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Passionate Mages and Punkish Musicians, Part 3
Chisato didn't seem concerned with the fact that Lucy and Minami were now giving her confident looks, showing the pink-haired antagonist that they were ready to make this battle be epic like a great guitar solo, and the protagonists watched Chisato unleash her fourth spell. It was simply known as Astral Beam, and Chisato fired this spell straight at Lucy. She smirked evilly while knowing that its effects could be quite dangerous, and the powerful thief would not let the ghostly hands on the battlefield prevent her from stealing the sculpture.
The pink beam was intercepted by four of the purple hands lining up in a row, but the beam merely pierced through them while it kept heading towards Lucy! She ended up getting caught in the blast while it sent Minami sliding back, and Lucy screamed in pain as she felt her legs become twisted. She opened her eyes for a moment to see her purple hands start to twist and bend crazily, as that was the secondary effect of Astral Beam, and Lucy screamed as she felt some of the bones in her legs twist while others began to get snapped. Her arms were damaged just as badly, being twisted up to where her muscles felt extreme pain, and this was definitely a tough fight.
As Chisato was about to activate her fifth spell, Minami went over to Lucy's side and placed her hands on her friend's stomach. A pink aura surrounded Minami's hands while she used a move called Heaven's Healing, and Minami smiled in an excited manner as the same pink aura began to engulf Lucy's body. Minami watched Lucy's body began to perfectly heal to where she could stand up, her arms and legs returning to their natural states, and Lucy felt totally revitalized by that move. She jumped up for a moment to see that she could jump somewhat higher, and that was a nice side effect.
Chisato was not intending to back down, and she would definitely make this fight be more intense. The antagonist decided to use her fifth spell, and it was known as Astral Punch. This spell was going to send the enemy flying while the heavenly energy would surround them, before viciously exploding, and it allowed Chisato to run at extremely high speeds. She was now going to fight Lucy directly with heavenly energy surrounding her right fist, as long-range combat didn't seem to be giving an advantage to either side, and it seemed like close combat would keep Lucy from being able to read any spells.
"You're about to lose against me, you dolt! There's no way that you can match my speed!" Chisato exclaimed to Lucy in an arrogant manner, as there was now little distance between them.
Lucy replied as she smiled confidently, springing up high at the last second while Minami went behind her, "You're absolutely right, Chisato. I may not be able to block you, but I can still jump! This is good preparation for the Grand Magic Games!"
Minami added as she confidently grinned, before headbutting Chisato quite harshly, "For someone who focuses with psychic powers, you should be able to foresee a distraction!"
Lucy smiled with the utmost confidence while watching Minami's headbutt make Chisato hold her head in pain like she was now having a migraine, and the blonde-haired girl unleashed her next spell of Darkness Magic. It was simply called Shadow Claw, and Lucy held the purple book in her right hand while her left hand temporarily turned into a purple claw that looked ghostly. The purple text in the book for this spell informed Lucy that she needed to slash down at her opponent, which she proceeded to do with a fierce amount of force, and something interesting occurred.
Chisato could only look up at her in an annoyed manner, wondering what Lucy just did, and the lower half of her pink jacket was suddenly slashed off! She felt three harsh slashes against her stomach, causing her to scream in agonizing pain, and blood trickled down from her wounds. Chisato put her right hand against her stomach to feel that these wounds were not only painful, but they were also quite hot. That spell of Darkness Magic had the same amount of heat that was wielded by the purple flames, and Chisato could only fall to her knees while seeing steam sizzle out of the wounds.
Yukata was quite amazed to see that Lucy was able to fight evenly with Chisato, as Heavenly Body Magic was always said to be pretty powerful, and the female with black hair could feel the immense power in the dark magic that Lucy wielded. She actually felt like stepping in to help Chisato fight against Minami and Lucy, but Yukata also felt like the slightest loss of her grip on Kiriko would allow the artist to try getting the Astral Sculpture back. Yukata could only watch the battle with an amazed facial expression, and she was certainly seeing the ferocious power of Sabertooth.
Kiriko also felt amazed to see the girls fighting so hard, and she was now surprised at the sight of Chisato getting up to strike Minami with several punches. Despite the fact that Minami was stepping back and blocking all of Chisato's strong punches, Kiriko was intrigued by the sight of the guitarist purposely stretching out her hands every five seconds for Chisato to hit them in a rhythm. The punches slamming against Minami's hands sounded like a rhythm of one, two, three before the rocker would put her arms back down by her sides. Minami would stretch them out again, and she kept repeating this unorthodox idea of making a rhythm with Chisato's punches.
"What in the world is Minami doing?" Lucy asked aloud while looking curious, as Minami began taking some steps forward and pushed Chisato back several feet.
Minami told Chisato in a calm manner, smiling with delight as the antagonist started punching her hands again, "That's right. Just keep trying to hit me."
At first, Lucy and Kiriko could not understand why Minami was just blocking Chisato's attacks and making a rhythm occur. As Kiriko began to recall how Minami once started off a song quite quickly in a battle between guitarists and strummed the electric guitar with a high amount of speed, she soon widened her eyes at this stunning realization. Just like how Minami would play notes on her guitar to make awesome rhythms, she was doing the same thing in this situation to set the pace of the battle. She was making Chisato get caught in her pace, causing her to no longer control the flow of this battle, and that was amazing.
Lucy noticed how Chisato began to slow down with her punches, starting to not be in tune with Minami's fast rhythm of raising her hands up, and she watched Minami use the Heavenly Healing spell on herself. After quickly healing, the aspiring rocker dealt a powerful punch to Chisato's cheek at fast speeds. Just like how it was good to make an opponent be caught in a rhythm, it was also good to throw them off with a fast move that would probably change the rhythm. Kiriko may have seen Minami as a punk, but she was certainly a musician who knew how to make a battle flow well like a great rock song.
Meanwhile, in the main art gallery...
Rogue and Kira had reached the main art gallery to surprisingly discover that all the paintings were still on the walls, along with all of the sculptures remaining on their white podiums, but the mages knew that they had to look around the entire room to see if any innocent people were tied up or hiding somewhere. If any civilians in the museum had heard the sounds of explosions coming from the basement, Rogue would sternly tell them to leave. He wasn't going to let anyone get hurt, especially because of how his job as a Sabertooth wizard was to protect people from danger.
Kira smiled a bit while she could see a brown door that blended in well with the coffee brown walls, and that door actually led to the small lounge for workers. All of the exhibits actually had lounge rooms where some people chose to relax, and the lounges were also useful for hiding. Kira walked towards the closet door while not even being afraid of what she would possibly find in there, and she smiled with lots of confidence. If any accomplices of the thieves were going to burst out of the closet in an attempt to scare the two mages, Kira would just knock them out with a fiery attack that would be quite swift.
Rogue watched Kira go towards the door that was on the left side of the art gallery, and he narrowed his eyes as he was ready to fight with his Shadow Dragon Slayer Magic. Kira placed her hand on the white doorknob, before turning it to the left side, and she opened up the door to find five of the museum's staff members tied up while white clothes were around their mouths to keep them from speaking. They were tied up by iron ropes that had been made from a certain fake curator's magic that involved metal, and the workers gave Kira frightened looks. They must've thought she was a thief, but they would be proven wrong.
The merchant with red hair calmly spat out some small flames, aiming them directly at the steel ropes surrounding the people who wore business suits, and Kira's hazel eyes were filled with joy from seeing the ropes be burnt away quite quickly. When there were breaks in the ropes, the workers were quick to remove them. After all, they did not wish to be engulfed in a large flame that would build up from a smaller flame. Even though Kira had saved their lives, the real curator who had long purple hair wore a pink business suit could only scowl at the mages in frustration.
"What on Earthland took you so long to find us, and are you going to stop the thieves who knocked us out earlier?!" The curator angrily asked Kira, her dark blue eyes filled with anger at how she had not done her job for about five hours now.
Kira responded in a kind manner, smiling as she was somewhat snarky, "Well, we had to eat breakfast and take a train ride to this town. Also, it would've taken longer for us to find you if we looked in the wrong exhibit of the museum. As for stopping the thieves, leave that to our friends."
Rogue added in a relaxed manner, as he shifted his red eyes to the curator, "You should be very happy that we rescued you, but now we must ask you to leave the museum. We don't want any of you to get hurt."
The curator's four other employees wasted no time with running out of the art gallery, panicking as they told each other that leaving was a better option than dying, but the curator herself merely sighed in a somewhat annoyed manner. She felt like Kira and Rogue would soon ask for a great amount of money, but she was saving the seventy-thousand jewels in the left pocket of her pink pants for the mage who took on the task of guard duty. She'd have to hand over that money to Lucy, but what reward would Kira and Rogue receive?
Kira watched the purple-haired curator take out a rectangular white camera from the right pocket of her pants, seeing her arms be stretched forward while she probably wanted to take pictures of any possible damages that were done to the artwork, and the curator scanned the room while she hoped to find some evidence of paintings being defaced. If some sculptures were also broken, then that would be more than enough evidence to put the thieves in jail. The curator also wanted to have them arrested for knocking her out, too.
As she kept looking around the room with her camera, starting to look frustrated at how no artwork was damaged in any way, the curator was startled by the sight of Kira popping up in front of her camera's lens. The quirky girl calmly asked the curator if she would do a nice favor for her, before looking back at Rogue, and Kira happily giggled at what she could do with Rogue in this nice art gallery. It may not have exactly been the fanciest activity to do on what was supposed to be a double date, but this was still going to be pretty fun for Kira.
Rogue watched his friend quickly walk over to a realistic-looking painting of a red plate with pink cookies that were shaped like hearts, and Kira stood on the left side of the portrait. Rogue calmly smiled as he walked over to the painting as well, deciding that he would stand on the other side of the portrait, and he also had to wonder why the museum would accept a painting of cookies. It did look pretty impressive, and the curator felt like the painting was a rather sweet one that could inspire love or make a person think that romance was great like a plate of delicious cookies.
"Smile for the camera, mages." The curator told the duo in a somewhat bored manner, before slightly moving the camera upward to get the entire painting in the photo.
Kira told Rogue in a delighted tone while cutely blushing, "I'm so glad that we'll get to take photos together, Rogue."
He responded nicely as his hands gently reached out to touch hers, "Well, the trip to the museum was your idea. Therefore, we can keep taking photos and check out other exhibits."
As Kira walked over to another painting, liking how it was just a picture of red flames moving through the air, Rogue wondered if Lucy was doing okay in the museum's basement. His enhanced hearing allowed him to hear Sting tap his feet in a calm manner, and Rogue could guess that his best friend only intended on helping Lucy if she actually needed his assistance. Sting was actually feeling confident in her abilities to win that fight, and Kira also believed that Lucy had a good chance to win. Even though Rogue was worried, he still needed to believe in Lucy.
The black-haired male thought about Lucy's Darkness Magic, remembering how she fought so hard against Kyouji to obtain the Requiem Crystal, and that type of magic seemed like a great one to use in the Grand Magic Games. Rogue thought about how Lucy and Kira were both getting stronger, definitely showing that they would be very useful to Sabertooth's team, and he wondered if guilds like Mermaid Heel would also have stronger fighters than last year. After all, anyone who was strong like Kagura would definitely be dangerous to battle against.
Back in the basement...
Chisato ran back to where she originally stood when the fight started, now seeing that even close combat was very dangerous for her in this fight against Lucy, and the antagonist effaced her barrier spell. Lucy had used those ghostly hands as a way of dismantling the barrier, so creating defensive walls could no longer be a reasonable option for Chisato. If this fight was not in her favor, then she'd just have to use her psychic abilities to somewhat rock this battle. She activated a spell known as Heavenly Psi Mind, and it caused her eyes to once again become pink.
Some pink orbs appeared near the ceiling, before suddenly disappearing, and that certainly made Lucy gasp with curiosity. Why would a spell just disappear like that? The Celestial Spirit Wizard perceived it to merely be a spell that wasn't executed properly, and she pulled out the key of Aries from the left pocket of her yellow jean shorts. Her keys were in the same pocket as her little bag of money, and Lucy had been so focused with the book that she nearly forgot them. Lucy happily opened the Gate of The Ram, summoning the pink-haired Celestial Spirit, and that certainly surprised everyone.
Aries blushed while looking quite shy, hoping that her wool would not be too fluffy, and she used the spell known as Wool Bomb. Aries made some pink wool appear in her left hand, and she fired it straight at Chisato. Even though the wool quickly headed towards the villain, however, it was suddenly eradicated by the seven pink orbs that came down from the ceiling! Chisato showed her left hand to the protagonists, waving her index finger in a somewhat scolding manner, and seven more pink orbs went up near the ceiling. They soon disappeared, but two of them quickly came down to strike Lucy! A large pink blast of heavenly energy occurred, and Lucy looked quite pained as she screamed.
The smoke cleared up to reveal that Lucy was bruised by the attack, but there was no secondary effect involving spatial distortion that would twist up her body. She instructed Aries to fire off some more Wool Bombs, watching her shoot out five of them, but Lucy took notice of Chisato smirking evilly. The five orbs came down upon the projectiles at high speeds, creating pink blasts that were somewhat larger than before, and the Wool Bombs were once again eradicated. Heavenly Psi Mind was quite a tough attack to deal with, and the trick to figuring out how it worked was somewhat vague.
Lucy thought to herself in a frustrated manner, as she saw the pink orbs repeat their process of going back towards the ceiling, "It's no good. Those pink orbs keep intercepting our attacks, and they strike at such odd intervals. It's so unpredictable."
Chisato asked Lucy in a rude tone, before putting her left hand under her chin and laughing, "Isn't the air graciously filled with heavenly energy? Should I send more of it into my orbs?"
Lucy was about to respond, but the sight of some purple acid bubbling in the crater from earlier made her start to think. If Chisato was charging up the air with heavenly energy, didn't acid make something also be in the air when it exploded? This was a somewhat crazy idea, but Darkness Magic itself proved to be quite crazy. Lucy began to frown while she instructed Aries to send a Wool Bomb down into the pool of acid, and she watched the kind spirit send the attack into the bubbling goop. The pink wool went down into acid, before floating up, and it had turned purple!
Aries quickly picked up the wool that was surprisingly absorbing the acid, due to the spirit's power getting stronger in conjunction with Lucy getting stronger, and she threw it straight at Chisato. The pink orbs came down once again, creating an extremely large pink blast of energy, but the smoke was now purple while it also smelled putrid like poison. Spells involving acid were normally in the category of Poison Magic, but that acid was part of a darkness-based spell. Even though the acid was a good way to psych out a user of psychic attacks, Lucy hadn't even used her sixth spell yet.
It was known as Dark Silhouette, and this move caused Lucy's shadow to stretch out in front of her. It soon rose up while turning purple, matching the silhouette of Lucy, and this spell headed towards Chisato at high speeds. It surprisingly took all the poisonous smoke into its hands, absorbing the delicious toxicity of that power, and the silhouette slammed into the antagonist with a fierce amount of power! A purple explosion of Darkness Magic occurred while a woman's evil laughter could once again be heard, and this silhouette spell was also capable of taking in other spells of Darkness Magic. That's how it could absorb the acid while feeling like it had a delicious meal, and this Darkness Magic was certainly unpredictable.
Chisato's eyes became cherry red again while feeling like she had a headache, and she was amazed to discover that Lucy found out Heavenly Psi Mind's trick. Chisato simply used this spell after other heavenly attacks for it to absorb the Heavenly Body Magic that was in the air. Charging up the orbs with that energy could make each attack be worse than the last, but Chisato's spell fell apart when the acid bubbles exploded to make their poisonous energy burn away the heavenly energy with their heat. That Darkness Magic certainly had the heat of hell, and Lucy could see why Kyouji enjoyed using those dark flames.
"This fight is going to end right now!" Chisato fiercely stated, as she formed a small cross with the index and middle fingers of her hands to cast her final spell.
Lucy replied in a stern tone while knowing that she was on her final spell as well, "I'm going to defeat you, and the sculpture will be safe! Just like any artist, I'll show off the skills that are involved with my aspirations!"
Minami thought to herself as she looked at Chisato's stance for the spell, knowing that they both used it, "What?! Is Chisato seriously going to use that?! She's making the hand sign for the spell's berserk form!"
Lucy sent Aries back to the Celestial Spirit Worldwhile she decided to activate the spell known as Darkness Reira Migron, and this was the move Kyouji hadn't used. This spell caused six purple crescent moons to appear around Chisato in a hexagonal formation, the violet aura engulfing them as it began to shine beautifully like moonlight, and the crescent moons propelled themselves towards the pink-haired villain! They were going to strike Chisato at high speeds, but she could only smirk while getting ready to unleash her final attack. As Chisato was about to fire her attack, however, Minami intercepted it by making her index and middle fingers point downward in an 'X' formation.
The guitarist made a pink sphere of Heavenly Body Magic appear in her left hand, charging it up to where three smaller spheres were now orbiting it, and she harshly threw it at Chisato. The powerful thief was surprised to see that attack heading her way, causing her to stretch out her left arm to catch it with her hand, and Chisato aggressively threw the attack at Lucy! It seemed like both of these powerful attacks were going to make the girls be knocked out, since they contained massive amounts of power, but which attack would strike first?
Lucy's spell struck Chisato first with full force, creating six massive blasts that were purple, and the antagonist let out a scream of agony from how this spell was quite painful. Its heat was intense as well, making burns be on Chisato's arms and legs, and she was sent flying back against the wall that was close to the pedestal. Minami's spell that Chisato threw had struck Lucy in the stomach, creating seven massive blasts of heavenly energy that were pink, and Lucy screamed in extreme pain from feeling the attack's power. It felt quite panful, even making Lucy cough up some blood, and she opened her eyes for a moment to see Chisato cough up blood as well. Lucy also ended up hitting the stone wall behind wall, before sliding down, but she managed to stay on her knees.
Yukata and Kiriko looked at Chisato to see that her clothes were torn from the blast while she was only left in a pink shirt and some red shorts, and the women could also see that Lucy's clothes were somewhat torn while her Rainbow Crystals had all fallen on the ground. Her keys and the small bag of jewels fell on the ground as well, but Lucy still held on to the book. Minami ran to Lucy's side for the purpose of healing her, being somewhat surprised from seeing Lucy attempt to stand up, and she looked over at Chisato to see the sight of her making the briefcase containing the Astral Sculpture calmly float down to the ground as she passed out from being wounded quite badly.
15 minutes later...
After Lucy was fully healed, she found herself being able to stand up without any problems. The mage from Sabertooth picked up her Rainbow Crystals and the Celestial Spirit Keys, putting them back in their respective pockets, but Lucy unfortunately noticed that the explosion made her small bag of jewels be quite charred. That was certainly a bummer, as Lucy wanted to use the twenty-thousand jewels to buy food for herself and her friends, and she'd probably have to pay for how the museum's basement was now wrecked as well.
The pillars had been turned to rubble while the stone walls had cracks in them, some of the rocks becoming gravel from getting caught in the blasts, and the heat even burnt away some of the paintings. Lucy was about to walk away, not caring that Sting and the others finally decided to come down to the basement and check out the situation, but she was soon stopped by Kiriko sternly telling her to wait. Minami also instructed Lucy to not leave, as some other matters still needed to be settled, and Lucy walked over to the pink-haired guitarist as she looked curious.
All of the smoke began to fade away while Minami decided to open up the briefcase, smiling as she did not forget that Lucy would get her chance to see the sculpture, and Minami hoped that Lucy would be quite proud of the artwork. Minami lifted up the top part of the briefcase for Lucy to see that the Astral Sculpture was on a pink cushion, and Lucy gasped in awe from seeing that the base of the sculpture was well-made in the shape of a star. There were five pillars as well, one on each corner of the star, and those pillars had small stars standing on top of them. The Astral Sculpture itself had been made from melting down many large pink pearls and molding their gooey substance to create the sculpture, and Minami also let the sculpture cool down in a freezer for a while to make the material harden.
Lucy also noticed that the base of this small sculpture appeared to have a rhombus-shaped spot that was filled up by a certain pink object that perfectly fit into it, and that was obviously the Rainbow Crystal. Minami actually carved that spot into the sculpture with a knife, and she thought that it looked pretty cool. Even though Lucy wanted the crystal, she smiled softly while feeling like she couldn't just take it out of the artwork. After all, wouldn't a sculpture look bad with a piece missing? As Lucy was about to explain to Minami that she didn't want the crystal, the guitarist turned her head to face the strange pedestal that she had glanced at earlier.
"Let's see why Chisato probably had her mind focused on the pedestal. I wonder what's it for." Minami said aloud to herself, before gently picking up the sculpture and walking over to the circular pedestal while Yukata frowned at her in a frustrated manner.
Kiriko exclaimed with a concerned look on her face, hoping the rocker would not get hurt, "Be careful, Minami!"
Sting commented with a calm smile on his face, as he folded his arms, "I didn't expect the Astral Sculpture to be the size of something you could put on a desk, but this should be exciting."
Minami placed the Astral Sculpture's star-shaped base into the pedestal's hollow spot that was also shaped like a star while it was the same size as the sculpture's base, and it easily fit into the pedestal. Minami quickly stepped back from seeing the pink crystal begin to glow cutely, watching it possibly send its power down into the pedestal, and Lucy went over to Minami's side while hearing the wall behind the pedestal experience soft sounds of crumbling. Putting the star key into the pedestal must've triggered some kind of switch, and the heavenly energy was going to reveal the pedestal's secret.
The stone wall behind the statue began to emit pink beams of light that were small while they formed the shape of a large star in the center of the wall, and everyone besides Chisato observed that part of the wall break apart to reveal a pink treasure chest that was quite large. This was quite a surprise to everyone, especially Minami, and the guitarist with emerald green eyes quickly ran over to the large treasure chest. She got it out of the star-shaped spot, liking how it felt quite happy, and it was pretty nice for the protagonist to find some treasure.
Despite having the urge to open the treasure chest, however, Minami went back to Lucy's side while giving her a pretty confident smile. As much as Minami would like the chance to be rich, she felt like Lucy was the person who rightfully earned the treasure. After all, she did manage to beat Heavenly Body Magic. There was something else that Minami would need to give Lucy as well, and even Chisato would probably agree that Lucy earned it. The battle was amazing, as Lucy proved to be quite a clever mage with lots of strength, and her style of battling somewhat brought back Minami's memories of how she used to fight when she was a Fairy Tail wizard.
As Minami gave Lucy a great grin of satisfaction, she also saw Yukata release Kiriko from the strong headlock. The orange-haired artist wasted no time with excitedly exclaiming that the battle was one of the best she had ever witnessed, even saying that it felt like Lucy fought as if she was cleverly painting a picture of Darkness Magic's fierce beauty, and Kiriko even brought up how Minami was quite smart to give Chisato a spell that would distract her from activating the one she initially intended to use against Lucy. Minami took a few steps towards the Astral Statue while feeling pretty happy about this day, and she'd also give Lucy one more nice present.
"Well, Lucy, you totally rocked in that battle! Every spell you used with some smart twists felt just as awesome as my epic guitar solos, and you battled like you were playing an electric guitar with headbanging involved to get the crowd cheering your name! Since Chisato can't give it to you, I'm totally giving you the Starry Crystal for rocking out pretty well against the Heavenly Body Magic!" Minami told her while looking pretty proud, before comically jamming out on an air guitar and singing about Lucy being a total rocker.
Lucy asked Minami in a concerned tone, not wanting her sculpture to miss a piece, "Are you sure that the crystal shouldn't be in the Astral Sculpture? Wouldn't it look weird?"
Minami countered her statement in a calm manner, continuing to smile, "It was a hollow spot before I put the crystal in there, so it's no big deal."
The user of Heavenly Body Magic gently took the Starry Crystal out of the Astral Sculpture, before going back to Lucy for the purpose of placing it in her right hand, and Minami watched Lucy look down at the pink crystal with a smile of amazement on her face. She now had the seventh Rainbow Crystal, which was actually the last one in the ancient challenge, and this meant that Lucy was now a wizard who could say she collected all of the crystals. Getting the other six crystals was certainly no easy task, as Lucy certainly did deal with a difficult road of challenges, and that road finally reached its end.
Lucy could only cheer happily while exclaiming that she got the Starry Crystal, causing Sting and Kira to also let out cheers of happiness, and Kiriko simply closed her eyes while giving Lucy a gentle applause. The Sabertooth mages were now finished with collecting the Rainbow Crystals, but what could they now look forward to? Their past adventures had been exciting, knowing that every crystal made the rewards be even better, and new jobs would probably not have the same degree of excitement. Despite that, however, Sting and Lucy would not be disappointed.
As Lucy was about to tell Minami that she enjoyed working with her, the loud growling of her stomach certainly got everyone's attention. Minami chuckled a bit while remembering that she still hadn't given Lucy any food to apologize for starting a fight with her in the park, and revealing that aloud had made Kiriko look at her with a stern facial expression. Minami closed her eyes while thinking she was going to get another lecture, along with being seen as a stupid punk who started trouble, but what happened next was quite nice.
"If you hadn't met Lucy, then you still would've been stupid. You showed off your love for rhythm and music, just like how I show off my passion for art. I'm proud of you, Minami. You did your job well." Kiriko told her in a calm manner as she smiled.
The guitarist responded nicely while chuckling, realizing that Kiriko now respected her, "Wow, you've stopped referring to me as a punk."
Yukata looked over at Chisato, who was still badly wounded, and the black-haired thief did not want her friend to die. She watched Minami surprisingly turn to face Chisato, before hitting her with a pink beam of Heavenly Body Magic, and that was another healing spell that could make a person fully recover. Yukata smiled as she watched the powerful thief start to stand up, before she grabbed Yukata's left hand, and Chisato sent Heavenly Body Magic down to her feet. She frowned while getting ready to run out of the museum at high speeds, refusing to be arrested by the mages, but the villain simply gave Lucy a stern look while her last words to her were that they would meet again someday.
Lucy would certainly keep that in mind, and she watched the thieves hurriedly leave the basement. No one intended on chasing after them, since they were all pretty hungry, and Minami decided that she could go upstairs to retrieve her large bag of food that was near the museum's entrance. As she was about to get the sculpture and put it back in the briefcase, however, Lucy extended her left hand to Minami. She thanked the guitarist for helping her out, and Minami confidently wished her good luck for the Grand Magic Games. Minami shook Lucy's left hand while calmly saying that she once knew a barmaid who used Darkness Magic, and Lucy kindly told her that she also knew someone like that. (Just a nice little Easter Egg that I decided to include.)
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