Lucy turned her head in surprise, only to see Gajeel standing beside her silently at some point, looking down at the order form in her hand.
"Hey! That's what I saw first!!"
"Huh?" Gajeel glanced sideways at her and raised the paper in his hand provocatively, "Whoever is quick with this kind of thing will own it."
"But... can you do this kind of job?"
"I can do whatever job I like." Gajeel replied jokingly, turned around and left.
Lucy stomped his feet angrily on the spot. "Damn it, mission thief!"
Looking at the remaining orders on the taskbar that were about to "conquer", "deport" and "annihilate" at every turn, Lucy gritted his teeth, and finally surrendered and turned around and walked towards the barbecue table.
Natsu's mouth was bulging, while Happy was sitting at the corner of the table, holding a grilled fish and chewing it with relish.
Bang!
Lucy stepped forward and slapped the table hard.
"Natsu, Happy, come with me."
"Huh? What for?" Natsu asked vaguely with half a piece of meat still in his mouth.
"Accompany me to pick tasks!"
"Okay!" When he heard that there was something serious, Natsu suddenly became energetic and swallowed the meat in a few mouthfuls, "Let's find a mission that allows me to have a good fight!"
"Please restrain yourself, I'm in a hurry for money now!!" Lucy was a little crazy, it was because of this that she wanted to find a person to work on.
Just as the two of them were walking towards the task bar noisily, Mira and Blanc came back from the warehouse.
Mira walked in front, holding only a small stack of paper in his arms and walking briskly;
Blanc, who was following behind, had three large cardboard boxes stacked in his arms. The height of the stack completely blocked his upper body, and only his two legs could be seen moving underneath.
Mira keenly heard Lucy's complaint about urgent need for money, and immediately interjected with a smile:
"Lucy, are you worried about money?" She took out a folded flyer from her arms and handed it over, "Do you want to take a look at this?"
"Eh? The job introduced by Mira?" Lucy took it and unfolded it, "Magnolia Harvest Festival?"
"Well, we Fairy Tail will participate every year. Look at the lower right corner again."
Lucy looked down and saw the eye-catching advertisement wrapped with love in the lower right corner of the flyer--[Fairy Tail Miss Selection Contest...]
"Fairy Tail Miss Selection Contest!? This is?"
"To put it simply, it's the Fairy Tail beauty contest! The first place has a bonus of 500,000 J, which is very generous."
"Five, five hundred thousand!?"
Lucy's eyes instantly turned into two sparkling gold coin symbols, and the hand holding the flyer began to tremble slightly.
"It's equivalent to seven months' rent! This competition is perfect for me!!"
Happy, who was standing next to him, ruthlessly poured cold water on him. "But Mira, Cana, and Erza will all participate in this competition, right? Does Lucy really have a chance of winning?"
Lucy froze, cold sweat broke out, and she looked at Mira in panic.
"Eh!? Mira is also participating? You are Weekly Sosara's popular model!"
Mira was standing beside her, her long silver hair hanging smoothly on her shoulders, a gentle smile on her face, and she tilted her head.
"Yes, we will be rivals."
'What a powerful enemy...!'
Lucy swallowed, feeling that the future was bleak.
But soon, the girl's arrogance and obsession with money made her clenched her fists again.
'No, calm down Lucy! In terms of youth and youthful vitality, I am not inferior to them at all!'
'I will definitely win!'
She raised the flyer above her head and declared confidently:
"No matter who the enemy is! Fairy Tail Miss Selection Contest, I must win the championship!!"
"Oh, then I have to work hard~" Mira agreed with a smile, as if there was a faint black air rising behind him.
Lucy The hand holding the flyer shook stiffly.
However, unlike the girls who were full of interest, Natsu picked his ears without interest.
"Tch, this kind of competition is the most boring."
Hearing this, Blanc couldn't help but poke half of his face out from behind the carton and clicked his tongue twice:
"This is a warm-up program that explodes in popularity every year. Natsu, you still haven't figured it out. You don't understand."
"Huh? What's so easy to understand about this kind of thing." Natsu first made a sound of disdain, and then bumped his fist expectantly:
"If you want to do it, you might as well hold a S-Class Challenge! Let all the S-Class Mages in the guild accept my challenge and let me beat them one by one!"
As he spoke, his flaming eyes stared straight at Blanc.
"Blanc! It starts with you!"
Facing Natsu's fiery gaze, Blanc silently retracted his head and avoided his sight.
He didn't want to take on such a boring challenge.
At this time, Happy on the side crossed his arms, shook his head, and interjected as if he had seen through the world:
"No, Natsu," he said in a heavy tone, "You will die..."
"What did you say!?"
Happy ignored the jumping Natsu. It raised its head, and some interesting picture seemed to appear in its mind, and its eyes slowly lit up:
"But it would be great if we could have a 'Fairy Tail Strongest Tournament' show! Blanc, Gildarts, Laxus, Mira, Erza, and Mystogan, who I heard is super awesome!"
"Mystogan..." Lucy tilted his head, "Speaking of which, I've never seen him before. He's very mysterious. How strong is he?"
"Mystogan's strength was actually demonstrated when Phantom Lord War."
Blanc finally put the three heavy cartons on the table aside and took over the conversation.
"Eh?" Lucy was stunned, "But I didn't see him at all at that time?"
Blanc smiled mysteriously, lowered his voice, and said in a faint tone:
"Phantom Lord is famous largely because of their Branch which has been sold all over the country."
"What we dealt with at that time was just the headquarters of Phantom Lord. And Branch of Phantom Lord, but there are dozens more..."
Having said this, Blanc paused deliberately, leaving Lucy enough time to make up his mind.
"As for the dozens of Branchs all over the country, in just a few days after we started the war with Phantom Lord, they were all wiped out by Mystogan alone."
Lucy instantly had goosebumps on his back, and several of his hairs exploded. "How many days will it take to clear out dozens of guilds all over the country? Just traveling is not enough time, right!?"
'What kind of monsters are the S-Class in this guild...'
"It's really amazing!" Happy became even more excited. He raised his hands high and his eyes were full of expectation.