The Fairy Tail guild was much quieter than usual that day. Although it was bustling most of the time, it occasionally had unusually deserted days like this one. Most of its members had gone out on jobs, leaving only two people in the enormous guildhall: Achill the freeloader and Makarov the dirty old man.
"Ahh... I'm so bored..." Sprawled lazily across a tavern table, Achill kept yawning, making it abundantly clear just how little he had to do.
He really did have nothing to do. Erza, Natsu, and the rest of their team had left on a job first thing that morning. Le Qi had found a request she liked at noon and headed out right after lunch. Mira should have been free, but some magazine had suddenly sent her an invitation at midday, asking her to advertise for a swimsuit company.
As for the members of his own guild, Laxus went without saying. He had disappeared again after the last peeping incident, and nobody knew where he had gone off to fool around. Angel, the former Oración Seis member who had turned over a new leaf, had picked out a highly paid S-class job from Fairy Tail's second floor yesterday and promptly vanished.
That left Wendy, but Carla, that damned unidentified flying object, had dragged her out on a job early that morning and refused to let anyone tag along. She would not even let Achill accompany them to look after Wendy, just in case. Her stated reason was to develop Wendy's ability to work independently, but Achill could plainly see the wariness and profound distrust in that damned unidentified flying object's eyes! Unfortunately, Wendy had believed Carla, decided that her abilities really did need improving, and firmly forbidden Achill from coming along. And so, in the end, he