After the the Eisenwald incident wasting his time, he went straight back to the guild to get a few jobs.
He picked a job that pays nice and will most likely take him a few days to complete.
A few days later after a series of hard ships he comes back to the guild to report of his success but he is also shocked to learn that Erza is being put on trial for the damages caused during the Eisenwald incident.
Anyway since he also took part (very small part) in damages he thought he might as well attend the trial.
After reporting the success of his job he heads out and no one tries to stop him.
Since he has been so distant and cool to every body they just thought nothing of it, he comes and goes all the time after reporting the success of his mission.
He rarely ever interacts with anyone so the guild master thought he is highly unlikely to go to the magic council and caused trouble and he has one of the most complain free recoreds ever in fairy tail.
That last is part is probably thanks to Kroenen escaping before anyone sees him any where near those messes.
Anyway he attends the trial hoping to see how they do things in this world and has no intention of intervening what so ever.
It not like he could do much anyway as the council is filled with world class magicians armed with powerful magic and armies of powerful wizards.
It would be useless and wouldn't accomplished anything.
The trial started.
Erza caught sight of him as she was dragged before the stand, she didn't show any signs if emotion in her face as the trial proceeded
But before the trial could continue an explosion rings out, it came from the door.
The door was blasted open and there stood Natsu dressed very fakely as Erza, Natsu then very fakely protended to as Erza trying to make the council think that he was the real Erza and that they got the wrong one.
At this moment a huge slaping sound rang throw out the hall, if one traced back where the sound came from one could see that it originated from a man with a gas mask face palming.
Kroenen face palm seeing Natsu like this.
'did you really think that you'd be fooling any body like that?' he cursed as he also feels very embarrassed being in the same guild as him.
Kroenen suddenly appears behind Natsu and knocks him out before he does anything more to ruin the reputation of the guild or worse bring more troble to the guild.
The guards came and arrested Natsu and unfortunately even though he wasn't part of this mess he also got arrested to.
They got throw in to the dungeon with Erza.
Erza meanwhile angrily stared at them or more specifically Natsu for interupting the proceedings.
And as soon as Natsu wakes up he got scolded by Erza and he got scolded some more for dragging Kroenen in to all this.
Needless to the so this trial is nothing more that a show, they would be releast the next day with almost no consequence what so ever.
Kroenen thinks that this is due to Fairy tail being a powerful guild, that's why they are being left off so easily.
The next day.
As soon they went back to the guild Natsu challenges Erza to finished their duel.
The result is that Natsu being beaten by Erza in one move.
'it seemed that she leared a few things from me' Kroenen thought seeing a familiar move he used on Natsu when he was younger.
Those times Natsu just wouldn't stop bothering him about his face and every time it ends up with Natsu gotting knocked out, it took a while eventually Natsu got the idea.
As he was thinking that he suddenly got really sleepy.
Then a sudden realization hit him, this type of magic there could only be one.
It's...mystogan.
If he was still in his undead cyborg body, this wouldn't affect him at all as robots and undead don't sleep but in his current fleshy body, he is very much vonerable to such magic.
He then fell alseep as he saw a hooded figure entering the guild hall.
Then he suddenly awakens as if nothing happened.
'I've got to find something deal with such things' he thought as ponders on what he could do to deal with such attacks.
Meanwhile Laxus appears which pisses Natsu greatly.
Well that kind of provado will piss off most people but Kroenen simply doesn't care.
Why should he care about some arrogant guy? Not that he will ever interact with him or work with him anyways.
So Kroenen just ignores him most of the time, if Laxus doesn't bother him then he will return the favor by not bothering him.
Just like now while Laxus is busy bragging about being the strongest in guild, Kroenen on the other hand is seating there very much relaxed, with out a care in the world working on his clockworks inventions.
Besides everyone knows that Gildarts is the strongest in Fairy tail, it's just that he is all ways out meaning everyone is actually figthing for the strongest on the condition he is gone which is quite common.
Meanwhile Natsu is getting bothered by Laxus's arrogant bragging and tries to get to him but fortunately for Natsu, Lzaus is currently on the second floor which is forbidden for anyone not an S rank wizard.
So Makarov stops him as he tries to reach the second floor.
The next day as he was heading towards the guild hoping to find a job that pays nice, he then meets by Mira who is at the door and seems to be waiting for him.
She told him that Natsu has taken an S rank job.
Kroenen just stared at her thinking 'whats that got to do with me'
It seems that Mira read his mind as she continues, she had sent Gray to go fetch them back but she hasn't received any news yet.
Kroenen continues to stares at her like he is saying 'that still has nothing to do with me'
He might sounds like an ass but his not as this is Natsu and Gray we're talking about they always pull this kinds of stunt all the time.
Kroenen is no saint to save them every time they pull this kinds of stunt and in fact they're the ass for making everyone clean up their mess.
Mira then said even though he isn't an S rank wizard offically, that is only because he has never bothered to take the exam and everyone knows it that he would easily pass the test if he should take it.
Mira then hands him a copy of the request and told him to get them back.
Kroenen was about to refused but as soon as saw the reward being 7000000!
He counted the zeros again to make sure that his eyes is not playing tricks on him.
1...2...3..4..5.6 zeros that would make 7 milion!
This is the kind of job he has been waiting for and it's even offered up to him on a sliver plater.
He thought about needing money and at that time Mira comes along with this job, it seems that fate has plans for him.
He accepts the job by nodding and takes the job request along with him, Kroenen of course isn't just going to go there and get them back.
He is going to go there finish the job, get the reward and blame it all on Natsu when he gets back.
He then heads out to this Galuna Island.
But as soon as he reaches the harbor nobody is willing to take him to Galuna Island which lead him to buy a boat and a map.
Fortunately he doesn't have row himself as he summoned his clockwork droid to do that for him so all he has to do his seat back and wait.
Later that day.
it seems that the fates favor him as he arrives on the Island safely and with out a scratch.
Once on the Island he meet Natsu, Gray and Lucy in the strange village inhabited by a diverse group of... Mutants?
"listen here, I'm not going back untill I finish this quest!" Natsu yells out.
But then Kroenen did something unexpected and discussed with them instead how they are going to splite the rewards.
Lucy meanwhile is over reacting about Natsu and Gray acting as if there is nothing wrong with Kroenen how have been sent to get them instead collaborated with them.
The negotiations ended with Kroenen getting 2 million and the rest they splite amongs themselves.
After that he gets filled in the situation and next day they all heads towards the forest to explore.
On the way there they meet a giant rat that used some gas attack which is useless to Kroenen since he is wearing a gas mask that can even fillter out bacterias.
They then discovered some ruins which they explored but thanks to the bone head Natsu they fell to the bottom of the ruin.
At the bottom they discover to their surprising a monster trapped in ice.
But whats more surprising is that Gray seems to know what this creature or Deliora as Gray seems to calls it.
They Gray seems to be freaking out as he stares at the monster incased in ice.
Then they heard voices coming closer so they quickly hid themselves, they saw where those voice originated from.
It came from a dog man and a short guy with blue pine cone hair, then a girl with pink hair comes in and tells them something but since the hidding spot Kroenen choosed is further away, he couldn't hear what they are talking about.
Kroenen assumed she must have told them something important as it made them leave.
As soon as those three left, Gray told them that Deliora was supposed to be in the north and it was frozen by his master Ur which also took her life in the process.
Gray then rambles about making some self proclaim emperor of ice pay as if he is some protagonist in some novel.
'it seems that the fates has also plans for him here' thought Kroenen as the connection between Gray and Deliora is simply to strong for it to be a coincidence.