Irene considered just going back but… she remembered Erza's words right before she came here.
[Mom, if Shun is calling for you. He must need your help. If I was strong enough I want to go myself but…] Erza clenched her fist in frustration making Irene feel guilty.
[So… please help him on my behalf too.]
"…"
Irene had a promotion from a mother to a mom in Erza's eyes. She couldn't disappoint her now.
"Sigh." Irene sighed out loud and grabbed the two sword and… a red light came from her hands that was grabbing the swords.
Swoosh-!
Imu and Shun just watched her work her sorcery silently.
Seeing her finish, Shun asked curiously.
"What did you do?"
Though it wasn't something to brag, Shun didn't know much about enchantment magic. Except that it probably buffs everything it affects.
"…I've enchanted them as you begged." Irene replied in a cold tone.
"…"
'Is she under a lot of stress lately?' Shun decided to deal with whatever is stressing her after he is done with the things here.
Without reading the room… a voice came toward them.
"…Woman, name thyself." Imu asked as he could feel that the blades have been strengthened so much that they could resist the 'contract' themselves.
"Ha?!" Irene faced the giant man like she wanted to take her anger out on him.
Before she was about to start a fight, Shun pulled out a cake from out of Erza's armory magic, which he uses it to mainly store foods. It contains a lot of desserts, SHFC and the hydra meat that regenerates from the Mushoku world.
"I'll deal with him, you just take a seat and eat this."
"…"
Irene wordlessly grabbed the mango cake and… walked away. Before leaving she left a few words.
"I used separation enchantment, it's used to separate soul or foreign enchantments from a target. It's an enchantment we were originally planning to use to get the fairy heart."
"I see."
"Also I've enchanted the swords, they're about twice as strong as they were before." Irene after being bribed was much more willing to explain.
"Sounds good." Shun nodded with satisfaction as he grabbed the two swords.
"I've made you wait."
"…"
Clang-!
Imu wordlessly jumped forward with his massive sword named Nemesis.
Shun once again crossed both swords to block them.
'It's much better now.'
After fending off the attack, Shun spoke to the swords.
"Ah-! I have no talent for the sword." Shun sighed dramatically
"Sorry but… from now on I'll think of you guys as kitchen knives."
"Eh?!" X2
Shun always knew the possibility but… never used it as he never was that desperate. However today he was in the mood for something new as his opponent was almost as strong as Acnologia, and his strength was still growing.
"…I'll show you my three sword style." Shun said with a serious face as he gripped the two swords on each hand
"…"
'What is this guy up to now?' Irene watched from the side sitting on a chair she created with arc of embodiment. Because Shun always show off with this magic, she ended up learning to create simple items such as cutlery, table and chair. Sometimes she is forced to make beds but… that's not the point.
"Three?" Morgans muttered in confusion until…
Shun used his tail as a spring to build up momentum on his leg, the result was nothing short of a miracle.
In less than tenth of a second, Shun appeared in front of Nerona Imu.
Swoosh-!
Shun swung the sword up against the giant man of over 8 meters in height. Imu despite his shock managed to react and clashed with the sword but…
Crack-!
The air cracked upon the impact, it was the infamous ability of the former world's strongest man.
Imu was sent flying like a tennis ball to the far distance but Shun wasn't done.
Swoosh-!
He swung the sword with purely speed and power and… created a massive sword slash that was imbued with the tremor fruit once again.
When the massive sword slash connected with the still flying Imu… the air cracked once again as there was an earthquake shaking the whole red line.
"…"
The reverie attendees even Irene was surprised by this sudden disastrous attacks created by the previously incompetent swordsman.
"When imagining those swords as a knives and my opponent as just a food that I'm about to butcher… I feel like I can do anything I want…"
Shun this time decided to go even bolder as he jumped up in the air and… waved his black and blue patterned Acnologia's tail that was sharp on the end.
Next moment… a much more deadlier and bigger sword slash imbued with tremor fruit was sent flying towards Imu who was still in the rubbles in distance.
Gulp-!
Everyone in the world that was watching the broadcast gulped nervously as they weren't sure which side to root for…
One side was a dictator… while the other was a literal demon king and his servants.
CRASH-!
What interrupted their nervousness was… a demon king coming out of the rubble with a loud explosion. His body was a bloodied mess but… he instantly regenerated like how his servants do.
"Oops, I forgot to remove his regeneration." As if someone had been waiting for Shun to mention it…
"Thirty. Years." It whispered in his ears.
"…"
Shun didn't mind but… he was going to test something else.
"Rule." Shun waved his hands and used the advanced version of Levy and Freed's word magic.
A purplish words in rune language immediately rose in the air.
"Those who are weaker than me and that considers themselves my enemies are will no longer be able to heal themselves."
As soon as Shun finished chanting… the words flew and surrounded the entire city of Mariejois.
Meanwhile… the giant man started transforming when Shun wasn't looking.
"!!"
The new appearance was… a giant with four distinct horns that visually resembled Hellboy's horns. Along with the four horns, his transformation featured completely blackened, highly muscular arms, a pointed goatee, and a massive increase in physical size. His height now rivaled the ancient giants nearing 70 meters.
'Just where is this place? It's definetly not Ishgar or Alvarez. A new continent?' Even Irene was alarmed by this weird enemy that was insanely strong.
'A good match for the emperor… However not a worthy opponent for the pervert. Unless he has something hidden.'
"…Thou don't belong in this world. What's thy origin?" Now the giant man transformed even bigger asked in an eerie tone barely hiding his fury
"You really talk a lot…" Shun sighed.
"We are just strangers that know nothing about each other."
"It's just a death battle where the winner gets everything. So… let's just fight until you die."
"…"
'…A death battle but only the enemy dies?' Irene rolled her eyes as Shun was the same wherever he was
The furious Imu turned silent for a bit then…
"I shall speak with thee no more."
'Was I too harsh?' Shun felt a bit awkward by his enemy's response.
Next moment… Imu summoned a massive bone sword.
'Just how many weapons does this guy have?'
Shun wanted to say it out loud but… he was the one who told the other party to stop talking.
Shun too decided to get serious as even Irene came here and there was a global broadcast. He couldn't afford to allow his enemies to land a hit like he usually does.
Next moment…
ROAARR-!
A roar belonging to a definition of an apocalypse for the citizens of the world of fairy tail echoed in the entire red line.
"T-This guy actually has that man's ability!" Irene muttered in shock, until now she had only seen him use the tail and dragon force.
"But this seems… a bit bigger than what I remember?"
As Irene said… Shun was using Makarov's gigantification magic and more more fruit on himself. Resulting his body to tower over the entire city.
Shun's Acnologia dragon form with all the gigantification magics now stood tall at over five thousand meters.
"A-A-A dragon?! It's a mythical dragon like Kaido's!!" Morgans and the reverie attendees were shocked not because of just the transformation as they were aware that Shun could transform into a dragon but… this time the size was too ridiculous.
"Don't compare me with fodder dragons." Shun with his giant ear now was hearing everything. At first it was annoying but… now he was used to it.
"…Long time ago, the world was ruled by dragons." Suddenly Shun started a story time in his dragon form, stopping everything in the world. Even the fights between his team and the god's knights.
"Until a single vengeful dragon started hunting every other dragons until they went extinct. He was later hailed as the dragon king in some lands. But… dragon of the apocalypse is the more commonly known name for him."
"His true name is… Acnologia. When Acnologia appears… a whole generation ends. In fact there is a blank hundred years in the history called the void century right? That's because of him." Shun lied as casually as breathing.
"T-That means?!" Morgans shouted in front of the king dendenmushi, asking all the necessary questions for Shun to continue. Just showing their teamwork from working together for more than two years.
"Yes… It was about to invade the human world but I've slain it and gotten acknowledged by the dragon and inherited its' strength." Shun said with a pained face, remembering his valiant fight that he fought for the world without anyone realizing.
"Just how much has he done for us without anyone realizing?!!" Morgans shouted with tears as he was unable to suppress his overflowing emotions.
"…"
On the ground the previously giant king of the world now looked like an ant looking up to the humongous dragon. Wondering what kind of nonsense those two were blabbering about.
Regardless… he came to a conclusion.
'He is dangerous.' Imu determined himself to finish this guy even if he had to sacrifice everyone.
Ignoring the reverie attendees to their shock. Shun turned to the free for all fight in the far north. There were ten god's knights and thousands of regular soldiers and cipher pols were fighting the elderly and children.
"Pfft-!" Shun laughed a bit seeing the golden buddha and a golden beetle standing side by side staring back at him.
"…"
There were surprisingly some beautiful women in the ranks of the god's knights but… at this point in Shun's life he wasn't lacking of beauty.
"Pitiful children that had been brainwashed by the world government…" Shun's tone changed into a cold one as he crouched his head down to the ground as addressed the enemies.
"…Do you fear me?" When Shun asked… his enormous completely white dragon eye was staring directly at the enemies.
"…"
Shun's words were so unexpected that no one could make up a word to reply. Until…
"W-Who would get intimidated by a clown like you?" The golden beetle with a deep voice shouted in feigned anger
Ignoring them Shun just released his conqueror's haki and magic power tainted by bunch of scums. Then he asked a peculiar question.
"!!"
"Life…"
"Or…"
"Death?"
"!!"
"T-That's Bigmom's Soul Pocus!!" Morgans the regular guest in bigmom's tea parties conveniently explained
"If you feel fear or even hesitates in front of soul pocus you will lose your lifespan!"
"Is there even someone that wouldn't fear a monster like this?!"
As if answering the reverie attendee's words, thousands of pale flickering light started coming out of the soldiers and cipher pols.
"H-Hey! Steel your will!" Saint Jamberry shouted to the others as even the god's knights had their lifespan being taken from them
Meanwhile Shun who was crouching down his head so his head wouldn't go above the clouds muttered.
"Impressive."
Only one man from the world government didn't have an ounce of hesitation as he stood still in front of Soul Pocus.
'But… I had underestimated Bigmom's ability. It's way more useful than I gave it credit for.'
Shun suddenly gained nearly hundred thousand years of lifespan.
Enemies that were just a regular humans died after giving fifty years or so but… the god's knights were doing fine except just aging a bit. Until…
"Kah-!"
They started to get their power taken back by Imu but… to Shun's surprise the younger members didn't die like the five elders.
'Ho? So it works like that… no wonder that guy treats the five elders like disposable trashes but actually talks to the god's knights like humans.'
From the ten knights… only the girl with a gun and Garling's son survived as they fell to their knees. Perhaps it was because they were young or they were Imu's favorites.
From the ground standing at nearly 70 meters, normally an ancient giant level sized man spoke but… now he looked like an ant.
"…Does thee hate the celestials that much?"
'This guy really likes to talk a lot, perhaps it was because of his age. Old people get lonely after all.'
"Not really." Shun replied honestly this time.
"…"
"Humans are just a product of their surroundings. Being born in a place and status like theirs… not being a foolish scum would be the strange thing."
Imu who was now at his peak power possible at this current year stood silently waiting for Shun to finish.
He wanted to learn what he did wrong so after ending the current generation, he would make sure not to make the same mistake in the next generation.
Even after seeing everything Shun did and Shun's current form… the demon king didn't have a single doubt in his own victory.
In a way he was even more delusional than Shun. But… that's why he is dangerous, Haki is a power of will and often times delusional fools have the strongest wills.
"The reason I'm here today is simply because…" Shun's voice boomed down on the entire world as his tone turned cold and a smirk appeared on his dragon form
"…I like what you possess."
"!"
Even Imu couldn't help but turn speechless.
With just one sentence… Shun managed to turn twenty percent of the global viewers into the supporters of the world government.
"I'll prove that it's possible to bring peace through fear." Shun laughed while the previously evil demon king stood in silence.
"…"
The world turned silent except for the mad dragon laughing at his own words. Until…
"Oi! That big black guy from the world government!! Don't lose!!"
"!"
Imu turned his head in surprise to the voice… it came from the paw bubble in the sky that contained the reverie attendees
"Yeah! Don't let that madman win!"
"We prefer the familiar tyrants over a foreign dictator!!"
To everyone's surprise the kings and the royal families in the paw bubble started booing Shun and started cheering for Imu until…
"GOLD SPLASH!" Tesoro immediately subdued the heretics that cheered for the world government but… everything was being broadcasted. It made them silent but… the civilains' support changed sides even more.
Not letting Tesoro to take all the glory for himself, Kings that gambled on Shun started fighting the world government supporters. It was about half of them but since Tesoro was on their side, the Shun supporter side easily won. Not to mention they had Dressrosa and Germa on their side.
Shun didn't really care about who they bet on. But his two secretaries were recording everything on their little notes.
Ignoring their charade, Shun grabbed the countless souls and turned them into a snowball. Then… he grabbed a cloud that was within his arm's reach.
"I don't know if it's even possible but… I'll give them all to this next homie." Shun was a man that preferred quality over quantity. If it wasn't like that he would've brought the vice admirals too in today's fight.
Shun prior to today never even considered Bigmom's fruit to be useful but… it was rapidly becoming his favorite.
Shun grabbed a large amount of cloud and… just pushed the large snowball of souls into the cloud.
"!!!"
"SKREEECH!!" Next moment an eerie scream straight out of a horror movie echoed loudly.
"…"
'…The hell did I just create?' Even Shun was disturbed by this cloud that had human form and could freely shape shift its form. The creature's current form resembled… slender man. It was tall and had human like head, body, arms and legs but… it didn't have a face. On it was just a blank white.
"SCREECH-!" Countless voices came from the creature as it fed on thousands of soul to be created. Among those souls were even the god's knights.
Everyone even the last boss himself was disturbed by the abomination but…
POP-!
It suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Everyone turned silent until…
"…I'll crush you!" Shun shouted, still in his dragon form.
'You really gonna pretend that didn't happen?' Irene was speechless.
Ignoring everything, Shun floated with each of his flapping of wings creating a strong gush of wind.
"…Insolent fool." The man of 70 meters muttered and sprinted towards the 5000 meter dragon.
The admirals and seraphims swiftly immobilized the remaining two members of the god's knights and ran to safety.
Swoosh-!
Shun waved both of his wings creating a magic wind that resembled flying slashes, just much stronger and bigger.
'I always thought Natsu's dragon wing attack was a bit of a fraud attack but… it's quite decent.'
The giant sword slashes were parried away by the swordmaster with an experience over a thousand years effortlessly.
Slash-!
The parried attacks destroyed everything they got sent to.
Drip-!
"Oh?"
While it looked like he parried it easily… blood dripped from his cheek as it was cut a bit by the attack.
But… to Shun's shock.
"It's healing?! Didn't I make a rule?"
'Does this madman not consider me an enemy?' Shun only doubted one part of his rule, the other wasn't even worth checking after all.
"Omen."
"!"
Once the small wound healed, Imu made a weird pose with his fingers creating a circle and… instantly Shun's body started burning in black flames.
Anyone else would've been panicking and crying in pain but… Shun had the Acnologia's immunity.
"What is this? Can I eat this?" Shun muttered out loud and… started sucking the air with his giant mouth.
Dragon slayers were immune to the element of their respective dragons.
Acnologia's element was… the magic itself. An arcane dragon.
'Whatever this guy is using falls to the category of magic huh?'
The next moment, to the spectator's shock, the flames got eaten by Shun.
But… it wasn't going away. No matter how much Shun sucked into his mouth… he was still burning.
Eventually Shun stopped thinking about it and decided to fight with the black flame on his body.
"…"
'Can this bastard take this seriously?' Irene was frustrated in the place of Shun's enemy.
The two party rushed at each other again. While Imu ran many steps, Shun just leaned in and he was already meeting his target with his body.
With a bit of struggle, Imu would be able to cut Shun's body but… it'd heal in a bizarre way as if time itself was returning only on Shun's body.
Slash-!
"!"
While Shun moved once, Imu had the chance to move a hundred times due to the size difference. And… in the hundredth clash he successfully cut off Shun's enormous leg. But…
"Ah-! You got me." With a dramatic cry, Shun just picked up his leg and attached it back with his hand.
"…"
The two's vicious clash that continued for nearly half an hour finally paused for a moment. Shun didn't miss the chance to blabber.
"…Giants are slow and idiots. That's the usual misconception people have about them. Now then… if there was a giant that moves faster than the sound itself… wouldn't that be a sight?"
Shun smirked as his giant body, that was previously moving like it was carrying the weight of the entire world on his back, disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"!!"
"Above!!" Morgans shouted as he could see Shun from his position.
But it was too late as Shun was already swinging his massive tail from above Imu's head.
Crash-!!!!
Thanks to the bird's shout, Imu swiftly raised his massive bone sword over his head and blocked but… due to Shun's size, speed and strength, the island itself couldn't survive Shun's attack as cracks appeared and within seconds the island was separated into countless parts and… the one who received the brunt damage of the attack, Imu… had sunk into the ocean.
"…"
"O-One attack!!! That's what it took to change the tide of the battle!!!" Morgans shouted as his brain was about to have a stroke.
'…No way, he heard that in the middle of everything right?' Morgans thought and stole a glance at Shun but… the giant dragon was staring back at him with blank eyes.
"!!"
'Usually it's over like this…' Shun thought as he remembered the fates of his opponents lately in this world.
'Kong, Doffy and Blackbeard, they all sunk to the bottom of the sea.'
However… for reasons unknown, the guy came out of the sea with a violent splash and…
'Is that a shield? Why did he not use it before? Is that to protect him from the sea water?'
Imu was surrounded by a clear wall circling him, Shun assumed it to be the power of the shield he had summoned.
"…Omen." Imu did another strange movement and summoned a bow.
Shun still had no intention to finish the fight and was enjoying the game until…
He heard a ding-!
It was from the key… someone was calling him. Despite the size difference, Shun had heard every word.
[Shun! Can you come here quickly? There's a problem.] It was Lucy's voice.
"…"
'What could have possibly happened to call for me? There is August and even replica of Acnologia that has about 80% of the original's strength.'
Shun sighed out loud, still in his giant dragon form, creating almost a natural disaster with his sigh.
"Sorry but I have an emergency back at home. I'll come back later." Shun said to the king dendenmushi.
"!!"
Sengoku was about to have a heart attack hearing this. Even if Imu was damaged quite a bit, he was already healed. And… even with the current team of admirals it'd be difficult to beat him. Most of them would die.
However, to his relief, Shun announced next.
"I'm done playing around."
Swoosh-!
Shun cancelled his giant dragon form and activated dragon force instead.
'Dragon force plus Fairy heart mode plus Acnologia tail would suffice.'
Now that Shun cancelled his dragon form, the size difference changed from Imu being the tiny one to Shun being the tiny one compared to the 70 meter demon.
Suddenly the demon proclaimed,
"…A fool that is lost in his delusions, a pitiful thing."
"…"
Hearing this, Shun, who is always ready for a trashtalk, responded.
"…About 7000 times, since the fight had started. Do you know what this number implies?"
"…"
Imu waited silently for Shun to finish.
"It's the number of chances I had to finish you off."
"!"
Shun clenched his fist, Vohu and Tohu had already transformed into black gloves with convenient holes so his paws can breathe fresh air.
"…We are on different level as an existence. Let me give you a prophecy, you will die while crying and crawling back in fear."
"…"
As always it was ridiculous words but… this time Shun had the most serious look on his face that Irene ever saw.
'And that black flame is still stuck to him… it's making him look unnecessarily… cool.' Irene shook her head dispersing her useless thoughts.
Thrum-!
Completely unimpressed by his opponent's words, Imu released an arrow from his giant bow.
It looked like it was going to connect right on to the target but… Shun was done playing as he had already mentioned. If Lucy hadn't given a call, he'd have taken the arrow to see what effect it does.
POP-!
For the first time in a while, Shun used his paws to repel the air and use the recoil to move at a speed going faster than the sound.
"!"
In the place where Shun had disappeared, the arrow was stuck on the ground. The place it was stuck on started melting as if it was shot by an acid.
However they didn't have time to wonder about useless things as Shun was standing before the giant Imu's figure.
Then… his paw successfully touched Imu's face and… an orange colored paw bubble came out of Imu.
Everyone could tell it was different from the pain bubble.
"…What do you think this is?" In front of the shaken Imu, Shun asked with a cruel smile making him look like a demon more than the demon king in front of him.
Since there wasn't much time… Shun didn't let the suspense last long as he revealed.
"You see… Those are your memories."
"!"
Hearing it, within less than a tenth of a second Imu reached for the paw bubble to absorb it back but…
Crash-!
Shun mercilessly broke the bubble into pieces with his tremor ability imbued tail.
"…"
Everyone's attention immediately shifted to Imu to see what it did but… Imu's eyes were blank as if he had lost his soul.
Thud-!
Imu, still in his giant form, fell to his knees. Not knowing where he was, who he was… he didn't even remember how to stand on his legs.
"An immortal demon king huh? Such an overblown nickname."
"In this vast world… There are countless ways to deal with fools like you." Shun muttered staring at his kneeling enemy before him.
"…"
Everyone that was present in the mariejois and watching the broadcast turned silent.
"I-Is it… over just like that?" Garp muttered in shock but… everyone else had lost their voices. However… the one thing everyone shared today was this one thought.
'…How is anyone going to fight against that?'
"Waah-!"
What broke them out of their thought was… a grown man's cry.
"Huh?" Garp looked in the direction of the voice, to his shock… the cry came from the kneeling Imu now crawling and escaping from the smiling Shun.
"…"
Imu didn't know anything, couldn't even understand what Shun was saying but… it was just his instinct that told him to run.
"Now then… here comes a question." Shun turned to the king dendenmushi and spoke.
"Does a criminal that has lost all of his memories about ever committing a crime, is he still a criminal worth a death?"
"…"
"I don't care what you guys believe but… I think he does." Shun said and… in a blink of an eye appeared above the crawling giant. He was about to deliver the most destructive punch he probably ever going to land in his life.
'Tremor fruit plus nen plus haki plus more more fruit times two hundred. Did I forget anything?' Shun wondered before swinging his punch towards the still weeping demon king.
CRACK-!
Once his punch landed… everything turned grey. The world itself had started cracking.
——
On the first day of the reverie… the world shook as it experienced tsunami and earthquake in various islands but thanks to everyone watching the broadcast they were quick in their response to the natural disasters.
No one complained about the Navy's sudden promotion to taking over the entire world government.
Shun's punch had destroyed the entire mariejois but… next day everything was magically restored.
Humanity just accepted the natural disasters as the bell alarming everyone about their new king of the world.
——
Meanwhile… Shun had returned to the fairy tail world with Irene.
"So… what happened?" Shun asked as he was seated inside the guild with Lucy and a red haired little girl next to her.
'Seriously, I disappear for few days and Lucy kidnapped a girl and Wendy kidnapped the entire sabertooth guild?'
To Shun's question someone else answered. It was a guy named…
"My name is Ivan Dreyar. You must've heard about me from Makarov."
"…"
Seeing Shun silent, Ivan smiled as he pointed to Lucy.
"Your guild member has kidnapped one of our own. I'm just here to take her back." Ivan explained as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Ivan!!" Makarov shouted in fury but… he no longer could make a noise as he usually gets muted around Shun.
"If you make things hard, I'll have to report things to the magic council. Since we are no longer a dark guild thanks to the grand magic games." Ivan smirked
"…"
Shun remained silent the whole time as he looked at the guilty Lucy.
"…You called me for this?" Shun pointed to Ivan as he was speechless.
Lucy would never trouble Shun over a small trouble like this previously but… things were different now.
"A girlfriend can ask her boyfriend a favor right?" Lucy tried to act strong but sounded very timid as she blushed.
"…"
Shun was caught off guard by this as he asked awkwardly.
"So did you kidnap that girl?" Shun pointed to the red haired girl hugging Lucy.
"No! They were taking advantage of her! Don't let her go with them!" This time Lucy refuted strongly.
'Because I missed most of the grand magic games due to being addicted to nen. There's a lot of events I missed…'
"So? What did you want again?" Shun turned to Makarov's son now that he understood the situation.
"!"
"She is lying! I just want our guild member back and some compensation for the mental damage it caused."
"…"
In response, Shun just turned to look at Makarov. Who… in response avoided his eyes.
Since even Makarov turned his eyes away, Shun turned back to Ivan.
"So in short… you're saying my guild member is lying to her guild master."
"Eh?"
"That means you're criticizing my ability as the guild master."
"…"
Irene, who had returned with Shun and was standing close by, was speechless.
'This guy acts tyrannous wherever he goes…'
"I learned this recently but apparently I'm also a member of the wizard saints that belongs to the magic council."
"Ha?!" Ivan Dreyar, who just came to blackmail his father, was speechless as he had no clue where this was going.
"In short… you're criticizing the Magic Council as well. How dare you question the entire magic society of the Ishgar continent?!" Shun asked as he released a bit of magic power, causing Ivan to start trembling.
"W-What? How does my question lead to that?! I'm the victim here!" Ivan was furious but his fear was overpowering his rage by a lot.
Shun was a bit angry as he missed his chance to steal a powerful target's abilities to come here for this. But he wasn't angry at Lucy…
'It's just her timing was a bit off. Also I'm not really desperate for power at this point.' Shun sighed.
"Shut up!" To Shun's surprise, it was Irene who stepped up.
"What? Do you know I am—!" Before Ivan could finish his sentence about him being Makarov's son… Irene's magic flared up as she turned Ivan into a frog.
"…"
"Problem solved." Irene said with crossed arms.
Lucy and Flare Corona, the child about the age of Wendy whom Lucy had saved, was speechless. They turned to Shun for his reaction, expecting him to scold Irene but…
"Nice one. Levy, call the magic council to put him in jail."
"Eh? Ah-! Okay!" Levy answered in surprise as she occasionally gets sent for errands inside the guild.
Makarov was silent the whole time, even after Shun's mute ability wore off.
Ribbit-!
The frog turned to Makarov as it made noises, asking for help but… Makarov didn't move at all.
"Huh? It's saying something, but there's no one here that understands the language of a frog." Suddenly Shun smirked as if he got a great idea.
"Makarov, take responsibility and translate his words."
"Ha?" Even the silent and moody Makarov looked up in confusion but… his fate was already sealed.
"Irene. Do the honors."
"!"
Despite being surprised, Irene just followed along with the charade.
"W-Wait!!" Makarov shouted loudly but… he was no match as a wizard compared to Irene. Even after putting up magic defense… he got turned into a frog.
Now the father and son that got separated years ago… both turned into frogs and were stood side by side on a table.
"Pfft-!" Shun couldn't hold his laugh at the sight. His little frustration of not being able to steal Imu's abilities were already forgotten.
——
[Uhm-! Can you tell me what happened?] the magic council chairman asked with a headache. He never wants to talk with Shun unless there was a big problem, like an invasion from another continent or dark guilds. But… it happened once again.
Lahar and his subordinates from the magic council had already arrived in the guild. Lahar's magic sphere was currently being used for a talk between the chairman and Shun.
"About that… this guy suddenly came to the guild and threatened to kill us because they couldn't win the grand magic games." Shun was as honest as usual.
"!!"
Ribbit-! Ribbit-!
The frog protested in his language but no one could understand him.
"I was about to fight back but one of my friends interfered and restrained him."
[I-I see…] the chairman didn't believe this ridiculous story but… what else was he supposed to do other than agreeing?
[Lahar, take him away.]
"Yes!" Lahar saluted, completely trusting the story.
Once the frog was arrested, the chairman let out a sigh and was about to end the call but… Shun asked in concern.
"Your face looks a bit annoyed?"
[Eh?]
"I considered using self defense but… if I had killed the guild master of a light guild, it'd been a problem for you right?"
"…"
[A-Ah, you're right. T-Thank you very much.] The chairman, Crawford Seam, smiled awkwardly as he thanked Shun who had caused him trouble.
"It's fine. We should be considerate of each other." Shun waved back as the call ended.
"…"
Once everything was settled… Lucy and Flare came to thank Shun.
"It's fine. From now you're fairy tail's member. If there is someone you don't like just tell me." Shun said as he patted Flare's head.
"Y-Yes, thank you!" Flare nodded with her face turning red.
"…"
'Despite acting like a tyrant, as an ally he is really dependable.' Lucy smiled with satisfaction as she even had a delusion of Flare being her and Shun's child.
The fairy tail members were somewhat used to this but… to the guests from other guilds it came out as a shock.
'So… this is the real strength.' Minerva, who had come to play after accepting Wendy's offer during the grand magic games, was enchanted by the display of strength Shun had shown.
Shun noticed the guests and waved them over.
With Minerva, came the twin dragons and Wendy who had invited them in the first place.
"Did you guys get kidnapped too?" Shun asked.
'Didn't you insist just a minute ago that the 'kidnapping' was a lie?' Irene was now immune but couldn't help but comment.
"N-No, I invited them to come play during the grand magic games so they arrived today." Wendy explained.
"I see. Well, have fun." Shun said with a smile.
"Thank you for the warm welcome. I'm Minerva Orland from Sabertooth." Minerva smiled gracefully as she introduced herself.
'I'll seduce you with my charm and… our guild will become the best in one shot!'
Behind her smile she was planning something sinister.
"…"
Lucy and others could somewhat tell her thoughts but didn't interfere, with the sole exception of… Juvia.
'This little girl, dares to have such thoughts!' Juvia had already imagined what Minerva's plan was after seeing her smile once, the only problem was… that Juvia's imagination was about ten times more intense.
"I-I'm Sting! And he's Rogue. Nice to meet you." The twin dragons introduced themselves as well but both the twin dragons and Shun didn't care much about each other.
Shun nodded and considered going to Tenroujima as Acnologia's replica was sending him signs that… there was an enemy Shun had sent earlier.
'How do I deal with that slender man thing? Do I just take back the souls? It should be pretty strong with the thousands of souls it got.' Shun sighed as his life was very difficult.
"We'll go to Tenroujima. You want to come?" To the Sabertooth trio's surprise, Shun invited them.
"Yes!"
Makarov the frog had already taken back his old form and was now silently drinking. He didn't even have the face to be angry, as Ivan was his son. He was just grateful that… with Shun's personality he didn't take Ivan's life.
"By the way, I want to learn that turning people into frog magic." Suddenly Shun said to Irene with rare excitement in his eyes as he imagined the possibilities.
"…"
——
When the group arrived at Tenroujima, Shun went directly to Acnologia who was sitting on the back of the slender man to restrain him.
"…"
"You guys go to the house, I'll join you soon." Shun said to the group, earning nods as they felt a bit scared of the slender man.
"When I come back, I want to see you guys spar."
"Eh? Spar against who?" Lucy asked in surprise.
"Hmm, Wendy against the twin dragon slayers." Shun didn't forget about his initial idea to see Wendy beat up the two.
"!"
"Then I'll fight her!" Suddenly Juvia said as she pointed to Minerva.
"…"
'Seems like she found a rival.' Shun nodded as the group went to the house while he faced the slender man with Irene.
"What is happening?" Shun asked the only figure that got ideas about the souls in the fairy tail world.
"…Simply put, you put too many souls inside one… thing. Normally it should be impossible but that thing isn't a human's body so it's not dying immediately but it's not able to become complete either." Irene explained in a way that even idiots would understand.
"I see. What do you think I should do?"
"Just give it a strong soul that would overpower every other souls. Either yours or that demon's from earlier would work."
'Shit, So I even missed out on a strong soul.'
"All right, here you go." Shun sighed and gave part of his soul to the slender man.
"I already gave parts of my soul to three figures. I won't start getting sick or something right?"
"Heh, you will be fine. Your soul is specially strong, otherwise you wouldn't have survived until now." Irene dispersed Shun's worries completely.
'After all, Even the fraud system said it picked me because of my strong soul.'
Next second… the restrained slender man calmed down.
"You're my hat from now. Turn into one." The slender man nodded.
"You're not interested in its' abilities?" Irene asked as she was curious herself.
"It's made out of a cloud, so it can make rain and thunders probably. And shape shift."
"…"
"You're no fun." Irene said with a shake of her head as she headed back to meet Erza.
——
With their jobs done, Shun and Irene returned. And as if she had been waiting, Erza was outside.
'Maybe I should let her read a book about a dog named Hachiko.' Shun was having very rude thoughts about Erza.
Irene and Shun walked side by side but… they were having an unspoken competition.
"Shun!" Erza called as she came for a hug.
To Irene's fury, she had lost the competition.
Once everyone gathered. Thanks to Shun encouraging them, the younger generations of fairy tail and sabertooth trio had spars. With just the trio getting beaten up.
Even Wendy was toying with them thanks to awakening the dragon force, she was now a little beast.
Suddenly Shun extended them an invite.
"You guys want to join my guild?"
"!!"
"Eh?" X3
"I saw your guild master during the grand magic games. He seemed to be a fraud with no backbone. Just join me."
"…"
"Uhm, Shun-san. Master is actually Lady Minerva's father…" Sting explained rather awkwardly but…
"So?" Shun asked back.
"Eh?"
"That frog that got arrested earlier is Makarov's son. What's your point? Does being a blood related family mean it's justified to be a scum?"
"…"
Shun's words were an eyeopener for the three. Perhaps it was their age or the weight of the words of the strong.
"If you don't want to join, kick your guild master out."
"Uhm, why?" This time Rogue asked.
"Because I don't like him."
"…"
Everyone hearing was speechless but it was somewhat of an expected reasoning from Shun.
"Stop troubling them." Having heard enough… Mavis came over and pulled Shun away from the guests.
"Well, think about it. I'll handle it cleanly by making him get arrested with some made up crime." Shun said as he was being dragged away.
"…"
While the twin dragon slayers didn't dare to entertain such thoughts, Minerva was different.
'The strongest man in the world… or a scum with blood tie?' Minerva wondered alone.
——
After a total of four days… Shun returned to the world of one piece to deal with the clean up.
"Hi." Shun waved to his two ex secretaries. Now that the new fleet admiral was Akainu, the three of them were now the only ones controlling the Mariejois, which was controlling the Navy. Meaning their job wouldn't be much different from before.
"Are they present?" Shun asked immediately, he was now back to his white fleet admiral suit that he wore during his newly promoted fleet admiral days.
"Yes!" Hibari replied as the three headed towards the room that was brutally destroyed just a day ago.
Creak-!
When Shun entered countless kings from over 150 countries were seated surrounding a giant table.
Shun had made the Mariejois his home after killing the previous owners.
"His Majesty, the King of the world!" It was Morgan with his broadcast crew that announced Shun's arrival.
"!!"
Everyone stood up in respect as they had seen what become of the world government.
"Huh? Why is there still so many of them? Weren't half of them rooting for the demon king?" Shun immediately silenced the room as soon as he opened his mouth.
"…"
"The ones rooted for them had already been put inside a prison, the ones present are their respective kingdom's successors." Kalifa explained as she fixed her glasses.
"I see. Cutting off the corrupted parts huh? Make sure to pay close attention to their moves, we can't be too sure that they aren't brainwashed by their predecessors."
"Yes!" Kalifa said but she didn't have time for such activities.
What they were doing now was just a show in front of them and the news crew of Morgans. Because today wasn't gonna be much exciting, they didn't use the live broadcast.
Soon the reverie attendees sat and discussed useless stuff. On the other hand Shun was dozing off.
Suddenly Shun remembered something.
"Morgans."
"!"
"Y-Yes?"
"Were you giving signs for the enemy during the fight?"
"What?! I was just giving commentaries for the viewers." Morgans began to explain desperately as it was really a misunderstanding.
"Haha, I'm just kidding." To his relief, Shun just laughed until…
"Or am I?"
"…"
——
Soon the useless meeting ended, as reverie lasts one week there wasn't anything useful today. But Shun didn't have hopes for the remaining days, so he didn't plan to attend anymore.
"All right, dark continent time."