"Room, Shambles."
Shen Fei immediately used the Op-Op Fruit's power to switch places and appear beside Lucy. Cana had not gone far yet. Sensing movement behind her, she immediately turned to look. When she saw Shen Fei, her steps involuntarily slowed until she stopped altogether.
"Cana, I know how much this S-Class trial means to you, but don't you understand what's happening right now? You actually hypnotized Lucy at a time like this. Even putting that aside, you just left her by the roadside. Weren't you afraid she'd run into an enemy?"
Shen Fei minced no words as he looked at the silent Cana. He was planning to leave Fairy Tail after this anyway, and strictly speaking, what Cana had done was indeed completely out of line.
"Since you already know, you should understand how important this S-Class trial is to me!" Cana shouted. This time, she had made up her mind.
"So it matters more than your friend's safety? Incidentally, there's an enemy heading this way. What do you think he'll do when he sees Lucy?" Shen Fei said coldly.
He was not saying that just to scare Cana. Someone really was approaching, and he was one of Grimoire Heart's Seven Kin—the very one Lucy had encountered in the original story.
"What?" Shen Fei's words made Cana cry out in shock. To be fair, Cana had never intended to hurt Lucy. Her obsession had simply become so overwhelming that things had ended up this way. Still, that did not change the fact that she had gone too far. In the original story, Lucy had woken up early. Otherwise, it was easy to imagine what would have happened.
Fortunately, Lucy had considerable magic power herself and strong resistance to hypnosis magic, allowing her to wake up in time. But even