Lucy instinctively raised her head, revealing her tear-streaked face. Huge tears kept rolling down her cheeks. She lifted a hand to wipe them away, but the more she wiped, the more they fell. In the end, she simply gave up and burst into tears in the middle of the crowd.
"Waaah!! E-everyone... thank you..."
"Lucy..." Levy hurriedly pulled out a handkerchief and handed it to her.
Blanc stood outside the crowd, watching the scene with a faint smile.
Meanwhile, Makarov's expression slowly began to change.
Only after delivering that rousing speech did he finally have a moment to calm down and go over everything that had happened these past two days.
Starting an all-out war between guilds without authorization-violating the prohibition on interguild conflict.
Leading an assault on Oak Town and riddling another guild's building with holes from the inside out.
Summoning a Wooden Human hundreds of meters tall outside town, followed by three even larger monsters, and fighting the Magic Giant so fiercely that the whole place was turned upside down. The townspeople must have been scared out of their minds.
And then there was that newly grown forest...
A thin sheen of sweat slowly formed on Makarov's forehead.
We went a little overboard this time...
He could practically see the defendant's seat in the Magic Council's courtroom, those old fossils' furious faces, and the written apologies, fines, and compensation bills piled higher than a person on his desk...
Surely they won't lock me up too...
The more he thought about it, the worse it looked. Grief welled up within him, and two streams of tears spilled uncontrollably from his eyes.
"Boohoo!! I'm done for..."
Startled by the Guild Master's sudden reaction, Blanc stared dumbfounded as he burst into tears, utterly bewildered.
The Guild Master's fears proved well