Resolution of the Ghostly Crying Incident and the Sky Rupture Incident

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The next day...

Warm sunlight spilled from the sky, banishing the cold that lingered in the forest, finally bringing a touch of summer heat to this land.

"Ugh..."

The young boy with tattoos on his face woke up from his sleep, slowly opening his eyes.

"Ah..."

Just as he opened his eyes, the tattooed boy heard a very cute, yet very childish, little exclamation.

"Noah, that person's awake!"

Who?

The tattooed boy abruptly opened his eyes, which had not yet fully opened, and sat up like a released spring, looking around with full alertness.

The tattooed boy found himself in a cave of unknown location.

The cave wasn't very big, smaller than an ordinary family's room. The tattooed boy could clearly see the intense sunlight outside the cave and the cave's rock walls that immediately came into view.

As for himself, he was lying on a protruding platform at the back of the cave, under the rock wall.

As for the entrance of the cave, the tattooed boy saw two people.

One was an eleven or twelve-year-old boy with short, refined black hair, eyes as deep as stars, a rectangular bag that seemed to contain weapons on one of his shoulders, and an extraordinary aura emanating from him.

The other was a blue-haired little girl, about seven or eight years old, hiding beside the boy, peeking out from his side, looking at him with eyes full of doubt, curiosity, and a hint of timidity.

At this moment, the boy was sitting on the ground at the entrance of the cave, leaning against the wall, stroking the head of the blue-haired little girl hiding beside him with one hand, while turning his head to look at the tattooed boy, a slight smile appearing on his face.

"Awake?"

The tattooed boy didn't respond immediately, but the vigilance in his eyes lessened a lot. After a moment of silence, he spoke softly.

"You are?"

"Noah Dreyar from Fairy Tail, just call me Noah!" Noah briefly introduced himself, then patted the blue-haired little girl's head.

"She's Wendy!"

"H-hello..." Wendy said shyly, and then said nothing more.

"Fairy Tail..." The tattooed boy's eyes flickered a few times. He lowered his head, hesitated for a while, and then introduced himself.

"My name is... Jellal. Did you save me?"

"I wasn't the one who saved you." Noah shrugged, still patting Wendy's head.

"Wendy saved you. She used healing magic to help you recover. To be honest, I was a little surprised myself."

This was the truth.

After all, Natsu's Dragon Slayer Magic was truly remarkable. Even though it didn't display its true power due to Natsu's young age, its current power was still so great that even ordinary Mages could only look up to it.

However, Dragon Slayer Magic was magic used to fight dragons, so it was not surprising that it had such power.

However, what Noah didn't expect was that Wendy's Dragon Slayer Magic didn't have the great power of Natsu's Dragon Slayer Magic. Instead, it had abilities in support and healing.

According to Wendy herself, it was because she wasn't good at fighting, so she mastered the support magic of the Sky Dragon Slayer Magic relatively quickly, while the combat magic was the opposite. She hadn't even mastered a bit of it, unlike Natsu, who had destructive power.

In other words, compared to Natsu's Fire Dragon Slayer Magic, which was purely for combat, Wendy's Sky Dragon Slayer Magic could not only be used in combat, but also used to add various effects to assist in combat and heal injuries. It was a very rare, all-around magic.

If Wendy were older, perhaps this boy named Jellal wouldn't have been unconscious for an entire night, and would have been able to wake up last night under Wendy's treatment.

Of course, without Wendy's treatment, Jellal might not even be able to wake up now.

Hearing Noah's explanation, Jellal himself was a little surprised as he looked at Wendy, causing Wendy to feel embarrassed and bury her face in Noah's arms, not daring to look up at people.

Seeing this, the little vigilance that Jellal had in his heart disappeared, and he sincerely thanked Wendy.

"Thank you for saving me."

"I... I just helped a little." Wendy said shyly in a mosquito-like voice.

"Noah carried you here, you should thank Noah."

"No need to thank me." Noah shook his head and looked directly at Jellal.

"However, if you can tell me why the sky had such strange changes last night, I would be very grateful."

"You..." Jellal's eyes narrowed.

"You saw it?"

"I was in the forest. It's impossible not to see such a change in the sky, right?" Noah said with a smile.

"And you don't look like someone who doesn't know anything about it, so can you tell me, what exactly is it?"

"That is..." Jellal's face sank heavily, and his voice became heavy.

"That is the super-spatial magic — Anima!"

"Anima?" Wendy tilted her head, a question mark appearing above her head.

"Super-Dimensional Magic?" Noah frowned.

"What exactly is going on here?"

Jellal lowered his head even further, a look of struggle appearing in his eyes.

"I'm sorry, I can't go into detail about the situation. Please don't ask any more questions."

Noah's frown deepened as he watched Jellal's evasive gaze and struggling expression. After a moment, he relaxed his brow and spoke.

"As I said before, I'm a Mage from Fairy Tail. The reason I'm here is because of a request from a nearby village. They said that in this forest, there's a ghost who cries and casts a curse that shatters the sky. I'm here to resolve this bizarre incident!"

Jellal and Wendy were both taken aback.

However, Jellal realized something from Noah's roundabout way of speaking and finally smiled.

"You don't have to worry about that. Anima has been triggered here quite a few times, but I've stopped it each time. Last night's should be the last time it's triggered. Anima won't activate here anymore. As for the crying ghost, I don't know anything about that."

"I've already taken care of the crying ghost," Noah said, glancing at Wendy, who was standing beside him with a confused look on her face. He couldn't help but chuckle.

"It's indeed a crybaby ghost, and quite cute too."

Now, Noah understood the whole story.

If he wasn't mistaken, the crying ghost the Village Chief mentioned was just Wendy's crying as she searched for Grandine in the forest recently.

As for the ghost's crying causing the sky to be cursed and shattered, that was purely because of the Super-Dimensional Magic called Anima, whatever it was.

In other words, Wendy's crying and Anima's activation happened to coincide, which caused panic among the villagers hunting in the forest, leading to the incident of a ghost crying and cursing the sky.

It was all caused by coincidence and misunderstanding.

This made Noah laugh, and he couldn't help but feel a mix of emotions.

As expected, ghosts don't exist.

"Huh?" The clueless Wendy's head was practically overflowing with question marks.

Jellal seemed to understand and smiled wryly.

"Now that the truth is out, and there won't be any more crying ghosts or Anima, my request is complete. The rest is none of my business, and I won't ask any further." Noah stood up and skillfully reached out to take Wendy's hand, which she was hurriedly trying to offer him.

"I'm going back to the village now. Do you want to come along?"

Jellal gave Noah a grateful look, nodded, and stood up.

The three of them left the cave together and headed out of the forest.