"So this is the royal capital of Edolas?"
Erza, wearing black bikini armor and holding a long spear, stood on the forehead of the flying beast, looking down at the bustling metropolis on the ground below.
This Erza was, of course, Earthland Erza.
As for Edolas Erza, she was trapped in the hotel room by Kenichi's Jutsu Shiki.
"According to the Erza of this world, Master and the others, along with the residents of Magnolia Town, have all been turned into Lacrima. To rescue the Guild Master and the others, we need to find the Lacrima."
Mirajane beside Erza spoke with a worried expression.
Fairy Hunter naturally wouldn't willingly tell Kenichi, Erza, and the others about the Lacrima.
But Fairy Hunter was under the effect of Kenichi's Ice Slave, so even if she didn't want to talk, she ended up revealing everything.
Of course, Kenichi himself already knew about the Lacrima.
It was just that Erza and Mirajane didn't know.
So he used Fairy Hunter's mouth to tell Mirajane and Erza about the Lacrima.
"The Lacrima... it should be that, right?"
Not long after Erza and Mirajane finished speaking, Kenichi looked at a floating island ahead and said.
Hearing Kenichi, both Erza and Mirajane looked forward.
They saw numerous floating islands of various sizes ahead.
On one of the islands, there was a huge crystal, like an iceberg.
The moment they saw this crystal, both Erza and Mirajane were overjoyed.
"Found it! Next, we just need to take that Lacrima back to Earthland, right?"
"But that crystal is so huge. How can we take it back?"
Mirajane asked.
"Leave that to me!"
Kenichi looked at the huge Lacrima and answered Mirajane.
Although Kenichi didn't explicitly say it, Erza knew Kenichi possessed the ability to shrink any object.
During the battle against the Oracion Seis, Kenichi had shrunk the massive Nirvana down to the size of a brick.
In Erza's view, for Kenichi to shrink this Lacrima, which was much smaller than Nirvana, would be extremely easy.
Erza looked at Kenichi, a crescent-moon-like smile forming at the corner of her mouth, then said to the doubtful Mirajane beside her: "Just trust Kenichi!"
"Next, we split up!"
Kenichi shifted his gaze from the huge Lacrima to the royal palace below and said to Mirajane and Erza.
"Split up? Why split up?"
"Isn't it enough to just take this Lacrima back?"
Hearing Kenichi's words, both Erza and Mirajane looked at him.
"If we don't solve this problem at its root, even if we take the Lacrima back, we might get sucked into this world again next time."
As soon as Kenichi said this, Erza and Mirajane understood.
"I see. I'll infiltrate the royal palace using Fairy Hunter's identity and find the root of this problem!"
"Kenichi, Mirajane, I'll leave the Lacrima to you!"
With that, Erza, holding the long spear, leaped down from the flying beast.
"Erza-sama, welcome back!"
As soon as Erza landed, a group of royal soldiers immediately came up to greet her.
"Mhm."
Erza didn't need to deliberately pretend at all.
She and Fairy Hunter already looked exactly the same. Now that she was wearing the same clothes as Fairy Hunter and holding Fairy Hunter's Ten Commandments Spear, those royal soldiers naturally couldn't see through Erza's identity.
"Erza, you're back. Didn't Sugarboy return with you?"
Just as Erza was about to enter the royal palace, a man with purple hair came over.
Although the place where Kenichi and Mirajane were was quite high above the ground, using Cobra's [Hearing Magic], Kenichi could clearly hear the conversation on the ground below.
Seeing the purple-haired man, Kenichi's mind stirred.
Perhaps the Titania and the Fairy Hunter looked exactly the same, but their memories were different.
The purple-haired man now appearing before Erza was the captain of the Edolas Royal Army's 3rd Magic War Division, Hughes.
Like Sugarboy, who was defeated by Kenichi earlier, he was a colleague of the Fairy Hunter.
But Erza didn't recognize the Hughes before her, nor did she know who the 'Hughes' he mentioned was.
If Erza said something wrong, her identity might be exposed.
"He split off from me midway."
Erza stared at the unfamiliar man before her and spoke in a cold voice.
"I see. I just received intelligence that two Exceeds and three Fairy Tail's members have appeared in Sycca City. His Majesty has ordered us to capture them immediately."
"Fairy Tail's members, huh? Understood. I'll go arrest them now."
As he spoke, Erza and the purple-haired man left.
Kenichi in the sky curled the corner of his mouth: "As expected of Erza. She adapts really quickly!"
"Erza, will she be alright?"
Mirajane beside Kenichi, seeing Erza being taken away, asked with worry.
"Don't worry. No matter what, Erza is an S-Class mage."
Kenichi said to Mirajane, then flew towards the distant island storing the Lacrima.
"That guy just said two Exceeds and three Fairy Tail's members."
"Could it be Natsu, Wendy, and the others?"
Happy and Carla were Exceeds.
Hearing Two Exceeds + three Fairy Tail's members…
Kenichi immediately thought of Natsu, Wendy, Happy, and Carla.
'Sending Erza to capture Natsu and Wendy? That seems quite interesting.'
Kenichi thought to himself, then put the matter aside for now.
After all, his current task was to take away the Lacrima over there.
Whoosh-
Just as the flying beast carrying Kenichi and Mirajane approached the Lacrima island, a black shadow suddenly rushed up and blocked their path.
Soon, Kenichi and Mirajane saw the true form of the black shadow.
It was a 'black panther' wearing a black cloak, with a tall build and wings.
Looking at the 'black panther' before him, Kenichi raised an eyebrow.
Actually, this guy wasn't a black panther at all, but a cat, a giant cat.
This cat was none other than Gajeel's cat, Panther Lily.
Of course, currently, Panther Lily wasn't yet Gajeel's cat, and he is the captain of the Royal Army's 1st Magic War Division.
"Who are you?"
While Kenichi and Mirajane were staring at Panther Lily, Panther Lily questioned them in a deep voice.