Cancer is always pound of his hair-cutting skills and gives girls a great haircut is the thing he enjoys doing the most.
But when the one who is receiving his service now is the famous Titania of Fairy Tail, he feels unusually stressful to cut hair for the first time.
It's not because the red-headed woman is demanding on her hairstyle. On the contrary, her request is pretty simple; "cut the hair to shoulder length" is all she said when he asked her how she wanted her hair be cut.
The pressure comes exclusively from a certain blue haired man who is watching him doing his job from behind. Every time the blades of his scissors touch a strand of scarlet tresses which shortens the length of Titania's hair by some inches, he feels as if holes are being bored on his back by the piercing glare from the former Ten Wizard Saint.
From the reflection in the mirror, Erza notices Cancer nervously turns his head to the side from time to time while cutting her hair, sweat rolls down from his forehand. She smiles knowingly.
"Don't mind him. He won't attack you. Just focus on what you are doing."
"O-okay!"
Cancer takes a deep breath and speeds up the moves of his scissors. He is a professional and should not be distracted by others when doing his job! Having said that, he is still aware that the glare from behind is intensifying follows every cut at the scarlet hair.
"Done!" Cancer announces after five minutes.
Erza looks at her new image in the mirror and smiles satisfactorily.
"Thank you, it's done perfectly."
After Cancer left, Erza turns to face her husband.
"Lucy's nice to let Cancer to give me haircut. It's not very friendly of you to scare him with your menacing glares."
"I'm sorry." Jellal apologizes knowing that he did overreact to Erza's haircut.
Leaving his seat, he walks to his wife and strokes her short locks with his hand.
"I miss your long hair already."
Erza sighed lightly. She misses her long scarlet tresses too, and the feel of Jellal's fingers running through them. But she don't regret for her decision.
"You do remember why I have to cut my hair short, don't you?" Erza places her hand on her pregnant belly with a gentle smile.
"It's easier to take care of short locks with the baby bump, and you won't have time to keep your long hair in good conditions after two months as well, because you shall be fully occupied with taking care of our newborn angel." Jellal repeats what Erza told him two days ago. "Even I offered to wash and dry the long locks for you, you refused to change your mind."
Erza giggles. Her husband is sweet, but she doesn't need him treating her like a helpless child.
"You know, short hair doesn't look that bad on me. You only need some time to get used to it."
"I know." Jellal places a kiss on the crown of Erza's head. "You will always look beautiful with whatever hairstyles in my eyes."
In the meantime, Cancer has returned to his owner's house.
"Can I add one more condition in our contract?"
"What condition?" Lucy looks at Cancer with surprise.
"I will only give haircut to people when their other half is not present."
