"Hey! Ron! Are you okay?!"
Looking at Ron, who resembled shattered porcelain, Natsu stepped forward, wanting to touch him but not daring to, terrified that he would shatter at the slightest contact.
Ur also wore a worried expression: 'That kind of magic, does it really co with a price?'
Compared to the panicked trio, Ron was unusually calm.
He casually snapped his fingers.
Under his healing magic, these terrifying-looking cracks healed at a visible speed, restoring him to his original state.
"Don't be nervous, I'm not hurt."
Ron stretched his body and explained with a smile.
"The magic power I absorbed was too vast, and I used too much force while expelling the impurities just now. It's fine now; I just need to regulate and settle it later."
Erza and Ur's lips twitched.
Only this guy in front of them could still be chatting and laughing after absorbing magic like Etherion.
Seeing that Ron's relaxed and casual deanor didn't seem fake, they finally relaxed.
Only then did they realize that the surrounding environnt had undergone a cataclysmic change.
Looking around, it was a scene of devastation.
Whether it was the Tower of Heaven or any other structure, everything had been reduced to ruins.
The entire island looked as if it had been ruthlessly plowed over.
The original vegetation had turned to scorched earth, the hard rock layers had turned to gravel, and in the center, there was now a lake ford by seawater flooding in.
"It's over..."
Erza scanned the ruins with her gaze.
This place bore all the nightmares of her childhood and had trapped her for eight whole years.
And now, the gloom that had entangled her heart seed to have dissipated with the wind in this battle.
Her expression beca relieved, yet carried a hint of indescribable complexity.
"What? Can't bear to part with it?"
Ron looked at Erza's profile and said in a teasing tone.
"If you're feeling nostalgic, you can take a few bricks back as a souvenir..."
"..."
Erza rolled her eyes at him.
"I don't have such strange hobbies."
"It's just..."
She shook her head gently and took a deep breath.
"I'm still not used to it for the mont."
"Everything from the past has suddenly ended, and I feel a bit empty inside."
"What's there to not be used to?"
Ron rested his hands behind his head, gazing at the horizon where the first light of dawn was beginning to appear.
"Without these shackles, you should stride toward true freedom."
"True freedom, huh..."
Erza whispered.
She turned back to look at Natsu, who was waving with a silly grin, at Lucy and the others rushing over from a distance, and then at the man beside her who always created miracles.
Suddenly, she smiled like a blooming flower.
"You're right, Ron."
"However... I actually had true freedom a long ti ago."
"It's just that I didn't realize it before..."
Ever since she joined Fairy Tail, ever since she had these companions and family who would always stand by her side.
She had already been free.
As she laughed, two lines of clear tears uncontrollably slid from the corners of her eyes.
These were tears of farewell, and also tears of rebirth.
"Natsu! Erza! Ron!!!"
"Are you okay?!"
In the distance, as soon as they landed on the shore, Lucy jumped off impatiently and shouted, waving her hand.
Happy even spread his wings and flew over directly.
"Natsu—!!"
"Yo! Lucy! Happy!"
Natsu waved back mindlessly.
And at the very back of the crowd.
Gray stood frozen in place, as if struck by lightning.
His black pupils reflected the figure beside Natsu.
"This... how..."
Gray raised his hand in disbelief, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and pinched his thigh hard.
Only then was he certain that the person before him was not a dream created by Ron.
His expression shifted from dull to timid, like a traveler returning ho, feeling apprehensive.
His feet moved forward subconsciously.
One step, two steps...
Uncontrollable tears burst forth; with every step closer, his vision blurred a little more.
Gray opened his mouth several tis, wanting to call out that na, but his throat felt blocked by sothing, and he could only emit broken sobs.
Truly looking at this living, grown-up young man.
A gentle smile appeared on Ur's face.
She raised her hand and gently ruffled Gray's sowhat ssy black hair, her voice gentle and filled with nostalgia.
"Long ti no see, Gray."
Six simple words.
Like a spring breeze and rain, they instantly perated the depths of Gray's heart.
"Wahhh... Wuaaaaaah!!!"
Gray lunged into Ur's embrace and began to cry uncontrollably.
"Ur... Ur!!!"
"It's great... it's really great!!!"
"Wahhh... You, you've finally co back to life..."
Watching Gray, who was crying his eyes out, Ur hugged him back gently, patting his back.
Just then.
A blue head quietly leaned over to Ron's side.
She tugged at Ron's sleeve and asked in a low voice.
"Mr. Ron... um... who is the person holding Master Gray?"
"Oh, you an Ur."
Ron replied casually, "She is Gray's master; to Gray, she is like a mother figure."
"Mo... mother?!"
Juvia's pupils shook, her Brain spun at high speed, and she reached a conclusion.
Master Gray's master = Master Gray's mother = Future mother-in-law?!
Boom—!!!
Visible steam erupted from the top of Juvia's head; her face turned bright red instantly, and she distorted herself into a pretzel.
'Thi-this is eting the parents already?!'
'Juvia didn't prepare a gift, and today's makeup isn't perfect either.'
'What to do, what to do!'
'If it's the mother-in-law... then should Juvia call her... Mom?'
Ron looked at Juvia, who had entered "Steam Maiden" mode and seed to be wildly overthinking things, and shook his head helplessly.
Just as this heartwarming reunion and wild reverie were happening.
On the other side.
"Where's Jellal?" Sho asked.
Back when he learned the truth, if Ron hadn't knocked him out, he had been prepared to beat Jellal up for revenge.
When he first woke up, he also intended to settle scores with Ron.
But after witnessing the battle on the island just now, these thoughts had all vanished into thin air.
Whether it was Ron or Jellal, they were at a level he could never reach in his entire life.
So at this mont, he only wanted to know the fate of the guy who had deceived them for eight years.
"Sunk to the bottom of the sea."
Natsu pointed to the lake in the distance that had been filled with seawater.
"Hit by magic like that, he's probably dead!"
Sho's shoulders slumped, his expression complex.
"Dead?"
Ron didn't think so.
Although he had been hit by his own super magic and knocked into the seabed.
But a person like Jellal wouldn't die so easily.
In the original plot, he replaced Erza to fuse with the Tower of Heaven, and his body was even broken down into atoms, yet he only suffered amnesia and didn't die.
In the end, he was even picked up by Brain and participated in the Nirvana incident.
"Speaking of which, will Jellal be picked up by Brain and the others this ti?"
"If they do pick him up..."
Ron rubbed his chin, pondering to himself.
"Without the experience of fusing with the Tower of Heaven and losing his mory, will Jellal be good or evil then?"
He looked at the calm sea, a hint of mischievous amusent flashing in his heterochromatic eyes.
"How interesting; I'm inexplicably looking forward to it!"
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