Petrel

Chapter 37

October 10, 784

More than 4 months passed in the rest of the world while Elsa and I trained our charges. More than 400 days with rare breaks for rest in the time anomaly. Natsu and Gray, according to my estimates, were no weaker than their counterparts before the attack of the Aroboles Empire in canon, causing my a satisfied smile.

As for the girls? The situation is a little different here, I'm sure that they all surpassed their canon colleagues. Charlie, there's nothing to talk about, even before this training she was at rank S, and the magic of the heavenly god killers took root very well for her. As for Lissana and Dozhdiya, we did not teach them any other magic, but focused entirely on increasing their reserve, the ability to strengthen themselves, and the ability to fight strong opponents. Lissana, receiving bonus characteristics from partial transformation into various animals and correctly using the increased reserve, is quite capable of trying to measure strength with her sister, I especially liked how she, using her claws, was even able to slightly cut our training ground. Yes, only a couple of centimeters deep, but even Gildarts was not able to cause great destruction here with magic sharpened for this. Rain increased her damage by increasing the pressure under which she attacks, already using real water blades, and also added to her repertoire of attacks the so-called warm ice, which was obtained under very strong compression of water, unlike ordinary ice it melted only at high temperatures, it is also interesting that she could change this ice at any moment like water, which the same Gray could not. I think in my past life such ice was called ice-7 or something like that, in general she is a good girl who has achieved even more diversity, and Gray has been paying more attention to her lately.

And finally Lucy. I personally took care to literally hammer into her all the information on the magic of celestial dragon slayers that I had at the time of the transfer to the future. It was hard for her, since the part that was responsible for healing required a lot of knowledge, more than once she wanted to give up, but in the end I persuaded her to continue, but how happy she was when we finally moved on to the combat part is difficult to convey in words. She literally got a second wind, and she began to gain strength quite quickly and even unnoticed by me, her magic changed, the magic of stellar spirits began to influence her, ultimately creating a new type of dragon slayer magic. When she used her magic, the wind turned black while shining with stars. We did not know how to properly call it in a new way, so we simply called it the magic of stellar dragon slayers. Yes, it sounds stupid, but nothing better has been invented yet. The main thing is that such a qualitative change in magic raised its strength to S rank.

Returning to the guild 5 days before the upcoming parade, our group made a real splash, the whole guild instinctively felt how much stronger everyone from our company became, this became especially noticeable when Natsu flared up and accidentally almost burned the guild, forgot to muffle the power, but the good old fist of love has not failed yet, as a result, he, offended with a big bump on his head, sat next to Lissana, who was chatting with Mira, clearly bragging about her results. Rain, as usual, did not leave Gray, who in principle was no longer against it, allowing Ultear to exhale, that her student now simply bragged about his results having coped with an unhealthy obsession with his teacher. Lucy somehow happened to remain sitting with us at the bar counter.

"What happened, Lucy?" I decided to ask the girl who had become too quiet.

- Huh? No, no. - the girl answered unconvincingly, although she quickly gave in under our gaze.

- Well, I used to get used to going on missions with Natsu and Happy, but now, in order not to make Lissana jealous, I'll have to either go alone or with someone else. And I need to think about where to live.

- Ah, so that's what it is, ha-ha-ha. - I laughed, understanding the reason for the girl's despondency. - Don't worry about housing, before we left for training, I paid for your apartment for a year in advance. And who will you go on missions with? Even with us, you're already a stable S rank and you definitely won't get in the way. And even without us, there are enough good people in the guild, plus you're a healer now, so you definitely won't be left without money.

- What?! But that's a lot of money. - the girl exclaimed in shock when she found out how much I had paid for her apartment in advance. - I'll definitely pay it all back.

- Oh, don't worry about it, - said Elsa. - We have so much savings from missions and selling artifacts that we will probably have enough for several generations of luxurious living in the capital.

- They pay that much for S-rank missions? - Lucy was surprised.

- Well, not really. They pay well, but our main savings are still from selling artifacts. Our teacher helped us a lot, first in achieving the required level of quality, and then in selling the first artifacts. - I said, remembering Freya, who had already set off on a journey a year ago.

- Your teacher?

- Yes! Elsa and I have been working and studying in the forge since joining the guild. I think you have noticed that we often use swords and since buying artifacts would be too expensive, we went another way. We decided to forge armor and weapons ourselves.

- Wow! - Lucy said admiringly.

While we were chatting, Mira quietly approached us.

- Oh, well. Lucy has already been accepted as the fourth, and I have been rejected. - the girl said with feigned offense.

- They accepted the fourth? - Lucy didn't understand at first, and then, remembering the sounds that came from our three at night, she blushed sharply and exclaimed. - That's not true!

- Ha-ha-ha. Don't worry, I know Wendy is a woman of her word. - Mira said laughing.

- And how are you, Mira, have you found someone for yourself? - asked Charlie curiously.

- No way. We really don't have any normal guys left, and I'm not sure about girls yet, it's hard to decide on something like that without experience. - the girl became sad, causing predatory smiles from our three with her words. I can't help but admit that we've become perverts, although we still won't allow anyone else into our relationship.

- What's wrong? - Lucy was surprised by our reaction.

- It doesn't matter, Lucy. Mira and I will just need to talk.