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Actually, if Noah had directly told Yukino back then that he was a Mage from Fairy Tail, this girl would not have suffered so much over the past seven years.
Unfortunately, Yukino had only been a child barely over ten years old at the time.
If he told a child that he was a Mage from Fairy Tail, she would probably only stare at him in confusion, right?
After all, could one expect a child barely over ten to understand just how extraordinary Fairy Tail was as a guild, or what kind of existence it was?
It was precisely because of that that, in order to let the young Yukino understand what kind of guild he belonged to, Noah had said that he was a Mage from the strongest guild in the Kingdom of Fiore.
As a result, because of that single sentence, Yukino, who desperately wanted to get closer to Noah, drifted farther and farther away, eventually joining Saber Tooth, which had risen to prominence after Fairy Tail fell into decline.
If that could not be called fate toying with people, then what could?
Although he did not know how Yukino had lived these past years, seeing the abnormal persistence she had displayed on the day they met, as well as her frail appearance now as she sat collapsed on the ground and wept, Noah could imagine just how much pain she carried in her heart.
So Noah could only fall silent.
Since Noah and Yukino had not spoken very loudly,