After the return, the carnival party gradually calmed down, and then a key difficulty was put in front of everyone's eyes.

"What...... Miscellaneous...... Lucy looked dumbfoundedly at the giant-like landlady in front of her.

"Five million eight hundred and eighty thousand J, it's better to pay seven years of rent, and you won't want to come in," the landlady said with a vicious look at Lucy.

At this moment, Lucy's whole body felt as if she had fallen into the freezer, and she was cold.

How could she pay off such a huge amount of money, how could this keep her alive, dragging some of her small luggage Lucy had to return to the guild.

It turned out that everyone was the same as herself, and the fairy dormitory required everyone to pay seven years of rent, and the number was even more terrifying than hers, 8.4 million J, which almost killed everyone at once.

There is only one person who can fully pay this astronomical amount, and that is Mirajane, who used to work as a magician, almost all the money she saved paid the rent, and then paid a part of Lisana's rent, especially to explain that Elusa, she paid much more than others, she asked to pay not one but a full five rooms, so Elusa's rent reached a desperate 42 million J, Elusa barely paid 20 million J, and the rest of the guild did not force everyone to pay the rest, in short, everyone's pockets were empty, and they were simply destitute。

On this day, after a conversation between Makanov and Joura, they learned of another incident that had happened in the past seven years, and a new guild had been established.

Because of this, Makanov had to admit one thing: "Zeref is really alive......"

Gray also learned of the whereabouts of Urrutia and Melty from Leon, and some people's hearts began to sink when they heard this.

Lucy followed Mirajane to the rented house in the former repair house, and although she had already learned from Lucky that another person was already living there, she couldn't help but take a look.

As Le Qi said, it was already another person's home, and the mood of looking at the middle-aged uncles Mirajan and Lucy who walked out of the door couldn't help but feel heavy.

"Lucy, I'm going to Harugion tomorrow, are you going?" asked Mirajan, looking at Lucy.

"I ......" Lucy was silent, and after thinking for a moment, she shook her head and said, "No, I want to go to Akalifa, to see my father......"

"After seven years, your father must be worried, so it's better to go and see his own family," Mirazhen agreed.

"As for Father Asan, I'll go myself, and I'll come back and tell you if there's any news," said Mirajan.

"Well......," Lucy replied with a nod of her head.

"By the way, Lucy, you can't go back to the rented house, so you don't have a place to sleep tonight?" Mirajan suddenly remembered about the rent and immediately asked.

Lucy's whole mood became even worse when she heard Mirajane talk about it.

"When I hear the word rent now, I can't help but think of five million eight hundred and eighty thousand J, a number that makes my scalp tingle, as if a mountain is pressing on me and I can't breathe at all," Lucy said with some madness.

"I'm sorry that I've run out of money to pay Lisanna's rent, so I'm destitute and can't help you pay part of it, Lu......cy," Mira said apologetically.

"No, I'd better figure out my own rent, I don't have the money to take the commission to complete the work and pay it back slowly," Lucy politely refused.

"Alright then, but your accommodation tonight is a big problem, why don't you stay with me for the time being, I don't think the fairy dormitory manager will say anything," said Mirajan.

"Really, thank you, Sister Mira," Lucy hugged Mirajan and exclaimed happily, how could she not be happy that she was not sleeping on the street and was in danger of any bad people.

"Then let's go now, go back to the dormitory at this time and see if there is anything to clean," Mirazhen said, and then Mirajan's tone changed, looking at Lucy and saying in a deep voice, "Speaking of which, I also found a coolie for free......"

"Eh......" Lucy was stunned.

"Haha, just kidding......" Mirajane laughed as she looked at Lucy's funny expression.

It was getting dark, and Mirajane walked to the fairy dormitory with Lucy and the two girls who were dragging their luggage.

…………

The next day

Harughion

Mirajane walked out of the train station and looked at the city, some buildings have changed in seven years, some shops have changed owners, looking at these Mirajane couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"It's been seven years, and I don't know if Uncle Ollie is still in Harugion," Mirazhen said to herself.

Remembering where she remembered, Mirajane walked towards Ollie's house.

When she arrived at the place of memory, Mirazhen couldn't help but hesitate when she looked at this door, she was not afraid to see Xiu, and she never suspected that what happened on Sirius Island was done by Xiu, but she was afraid that Ollie was no longer here for seven years, and she was disappointed.

"Should I knock on the door...... Mirajan said to herself again in her heart, "Why hasn't Ashu come back for seven years......" Thinking of this, Mirajan hesitated even more.

Just when Mirajan hesitated whether to knock on the door, they actually opened it slowly, which startled Mirajan, and subconsciously thought that Ollie no longer lived here, so he immediately turned around and left.

"You're the little girl named Mira," a voice sounded as Mirajane took a few steps back, and the voice and words made Mirajane stop in her tracks.

Mirajane turned around and looked behind her, and immediately saw a middle-aged man with a lot of gray hair.

"Uncle Ollie, you're a lot older," Mirajan said with a smile.

"Yes, after all, it's been seven years, I heard that your guild's Sirius Island was destroyed by a dragon, and all the people on the island are missing, I didn't expect you to be alive and so young" Ollie was a little surprised.

"Actually, I only returned to the guild yesterday, Sirius Island was not destroyed, but the first president of our guild saved us, and we were sealed for seven years, so we are so young" Mirazhen explained with a smile.

"That's really lucky, the so-called great calamity will have a blessing after death, little girl, you have to pay attention, hehe" Ollie laughed.

"Where do I have any future blessings, it's good to be alive, if it's really a blessing, it should be the entire guild," Mirazhen said softly.

"You're here to find Ashu," Ollie asked.

Mirajan's body couldn't help but shake when she heard this, and she quickly nodded, "Well, does Ah Xiu still live here?"

Ollie shook his head and said, "Ah Xiu, I don't live here anymore......"

"And what about him now? Do you know why he left the guild for seven years and didn't return?......" Mirajan asked again.

"I know this, he should be in the Etya Kingdom now, as for why he hasn't ......returned for seven years," Ori said in a deep voice, pausing before continuing

"I guess you'd like to hear him say it yourself, so I'll just tell you where he is, and the rest depends on what you think," Ollie said.

"By the way, seven years is a great change in one person from another, maybe he is no longer the one you know Ah Xiu......" Ollie said again.

"Change, I don't know ...... anymore" Mirazhen muttered to herself, after listening to Ollie's words, Mila Jane felt a little uncomfortable, maybe she wouldn't believe it when other people said this, but this sentence was said by Ollie, which made her a little scared, is it really Xiu's doing?

"Well, that's all I can tell you, you'll have to decide the rest," Ollie locked the porter and walked straight past Mirajane towards the street.

Mirazhen didn't expect that she would get such news when she came to Harugion, whether she came to the right place or the wrong one, and Mirazhen felt extremely uncomfortable at this time.

Ori walked up and down the stone steps and turned towards his shop, turning his head slightly to look at Mirajan, who was stunned in place, and the corners of his mouth were raised.

"Little girl, I'm really sorry I said that, if you really like Ah Xiu, love Ah Xiu then you should go to him, maybe you will no longer be a loser then, then you should thank me......" Ollie said secretly in his heart.

Ollie's figure disappeared around the corner, leaving only the lone Mira Jean in place.

…………

Akali Method

LUCY WALKS DOWN THE STREET TOWARDS THE BUSINESS GUILD LOVE & LUCKY

Lucy turned her head to look at the heel behind her, and there was a black line on her forehead.

"Why did you come along?" said Lucy, speechless.

"That's because our little coffers are gone," Natsu cried out in tears.

"Papa Lucy must know a lot about how to eat delicious fish," cried Harpy, too.

"There are a lot of ways to make money," Lucy said speechlessly, "how do you know I'm coming here?" asked Lucy.

"Because in the morning Harpy overheard your conversation with Mira......" Natsu betrayed Harpy without hesitation.

"Voyeur ......," Lucy glared at Harpy.

"Love, there's no way around it, who told you to say it next to me......" Harpy called.

"Mira and I were in the guild kitchen at the time, what are you doing in the kitchen......" Lucy asked, looking at Harpy.

"That...... Let's talk about how we managed to get a lot of delicious fish," Harpy's tone suddenly turned, and his head couldn't help but twist to the side.

"I can guess what you're trying to do in the kitchen without you saying it......" Lucy said helplessly.

TEN MINUTES LATER, LUCY ARRIVES AT THE BUSINESS GUILD LOVE & LUCKY WITH NATSU AND HARPY

Walking to the counter, Lucy asked the lady behind the counter expectantly, "Is there a guy named Gyude Hatfilia who works here?"

And the young lady who was questioned by Lucy changed her expression suddenly after hearing this.

"What's the matter? isn't he working here anymore?" Lucy wondered.

"Well, you're Mr. Kutoku's daughter, aren't you?" asked the lady behind the counter, a little uncertain.

"Ah, yes, I'm ......," Lucy replied with a nod of her head.

"In that case, I'll be honest, Mr. Kude passed away about a month ago, I'm sorry, and we're very sorry for what happened...... "The counter lady immediately apologized to Lucy.

Lucy was completely stunned when she heard the words that Mr. Jiude had died a month ago.

After learning from the counter lady that her father's resting place was in the cemetery in Akalifa, Lucy bought a bouquet of flowers and went to the cemetery to see her father's tombstone.

Natsu and Harpy could only watch after Lucy, not knowing what to say at all, and Lucy had been silent since she came out of the business guild without saying a word to them.

To the surprise of the two of them, Lucy simply sent flowers to her father's tombstone and walked towards the train station in Akalifa.

On the path leading to the Akalifa train station, Lucy walked in front silently, Natsu and Harpy followed behind with heavy expressions, they didn't expect to encounter such a thing with Lucy, which was really unexpected by the two of them.

At this moment, from the front, there were two voices of passers-by, like bad girls.

"My dad is so annoying, he knows that he is verbose and annoyed to death"

"Even if I hate my dad too, I hate him the most," there was a very dissatisfied tone in his voice, and he had just passed by Lucy and said these words.

When Natsu heard this, he immediately knew that something was wrong, and even if he was stupid, he knew that Lucy would feel very uncomfortable when she heard this, and maybe she would cry.

"Bastard, don't you know how to look at the atmosphere, get out of ...... fuck me," Natsu yelled at the two bad girls.

The two bad girls were stunned by Natsu's roar.

"What, even if you don't say it, we'll ...... go"

"You're weird, idiot," the two bad girls gave Natsu a blank look.

"You ......," Natsu tried to scold again, but was interrupted by Lucy.

"Stop, Natsu ......" Lucy's voice rang out.

"Eh, that, that......" Natsu was embarrassed by Lucy's words.

The two bad girls left on their own, and for them they took Natsu as a crazy idiot.

"Thank you, Natsu, I'm fine......" Lucy's voice rang out.

"It's just that because of my father's sudden death, I feel a little ...... Just surprised," Lucy said in a low voice.

"Two months ago...... No, it was seven years ago, and I didn't think it was the last time I saw my father......"

"I used to hate my father very much, and there was a ghost thing in particular......

"Then the Akalifa happened, and I thought I had a chance to ease my relationship with my father, but now ......"

"Obviously, I felt very uncomfortable, but there were no tears, and sure enough, I still ...... to my father," Lucy said and stopped, and he didn't want to say the rest of the words.

Natsu naturally knew about Akalifa, and he and Elusa caught up with them at that time, and everything turned out to be safe, and Lucy also smiled when she went back, and only after Lucy's brief description of the guild did she know what was going on.

"I shouldn't say that, I don't quite understand it, but it's not a matter of tears," Natsu said, he couldn't say anything because he hadn't experienced these things, so he could only say that.

"Thank you for your concern, Natsu, but nothing happened to me unexpectedly......" Lucy chuckled softly.

…………

Magnolia

Makanov and Elusa went to the Ghost of Twilight to discuss the money owed by the Guild with the President of the Ghost of Dusk, and at first they whispered that after all, it was their guild that owed the Ghost of Dusk, but then the Ghost of Twilight didn't seem to be very cooperative.

"Look at what our guild has become, you have to pay it back, and their medical bills......" The leader of the Ghost of Twilight yelled at Makanov.

"It seems like we're here to negotiate the debt, right, it has nothing to do with that," Makanov said with a dry smile on his inferior face.

"What do you see, this is related to the reputation of our guild, I don't care what you do, you must return it today, old man......" The leader of the Ghost of Twilight said in a tough tone, not caring about the identity of Makanov's Holy Ten at all.

"That's how the account can be calculated," Makanov said with some surprise.

"That's right......" the Ghost of Twilight looked at Makanov coldly.

"In this case, maybe we can calculate another account, for seven years your guild has destroyed and abused our guild at will, and I am in tears when I think of this, we can go to war, little ghost" Makanov used giant magic to make his body bigger and then stared coldly at the leader of the Dusk Ghost, and at the same time, Elusa's whole body also changed armor, and she looked coldly at the mage of the Dusk Ghost behind her.

"You don't have any opinions," Elusa said as she cooperated with Makanov, and for a moment the entire Dusk Ghost Guild was stunned by the magic power of the two people.

Outside the door of the Ghost of Dusk, Macao and Wakaba sighed as they listened to the sound of the fight that began to come from inside.

"I knew it was going to be like this," Markao said speechlessly.

"It feels like it's back to seven years ago, and it's a nostalgic feeling," Wakaba said.

"Yes...... Marcao nodded, and then noticed two large and small figures walking not far away.

"Yo, Natsu, didn't you go to Akalifa with Lucy, why did you come back so soon?" Makao wondered, for some reason, Lucy's visit to Akalifa was known to the entire guild.

However, Natsu and Harpy did not answer Macao's words and continued to walk as usual.

"Could it be that you want to join too?" Makao glanced at the guild gate of the Ghost of Dusk next to him, and immediately thought of Natsu's character.

Natsu and Harpy, however, walked past Markao and Wakaba without saying a word, and walked forward.

At this moment, Macao and Wakaba were dumbfounded, "What's wrong with him?"

In fact, if you think about it carefully, Natsu and Harpy became like this because they didn't get a way to make money with Lucy as they wanted, and having no money means that they have run out of ammunition.

Lucy and Nazharbi were separated when they returned to Magnoria, and they were left alone under a tree in Southexit Park, still silent, not knowing what to do with their father's death.

Most of the park's playmates had gone home, and she still had nowhere to go, and she didn't want to stay with Mirajane all the time.

However, at this moment, a heavy footstep sounded, and soon stopped next to Lucy, Lucy looked up suspiciously, and was taken aback, "Landlady?"

Before she could react, she realized that she had been grabbed by the landlady with her absolute advantage in size and dragged in the direction she had come.

Lucy was simply stunned, what she didn't expect was that the landlady's figure was terrible, and even her strength was so terrible, and she didn't know why the landlady herself ran over and grabbed her violently, because she was also an acquaintance, she had to let the landlady do it.

Eventually, the landlady caught her in her room, much to her surprise, and the room seemed to be the same as it had been before she left, with no dust at all.

Lucy looked at the landlady who was looking at her at the door, and before she could ask her, she spoke.

"I come to clean the room once a week, but some of the clothes are out of the way. So I took it myself," said the landlady.

It was then that Lucy noticed that the landlady was actually dressed in her own clothes, "You better look at the table first," the landlady continued.

Lucy looked at the table and noticed that there seemed to be something on the table that didn't belong to her, and Lucy walked over to take a look, only to realize that it was some gifts.

"Every year after you leave, an item will be delivered on the same day," the landlady said in a deep voice.

Lucy was stunned when she saw the mark on the gift on the table, and it clearly wrote the sentence "To my dear daughter, Daddy to ......"

"He remembers......" Lucy cried out in surprise, remembering that her father had been working every time she had a birthday, and had completely taken her birthday seriously.

"I don't know why, but I sent another one this morning," the landlady continued.

Lucy then saw a small box and a letter lying on her bed.

Walked and opened the envelope, and Lucy saw that the contents were still written to her by her father.

"To my dear daughter, maybe I'm not qualified to say that, but I'm still calling it that, I heard that you have disappeared with your friends for many years, but I believe that you will definitely come back, you are the same as Layla, you are a child who is favored by good luck, you will definitely come back safely, I really want to see you soon, recently I have completed the business with a big consortium in the West, which makes me breathe a sigh of relief, although the work is very busy but every day is very fulfilling, you and Layla are really similar, and it is also the pride of me and Layla, I hope you can stick to the path you take and keep going……”

Lucy ...... I've always loved you......"

When Lucy saw the last sentence, a drop of water fell on the letter paper and wetted it, followed by a few drops...... Then Lucy gritted her teeth and cried.

"Me ......too," Lucy said as she choked, and threw herself on the bed and cried.

"The gift this morning was also the rent for the seven years, so you can stay in peace, the landlady continued, and looked at Lucy, who was crying, closed the door and left.

Lucy's crying intensified after hearing the landlord's last words.