Fairy Tail: Vector Manipulation

"Chen Fan."

"Chen Fan."

"Pervert." At first, Chen Fan enjoyed hearing it, but when "pervert" suddenly popped up, his expression froze. He opened his eyes and looked toward the speaker.

Lucy stood prettily to one side, surprise written across her face. No matter how she looked at it, she couldn't connect the sunny, handsome guy before her with the lecherous-looking Chen Fan from before.

"Whoosh."

"Whoosh." Several people quickly moved away from Lucy's side. They all knew that no one dared call Chen Fan a pervert to his face. If they did, they had to sneak it in amid the chaos. Otherwise, if Chen Fan remembered it, there would definitely be consequences.

When Lucy saw that no one was left around her, she jumped in fright. Looking up, she saw Chen Fan wearing a stiff smile on his handsome face as he said, "A few days ago, wasn't it Brother Chen Fan? How did it change so quickly?"

"Um, um..." Lucy was at a loss, biting her finger as her head turned wildly from side to side.

Just then, a voice cut in. "Are you wizards?"

Everyone's attention shifted over. It was the boatman. They heard him continue, "Could it be that you came to lift the curse on the island...?"

"Oh, more or less," Natsu said.

"I won't let you go," Gray said from the side.

"Get on."

"Really?"

"Hey."

"An opening—take this! Bang!" Natsu kicked Gray in the chin, knocking him unconscious. Then he turned toward Chen Fan, cracking his knuckles as he walked over.

"Stop. Don't come any closer. If you do, I'll scream."

"Go ahead and scream. Scream your throat out, and no one will come save you."

Seeing this, Chen Fan waved his hand and said, "Then I'm not going. You guys go ahead."

"No. If you don't come, the next one to arrive here will be Erza," Natsu said as he continued walking toward Chen Fan. Unexpectedly, the guy was still thinking clearly at a time like this.

Seeing that Natsu wouldn't yield to either threats or persuasion, Chen Fan said helplessly, "You guys really leave me no choice. Fine, I'll go with you."

"Really? That's great! With Chen Fan, we'll be safe! Oh, oh!" Natsu and Happy said as they jumped up excitedly.

"Alright, get on the boat," Chen Fan said from the side. In truth, he was worried about Natsu and the others too. According to the plot, Natsu and the others should be fine, but now that he had been added to the mix, who knew whose head the protagonist's halo would land on? He didn't want to gamble with their lives. With him nearby, he could worry a little less. Otherwise, if Chen Fan didn't want to do something, there really was no one in this world who could force him.

Thus, Chen Fan and the others boarded the small boat. It sailed little by little into the depths of the sea, gradually disappearing beyond the horizon.

Arriving at Garna Island

"Urgh, urgh." Natsu lay over the side of the boat, vomiting nonstop, his eyes rolling white. Chen Fan had known that Natsu was extremely sensitive to transportation, but he hadn't expected it to be this serious.

Yet Chen Fan felt rather pleased inside, muttering to himself, Serves you right for causing trouble. Serves you right for threatening me.

Although he was secretly gloating, he still sat beside Natsu with a sigh and patted his back. "Don't worry. As long as you throw up, throw up, and throw up, you'll get used to it. Heh...!" By the end, his eyes darkened and a sinister smile curled across his lips.

Seeing Chen Fan's sinister grin, Lucy, Happy, and even the tied-up Gray all jumped in fright. They hurriedly shifted farther away from Chen Fan, afraid that his attention might turn to them. At the same time, they thought, Terrifying!!

Natsu was nearly unconscious and didn't hear what Chen Fan had said clearly. He just kept vomiting.