Chapter 856: Battle between cute pets, Lili VS Chopper
"Gajeel, this guy actually wants revenge? I laughed."
Thousands of miles away, in the carriage of the Fat Cart, Kira sneered.
The virtual screen in the car broadcast the conflict between Gajeel and Eric, including images and sounds, to Kira, so he could be said to be aware of Gajeel's every move.
Although Kira couldn't use sound magic like Eric to detect Gajeel's psychological changes through the screen, he was so smart that he almost wrote his thoughts on his face. Kira could tell with his own eyes that he was scheming himself.
"Lebi, what book are you reading?"
"Lu-chan~ Stop asking questions!!"
"Leby-chan, you're really good!!"
Under Lucy's suspicious gaze, Rei blushed, lowered her head and huddled into a ball, with an attitude of "you can ask me but I won't tell you". This look made Lucy's curiosity even more intense. Her intuition told her that the "book" Eric mentioned on the screen was definitely not the magic book or history book that Rei usually read. After all, everyone in the guild knew that Gajeel was a person who didn't like to study. How could he calm down and read a book?
Inside the carriage, Urrutia who was obsessed with makeup and Robin who was obsessed with books were both smiling and silent. Although they seemed to be busy with their own things, they actually understood all the situations just by listening. Compared with the inexperienced Lucy and the young and simple Wendy, they were obviously more insightful.
However, none of them acted as if they understood what he was saying, because that would be like revealing in front of everyone that they were experienced people, and would also make Lei Bi, the person present, extremely embarrassed.
As they were all drivers, the girls knew how to restrain themselves, but the two middle-aged men behaved unbridled. They sat at the outside of the car, smoking, with haggard and sad faces.
"I'm so envious! It's made of iron..."
"Sure enough, some things are due to talent and cannot be forced!"
The two of them didn't care about the strange looks from others and kept communicating with each other through their eyes in a way that only they could understand. That was the tacit understanding they had developed over twenty or thirty years of knowing each other. No one could interrupt their private conversation, not even Romeo, Marcao's biological son.
"Marcus, do you know what they mean?"
Romeo, who was still young but already had a strong curiosity about things, looked at Marcus who was sitting next to him. He felt that this man who was known as the "smartest wizard in the guild" must have understood.
"Just watch carefully. That's not something a child of your age should be exposed to! When the time comes, you will understand it naturally!"
It was obvious that Marcus understood, and his reaction was neither pretending to be ignorant like Urrutia and Robin, nor being vulgar like the two uncles, but being mysterious and acting like a riddler.
…
In the rain, on the street, two cute pets face off.
"Kira asked us to play a hunting game here, but actually, he only said that we have to defeat everyone, without stipulating how to defeat them, so I think the two of us can just compete in a more peaceful way!"
Lili took a step forward, crossed his arms over his chest, and challenged Chopper to a fight.
Chopper didn't want to waste time here at all: "But... I still have to find my companions..."
"Don't worry, neither our wizards nor the assassins from Baroque Works nor the navy will kill anyone in this game, so you don't have to worry about the safety of your friends."
Lili knew what Chopper was thinking, and immediately spoke to comfort him: "The Crocodile you wanted to defeat has been trapped, and no one dares to touch the princess named Vivi!"
"As long as you beat me, I will let you go!"
Seeing that the other party had the attitude of not giving way unless they competed, Chopper had no choice but to nod and agree: "Well... well, how do you want to compete?"
Lili thought for a moment and suggested, "Since we want to use a more peaceful method...how about we play rock-paper-scissors? We'll use a best-of-thirteen format."
"Okay!" Chopper agreed without thinking.
So the two of them put their right hands on their waists, concentrated, gathered strength, and attacked at the same time.
"Rock, Paper, Scissors!!"
Lili plays rock and Chopper plays scissors.
The former is happy, the latter is disappointed.
"Rock, Paper, Scissors!!"
Lili chose rock again, and Chopper chose scissors again.
The former was overjoyed, the latter was depressed.
"Rock, Paper, Scissors!!"
Lili chose rock for the third time, and Chopper chose scissors for the third time.
This time Lili seemed to realize that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was, and Chopper was still disappointed.
Ten minutes later...
Both sides finally knew where the problem lay. In the human/beast state, Chopper had no five fingers, only hooves.
"Defeated! No chance of winning at all..."
Chopper fell to the ground, looking like he was hit, while Lili looked embarrassed and said apologetically: " Sorry , I forgot that you can only use scissors."
However, just as he finished speaking, Chopper suddenly came to his senses and turned into a tall human form with a bang: "That's right! I still have this state! I have fingers in this state, let's start over!"
"You can also transform?!" Lili looked at Chopper in surprise.
"Yes! I am a reindeer that ate the Human-Human Fruit, so I was in human|beast form just now, and now I am in human form!"
"I originally thought you had no fighting ability. If that's the case..." Lili suddenly realized, and then he turned into a human form with a bang, "Then let's try another way to compete!"
“Ehhhhh??!!! You can actually transform into a human form too?!!”
Chopper's eyes popped out of his head in surprise, "Is this the power of a devil fruit?"
"No, this is magic! Transfiguration magic!"
Lili held his head high with a look of great pride on his face. "I usually only enter this state when I need to fight. Let me make it clear first, don't look down on me just because I'm a cat. I used to be the captain of the national guard!"
"Really?! That's amazing!!"
After hearing the term "Captain of the Guard", Chopper's eyes sparkled and he exclaimed. At this moment, he had forgotten that his friends were still waiting for him. He was only thinking about seeing how strong the man called "Captain of the Guard" was. He was even a little impatient. "Then... how are we going to compete now?"
In line with the principles of fairness, justice, openness, and friendship first and competition second, Li Li generously gave up the right to decide: "Well... since I was the one who proposed the rock-paper-scissors game just now, you will decide this time."
Chopper was instantly impressed by Lili's boldness: "Really?! You're such a good person... no, such a good cat!!"
Whether it is Lili or Chopper, their appearance in human form is definitely not good-looking compared to their small and cute image, but they are undoubtedly stronger in terms of combat power.
One of them had a sturdy build with scars from years of training and fighting, while the other was as big as a monster. Both of them looked powerful.
The two men found a large rock, pressed the rock with one hand, and placed their other hands on the rock and clasped them together.
"Keep going, Chopper!"
"You too, Lili!"
When their eyes met, both of them saw something called innocence in each other at first glance, and suddenly they had a wonderful feeling that they were each other's bosom friends and that they had met too late.
Suddenly...
“Ohhhh!!”
“Ohhhhhh!!!”
“HAAHAHAHAH!!!”
The two men exerted their strength at the same time, and in a blink of an eye, their blood boiled, their faces turned red, and the meridians on their thick arms bulged. They staged a competitive duel where the output was entirely dependent on shouting.
This was a huge shock to Kira, who was watching this scene thousands of miles away.
"Why...are these two cute little guys competing in such a barbaric way? Wouldn't it be better to see who can get more welcomes within a fixed period of time?"
Kira glanced inside the carriage and found that everyone else had the same regretful look on their faces as he did. Only Romeo was excited, with his fists clenched and his eyes shining. He then realized instantly: "Maybe this is the romance of boys?"
Thinking back to when I was eleven or twelve years old and had just joined Fairy Tail, I seemed to have gone through a short, extremely passionate phase, but in the end my psychology triumphed over my physiology, and I did not contract the second-year syndrome, otherwise the consequences would have been disastrous.
I remember that the happiest thing every day was to accept Laxus's challenge and beat him up...
I don’t know where Laxus is in the ocean now?
Three minutes later...
Lili and Chopper finally finished the arm wrestling competition. They both exhausted their strength at the same time and fell backwards. Then, with a bang, they recovered into their cute looks.
"It's... It's over..."
"Go, Chopper, go to your friends!"
Chopper was stunned: Eh?! Is he letting me off so easily? I thought he was going to drag me to compete several more times...
"What's wrong?"
"No...no! I just want to say that you are a nice person."
Only when he was a hundred meters away did Chopper look back at Lili who was still lying on the ground, muttering to himself: "So why did he stop me? He dragged me into the game without saying anything, and the game ended so inexplicably..."
"Are all those guys who call themselves wizards as weird as him?"
I don’t understand!
I really don’t understand!
