Chapter II
The boy left quickly, and after eating the ramen, Mirajan personally delivered it to the door of the guild, still coming and leaving in a hurry as eleven years, and did not pay any money, Makanov said to invite this meal, as long as the boy could help him lower the astronomical amount.
Lucy felt a little amused by this, if people didn't do it, would the president still ask for food, this ...... It's obviously a bribe......
At this time, Lucy took Wendy and Xia Lulu to order food from Mirajane, after all, she was already hungry at noon.
"Wait, your lunch ......" After waiting for a while, Mirajane came out with Lucy Wendy and Charlulu's lunch, steak, milk, and ramen, a very hearty lunch, and other than that, there were things that Lucy didn't order.
Watching Mirajan put the food that didn't belong to her in front of her, and then sat down, this should be Mirajan's own.
"Are you done with your work, Sister Mira?" asked Lucy.
"Hmm" Mira nodded, Mira's lunch was a chicken fried rice, the fragrance of coriander and the taste of chicken mixed with Lucy's appetite also increased, so Lucy took a bite of her medium-rare steak, knowing that it would be good to order fried rice, Lucy thought to herself.
Bite the steak in your mouth, swallow it in your stomach, and then look at Mirazhen and ask about the doubts that have been in her heart since just now, "That, Sister Mira, I ask you one thing, that is the person just now"
"Do you ask Xiu?" said Mirajane, looking at Lucy.
"His name is Xiu, yes, I asked Macao, but Marcao said that he had forgotten his name a long time ago."
"Of course, after all, it's all that year, and we remember it only because we lost seven years," Mirajan smiled.
"I've never heard of it since I joined the guild, and if it weren't for the fact that today I wouldn't know of anyone who left the guild and never returned," Lucy sighed.
"By the way, since he's gone, why did you get in touch with him again, Sister Mira, you just look familiar?"
"Didn't the guild disband a year ago, and I met Elfman and Lisanna in Harugion when they were looking for a job, and I told me a little bit about the guild, and then he knew that I left the guild, so he got me and Elfman a job, and then all three of us worked in his company that year. ”
"I see, is his company big?"
"It's big, a multinational company, can it be big, the 150 million on the ticket he brought is indeed worth that number, their company deals in magic goods, and when the Albarez Empire invaded, it was when their company's goods entered Harugion, so they experienced an unwarranted disaster, and when I left the company, I heard that the goods were worth 300 million J, so the 100 million compensation for the chairman of Xiu Rang is already a very low fine."
"Hey, 300 million......" Lucy was startled, "It sounds like his person is so good, 300 million has directly reduced by 200 million, I'm afraid I'm going to be angry, I just saw him and the president laughing and chatting, and now he is trying to reduce the fine, what a good person" Lucy sighed.
"Well, if I'm too scared to get out of bed...... Wendy sighed.
"Yes, just like then, he is still so gentle, even if he has no strength at all, a gentle smile always exists" Mirajan let out a gentle smile, there was a hint of nostalgia in his eyes, and in a trance, Mirajan seemed to see his shadow again.
He is an S-class magician, and he doesn't know any magic and doesn't have any power, and he just wants a job when he joins the guild, so he becomes a waiter in the guild, and the daily fights between Natsu and Gray often affect him and make him suffer some minor injuries, but even so, he still does it, you must know that the average waiter in the guild can't do it for half a month, and even if he is like this, he has a gentle smile on his face, a smile that doesn't care at all.
It wasn't until Lishana that incident happened that he didn't know what was happening to him, and his usual gentle smile disappeared, and then he talked to himself alone for once.
She still remembers that night.
"Do you regret it," Xiu asked softly, looking up at the moon in the sky.
Mirajane didn't speak, and if it wasn't for the chance to meet her, she really didn't want to talk to him.
"I don't have anything to say, life and death are common sense......" Xiu said this, but suddenly stopped, as if thinking of something, "Maybe this is also wrong......"
"What the hell do you want to say" Mirajan looked at him indifferently, could a person with no power understand her feelings?
"Hehe, I understand your feelings" Xiu suddenly smiled, it was this kind of smile again, the usual gentle smile, for some reason looking at this smile Mira Zhen's sad heart suddenly beat a little, and she first found that his usual smile had a relaxing contagion.
"You're just a waiter, not a magician, what do you know......"
"That's true, I'm just a waiter, but the waiter doesn't have the power to understand the mood of the magician" Xiu looked at her seriously.
"You ......"
"I have an older brother who also has my biological parents, I can remember very clearly, when I was a child, a group of robbers entered the village, and then the bandits killed the villagers in the village, and also killed my parents, and my brother in order to protect me, I also saw him killed by the robbers, and I also saw that the robbers killed my brother with magic"
"You ......" Listening to Xiu whisper these Mirazhen was also surprised in her heart, surprised that Xiu said it in a very calm voice, and she didn't see a trace of sadness and hatred in Xiu's eyes under the moonlight.
"Well, isn't it the same as Lishana, Lishana protected you, and my brother protected me like this" Xiu looked at Mirajan.
"Why do you make up such a story, without any emotion," Mirajan said in disbelief.
"My personal experience, why lie to you......" Xiu shook his head helplessly, his expression was still a little self-deprecating.
"Then why don't you have any feelings?"
"It's been seven or eight years, it doesn't seem right, anyway, I can't even remember the specific time, do you really still have feelings after so many years?" Xiu laughed and looked at this Mirazhen.
"Isn't this a lie?" said Mirajane, who became less and less convinced, believing that it was just a story he had made up to persuade her not to be sad.
"Hehe, a lie is a lie, I really hope it's a lie, I said that's all, I'm leaving tomorrow, are you sad or not, what does it have to do with me then?" Xiu glanced at Mirazhen again and then looked at the moon in the sky.
"Alas, no matter how many years have passed, this moon is still the same moon it used to be, and it hasn't changed at all......," Xiu sighed again.
"Where are you going?" Mirajane grasped the point.
"Naturally, I left and stopped working as a waiter"
"Natsu and Gray have been relatively safe these days, and you haven't been bullied, why do you suddenly want to leave" Mirajan was a little surprised, since she had been in the guild for so long, it was the first time she had met a waiter who had been working for so long, and the others left in less than a month.
"It's because of you, because your thing reminds me of something," Xiu said softly.
"What do you mean?" Mirajane frowned, what was it because of herself?
"That's why I'm here tonight."
"Isn't this here to comfort me" Mirajane's expression softened, and for some reason she was in a slightly better mood.
"Well, yes, that's why I wanted to talk to you because of this, but I didn't find anything to say when I wanted to talk about it, just like you thought in your own heart, I made up the story, and I don't understand your feelings, but I still want to say something"
"Whether it is a magician or not, whether you have the strength or not, even if you sacrifice your life to protect your most important person, it is worth it......" Xiu said this sentence and left slowly.
"Where are you going?" Mirajane looked at Xiu's voice as she left.
"Naturally, I left," Xiu Tou didn't reply, and the faint voice came quickly, and even the figure disappeared into the night.
"What," Mirajan shook her head, muttered, and turned away.
Until noon the next day, she didn't see him, and after asking the president, she realized that he had really left.
That night was actually the last one, there was no waiter in the guild after he left, and the president was ready to recruit a new one, and I don't know what was going on Mirazhen remembered the inexplicable words he said that night, and she suddenly wanted to understand his feelings, plus some reasons of her own, she took his place in his job, until today.
I met him in Harugion a year ago, I recognized him first, he was talking to the clerk in a store, and then he learned that the store was his company's store, and he was arranging something, or that familiar gentle smile, he almost didn't change anything, he just became rich, super rich, and finally he didn't know what was going on, he took Elfman and Lishana to work in his shop, and he worked for a whole year.
"Lishana and I run in his shop, and Elfman follows him out of the sea because of his strong health, and now think about what a peaceful day it was in that year, and every day was very easy and easy...... "Mirajane said with a soft smile, and the smile was very gentle.
Lucy looked at Mirajan's smile and unconsciously remembered the young man's smile, and found that the smiles of the two were almost the same, "Sister Mira, I suddenly found that you seem to be ......"
Hearing Lucy's words, Mirajane was stunned and blushed, and Lucy saw Mirajan's blushing and cried out in surprise, "Sister Mira, you ......", but before the words could be spoken, a loud shout sounded and interrupted her
"I'm back......"
"I'm back too" The familiar voice, the familiar shouting, and the small cry that learned the same tone, everyone in the guild knew who it was.
"Don't shout like that, Natsu," Lucy cried out with some dissatisfaction, turning her head.
"Lucy, you see, I've made a lot of money working this time," Natsu put down the backpack behind him after hearing Lucy's voice and took out a large amount of money from it.
"Xia Lulu, you see what I brought you" At this time, Harpy also gave Xia Lulu his own gift as usual, of course, Xia Lulu still didn't care about Harpy's gift.
"You're going to work, why didn't you call me?" Lucy glared at Natsu in disbelief, it turned out that she had gone to work early in the morning.
"Didn't you say you wouldn't go, and I've been out for days."
"Is there such a thing? How did I not know?"
"Hey, Lucy must have slept a little bit these days," Harpy laughed.
"That's right, Sister Lucy, your spirits haven't been very good these days, so you've been resting at home" Wendy nodded, so she was also happy to see Lucy in the guild early this morning, and she didn't know about Natsu going to work.
"Yes, I didn't seem to be in good spirits a few days ago, and I didn't expect my memory to deteriorate" Lucy couldn't believe it, she seemed to have a slight cold, and she had been resting at home for so long.
But these are also inconsequential things, and she is just expressing the dissatisfaction in her heart, missing the frustration of having money and not being able to earn.
"Mira, come here, I'll talk to you about how to pay that huge ticket," Makanov called out.
"Oh, right away," Hearing Makanov's shout, Mirajan, who was eating quietly, passed over with a plate of fried rice that still had half of it.
"What kind of ticket? Could it be that Gray broke something again" Natsu, who was looking for something in his backpack, looked at Lucy suspiciously, and that expression was still a matter of course
Listening to Natsu's words and that expression, Lucy Wendy and Xia Lulu couldn't help but twitch, "You're not qualified to say this......" The two of them couldn't help but spit out the same sentence.
"No, it's about the compensation of the Albarez Empire, an incomparably huge amount of compensation" Lucy couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth when she thought of the 150 million.
"How much?" was not Natsu's question, but another familiar voice.
"One hundred and fifty million J" Lucy said the number calmly, when the number was said, Lucy realized that the voice of the question was Alusa's voice, drank the last sip of milk in the cup and looked up and saw Alusa who didn't know when it appeared, of course, it would be better if she ignored the fact that her whole person had become extremely pale, and the same was true for Natsu and Harpy on the side, which was stunned, and it was the first time that Lucy saw Natsu not because of Alusa's stunned appearance.
Lucy looked at Natsu before he could get the money in his backpack, well, that money couldn't be paid for a thousand times more than the number on the ticket.