While Wendy, Lucy, and the others were excited about Kenichi reviving Gray, the robed Future Lucy looked at Kenichi with flickering eyes.
Although Future Lucy came from the future, she had actually only traveled through time from a few days into the future.
She knew Wendy, she knew Erza, she knew Mirajane... but she didn't know Kenichi.
Because in her history, there was no such person as Kenichi.
She traveled through the Eclipse Gate from the future with the sole purpose of changing the past to save the future.
But when she actually arrived in the past, she found that too many things had already changed in this world.
First was Wendy.
In her history, Wendy hadn't grown up even after seven years.
But the Wendy before her had grown up.
Next were Future Rogue and Kenichi.
These were all variables she didn't know about.
Future Lucy couldn't figure out what was going on.
'Did my time travel unintentionally change history?'
Future Lucy looked at Kenichi and Future Rogue, thinking this to herself.
Kenichi naturally noticed Future Lucy's gaze.
And Kenichi possessed the Hearing Magic he got from Cobra.
He could 'hear' Future Lucy's thoughts very clearly.
Learning that Future Lucy didn't know him, Kenichi himself was quite surprised.
He had first met Lucy on Galuna Island.
At that time, Lucy had just joined Fairy Tail not long ago.
Logically, Future Lucy from a few days later should know him.
But now, Future Lucy didn't recognize him.
'Could it be that this Lucy traveled from a timeline where I don't exist?'
Kenichi looked at Future Lucy and pondered.
Parallel worlds existed in the Fairy Tail World… Edolas and Earthland.
The existence of parallel timelines wouldn't be strange either.
Furthermore, Kenichi thought that if his future self existed in Future Lucy's timeline, then given his future strength, he could definitely handle those 10,000 dragons easily.
In that case, Future Lucy wouldn't need to travel through time to seek help in this era.
But now Future Lucy was here.
There was only one explanation for all this: Future Lucy came from another timeline.
A timeline where Kenichi didn't exist.
Just as Kenichi was thinking this, a loud booming sound suddenly reached his ears.
The sound was like thunder.
But it also sounded like a long-sealed heavy door being opened.
Hearing the sound, Kenichi immediately refocused.
And Erza, Mirajane, Wendy, and the group pricked up their ears, looking towards the end of the passage.
"What was that sound?"
Erza furrowed her brows slightly and asked.
While Erza, Mirajane, and the others didn't know what the booming sound was, Kenichi, Future Rogue, and Future Lucy knew.
"That's the sound of the Eclipse Gate opening!"
Future Lucy spoke up.
And Future Rogue, who was fiercely battling Natsu over there, was overjoyed.
"The Eclipse Gate has opened! No one can stop me now!"
With that, a powerful magical power erupted from around Future Rogue's body.
"White Shadow Dragon Mode!"
Future Rogue's long hair stood on end, and magical power of both light and dark attributes surged around him.
His face was also half white and half black, looking very weird.
"Fire Dragon's... Ro..."
Natsu didn't care about the changes in Future Rogue.
He didn't hesitate, took a deep breath, and prepared to launch a Fire Dragon's Roar at Future Rogue.
But before Natsu's pillar of flame could erupt, Future Rogue's attack had already swept over.
"White Shadow Dragon's Bind!"
Future Rogue fiercely swung his arm, and a large number of black-and-white magical beams struck Natsu.
"Argh-"
Hit by those magical beams, Natsu screamed, and his figure flew backwards like a kite with its string cut.
"Natsu!"
Happy, seeing Natsu sent flying by Future Rogue, had a sudden change in expression and immediately shouted.
At the same time, Kenichi, Erza, and the others naturally also noticed Natsu being sent flying by Future Rogue.
"Die!"
Future Rogue, seeing Natsu land, raised his arm again.
Immediately, numerous black-and-white magical beams converged towards Natsu's location.
However, just as those magical beams were about to hit Natsu, Kenichi activated Territory.
Whoosh-
Whoosh-
In an instant, the positions of Natsu and Future Rogue were swapped.
Natsu appeared where Future Rogue had been.
And Future Rogue appeared where Natsu had been.
The next second, those black-and-white magical beams all landed on Future Rogue.
During the finals, when Kenichi took on all five members of Lamia Scale alone, he had used this move to take down Lyon.
At that time, Wendy and Lucy hadn't been invited by Princess Hisui yet, so they had seen Kenichi and Lyon swap positions through the magic crystal.
Now, seeing Natsu and Future Rogue swap positions again, Wendy, Lucy, and the others naturally knew it was Kenichi's magic.
"This is... Young Lady's magic!"
Future Rogue, hit by his own magic, was also very surprised to find himself swapped with Natsu.
But before Future Rogue could recover from his shock, Erza had already charged in front of him, sword in hand.
Erza, with slightly furrowed brows, fiercely swung the sword in her hand.
Whoosh-
A sword aura instantly landed on Future Rogue.
However, Future Rogue didn't fall. Instead, he dissolved into numerous shadows that dripped onto the ground.
"Fairy Tail!"
"Once I control the dragons emerging from the Eclipse Gate, I'll destroy you first!"
Future Rogue within the shadows stared at Erza, Mirajane, Wendy, and the others. After thinking this to himself, he manipulated the shadows to rapidly escape along the walls and floor at an astonishing speed.
Seeing Future Rogue escape, Erza didn't pursue.
"Let's go to the Eclipse Gate!"
At this time, Kenichi, leading Mirajane, Wendy, and the group, walked up to Erza and said.