A magic merchant infiltrating Fairy Tail

Kira knew that the swordsman dragon Khurnuki was the son of the moon dragon Selene, and that he would be killed by Diablos in a few years, and that his dragon flesh would be eaten by Suzaku.

No, it might not be a few years from now, but right now!

It's worth noting that in the "100-Year Quest" arc, Suzaku was a teenager around the same age as Natsu and the others. If we calculate the timeline, he should be around the same age as Wendy now, perhaps even a little younger. At this age, having acquired Dragon Slayer Magic and trained for eight years, he certainly knows how to use it quite effectively.

"Why did you attack the Council?" Kira asked, his face full of curiosity. "You don't seem like the kind of dragon that would indiscriminately kill innocent people."

"The council members attacked me first; I was just retaliating. Besides, you can't tell from appearances whether someone will indiscriminately kill innocent people."

"ok, I get it."

"You believe me?"

"What else? Whatever the reason, as long as we know you did it, that's enough."

Kurnuki scrutinized Kira for a moment, then turned to Dispel and asked, "Aren't you really brothers? Even your personalities are similar."

However, Dispel didn't have time to answer Kurnuki's question at the moment, because he was busy eating the snacks he had taken from Kira, and it seemed that the previous battle had exhausted him.

"So, you were hired by the council to deal with me?"

“Yes, the request is to defeat you.” Kira readily admitted the other party’s guess. “If you don’t want to fight, you can cooperate with me to take a set of photos.”

"I refuse!"

"That's true, I can tell from your face that you're not the kind of person who's easy to talk to..."

Chapter 416 Igneel is also a scumbag dragon

While Kira and Chinuki were talking, Natsu, Gray, Erza, and the others were watching the dragonman in front of them from behind.

"It's unbelievable! A dragon can actually transform into human form, and it seems to have such a good personality, completely different from Acnologia."

"It must be some kind of shapeshifting magic! Didn't Kira say that dragons have this ability?"

Natsu looked dejected and said, "But I've never seen Igneel in human form."

Wendy chimed in, "I've never seen Grandine either."

"Grandine, she must look just like Senior Perusica, right?"

"This... seems to make sense."

Lucy looked at Culnuki, who was having a friendly conversation with Kira, and said with lingering fear, "I saw its dragon-like form up there just now, and I was worried that it would be as scary as Acnologia."

Upon hearing this, Natsu suddenly changed his previous dejected expression, raised his head with a grin, and looked like a younger brother showing off his gentle older brother: "I told you, dragons can be gentle too!"

"Yes Yes……"

The group knew Natsu's personality all too well, and this reaction was exactly what they expected, so they just gave a perfunctory response and instead turned their attention to Dispel, who was actually Edgie: "But why is Dispel here? And you're fighting with him like this, yet you don't seem like enemies."

"I just happened to be traveling around here, and then I ran into Kurnuki, and we started fighting on a whim. As for why we fought, isn't it obvious? Of course it was..." Dispel stopped what he was doing and raised the twin swords at his waist, "...a swordsmanship sparring session!"

"Huh?! A sword sparring match?!"

The group was stunned. Looking at the battlefield, which was the size of five or six mountains, and the countless rubble, broken trees, ravines, and sword marks, they mentally screamed: "Is this really just a friendly spar?! You call a battle of this scale a friendly spar?!"

"That's right! As you can see, it's the Sword Saint Dragon, and I'm the Sword Master. It's perfectly normal for us to have a swordsman's duel, isn't it? Besides, slaying dragons is a swordsman's romance!"

"Slay the dragon?! You're going to kill it?"

Dispel continued eating, saying between bites, "We originally had this plan, but we ended up having so much fun chopping things up that we became friends without even realizing it."

"They became friends... but will they still keep fighting?"

"Of course! You have the right to be friends with a dragon!"

This time, Natsu immediately echoed loudly, even clenching his fist and throwing a few punches at the air around him: "That's right! I also want to find a dragon to fight!"

"Too bad, you're not a swordsman, Kurnuki won't fight you!"

"Huh??!! How disappointing!!"

Lucy silently grumbled, "What's there to be disappointed about...?"

Regardless of Natsu's disappointment, Dispel continued, "Actually, there's another reason why I fought Chnuki. News of Fairy Tail's battle with Acnologia has reached Giltina. I know that Kira fought against him, so of course I wanted to find a dragon to fight too!"

Kira suddenly asked, "Even so, without Dragon Slayer Magic, it shouldn't be possible to harm a dragon, right?"

"His scales are indeed very tough, but as long as my strikes are strong enough, it'll be fine!"

"What?!" Everyone was stunned for a moment, then their eyes lit up, and they asked incredulously, "Could it be that you can break through a dragon's defenses without using Dragon Slayer Magic?"

Dispel smiled smugly: "Of course... not yet!"

"Hey! You're still so smug?!"

"Who says you can't show off?"

"Can you really not be brothers?"

"Stop arguing!!" ×2

After a seemingly insignificant but actually purposeful chat, Kira finally learned about Kurnuki's basic information.

Kurkinu's power is mostly inherited from his father, the Stegosaurus, who possesses the "Slash" attribute, and a small part comes from his mother, the Moon Goddess Selene, who possesses the "Moon" attribute. The fusion of the two becomes his "Netherworld Style" swordsmanship.

Hearing Kurkinu casually mention his parents, Dispel, curious, couldn't help but interject, "Speaking of which, don't your parents live with you?"

“Dragons don’t have the custom of starting families. After a female dragon gives birth, she will only raise the young dragon to adulthood, so I haven’t seen them for a long time.” Kurkinu’s tone was calm, as if what he was talking about had nothing to do with him and was just someone else’s everyday talk. “My birth mother may still be alive, but I don’t know about my father. After all, I’ve only met him once.”

Kira had long forgotten about dragons, so he found it all quite novel. Upon hearing Chinuki's words, he exclaimed in surprise, "Wow! So dragons live such an open life? Natsu, is Igneel like that too?"

Natsu didn't know if Igneel was his adoptive father, but he felt he couldn't attribute such a bad thing to his own father, so he loudly retorted, "Igneel is so good to me! He's not some heartless dragon who doesn't care about his family!!"

"But you're human, not a dragon," Kira retorted casually. "Do you remember his mate and biological son?"

"No."

"See!"

"Hmm...maybe Igniru doesn't have a spouse or children?"

"That's the Fire Dragon King! The Dragon King!! How could he not exist?"

Taking advantage of the argument, Killer subtly revealed Natsu's identity, and sure enough, the next second Chinuki exclaimed in surprise, "You're the son of the Fire Dragon King Igneel?!"

Natsu grinned and nodded, replying with pride, "That's right! He raised me!"

"No wonder, I've felt your scent was very similar to his since just now..."

Upon hearing this, Natsu couldn't sit still any longer and jumped up excitedly, "Who does he look like? Igneel? Could it be that Igneel is really in Giltina?"

But Kurnuki remained calm: "I've never met Igniru, nor have I heard that he's come to Giltina, but I have met his son Ignia! By 'like,' I mean the two of you."

“Ignia…?! Ignia’s son?” Natsu was stunned upon hearing this.

Kira pulled Natsu back and asked with a curious look, "Hey Natsu, how does it feel to know that your dad has other children?"

"Uh...it's alright, I don't feel anything." Natsu scratched his head, then suddenly a thought struck him. He slammed his right hand into his left palm, realizing, "Wait, does that mean Ignia is my brother?"

"Yes! That's right! Then you can go around telling everyone you have an older brother!"

Let's see if your own brother gets jealous then!

Kira patted Natsu on the shoulder and said, "So this proves what I was saying earlier, Igneel is also a scumbag dragon who sleeps around and then leaves."

"But... but that's how dragons live, isn't it?" With a dragon as his witness, Natsu was completely speechless. Although he was slightly unhappy, he continued to defend his father.

It's perfectly normal for Natsu to feel this way. Igneel had always maintained a perfect image of being both stern and kind, gentle and powerful in front of him. Now, he suddenly realized that this image wasn't so perfect anymore, and that Igneel had even engaged in such 'bad' behavior, so it's understandable that he felt a little disappointed.

Fortunately, the two species are different and cannot be generalized; in addition, Natsu is carefree and didn't think too much about it.

"Natsu, you won't do this again, will you? Sleeping with women and then running away?"

"No way!"

"That's good, otherwise our Lucy would become a single mother in the future."

Upon hearing Kira's words, Lucy panicked. The news of 'Ed Natsu and Ed Lucy getting married' flashed through her mind again, followed by scenes of 'herself and Natsu after getting married', and then scenes of Natsu running away from home...

'No! I can't think about it anymore! Natsu isn't that kind of person!!'

"Seriously!! Why do you have to drag me into this again?!"

Natsu, puzzled but intrigued, also asked, "Yeah, what does this have to do with Lucy?"

Everyone: ? ? !!

"You're actually saying this has nothing to do with Lucy?!"

Kira immediately clutched his heart with one hand and wiped away imaginary tears with the other, putting on a show, "Ah~ poor Lucy~ poor love~"

Hearing this undisguised mockery, Lucy was both embarrassed and angry, Natsu remained completely bewildered, and the others secretly chuckled. Even Chnuki couldn't help but whisper, "These two..."

Happy, the ever-present frontline promoter of Xia Lu, spoke with a rare, rolled-tongued lisp: "They're having an affair~"

"I see!"

Chapter 417 The commission is being completed.

After teasing Lucy, Kira brought the topic back to the present.

"Speaking of which, Kurnuki, since you use the Netherworld Style swordsmanship, why not call it 'Netherworld Dragon'?"

Kurnuki replied calmly, "'Netherworld Style' is just a swordsmanship style I created myself; 'Netherworld' isn't my attribute. In terms of fighting style, the nickname 'Sword Saint' is much more fitting! Besides, what I call myself is my prerogative, isn't it?"

The reason behind that statement... isn't the last sentence the real reason?

Because the Underworld Style swordsmanship specializes in drawing the sword, and its fighting style is similar to Dispel's newly named "Ichishin Nissho-ryu," the two styles worked together surprisingly well, and the fight lasted for several days.

"You've been fighting for days on end? Your stamina is really impressive. By the way, the name 'Ichishin Dual-Sword Style' is so corny..."

"Hmph... A name is just a code. This move can be called 'One Heart Two Swords Style,' 'Two Hearts One Sword Style,' or even 'Two Hearts Two Swords Style.' It doesn't matter to me what it's called!"

Dispel put on a smug air, "So-called swordsmanship is nothing more than drawing the sword, swinging the sword, and sheathing the sword, so the most important thing is that I'm strong!"

Kira didn't have time to pay attention to his pretense, and just asked Kurnuki one more time: "Can't you really let me take a picture? You just need to turn into a dragon and lie there for a bit, it'll be quick!"

"I already said I refused! If the other dragons find out, how will I ever be able to work here again?"