The moment Tohsaka Shirou finished speaking, he found several Veldoras beside him and burst out laughing.
"Just as expected of me—we really are on the same wavelength. Slime, I'm counting on you!"
"Leave it to me! I guarantee success." Having just spoken boldly, Slime Shirou hesitated. "But what if it doesn't work?"
"Then we'll think of something else." Tohsaka Shirou smiled.
The Line Had Already Reached Outer Space
Section 27: The Line Had Already Reached Outer Space
"Roar...!"
The White Mist Space was filled with the Black Dragon's furious roars.
Around him, several deep-blue dragons resembling Veldora were constantly harassing him with hit-and-run tactics.
With every roar, several fake Veldoras were sent crashing to the ground, only to instantly reappear.
"No good. This guy is ridiculously strong! We can't get anywhere near him."
The instant one fake Veldora landed, it transformed into a Slime. Staring intently at the Black Dragon in the sky, it muttered,
"Isn't there any way to deal with this?"
The next second, an idea suddenly came to mind.
The Black Dragon had no reason, fighting purely on instinct.
The reason they could not get close was simply because he was too strong. It had already become a one-sided battle.
But precisely because of that, with so many versions of himself drawing the Black Dragon's attention, the Black Dragon's instinctive reaction speed could not possibly be that fast.
With that thought, two arms extended from Slime Shirou's body out of thin air, forming hand seals at a dazzling speed.
"Water Clone Jutsu!"
Two water clones suddenly appeared to his left and right.
"I'm counting on you!"
"If this goes wrong, we might die. Are you really going to do this?" the Slime water clone asked with a grave expression.
"Don't worry! I definitely won't die here."
An "OK" hand sign extended from Slime Shirou's body as he smiled.
"With Logia-type Elementalization, I'm not that easy to kill."
"Be careful. That Black Dragon looks like an overpowered world-class boss. He's so strong even with instinct alone—I have no idea what he really is."
"Haha... those guys are almost unable to hold on anymore. Let's begin!"
Slime Shirou's body instantly deformed into a blue sphere the size of a shot put and leaped into the air.
The Slime water clones simultaneously transformed into Mizukage Shirou's human form and reached out to catch the blue sphere that the main body had become.
His body bent into an arc, one arm swung back, and then he hurled the blue sphere with all his strength.
"Go!"
In the blink of an eye, the Slime blue sphere had reached the Black Dragon's side.
At that moment, he was surrounded by a group of fake Veldoras and had not noticed the blue sphere racing toward him at all.
The instant their bodies made contact, the Slime returned to his original form, while the Black Dragon froze for a moment before suddenly falling from the sky.
Seeing this, the Veldoras in the sky all reverted to their original forms, gathered around him, and reached out to touch the scales on the Black Dragon's body.
"Did it work? Nice job!"
"Just what kind of monster is this guy? He's absurdly strong!"
"Even if you're strong... your ability will be mine in the next second. No, wait, I'm only a water clone. Water Clone Jutsu—Release!"
As the chaotic memories converged, the red in the Black Dragon's eyes gradually faded, and his body changed from a Black Dragon into human form.
He was a dark-skinned young man who looked about twenty-five. His hair and clothes were entirely black, and together with his face brimming with hostility, he gave off the aura of a final boss from a game world.
"Hahahaha... now I can finally set sail! Compared to Acunologiya, Kaido is nothing."
Celestial Dragon Shirou suddenly laughed loudly as his entire body instantly turned pitch-black.
"Armament Haki and Observation Haki awakened directly, and this quality... is just absurd."
"It looks like I can also throw Conqueror's Haki around whenever I want. This is an absolutely godly start!"
After sorting through the memories in his mind, Black Dragon Shirou let out a long sigh.
"I never thought I would become Acunologiya. Is this fate? Thanks to all of you, otherwise I definitely would have done things I'd regret for the rest of my life."
After dying in his sleep, his physical body had crossed into the world of Fairy Tail. With no family or friends there, he joined the Fairy Tail Guild.
That year was X781, three years before the story began.
During the story year, Shirou went to Tenrou Island with the guild's main force to take the S-Class exam.
However, what followed did not unfold as it should have.
When Black Dragon King Acnologia attacked, the first guild master, Mavis, failed to cast the magic Fairy Sphere, and the main force died one after another.
In the end, only Shirou and Lucy escaped.
That day, both of them were on the verge of a breakdown.
Afterward, Shirou secretly left the guild, which was steeped in grief. He wanted to travel through time using the Eclipse Gate, return to the past, and change the outcome where the main force had been wiped out.
But because he used it incorrectly, something went wrong with the point he traveled to.
Shirou did not return to one month earlier. Instead, he passed through a one-way passage and returned to more than four hundred years in the past.
In that era, Black Dragon King Acnologia had not yet appeared. Dragons were everywhere, and humanity could only struggle to survive from day to day.
By chance, Shirou learned Dark Dragon Slayer Magic from a dying Black Dragon, and his strength greatly increased.
In an era where dragons covered the land, the fastest way to grow stronger was to fight dragons with Dragon Slayer Magic.
Shirou believed this was an opportunity, so he remained in the era four hundred years ago and began training Dark Dragon Slayer Magic.
At first, they were merely sparring amicably. But after witnessing dragons slaughtering humans one day, killing intent rose within him, and his hands became stained with blood.
After that, his hatred for the dragon race grew deeper and deeper, and the number of dragons he killed continued to rise.
Before he realized it, his personality had become extreme and violent. In the end, he completely lost his reason, becoming a Black Dragon that knew only slaughter and hunted dragons everywhere by instinct.
For the next four hundred years, he was like a mindless wild beast—hunting, hibernating, killing, over and over again—until today.
"Ahhh...! Those four hundred years of memories feel just like a dream."
"When someone attacked me, I would chase them to the ends of the earth. There were countless cities I wiped out on a whim. When hunting, I would turn entire forests into scorched earth... was that really me? I was completely a frenzied wild beast."
Tohsaka Shirou suddenly laughed, then explained,
"Sorry, but hearing you say that with such a vicious face is just too funny."
"Uh... it's not like I wanted to become this way. I wanted to stay a teenager forever too."
Black Dragon Shirou gave Tohsaka Shirou a speechless look.
It was an expression he considered perfectly ordinary, but in reality, it looked like a fierce glare—enough to scare several children into tears.
"Then... do you regret it?" Slime Shirou asked.
Silence.
After a long while, Black Dragon Shirou shook his head slightly and said seriously,
"Over these four hundred years, the blood on my hands has long become impossible to count. The line of resentful souls that hate me has probably already reached outer space."
"Even so, I do not regret it in the slightest."
"Only with great power can you protect the treasures most important to you."
"What happened on Tenrou Island... I absolutely refuse to let it happen again."
Tohsaka Shirou looked him up and down before asking in surprise,
"So you're going to join the Fairy Tail Guild again?"
"Is there a problem with that?"
"No. I just suddenly thought of something. Will you meet your younger self?"
I'm Back
Section 28: I'm Back
"Who knows? Maybe I will, maybe I won't." Black Dragon Shirou smiled and spoke indifferently. "That doesn't matter at all! I'm here, and Fairy Tail is my home. After being away from home for four hundred years, of course I have to return."
Home?
That word made every Shirou fall silent at once.
For Tohsaka Shirou, the world had not changed. The place he would live from now on had simply changed from the church to the Tohsaka family. It would probably take a long time to get used to that.
From now on, Sakura would likely call him her adopted brother. That was not much of a problem, but calling Little Rin his older sister was truly painful.
For Coachman Shirou, compared to that poor farmer's family, the Imperial Palace of Nia was somewhat more familiar.
But in the end, before marrying Nia, that place had not been his home. It had only been his workplace.
For Celestial Dragon Shirou, the Holy Land Mary Geoise was a place with a very comfortable living environment, but calling it home somehow felt deeply unpleasant.
After all, his values were completely incompatible with those of the other Celestial Dragons. Even his relationship with those idiot parents was actually quite cold.
For Mizukage Shirou, wherever Mei Terumi was, that was his home.
As for Slime Shirou, the small territory currently under construction was enough to be called home.
"Now that you mention this, I remembered! I only just took in a goblin tribe a few days ago, and I'm currently building up my territory. I'm desperately short on supplies. Can any of you help me?"
Under his expectant gaze, Tohsaka Shirou and Coachman Shirou both shook their heads and shifted their gazes toward Celestial Dragon Shirou.
"Only you, huh? Makes sense. Among all the Shirous, your status is the highest."
Slime Shirou chuckled, then said with a serious expression,
"I'm counting on you! I need everything that will be used to build the territory—farming tools, weapons and equipment, food, and vegetable seeds."
"Besides that, cloth, porcelain, paper, and other things that aren't urgently needed—please help me buy some of those too."
Celestial Dragon Shirou froze slightly, a speechless expression appearing on his face as he sighed.
"I mean... since you've seen my memories, you definitely know my situation, right?"
"Even though I'm a Celestial Dragon of high status, I'm too young and have never left Mary Geoise even once."
"If it were just buying Devil Fruits, Famous Swords, and things like that, it would be fine. But buying huge amounts of daily necessities would definitely arouse suspicion, wouldn't it?"
"What does it matter?" Slime Shirou said with a mischievous grin. "Now that you have the Black Dragon King's power, you're already the strongest in the world. It's fine to be a little reckless, right?"
"That's not the point..."
Before he could finish speaking, Celestial Dragon Shirou fell silent and thought,
Why does what he said seem to make so much sense?
Although I haven't developed the ability to Time Freeze yet, I'm already the strongest in the world.
Setting aside Black Dragon King Acnologia's Dragon Slayer Magic, his absurdly powerful physical strength alone has raised my Haki reserves to an unimaginable level.
Right now, even if I went to trade punches with Whitebeard, I probably wouldn't lose.
Besides, Mizukage Shirou's strength can increase dramatically at sea, and there are also those unimaginable Eternal Mangekyo eyes.
It seems like it really doesn't matter if I'm a little reckless now?
"Fine! Although I'm a lazy person with no great ambitions, someone who only wants to coast through life... if it's for all of you, even ruling the world seems like something I could manage."
Slime Shirou froze for a moment, then quickly reacted and laughed.
"Don't you feel guilty saying that? We're all the same person. We know perfectly well what you're thinking."
"Hahaha..."
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