(Heartfelt thanks to 'Blue Sky and White Clouds' for the 2,000 reward! And thanks as well to 'Bing Yue Ying,' 'Qi Guanxuanqi,' 'Zhai Yifei 2012,' 'Yun Qi Qing Gu,' 'Yueshang Joutian Luoyinhua,' 'Diying,' and 'Black Light Prototype' for their rewards!)
(A little worried about the future of Otaku Literature...)
"Bye-bye, Noah!"
"Hmph, don't stay up so late that you can't get up tomorrow!"
"See you tomorrow!"
Amid their distinctly individual farewells, Mira, Lisanna, and Erza noisily headed off in another direction from the Fairy Tail guild, leaving Noah with nothing but their retreating backs.
Watching Mira, Lisanna, and Erza grow farther away, their silhouettes gradually blurring into the darkness, Noah could not help but sigh again at just how much his three childhood companions had changed.
Of course, Noah was not referring to Mira, Lisanna, and Erza's personalities. In fact, as far as their personalities went, the three girls had barely changed at all.
What had truly changed was their appearance.
Four years later, Mira, Lisanna, and Erza had truly become incredibly charming women in every sense of the word.
Their height...
Their figures...
Their curves...
Their worth...
All of those things had grown to varying degrees over the past four years. Compared to their childhood immaturity, the difference was nothing short of earth-shaking.
Even Lisanna, who was only fifteen and whose body had not fully matured yet, already possessed her own unique feminine charm. The cute side she occasionally revealed was especially eye-catching.
Although Erza still wore that icy armor all day long, concealing most of her body and making it impossible to truly judge how much she had developed over the years, her exquisite face had shed eighty or ninety percent of its childishness and become breathtakingly beautiful.
As for Mira, there was even less need to mention