"Hey! Why did we have to leave in such a hurry?" Laxus sat listlessly on Minazuki's back, skull prayer beads hanging around his neck. Looking at Achill, who stood on the front of her head with his eyes shut and an unusually grave expression, he asked in bewilderment, "Where exactly are you trying to go? Do you really need to make this unidentified—er, ahem, this female creature fly so fast?" He wiped the sweat off his forehead. That was close. I almost called Minazuki an unidentified creature again. After being swallowed so many times, even someone as fearless as him had grown a little wary of her.
He was right about one thing, though. Minazuki was racing through the sky at more than ten times her usual speed. If the two of them had not been exceptionally powerful, the wind pressure from her high-speed flight would have swept them off her back long ago!
Laxus was utterly baffled. Earlier that day, he had finally managed to get Achill to exchange that damned wooden fish drum for these annoying prayer beads. Before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, Achill's expression had suddenly changed. Without a word, he had summoned that damned unidentified creature, tossed Laxus onto her back, and immediately ordered Minazuki to fly at full speed away from the town where they had been resting!
They had been racing along at full speed for over an hour now, yet Laxus still had absolutely no idea what had prompted Achill's sudden behavior!
Achill, meanwhile, did not react at all to Laxus's questions. His brow remained furrowed, his eyes tightly shut, and every muscle in his body tense, as though he faced a formidable enemy! The occasional tightening of his brow suggested that he was sensing something. But what could