"The time for the fairies to emerge from the seal is finally almost here..." On Wolf Island, the little girl with the cowlick looked up at the Fairy Sphere overhead, which gave off a faint golden glow, and murmured with a deep sigh of relief, "Dawn will finally return to Wolf Island."
Then she turned to glance at the egg she had defaced beyond recognition and wondered how the people inside were doing, and just when they would wake up.
At first, she had actually intended to wait until Achill and Mira, who were protected inside it, woke up, then have them help her undo the Fairy Sphere's Sealing. One reason was that undoing the Sealing in her current condition was simply too difficult and exhausting. After all, as a spirit, she had already spent all her strength just gathering everyone's faith and converting it into magic power to cast the spell in the first place. So if someone with powerful magic helped her, surely the Sealing would come undone much faster.
In that case, why not simply wake up the other members of Fairy Tail and ask them to help? Even without anyone else, surely the magic power of Makarov, one of the Ten Wizard Saints, would be a considerable help? Quite a few people might be thinking that at this point.
But the truth was that it was not that the little girl with the cowlick did not want to do so. No matter how much she wanted to, she simply could not. The reason was simple: everything protected within the Fairy Sphere had its time completely sealed off, with all functions suspended! Unless the spell was dispelled, that suspension would never end. It was as though time inside had been paused.
Under the Fairy Sphere's sealing effect,