Chapter 360 You Said Lucy Was Cute, and You Hugged Her

Gray didn't dare to eat things of unknown origin, so Natsu took them away.

Juvia was pouting in the corner, which she did because she got up early.

"Oh~~ It tastes good! It's delicious!" Natsu wolfed it down. After all, it was Gray's thing, so Natsu still asked, "Would you like to try it?"

"No need." Gray looked around, "It seems like you haven't seen Lucy all morning. Did you go out to work?"

Natsu said incoherently: "She should be at home, right? Maybe she hasn't gotten up yet and drooled on the pillow or something."

Habi suggested: "Ai, just ask Mira and Rod."

"Same." Gray went to the counter and asked about Lucy.

Rhodes temporarily put down his chopsticks and said, "I think I saw her hanging in front of the bulletin board. Didn't I ask you to form a team to take on the mission?"

"No." Mira said confidently, "Lucy didn't accept the mission. She looked at the bulletin board for a while and then left."

"Yesterday she said she didn't have money to pay the rent." Rhodes thought for a moment, "Isn't she just trying to get into trouble? She thinks it's her fault that everyone can't work normally."

Gray frowned: "As expected, I'd better go to her house and have a look."

Mira held her chin and said with a smile: "Gray seems to care about Lucy very much."

Gray's eyes were wandering: "Because... Lucy is a newcomer, and she has experienced something like this, so she should pay more attention to her."

Of course Rhodes sided with Mira and teased: "I didn't see you taking care of me like this when I was a newcomer?"

Gray counterattacked: "Isn't it enough for you to have Mira to take care of you?"

"Enough is enough..." Rhode grabbed Mira's hand and shook it in front of Gray's eyes, "So, your mood of taking care of Lucy is the same as Mira's mood of taking care of me?"

"No!" Gray's face turned a little red and he ran away, "Anyway, I'm going to see Lucy first!"

Rhodes shouted at his back: "Put on your clothes and go!"

Gray ran over, picked up the clothes, and left quickly.

"Maybe Gray really likes Lucy." Mira was very excited and had new gossip material.

"What did Gray do?"

These people didn't want Rhodes to have a good meal. Just as Gray left, Natsu and Habi came again.

Rhodes said: "I went to Lucy's house. I seemed worried that something might happen to her."

Hubby flew away without saying a word: "How cunning, we want to go to Lucy's house to play too!"

Natsu put the empty lunch box on the counter and chased him out: "Wait for me, Happy!"

"You guys have to start work in the afternoon, where are you going now?" Erza also chased after her.

"With this development... something really happened to Lucy, right?" Rhodes was also made a little embarrassed by them and muttered, and the entire protagonist group was dispatched because of a little coincidence.

It's too much like a prelude to something big happening.

Mira looked at his appearance and said softly: "If you care, you can also go and have a look."

"Then...shall I go?"

"Yeah." Mira pulled Rod's half-eaten bento in front of her and said consciously or unconsciously, "I remembered that Rod also cares about Lucy."

"Huh?" Elfman was about to stand up as soon as he slapped the table. How dare Rhodes abandon his sister all the time?

But as soon as he stood up a little, Mira pushed him back.

"Didn't I say that, there is a special reason..."

"Yeah, I remembered." Mira lowered her head and fiddled with the tableware. She spoke in a low voice and didn't sound angry. She seemed to be relieved:

"I think of the day we just came back, you saved Lucy at a critical moment, and you said she was cute, and then you hugged her like that."

"Um..." Rhodes was flustered by her tone, and Elfman couldn't hide the look in his eyes that wanted to kill someone.

Mira interrupted him: "I still remember that earlier you even made a bet with me for Lucy."

"..." Okay, now Rod is convinced that Mira is playing him, "I lost that time, our bet hasn't been fulfilled yet."

"Go, you smell like sweat." Mira casually found an excuse to push away Rhodes who wanted to rub against her.

Rhodes gave up struggling: "Okay, how do you want to punish me?"

"I will punish you with two extra things."

"……OK."

Mira smiled slyly: "Then you have to be mentally prepared."

Rhodes accepted his fate: "I am willing to admit defeat and keep my word."

"Okay, the first thing is to finish the lunch. The second thing is to go to Lucy's house to get my luggage back." Mira winked at him, "Is it too difficult?"

"..." Rhode held his chin in his hand and stared at her. After a while, he smiled and said, "I feel like I'm done."

Mira pushed the lunch box back with a smile: "Eat quickly, the heat preservation magic will disappear soon."

Elfman scratched his cheek with his index finger. He looked at his sister and then at Rhodes. What happened just now?

Has Rhodes changed his mind? Is my sister angry?

…

When Rod arrived at Lucy's house, the door was open.

He saw Erza deftly making tea in Lucy's teapot.

"Perhaps you are taking a shower?" Gray said as he walked into the bathroom, as if he was looking forward to it. "Will some cliché plot happen next?"

However, Natsu came right out of the bathroom and said, "Not in there."

"You moved too fast!" Gray seemed to have taken over Lucy's complaint, "Why did you go straight to the bathroom as soon as you got up?"

Rod knocked on the open door: "You are really not shy at all."

"Rod, you are here too?" Erza brought the teapot and teacup to the table, "Want some tea?"

Rod nodded: "Yes, I just finished my meal and I am a little thirsty."

Gray also sat over: "You are still rude."

Rod held the teacup and said as a matter of course: "Of course it is different, I promised to come in advance... Where is Lucy?"

"Not at home, we are looking for clues." Natsu looked around and suddenly pointed at the suitcase by the window, "That is very suspicious, Lucy might be hiding in it!"

Gray despised him: "Who would hide in a suitcase?"

Natsu was a man of action and decided to take action immediately: "Open it and see!"

However, Rod supported the table with one hand, flipped over the table with an elegant gymnastics move, crossed Gray opposite, and kicked Natsu out of the window.

"Wow!" Natsu fell on the street downstairs with his limbs twitching slightly.

Pedestrians were startled, and seeing the familiar cherry-colored hair and the emblem on his arm, they all avoided him.

He was obviously a wizard from Fairy Tail, with thick skin and flesh. He was only on the second floor, so he wouldn't die even if he fell headfirst.

Natsu jumped up, pointed at the window on the second floor and shouted, "What are you doing, Rod! Do you want to fight?"

Rod said, "I'm saving you. Anyone who moves this box will die."

Erza asked, "Is there anything wrong with that box?"

Happy tiptoed over, and his curiosity drove him to see what was inside the box.

"This is Mira's box. She asked me to help her take it back." Rod looked at Happy with a smile, "Do you want to try to move it?"

"Love..." Happy began to sweat on his face, "No, no."

When Rod smiled with his eyes narrowed, he looked like Mira.

Why are you so awesome? I've been ranked 33rd on the monthly ticket list. My fellow book friends are so awesome...

(I have no way to repay you for your great kindness. If you don't give up, I'm willing to be your adoptive father!)