"Congratulations to Lucy on successfully becoming a member of Fairy Tail! Cheers!"
"Thank you! Thank you, everyone!!"
Last week, Lucy had successfully passed the membership assessment and officially become a member of Fairy Tail, gaining the right to receive the guild's mark.
To celebrate, Aibo had specially thrown a party for Lucy at his home, and many friends had come running over to join in.
Offering Lucy a few perfunctory congratulations was enough. The important thing was being able to eat, drink, and have fun at Cake Tower.
Lucy had only just felt happy about being "so popular" when she quickly realized that the guild members were either happily stuffing themselves with meat and alcohol, or singing and dancing nonstop. Little groups had gathered in twos and threes, and no one cared about her, the "main character," at all.
There were even more people watching Little Wendy feed tiny Wendy than there were people paying attention to her!
Lucy teared up. She wanted to be popular too!
"Lucy, Lucy! You know so much! You're amazing!"
Lucy thought someone was praising her. She happily turned around, only to see a crowd surrounding Greed, laughing and chatting. They had not been praising her at all!
Even Aibo's apostle was more popular than she was!?
Lucy finally accepted the fact that she was just a background character and ran off to cry quietly in a corner.
After dealing with a group of generous older sisters chasing after him to feed him milk, Aibo found the dejected Lucy in an unnoticed corner.
"Why are you sitting here alone, Lucy? Aren't you going to play?"
The innocent Lucy was stabbed again. She looked pitifully at Aibo. "Aibo—() Nobody wants to play with me. Levy was with me at first, but she suddenly sneaked off somewhere