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In one corner of Tenrou Island, there was a temporary campsite.
It consisted of several tents and looked like an ordinary camping site.
At that moment, Gray, Gajeel, Freed, and Lili were each lying inside one of the tents, covered in bruises of varying severity. They rubbed their injuries while groaning in pain.
"Hurts..." Gray rubbed his face, which had nearly been disfigured, glaring fiercely at Gajeel.
"You bastard, didn't you hit way too hard?!"
"What does that have to do with me?" Gajeel said, his nose tilted high in the air.
"You're just too weak. I didn't even get the chance to use any strength!"
"What did you say?" Gray flew into a rage and tried to get up, only to tug at his wounds and collapse back down with a howl.
"Heh." Just as Gajeel was about to mock him, he tugged at his own wounds as well and cried out in pain.
Watching Gray and Gajeel stubbornly continue their argument even while injured, Freed and Lili, who were lying nearby as well, were utterly speechless.
But there was nothing they could do. The gap in strength between the four of them was not particularly large.
Once they started fighting, mutual destruction was the only possible outcome.
Of course, if a winner had been decided, then even with such serious injuries, Gray and Gajeel probably would not have been so worked up.
The problem was that after fighting to this point, Gray and Gajeel's teams had not only failed to determine a victor, but had also been picked off by Lucy and Kana. Both sides had been eliminated after