"What right do I have to go say hello? Better not."
Mest had spent the last seven years feeling guilty because he hadn't saved Fairy Tail on Tenrou Island. He was just someone who had sneaked into Fairy Tail, trying to find evidence of their crimes.
However, he had not given the full video footage to the Council. That might have caused a lot of unnecessary trouble.
So, he used his memory magic to modify the memories of Laharl and some Magic Council members.
After all, Laharl always enforced the law strictly. He could not be sure Laharl would not report the full details.
Once the party ended, all the guilds returned home.
Magnolia Town
"They're back!!"
"They've returned!!"
"Hurry! Everyone, over here, over here!!"
"We've been waiting for you for a long time!! Welcome home, everyone!!"...
At this time, both sides of the main street in Magnolia Town were crowded with people. They had come specifically because they heard Fairy Tail was returning today.
"Everyone!! Please give the warmest applause to welcome the winning guild of the Grand Magic Games!!"
Banaboster, the master of Twilight Ogre, greeted them with a smile on his face.
Three months ago, these people were still bullies who picked on Fairy Tail, but after this Grand Magic Games, they had become kind.
They could bully the old Fairy Tail, but now they were lucky that Fairy Tail did not bully them.
"Fairy Tail's triumphant return—!!"
"We're back—!!"
The members of Fairy Tail felt everyone's passion, and their faces were filled with smiles.
"Erza, the battle at Pandemonium was amazing!"
"Thank you."
"Mirajane, you performed really well!"
"You saw that!"
Mirajane covered her cheeks and said, "Oh my! I'm actually a bit shy."
"Kael! Great job!!"
"As expected of Fairy Tail's strongest mage!!"
Elfman said with a proud face, "Right now, he's not just Fairy Tail's strongest, but the strongest on the continent of Ishgar!!"
Evergreen complained, "What are you so proud of? It's not like you're the strongest in Ishgar."
"Kael is one of ours! Of course I'm proud that he's the strongest!! A real man!!"
"Well, that's true!"
"Let everyone see something good!"
Natsu pulled a trophy out of his bag.
"Proof of victory, the King's Cup!!"
Seeing this trophy, many people cheered. It represented the highest honor of the Grand Magic Games.
"We won—!!"
"Woah—! Woah—!!"
"I really never thought... I still can't believe it..."
"We were always at the bottom, and yet..."
"We actually won!"
Jet, Droy, and Warren were moved to tears.
"Now, let's have the Mayor of Magnolia present the souvenirs."
"Souvenirs? You really didn't have to go to such trouble!"
Makarov felt a bit embarrassed.
"Ahem!"
The Mayor cleared his throat. "Everyone from Fairy Tail, please look over there."
The members of Fairy Tail looked in the direction the Mayor pointed. They saw that the Fairy Tail guild, which had become somewhat dilapidated, was now restored to exactly how it used to be.
"The guild looks just like the original!!"
The Fairy Tail members were very surprised.
"Fairy Tail has brought great honor to this city. Therefore, we decided to repair the guild and give it back to you."
"Mayor... you are too kind..."
Makarov was moved to tears.
"No need to thank me. The people on this street worked together to build it."
"I love this street so much~~~!!"
Soon, the members of Fairy Tail returned to the guild surrounded by everyone. Seeing the long-lost guild, everyone was very happy.
Fairy Tail was officially revived. Many people who had transferred to other guilds due to unavoidable reasons chose to return, and some new members joined because of their fame.
As long as they didn't have bad intentions, Fairy Tail accepted them happily.
In just a few days, Fairy Tail returned to its original state, with people coming and going.
Kael also went out to do an S-class mission. It was a monster subjugation task. With Kael's current strength, completing such a mission was very smooth.
After finishing the task, Kael felt refreshed. As expected, working was the most comfortable thing.
The Grand Magic Games of the Kingdom of Fiore was famous not only in Fiore but also in the various countries of Ishgar.
Because Fairy Tail had won with an excellent performance, they naturally received many mission resources.
After he returned from his mission, several more S-class missions had appeared on the second-floor request board. This made Kael very happy. He could finally do S-class missions to his heart's content; participating in the Grand Magic Games wasn't a waste.
He wanted to do many, many, many S-class missions, pull more Golden Legends, and then recycle the ones he didn't use to improve his magic power and become stronger.
To many people, Kael was undoubtedly at the ceiling for mages.
But to Kael, being much stronger than other mages was no big deal.
Fighting the Black Dragon, Acnologia, still made him feel a huge amount of pressure.
He had to have stronger magic power and pull stronger characters.
"Master, an urgent request has arrived."
Mirajane walked over with a request form.
"Hm, since the Grand Magic Games, the number of requests for specific mages has increased quite a bit!"
Makarov took it and found it was a specified request. A specified request is when the client picks a certain mage to complete the job.
Requests specifying Kael were the most numerous, but Makarov knew Kael almost only did S-class requests. So, he turned down most of them and only kept the S-class ones. At the same time, he advertised that Kael only accepted S-class specified requests.
Mirajane smiled and said, "It's because everyone has become very popular!"
Besides Kael, mages like Erza, Laxus, and Natsu, who had great performances in the Grand Magic Games, had many specified requests. They were all incredibly busy these days.
"Kael, it's another request specifying you!"
"Is it S-class?"
Kael asked Makarov after hearing him.
"Hm..."
Makarov took a look. Just as he was about to speak, he noticed something, and his expression changed. "This is..."
"What's wrong, Master?"
Mirajane asked when she saw Makarov's face change.