"What's wrong? Is work not going well, or are you having trouble fitting in with the guild atmosphere? You look so down."
Watching Lucy sit at the bar with a sighing, despondent expression, Mira wore a sunny smile like a caring Big Sister. After handing Lucy a drink, she asked with concern.
"The atmosphere at Fairy Tail is great, and it's not like work has been going badly. It's just that things always turn out so differently from what I expect."
Hearing Lucy's complaint, the petite blue-haired girl beside her, with a yellow ribbon tied in her hair, interjected in confusion. "Hasn't Lucy-chan been teaming up with Natsu and the others lately? Natsu and Gray together should already make one of the strongest teams in the guild."
Lucy had joined Fairy Tail about a month ago. During that time, she had gradually adapted to the guild's atmosphere and made quite a few friends.
The blue-haired girl sitting beside her now was Levy, one of Lucy's best friends.
"Natsu and Gray really are strong, but whenever they complete a quest, their fights cause massive destruction. Or their personalities clash, and they end up fighting each other during the quest. In the end, even when the quest gets completed, almost all the reward goes toward compensating the client for their losses."
After hearing Lucy's complaints, Mira and Levy both wore awkward expressions.
As members of the same guild, they naturally knew exactly what Natsu and Gray were like.
The two had been at each other's throats since childhood. They could start fighting even when nothing was happening, so it would be stranger if they behaved themselves while carrying out Quests together.
Mira and Levy could completely imagine the scenes Lucy described.
They even felt that for someone as weak as Lucy to