Fairy Tail: I Can Analyze Everything Chapter 70 70: Ron: I'm Taking It All in This Game!!!

From within the dark distortion, Simon's figure slowly erged.

As soon as he appeared, his gaze fell upon Ron, his eyes filled with irrepressible emotion and admiration.

"I really didn't expect..."

"Even that Jose couldn't stop you."

Simon took a deep breath, his voice low and thick.

"Now, I have even more confidence in stopping Jellal."

Then, he turned his head and looked at the terrified youth.

"Sorry, Sho, I kept it from you guys and led them here."

"W-Why..."

Sho stumbled back half a step, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"Why would you do such a thing?!"

"Sho, we were all deceived by Jellal..." Simon's tone was bitter. "But until the ti was ripe, I could only pretend to be fooled..."

"Simon, you..."

Erza looked at her childhood friend with a complex expression.

"I'm so Happy to see you again, Erza."

Simon turned his head, his single eye gazing tenderly at Erza.

"In these eight years, I have always believed in you, never changing!"

Through Erza's narration, Sho heard a completely different truth about the past than the one from Jellal's mouth.

"How could it be... Damn it!!!"

Sho clutched his head and roared hysterically, tears bursting from his eyes.

"What is the truth! What on earth should I believe?!!!"

Seeing her brother on the verge of collapse, Erza was about to step forward to comfort him.

Snap!

An afterimage flashed by.

Ron appeared behind Sho at so unknown mont, delivering a clean and swift hand-chop precisely to the back of his neck.

Sho's eyes rolled back, and he went limp, fainting away.

"Too noisy."

Ron shook his hand, looking perfectly calm.

"Philosophical questions like 'who to believe' should be left for him to think about slowly after he wakes up."

Erza: "..."

Simon: "..."

"Ti is tight now; Jellal is still up there waiting for us. Those opponents he arranged..."

Ron's gaze swept over Erza, Gray, and Juvia.

"I'll leave them to you."

Having said that, he put his hands in his pockets and turned toward the side door of the restaurant.

He had absolutely no intention of moving with the main group.

"Hey! Ron, where are you going?"

"I'm going to Jellal..."

Ron didn't stop, casually waving his hand with his back to the crowd.

"...to prepare a gift he'll never forget."

With that, his figure disappeared into the doorway.

"Honestly..."

Gray rolled his eyes helplessly and sighed.

"These guys, every single one of them loves acting on their own."

"Natsu is like this, and Ron is like this too."

"It's fine."

Erza wiped the tear stains from her left eye, looking in the direction Ron had disappeared, her gaze full of trust.

"Ron is very strong."

"Though he usually seems flighty and occasionally likes playing pranks... at critical monts, he has never let us down."

"Let's go!"

She gripped her longsword tightly again, her eyes regaining their usual strength and confidence.

"First, let's prevent Natsu and Millianna's group from coming into conflict."

...The interior of the Tower of Heaven was crisscrossed like a labyrinth, and there was more than one path leading to the top.

After leaving the restaurant, Ron was in no hurry to head up, instead traversing through the intricate corridors.

Our combat power: , Erza, Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Juvia;

Enemy combat power: Jellal, Trinity Raven.

Uninvolved parties: Simon who switched sides, the unconscious Sho, and the still-unaware Millianna and Wally;

Ron walked while deducing the current situation.

"It's just like the original plot."

Aside from Jellal on the other side, only that Ikaruga is sowhat decent... but only decent.

"Jellal, oh Jellal, if you don't have a trump card that exceeds the plot like Jose did, then I'll just have to say sorry..."

A wild and arrogant smile curled at the corners of Ron's mouth.

"In this ga, I'm taking it all!!!"

Talking to himself, he stopped before a seemingly ordinary dead end.

"Found it."

Ron's azure left eye flickered slightly; through the wall, he clearly saw the magic node before him.

He stepped forward, magic power surging at his fingertips. Like painting, he quickly traced a design upon the wall.

Hum—

A bright red magic circle, filled with an eerie beauty, erged out of thin air and silently rged into the wall as if it had never appeared... On the other side, the Cat Mansion.

By the ti Erza and the others arrived, the overly efficient Natsu had already defeated Millianna and Wally, and he himself was nowhere to be found.

After an explanation, the two could only helplessly accept the fact that they had been beaten up for nothing.

"Since the misunderstanding is cleared up."

Erza looked at Simon, her tone leaving no room for doubt.

"Simon, take Sho and the others and leave this tower imdiately. I will settle things with Jellal!"

Looking at Erza's uncompromising expression, then at the unconscious Sho on his shoulder.

Rembering that Ron was also in the tower, Simon took a deep breath and nodded heavily.

"I understand, Erza."

"We'll wait for you outside. This ti, we will never let you be alone again!!!"

After seeing Simon and the others retreat, Erza looked to her side.

"Don't even think about it."

Gray crossed his arms, giving her no chance to speak at all.

"Fairy Tail doesn't have people who abandon their comrades!"

Juvia's starry eyes flashed wildly: 'Gray-sama is so handso, so masculine!!! Juvia is going to faint!'

Looking at these two, Erza felt a warmth in her heart.

"Then let's go!"

Just as they left the Cat Mansion, the three heard a noisy commotion.

"It's Natsu!" Gray said, not surprised at all.

"Only he would be so reckless!"

Should it be said they are truly best friends? His words were spot on.

The commotion just now was indeed caused by Natsu.

To be precise, Natsu, who was preparing to use a Happy-brand flight assist to sneak ahead, was intercepted mid-air by Fukuro of the Trinity Raven and brought directly back to the tower's battlefield.

Erza's group of three hadn't gone far.

Zzzzt—!!!

The piercing, frenzied sound of an electric guitar, like a demonic lody, echoed from the hallway.

"Yeah— Welco to the LIVE DESTROY of Hell!!!"

"Rock & Roll!!!"

Accompanied by hysterical screams, Vidaldus Taka, dressed in rock-and-roll attire, intercepted the three.

Seeing this, Erza was about to rush forward when a hand suddenly stopped her.

"Erza, you go on ahead. Leave this place to !"

Gray turned his head and smiled at Erza.

"You should save your strength to settle things with Jellal, right?"

"Gray!!!"

"That's right, and Juvia too!"

Juvia took a step forward, standing firmly by Gray's side.

She clenched her fists, her eyes holding both vigilance toward the enemy and an even greater, indescribable excitent.

'Ahhh! Juvia can finally fight side-by-side with Gray-sama!'

'Is this the legendary... Unison Raid of love?!'

'I must perform well in front of Gray-sama! Flush this guy down the drain!'

Looking at their determined backs, Erza felt a warmth in her heart.

"I understand."

She no longer hesitated; her figure flashed, turning into an afterimage as she left from the other side without looking back.

"Hey! Don't think you can run!"

Vidaldus was about to block her.

"Your opponent is ! Ice-Make: Battle Axe!"

Gray leapt up suddenly, a massive ice axe hacking down fiercely, forcing Vidaldus to defend.

"Tsk, a big fish got away."

Vidaldus curled his lip in annoyance, then looked sinisterly at Gray and Juvia. "But it's fine. Taking you two out is also good."

As his words fell, his long black hair instantly transford into countless sharp arrows, stabbing toward Gray and Juvia from all directions.

Gray dodged to the side, avoiding them with ease.

Juvia, however, neither dodged nor avoided; the parts of her body that were hit turned into flowing water, as if passing through air, unable to sustain any damage.

"Juvia's body is made of water. This kind of physical attack is useless against ."

"Oh? A body made of water? Your body structure is quite interesting."

"Water Lock!!!"

To enjoy her world for two with Gray, Juvia decided to settle this quickly.

Water erging from nowhere ford a sphere, trapping Vidaldus within it.

The next second.

A bizarre smile appeared on Vidaldus's face as his hair instantly absorbed the water completely.

"How can this be... Juvia's Water Lock vanished?!"

"Naive! So naive!"

Vidaldus tossed his head sharply, his water-soaked hair looking even silkier.

"My hair can absorb liquids, though I don't accept oil or alcohol—those really damage the hair quality."

"Two people is a bit troubleso."

"So, which one of you should I choose?"

Vidaldus's finger pointed back and forth between Gray and Juvia as he muttered under his breath.

"The demon of hell indicates that the one to be chosen is..."