Raizel's estimate was still wrong, but... it did not seem to be a big problem.
Putting Selene aside, Selene could actually be considered somewhat familiar to the townspeople by now.
Whenever Ultear, Mira, and the others went shopping, if Selene was around, she always went with them.
Irene and Selene had not been cheated while buying furniture.
Instead, it was because of Irene's face.
She looked far too much like Erza!
They had even received a discount because of Erza.
The two of them fully experienced the enthusiasm of Magnolia's people!
Perhaps because there were no Fairy Tail members around, Irene did not say or do anything beyond keeping a cold face.
Following the four great principles of not taking initiative, not refusing, not promising, and not taking responsibility...
Selene silently accepted everything.
Many residents of Magnolia were very familiar with Fairy Tail's members, and of course they were familiar with Erza.
One after another, they asked Irene whether she was Erza's older sister.
What Magnolia's residents did not know was that they were lucky they said older sister.
If they had said anything else, who knew whether they would have survived?
Irene remained expressionless.
Selene, on the other hand, watched with great amusement.
One week after Irene and Selene moved into the castle, Irene and Erza's relationship seemed to have made no progress at all.
But Erza continued living her life as usual.
Ultear and Mira's advice to her was to let nature take its course and not rush things.
...
Things could be considered to have entered the right track.
Looking at the rare metal materials Selene had given her, Erza decided to forge a set of armor specially made to deal with dragons.
Look at that.
Gajeel had to go out and search for materials himself, while Erza had Selene casually gift them to her.
And they were all rare metals.
One could not help sighing.
Gajeel was too pitiful!
If Gajeel were still here, Raizel would definitely write one huge word on his back—Tragic.
Raizel snapped his fingers and nodded.
"That's a good idea. But if it's armor specially made to fight dragons, then you should add some materials related to dragons."
Erza looked at Raizel in horror.
"Dragon materials? Where would we find those? You aren't thinking of plucking something from Selene or Kurnugi, are you?"
Then her thoughts immediately began to run wild.
In the image inside her mind, Raizel wore the expression of a villainous elder, stretched out his tongue, licked the blade of a knife, and chuckled darkly.
"Hehehehe~ Selene, you wouldn't want your child Kurnugi to get hurt, would you?"
...
"Kurnugi, the time has come to test your loyalty to the organization! Are you willing to give your head and spill your blood for Fairy Tail?"
"Don't come near me!!!"
Seeing Erza's expression grow stranger and stranger, Raizel curled his finger and lightly flicked her smooth forehead.
"Your imagination is way too rich. Do you remember the Dragon King Festival battlefield Selene mentioned?"
"Ah!"
Erza let out a pained cry, rubbed her forehead lightly with her hand, and replied,
"Oh, I think I have some impression of that."
Selene had indeed mentioned it briefly when she first arrived in Ishgar.
"It's Crocus. And there should be more than one battlefield like that."
"But..."
Erza glanced toward the luxurious castle surrounded by the forest not far away.
Selene was inside the castle right now.
If they wanted to go, she would have to enter as well.
Raizel said as if it were perfectly natural, "Then just call her out."
Erza replied irritably, "Can you even call her out? That woman spends every day soaking in hot springs!"
Their relationship with Selene had grown better and better by now, so calling her "that woman" was not much of a problem.
And Raizel proved to Erza with facts that, yes, she could be called out.
Raizel stood outside and shouted Selene's name directly.
Selene came out just like that, wearing a bathrobe, her hair tied up and wrapped in a towel.
'???'
Raizel did not waste time with greetings and went straight to the point.
"Besides the Dragon Graveyard in Crocus, can you sense any others?"
Selene nodded.
"I can. It's actually not that difficult. What are you planning?"
In truth, it was not that Selene could sense them.
She already knew where they were.
Along the entire border between Ishgar and the western continent, there were about four such places.
Back then, the Black Dragon had turned the whole border line into a battlefield.
Or rather, a slaughterhouse.
The dragons who fled to the northern continent, including Selene herself, had all taken a detour around northeastern Ishgar and quietly escaped from there.
"She wants to forge a set of armor specifically made to deal with dragons. I want to add some dragon materials into it."
Selene had no particular objection to that. She only reminded him,
"Those dragons have been dead for so long. Their hearts are long gone by now, only bones are probably left."
Raizel had already expected the hearts to be gone.
Otherwise, he would have gone to dig them out and make Dragon Slayer Lacrima long ago.
It was only after meeting the Law Dragon that he learned dragon hearts could be processed into Dragon Slayer Lacrima through a special technique.
As for what that special technique was, Raizel did not know.
He only knew that very few people on the continent of Ishgar knew the process.
Raizel rubbed his chin with the expression of a great villain.
"Bone powder should work too, right?"
"...That should work."
Selene had no special thoughts about Raizel targeting dragon bones.
She wanted to become human. Besides, those dragons were already dead.
If their remains could be used to forge armor for Erza, then making full use of them was fine.
"Then let's take a trip together?"
Raizel could teleport, and Selene could use spatial Magic. Basically, they could go wherever they wanted.
Selene did not move. Instead, she said,
"Bring Ultear."
"?"
"I don't want to collect dragon bones."
"Fine."
Selene's figure shifted, and she changed into her usual outfit.
If she was going out, she certainly could not wear a bathrobe, even if the place they were going would most likely have no one around.
Erza's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Hey, what do you think about taking an entire dragon skeleton and placing it above the outdoor café or the guild hall?"
Erza's tone was extremely excited.
"Like Magia Dragon!"
As a complete and total collector, she could not resist the idea of a one-to-one-scale dragon figure.
The corner of Raizel's mouth twitched.
"The very top of the guild is an observation deck..."
He had another image in his mind.
A tower-shaped structure.
Placed right on top.
That would basically be the same as performing a Thousand Years of Death on a dragon.
Ultear held her chin and said, "The one at Magia Dragon is only a stone statue. If I remember correctly, Sabertooth also has a giant saber-toothed tiger statue on top of their guild."
She seemed to agree with Erza.
But then Ultear changed the direction of her words.
"But our guild is called Fairy Tail. Wouldn't putting a giant dragon there look completely out of place?"
"What do you think, Selene?"
Selene answered expressionlessly,
"As long as you do not put it where I live, I do not care."
Erza understood.
That was more or less leaning toward not supporting it.
Erza rested her chin on her right hand, lightly tapped her cheek with her index finger, and muttered,
"Then should I rent another house just to display the dragon bones?"
Ultear stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Erza.
"You've already rented five houses. Five!"
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