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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="19088c4650ee42ce8053d6bb53dad192"Fuyuko looked over at Laxus, "I lost my legs when I was around six years old, after awhile I mastered how to make legs from my ice magic, it's a kind of ice make magic I read about once... if I overreact or show any extreme emotion they melt... and I need to wait a month before they are able to work like normal legs again. I don't want your pity. What happened is what happened."/p
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