“Young man, are you telling the truth? If you’re lying to us, you’ll never leave this room again.”

Upon hearing that one of his guild members had disappeared—Erza, whom he had most favored and who had shielded his granddaughter—Makarov's magical power surged instantly. His entire body, overflowing with magical energy, grew into a three-meter-tall giant, glaring angrily at Lin Tian with his head bowed.

"I'm Erza's brother, do you think I would lie to you?"

Lin Tian snorted coldly, and a perfectly powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki emanated from his body. The invisible Conqueror's Haki flashed by, but it silenced everyone in the guild at just the right moment, and they all looked at Lin Tian.

"Is he Erza's brother?"

"I remember Erza mentioned that she had a powerful older brother who doted on her. Could it be him?"

"But they don't look alike at all. Could they be lying to us?"

"..."

"Quiet!" Upon hearing the strangely powerful young man claim to be Erza's brother, the giant Makarov once again shrank into his slender form. He let out a low growl, and all the mages in the guild instantly fell silent, casting curious and complicated glances at Lin Tian.

"How did Erza disappear? Her strength surpasses that of an S-class mage. And her two older sisters, although I can't understand the magic they use, I guess their strength is comparable to the Ten Wizard Saints."

Makarov looked at Lin Tian with complicated emotions. He really couldn't understand why Erza and her two older sisters would disappear without a trace.

"How they disappeared is something I also want to know. The last thing I heard was that they went to a mysterious island, and then I could no longer contact them."

Before coming to see you, I had already been searching the area where Erza and the others went missing for three days. Um... could we talk alone?

Makarov is a respected guild master, a parent figure whom all members of Fairy Tail guild love from the bottom of their hearts. As Erza's brother, Lin Tian was extremely anxious, but in order to seek Makarov's help, he patiently explained the information he currently had.

"Okay, come with me."

When Makarov saw that Lin Tian had only spoken halfway through his story and wanted to talk to him alone, he recalled that Erza had told him that her older brother and sister lived on a secluded island. So he guessed that Lin Tian didn't want his members to know more about him, which was why he wanted to have a private chat with him.

"What? Erza is also one of our comrades. You can say what you have to say right here!"

A girl with long, dark brown hair ran up to Lin Tian and shouted at him anxiously. Although she didn't like Erza much in the guild because Erza often stopped her from drinking, now that Erza was missing, she wanted to do her part and find Erza as soon as possible.

"Kana!" Makarov roared as he saw Kana standing in front of Lin Tian.

"President!" Kana glanced at Makarov with a wronged expression, pushed aside the person blocking her way while crying, and went back to the table to drink heavily, venting her emotions.

"Bardak, you and Urutia stay here."

Lin Tian recognized the girl as Cana, the daughter of Gildarts, the strongest mage in Fairy Tail, and known as "Card Master." But he didn't have much time to comfort the kind-hearted girl and followed Makarov into a storage room.

After Lin Tian and Makarov left the hall, several mages walked up to Bardock, looked at the imposing man, and asked him cautiously.

"Are you really Erza's family? You don't look alike at all."

"Wakaba, is this the time to focus on this issue? Hello, my name is Macao. When did you learn of Erza's disappearance?"

As a veteran of the guild, Marcao, with his slicked-back hair, interrupted his friend Wakaba's nonsensical questions from behind Bardock and Ultear. While asking Bardock about the time of Erza's disappearance, he frowned and observed Ultear.

As soon as Lin Tian and his companions entered the guild hall, he noticed the Demon Heart Guild mark on Ultear's back.

Looking at the mark, he had a vague feeling that he had seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't quite place it. Then it suddenly dawned on him – wasn't this the symbol of the infamous Heart of the Demon, one of the dark guilds of the Balam Alliance?

"Hmm? The Demon's Heart symbol... You're a member of the Dark Guild!!"

Realizing they were members of the Dark Guild, he was shocked and quickly raised his hands, whereupon a purple flame spell appeared.

Leave

I'll take a leave of absence at the beginning of the month to organize the subsequent outline.

Chapter 289 Gray and Ultear Awaken

A dazzling purple light shimmered from the flame rope formed by the magic "Purple Flame," illuminating the faces of every guild member around them and exposing all the suspicion, fear, and hatred they harbored towards Ultear on their faces.

"Why are the people from Devil Heart here? Did you kidnap Erza and then gather us all together to wipe us out? You're dreaming, but you're too ostentatious. You even hid your emblem. Besides, we Fairy Tail aren't afraid of rats like you who only know how to hide in the dark."

As a veteran member of the guild, Marcao frowned and looked at the two with a wary expression. At this moment, he was very worried about the safety of Guild Master Makarov, who was alone with Lin Tian.

Since discovering that Ultear was a member of Devil Heart, he has concluded that the three of them belong to the Dark Guild and that they came here to destroy Fairy Tail.

With Gildarts, the guild's strongest mage, absent, the only hope of stopping their plot rested with the guild members present. Although none of these companions were S-rank, he believed Fairy Tail was not something three dark guild members could defeat.

"The Heart of the Devil, oh... is that the guild we defeated before? Ultear, your guild is really unpopular."

If you ever get the chance to meet your Chairman Hades, you must make them change their ways of doing things, such as wanting to kill any stranger they see.

Such behavior could easily lead to my death. I didn't get enough of a fight last time, and I don't want to lose such a formidable opponent.

Bardock looked at the group of mages around him who were showing hostility towards them, scratched his head, laughed heartily, and said to Ultear beside him.

In his eyes, this Fairy Tail guild, although it had many members, was not nearly as strong as the guild he and Lin Tian had encountered before, the one that traveled by airship.

Bardock felt no will to fight against a group of weaklings. Moreover, Lin Tian had clearly told him before arriving at the Fairy Tail guild that all the members of this guild were Erza's companions, and that he should not engage in conflict with them.

Bardock arrived on the island relatively late and hadn't met Erza yet, but having been captivated by Lin Tian's charisma, he was still quite willing to listen to Lin Tian.

"Lord Bardock, you jest. Your strength and that of Lord Lin Tian far surpass that of our guild leader. I have already abandoned darkness and embraced light under Lord Lin Tian's influence, and swore to follow him for life."

"My lord, you may not know this, but the Dark Guilds and all guilds that have joined the Magic Council are enemies. This is normal. Especially Fairy Tail; they are the largest guild in the Kingdom of Fiore."

Despite being captured by Lin Tian and his companion, Ultear did not show much fear in the face of the hostility of these Fairy Tail mages.

Although her identity has been exposed, she is now Lin Tian's "familiar," and even when beating a dog, one should consider its owner.

Lin Tian has been very cold towards her these past few days, but Urudia has already realized that Lin Tian cares deeply for his subordinates.

If she were to be captured by the mages before her, Lin Tian would not intervene.

"What? The Heart of the Demon has been defeated by them?"

"Impossible, that's the strongest dark guild..."

"If not, then why do the members of this Dark Guild claim to be servants of Erza's brother, Lin Tian?"

Upon hearing their conversation, everyone in the hall wore expressions of shock and disbelief, and they began to whisper among themselves, debating whether the two were deceiving them.

When Marcao overheard Bardock and Ultear mention "the heart of the devil" in their conversation, a barely perceptible look of disdain flashed across his face, and a hint of doubt crept into his mind.

When he heard that Ultear had broken free of the demon's heart and become Lin Tian's servant, he thought to himself, "Could it be that I'm being paranoid?"

However, seeing that Bardak did not seem to be hostile towards them, and considering that the chairman was currently chatting with Lin Tian, ​​he decided to wait until the two of them came out before asking them directly.

So he released the magic "Purple Flame" from his hand, wanting to ask Bardock for more information about the demon's heart before Lin Tian came out. But just as he was about to speak, Gray woke up from his coma.

"Ultear? Are you really Ultear? Aren't you dead?!"

Just as the Fairy Tail mages, led by Marcao, cautiously surrounded Bardock and Ultear, Bardock and Ultear calmly watched the group.

A black-haired boy wearing black shorts and shirtless rushed out of the crowd and stood in front of Ultear, staring at her incredulously, his expression a mixture of tension and anxiety.

Gray looked at the girl who was a few years older than him, and his expression began to become dazed. The face of his master, who had been away from him for a long time, overlapped with the face of the young girl.

Sword Comes

He couldn't believe that the daughter his master had said had been dead for many years was actually appearing before his eyes.

"Huh? Gray, you actually know this member of the Demon's Heart?"

Macao swallowed the words that were about to come out because of Gray's appearance. Seeing that Gray seemed to know the girl with the Demon Heart guild symbol, she asked Gray curiously.

"The heart of a demon? What is that... Ultear, didn't your mother Ullu say you were already dead?"

At this moment, Gray didn't care about the Dark Guild or the Heart of the Devil; he only wanted to know what was going on with the girl in front of him who looked so much like his master, Ul.

"I'm sorry, I'm not the Ultia you're talking about, nor do I know the Ulu you're talking about."

Looking at Gray before her, Ultear's resentment towards her mother rekindled. That Ultear who abandoned her daughter didn't deserve to be called a mother.

Seeing Gray's disbelieving expression, Ultear recalled her childhood. She possessed considerable magical power from birth, but her frail body couldn't withstand it.

Under these circumstances, her mother sent her to a research institute for treatment, but she was used as a test subject by the researcher "Oraclemon" Brian, who conducted inhumane magical experiments on her.

She finally managed to escape from the research institute, hoping to return to her mother's embrace, but when the young girl found her mother, she was heartbroken. Her mother was chatting and laughing with her two apprentices, not at all like a mother who had lost a daughter.

Seeing her mother and apprentice living happily together, Urudia became convinced that she had truly been abandoned by her mother, and that the so-called "treatment" was nothing but a lie used to abandon her.

Thus, hatred for her mother and her two apprentices, Gray and Leon, arose in her heart. After destroying the research institute, she joined "Devil's Heart".

Chapter 290 Gray, Ultear, and Ulu

"No, you are Ulu's daughter, Urutia. Ulu showed me your picture. Even though you've grown up so much, I can still recognize you! Ulu told us you were dead? Why are you still alive?"

Hearing Ultear's denial, Gray initially thought she had really made a mistake. But then she recalled how her master, Ul, had told them about her daughter's past when they were young, and had even shown them a picture of Ultear.

Gray recalled that the girl in the photo was a miniature version of the Ultear standing before him. Therefore, he was absolutely certain that the girl in front of him was his master Ul's daughter.

"Dead? Hahaha! How ridiculous. She was the one who abandoned me, yet she has the nerve to say I'm dead? Haha!"

Gray's appearance had already plunged Ultear into painful memories. When Gray mentioned that Ultear had died, Ultear could no longer pretend.

Ultear, her defenses broken by Gray, glared at him with a twisted expression, her voice filled with madness. The hatred born of her mother's betrayal erupted from her body in an instant.

"She tricked her daughter into the Black Mage's research institute under the guise of 'treatment,' not wanting her to bring herself so much trouble, and then went to live happily ever after with two apprentices. She even told the outside world that her daughter was dead. Does such a woman deserve to be a mother? How dare you, someone who stole another woman's motherly love, stand before me and ask why I didn't die?"

Ultear looked at Gray, recalling the scene when she found her mother after escaping the research institute. The maternal love that should have been hers was stolen by the boy before her. The hatred in her heart began to consume her reason.

The magic power within her body began to surge violently, and a chill emanated from her. The immense cold condensed the water molecules in the surrounding air, and white mist spread outwards from her feet.

"Impossible! Ulu has always loved you; she would never abandon you. Every year on your birthday, she would hide in her bedroom alone, clutching your photo, and cry. I don't believe Ulu would abandon you!"

Looking at the chill emanating from Ultear, a chill unique to Ice-Type Mages, Gray became even more certain that the girl before him was the daughter of his master, Ultear.

He held his master in high esteem and disrespect, and he couldn't believe that his master, Ulu, was the kind of person who would abandon his daughter. Faced with Ulutia's unfounded accusations, he shouted angrily.

After hearing Gray and Ultear's conversation, everyone present shifted their discussion from whether Lin Tian and Bardock had truly defeated Devil Heart to the two of them, reverting to the usual Fairy Tail guild member gossip mode. They all returned to their seats, drinking beer and eating sunflower seeds.

"Alright, gentlemen. There must be some misunderstanding here. Let's sit down and talk it out."

As a veteran member of the guild, Marcao saw that Ultear was about to lose her temper, while Bardock seemed indifferent to what was happening, even sitting down with Cana and drinking beer, and the other members were just watching the drama unfold. So he shook his head helplessly and walked over to Gray and Ultear to stop their argument.

Although he had absolutely no good impression of this former member of "Devil's Heart," she was, after all, Erza's brother's servant. To avoid a fight between the two within the guild and ruining the situation, he needed them to sit down and talk calmly.

Although he didn't know Ullu, he had learned some information from Gray over the years. A mage who treated his apprentice like his own son, and who was willing to use his own life to seal the demon "Deliora" to stop it from continuing to wreak havoc in the northern region, could not possibly be someone who abandoned his daughter. There must be some unknown misunderstanding.

"Hmph, if she were really like that, she shouldn't have been sent to the research institute. Hypocritical, ptooey!"