"Hahahaha!"
"We really got released again! Sure enough, the air outside is just better!"
"Yeah~!"
"Haha!"
"This is so great!"
"This is so awesome!!"
In the Fairy Tail guildhall, Natsu—the so-called strongest Fire Dragon—was loudly cheering and boasting about how he and Erza had been released as "innocent" the very next day, and how he'd ended up in prison.
"..."
"So noisy!"
"Natsu! Please, enough already!"
"Just ignore him!"
"What a country bumpkin..."
"Sigh."
"Honestly, it's so hard to get some peace and quiet..."
"Ha!"
"But that's exactly what makes this place so lovable, isn't it?"
"Isn't that right, little Annie?"
Yesterday, after Erza had finished playing around with Annie, she was about to duel Natsu to decide who was the strongest member of the Fairy Tail guild.
But then...
They'd only gotten halfway through the fight. Neither of them had won yet, and the result of a certain bet was still up in the air, when Erza was suddenly stopped by a "frog" messenger from the Magic Council and informed that she was under arrest. Then she was taken to the Council's headquarters in Fiore to stand trial.
After that, Natsu naturally did everything he could to disrupt the trial, planning to get Erza acquitted using his own stupid methods. Then he was arrested too, and the two of them were locked up for a whole day and night. They weren't released together until this morning.
And that was the main reason he was now cheering so loudly.
"..."
(lll￢▽￢)
"Honestly, I thought they'd really been arrested. I thought Erza and that Fire Frog Natsu were going to be taken away and beheaded together. Turns out it was just a formality?"
╮(╯▽╰)╭ Sigh!
Yes, that was exactly what Annie had thought.
She'd even been waiting to see the two