[Comprehensive Manga] Ann

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Wearing a funny stage costume, like a clown's clothes, there are still a few greasy spots on his body, and his purple hair is rough and rough, as if it hasn't been taken care of for a long time, not to mention a bit of artistic atmosphere, even normal people The standard aesthetics are not eye-catching.

Moreover, the purple bangs were too long to cover her eyes. Lucy had no doubt that this boy could not see the person in front of him at all. He looked very rustic and gloomy. The image in my heart is very different!

"...Well, how are you?"

Although Lucy felt that the heart of adoration in her heart was slowly shattering, she still pulled out a friendly smile and waved to the boy.

"Hi, I'm Elsa, from Fairy Tail, it's a great honor to be in this stage play."

But Elsa stood up, walked up to the boy with a confident smile on the corner of her mouth, and extended her hand to the boy very solemnly.

"Uh, that, no need, I should be the one to say thank you."

The young man spoke eagerly, with a shy smile on the corner of his mouth, scratching his head and hair with his left hand, and holding chopsticks in his right hand, as if he was still eating something just now, and he was pulled over by the client without even having time to put down the chopsticks .

But Elsa's hands froze in the distance. I don't know if it was intentional that the young man didn't shake hands. He didn't even bother to do the most basic etiquette, or...

Seeing the client expressing silence to himself, he pointed to his eyes and shook his hand.

Everyone seems to be aware of one thing——

The screenwriter couldn't see it!

"Hey! I can't see how he wrote the script!"

Naz naturally understood the client's actions, and immediately shouted in surprise, "If you can't see it, you can't write!"Amazing!This man can write scripts even if he can't see them!

"Natsu, don't say it!"

Lucy punched Natsu resentfully. After all, it would be very rude to speak out so loudly about someone's pain.

"What are you doing! I'm praising him! Gray, you said... Hey, stinky ice, what's wrong with you?"

Natsu didn't understand why Lucy looked a little angry. He obviously thought it was amazing to be able to write scripts without being able to see.But when his eyes caught Gray sitting on the side, he froze.

how to say?Gray's expression looked strange.

"Grey?"

Elsa also turned her head and looked at Gray.

Gray's body was stiff, his pupils were unbelievably mixed with a few traces of joy, and his hands were tightly clenched into fists, which seemed to be more nervous and flustered.

"Wait, you mean... Gray?"

Suddenly the boy's words shifted everyone's attention to the boy.

"That person, doesn't he... um, look like, uh... black hair, drooping eyes... and, and..."

The young man seemed to be thinking hard, waving his hands wildly, as if he wanted to try his best to depict the blurred figure in his head.

"Hey! Drooping eyes, it's just you! You two know each other!"

Naz thought about the boy's description, then looked at Gray, and felt that everything was correct, but Gray, who usually started quarreling with him, stared straight at the screenwriter's purple-haired boy without saying a word this time. .

"Dean..."

After calling out this name, Gray felt how hoarse his voice was. The impressions in his mind suddenly appeared, and these memories contained too many emotions. He never thought that he could still see him .

"I didn't expect to see you again, Gray."

And the boy walked over following the sound, and touched Gray's face with his left hand, wondering if he was sketching something according to the memory in his mind.

As for the boy's face, although only the shallow curvature of the corner of the mouth can be seen because of the cover of the bangs, judging from the soft atmosphere around the boy, this should be a warm scene of reunion after a long absence.

"Have a leg..."

"Love."

And Lucy watched the interaction between the two, and found that JQ's heart was beating, so she said something softly.

And Happy flew to Lucy's side, immediately squinted his eyes and nodded in agreement.

"What's wrong with your eyes?"

Gray stretched out his hand to lift the boy's bangs. After all, he remembered that Dean's eyes were good when he left.

"fine."

Dean seemed to feel that his hand wanted to lift his bangs. He reached out and grabbed Gray's trembling hand, and just put it on his cheek, as if he was attached to the warmth of his palm, such a familiar cool hand.

"As long as I can meet you again, it doesn't matter what happens."

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"Hey! Fire-breathing idiot! Is this the dragon you made!"

"Perverted man in underwear! Do you have any dissatisfaction with this dragon!"

"What kind of dragon are you! Go redo it!"

"Obviously it's very good! If you want to redo it, why don't you do it!"

"At this time, it's not your turn to be on stage yet!"

"Come up first to familiarize yourself with the environment, what's wrong! There are also stinky ice cubes, why have you been in such trouble lately!"

"Trouble! Obviously you have been having problems!!!"

"Ahh! Stop making noise~~~"

And Lucy stood under the stage, looking at Gray and Naz who were incompatible with each other without tears, expressing her helplessness. It seems that Naz and Gray have been arguing more and more recently. It was demolished first by these two guys.

Elsa, who originally adjusted the relationship between the two, was standing on the stage shining all over her body and was deeply involved in the play. She didn't care about Natsu and Gray at all, and Gray seemed to be attaching great importance to the stage play. look.

"It looks very lively."

"Dean, you're here."

Lucy looked at the purple-haired boy who was touching the stage from one side, and trotted over to get close to Dean, as if he was afraid that he would accidentally fall.

However, looking at this boy, whose hair was messed up, as if it hadn't been taken care of for a long time, his eyes could not be seen at all, and his clothes were messy as if they had been put on indiscriminately, Lucy felt a little tangled.

"Dean, did you and Gray know each other before?"

"Yeah, we've played together since we were kids."

"...Then, why, uh, you separated later?"

Lucy was thinking about how to ask more tactfully. After all, I always felt that there were some stories between Gray and Dean. Moreover, Gray had never heard anything about Dean. It seemed that even Natsu and Elsa didn't know about it. thing.

"Yes, I'm actually a member of Grey's clan, but I haven't seen each other since I was adopted by a family."

Dean scratched his head and his messy hair, with a shy smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Then why don't you come to the Fairy Guild with Gray?"

Lucy was a little puzzled. Gray and Dean seemed to be getting along very well. If this was the case, Dean should have been with Gray in the first place.

"You should know that Gray was learning magic from Ulu back then."

"Ah."

"Well, I originally followed. But it was too cold on the snowy mountain, so I got sick from the cold after only half a day, and then Gray entrusted me to a family. In fact, I really wanted to be with you at the beginning. Gray is going together, but...it really is too bad, and now I can only write casually."

Dean said, seeming to be thinking about something, with a somewhat frustrated tone in his tone.

"No! Dean's script is very good! I like it very much! Moreover, it's such a great thing to be able to perform your own script on stage!"

Lucy immediately spoke excitedly, wanting to cheer and encourage Dean, after all, she really liked the script.

"It's nice to have someone like it, I, uh, I actually wrote a script recently and it's coming out soon..."

Dean smiled, looking a little shy, but it was not hard to see the boy's happy expression.

"Really! Can I have a look?"

Lucy spoke earnestly with starry eyes, but it was a pity that Dean couldn't see it.

"Well, not yet."

Dean smiled and made a secret gesture.

"Ah... so, then, can you tell me what you wrote?"

"To put it simply, it's a story about a madman's revenge for love."

"what?"

"what happened?"

"……nothing."

Lucy waved her hand, but the black line swayed from her forehead, Dean, don't you think your subject matter is a bit strange?

"Then when it's released, be sure to invite us to watch it."

"Well, of course."

Dean nodded with a smile. He is also looking forward to this new drama.

"Oh!"

"Hey!! Dean! Are you okay!"

While chatting, suddenly a piece of wood fell from the stage and hit Dean directly on the head, and Lucy panicked immediately, looking nervously at Dean who fell to the ground.

"Dean, are you okay?"

Gray immediately jumped off the stage and looked at Dean nervously.

"...Well, it's okay."

The boy who fell on the ground sat up propped up, and touched his head with some pain. It should only hurt a little from the impact, and he was not injured.

"Natsu! What are you doing!"

Only then did Gray look angrily at Naz, who could make pieces of wood fly off the court and hit people when he cut the board.

"I'm sorry, but what did you call me!"

Naz also ran over and looked apologetic at Dean who was still sitting on the ground, but it was really unpleasant to be told by Gray.

Gray glared at Naz, but he didn't continue to quarrel. Instead, he looked at Dean who was still sitting on the ground. Deep in his memory, it seemed that he almost forgot that the purple-haired child once accidentally fell down by himself. , sitting on the ground like this.

However, the difference is that at that time, Dean had a pair of dark purple eyes. When he fell in pain, tears were always rolling in his eyes but he tried not to cry. Such clear pupils were watery. Still pretending to be very strong, he smiled and looked at himself.

Gray stretched out his hand to lift the boy's too long bangs to look at those beautiful purple eyes, but the boy turned his head and then avoided it.

"Grey, how's your drama going?"

Dean seemed to dodge Gray's hand subconsciously, and then stood up immediately. Although he couldn't see Gray, he seemed to be able to easily sense Gray's position, and lowered his head to face Gray who was still squatting on the ground.

"...It's almost there, except for the part of a certain idiot."

Gray's hands froze in mid-air with some embarrassment. Seeing Dean standing up suddenly, he naturally put down his hands and stood up.

"Hey! Droopy eyes! Who are you talking about!"

Natsu, who was still standing on the stage, immediately shouted angrily.

"There's nothing I can do if some idiot wants to take the right seat."

Gray looked at Natsu on the stage with provocative eyes, obviously looking like he was about to quarrel again.

"Hey, hey... stop arguing..."

Lucy looked helplessly at Natsu and Gray who seemed to be fighting again. This was the hundreds of times she had tried to persuade them to fight. Couldn't these two people calm down and get along peacefully for a while? .

"Natsu and Gray, the relationship is really good."

But Dean stood under the stage, listening to the noisy voice in his ear, but laughed.

"Who has a good relationship with this fire-breathing idiot!"

"Who has a good relationship with this pervert in shorts!"

The two immediately turned back to Dean and yelled furiously at the same time, and then looked at each other with even more hatred, while the background behind the two had already begun to struggle with lightning and thunder.

"Don't be surprised, Dean, they've always been like this."

Lucy looked at Gray and Natsu who were already fighting, and immediately pulled Dean to a safe place, then stroked her forehead and watched as Elsa was finally disturbed by these two creatures, and couldn't get into the scene perfectly, then flew into a rage The two were severely beaten.

"It's okay, I'm really happy to see Gray living so happily."

Dean seemed to be listening carefully to the voice in his ear, even though it was so loud and wailing, but it had been a long, long time since he heard such a cheerful and energetic voice, which made people feel from the bottom of their hearts...

"Does Dean want to go back to the guild with us?"

Seeing Dean's smile, Lucy couldn't help being infected. Although the pure warmth was very shallow, it seemed to have penetrated into the softest corner of her heart, so she couldn't help but ask such a sentence.

"...I, I don't know magic."

Dean was stunned, as if the question was unexpected.

"Well... you, you don't have to join the guild, but you can still be a guest in the guild. Besides, everyone is very friendly and won't exclude you just because you don't have magic. Besides, Dean is such a good screenwriter, everyone Dean will definitely be very welcome!"

Lucy smiled brightly and warmly invited Dean, besides, Dean and Gray should belong to a very close family.

"...Is this really possible?"

Dean lowered his head, thinking, with some hesitation in his voice, but it was obvious that the boy wanted to go to the Fairy Tail guild, or in other words, wanted to go with Gray.

"Of course! After this performance, come back with us!"

Lucy nodded with a smile, took Dean's hand, and said with certainty.

"I... If, if possible, I want to go. But, you also know, I can't see, no matter where I go, I will only drag others down."

And Dean nodded, biting his lower lip, seemed a little uneasy, and there was a sense of inferiority in his words.

"Don't say that... Gray! After our performance, bring Dean back to the guild."

Lucy looked at the frustrated boy, trying to comfort him, but saw Gray walking in her direction.

"guild?"

Gray seemed a little surprised. He looked at Dean, only to find that the boy lowered his head and seemed very nervous. He looked like a child who had made a mistake.

"No, it's not... I, I'd better not..."

Hearing Gray's voice, Dean seemed to think that Gray didn't want to leave by himself, so he trembled immediately.

"Let's go together."

"What did you say?"

After hearing this sentence, the purple-haired boy's body trembled, and then he raised his head. Although he couldn't see it, the warm smile that Gray had when he said this sentence still appeared in his mind.

Dean asked, but felt that his voice was extremely dry, as if he couldn't believe the words were true.

"I said, come back to Fairy Tail with us, and I will take care of you."

Gray looked at Dean's reaction, smiled, and reached out to stroke the boy's hair, as if the barrier of separation for so many years had completely disappeared at this moment.

He even had an illusion, as if God had given him a chance to make up for his past mistakes.

Ulu died trying to save himself, and he had no way to save him; and Dean, who was left behind by him, is still here, and he still has a chance to make up for him and take good care of him.

"Everyone! Let's take a break first!"

And the client walked over from the curtain in a very disruptive manner, holding a plate with dorayaki on it, which seemed to be specially made to comfort the extras.

"Come on, this is what I just made, please eat it, you are welcome!"

The client looked very enthusiastic and spoke very eagerly.

The people around also gathered together, each took one, and did not refuse.

After all, I have been tossing here for several hours, and I am a little hungry.

"Ahhhhh!!! So spicy!! So spicy!"

"It's so spicy! What the hell is in it!"

"No, no! Water!!!"

"Well!"

After the four of them took a bite, they interpreted their reaction to the spicy food with various reactions, and the most exaggerated one was Naz, who immediately started breathing fire, which was almost equal to the roar of a fire dragon.

"Dean, you know that, don't you!"

Lucy was frantically pouring water, looking at Dean who was standing aside, holding a dorayaki but not eating.

"...How should I put it, the boss's taste is a bit unique."

Dean chuckled, but always felt a little gloating.

"Since everyone is full, don't be so lazy! Hurry up and go to the rehearsal!"

After everyone drank water and collapsed on the ground, the client seemed to be more impassioned, but he looked dissatisfied at the paralyzed people, which is really too lazy!

"..."

Suddenly, I felt that this client made dorayaki deliberately to torment them because he saw them fighting just now and got upset!

"These people are really unprofessional."

The client looked at the people who had been chased onto the stage by him, and stood beside Dean, frowning and talking disdainfully.

"I think it's pretty good."

And Dean sat on the seat under the stage, listening to the surrounding voices.

"Forget it, it's only been a few days, and that's the only way to go."

The client sighed, frowned and looked at the stage. Although he was helpless, he had no choice but to do so, so he rushed to the stage.

However, he didn't make any comments or criticisms. Instead, he looked happy, looked at Gray and the others adoringly, and said words of encouragement, as if he was very satisfied with the performance and the extras.

But the young man sitting under the stage sat very quietly, wondering if he had seen the rehearsal on stage.

After a while, the boy took a bite of the dorayaki in his hand and put it back on the plate, and took out another dorayaki that had been bitten by someone.

Holding the dorayaki in both hands, the tip of the tongue gently licks the bitten place, and then nibbles, chewing and swallowing slowly, as if tasting the best food in the world .

"...No way! Dean! Did you actually eat that damn spicy dorayaki just now?"

Lucy, who saw Dean eating dorayaki on the stage, saw that there was really one less dorayaki after stepping off the stage. Naturally, she was very surprised to see Dean sitting upright, and there was nothing unusual at all. .

"Yeah, it tastes good."

And Dean nodded lightly, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.

Because, it has his taste...

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The result of the performance was, to use four words to describe it perfectly - appalling.

The boss smiled and said, "Great!"

Although the premise is that the entire theater has been destroyed and fell apart, there is no plot at all in the script except for the use of a few names, all the actors are impromptu lines, and... in the end, they are simply fighting. .

So, next, the boss squeezed them very severely for more than N performances a day, which seemed very suspicious of revenge.

Dean also smiled and said, "As long as everyone is happy."

Although Dean said it with a smile, the premise is that there is black air rising from behind Dean sitting in the audience.Although he couldn't see it, Dean, who has exceptionally good hearing, naturally heard the whole play, and the 1% similarity with his own script, I don't know if it is an overestimate.

And this directly caused Gray to be particularly depressed and depressed in the next few days, and then Gray, who had been taking care of Dean very much, was even more attentive to Dean.

When they went back, Natsu and Gray both looked very haggard, and crawled out of the theater door limply;

Lucy was quite normal, and together with Dean waved to the tearful boss standing behind the door;

But Elsa looked radiant, and seemed to be particularly satisfied with the actor's experience this time.

"Dean! Do you really want to leave! What will I do if you leave!"

Seeing that Dean was leaving, the boss said with tears in his eyes, biting his handkerchief, although he knew that this expression was invisible to Dean.

"If I... the boss, I will definitely meet a better screenwriter."

Dean seemed a little guilty, after all, he wanted to leave here.

"I don't want it! I just want you! I can't live without you!"

The boss flew over and hugged Dean's thigh in pain. The crying sound seemed abnormal and sad.

"……But……"

Dean also seemed a little shaken.

"Stop acting! You've already made a lot of money for so many days, so it's not difficult to hire a screenwriter."

Gray looked at the client who was crying and was still rubbing against Dean's pants. He went up and grabbed the boss by the back of the neck and threw him back to the door. After so many days, it was enough for them to clearly understand the insidiousness of this man. up.

What's more, the lines of these two people... Is it a bit too exaggerated.

"You are so cruel and stupid! How can you use such a mere money to measure the importance of Dean to me!"

The short man standing at the door had a very angry expression, as if he wanted to provoke Dean and their relationship.

"Okay, stop talking to him, let's go quickly."

Naz was getting impatient. After staying in this theater for so many days, he had already begun to lose his temper.

"Dean, I, I..."

The boss stood at the door, continued to bite his handkerchief, and stared at Dean with tears in his eyes.

Hearing the boss's voice, Dean sighed, then walked over, leaned over and whispered something in the boss's ear, but the boss immediately ignored Dean after hearing it, and showed a very excited expression instead. , excitedly rushed to the theater.

"Dean, what did you tell him?"

Lucy looked suspiciously at the owner who suddenly ran back to the theater excitedly. Didn't he just cry like he was dying?It really is acting...

"This is a secret between me and the boss."

And Dean didn't look like he wanted to answer, but said with a mysterious face.

Because of going back to the Fairy Tail guild, Lucy completely remodeled Dean's outfit early in the morning.

He changed the worn-out clown suit and put on a white shirt with a dark blue windbreaker on it, fully showing his slender figure.

In addition, the hairstyle was trimmed by the Protoss Cancer, the overly long bangs were cut off, and the handsome face was immediately revealed. Although Dean did not open his eyes, it did not damage the overall handsome image at all, so that Lucy looked Looking at Dean like this, he even felt his heart beating faster.

"not comfortable?"

When he got on the train, he looked at Dean leaning over his shoulder, Gray asked with concern, and then caught a glimpse of Natsu lying on the seat with a bruised face, not Dean and Natsu The same means of transportation are dizzy.

"No, it's just weird."

Dean shook his head, stretched out a hand along Gray's arm and touched Gray's hand, holding his hands tightly, feeling the cold temperature on his hands.

"..."

Gray looked at the intertwined hands and frowned. After all, he felt that the two men holding hands seemed disgusting, and he felt even more stressed under the focused and shining gaze of Lucy and Happy.However, thinking of Dean's words, he still didn't shake off Dean's hand, after all...

"Finally we can be together with Gray!"

There was obvious joy and excitement in Dean's voice, and there was a bright smile on the corner of his mouth, which made people want to see if there would be more brilliant colors in those eyes if they opened them.

"Definitely have a leg!"

"Love!"

Gray was silent, looking at the more exaggerated eyes of Happy and Lucy on the opposite side, he naturally knew where this person and cat were thinking.But he still pulled his hand out of Dean's with some unease, and then just stroked the boy's hair.

After Dean felt the temperature in his hands disappear, the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually disappeared. He lowered his head and clasped his hands, but there were a few red marks on the back of his hands.

"what happened?"

Gray pulled one of the boy's hands, frowning and looking at the few red marks on the back of the hand.

"Grey, do you think I... I, I will try not to bother you, as long as..."

Dean said, his voice was slightly low, and if he listened carefully, he still trembled slightly, but he didn't say the second half of the sentence, he just lowered his head.

"Don't think about it, I will take care of you."

Gray tapped Dean's head with his fist, and he naturally knew what Dean's second sentence was.

In fact, Dean has been like this since he was a child. He is a little cowardly and timid, and he is particularly sensitive to other people's attitudes, but he also likes to rely on others because of this, just like he used to rely on himself all the time, but on the other hand, he was always afraid that he would become I was dragged down, so I always pretended to be happy and strong.

Ulu also once said that this child is so sensible that people feel distressed.

"I always feel that Gray is so gentle when he meets Dean..."

"Love!"

"...You can speak louder."

Gray's face was dark, and he looked like he was whispering, but the voices were Lucy and Happy, who could be heard by everyone.Does he have a problem being nice to his people?

When we arrived at the Fairy Tail guild, everyone warmly welcomed Dean. Although Dean didn't join the guild because he didn't have magic, everyone also welcomed Dean as a guest every day.

And Dean justifiably lived in Gray's house, but Gray obviously had to take on the mission. For safety's sake, it was better to let Dean stay at home or send him to the guild.

But every time, when he opened the door and was about to go out, seeing Dean sitting on the sofa alone with his head bowed silently, he suddenly felt a headache, as if he seemed to have done something heinous.

So as long as it wasn't a particularly dangerous person, Gray would take Dora and Dean out with him, but he would definitely put Dean in a safe place during a fight.

"Dean, I've got my bathrobe and something, let's go to the hot spring."

After the task, after Lucy's proposal, they went to the Impatiens Village to soak in the hot springs together, and Gray opened the door to look at Dean who was making the bed.

"Grey is really looking more and more like a nanny."

"Love!"

"You guys are enough..."

Gray looked at Happy and Lucy, who were whispering again, and looked at him and Dean with strange but extremely burning eyes every time along the way, but is there anything wrong with taking care of a younger brother?

"I don't need it, you go."

The boy kneeling on the ground was making the bed, smoothing the folds of the bed with his hands.

"Why, Dean! It's hard to take a hot spring, of course we all want to go together."

Lucy looked at Dean puzzled, then walked over and pulled Dean up.

"I really won't go, I, I'm afraid of water..."

Dean took a few steps back and waved his hands quickly, looking a little nervous.

"Soaking in the hot spring is really comfortable, we must go together."

Lucy held Dean, obviously not going to let Dean escape so easily, no matter what, she must let Dean try the hot spring.

"Don't go, definitely don't go!"

And when Dean felt that Lucy was pulling him hard, he immediately pushed hard in the opposite direction.

"Ah! Gray! Put me down!"

Then suddenly someone hugged his waist, his head was dizzy, the gravity seemed to be reversed suddenly, and he was hung on his shoulders. This upside-down posture was really uncomfortable.

"Dean! Gray! You are so slow!"

When they arrived at the men's hot spring, Naz was already swimming freely in the vast hot spring, obviously looking very leisurely, his face was a little red.

"Dean, take off your clothes quickly."

When he said this, Gray had already finished taking off his clothes quickly. After all, the title of exhibitionist was not earned for nothing, and the speed of undressing naturally was not comparable to that of ordinary people.

"No, soak, warm, spring."

But this time Dean seemed to be particularly determined.

"If you throw me in the water... I, I, I'll have pictures of Natsu all over your house."

Seeming to see Gray's next move, Dean took a few steps back, and then uttered a rare threatening word.But I have to say that this sentence is quite threatening.

"Forget it, forget it if you don't want to take a bath, then go and put on your bathrobe, do you know how to get back?"

Gray looked a little helpless, and then threw the bathrobe into Dean's hands. He found that sometimes he really couldn't hold back Dean.

"Ah."

Dean grabbed the bathrobe in his hand and nodded. With a good memory, he could naturally return to the previous room by the same route.

"Oh, I've come here! Naturally, I have to take a good bath in the hot spring!"

And Naz looked at Dean who was about to go back with a bathrobe, ran up from the hot spring, and threw himself on Dean with a smile. His body wet Dean's clothes all at once, and Naz It even started to tear up Dean's clothes.

"..."

Gray stood aside and looked at Natsu, who was picking Dean's clothes, and he didn't have any objections. He thought it would be nice to take a rare hot spring to relax, but is Dean afraid of water?He really can't remember.

"Grey."

"……Um?"

Gray, who was already soaking in the hot spring, heard Natsu's voice, turned around to look at the boy with pink hair, but felt that Natsu's voice was so serious.

"Didn't you find out?"

Naz turned his head and looked at Gray with a gloomy expression, as if there was still suppressed anger in his eyes.

"what are you talking about?"

Gray frowned, and walked out of the water, looking at Naz's gloomy expression, he didn't understand what he meant, but seeing that Dean was facing away from him, his body trembled a little, as if he was trying to button the button.

And Natsu frowned tightly, grabbed Dean's wrist, and made him turn around to face Gray.

Seeing a part of Dean's exposed chest, Gray was startled, his pupils tightened suddenly, and he looked at that piece of Dean's naked skin in disbelief.

And Dean's body trembled slightly, his head was lowered, his right hand couldn't break free from Naz's hand, so he could only use his left hand to quickly pull his neckline, as if he didn't want anyone to see him.

"How is this going?"

Gray took a few steps forward, pulled Dean's hand, and unbuttoned all the shirt buttons, his voice was a little hoarse, with suppressed anger and other mixed emotions.

"Isn't it ugly?"

Dean stopped using his hands, and he swayed decadently by his side, lowering his head.

The boy's body is not white and flawless, but covered with scars, various scars, whips, knife wounds, burns, and many unrecognizable scars, but just seeing these is enough Know what kind of life Dean has lived.

And the scariest scar is a wound that spreads from the chest to the abdomen. Such a sinuous and hideous scar looks terrifying, as if a knife was used to cut the skin from the chest to the bottom. Even if you see it, They all felt terrified, although it wasn't him, but he still seemed to be able to imagine the unbearable pain.

"Aren't you a member of his clan! Didn't you go to him after that! Didn't you know this kind of cruel thing until now!"

Natsu immediately became angry, and threw a punch at Gray, and Gray was sent flying to the building of the hot spring, and made a muffled sound in pain, but he didn't resist, nor did he reply angrily like usual.

Naz's hand was on fire, and he regarded all the people in the guild as important partners. He absolutely could not bear that his partner was subjected to such cruel injuries, and... as a clan member and a person who existed like an older brother Gray, but didn't notice it at all.

Gray staggered over from the water, wiped off the blood from his mouth, but kept staring at Dean who lowered his head.

He thought, or wishful thinking, that Dean had been doing well, if that was the case