Chapter 364: FTG Chapter 361: "The Great Detective" Erzi
Spring departed and autumn arrived, reaching the season of harvest.
According to tradition, Magnolia had a grand celebration every year in September to celebrate the grain harvest of that year, and to offer sacrifices for the coming year to likewise have favorable weather—a festival where every resident living here could live and work in peace, being safe, healthy, happy, and fulfilled.
Its name was the ’Harvest Festival’.
For this festival, major ’organizations’ in town, including the Magic Guild, the Merchant Guild, the Church, Fairy Academy, and even the Women’s Federation, etc., all had to host a program.
First grade of middle school.
The homeroom teacher, like an emotionless teaching machine, notified the students of the academy’s arrangements for this year word by word.
"According to convention, our ’Fairy Academy’ will also participate in this year’s Harvest Festival to perform a program for everyone in town."
"This year, the program we drew is a ’stage play performance’!"
"After a meeting and vote by the academy leadership, the stage play program was ultimately selected as the ’Dragon King Festival’."
A rather unfamiliar name that nevertheless carried a trace of legendary color instantly drew everyone’s attention.
"The Dragon King Festival?? Never heard of this stage play before!"
"Since we’re performing a stage play, why not perform stories that are much more widely known, like ’Sleeping Beauty’, ’The Frog Prince’, ’Romeo and Juliet’, ’The Little Mermaid’, or ’Snow White’?"
The homeroom teacher glanced at the student who spoke: "The Headmaster said that these stage plays all carry dense elements of romance and are not suitable for students of your age, so they were not adopted!"
Elements of romance?!
Not adopted?!
The students instantly let out a loud whoosh, whispering among themselves underneath.
"Oh~ no!"
"Have our Fairy Academy’s measures to prevent students from puppy love already reached this kind of level?"
"Headmaster Grandma wouldn’t happen to be an evil old witch who walked straight out of a fairy tale, right?!!"
"I guess her emotional life must be terrible! Maybe when she was young she didn’t even contact the opposite sex, and only had a blind date to get married through an introduction by elders after turning thirty years old..."
"Exactly, she definitely didn’t have the conditions for puppy love when she was our age, so now she’s using every possible method to stop us!"
"This is naked jealousy!"
Listening to the students chirping away, Erzi only felt her head growing big.
No puppy love?
Blind date at thirty?
Stop joking with your schoolmistress!
When people were at your age, they had long since eaten and slept together with their childhood friend, privately settling their lifelong commitment.
Toward this great-grandmother of hers whom she hadn’t interacted with many times, as well as the stories that happened in that era and even the early days of the guild’s founding, Erzi was no longer as entirely ignorant as before.
The source of the stories was Weston.
As for the reasons within, it still had to be traced back to several months ago...
Ever since that night, when she got to know Weston by the academy pond and saw that old photograph in the small wooden cabin in the woods where he lived, Erzi realized that the opponent was definitely an old senior in the guild.
If it were just an ordinary senior, it would be fine, but perhaps originating from the resonance of bloodline as well as magic power, Erzi minded Weston’s identity and the stories on his body very much.
Thus, for a period of time afterward, Erzi always ran to Weston’s cabin in the woods, asking him about the deeds of the older generation.
After several exchanges, the sharp-minded young girl discovered that although Weston was entirely open with his words facing most of her questions, as long as it involved topics like his own identity and name, he became evasive with his words, and would sometimes pretend to have forgotten due to old age.
Erzi realized for the first time that something was wrong.
She looked up her old dad, Descartes, but Descartes indicated he wasn’t clear either;
She looked up Makarov, the oldest in the guild, but Makarov also used various reasons to gloss it over every time.
This was clearly not normal!
The witty young girl realized once again that the adults were deliberately playing dumb, not wanting her to understand too much.
Or perhaps, this was a test for her!
Otherwise, it couldn’t be explained why they always avoided talking about relevant topics, yet behaved so extravagantly every time, just like they were deliberately dangling her appetite and enticing her to investigate!
Therefore, Erzi made a decision.
Since the adults wanted her to investigate, then she would let loose her hands to investigate!
She began to soak herself inside the guild’s library, flipping through those documents buried at the very bottom and deepest parts, and also walked the streets and alleys to visit those elderly people living in town, finally summarizing the gathered information one by one, gradually piecing together the big and small stories related to the guild that happened in Magnolia decades ago.
Wiping out the dark guild Blue Skull, liberating Magnolia;
Participating in the kingdom’s civil war, receiving titles of nobility and rewards of land;
Vigorously promoting magic technology, developing magic trains and magic cellphones;
Creating the magic academy, cultivating countless brilliant talents;
The dragon hunting campaign, continental diplomacy;
Sanctioning dark guilds, purging the magical world;
Wiping out ’Tartaros’, crushing the organization buried in Ishgar for hundreds of years;
...
After restoring the stories one by one, Erzi was shocked.
It turned out her ancestors were each so awesome?!
Mmh...
Except for that grandpa who had already retired and could only spend his old伴’s money.
The final puzzle piece of the story was the Celestial Spirits who had been by Erzi’s side from start to finish.
Although according to the previous clues, Erzi could basically deduce that this old grandpa living in seclusion in the academy was her grandpa’s grandpa, the first master of the guild, the first headmaster of the academy, and once the ’Grand Commander of Fairies’ in the magical world, Weston.
But she lacked decisive evidence!
Until she thought of the Celestial Spirits.
According to the investigation, nearly half of the Celestial Spirits of the Zodiac had been collected into the Lagrange family since Weston’s era, and had stayed here for a hundred years.
Therefore, toward Weston, they were absolutely so familiar that they couldn’t be more familiar!
Once Erzi asked, her guess finally received verification.
A full two months of running around and investigating also yielded a satisfactory result.
She was like a great detective, taking the ’evidence’ she found to look up Weston and force him to admit it.
Facing this aggressively coming young girl who held wisdom in her grasp, Weston smiled with satisfaction, decisively admitting his identity, and subsequently gave the Super Magic ’Urano Metria’ to Erzi as a reward for her hard work running around and investigating.
After his identity was made clear, Erzi then began to pester Weston every day to tell stories.
This time, Weston truly achieved being entirely open with his words and leaving nothing unsaid.
Not only did he recount the stories of the ’First Generation Fairies’ one by one, but even the stories of Darwin and Erza were not hidden.
Time returned to the present...
"Teacher, I have an idea!!"
Under the astonished gaze of the homeroom teacher, Erzi stood up while raising her hand, questioning out loud.
"Since we are going to do a stage play performance, why don’t we perform ’The History of Fairy Tail’s Founding’!"
"This is absolutely much more meaningful than some ’Dragon King Festival’!"
