Chapter 848: Subordinate Guilds
Just when the magic power of Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel reached its peak and the magic was about to explode, a fist suddenly stretched out and appeared in the eyes of the three.
"?!!"×3
“Oops…”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
In a blink of an eye, the three of them were lying on the ground with a big bag on their heads. Erza, who looked cold, took their place: "It's so noisy! Be quiet!"
After saying that, Erza casually put Gajeel's black coat on herself, then turned around and sat in the main seat. She raised her bright eyes and shouted coldly: "Listen to me! The wizards of Fairy Tail must follow the rules of the guild before they quit the guild or have any relevant intentions!"
"Want to be the president? Who allowed it? Who approved it?"
"I... I was wrong..." A wise man never suffers a loss in front of him, and Gajeel knows this well.
Erza nodded with satisfaction and looked away. At the same time, Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel stood up and surrounded Erza. One lit a cigar, one made ice cubes, and one fanned with an iron fan. Their movements were incredibly smooth.
Everyone: “…”
Crocodile was also stunned: I was defeated by such a man?!
After a long while, Mr. 1 asked, "Now that you have found your partner, then the next step is to sort out the future plans of the work club, right?"
Kira gave Mr. 1 a strange look and said lightly, "This is the first time in my life that I have seen an employee ask for a job on his own initiative... This world is really full of surprises!"
All the senior spies were silent. For those in their line of work, once a mission failed, they would either be killed by the target or purged by the organization. In any case, there was basically only one way out: death.
So if they are not afraid of death, they would not repeatedly take the initiative to ask for work. Otherwise, do you really think there are workaholics in this world?
Since the other party asked about the plan, Kira couldn't leave the decision to Erza, so he came out of the cage, without even looking at Crocodile, and asked: "What's your situation now?"
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, and then the most eloquent Robin stepped forward to explain the current situation: "This is it..."
Robin was worthy of being an old employee with twenty years of experience in dark work. In just ten minutes, she described the current situation of Alabasta in an orderly manner. While listening, Kira verified what was happening in the Kingdom of Alabasta with his own impression of the plot and roughly sorted out the current situation.
Of course, he paid more attention to Nico Robin herself. The 28-year-old young, well-informed and scheming big sister was too attractive to a handsome young man like him who just turned 22. Fortunately, Kira was rational enough and mature enough in thinking, and his sky-blue eyes like gems were clear enough, so no one noticed anything and just thought he was examining the second-in-command of the organization.
After Nico Robin finished speaking, Erza pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Kira, what do you think?"
In fact, Erza had her own plan, but she asked this question out of the idea of listening more to gain a better understanding, and since their group was currently led by Kira.
“It’s very simple!”
Kira walked towards Erza, took the coat off her shoulders and put it on himself, then looked at the people in the room and announced: "From now on, Baroque Works is a subordinate guild of 'Fairy Tail'! And I, Kira Hopelet, will be your president!!"
"Listen, all members of the guild are family. Anyone who dares to attack our guild will be regarded as our enemy, and we will take endless revenge on our enemies!"
Suddenly, Kira paused, as if he had thought of something, and continued, "Guild partners cannot attack family members. Of course, it's okay to quarrel and fight occasionally. When people live in the world, if they want to carry out their beliefs, they will inevitably clash with others. But the premise is that you must respect each other and communicate with your souls, instead of using violence as a means to vent hatred and resentment."
“This is family!!”
The senior agents' eyes widened instantly, staring blankly at Kira who said this, their expressions seeming to be savoring the memory.
“This guy…?!!”
"Incredible! These words unexpectedly make me feel safe~"
"Hey~ This guy really has the demeanor of a boss... At least he's much better than the previous iron man!"
"Kira-chan, what you said was so wonderful. I was shocked just by listening to it!!"
"Family? You are such a brat, your ideas are still too naive! But I don't hate you..."
"Wuwuwu..." Crocodile's eyes almost popped out and a hoarse voice came out of his throat, but the iron mask isolated him from the outside world, so no one could hear his voice.
What is this bastard kid doing? ! He is actually poaching people right in front of me! ! He is tying me up here, picking peaches without restraint, and taking away the Baroque Workshop that I have spent so many years and worked so hard to build? ! !
shame!!
This is an absolute disgrace!!!
At this moment, Crocodile felt extremely depressed.
The wizards stared at Kira in silence, because for a moment they seemed to see the shadow of Makarov in Kira.
"Kira is imitating the old man's speech again..."
"After all, the president's eloquence is something Kira dreams of learning!"
"But he did say something quite good! His aura and tone just now... he had the president's spirit."
"That's because that's what the president said in the first place, right?"
Seeing that the people around him, especially Lucy and Happy, the two people who were responsible for making complaints, were blatantly undermining his efforts at this time, Kira immediately glared at them, and they instantly shut up in embarrassment.
"So it's not that the company is welcoming a new boss, but that the entire company is being acquired, right?"
None of the members of Baroque Works dared to disobey Kira's orders, but they still had more doubts at this time: "Although it is a subordinate guild...but what exactly are we going to do?"
"The job of a wizard is to accept commissions and get paid. They can do anything from catching chickens and dogs, serving as a temporary waiter, and performing a play to spying, hunting monsters, and providing security. However, whether to accept a commission is entirely voluntary, and the completion of the commission and the specific remuneration are also negotiated between the wizard who accepts the commission and the client."
Everyone nodded. This kind of work was quite different from the previous style of Baroque Works. It was much freer and safer. There was no need to fight for life or death, and no need to worry about being purged. It sounded pretty good, but it was only suitable in a peaceful place.
Like in today's ocean, in this turbulent era of pirates, people like them who have power cannot really do things like catching chickens and dogs, serving as waiters, and performing dramas, otherwise they will even have difficulty eating.
Is this job transition? It seems like I have switched to a job that is very suitable for retirement in a peaceful place...
If they were already sixty years old, they would have agreed without hesitation, of course, provided that the workplace could be guaranteed to be safe enough, but they are still young now and feel that they can give it another try and work as killers for a few more years.
Suddenly, Kira changed the subject: "Logically, our Bright Guild shouldn't accept commissions to kill people, but I also know that it's impossible not to kill people in this era, so from now on, the people in our guild headquarters will only accept ordinary commissions, but you subordinate guilds can accept them."
"Kira..." Erza frowned and was about to say something, but Kira raised his hand to stop her.
Mr1 said calmly: "After all, are you still using us as knives? It sounds like it's no different from before..."
"Of course it's different. Subordinate guilds will be completely autonomous. We don't care about accepting or executing commissions. You just need to pay money regularly. And as a subordinate guild , you are free to come and go. You can join or quit at any time. Even if you fail in your work, you will not be purged. Only if you commit serious crimes, such as attacking people at the headquarters, we will never forgive you."
"To put it simply, the subordinate guilds use 'cooperation and support for the headquarters' actions at any time' and 'regular payment' in exchange for 'freedom of work content' and 'the ability to join and leave at any time'."
"It's similar to the relationship between the Four Emperors and the territories they occupy."
Robin pointed out Kira's plan directly: "In other words, you don't have to give anything at all, just wait to receive the money, and then once something goes wrong, just abandon the subordinate guilds, and the main guild will be a completely clean organization? What a good plan..."
Kira smiled faintly: "Rights and responsibilities come in pairs. Since you don't want to abide by the rules of Fairy Tail, you will naturally have to bear the corresponding price."
"But there is one thing you can rest assured about. If you join the headquarters and become our family, then no matter what your background is or what you have done, as long as you do not violate the guild's taboos, we will protect you! Because Fairy Tail will never abandon any family member!!"
You will never abandon your family...? ?
Robin pressed the hat on his head to cover his big eyes, and lowered his head, recalling something.
Robin had never heard such words in her 20 years of escape. Of course, even if someone said this to her, she would never believe it, because she had seen too much darkness. In this sea, betrayal happens all the time. Even the pirates known as the "Four Emperors" are not clean inside, and betrayal often happens.
But this does not mean that Robin does not believe that there are people in the world who "will never abandon their partners", because she always remembers what her childhood benefactor Sauro said to her - "The sea is very vast, and sooner or later you will meet partners who are willing to protect you."
Although Robin didn't hold out much hope that this would happen to her, she believed that there were indeed some fools in this world who would never betray their partners.
She didn't know whether these people who called themselves wizards were idiots, but she knew that she had no choice now.
"Why do you sound so familiar to me? Friends are family... It sounds similar to the Whitebeard Pirates? Do you want to become the fifth , or replace someone?"
Kira suddenly burst into laughter: "You have to understand, we are not pirates! We are..."
"A wizard from 'Fairy Tail'!!"
