06x154 - Only Enough Time to Pass by One Another

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I can't believe this...

Our vital training time...

After we spent just one day
in the celestial spirit world...

...three months passed here, just like that.

What are we gonna do?

I have a suggestion, Princess.

You should punish me more harshly.

Just leave.

tanjun da kedo junsui na yatsu

sono me ni wa itsumo utsutte itan da

taisetsu na mono ashita no koto

hontou no tsuyosa ga nani ka tte koto

kimi no koto o omoi dashite
chippoke na jibun ga okashiku natta

nani mo ka mo houri dashite
mirakuru misete yaru

mae ni mae ni motto mae ni zenryoku de kakero

zettai kou da to omotta toki ga unmei sa

sei ippai no koe de motte
souru motte butsukatte ike yo

sankousho o nirande tatte nan mo nannee sa

This is the Lamia Scale wizard guild.

Every year we place second
in the Grand Magic Games!

It's utterly shameful! Utterly disgraceful!

This woman is Ohba Babasahma,
Lamia Scale's master.

We always used to see it as
fun and games, but not this year!

How obnoxious...

Here we go again. The hag's talking to herself.

Lyon! Jura! You're entering this time too!

I guess I'm stuck. I can't say no to our hag.

It's nice to take part in an occasional festival.

Lyon and Mr. Jura are entering this year?!

We're gonna win for sure!

Lamia's gonna be Fiore's #1!

Say, did you hear?

It sounds like Lamia Scale
is going to be entering

the Saint Wizard Jura in
the Grand Magic Games!

This man is Master Bob of
the Blue Pegasus wizard guild.

Man. That reeks of a distressing parfum.

And we were hoping to win it this year, too.

In that case...

Let's unleash our own you-know-who.

Oh?! You don't mean...!

Man.

This year's Grand Magic Games
exude a most dangerous parfum.

And, at the Sabertooth wizard guild,

Sting and Rogue are...

Seriously?!

Natsu and the others are entering
the Grand Magic Games?!

Yes! That's the word on the street in Magnolia!

I heard it too!

Things just got a whole lot more interesting!

Don't you agree, Rogue?

Not interested.

Master Ivan of the Raven Tail
wizard guild has also taken action.

For seven long years you've
made me wait, Makarov.

The time of judgment--the time to
blacken and crush the fairies--has come!

I look forward to the Grand Magic Games!

For All the Time We Missed Each Other.

We only got five days until the
Grand Magic Games, and yet...

...you haven't increased
your magic power one bit!

I guess we'll just have to count
on everyone else this year.

I'm never gonna get as strong as Lily now...

--Huh?!
--I didn't know you cared about that.

It's not yet too late!

Five days of intense, hellish training!

Prepare yourselves!
There'll be no time for sleep!

Erza's fighting spirit has been ignited!

Sounds fine to me!
I'm fired up to do hellish training!

All right! Follow me!

We'll begin with some running!

--A pigeon?
--There's something on its leg.

It's a note.

Let's see here...

Oh! Could it be a love letter
from my darling Gray?!

Get real!

Here we are!

"Hey, Fairy Tail.

You better come to the broken
suspension bridge on the western hill."

--What's with the bossy tone?!
--Yeah, I don't like it.

--What should we do?
--It seems iffy to me.

--No, let us check it out.
--But it could be a trap.

Yeah! I think this is a bad idea!

--We'll see when we get there.
--Yeah! This is gettin' interesting!

This must be the broken suspension bridge.

Urgh! Nobody's here!

Why are you looking for a fight?

It was just a prank?

I told you we shouldn't have come.

What the...?

Whoa!

--The bridge...
--...fixed itself?!

It leads across the way.

So we're supposed to cross it?

This really might be a trap!

I'm scared...

Dunno who we're dealing with,
but let's cross this thing!

--Then you can go first, Natsu!
--All right! Get going!

Don't push me like that! You surprised me!

He even gets sick on suspension bridges?

Sh-Shut up!

I'll show you who's boss, you lousy bridge!

I thought for sure this bridge would
give way if someone crossed it...

...but it's perfectly fine!

I was a lab rat?!

Natsu has helped verify that it's safe.

Let's go, all!

Bring it on, if you dare.

Yes. A tough opponent
will make for great training.

Is training all you can think about?

--Someone's there!
--Be careful, everyone!

Th-They're...!

Thank you...

...for coming...

...Fairy Tail.

Jellal...

You haven't changed, Erza.

I take it you've heard about my prison break?

Yes.

It was never my intent, though.

Meldy and I broke him out.

I didn't do anything. It was all you, Ultear!

Meldy...

Long time, no see, Juvia!

She's grown to have such a lovely smile!

Jellal broke out?!

They're members of Grimoire Heart!

Take it easy.

They're not our enemy now.

Right?

Indeed.

I've committed too many sins in
my life for me to atone for them all.

So I want to at least bring salvation
to the people whose lives I've ruined.

That is my wish.

The people whose lives you've ruined...

Jellal, for example.

It's okay. You and I were both
possessed by the darkness.

It's all in the past.

Jellal. Your memory...

I clearly remember now. Everything.

My memory returned six years ago,
while I was still imprisoned.

Erza...

I'm... not sure how to apologize to you...

I bear the blame for what
happened at the Tower of Heaven.

I was the one controlling Jellal.

So, please, don't blame him too much.

I could either spend the rest of
my life in prison or be ex*cuted.

I had accepted that.

Until they broke me out, at least.

Does that mean you have
a new purpose to live for?

Wendy...

I should note that the Jellal you know
and I seem to be different people.

Oh, right! We've already cleared all that up!

A purpose to live for...

It's nothing quite that noble, I'm afraid.

We've started a guild.

It's an independent guild; neither
an official guild nor a dark guild.

Its name is Crime Sorcière, or "witch's crime."

An independent guild?

What does that mean?

That you're not a part of any alliances?

Crime Sorcière...
I've heard of that guild before!

They've supposedly been destroying
lots of dark guilds in recent years.

We have but one goal.

Zeref...

Dark guilds... And the darkness in the world...
We formed our guild to purge it all.

So that never again will wizards be
possessed by the darkness as we were.

Oh!

That's really respectable!

If only you could get the Council to
recognize you as an official guild!

I'm an escaped convict.

And we're former members of Grimoire Heart.

Plus, as an official guild, we'd technically
be unable to go after dark guilds

due to the Inter-Guild-Conflict Ban Treaty.

So our guild is better the way it is now.

Anyway, we didn't ask you here
simply to introduce ourselves.

We hear you're entering
the Grand Magic Games.

Y-Yeah.

We can't get near the coliseum.

So we'd like to ask a favor of you.

Do you want us to get someone's autograph?

No, thanks.

We sense unusual magic power
during the games every year.

We want you to find out what's behind it.

Are you serious?

Guilds from all over Fiore gather
at the Grand Magic Games, though.

Some odd magic power is to be expected.

We thought so too at first.

However, this power is something
evil and reminiscent of Zeref.

Reminiscent of Zeref?!

It's possible our prior closeness to
Zeref is why we can perceive it now.

We want to know what this magic power is.

It might even help us locate Zeref.

There's also the competition, of course.

We'll be rooting for Fairy Tail
from behind the scenes,

so we'd like you to discreetly
find the mysterious magic power.

It sounds like a wild
goose chase, but we'll do it.

Thank you.

You sure about this, Erza?

Given that guilds from all over
Fiore will be gathering around it,

this odd magic power spells unease for us too.

You'll be compensated up-front.

--Food money!
--Rent money!

No, not with money.

My advanced Arc of Time
will enhance your abilities.

Huh?

Calling it a "power up" would sound nice,

but that's not actually what it is.

Wizards possess something like a container

that determines how much
magic power they can have.

Even if your container gets emptied out,

your body will take in ether-nano from
the surrounding atmosphere on its own,

which will eventually refill
your container over time.

But recent research has revealed

that there's a part of this
container that usually goes unused.

Latent abilities deep within everyone...

...their "Second Origin."

Second Origin?

The Arc of Time can help this container grow

and make a person's Second Origin usable.

In other words, you'll be able
to use more powerful magic

for longer periods of time than ever before.

Oh!

I didn't understand a bit of it, though!

However, the process will also
involve unimaginable pain.

She's got a scary look...

I don't care! Thank you! Thank you!

Oh, man! You're starting
to seem like a real girl now!

Seriously, I am a girl!

He still thinks she's an old man?

Do we really have to get undressed
for her to draw her magic symbols?

I would think that wouldn't
bother you, actually.

Stay strong. It isn't easy to
draw out one's latent power.

Uhh, is he gonna be okay?

Just how much pain is he in?!

Want to try a Sensory Link?

Hell no!

Oh! You've even learned
to make small jokes, Meldy!

We... have to do that too?

I'm going to cry!

Actually, you already are!

Th-This has nothing to do with us...

We'll just be goin' now...

Natsu...

Come to think of it, where's Erza?

She and Jellal went somewhere to be alone.

To be alone?!

Then we'll go be alone, too!

What's the big idea?

Aww. I see their love
hasn't developed after all.

Erza...

You said you now remember everything, Jellal?

Yes.

Even... what happened to Simon?

I k*lled him.

And what happened
during the Nirvana incident?

I remember.

I remember it as not being able to remember.

It's an odd feeling.

Then can I consider you your old self now?

That would make me happy...

...but given what I did to Simon,

I'll understand if you keep
your distance from me.

If you wish to avenge Simon,
I am prepared to give up my life.

Do you really think Simon would want that?

This guild you've established
to wipe out dark guilds...

It's your atonement. It's your penance!

I'm... not so sure.

What?!

Indeed, I originally created
Crime Sorcière to atone for my sins.

But what I did at the Tower of
Heaven is beyond atonement.

What am I doing any of this for?

I'm trapped in a labyrinth of thought.

Perhaps I should die after all...

Don't speak such cowardice!

I don't have the strength you have...

Do you need to be strong to live?!

No! Living is what makes you strong!

You're not the old Jellal at all!

You're not the same Jellal
who was desperate to live!

You might be right.

You wretch!

Erza...

Your words always ring true.

That's not so...

I just live life to its fullest,
in my own clumsy way.

That's all.

Erza...

I thought I'd never see you again...

Jellal...

I can't.

I have a fiancée.

Oh, no, I never meant to, uhh...!

No, I'm the one who should, umm, apologize...

W-Wow! That's great news!

I had no idea!

But I shouldn't be surprised!
Yes, it's been seven years and all!

Yes, yes!

Is she dear to you?

Huh? Oh...

Yes...

Then you need to live for her sake.

You're right.

It seems your work has
incapacitated the others.

How are you unaffected?

We can't remain in one place for too long,
due to the nature of our guild.

We must be going now.

Notify us by pigeon if you find out anything

about the mysterious magic power
at the Grand Magic Games.

Understood.

Good luck in the games. We'll be
rooting for you from behind the scenes.

--I wish we could attend, though!
--We could disguise ourselves.

Forget it.

Until we meet again, Erza.

Bye-bye!

Give the others my regards.

And... look after Gray.

The mysterious magic power...

I hope it won't present any danger
to the Fairy Tail members...

Knowing them, they'll pull through somehow.

That's my hope, at least.

Yeah!

Anyways, Jellal...

Why did you lie about having a fiancée?

Y-You heard that?!

You could stand to loosen up a little, you know.

Or do you mean to punish yourself?

Punishment is what Crime Sorcière is about.

We decided we cannot love those
who walk the path of light, remember?

As long as Erza is happy, that's enough for me.

Still, you could've come up
with a better lie than that!

That's for sure!

What a terrible attempt at acting cool!

A fiancée, huh...

He's as terrible of a liar as ever.

He hasn't changed a bit.

This is for the best.

This... is our answer.

Look, Erza!

Aye!

tada ureshikute naite iru no

tada kanashikute naite iru no

sou sunao ni ikiru tte konna ni mo

jibun de irareru

kaze ni nosete sasayaku

"anata wa anata no mama de iin da" to

ari no mama no sugata de ite

sorezore no shiawase o dakishime

aruite iru no

sora no iro ga kawaru tabi ni

kokoro ga furueru oto ga naru

kimi ga kureta mono

We've made it to Crocus!

It's pretty! Just what you'd expect
from the Flower-Blooming Capital!

So this is where the tournament's
being held? I can't wait!

Whoa, who are they?!

They're apparently Sabertooth's Dragon Slayers!

Dragon Slayers?!

Next Episode: Crocus,
the Flower-Blooming Capital.

They got some weird, talking cats with them

that keep calling me dumb and stupid, Natsu...

Uhh, you're a talking cat too, Happy.