He clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking as tiny arcs of electricity flickered around him.
Is this guy my nemesis or something?! Every time I tried to mock those useless idiots in the guild, that bastard interrupted and ruined it. Now he isn't even in Magnolia, and he still left some lousy rock behind to get in my way!
And those Phantom Lord scumbags actually dared to impersonate me! The worst part is, Phantom Lord's already been wiped out!
Even their branch guilds were all taken out by Mystogan. Now I don't even have anyone to take my anger out on!
After a while, Laxus took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the fury churning in his chest. A sneer returned to his face, though it was far darker than before.
"It's nothing but a fake recording!"
"One of these days, I'll settle things with that sick prankster!"
He curled his lip in disdain and looked away, clearly unwilling to waste any more time on a recording crystal. Instead, he turned his sights back on the people before him.
"After all this, you still don't get it?"
He turned around, his mocking gaze sweeping over them one by one, from Macao and Wakaba to Levy, Jet, and Troy, before finally settling on Lucy.
"Why did Phantom Lord dare to smash up our guild? Because, to them, Fairy Tail was an easy target."
"A bunch of weaklings who can't even protect themselves, strutting around with the Fairy Tail Guild Mark. It's dead weight like you that's making our name worth less and less."
He flung his arms wide, his voice suddenly rising, every word dripping with lofty condemnation:
"The guild was destroyed for one reason alone-you're too weak!"
"Laxus, you bastard!!"
Unable to stomach Laxus's blatant insults any longer, Natsu swung