Chapter 286 Clues
Kira walked into the guild tavern as usual.
There were few people in the pub, only about one-third of the usual number.
Apart from a few regular drinking buddies who were still sitting in their old place drinking and bragging, most people had gone out to work, leaving behind only the new members who had no idea what was about to happen, and the "players" who had already cleared the game and were still hanging out in the pub.
Mira at the bar greeted him with a smile: "You're here? Kira!"
"Yeah!" Kira waved his hand as a greeting, walked to the bar and asked, "There are so few people today, are you all going on missions?"
Mira nodded as she wiped the glass wine glass: "Yeah! After all, that day is coming!"
"It's the annual work frenzy again! These lazy guys, they are only so active at this time of the year." Kira complained, but then stopped talking and turned to look at the guild's task board, "Well... in the whole guild, only Nob has not changed!"
Nob stood there quietly like a fat black man from an ancient tribe, hesitant and uncertain. One could vaguely hear him mumbling to himself, "This won't do... this isn't good..."
Following Kira's gaze, Mira smiled brightly, " Hehehe ...that's it!"
Kira ordered a glass of juice and glanced at the other side of the tavern. Two familiar middle-aged figures were still drinking and chatting happily.
"Have these two uncles, Makao and Wakaba, completely given up?"
"Maybe he feels he can't compete with the young people."
Kira shifted his gaze to other places in the guild: Wendy, Lisanna, and Wendy's pet, Charlu, were sitting together talking about something with bright smiles on their faces; while Erza was sparring with the new Transcendent, Rili, and the two were fighting vigorously, while Gajeel was cheering and showing off beside them.
At this moment, footsteps were heard, and then a familiar blonde girl slowly approached.
It's Lucy!
Kira looked back briefly and asked, "Lucy? You didn't go to work?"
"Well... because..."
She was about to explain something when Kira interrupted her: "That won't work! If you don't work, you'll face a serious food and accommodation crisis! And of course, there's also a debt crisis!"
"I know!" Lucy pouted and said angrily, "Really, you say such annoying things as soon as we meet! I'm also working very hard! It's just that the situation has been a little special recently..."
Gu...
Kira drank the juice in one gulp, turned around and asked, "Speaking of which, Lucy! How are those Star Spirit Keys doing? How is your relationship with the Star Spirits?"
"Um... great! Why do you ask that?" Lucy sat down next to Kira. She was interrupted by Kira's sudden words and forgot her original purpose for a moment.
Kira replied: "You should be the first celestial wizard to collect all thirteen zodiac keys in the past hundred years! I have made more contributions than you in this matter! Can't I show some concern?"
“Okay…Okay…”
"So, now you can open two doors at the same time with your own magic power?"
Lucy scratched her cheek awkwardly: "Um... well... it's just barely acceptable..."
Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something, her tone changed, and she said, "Ah! I came here today because I want to ask Mira-san something, and since you are here, you might know it too!"
It turned out that just last night, Cana broke into Lucy's house drunk and said that she was considering quitting the guild.
Lucy looked at the two anxiously, "That's what she said!! And she won't tell me why!!"
However, Mira seemed to have known this for a long time. She calmly put away the glass that Kira had just put down and said, "It's okay. Cana always says this recently!"
Lucy was stunned for a moment: "Ah?! That's not right? No matter how you think about it, this can't be a 'not serious problem', right? Don't you guys care about it? What's going on with Cana?!"
"It's just a child throwing a tantrum. It will be fine in a couple of days!" Kira comforted her. "You know, just like girls feel unwell for a few days every month, Kana will also feel inexplicably depressed at a certain time! Don't worry, she will be full of energy again after a while..."
"Don't say things like that in front of girls, Kira!"
Kira pointed at the black energy gradually rising from Mira's body, turned to Lucy and said: "See! Mira can also do this..."
Snap!
With a crisp sound, the glass was crushed to pieces, and the residue fell all over the floor.
"Ah! Are you okay?!" Kira hurriedly stood up and looked anxiously at the broken cup body lying quietly on the bar. He sighed heavily, "Alas! It's too late! The poor, weak and helpless cup has completely left this world."
Kira sat back in his original position and hammered the bar lightly, the shockwave causing the debris on the bar to bounce slightly.
"Damn it! It worked so hard to serve humans, even sacrificing its own clean and pure body just to relieve the guests' thirst. I didn't expect it to die in a place like this. It's so pitiful! It's all my fault for not protecting it! I'm still... too weak!"
Lucy looked at Kira, who had instantly entered the acting mode and was like a psychopath, speechlessly: "Hey, hey... that's enough! It feels like something is going wrong the more you act!"
"Ignore him!"
Mira cleaned up the broken glass and said to Lucy in a ruthless and indifferent voice, "Kira is like this. As long as no one sees him acting, he won't act anymore!"
"Hehe..." Lucy laughed awkwardly and then asked, "Mira-san, do you feel that everyone is acting weird lately?"
Mira's smile remained unchanged as she said nonchalantly, "Huh?! No! Kira has always been like this. I thought you were already familiar with it!"
"No... this is obviously not what I want to say..."
boom!
Just when Lucy was about to say something, the door of the guild suddenly opened, and a group of people rushed in.
"Work...work..."
Natsu led the way, followed closely by Happy, the two of them delivering and picking up tasks at the fastest speed, and disappeared in less than a minute, even ignoring Lucy's cries.
Next up is Gray, Elfman, the Gun and Bullet Team, and the Wheel Team...
Three minutes later, the Guild Tavern returned to peace, and all the people who had rushed in before ran away without a trace.
This scene made Lucy confused: "Is this still the guild I'm familiar with, the one that only loves to fight every day? There's really something wrong with everyone!"
"I really don't know why some people are so busy with work while others are just doing the same as usual. It's really confusing!"
Lucy said gloomily. The people she mentioned as the same as usual were obviously those who had finished the game, the old players who were playing badly, and the new members like her.
"You'll know tomorrow!"
Mira was trying to be mysterious and keep everyone in suspense, but Kira didn't want to cooperate. What he hated most was watching others act as riddlers!
There can only be one person who can solve the mystery, and that person is Kira!
As long as others ask him a riddle, he will expose it without hesitation!
"Actually... the guild is going to conduct an S-level assessment!"
"S-level assessment?!"
Lucy raised her voice to 80 decibels and it exploded in the guild, attracting everyone's attention. They stopped what they were doing and what they were talking about, and stared at Lucy in a daze.
But Lucy didn't blush at all, instead she continued to yell, "Is the guild going to have an S-rank exam? I didn't even know about it!! No wonder Natsu and the others have been working so hard lately!"
After saying that, he was still muttering to himself: "If I can pass the S-level assessment... won't I be able to take on more high-paying commissions?"
