One week after Anna and Future Rogue joined the Fairy Tail Guild...
"My name is Rogue Cheney. I'm a member of the Mage Guild Sabertooth. Of course, the current me may not have joined Sabertooth yet! Hehe, you might not understand if I put it that way. In reality, I'm someone who traveled through time from the future using the Eclipse Gate..."
"Alright! I'm not even sure whether the world I traveled from can be called the future!"
"After all, although that world is very similar to the current one, it is also completely different. At the very least, the Fairy Tail of that world was absolutely nowhere near as outrageous as the Fairy Tail of this world!"
"The world I came from experienced a great catastrophe. It was caused by the Black Dragon Acnologia, who was recorded in the Book of Revelation and regarded as nothing more than a legend by countless people, suddenly attacking the Kingdom of Fiore."
"To fight against Acnologia, we gathered all the Mages across the entire continent. However, it was useless! Acnologia was too powerful. His strength was overwhelmingly powerful, completely different from ours, a level of power belonging to an entirely different dimension!"
"In the end, we, who had gathered all the Mages of the entire continent of Ishgar and formed an allied army, were defeated! Everyone I knew, everyone I truly cared about, was wiped out in that battle."
"This reminded me of the records concerning the Dragon King Festival that I had once read in the history books. Presumably, four hundred years ago, when the Dragon Kings were crowned, those Dragon Slayer Mages must have felt just as desperate as we do now..."
"In my moment of despair, I searched through ancient texts and discovered the super-magic Eclipse Gate, created by Zeref, which could allow people to travel through time! I placed everything I had into the Eclipse Gate, hoping to use this gate to reverse the future and change my miserable world. And then I arrived in a world that was incredibly similar to, yet completely different from, the timeline I came from..."
"I suppose there must have been a serious error when I opened the Eclipse Gate. After all, I'm not a Celestial Spirit Mage. As for the kind-hearted person who helped me open the Eclipse Gate... She was unable to accompany me here for some special reason. That was probably another reason why something went wrong with my time travel."
"Anyway, this is my true identity. At the same time, I hope to obtain the help of Fairy Tail and have you help me reverse the tragedy of the future."
"Evan, this is where the letter ends..."
Northern Continent, Guiltina. Inside the Fairy Tail Guild, Makarov, the Guild Master of the Fairy Tail Guild, held a letter in his hand and stood before Evan and the others, softly reading it aloud.
After finishing the letter, Makarov did not forget to ask Evan, "Evan, how much of what that kid named Rogue said do you think is true?!"
After reading the letter, Makarov's heart was shaken. The information contained within was simply too unbelievable...
This letter had been sent to Makarov this morning by Laxus through a remote communication Magic Crystal in the form of a voice recording. The reason was that Future Rogue had finally reached his limit and decided to come clean with the Fairy Tail Guild of this world. After hearing Rogue's account, Makarov was initially shocked before immediately taking out a pen and transcribing it word for word. He then sought out Evan and the others and informed them of the contents of the letter...
"We'll still have to consult a professional about this..."
After hearing Makarov's question, Evan looked at Anna Heartfilia beside him. After all, the Eclipse Gate Plan had been created jointly by Zeref and the Heartfilia family. Perhaps Anna knew some information that Evan and the others didn't.
"As everyone should know, I am actually a Mage from four hundred years ago! I am a Mage who used the Eclipse Gate to complete time travel four hundred years ago..."
"To be honest, I never expected that someone from the future would choose to use the Eclipse Gate to travel back into the past. However, when I activated the Eclipse Gate, I did indeed discover that aside from Layla, there were many other people who had used the Eclipse Gate as well. As a result, I ultimately couldn't determine which time point I was supposed to travel to."
"I suppose this Rogue, who claims to have come from the future, is probably one of the people who used the Eclipse Gate from an even more distant future, right?!"
Anna analyzed the situation of Rogue Cheney using the Eclipse Gate to travel into the past. First, Anna confirmed Rogue's identity as a time traveler. This undoubtedly helped dispel Makarov's doubts.
"It's truly amazing. Senior Zeref actually created magic capable of time travel?"
Makarov was deeply shocked after hearing Anna's words, and his admiration for Zeref's talent grew even stronger.
Now Makarov understood why the Mages of this world who worshipped Zeref could never be completely wiped out...
Because Zeref was simply too extraordinarily talented. He had practically single-handedly pushed the development of modern magic throughout the entire world of Earth-land. At present, ninety-nine percent of the black magic in the entire world of Earth-land had originated from Zeref's hands. Anyone who knew even a little about Zeref's magnificent achievements would probably worship him as a true god?!
"Mm!"
Anna nodded when she saw Makarov's shocked expression. She then took a sip of tea to moisten her throat, preparing to continue.
"If we say that when we travel from the past to the future, the resulting timeline continues moving forward in a straight line, then when people from the future recklessly travel back into the past, it can cause the entire spacetime to become chaotic, resulting in countless possibilities!"
"In short, the moment a person from the future travels into the past, that past is no longer the past experienced by that person from the future! Even a butterfly can create a tremendous storm. We simply cannot know what kind of impact a time traveler will have on the world!"
"Perhaps the moment this future person used the Eclipse Gate to travel back into the past, an entirely new world had already been born!"
"In other words, perhaps the Eclipse Gate cannot actually allow us to travel through time. Perhaps it merely allows us to travel to a parallel universe that is extremely similar to our own world! As for whether this world can still be considered our original world, that's difficult to say."
After finishing her tea and moistening her throat, Anna shared her thoughts regarding Future Rogue's words with everyone present.
"So you think everything Future Rogue said is true?!"
"That idiot Acnologia really had the ability to destroy the world? That doesn't make sense! He's so weak, so where would he get the ability to actually destroy this world?"
After hearing Anna's words, Ignia asked in confusion.
"Hmm?!"
As soon as Ignia finished speaking, Acnologia cast a death glare at him.
"I mean..."
"The continent of Ishgar has Evan on it!"
"How could a continent with Evan on it possibly be destroyed by Acnologia?"
Ignia asked everyone after sensing Acnologia's death glare.
"This..."
"Perhaps the world Future Rogue came from didn't have Evan!"
"Or perhaps, the Evan of Future Rogue's world wasn't as powerful..."
After hearing Ignia's words, Anna immediately felt that they made sense. As long as Evan existed, the possibility of Acnologia destroying the world was practically zero, because Acnologia couldn't defeat Evan. The reason was that simple and brutal.
"Is such a possibility possible?!"
Ignia was startled upon hearing this.
"Mm..."
"It's not impossible."
Irene, who had remained silent until now, hesitated for a moment before speaking softly.
"After all, four hundred years is a very long time, and my mental state wasn't exactly stable. If I happened to make some wrong decisions, it wouldn't be impossible for a world without Evan to be born."
Irene recalled the day she first met Evan. If she hadn't found Evan in the forest at that time, or if she had simply ignored him, perhaps Evan would have been eaten by the monsters in the forest.
"My condolences!"
However, after hearing Irene's words, Ignia imagined an entirely different scene. After all, he was a dragon, and deep down, he still possessed the mindset of a dragon. Thus, Ignia shamelessly sighed at Evan.
"Ignia, have you been spending a little too much time with Kurnugi lately?"
Evan raised an eyebrow after hearing Ignia's words and asked coldly.
"Hmm?!"
"How did you know?!"
Ignia was stunned upon hearing this and asked Evan.
"The shameless aura coming off you is already reaching the heavens. How could I not know?"
Evan shook his head and said something that left much to ponder.
"Shameless aura reaching the heavens?!"
Ignia furrowed his brows tightly, clearly having absolutely no idea what Evan meant.
"Anyway, do you think what this Future Rogue said is believable?"
"Personally, I don't believe it~"
"That kid doesn't look like a good person. He's even more annoying than that brat Kurnugi!"
Selene directly expressed her opinion of Future Rogue. At the same time, she even took a jab at her own son. In Selene's eyes, her dear eldest son Kurnugi was annoying no matter how she looked at him, and there was simply no way to like him!
Selene had even reached the point where she felt that she had completely ruined this account and was preparing to start over with a new one. After all, she was still young. Converted to human age, she was only in her twenties, so she had plenty of time...
However, after spending more time with Evan and the others, Selene's standards had suddenly risen. She could no longer bring herself to look at those dragons with low combat power. In order to give her child the highest-quality genes, Selene had continuously tried to obtain Evan's power, but unfortunately, she had never succeeded...
"Haah..."
Evan sighed at this. Sometimes, being too outstanding as a person was also a burden because people were always thinking about you.
As for the relationship between Selene and Kurnugi, Evan could only say that a mother like Selene was truly an exceptional specimen among female dragons. Kurnugi was certainly blessed to have a mother like Selene... Ahem, dragon!
"I actually think Rogue isn't lying. He has no reason to deceive us!"
At this moment, Anna spoke up. She firmly supported Rogue.
When Anna heard the name Rogue Cheney, she immediately knew Rogue's identity. He was one of the five Dragon Slayer Mages whom she had brought to this world using the Eclipse Gate...
As Rogue's mentor, Anna naturally trusted Rogue wholeheartedly.
"Really?"
Selene curled her lips after hearing Anna's words. She didn't argue with Anna, because the reason she suspected Rogue wasn't that she had discovered any flaw in him. It was simply that she instinctively felt something was wrong with Rogue. If she had to put it into words, her maternal-dragon sixth sense was probably ringing nonstop!
Selene had absolute faith in her sixth sense. Her sixth sense had never deceived her...
"Evan, what do you think?"
Therefore, after thinking for a moment, Selene still maintained her opinion and asked Evan.
Selene was trying to find out what Evan thought about Rogue...
If Evan believed that there was nothing wrong with Rogue, then Selene would naturally believe there was nothing wrong with Rogue too~
In Selene's eyes, Evan's decision mattered more than her own sixth sense.
"What do I think?!"
"Rogue Cheney being a time traveler from the future should be beyond doubt!"
"On this point, my opinion is basically identical to Senior Anna's!"
After hearing Selene's question, Evan smiled slightly and shared his opinion of Rogue with everyone.
"Oh~"
Selene looked somewhat unhappy after hearing Evan's words. However, unhappy or not, since Evan had said so, there had to be a reason behind it, so Selene wouldn't argue.
"See~"
Anna's lips curled upward after hearing Evan's words, and she gave Selene a confident smile.
Although Anna's magical cultivation was the weakest among everyone here, when it came to understanding the Eclipse Gate, Anna was confident that across the entire world of Earth-land, she was the person who understood the Eclipse Gate best besides Zeref.
"However, although my opinion is basically identical to Senior Anna's, that doesn't mean this Rogue, who claims to have come from the future, isn't deceiving us..."
Just as Anna breathed a sigh of relief, Evan's voice continued to echo through the Guild Hall.
"Eh?!"
For a moment, both Anna and Selene were stunned. They simultaneously turned to look at Evan.
"So Rogue really did deceive us?"
Selene asked Evan somewhat excitedly.
In truth, Selene didn't really care whether Rogue Cheney was a liar, nor did she care about it at all...
After all, Rogue was simply too weak, so weak that it was pitiful!
In Selene's eyes, even if Rogue was actually planning something or had deceived Fairy Tail, it wasn't a big deal. In the face of absolute power, all schemes were laughably insignificant...
However, after hearing Evan say that Rogue had lied, Selene still revealed a delighted expression. The reason Selene was happy that Rogue had lied was entirely because, in her eyes, she had guessed correctly that Rogue was lying, which meant she had just gotten one over on Anna~
"Er..."
Anna looked at Selene's smug expression, the corners of her eyes twitching slightly. She didn't know why, but whenever she saw Selene looking so pleased with herself, she felt irritated...
"To be precise, what Rogue said was half true and half false!"
"So Senior Anna and Senior Selene, what both of you said are actually correct~"
Evan looked at Anna and the others with a smile.
"Half true and half false?!"
Anna and Selene, who had been glaring at each other a moment ago, simultaneously stopped and looked toward Evan.
"That's right!"
"Rogue actually didn't tell any lies. All the information in the letter he gave us is true. However, Rogue didn't explain the information clearly. He never said exactly how he planned to stop Acnologia after traveling back into the past! He only vaguely said that he intended to save the world..."
Evan directly exposed Rogue's little trick in front of everyone. He had no regard for the little tactic Rogue was using. After all, these were all tricks Evan had already played himself. There was nothing interesting about them.
"You mean Rogue is indeed hiding something from us?!"
"Evan, do you want me to go capture Rogue and torture him for information?!"
After hearing Evan's words, Selene licked the corner of her lips. She loved torturing people for information.
"Rogue may not necessarily be deliberately trying to deceive us!"
Anna's expression changed slightly after hearing Selene's words. She still wanted to protect Rogue. Of course, Anna's protection of Rogue wasn't due to any special affection. If it were Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, or Sting, she would also do her best to protect them. After all, in Anna's eyes, these children were simply too pitiful. At such a young age, they had already been burdened with a weight they were incapable of carrying! Among them, Wendy was especially pitiful in Anna's eyes...
"There's no need for that..."
"Let the children handle their own affairs themselves~"
Evan smiled and shook his head after hearing Selene's words. Without realizing it, Evan had already begun viewing himself as an elder to Rogue and the others. Although, if their ages were taken into account, Future Rogue was actually older than Evan was now...
"Phew..."
Anna slowly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Evan's words. Judging from Evan's appearance, Rogue's life was safe.
Although, even if Anna hadn't said anything, Evan had never intended to do anything to Rogue in the first place...
"Alright~"
After hearing Evan's words, Selene said no more. It had only been a spur-of-the-moment idea anyway, and she didn't care in the slightest about whatever Future Rogue was hiding.
"Evan, could you let me see what Future Rogue looks like?!"
After Selene fell silent, Anna walked over to Evan. Concern for Rogue was visible in her eyes. After all, Rogue was also one of the children she had raised from a young age.
"Sure!"
After hearing Anna's request, Evan waved his hand and took out a remote communication Magic Crystal.
"I really wonder what Rogue will look like when he grows up?!"
"That child was always very quiet when he was young! Surely he should be just as quiet when he grows up!"
Anna looked at the remote communication Magic Crystal before her and smiled.
The next second, the remote communication Magic Crystal in front of Anna suddenly lit up, displaying an image...
At the same time, inside the Dracula Grand Labyrinth.
Future Rogue was bare-chested, fighting side by side with a group of Mages from the Fairy Tail Guild!
"Shadow Dragon's Roar!"
"White Dragon's Crushing Fist!"
"White Shadow Dragon's Shattered Fang!!"
Future Rogue charged ahead at the very front. In order to win the trust of the Fairy Tail Guild members, throughout this past week, whenever he encountered Mages from Diabolos, he would always be the first to attack, unleashing one dazzling spell after another upon the backsides of the members of the Mage Guild Diabolos!
"Ah!!"
Future Rogue was quite powerful, after all. Rogue's natural talent wasn't weak, and on top of that, he had age on his side and had absorbed Sting's White Dragon power. His strength was genuinely enough to contend with the Spriggan 12!
Against these minor pawns from the Diabolos Guild, it was simply far too easy!
As one dazzling spell after another shot forward, the Mages of Diabolos instantly collapsed to the ground.
"Damn, he's too powerful!"
"Why does the enemy have another Dragon Slayer Mage this powerful?!"
"Black Dragon Knights, go and call the Black Dragon Knights..."
The minor pawns of the Mage Guild Diabolos lay on the ground, roaring at Future Rogue.
"Hehe, too weak, too weak!"
Future Rogue looked at the cannon fodder scattered across the ground and couldn't help laughing softly. Sure enough, his strength was still quite powerful!
The reason his strength wasn't apparent inside the Fairy Tail Guild wasn't because Rogue was weak, but because the people in the Fairy Tail Guild were simply too strong!
"You cannon fodder from the Mage Guild Diabolos! Go back and tell your comrades that from now on, whenever you see your Uncle Rogue, you'd better scram as far away as possible! The heart belongs to our Fairy Tail! It's not something weaklings like you can lay your filthy hands on!"
Future Rogue waved his arm at the Dragon Slayer Mages lying on the ground and shouted while thrusting out his crotch. At this moment, Rogue looked exactly like a rebellious little street punk...
At this moment, Rogue had no idea whether the image of a Fairy Tail member he was playing was convincing or not. In any case, he was genuinely trying his best!
Although the Fairy Tail Guild member he was pretending to be somehow looked exactly like a thug, with that unmistakable air of the cannon-fodder villains from Sabertooth when they first appeared during the Grand Magic Games...
"Let's go! Go..."
After hearing Future Rogue's words, the group of defeated cannon fodder all got up from the ground. They didn't dare look at Future Rogue and scattered in all directions with their heads lowered.
"How boring..."
Future Rogue watched the group of cannon fodder flee in all directions. Like a rebellious punk, he curled his lips, arrogantly squatted on a rock in the labyrinth, stuck a cigarette between his lips, and began puffing away.
"Very good! Rogue, you've already captured the spirit of our Fairy Tail Guild!"
Invel Yura gently pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose while revealing an eerie smile.
"I feel like you have some serious misunderstanding about what the spirit of the Fairy Tail Guild is!"
As for Dimaria and Brandish behind Invel Yura, they looked at the perverted Future Rogue and Invel Yura, exchanged a glance, and then walked in the exact opposite direction from the two of them.
Dimaria and Brandish were both women who cared about their dignity. They didn't want to have too much to do with the two perverts, Rogue and Invel Yura.
Just as Invel Yura and Future Rogue were engaging in endless embarrassing and perverted behavior deep within the great labyrinth, inside the Fairy Tail Guild on the Northern Continent, Guiltina, Anna was silently watching the scenes before her.
Anna looked at Future Rogue's half-white, half-black Yin-Yang hairstyle, which made him look like some kind of punk.
She watched Future Rogue purse his lips, pinch the cigarette between two fingers, and repeatedly smoke it with a "puff, puff."
She looked at Future Rogue's delinquent-like appearance, and her heart was in agony. Absolute agony! She was heartbroken! How had such a good child turned into this after growing up?!
Give her back that introverted little boy who used to follow behind her, calling her "Teacher Anna" over and over again! Damn it!!
"Who is this?!"
Even though Anna clearly knew that the Yin-Yang-haired young man on the crystal ball's screen was Future Rogue, she still couldn't help asking Evan.
"Rogue! Future Rogue..."
"This is what Rogue looks like after joining the Mage Guild Sabertooth!"
"That's why I said, Senior Anna! You should have let me take care of Rogue and Sting from the very beginning! Think about it, if Rogue and Sting had been little street punks since childhood, would you feel heartbroken because they turned bad after growing up? You wouldn't!"
After hearing Anna's words, Evan's lips curled upward as he looked at Anna.
"In your dreams!"
"As long as I'm alive, I absolutely won't let Rogue and Sting turn into punks like this!"
Anna felt suffocated after hearing Evan's words.
Just listen to what Evan was saying! What did he mean by saying that if Rogue had been raised as a punk from childhood, she wouldn't be heartbroken when Rogue grew up into one?!
So, to prevent your house from collapsing, you simply don't build the house in the first place and just live in the ruins, is that it?! Does that make any sense?! Is there any justice in this world?!
"Hehe, then let's wait and see..."
After hearing Anna's words, Evan simply waved his hand indifferently. To be honest, he no longer cared what Rogue turned into. In the past, Evan had planned to gather all the Dragon Slayer Mage children brought here by Anna through the Eclipse Gate because he intended to recruit the dragons inside Natsu and the others and gain another source of strength when dealing with Acnologia in the future. But now, it didn't matter anymore. He, Evan, was already invincible.
"By the way, Senior Anna, you're not going to stop me from beating Rogue now, are you?"
Evan suddenly thought of something and looked at Anna.
"Rogue? I don't see any Rogue! That guy in this crystal ball is obviously a fraud! I'll leave the task of punishing the fraud to you, Evan. I'm tired. I'm going upstairs to rest!"
After hearing Evan's words, Anna looked disdainfully at the Yin-Yang-haired Future Rogue in Evan's crystal ball before turning around and heading toward the rest area upstairs in the Fairy Tail Guild. She, Anna, was tired and needed to rest.
"Hehe..."
Evan watched Anna leave with a soft laugh.
Then Evan picked up the remote communication Magic Crystal in his hand and spoke softly.
"You can make your move, Erza!"
"Received..."
Elsewhere, inside the Dracula Grand Labyrinth, Evan's dear little sister Erza had already been lying in wait. She held a crystal ball and gave Evan a soft wave before picking up Gajeel, whom she had already subdued, from the ground.
"Let's go, my dear weapon!"
Erza gently patted Gajeel and smiled.
Gajeel remained silent. He was already almost in despair. No matter what he said, Erza wouldn't listen anyway.
"Why aren't you saying anything?"
Just as Gajeel was planning to play dead, Erza suddenly frowned and asked him.
"I..."
Gajeel instantly felt a wave of grievance. He had already said "okay" before, and Erza had actually beaten him up on the grounds that weapons weren't supposed to be able to talk. Now Erza was asking why Gajeel wasn't saying anything. How could she?!
However, although Gajeel had plenty of grievances he couldn't voice, he still planned to respond to Erza. Thus, Gajeel opened his mouth...
"Never mind. If you don't want to talk, then don't!"
However, just as Gajeel was about to say something, Erza suddenly sighed and lifted Gajeel into the air.
"Bang!"
Gajeel's head immediately slammed into the labyrinth ceiling, and the moment Gajeel opened his mouth, he swallowed a stomachful of dirt.
"Let's go!"
Just as Gajeel had no idea what Erza was planning to do this time, Erza suddenly laughed loudly and charged forward while holding Gajeel above her head.
"Wuuwu..."
As Erza sped forward, Gajeel kept his mouth open like this, carving a deep trail into the labyrinth ceiling with his head.
"I..."
Gajeel wanted to curse at the heavens right now, but he couldn't. Every time he opened his mouth, countless clouds of dust would enter it.
Elsewhere, not far from Erza and Gajeel, Future Rogue suddenly felt his heart tremble. For some inexplicable reason, he felt deeply uneasy.
"What exactly is going on?!"
"W-Why do I feel like I can't concentrate?!"
"It's as if something bad is about to happen..."
Future Rogue furrowed his brows tightly and scanned his surroundings, remaining on guard at all times.
This was the first time Future Rogue had experienced such a disturbing sensation since entering the great labyrinth.
"What's wrong, Rogue?"
Rogue's strange behavior naturally attracted Invel Yura's attention. Looking at Rogue's tightly furrowed brows, he couldn't help asking.
"I don't know either. I just feel like some kind of trouble is about to come looking for me!"
Rogue answered.
"Hahaha, what person in this world would dare cause trouble for our Fairy Tail?!"
"Rogue, don't worry. If there's a problem, your bro and I will face it together!"
Invel Yura was incredibly loyal. He laughed loudly at Rogue.
"Then thanks, Bro Invel!"
Rogue's gloominess faded somewhat after hearing this.
That's right. He, Rogue, wasn't the Sabertooth member that everyone could bully anymore. He was now an invincible Fairy Tail member! Looking at the entire world, who could possibly bully him now?!
Perhaps the reason he felt uneasy was simply because he hadn't been sleeping well lately. Maybe it was time for him to relax and get some proper rest!
"Clang, clang, clang..."
Just as the expression on Rogue's face gradually relaxed, accompanied by the sound of an iron rod scraping across the ground, a crimson figure suddenly rushed toward Rogue.
"This is..."
As the crimson figure approached, both Rogue and Invel Yura were stunned.
"You're Rogue, right?!"
"Rogue, I heard everything from my brother! You little brat are full of schemes, and you actually dared deceive our Fairy Tail! My brother said you've already earned yourself a death sentence!"
The crimson figure was carrying a metal doll in her hands. The doll's head was directly embedded in the labyrinth ceiling, scraping against it and producing sparks as the crimson-haired girl ran. The moment she saw Rogue, the beautiful crimson-haired girl became furious and angrily rebuked him.
"Bro Invel, the enemy is here! Hurry and help me!"
When Rogue saw the crimson figure charging toward him, he shrank his neck and immediately called out to Invel behind him.
"Boom!"
Before Rogue could think any further, an extremely thick ice wall suddenly rose behind him!
As for Invel Yura, who had just said he would face enemies alongside Rogue, he had already hidden behind the ice wall.
"Rogue, just die here!"
Invel Yura spoke to Rogue with deep sorrow. Unfortunately, Rogue had provoked someone he absolutely should never have provoked.
"What?!"
Rogue looked at Invel Yura, who had immediately chosen to run away while also blocking his escape route, and felt his heart tremble as fury surged through him.
"Thunderous... Bagua!"
In the brief moment Rogue stood there staring blankly at the ice wall blocking his path behind him, the crimson-haired girl had already swung the doll in her hands at Rogue.
"Damn it!"
Rogue had no choice but to turn around and face her. But the instant he turned his head, Rogue finally saw the appearance of the metal doll in the crimson-haired girl's hands.
That wasn't a doll at all.
It was a real person.
And it was someone Rogue knew.
"Big Bro Gajeel!"
Rogue couldn't help blurting out the name of the "doll."
"BOOM!!"
The instant Rogue's words fell, the attack arrived.