"Th-this... this..." (Erza and Kana stood there dumbfounded.)
"Sister Erza, this is..."
"Pink Ball, there's no time to explain! Lucy's about to die!"
Hearing Loke's cry, Pink Ball finally noticed that Lucy's life force had weakened to the absolute limit.
"Memory Make: Heal!"
"Buzz!"
Bathed in emerald-green light, the hole in Lucy's chest rapidly closed.
"Hiss!"
Shortly afterward, the wound vanished amid a puff of white smoke. Smooth, rosy skin showed through the hole in her clothes, and Lucy's life force began to steadily recover.
While Pink Ball treated Lucy, Kana and Erza exchanged glances, then approached the black-suited goat nearby with Magic Sealing Stone bracelets in hand.
"Hiss!"
Just as they were about to touch his hand, a streak of black smoke burst through Capri's brow and shot toward Kana.
"Hehehe... Seventeen years. I can finally have a human body again!"
"Kana!!!"
The black smoke gave Crimson a wicked smile at her cry, then charged at Kana even faster.
"She's a little weak, and she's a woman, but it doesn't matter. Anything's better than being a goat forever!"
"Buzz!"
Just as the black smoke was about to succeed, a milky-white vertical eye suddenly appeared between Kana's brows.
"What is this?!"
Before the black smoke could react, the eye flew open, firing countless beams of milky-white energy.
"Whoosh, whoosh!"
"Damn it!!!"
Sensing danger, the black smoke tried to turn and flee back into Capri's body, only to find itself trapped within a net woven from the milky-white beams.
"Heh heh... In a sense, Sister Kana is Old man's real daughter. Who knows how many life-saving measures that unreliable old man secretly put on her? And you dared lay a hand on her... sigh!" (Pink Ball was practically radiating sourness.)
"Now that you mention it... it's true. Old man was glued