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"Hmm?"
Noah, who had been about to follow Blue Pegasus's three wizards into the inner room, noticed that something was wrong with Erza.
"Erza?" Noah asked doubtfully.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing... nothing..." Erza said, but no matter what she did, she could not relax her stiff expression. In the end, cold sweat even began to trickle down her face.
"—?!" Gray, Lucy, and even the still-dizzy Natsu all twitched at the sight of Erza like this and unconsciously took a step back.
"Hey..." Lucy's mouth twitched repeatedly as cold sweat ran down her face as well.
"Erza... she isn't scared, is she?..."
"W-What are you talking about?" Gray said with a smile, though that smile looked incomparably stiff.
"T-That's Erza, you know. The Erza who fears neither heaven nor earth, the one everyone else is afraid of. How could she possibly be scared?"
Yet as though delivering the final denial to Gray's forced words, Erza's entire body began to tremble.
This time, even Gray and Lucy were frightened.
Anyone from Fairy Tail knew just how formidable Erza was.
Just as Gray had said, others had always been the ones afraid of Erza. Since when had it become Erza's turn to fear someone else?
To say nothing of anything else, Natsu and Gray were terrified of Erza. Even Lucy, after spending so much time with her, had come to understand how fierce and frightening Erza could be beneath the surface. They might laugh and chat normally, but once Erza lost her temper, aside from Happy, Lucy was always the fastest to run.
But now, that fierce and terrifying Erza was