The Magic Council had been forced into an emergency reorganization after the enormous crisis caused by Face's activation.
Yet when faced with the man who had single-handedly resolved every problem, the newly appointed councilors felt a hundred times more fear than they had when facing Tartaros.
They had no idea how to deal with a monster who defied every rule and all common sense.
To that end, an emergency meeting at the highest level, gathering the masters of all the top guilds in the Fiore Kingdom, was secretly convened at the council's headquarters.
The atmosphere at the meeting was unbearably tense.
"That man..."
Oba Babasama, the master of Snake Princess Scale, was an old woman normally full of vigor, but now her voice shook violently with uncontrollable fear:
"He's no longer a wizard! He's a true demon king! A living demon king more terrifying than Zeref!"
"How are we supposed to coexist with someone like that?"
Bob, the master of Blue Pegasus, had also set aside his usual flippancy, his face filled with worry:
"His existence has completely upset the balance of the entire continent. We can't even tell whether he's a friend or an enemy."
Makarov sat beside the conference table without a word, merely raising his glass and drinking gloomily, cup after cup. His face was filled with helplessness, along with a trace of strange pride that no outsider could understand.
Meanwhile, in the villa on the outskirts of Magnolia.
Ye Chuan and Robin seemed entirely unaffected by the tension outside, continuing to lead their peaceful, comfortable lives.
The afternoon sunlight streamed through the enormous floor-to-ceiling windows, falling across Robin's elegant profile.
She sat before the bookshelves, carefully organizing and analyzing the volumes seized from Tartaros's forbidden library, which contained top-secret information on the demons of the