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"Thud—!"
As the dull, heavy impact rang out, the hearts of the onlookers around them jolted.
Then, everyone present saw it.
Noah's small body flew backward like a kite with its string cut, tumbling several times through the air before crashing heavily onto the ground dozens of meters away with a loud impact.
"Noah! (Big Brother Noah!)"
Mira, Lisanna, Erza, Natsu, Gray, Kana, Elfman, and the others cried out in alarm and frantically ran toward Noah.
"Oh no!" Gildarts, still holding his punching pose, was also horrified.
"I got serious without meaning to!"
"Big Brother Noah!" Lisanna helped Noah up from the ground, her eyes turning wet almost instantly.
"Big Brother Noah! Big Brother Noah!"
Mira stood directly before Gildarts. Dark magic power, black as ink, surged from her body, while her gaze and expression became incomparably savage.
"I'll kill you!"
Erza, Natsu, and Gray also assumed fighting stances, glaring intently at Gildarts across from them as though they might attack at any moment.
Though fists and feet had no eyes, and injuries were unavoidable in a duel like this, judging by the power of Gildarts' punch just now, it could probably have blown apart a rock.
If Noah had taken that attack directly to the head, it would not have been strange even if he had died.
No matter how much Fairy Tail valued its companions, or how much it should not regard its own people as enemies, no one could care about that now.
"No matter what, that was too much, wasn't it?" Erza demanded angrily.
"Were you trying to kill Noah?"
"Don't think we'll be scared of you