Celestial Spirit Key

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With the end of another Harvest Festival, Eleven and his friends have grown another year older, but they don't seem to have made much progress. They still bicker and make noise every day, carefree and living a carefree life in the guild.

At this moment, Eleven held a glass of milk, leaned against the bar, and secretly observed Erik, chuckling to himself.

Erik was selecting a mission in front of the mission board, but he seemed a little embarrassed. He casually tore off a mission sheet, grabbed it without even looking at it, and ran off.

It felt like a slacker who always coasted through school suddenly decided to study hard, but then felt ashamed to do his homework diligently. Even if he knew what he was doing was the right thing to do, he couldn't get used to this sudden change in his personality.

Erik, who came from a dark guild, felt ashamed to be choosing a job so openly and honestly, fearing that others would gossip behind his back about how he was being so indecisive in selecting tasks.

Erik's decisive way of choosing tasks left Nab, who had been pacing back and forth in front of the task board, completely bewildered. For Nabu, who was both lazy and indecisive, Erik's behavior was simply unacceptable.

However, Erik, who had just taken the mission and was about to run away, was caught by Kinana a short while later, and she put the mission to play the bunny girl back on the mission board.

"Seriously, Erik, why did you choose this kind of mission?" Kinana said in a strange, coquettish tone.

Erik's face flushed crimson. He hadn't even bothered to read the quest description; he'd just grabbed one randomly. Who would have thought the Light Guild would have quests like this?! Did mages really need to do quests like this?

Fortunately, Kinana was in charge of registration today, otherwise Erik would have been even more embarrassed.

By the way, Kinana has now become a proud mascot of Fairy Tail. Since Kinana hasn't learned magic yet, she can't go on missions with Erik, and not wanting to be a freeloader, she wants to find something to do.

When she told Makarov she wanted to help out at the guild, the old man was overjoyed and immediately sent the plump woman who worked at the front desk to the kitchen. With such a young and beautiful girl like Kinana hanging around the front desk every day, Makarov felt even the wine in his hand tasted better.

Eleven watched from afar as Erik was being scolded by Kinana, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Erik, with his excellent hearing, immediately turned and glared at Eleven. Eleven covered his mouth to stifle a laugh, quickly turning his head away and pretending not to know anything.

"Snort!"

As a result of the task recommended by Kinana, Erik glared fiercely at Eleven, snorted coldly, and turned to leave.

Let's let that Eleven off the hook this time. We'll get our revenge later when we can beat him!

"Be careful on the road!" Kinana waved with a smile as she watched Erik's arrogant back.

Only after Erik's figure disappeared into the crowd did Kinana reluctantly return to the bar's task registration area.

"Mr. Eleven, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting." Kinana looked apologetically at Eleven, who had been watching the commotion for quite some time.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not in a hurry."

Eleven didn't seem to mind, and cheerfully handed over a mission sheet, which he had just retrieved from the second floor.

"Wow! An S-rank mission? Mr. Eleven is really amazing!" Kinana was quite surprised as she took the mission sheet; this was the first time she had seen an S-rank mission in a while.

"Not bad, not bad, second place in the guild!" Eleven grinned, never knowing the meaning of humility.

"Hehe, you're really funny." Kinana covered her mouth and chuckled, her hands not stopping their work, and quickly finished registering Eleven.

Thanks!

Eleven took the task sheet and was about to leave when Kinana called him back.

"Mr. Eleven," Kinana bowed slightly to Eleven, her face full of sincerity as she pleaded, "I'm leaving Erik in your care. He's still quite clumsy in many ways, so I hope you can take good care of him."

Eleven looked at Kinana with some surprise. He thought she and Erik were getting along well, but he didn't expect her to talk about Erik being stupid behind his back! He really didn't understand their relationship.

Scratching his head, Eleven grinned (￣▽￣): "It's okay, everyone in the guild except me is basically an idiot. Even if Erik is stupid, he doesn't need to feel inferior."

Kinana:[_]

Eleven thought about it the whole way but still couldn't figure out why Kinana disliked him. They were having a good chat, so why did she suddenly become unhappy? After analyzing it, Eleven concluded that the problem probably wasn't with him, so he stopped worrying about it.

He jumped down from the carriage and looked at the quaint little villa in front of him; this was the address of his client.

Eleven's current mission is to transport treasure. This type of mission isn't particularly difficult, but it's not easy either; it's a fairly standard mission. Because the Dark Guild's missions were too exciting before, Eleven is now much more cautious when choosing missions.

When he rang the doorbell, a plump woman opened the door. She was very welcoming and chatted with Eleven as she ushered him into the house.

"Come in, come in! I saw the crest on your arm! You must be Fairy Tail mage! I've been waiting for you for ages. Please sit down, please sit down, don't be shy. You just baked some cookies, have a taste. By the way, would you like something to drink? I'll go make some tea..."

Eleven entered the house and, before he could even say a word, was completely taken care of, fed a huge amount of delicious food, and sat on the sofa feeling somewhat awkward.

"Um..." Eleven saw the woman about to turn around and get him some food again, and quickly stopped her, "Madam, please don't bother. I'm here to accept a commission; you don't need to entertain me."

The woman paused for a moment after hearing Eleven's words, then quickly sat back down opposite Eleven, smiling somewhat embarrassedly, "Haha, I'm sorry, I'm used to serving people, I can't stand being idle. Yes, the request, the Toby important, finish talking before you eat."

Eleven opened his mouth, wanting to say he didn't want to eat, but to avoid the woman's continued nagging, he chose to remain silent.

The woman muttered to herself as she took a small box from a safe behind her and solemnly handed it to Eleven: "My lord, my request is for you to return this to the Heartfilia Family."

"May I open it and take a look?" Eleven asked, pointing to the box.

The woman nodded, but looked very nervous, as if she was afraid that Eleven would break the contents of the box.

Eleven became a little nervous after the woman's commotion and carefully opened the box.

The box was lined with soft silk, and a gleaming golden key lay quietly in the center of the silk.

"A key?" Eleven felt a little confused. Even if the key was made of gold, there was no need to be so careful. It was scary!

"This isn't just any ordinary key!" Seeing the strange look on Eleven's face as he examined the key, the woman quickly explained, afraid Eleven might neglect this treasure. "This is the key to the Cancer constellation, one of the Twelve Gates of the Zodiac Cancer Celestial Spirit. There are only 12 of these priceless treasures in the entire world!"