Warmth, Happiness, and Love

"Warm?"

"Mm, Warm, because it felt warm when I held it," Mira explained.

"Rhode said the Poro lived in a very cold place, right? I hope it always feels warm when it's by your side."

Rhode thought for a moment, "That sounds pretty good, what do you think?"

The little Poro's horn perked up, clearly pleased.

"I'm glad you like it," Mira smiled. "That's how Happy got his name."

Happy was the talking blue cat that always followed Natsu around, Mira had introduced him to Rhode.

She said Happy could fly and even carry people, but unfortunately, Rhode hadn't seen Happy fly yet.

"Then it's decided, you'll be called Warm from now on, officially."

"That's not how 'officially' is used," the Guild Master thought about whether to call Hibiki back for after-sales service.

"Uruu~" Warm nuzzled into Rhode's arms, rubbing its head against his chest.

Rhode hugged Warm, feeling its little horns poke him a bit.

"Mira, two beers over here!" Laki waved towards the counter.

"Coming~" Mira picked up two wooden beer mugs, filled them, and placed them on a tray. "Rhode, it's almost noon, things are about to get busy."

"Okay, I'll start working now." Rhode put down Warm and picked up the tray.

Warm looked around, then followed at Rhode's feet as he went to deliver the drinks.

The customer was a middle-aged man, holding a pipe, with a brown pompadour, wearing a floral shirt, capri pants, and flip-flops.

"Your drink."

"Aww, why isn't Mira-chan bringing it..." Wakaba complained casually, but he still picked up the glass. "Speaking of which, you're the one who's been sitting at the counter these past few days..."

Rhode felt a bit slighted, but it was understandable; he'd prefer a beautiful woman serve him too.

"My name is Rhode, I just joined Fairy Tail and I'm currently working as a bar attendant. Please take care of me."

"Oh~~ A new guy! I'm Wakaba." Wakaba's interest was piqued. A hand-shaped cloud of smoke puffed from his pipe, and he held out another drink to Rhode.

"I use Smoke Magic, as you can see. This drink is on me, welcome to Fairy Tail!"

"I..."

Bang! Before Rhode could speak, the person sitting opposite Wakaba slammed their hand on the table and stood up.

"You damn Wakaba, don't just give away my drinks to people!"

This person had short purple hair, sparse stubble around his mouth, and wore a white trench coat. As he spoke, purple flames began to erupt from his hands.

The flames scattered Wakaba's smoke hand, taking its place to grip the drink.

"If anyone's going to treat, it's me!" He formally adjusted his collar. "Hello, I am..."

"Damn it, Macao!" Wakaba stood up, slammed his own glass onto the table, put his foot on his stool, and leaned forward. "You wanna fight? Huh?"

"Who's afraid of you!" Macao also put his foot on his stool and leaned forward.

The two men pressed their foreheads together across the table, glaring at each other, refusing to back down.

Thick smoke gathered above Wakaba's pipe, and the purple flames retracted, swirling around Macao's hand.

The drink that had been held by the flames fell, and Rhode hastily caught it, spilling a few drops. "Uh..."

He wanted to mediate, but the two had already ignored him. They were arguing and rolling up their sleeves, ready to fight at any moment.

Rhode looked around for help, only to find that everyone nearby had the expression of people watching a good show.

Some were even cheering, shouting things like 'Fight!' and 'Teach him a lesson!'

Laki, still holding the empty beer mugs she had just collected, didn't bother going back. Instead, she stood among the onlookers.

She did remember to remind him, "Rhode, if I were you, I'd get out of the way right now."

"For..."

Whoosh! A beer mug flew past Rhode's ear.

Macao and Wakaba had already jumped onto the table, gripping each other's hands and starting to wrestle.

Rhode touched his temple and decisively gave up trying to break up the fight. He scooped up the Poro Warm with one hand, held the innocent beer with the other, tucked the tray under his arm, and quickly ran back to the counter.

The Guild Master's small figure gave him a great sense of security.

Rhode asked, "Guild Master, don't you need to do anything about them?"

"Let them be." Makarov picked up the beer mug Rhode had just put down and took a swig.

No one was meditating right now, so there was no need to worry about disturbing anyone. A little commotion was fine.

Not only that, when someone started taking bets on who would fall off the table first between Macao and Wakaba, the old man even put down 1000J.

"I thought those days were chaotic just because the Guild Master wasn't here," Rhode said despairingly, watching the Guild Master start cheering. "Are there no normal people in this guild?"

"Don't say that," Mira said with a laugh, wiping a beer mug. "This is quite interesting."

The place where Macao and Wakaba were sitting was clattering, the long table was quickly smashed, and the stools were overturned.

The two wrestled for a while before barely separating, and the onlookers quickly got bored and dispersed.

This brawl was considered minor in Fairy Tail, as the two uncles were very measured and didn't involve anyone else at all.

"Are those two alright?" Rhode looked at the two sitting at separate tables, panting, feeling that he was partly responsible for their falling out.

"It's fine, they're like this, they'll be sitting together drinking again soon."

Mira wasn't worried about it at all. She said to Makarov, "Guild Master, that last drink should still be on your tab."

"Huh? Macao ordered that drink!"

"You secretly drank it."

"It was..." Makarov failed to escape the bill and was dejected.

Rhode's image of a kind, benevolent, and reliable guild master gradually collapsed in his heart.

This old man doesn't seem to have any proper conduct either. The guild being like this must be because the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, right?

Just as he was about to ask what to do about the broken table, he saw Laki walk over, making a strange gesture with her hands:

"Wood Molding: Sincere Friendship Wooden Table!"

The shattered tabletop and broken table legs seemed to come alive, bending, extending, and then perfectly fusing together, reforming into the original shape of the long table.

A buck-toothed guy next to them complained, "Why does she always use those weird names!"

Laki pushed her long purple hair behind her, adjusted her glasses with her hand, and said, "Oh my, are you jealous of my magic and talent?"

"Who would be jealous of that kind of thing!"

Laki was lost in her own world, cupping her face. "I am truly a woman of deep sin."

Rhode: "..."

He had noticed a hint of this before, and now he was almost certain that Laki was the narcissistic type.

However, her magic was quite convenient, almost catching up to Yamato's Wood Style from the neighboring series.

No wonder everyone was so unrestrained in destroying things.

[Language Issue]

The setting is that Fairy Tail speaks a language from another world, not Japanese or English.

As for why the anime uses Japanese and English, and why the text magic has English and Traditional Chinese, it's for the audience's understanding.

This seems to be a classic, old-school transmigration novel trope, so don't overthink it.

When naming entities, the meaning of "warmth, happiness, and love" was considered for the protagonist.

So the protagonist is named Warm (Warm), and Happy's name is (Happy), and his catchphrase is (love), which also fits the atmosphere of Fairy Tail.

In short, all the English-Chinese homophones that appear in the text should be considered as the language of another world that has been translated into 'faithful, expressive, and elegant' to become memes we can understand.

I specifically wrote at the beginning why the protagonist is learning languages... those who know, know.

If you're going to nitpick about these things, the entire novel is in Chinese anyway.