Without a doubt, despite rushing as fast as she could, that troublesome little girl who absolutely refused to "cheat" by using more power still failed to make it in time to witness the Magic Council's "Etherion" bombardment raining down from the sky.
However...
Fortunately, her unreliable "intuition" had still been quite reliable. Although the bombardment had already ended by the time she arrived, and even the "Tower of Heaven" had been blasted open to reveal its crystalline core structure and the true appearance of the "R-System," what was truly miraculous was that the people inside the "Tower of Heaven" were, just as her intuition had told her, perfectly safe. Not a single one of them had been hurt!
At any rate, Annie had seen for herself that everyone from their "Fairy Tail" guild was still alive, so she naturally had no need to worry about certain promises.
After that, she hid off to the side and leisurely watched Erza's duel with that villain with the tattooed face. She also watched Natsu's ensuing battle with the tattooed man, and finally witnessed some interesting events that had taken place before the Crystal exploded...
In the end, after everything was over, she arrived fashionably late, piloting a boat with the leisurely bearing of a "Savior." She picked up every single one of those drenched fools and brought them aboard the speedboat she had rented. Then she took that bunch of idiots—who should have been drifting at sea for many days—including Erza, Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Happy, Erza's group of "childhood friends," and a certain "iron-jawed man" who had nearly died, and sailed straight back to the bay of Magnolia City, returning to the embankment outside the "Fairy Tail" guild's base.
And now, a full three days had passed since the great battle at the