Fairy Tail: My Magic is Yugi Muto's Deck

Chapter 68 With Chess and me here, you'll be safe.

During the long and agonizing wait, time slipped by quietly, and night fell.

A massive beam of light from the magic array poured out from the temple ruins, striking Deliora's head, and the seemingly unmelting ice began to show faint signs of melting.

Natsu and the others ran along the light all the way to the top floor of the ruins, where they encountered Leon and his entourage conducting a mysterious ritual.

From Leon, Gray learned the entire plan of the Moon Drops and angrily engaged in an exceptionally fierce ice-shaped magic battle with him.

In the chaos of battle, Natsu was accidentally frozen by Leon's ice and temporarily logged off.

Upon hearing that the other party was going to attack innocent villagers, Lucy, with the help of Happy's flying magic, rushed back to the village first.

A village bathed in purple moonlight.

"So that's how it is. So, the Moon Drop Project was used to revive the demon Deliora? I never imagined Gray had such a dangerous senior brother..."

After hearing Lucy's description, Chase rested his chin on his hand, revealing an expression of "unexpected surprise".

"I don't care about any plans, Moon! Our mission is to destroy the Moon!"

The village chief, who had been transformed back into a demon by the purple moonlight, was extremely irritable and urged the destruction of the moon, completely losing his former gentleness and tranquility.

Two burly villagers, with apologetic smiles on their faces, pulled the increasingly agitated village chief away.

"A powerful mage is coming to attack the village! What should we do?"

"Are we going to die before the curse on us is lifted...?"

The other villagers stood there, looking worried and at a loss.

"Don't worry, with Chess and me here, we'll make sure you don't get hurt in the slightest!"

Lucy clenched her fist with confidence, calmly picked up the tea in front of her, and took a small sip.

With Natsu and Gray both locked in a fierce battle, she would definitely be panicking if she were alone at the scene.

But with Chesgo, an S-class mage, there's no way the enemy could fight even if they had three mages, let alone thirty!

Having witnessed Chase and Erza's "sparring" firsthand, she was absolutely certain of it.

"Lucy, you really know how to flatter yourself," Happy added maliciously.

After the commotion at the temple ruins, his back pain symptoms improved considerably.

"Shut up, you dead cat!"

From an angle out of the villagers' sight, Lucy glared fiercely at Happy.

"That's right, you can rest assured. Although I'm weak and can't be of much help, Lucy is a very powerful mage!"

Chase's words made Lucy spit out the tea she was drinking.

However, this time it was Harpy who suffered.

Seeing Lucy's wide-eyed, incredulous expression, Chase slumped onto the stool, head bowed, fiddling with the hem of his clothes.

"Because I wanted to see if I could complete the commission on my own."

He mimicked Lucy's tone cheekily, muttering under his breath, "I've been thinking about this the whole way to Karuna Island..."

The familiar words made Lucy blush, and a big "well" appeared on her forehead.

Although she was right to say those two sentences, and she felt ashamed and embarrassed for her earlier smugness, but...

What's causing this inexplicable restlessness, this urge to kill Chesgo on the spot?!

"I know! Even if I'm alone, I can definitely do it!"

Lucy patted her burning cheeks to encourage herself, then took incredibly heavy steps toward the villagers who looked suspicious.

After a brainstorming session, the novice girl immediately came up with a plan.

"Open the door to Virgo, Baluko!"

A golden magic circle flashed, and amidst an ambiguous "whoosh" sound effect, Baluko, dressed in a maid outfit, made her appearance.

"Princess, please punish me as you please," Baloo said, surprising everyone.

"Who would specifically ask you to do something like this!"

Lucy snapped, then pointed to the open space near the village's only exit. "Barugo, help me dig a hole here."

Her plan was very simple: dig a trap in advance, and capture the three mages on the spot if they dared to come over!

Although Baruka is a bit of a masochist, she is still very capable. In the blink of an eye, she dug a vertical tunnel several meters deep at the entrance.

The villagers who were watching were amazed.

"Princess, please scold me," Baruga said earnestly after completing her mission.

"...I'm too busy praising you to even think about it."

Lucy didn't want to get entangled with Balgo any longer, so after sending her back to the Celestial Realm, she turned around and began explaining her perfect plan to the villagers.

Looking at the trap, simply covered with withered branches and out of place with its surroundings, the villagers fell into deep thought.

"I think anyone with a sound mind shouldn't get infected."

"Yes, I think so too."

"Suddenly, I feel like the mages in the official guilds are so lame..."

"Wow~ After seeing Chase's trap cards, Lucy's seems like child's play."

Among the crowd, Harpy joined in the commotion, sticking out his paw and pointing to the simple hole in the ground.

The constant chatter and the backstabbing from her friends almost made Lucy feel emo.

Thankfully, the dark magician girl standing behind Chase stepped forward, her eyes full of anticipation as she encouraged him, "Go Lucy! This trap is perfect, it'll definitely succeed!"

Chase's lips twitched as he glanced at the Dark Magician Girl, who clearly wasn't joking.

No wonder he's such a clueless idiot who stepped in cow dung right from his first appearance; when it comes to being naturally ditzy, he's really in cahoots with Lucy...

"Hey! Someone's here outside!"

A villager's exclamation from the wall instantly silenced the noisy atmosphere.

The spiked wooden gate slowly rose, and looking along the dark road, one could see Natsu, frozen in ice, carrying a wounded Gray as he ran towards them.

"Natsu? Gray?!"

Lucy was startled and was about to warn him when she heard a muffled "bang".

As expected, Natsu successfully stepped on a dead branch and fell straight into the hole.

"Wow, some idiots really do fall for it!"

"The boy with cherry blossom-colored hair, he must be one of their companions, right?"

"Yeah! I'm even more convinced now that this guild is unreliable!"

The villagers' silence was deafening. Lucy lowered her head, too ashamed to face her elders.

The trap operation was a major failure...

"Damn it! Who's so bored as to dig a hole in front of the door?!"

While angrily scolding Gray, Natsu carried him out of the cave with difficulty, stepping on the cave wall.

By a twist of fate, the ice ball that Leon had placed on him was shattered, and he regained his freedom.

Realizing this, Natsu was furious and yelled that he was going back to beat that Ice bastard to a pulp.

"Wait, Natsu, how did Gray get so badly injured?"

Lucy snapped out of her grief over the failed battle and quickly went over to check on Gray's injuries.

Habi followed closely behind.

"Damn it! I'll never let that guy get away with this!"

Natsu clenched his fist, which was engulfed in flames.

Just as he was preparing to charge back to the Temple of the Moon, his sensitive nose twitched slightly, as if he had smelled a familiar scent.

Looking up suddenly, I saw a giant rat with a unique shape flying rapidly toward the village in the distance, its tail constantly spinning for power!