"What?"
"Do you think I came over here to comfort you because you lost to my little girlfriend and might get angry?"
"Then you are thinking too much. I'm not that petty."
Karen's expression froze slightly.
Beside her, Jenny did not say anything. She simply pouted her lips in grievance and looked at him with her watery, pitiful eyes.
Kabe first turned around and waved his hand at the small device that had been following him and recording everything, telling it to leave.
Only after it flew away did he crouch down and use both hands to gently pinch the two girls' soft, smooth cheeks.
"Originally, I only came here to tell you two that I was leaving."
"But after hearing what you said, it seems like I can't leave without comforting you a little."
Karen's body stiffened.
She was filled with anger and embarrassment and was just about to argue back when she suddenly felt a brief warm and moist sensation on her forehead.
After leaving a kiss on each of their foreheads, Kabe pulled the two girls into his arms and whispered:
"Come to my room tonight."
"I'll definitely give you both a satisfactory consolation."
After saying that, he stood up, rubbed both girls' heads, then turned around and called Ultear and the others to leave.
Karen stared blankly at their backs as they disappeared around the corner.
It took her a while before she finally recovered from his words.
Her pretty face turned slightly red as she fiercely spat.
"That idiot..."
"His head is filled with nothing but unhealthy thoughts."
Although she said that, the slight curve of her lips exposed her true feelings.
"As Quatro Cerebrus was the first team to be eliminated, the members of Blue Pegasus were unable to put up much effective resistance either, unfortunately becoming the second eliminated team."
"However, we can see that the members of Fairy Tail's A Team are not satisfied yet."
"They have once again revealed their fangs toward the team from Lamia Scale!"
"Are they planning to eliminate every other guild's teams first, allowing Fairy Tail to occupy the top three positions?"
"Let us wait and see. We look forward to the performance of Fairy Tail's A Team!"
Amid the host's passionate commentary, Kabe and the others, who had just finished dealing with Ichiya's team, immediately moved to intercept the members of Lamia Scale.
As the King of his own team, Leon looked at Ultear skillfully casting spells with both hands, summoning icy thorn roses.
For a brief moment, he lost focus.
The scene before him overlapped with the figure of his teacher from his memories.
But in that short instant, Ultear seized the opportunity and defeated Leon with a single move.
Just like that, the Lamia Scale representative team, which many people had been optimistic about before the competition, was completely eliminated in such a simple manner.
Jura, who had drawn the Knight identity and suffered the same bad luck as Kabe, saw this and sighed as he walked out from the building where he had been hiding.
"Sigh... Leon is still too careless."
"Fortunately, Grandma Ooba didn't come to watch the competition in person. Otherwise, with her personality, he would definitely have suffered after returning."
Kabe landed beside him and found his words amusing.
"I've heard a bit about Grandma Ooba's methods."
"Although she isn't here, I think Leon won't be able to escape this punishment."
Jura shook his head helplessly, half amused and half exasperated.
Then he turned around and extended his hand toward Kabe.
"Regardless, this first round ends here for us."
"I hope we get the chance to properly fight you face-to-face later."
"Definitely."
"Otherwise, this tournament would be too boring."
Kabe grabbed the hand Jura extended.
The two looked at each other, smiled, shook hands firmly, and then separated.
"When he wakes up, tell that idiot that he is even more foolish than Gray."
"His senior sister is very disappointed in him."
Ultear crossed her arms and reminded Sherry, who was taking care of Leon.
Sherry, who had originally been glaring at her angrily, immediately softened her expression after hearing that this woman was actually Leon's senior sister.
"Yes, yes! I understand, Senior Sister-sama."
Ultear ignored the strange way the girl addressed her and turned around to walk back toward Kabe.
As she passed by Jura, the two exchanged a friendly nod.
With Lamia Scale's members leaving the battlefield, everyone remaining on the field was now from Fairy Tail.
Kabe: "Looks like it's time for the familiar grand battle between ourselves."
Erza: "Although I don't encourage hurting our comrades, a competition is a different matter."
Mira: "Enough talking. Find them. I'll take down every single one of them!"
Cana: "It's time for an internal guild war!!!"
Juvia and Ultear: "Although we have been in the guild for quite some time now, it's still difficult to adapt to this strange guild tradition of theirs."