Those two Phantom Lord wizards were far more simple-minded than Rhode had imagined.
They really had just disliked Fairy Tail members and wanted to teach them a lesson. Since they did not want to cause trouble in the Royal Capital, they had deliberately come out into the wilderness to block the road.
Perhaps they also had a little desire to show off or earn merit in their guild.
But that did not change the fact that their motives were simple, their plan was simple, and getting knocked down had been simple too.
Rhode was not sure what the guild's stance on this sort of thing was, so he still needed Mira's opinion on how to handle the two of them.
Mira thought for a moment.
"At most, we could complain to the Council. After all, this was only a conflict between a few of us. It had not escalated to the point of the guilds going to war directly.
"Besides, even if we complained to the Council, they might turn around and accuse us instead. And considering the Council's attitude toward our guild..."
Rhode understood what she meant. Something this minor could only be treated as children fighting.
If they truly made a big deal of it and alerted the Council, both sides might get equally punished, with each guild master writing a self-criticism letter to settle it.
Given Fairy Tail's greater talent for causing trouble, their Master might even get scolded more severely.
"So the best way is to pretend nothing happened? We simply found two people by the road who had been attacked by wild beasts?"
Mira nodded. "More or less. If you're still angry, we can beat them up one more time at most."
Rhode looked at the two men.
There were marks around their waists where