A magic merchant infiltrating Fairy Tail

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[Invalid designation!]

"Huh?" Kira hadn't expected this. In his opinion, Laxus should have been able to avoid those traps.

"I wonder what's trapping that guy, it's probably Philid!"

[Invalid designation!]

"Bygusro?"

[Invalid designation!]

"Abba Grin?"

[Invalid designation!]

"Good heavens, the entire army wiped out? That's terrible! Then... Erza?"

[Designation successful!]

"Mmm, this is so much fun!"

……

[You've become the target of a prank! Complete the 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle!]

"What?!" Erza, who had just finished the [underwater breath-holding] punishment, was stunned, then flew into a rage. "Which bastard is it?!"

……

[You have obtained a prank item. Please designate one person to take off their shirt!]

"This... it wouldn't be good to offend everyone, so let's just go with Gray!"

[Designation invalid! Effect rebounds!]

"What the hell?!"

……

[You have obtained a prank item. Please designate one person to perform a dance!]

"Kira!"

[You have obtained a prank item. Please designate someone to crawl for 3 minutes!]

"Kira!!"

[You have obtained a prank item...]

"Kira!!!"

"Put all of this on that bastard Kira!!!"

When the competition reached a certain point, almost all the contestants who had obtained the prank props targeted Kira, the culprit who had made them lose face.

however……

[Invalid designation!]

It worked at first, but gradually became impossible to specify, so we had to find someone else or suffer the backlash.

……

"Thank goodness I got this thing, otherwise those guys would have killed me!"

Kira looked at the [life-saving charm] in his hand with lingering fear, feeling a sense of relief.

[Life-saving charm: Traps, mechanisms, and prank items are ineffective against you for 5 minutes]

"Run now!"

……

The audience watched the game with great interest.

"These prank props are hilarious!"

"The people from Fairy Tail are really interesting!"

"Hahaha, isn't that guy in women's clothing Laxus from Fairy Tail? I recognize him! He's Makarov's grandson!"

Maklov's face turned bright red: "Didn't you say we were going to escape the Great Maze? How did it turn into a Prank Maze?"

'What if the guild is ridiculed by the entire Kingdom of Fiore in the future? How can I face the first and second generations?'

Dispel held Happy and smiled without saying a word.

Fortunately, both the judges and the audience thoroughly enjoyed it, immersing themselves in spontaneous joy without a hint of mockery or disdain.

……

There are many traps in the maze, but less than half of them are designed to delay the contestants' progress. There are many other types as well, such as truth or dare, pranks and punishments, revealing their wicked tastes.

"Phew, we're finally here!"

Thanks to the [life-saving charm] and his prior familiarity with the maze, Kira was still the first to reach the end.

The destination is not the door. The door you see from the outside of the building is just for show. The real destination is a crystal ball placed on the fifth floor of the maze. Once it is triggered for the first time, it will randomly move to a certain place in the maze.

In other words, even if they reach the 5th floor, they will eventually find that there are only traps and no exit. The original entrance has long been closed, so they can only try their luck in various traps. This is the true meaning of "escaping the maze".

The moment Kira touched it, a voice resounded throughout the entire labyrinth.

[Congratulations Kira on finding the exit from the maze!]

[The maze has changed!]

[Everyone can use magic!]

[More traps added!]

The four consecutive prompts stirred everyone's emotions, some were happy and some were sad.

"Look! The maze is moving!"

"It would be much simpler to use magic..."

"The traps were already so numerous, and now they're going to be added?"

"I knew I should have followed Kira!"

As soon as the magic returned, Laxus transformed into lightning and soared upwards. At the same time, everyone with the ability to fly also took off.

Erza donned the Black Feather Armor; the Thunder Gods also displayed their unique abilities; Wakaba ascended into the air using the smoke; Gray created an ice staircase and carried a group of people along...

"Hurry, hurry! There are only 30 spots left, and now there are only 29!"

Just as everyone was shoving and jostling towards what they thought was the finish line, a voice came from above: "There's no exit on the 5th floor!!"

What do you mean by "there's no way out"?

"There's no exit! That door is just for show!"

"Are you kidding me?! How did Kira even get out?"

"Looks like we're trapped here. Is this the real 'escape from the maze'?"

"Ugh... It's all Kira's fault! He set up so many traps, making the qualifiers so complicated!!"

"I just played a prank on him, but it's definitely not going to work!"

"I used it on him too, but it didn't work and it backfired on me."

"I actually succeeded once!"

"What? I should have chosen Kira too!"

……

Kira, who had been outside for a while, looked at the screen at the top and silently remembered the people who had told him to use the gadgets on him, especially the one who had successfully used one.

His success naturally drew cheers from the audience outside.

“Kira…Kira…”

With a smile and a nod, Kira waved to the audience around him before walking to the rest area and sitting down to quietly enjoy the melons in the maze.

At this moment, he was extremely grateful that he was the first to come out, as the second act of the maze was even more troublesome than the first.

"But it's a bit boring being all alone here."

……

The exit is somewhere inside the maze, hurry and find it!

"How am I supposed to find it without any clues?!"

Everyone ran around frantically, knocking and banging here and there, not missing any place that seemed like an exit.

As a proper maze, it naturally contains not only basic paths and walls, but also many strange and wonderful decorations.

Of course, most of the decorations have traps that would trap you if you touched them. They didn't dare touch them before, but now they don't care anymore.

"It's not here...and this isn't either..."

[Triggering a common-sense trap: Meow like a cat!]

"Again? Forget it, this one's easier... Meow meow meow..."

One second... two seconds...

"Why isn't anything happening, you bastard?!"

Natsu thought for a moment, then mimicked Happy's cry: "Hey!"

[Trap disarmed!]

"Is this okay?!"

……

[Combat trap triggered; only one person can escape!]

Do you want us to fight?

"I thought there wouldn't be any fighting in the qualifiers, since the rules say you can't attack your teammates..."