The Hatfilia family, which has been inherited for more than four hundred years, oversees the entire Ishgar continent and even the entire world, and is also a magic family with an incomparably long history.

The Hatfilia family inherits the ancient magic of the powerful star spirits summoned from the astral realm to fight, and along with the magic passed down through the generations, there is also a mission, which is to open the eclipse gate on July 7, X777.

This task is like a relay, along with the blood and magic of the Hatfilia family, and in the end, this task falls to the current inheritor of the Hatfilia family, that is, Lucy's mother, Layla Hatfilia.

As the head of this generation of the Hatfilia family, she will use the twelve star spirit keys of the zodiac to open the door to the eclipse and end this 400-year-long fateful inheritance of the Hatfilia family.

And now Layla Hatfilia, who has given up her adventure as a star spirit wizard, is actively preparing for this four-hundred-year relay race, for which Layla Hatfilia used the power of the Hatfilia family business group to contact all the star spirit wizards who hold the keys to the zodiac in the whole continent, and she gave a high bounty to borrow the twelve keys of the zodiac in the hands of these people, and at the same time, Layla also contacted her three former servants.

When Layla gave up her seat to work as a star spirit magister, she once gave her three keys to the zodiac to her three servants, the key of Capricorn was given to Zudir, the key of Cancer was given to Granny Speight, and finally the key of Aquarius was given to her maid Grame......

However, it is a pity that Layla has only been able to contact Zudir and Granny Stagter, but she has not been able to contact Grammé, a maid in the far west continent, which makes Layla feel a headache......

For this reason, Layla's husband, Gyude Hatfilia, has been by Layla's side to help Layla find a way, but unfortunately even the rich Hatfilia Consortium has no way to contact the Upper West Continent, after all, their Hatfilia family is only a well-known consortium in the Fiore Kingdom and even the Ishgar Continent, and they do not have connections and forces across the continent.

For this reason, Jiude also asked the Magic Council ERA to find a way to contact the West Continent, hoping that the Magic Council could come forward to help contact Grammé who was far away in the West Continent, but in the end, the answer was that although the Magic Council ERA also wanted to help, but unfortunately the Magic Council of the West Continent had been wiped out, that is to say, even the Magic Council ERA could not help when it came to contacting the West Continent.

This made Jiude feel a headache, but he was helpless......

In the beautiful rooms of the huge castle-like mansion of Hatfilia, Layla and Gyude looked at each other in silence.

"Don't worry, Jiude~"

"We'll always have a way, and we'll be able to do it."

Layla looked at Jiude, who was anxious and even the business was starting to be absent-minded, and smiled and comforted.

"Huh?! Hehe......"

"I'm sorry Layla, I'm worried about you, obviously I should have helped you solve your worries and comfort you, but it turned out to be the other way around, and it became you to comfort me."

After listening to Layla's words, Jiude was slightly stunned at first, then smiled bitterly, looked at Layla and apologized.

At the same time, Jiude blames himself a little, every time it is like this, every time it is Layla who is comforting him, and he can't help Layla at all.

"Where, we are family! Family members should help each other......"

Layla smiled after listening to Gyude's words, she is like a sun, shining on Gyude forever, and it is precisely because Lella is always like the sun, so after Layla's death, it is like a different person, because from the moment Layla died, Gyude's sun never rose again.

"You're worried about Layla, don't worry! Even if you do your best to get all the wealth we've built up over the years, I'll help you get all the keys together. ”

After listening to Layla's words, Jiude took Layla's hand and preached to Layla with some emotion.

Over the years, the fortunes of the Hatfilia family have been tumbling in the hands of the business wizard of Jiude, and it has reached the peak of the Hatfilia family in 400 years, and Jiude believes that with his financial resources, he will always find a way.

"Haha, don't worry~ It's okay!"

Layla smiled softly after listening to Jiude's words, but behind Layla's smile, there was a little bit of loneliness, if they really didn't get together the twelve keys to the zodiac constellations within the specified time, then Layla had another way to open the door to the eclipse, that is, to fill in the missing constellations with her magic and life, so as to open the door to the eclipse!

If the Eclipse Gate was indeed a timeless inheritance, as it was written, then Layla knew that there was not much time left for her from the moment she succeeded in opening the gate.

But in Layla's eyes, it's all worth it......

“……”

Jiude looked at Layla and was silent for a long time, the one who loves this Layla the most in the world, and the one who knows Layla the most must be him Jiude.

So Jiude could see the heaviness hidden behind Layla's smile, he clenched his fists, and secretly scolded his own incompetence, although Jiude had also thought about persuading Layla to give up, or persuading Layla to open the door later, but Jiude knew that he couldn't, he couldn't stop his wife Layla from fulfilling their long-cherished wish of the Hatfilia family.

As Layla and Zyudra looked at each other affectionately, a maid pushed open the door to their bedroom and said, "Excuse me, Lady Layla, Lord Gyude, there is a guest outside who claims to be the tail of the Magister Guild Fairy. ”

"Uh, ahem, I got ......"

Layla and Jiude looked at the maid who suddenly pushed them away, and immediately shyly let go of their tightly clenched hands, coughed softly twice at Jiude, and nodded lightly at the maid at the same time, indicating that he knew.

"Yes, sir."

Although the maid felt that her lord and lady were very strange, she did not say anything, but turned away and left.

"The Magister of Fairy Tail? I don't know what they came to me for? ”

After the maid went out, Gyude watched Layla and whispered to herself.

"Maybe there's something important to look for you, but anyway, you can go and take a look!"

Layla smiled softly at Gyude after listening to Gyude's words.

At this time, Layla and Gyud did not think about the mission of Hatfilia, they did not think that there was anyone in this world who knew this secret belonging to the Hatfilia family.

"Okay, I'll take a look!"

"Speaking of which, at the beginning, I was still in the western entrance town of Fos, and I received the help of Fairy Tail, but now that I think about it, it has been about two and a half years, I really didn't expect that in just two years, that Fairy Tail, who is only a little famous in the Kingdom of Fiore, is already a well-known Magister Guild in the Ishgar Continent......"

Gyude bowed his head as he listened to Layla's words, remembering that when he went abroad two years ago to negotiate business, he had been helped by a group of mages who called themselves Fairy Tail in Foss, the western gateway town.

Jiude can still vaguely remember the faces of those people, I haven't seen them for two years, and I don't know what happened to these people now?!

In this way, with memories and curiosity, Jiude came to the gate of the Hatfilia family's house, and personally pushed open the door of his ancient mansion, ready to greet the magister from the fairy tail.

"Click~"

When Jiude pushed open the door of his ancient house and looked outside, he saw a young man with a handsome face, and at this moment the young man was smiling towards Jiude.

"Gui'an~Mr. Gyude Hatfilia~"

While the boy smiled at Jiude, he learned the lame aristocratic etiquette and said hello.

"Are you?!"

Jiude looked at the young man in front of him, and for a moment it seemed to dream back to the original western entrance town of Foss, although the young man in front of him became a little taller, but Jiude would not admit that he was mistaken, the young man in front of him was the one who helped him recover his lost wallet, the young man who called himself the fairy tail magister guild magister.

At this moment, after Jiude saw the young man, he felt a trace of excitement in his heart, and he had a feeling of reuniting with an acquaintance after a long absence, and this feeling was shattered until the moment when the young man said the second sentence.

"Mr. Gyude, I wonder if your wife, Lady Layla Hatfilia, is at home?"

"I have something I'd like to talk to Ms. Layla about alone......"

At the moment when Jiude looked at the young man in front of him and smiled, the young man looked at Jiude and asked with a smile.

"Huh?!"

The smile that had been smiling disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even the look in the eyes of the boy became extremely strange.

"Huh?"

In this regard, the young man also had a strange look on his face, he thought that he was already very polite, but he really didn't know why Jiude reacted so much.

"You can't have been sent by my former rival, right? Really, after all these years, are they still thinking about Layla? ”

Just when the young man was puzzled, he heard Jiude look at the young man with some displeasure and ask.

"Hehe, this is your misunderstanding~"

"I'm here for the Eclipse Gate, and I ask you to tell Miss Layla that the Hatfilia family is not alone in this four-hundred-year lineage......

After listening to Jiude's words, the young man smiled lightly and explained while looking at Jiude.

Yes, it was after receiving the task issued by Jerf that the boy immediately rushed to Ewen of the Hatfilia family

(End of chapter)