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"Whoosh—!"
A freezing, bone-chilling downpour poured from the clouded sky, forming a dense curtain of rain that shrouded all of Magnolia and filled the air with a chilly atmosphere.
"I never expected such heavy rain today. The weather was so nice yesterday."
"Could Juvia be in a bad mood again? Is that why she brought on such a huge storm?"
"Hey, don't just say things like that. If Juvia hears you, our guild will be flooded by her tears."
"That's true..."
Near Magnolia's seaside, before the doors of the Fairy Tail guild, which resembled a small castle, two middle-aged men in their thirties or forties were putting away their umbrellas while chatting idly.
Though these two middle-aged men were not particularly outstanding in strength within Fairy Tail, they were veteran members of the guild.
The middle-aged man wearing a long coat was named Macao. In Fairy Tail, where the younger generation was filled with talented wizards, he was considered one of the elders.
The middle-aged man with the pompadour was called Wakaba. He was the same age as Macao and had joined Fairy Tail at the same time. They were close drinking buddies, as well as rivals.
Long before Noah had been adopted by Makarov, Macao and Wakaba had already been members of Fairy Tail.
Therefore, after Noah joined the guild, these two elder figures had taken quite good care of him when he was young.
It was worth mentioning that both of them were lechers.
Despite both having wives, they often courted the younger members in the guild whenever they had no work.
As the wildly popular cover girl and the guild's poster girl, Mira had often been harassed