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Laxus and Mirajane sat at a table. The man they met earlier made them a cup of coffee each. The girl smiled which he returned. He then sat with them.
"My name is Zeref," he introduced himself as he saw Mirajane's confused face. He stretched his hand out to her.
"Mirajane Strauss." She took it.
"I can't believe you found me." He chuckled. "I'm sorry I don't know both of you." The girl smiled while nodded slightly.
"I hope you aware of what happened in the organization." Laxus started putting his point.
Zeref's face changed. He was heard sighed.
"Are you new?" Laxus raised his brow.
"No, I'm not a part of it," he replied when he knew his meant.
"Then why are you here?" he asked.
"Because a lot of things happened after you left. And after Metalicana left."
"Who are you? You're not a part of the organization, you said. Then, why you're so concern about it?" he asked again. Laxus stared into his eyes.
"I'm Jellal's friend," he answered, after a long pause.
He stared to his mug.
"There's nothing I can do. I'm not one of them anymore." Zeref stood up, carried his mug into the kitchen.
"Corruption is happening in the organization." Laxus stood too. "You were their leader once. You could go back and turn things the way they were."
Zeref turned around, looked straight into the teacher's eyes.
"You think so?" he asked. "Do you really think I could go back and continue things I left?" He chuckled when Laxus had no answer to his question. "I lost my position as their leader when I chose to leave. Now everything depends on new leader."
"Things were alright when Metalicana was there. Now he was no longer here. To let Jellal carry the responsibility, he's too soft. And Ivan…I don't think he fit being the right one," he explained.
"I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do."
Laxus sighed.
"I tried not to drag this in, but…They set their eyes on Mavis."
Zeref shocked. Mirajane too.
"Miss Mavis?" Mirajane asked.
"They haven't done anything. I don't know their real intention. I hope they didn't mean harm."
Zeref's face changed. He obviously worried.
"How'd you find me?" he asked.
"Hibiki," Laxus answered fast.
"Hibiki?" he asked back, a little confused.
"He hacked into Mavis' mailbox and traced you from there. It quite hard to find you, a computer expert. But you had one great student."
Zeref sat back on his chair. He looked slightly broken.
"I still think that everyone wants you back," Laxus added.
Zeref stood up again and disappeared into a room. A few minutes later he returned.
"Take this." He put a black hard disk on the table. "They should know about this thing."
However, Laxus pushed it back to him.
"Why don't you give them yourself?"
Zeref turned his face away.
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