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A certain troublesome little girl and the plush teddy bear dangling from her hand wandered around the enormous, seemingly empty castle.
It was spacious and vast. Apart from the wreckage—apparently caused when the giant-sized Natsu had flung it out over the sea earlier—there was nothing here. Broken bricks and stones, toppled castle statues, shattered windows, and damp marks left by seawater flooding in were about all there was.
Clearly, the Phantom Lord guild members who had originally been inside had either been moved or escaped, or else gone to the distant seawall to fight alongside those troublesome ghost soldiers against the Fairy Tail members above. The whole castle had ended up rather poorly defended?
Of course, it was also possible that Phantom Lord had some kind of trump card and simply wasn't afraid of intruders breaking in?
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At last, the little girl holding the plush teddy bear had no choice but to stop. She furrowed her adorable little brows and looked around.
Since the castle had transformed into a giant, many of its passageways had changed too. Quite a few rooms had even ended up tilted or upside down. Maybe that was why all the Phantom Lord members had run outside?
("Dear young mistress, I'm quite certain this is the third time you've come down this passage... Why not wait here for a bit? The cat-person Happy and those three useless guys will catch up in a few minutes at most. Then you can have them show you the way?")
Sigh...
(Tibbers couldn't take it anymore. He had to offer some advice to his troublesome little mistress, who had gotten lost and once again returned to a passage she'd already walked through.)
"Not waiting for them!"
o(′^｀)o Hmph!
"If we wait for them, that magic