140: Chapter 140 Reunion! This is ParadiseHaving said that, he walked with heavy, trembling steps toward the gate of Duke Aibar's mansion.
He shouted into the room in his muffled voice, "Is anyone there?I'm here to apply for a maid position!"
A moment later, the ground behind Natsu suddenly bulged up again with a "plop," and Duke Abal impatiently emerged.
"How come another one has come so soon?My standards are very.discerning."
He was halfway through his sentence when his small eyes focused on Natsu's "peerless beauty" at that moment, and he was instantly struck as if by lightning!
Duke Aybar's eyes involuntarily popped out huge pink hearts, his mouth opened into an "O" shape, and his breathing became extremely rapid!
He suddenly prostrated himself before Natsu in a perfect dogeza (vertical kotatsu) posture, and shouted in a trembling voice filled with excitement and worship:
"Please~you~must~condescend~to~be~my~maid~!"
Please~!
This is my lifelong request!
Natsu nodded sullenly, giving off an air of "you know your stuff."
Then, ignoring the furious stares of the original four maids, he grabbed Duke Aibal, who was practically fainting with happiness, and effortlessly leaped over the high walls of the mansion as if he were a chick.
Seeing Natsu infiltrate so easily and be treated like an honored guest, Lucy stomped her feet indignantly and shouted:
"Damn it—!Doesn't this make me look completely useless?This is outrageous!"
She glanced at Happy, who was nodding in agreement beside her, and suddenly a thought struck her.She said, "Happy!I remember you have wing magic that can carry people, right?"
Happy nodded: "Yes~!That's right!"
Lucy immediately ordered, "Great!Fly me in quickly!I need to find the book 'Sunrise' before that single-minded Natsu!We can't let him get all the credit!"
Happy tilted his head, puzzled, and said, "Love?Now that Natsu has successfully infiltrated, can't we just leave the rest to him?We can wait to split the spoils."
Lucy was a little embarrassed, but she still stubbornly insisted:
"Stop talking nonsense!This is part of the plan!Take me inside now!"
"Okay, fine."
Helpless, Happy had no choice but to use his wing magic to carry Lucy with his small body, and they flew shakily to the roof of Duke Ebal's mansion.
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Inside the mansion, Natsu, having successfully infiltrated, was immediately perplexed by the vast, maze-like hall and the incredibly complex house structure:
"With so many rooms.where could the books be?"
Fortunately, according to the shared memory of one of the Straw Hat brothers, they seem to have some "experience" with this situation.
He formed hand seals and shouted, "Multiple Shadow Clone Technique—!"
Bang bang bang bang.
After a few puffs of white smoke, six more shadow clones of Natsu appeared in the arena.
Clearly, Duke Abel's aesthetic sense was far too "unique" and "advanced." Even if Natsu racked his brains and stretched his imagination to its limit, he could only come up with six more bizarre clones with different "flavors."
Even just creating these six clones made Natsu's main body feel a throbbing in his head.He turned pale, clutched his forehead, and felt nauseous: "Ugh.it feels even more dizzy than on a train.I feel like throwing up."
He glanced at the six bizarrely shaped "sister" clones before him, so strangely formed that even he dared not look at them too closely, nodded, and gave the command:
"Alright!Spread out!Go find a book called 'Sunrise'!"
Just then, Duke Abel, who had been casually tossed onto the sofa by Natsu, suddenly woke up.
He groggily opened his eyes and saw the seven Natsu figures before him, each with their own unique beauty and dazzling charm.He instantly thought he had arrived in heaven and screamed excitedly:
"Who.who are you?Am I.have I come to heaven?So many angels!"
Natsu's true form thought for a moment, then replied in a muffled voice, "We are.the seven sisters!We came together this time!I'm the eldest~"
The clones, understanding the unspoken message, echoed in turn, "I'm the second oldest!"
"I'm the third child~"
...
"I'm the sixth one~"
"I am number six number two."
Upon confirming that this was indeed reality and not a dream paradise, Duke Aibar was so excited that blood gushed from his nose like a fountain!
"I'm so, so happy!"
He yelled, his face flushed, and he gushed out a blissful nosebleed before completely fainting.
Once they confirmed there were no obstacles, Natsu and his clones immediately dispersed and searched everywhere.
A moment later, Natsu pushed open a heavy wooden door and entered a huge room filled with bookshelves—it was clearly a library!
Looking at the vast sea of books before him, Natsu scratched his head in frustration: "So many books.how long will it take to find them all?"
His cunning eyes darted around, and then he made an efficient decision:
"Forget it!Who cares!Let's just burn all these books!Surely one of them is 'Sunrise'!"
He took a deep breath, his chest bulged, and flames began to gather in his throat—
At this critical moment!
Suddenly, a loud "boom" came from the ceiling above his head!
Immediately afterwards, lime dust fell down, and a large hole was suddenly torn open in the ceiling!
First, a minotaur fell down—an extremely muscular man with a huge bull's head!
"Moo—!" the minotaur cried out in pain.
Then, Lucy and Happy screamed and fell down, landing right on the cushion-like minotaur.
"Ouch!"
Lucy rubbed her head, still dizzy from the impact, and looked at the minotaur celestial being beneath her, who was seeing stars after being smashed in.She roared in fury.:
"Talos!Didn't I tell you to be quiet and go in through the window?Why did you just smash through the roof?"
Talos, the minotaur, swayed his head dizzily, his bull-like eyes fixed on Lucy in her maid outfit, and mumbled in a deep, groggy voice:
"I'm sorry, Miss Lucy.You look so beautiful today.I got so excited.I couldn't control myself.Moo~"
After saying that, it tilted its head to the side and fainted from bliss.
Natsu: "."
He looked up at the large hole in the roof, then down at Lucy, Happy, and the unconscious minotaur who had suddenly barged in.He tilted his head, seemingly processing the overwhelming information.
Just then, Lucy finally recovered from her dizziness and noticed that she was surrounded by seven bizarre, almost mind-polluting, humanoid creatures.
Startled, she screamed, instinctively grabbing Happy and holding him to her chest, yelling, "A ghost—!"
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