"I can't accept this, old man!"
"Why did you expel Laxus?!"
"He's our comrade too! Even if we fought, we're still comrades!"
"I still have to have a decisive match with him!"
Natsu came to Makarov, yelling after he found out Makarov had expelled Laxus from the Guild.
Takeshi said somewhat impatiently, "That's enough, Natsu. You yell all day, isn't it annoying? You're not annoyed, but everyone else is. He was just expelled from the Guild, it's not like he's never coming back."
Natsu was stunned when he heard this. "Coming back? Laxus is coming back?!"
"That guy committed an unforgivable mistake, after all. Expulsion is a Guild rule. Once he reflects properly, deeply understands his mistake, and promises not to repeat it, we can still let him rejoin."
Makarov hadn't expected Takeshi to say such a thing. Expelling Laxus, as his grandfather, was the last thing he wanted to see, but it was necessary.
As the Guild Master, he had to lead by example and give an explanation to all Guild members, otherwise, the morale of the Guild would crumble.
Natsu's eyes lit up. "Really?! Then let him rejoin now."
Takeshi said, "Do you think this is child's play? If you have nothing to do, go to work. You still haven't compensated for the damage you caused to Magnolia Town."
It was certainly impossible for Laxus to rejoin now, as there was still a lot of resentment among everyone. At least, they had to wait until things calmed down.
"Uh..."
Compared to others in the Guild, Natsu and Gajeel had caused much more damage. The damage caused by others had already been repaired, but the damage caused by Natsu and Gajeel would take some time and money, naturally, would be indispensable.
Of course, Takeshi and Laxus caused even greater damage, but both of them were S-Class Mages with strong earning capabilities, and they had already compensated for the damage.
However, this compensation pained Takeshi greatly. He had never spent such a large sum of money before.
So, he urgently needed to take on some S-Class Quests to recover, but unfortunately, the Guild currently had no new S-Class Quests.
During the vacuum period when there were no S-Class Quests to do, he spent most of his time training.
To be honest, with his current magic power, although he couldn't wantonly transform into Gold characters, he didn't have to calculate too much either. But he still preferred to make his main body stronger.
Takeshi understood that feeling. It was the huge sense of disparity that arose every time he returned to his original form, and this disparity made him feel very uncomfortable.
Magic power itself is a high-level energy, and the rank of the Fairy Tail world is very high among many anime worlds.
After fighting Jose, then Jellal, and finally Laxus, he realized that even if he transformed into some powerful characters, his current strength was only at the Wizard Saint level.
Even if the characters he transformed into were one in a million, in the Fairy Tail world, he could find those with similar or even greater strength.
There were even greater crises in the future, and the strength of a Wizard Saint was simply insufficient for him to cope, which made his desire to become stronger even more urgent.
—
Somewhere in the sky, the airship of the Dark Guild Grimoire Heart was flying among the clouds.
"Oración Seis, huh? So they've started to move. What should we do, Master Hades?"
Ultear received news that Oración Seis was about to take action using a lacrima.
Hades said, "Let them be. If those guys move, the guys of the light won't just sit idly by. We'll use this opportunity to search for the key that can unseal Zeref. If we're lucky, several annoying Guilds might even be eliminated."
Ultear asked, "Like Fairy Tail... or something?"
Hades didn't reply, but the smile on his face indicated that what Ultear said was correct.
—
Fairy Tail Guild
Takeshi sat cross-legged on the counter, bored.
Makarov had gone to a meeting, and the Guild had Takeshi, the acting Guild Master, hold down the fort, as there was something important beneath the Guild that needed to be protected.
Originally, he didn't want to do it, but Makarov said he would get him some S-Class Quests from other Guild Masters at the meeting, and only then did he reluctantly agree.
He hadn't done an S-Class Quest for over half a month, and he felt uncomfortable all over.
"What is this?" Lucy asked, looking at something drawn in the air.
The Guild members also gathered around to watch.
A man said, raising his hand. "Ah! I drew it. This is the organizational chart of the Dark Guilds."
"Why did you draw this?"
Mirajane explained, "Because the Magic Council is in disarray, the Dark Guilds have become active again recently. If we don't strengthen our ties with other Guilds, the consequences could be unimaginable."
"What's in this extra-large bracket?"
Elfman didn't quite understand the diagram.
"Juvia knows. That's the largest force among the Dark Guilds, the Balam Alliance."
"Balam Alliance?"
Mirajane explained, "Just like the legal Guild Alliance, Dark Guilds also have their own Alliance organizations to oppose the Guilds. The Balam Alliance is the largest of these Dark Guild Alliances, formed by three different Dark Guilds. Each of these three Guilds has numerous subordinate Dark Guilds, through which they control the entire Dark world."
At this moment, Lucy saw a familiar name. "Ah! Eisenwald is there too. Is that a Guild affiliated with Oración Seis?"
Evergreen said, "The Naked Mummy we annihilated was also under Oración Seis."
"That's right."
The dolls around Bickslow chirped.
After the brawl ended, the three members of the Thunder God Tribe had reintegrated into the Guild. Their previous aloofness was mainly due to following Laxus, so they always deliberately kept a certain distance from Guild members.
Now that Laxus was temporarily expelled from the Guild, the three no longer had to worry about anything.
Juvia smiled at Gray and said, "Juvia and Gajeel also annihilated several Guilds affiliated with Oración Seis when we were with Phantom Lord."
Lucy shivered in fear. "Waaah! I just hope they don't get angry."
Has Fairy Tail provoked them so many times already?
She didn't want to be retaliated against by the Dark Guilds.
"Actually, there's nothing to worry about. The rumor is that those guys only have six members."
"What a tiny Guild. Hahaha!"
Two people said, laughing, not putting Oración Seis in their eyes at all.
Mirajane, seeing this, warned seriously, "Don't be careless. The fact that only 6 people make up one of the largest forces shows how powerful each of them is."
Just then, Makarov's voice rang out. "Regarding that Oración Seis... it has been decided that we will be the ones to subdue them."