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Chapter 76: News of Lucy Heartfilia's Fame & Other Stories! The Coronation of Princess Risa Ryusei! Rogue's Surprises! Sting & Lucy's Future Plan!
The news of the real Lucy Heartfilia using all seven legendary rings to defeat the actual Kotomi Takeuchi ended up spreading like wildfire throughout the entire kingdom of Fiore, and the fact that Lucy had been a prominent mage in the Sabertooth guild caused Sabertooth to become much more famous in the days after her victory. The golden request board in the guildhall ended up having many more flyers pinned on it, due to several clients throughout Fiore being very impressed that Lucy was capable of taking down one of the prominent mages who belonged to the dark guild known as Moon Rainbow.
Lucy currently sat down in her bedroom of Risa's house while calmly reading the newspaper to find out that the Moon Rainbow guild was destroyed by someone working alongside Kyasurin and Matsuba, due to the fact that the Magic Council found out that Kirika allowed her mages to cause high amounts of destruction while they would need to give her as many artifacts as possible. Since Kirika had been revived and Kotomi was a clear example of making Moon Rainbow be such a dangerous dark guild, Kyasurin and Matsuba felt that Maruberiki could be released from prison to make Moon Rainbow disband with the trade-off involving Kirika being imprisoned at Era.
After Kirika was imprisoned, Lucy glanced at the lowest section of the newspaper's current page to discover that Maruberiki went to the seven towns where Lucy acquired the legendary rings. Since Maruberiki was able to sense the vicious battle between Lucy and Kotomi, he had also been able to vividly see the spells that he and the other mages lent to her. Maruberiki's memory was very vivid, as he surprised people such as Akai and Nozomi by painting amazing portraits that detailed how Lucy used their spells. She could only smile in a kind manner at how he painted portraits of several different scenes pertinent to the battle, too.
Lucy's ability to use magic in several different shades of seven colors associated with the rings seemed to really inspire Maruberiki into becoming a more notorious artist, as each piece of art from the final battle was reportedly amazing enough to where he would have another art gallery in Gunjou Town for him to display Lucy's final battle in such a colorful format for lovers of artistic history in Fiore, and Jason from Sorcerer Magazine was even going to interview Maruberiki about his role in Lucy acquiring the seventh legendary ring.
Upon turning to the next page and seeing a picture of Emiria and Hiyasu standing in front of the Cerulean Frost guild, Lucy read aloud with a happy smile on her face, "Emiria Hidenka and Hiyasu Hidenka made the Cerulean Frost guild be legal! Seigan Town has several new icy attractions!"
Lucy simply giggled happily at how the icy battlefield where she first fought Emiria was photographed by several journalists from Sorcerer Magazine, and Emiria apparently boasted about how this was where the champion of the Grand Reverie Icy Frigid Tour had quite a humbling and frosty experience. Emiria and Hiyasu were also photographed in the different parts of the ice garden where they respectively had their final battles against Lucy and Risa, but Lucy looked very happy from seeing how the Hidenka sisters were both very happy as the guild mistresses of Cerulean Frost.
Cerulean Frost itself had been made into a legal guild, due to Seigan Town's mages assisting Lucy in her fight against Kotomi. The mages of the winter town officially recognized Lucy Heartfilia as the champion of the Grand Reverie Icy Frigid Tour, but the event itself became recognized by the committee members of the Grand Magic Games. They enjoyed hearing Emiria's and Hiyasu's reports of the event's format where anyone could participate until only the winners could partake in one last battle to see who could land the most powerful attack that would be a finishing blow, and it seemed like the Grand Reverie Icy Frigid Tour would become an annual event that led to more tourism in Seigan Town.
Seigan Town was getting just as much tourism as Ryokufū Town, which was the place where Haruna managed to create several perfumes that wouldn't make anyone feel sick. Anyone who felt sick upon arriving there would be healed by the townspeople, who learned to make vegetable dishes and plants in several different shades of green while the plants were infused with Wind Magic and Plant Magic. Lucy kept reading this specific page to find out that the plants not only sold very well to benefit Ryokufū Town's economy, but the plants in different shades of green also led to the citizens no longer judging anyone for their shades of green hair. In fact, Haruna and Gardenia both deemed Kusabue as the best researcher while a large mint green statue of Kūkiatsu was built in front of the research lab.
"I wonder if Kusabue and Haruna will show up to Parmanie Town today." Lucy stated aloud to herself, calmly looking down at her own attire to see that she had put on a light pink dress with some bubblegum pink high-heeled shoes that were in front of the bed.
Risa told Lucy with an excited smile on her face, as she ran into the room and saw the dawn's sunlight shining through the window, "Lucy, it's finally the big day! Although, I'm very happy to where I just can't contain my emotions! I would've hugged Rogue and informed him of today's date, but Sorano made sure that Rogue, Sting, and Yukino already got to Parmanie before they could see my dress for my arrival!"
That caused Lucy to tell Risa with a soft smile appearing on her face, happiness in her eyes, "Relax a bit, Risa. I'm glad you're happy about today. Sara would be very happy, too. Although, I think we're all happy that you have a dress for arriving in Parmanie Town. Before big events, you do have to look good."
Risa hadn't styled her hair in any way, simply letting her pink hair be long and flowing as she wore a magenta pink sundress with a pattern of four bubblegum pink swirls being on the waist area. This sundress had a small amount of light pink ruffles at the bottom, and Risa completed this outfit by wearing some fuchsia pink high-heeled shoes. She was ready to leave Kogane Town for the purpose of going back to Parmanie Town, and Parmanie Town was the place where Risa would finally go through her coronation.
This coronation would make Risa be the official princess of Parmanie Town, but she would certainly become queen after getting married. Risa looked away from Lucy for a moment, blushing at the thought of Rogue Cheney marrying her. Risa may have wanted Rogue to become a king, but that could only happen after the coronation ceremony made Risa officially be a princess. If she was a royal princess, then she could marry Rogue for him to be a prince and they could later elevate their titles to queen and king. Of course, Risa would be a kind queen.
She kindly smiled at Lucy, glad that she was the woman who made it possible for Nazuna and Parmanie's citizens to see her as a worthy successor to Kyoko and Cordelia. Kyoko may have been in the afterlife, but Miru and Shizue proudly went around the kingdom of Fiore to tell the stories of how Risa and the other Sabertooth mages fought against Parmanie's strongest wizard while also taking on the best tag-team in Fiore without any fear in their minds. Risa certainly felt no fear as she proceeded to run out of the house, ignoring the sight of Lucy putting on her shoes to run after her while smiling at how she and Sting would get to attend this joyous event.
Four hours later, in the coronation room of Parmanie Town's royal castle...
Lucy and Sting had to remain outside of the castle while Risa was in the coronation room, seeing its bubblegum pink walls and the light pink tiled floor. Risa looked down at the floor for a moment, seeing that it was repaired after she and Lucy intensely fought here to see who would get the fourth legendary ring. The Fuchsia Pink Ring was now referenced by a fuchsia pink carpet that was next to the hot pink carpet, both of the carpets leading to the magenta pink throne. Risa relaxed herself for a moment, smiling as she thought about sitting in this chair again.
Before Risa could even slightly sit in the chair, Miru and Shizue quickly came through the coronation room's entrance doors with a magenta pink coronation dress in their hands. Shizue proceeded to hold he dress while Miru motioned for Risa to take off her sundress, and Risa quickly removed her sundress to be in a hot pink lacy bra that matched her hot pink lacy underwear. Miru sent Psychic Magic into her eyes, foreseeing that Risa would be able to perfectly fit into the dress without any problems. Risa watched Miru move her hands in a manner that signaled for Shizue to go towards Risa, and the pink-haired mage helped Risa put on the dress.
As Shizue helped Risa put on the coronation dress, Miru glanced at a light pink round table that was near the throne. This table had actually been brought in by Rogue, who took up some of Risa's habits pertinent to fashion by buying some brooches and hairbrushes from a store in Parmanie Town. Miru walked over to the table, before tuning to look at Risa's coronation dress. Risa's magenta pink coronation dress shifted through different hues of pink when she activated her Psychic Magic, since Miru wanted a certain blonde-haired girl to lightly apply Psychic Magic to the clothing before Miru and Shizue entered the castle.
Miru proceeded to pick up a circular light pink brooch, a bubblegum pink brooch, a magenta pink brooch, and a fuchsia pink brooch. She walked back towards Risa, before placing all of the brooches on to the portion of the dress that was right above her large breasts. As Miru took a moment to look at all the brooches shining beautifully under the pink lights in the coronation dress, Shizue glanced down at her own fuchsia pink party dress. She decided to compliment it for a moment by grabbing a fuchsia pink hairbrush from off of the nearby table, along with a fuchsia pink scrunchie.
"Hey, Risa. We heard that you and Lucy fought against two dark mages named Violara and Mauveria, but I'm pretty sure that none of those later tag-teams can beat us." Shizue casually stated with an arrogant smile on her face, before getting behind Risa to brush her hair.
Risa replied with a nice smile on her face, recalling her adventure with Lucy as Miru picked up a cerise pink comb, "If Ayane and Yaeko had been revived, they would've probably been tough opponents for you two. Although, you and Miru would probably win if they didn't extensively conduct research on your spells."
Miru commented in a snarky manner, before sticking out her tongue and lowering her left eye, "Speaking of research, I hope your reign of royalty involves making Parmanie Town be a much more fashionable place. After all, those losers in other towns will be surprised when we're showing off our amazing outfits in many shades of pink."
Risa giggled happily at the thought of creating new laws pertinent to fashion in Parmanie Town, and she would make sure that even the commoners looked as stylish as royal people. In fact, Risa would still try to take jobs as a Sabertooth mage for the purpose of building an entire fashion district in the area near the pink ruins. Since the pillars of the ruins still contained metal, it wouldn't be a bad idea to build a fashion district in the forest that was behind the park. By making that dream become part of reality in that specific area of Parmanie Town, Risa would definitely be proving that Sara was right to tell her to always believe in herself.
Risa smiled nicely at the ceiling for a moment, believing that she was going to make all of her dreams come true. One of those dreams involved helping Lucy get her body back, and Risa was happy to have had a hand in making that dream come true. Risa liked the idea that she was right to take that job involving the butterflies that had to be delivered to someone in Tokiwa, since Lucy would've died in a horrible situation if Risa hadn't been there to fire an Esper Ball that Lucy ended up dodging. By immobilizing the people who chased after her, Risa allowed Lucy to run towards a bright future.
Of course, Risa felt like smiling more from thinking about how she ran towards that bright future with Lucy after getting her green jacket stolen. Risa even reported the events of that fateful day to Sorcerer Magazine after Lucy got her body back, and Jason definitely laughed at the thought of a mage misfiring an attack before wanting to buy a jacket that was playfully stolen by her new friend. Risa watched Miru playfully put the comb back down on the table, before coming back with a tube of strawberry pink lipstick that she proceeded to put on Risa's lips, and all of the women smiled as Nazuna entered the room with Cordelia by her side.
As she held a rose pink sash in her left hand and watched Cordelia place a strawberry pink crown in her right hand, Nazuna told Risa with a calm and respectful smile on her face, "Risa Ryusei, it is time for everyone to see your coronation. We are all proud that you are ready to take the throne."
Risa replied with a kind smile on her face, her eyes displaying a genuine and stern sense of maturity after Shizue styled her hair in an upwards ponytail, "Hello, Nazuna. Thank you for informing me that it's finally time for the coronation to commence."
Cordelia told Risa in a proud manner, smiling as she was glad to pass on the royal title to her, "Risa, your eyes and your demeanor have certainly changed since the last time you were in this room. I now see you as a woman who has so much strength and wisdom, Risa Ryusei. Sara's spirit must be smiling with so much happiness in this moment."
Risa nodded her head in agreeing manner while simply smiling at Cordelia, sharing her kind feelings at how Sara would get to watch this coronation with everyone else. Speaking of everyone else, Miru and Shizue respectively got on the left and right sides of Risa as they guided her to the doors of the balcony that was above the crowd. Miru and Shizue opened the doors for Risa to walk out to the balcony where a bubblegum pink Lacrima Vision Crystal was firmly on the railing for it to make several Lacrima Vision screens appear throughout the kingdom of Fiore.
Nazuna had been informed by Miru and Shizue that some of the people in the purple town of Gunjou were very glad to have met Risa Ryusei, and Nazuna joined the women in sending their Psychic Magic into the orb for it to become pink while its range would be amplified to make many people in Fiore view the coronation. Risa walked out on to the body to see that her coronation was already being viewed by many people, including Rairakku and Violara who came from Gunjou Town to see this event that had been advertised in the recent newspapers.
News about the coronation even got Haruna and Kusabue to come from Ryokufū Town, and Hiyasu came from Seigan Town with Emiria, Samui, and Aoiumi by her side. Aoiumi glanced to her left for a moment to see that Lyon and Sherria from Lamia Scale also came to this event, along with Jenny from Blue Pegasus and Kagura from Mermaid Heel. Kagura glanced ahead for a moment to see Yukino, Sorano, Rogue, Sting, and Lucy all chatting happily among themselves, the Sabertooth mages feeling very glad to be standing in the front row of the large crowd. Rogue was especially glad, and his cheeks blushed pink while he smiled at the sight of Risa having the appearance and personality of a benevolent queen.
After she felt Nazuna put the rose pink sash around her waist, Risa stated to everyone with a compassionate smile appearing on her face, "Hello, my fellow mages from Parmanie! Hello, tourists from many towns! Since Cordelia Isshin has stepped down, I am here to tell you that I have finally returned to take up the role of being Parmanie Town's princess. I genuinely promise that I will be a wonderful princess, along with being a powerful mage who can display kindness!"
Lucy shouted happily from the crowd while joining everyone else in applauding Risa for her speech, "Your coronation dress looks amazing, Risa!"
Nazuna announced to everyone with happiness in her voice, as she placed the strawberry pink crown on top of Risa's head, "Citizens of Parmanie Town, and tourists in Parmanie! I present to you, the new princess of Parmanie! We are happy to crown you as our newest royal leader, Princess Risa Ryusei!"
Lucy and the other Sabertooth mages joined Parmanie Town's citizens in happily exclaiming, "All hail Princess Risa Ryusei!"
Risa joyfully smiled down at her friends who were in the crowd while she proceeded to gently wave her hands down at many people, and Risa also smiled proudly as she saw Violara and Rairakku in the crowd. They both smiled happily at how she was now Parmanie's official princess, and Risa also got to see Lyon respectfully applaud her as Sherria happily cheered alongside Hiyasu and Samui. As Emiria joined them in happily cheering, Risa nicely smiled down at Haruna. Haruna smiled back, glad that Risa taught her how to be a mature princess.
As Risa was about to smile at Kusabue, she had a surprised look on her face from seeing Kūkiatsu happily standing by her side. He simply smiled in a proud manner with his eyes closed, glad that Risa taught Kusabue how to be a kind princess. As Risa was about to smile at him, she soon saw Sara and Kirie standing beside Lucy. Both women looked like they were very proud of Risa's accomplishments, and Risa happily smiled down at them for a moment. She turned her attention to Rogue to smile at him for a moment, but looking back at Lucy made Risa see that Sara and Kirie were gone. That also applied to Kūkiatsu, who disappeared from being by Kusabue's side. However, not being physically around did not mean that their wills would cease to exist.
One hour later, in Yamabuki Town...
After Risa was finished with her coronation, she was granted permission from Nazuna for them, Miru, and Shizue to accompany the Sabertooth mages to nearby town of Yamabuki. Yamabuki Town may have had its streets in different shades of yellow looking beautiful in the daytime, but Nazuna and Miru both shuddered in an uncomfortable manner from remembering that this was the town consisting of religious zealots who used Lightning Magic and often wandered into Parmanie. The blonde-haired mayor and some blonde-haired owners of other bake shops gave soft smiles to Miru and Shizue, trying to display that the town was overcoming the problems of Kanata Luster's evil and vicious ideologies.
Speaking of Kanata Luster, the religious church where people were brainwashed and killed by Lightning Magic ended up being destroyed by the Lightning Magic of the citizens who perceived Lucy's usage of Lightning Magic in the final battle as a symbol of wanting to live freely instead of being someone's brainwashed pawn. Despite the fact that the people of Yamabuki viewed Lucy and Risa as the main heroes of that fateful day, the barren spot where the church once stood made Risa have a very appreciative smile on her face as she thought about one particular person.
An illusory large and platinum blonde statue of Kirie Luster was created on the barren land by Risa, who felt emotional enough to activate the spell known as Dark Magenta Extrasensory Psyche Delusion. As Risa's eyes changed from being cherry red to being dark magenta, her hair also became that specific shade of magenta. Risa would never forget how her magenta pink Psychic Magic was revived in that fateful battle through Risa's strong emotions of fear and panic, which ironically inspired Kirie to believe that Risa was being brave enough to take on Kanata with more powerful spells of Psychic Magic as if she possessed Sara's courage.
After Kirie's action of placing Risa's sunglasses back on her head had been as traumatic as her death to where Risa felt like she relived the experience of seeing Sara Hoshiakari die, Risa did have to realize that she needed to have much more courage as a person. Kirie's surge of courage in taking Kanata's strongest attack without any fear reminded Risa of how Sara sacrificed herself to save Risa from Kyoko's wrath, and Risa glanced over at Lucy for a moment to softly smile at her friend. Lucy softly smiled back, watching Risa take some steps towards the statue.
"Hi, Kirie. It's me, Risa from Sabertooth. I just want to say that I only got to see Lucy get her third legendary ring and the rest of them solely because of you. If you hadn't pushed me out of the way, then my friends and I wouldn't be standing here today! Thank you so much, Kirie Luster! I'll never forget you or your brave sacrifice, and you were the most prominent hero of Yamabuki Town's rebellion!" Risa stated in a kind tone with her palms slammed together in a praying stance, before getting more emotional and crying at the end of her speech.
As Lucy and Nazuna joined others in applauding Risa for that kind speech, the mayor of Yamabuki Town walked over to Risa and told her with a nice smile on her face, "If it's okay with you, princess of Parmanie, we'd all like to use Lacrima Vision Crystals and get Sorcerer Magazine to help us take photos of that statue. We just want to use them as visual references for building a real statue of Kirie Luster."
Rogue calmly spoke to the mayor for Risa in this moment, as he proceeded to smile before gently hugging his girlfriend, "That would be very nice, mayor of Yamabuki. Although, please make sure to credit Lucy with getting her third legendary ring only after she defeated someone as powerful as Kanata with Earth Magic. In addition, let the statue's plaque also provide Risa's historic achievement of bravely taking on Kanata with strong spells of Psychic Magic as she felt emotional enough to rescue Yukino Aguria."
The mayor of Yamabuki Town nodded in agreement, before nodding to Nazuna for the Magic Council to allow this as part of Fiore's history. Nazuna softly smiled at the mayor, before compassionately smiling at the crying princess of Parmanie. From Nazuna's perspective, Risa definitely came a very long way from being the little girl who had to flee from Parmanie Town with tears in her eyes, and hearing Rogue say that Risa bravely took on Kanata like she wasn't afraid of dying really impressed Nazuna.
She liked that Risa was willing to free a town of people who were oppressed by religion, not even caring that she wasn't the princess of Yamabuki Town. She simply wanted them to experience a good sense of justice like a kind princess, and Risa was a very caring person. Since she cared about the people of Yamabuki, Nazuna felt that she would need to help Risa create some laws that would allow fashion and civility to exist between these two towns that had a pink forest existing between them.
Nazuna personally thought that the female mayor could upgrade from wearing a daffodil yellow sweater vest with light yellow khaki pants and plain yellow flat shoes, and she glanced over at the fashion store to see that the townspeople were still wearing clothes from the Spring fashion season while the Autumn fashion season was currently occurring. If getting these people to wear fashionable attire would also assist them with feeling just as free as people from other towns in Fiore, then Nazuna would certainly help Risa do that. Of course, Nazuna did have to smile at someone else for being responsible in Risa becoming a princess.
"Princess Lucy Heartfilia of Kuchiba Town, thank you for being Risa's opponent in that fateful battle. She was blessed to meet such a strong opponent like you, especially since you took down Kanata." Nazuna told Lucy with a proud smile on her face, before looking more compassionate.
That prompted Lucy to tell Nazuna and Sting with a somewhat shocked look on her face, "Wow, I almost forgot that I ruled over the entire town of Kuchiba!"
Upon sensing magical power coming from behind the fashion store, Sorano told Lucy with a snarky facial expression, "Well, princess of Earth Magic. You'd better take us underground to that room with the goddesses' statues, and then go check on that oriental place."
As Risa remembered that Lucy was the leader of that town, she told Nazuna with a kind smile on her face, "Nazuna, I'll also need to check out Kuchiba Town. Until I'm finished there, please go back to Parmanie Town with Miru and Shizue."
Nazuna nodded in an understanding manner, and she walked away with the two pink-haired women. Miru and Shizue smiled back at Lucy and Risa for a moment, glad that they were going to also have good diplomatic relations with each other. Lucy followed the detected magical power to the street behind the fashion store, seeing the street in different shades of yellow even had its artsy pattern of lightning bolts covering the staircase leading downward to camouflage it. Lucy and the others wasted no time with going down the staircase to see that it led to a daffodil yellow path with plain yellow orbs of Lightning Magic floating from side to side.
Lucy sent magical power into the Saffron Gold Ring, before applying Lightning Magic to her feet, and she ran down this path at an extremely fast pace. She got to see the walls become canary yellow as canary yellow lightning bolts came down from different parts of the ceiling, but the celestial yellow aura of Lightning Magic that began to surround Lucy's body allowed her to absorb all of that lightning. She smiled in a confident manner from feeling herself run much faster, and she hastily reached the end of the path.
Arriving at the room with the statues of the goddesses didn't stop Lucy from swerving on to the orange path that led back to Kuchiba Town, and Risa was happy to follow Lucy. They hadn't been back to Kuchiba Town after Lucy defeated Kotomi, due to Lucy not taking any jobs there, but the people would gladly welcome Lucy and the others into their town. Lucy could hear the townspeople above the staircase, and she waited for all of her friends to run up to her before they'd go up to see the town of Kuchiba.
Five minutes later, in Kuchiba Town...
After they all went up the staircase that led them to the Bell Tower, Lucy walked into the town of Kuchiba with the other members of her team of Sabertooth mages by her side. They all smiled happily while watching sherbet orange birds fly off of the nearby autumn-colored trees, and some of the citizens who had heard about Lucy's harsh battle against Kotomi were very glad that she was okay. The sight of Lucy being back in town had even gotten the attention of Nozomi, who was on her way back to the dance theater.
The dance theater of Kuchiba Town had gotten some notoriety in the past few days, since it became an important place that Lucy prevented from being destroyed. In addition to preventing the destruction of the dance theater, the fact that Lucy managed to perfectly dance in the ritual where the guardian would pass on authority to her had made many people in Fiore feel inspired to learn some of the dances that were being performed in Kuchiba Town. In fact, Nozomi giggled a bit at how the dance theater now seemed more lively after a passionate dancer from Gunjou Town came all the way here.
Although, Kajino didn't just come to Kuchiba on weekdays to learn the dances. Nozomi recalled how everyone was amazed at his ability to perfectly replicate all of the dances by himself, but she did look at him in a somewhat awkward manner from remembering that Kajino's second day in the dance theater was where he wanted to have dance battles against all of the instructors who taught at the dance theater. They all ended up losing to him in those dance battles, which was due to the dark mage having so much passion and stamina.
Speaking of stamina, Nozomi sent a high amount of Earth Magic into her feet for her legs to gain more strength as she ran up to Lucy. Nozomi was very happy to see that the brown-eyed girl was back in her own body, along with seeing that her right hand still had all of the legendary rings on it. Nozomi started to smile in a very proud manner from remembering when Lucy only had the Crimson Ring on her right hand, and that didn't seem to stop her from having enough willpower to fight against Shinichi.
"Princess Lucy, it's great that you've returned! If you've been to the Bell Tower, I hope you like that we put photos of your performance alongside the other pictures!" Nozomi told Lucy with happiness in her eyes, recalling the Dance of The Sunset Guardian.
That caused Lucy to reply with a friendly smile on her face, as she proceeded to hug Nozomi, "Hi, Nozomi! It's great to see you! I hope you've been doing well, along with the other citizens of Kuchiba Town.
"Everyone in Kuchiba is thriving, Princess Lucy. In fact, one of Vermilion Sunset's mages wanted to remain anonymous as they handled jobs and used their profits to turn Shinichi's dangerous amusement park into an area of souvenir shops. In fact, there's even a shop where you could get plush dolls of the Sherbet Ring." Nozomi responded to Lucy, having a joyful smile on her face from how no one in Kuchiba was acting corrupt anymore.
"Anyway, you'll have to check out those souvenir shops by yourselves. I've got to go back to the dance theater and see if my Earth Magic is strong enough for the committee to follow my idea of including your martial arts attacks against Kotomi as actual dance moves. I made that choice for myself, but it's all thanks to you and Risa for teaching me how to be strong-willed." Nozomi told Lucy with a kind facial expression, before her expression became much more grateful as she looked at Lucy and Risa.
As Risa waved goodbye to Nozomi, she soon had her thoughts focus on checking out the souvenir shop. She was curious about exactly what the assortment of souvenirs would be, since one of the plush dolls could even be a replica of Risa wearing cherry red sunglasses. Risa just hoped that some of the souvenirs would be worthy buying, especially since her eyes also caught sight of Kuchiba Town's fashion store being much larger than when Risa visited it last time. She simply smiled from seeing the window displays feature outfits in varying shades of orange, referencing the Sherbet Ring.
Risa walked a few steps past the fashion store, but she soon saw some of the orange-haired guild members of Vermilion Sunset happily walk out of the store to just kindly smile at her. They had not only joined Nozomi in seeing the coronation ceremony that occurred in Parmanie Town, but these girls who wore dresses in different shades of orange also wore sunglasses on their foreheads. The style of the sunglasses resembled Risa's cherry red sunglasses, but the two women had their sunglasses heavily engulfed in a pumpkin orange aura.
Risa started to have a puzzled look on her face, since the pumpkin hue of orange looked familiar while she didn't exactly recall where she could primarily associate it with someone. Risa kept her eyes on the women while walking forward, only to collide with an orange-haired man who had been quick enough to fearfully avert his eyes from her gaze. Risa ended up bumping into Shinichi Keikoku, who quickly gasped in a startled manner as he tried to look down at his apricot orange shirt that went well with the sandstone orange jeans that matched his cider orange shoes.
"Oh, man! You're the princess of Parmanie Town now, and you've finally found me! If you want to fearlessly step on me, just go ahead and make it quick!" Shinichi told Risa with a somewhat scared look on her face, gulping more nervously as he saw Lucy standing beside her.
That caused Risa to reply with a look of realization appearing in her eyes, recognizing Shinichi's face, "Hey, you're the first outlaw that I ever defeated! You surely must've been scared after seeing that I wasn't afraid to defeat you! Anyway, I hope you won't cause any trouble while Lucy is Kuchiba's princess!"
"I haven't caused any trouble, actually. In fact, the souvenir shop was my idea and you can get what you want for free. You're very strong, so you deserve it. Although, I should congratulate you all on saving the kingdom of Fiore. I knew you had true courage and strength, even back when you first fought me in my days as an outlaw. You're truly bold for getting those sunglasses back and being so fearless." Shinichi explained to Risa with a remorseful facial expression, before happily smiling.
Upon hearing Shinichi mention her sunglasses, Risa had a nice smile on her face. She remembered him much more clearly now, realizing that she needed to get his foot off of her sunglasses during that fight in the ruins. Shinichi maintained a smile of decency in this moment, however, and he seemed to be putting himself on the path towards becoming a much better person. Since he was trying to help Kuchiba Town thrive by tearing down the amusement park and repurposing its buildings to be souvenir shops with a few merchant shops for Kuchiba's delicacies, Risa couldn't be angry at him.
Lucy also had no grudge towards Shinichi anymore, as it seemed that he was trying to put himself on better terms with Nozomi and the rest of Kuchiba Town's residents. Since Lucy was technically also a resident of this particular town, Shinichi used his Earth Magic to create dolls of Lucy and her spells out of brown clay. Upon seeing Shinichi pull out two of the hardened clay dolls from the left pocket of his pants, Lucy simply smiled softly at how their eyes and hair were in different shades of orange to reflect her strong skills with the Sherbet Ring.
As Lucy glanced down at the Sherbet Ring for a moment and smiled happily, Risa and Rogue went off to the fashion store with Kusabue. Yukino felt that she could go get some cute souvenirs for Kusabue and herself, since they had never been to Kuchiba Town before. They left Lucy with Sting, who watched Shinichi walk back to the Vermilion Sunset guild. That guild was currently in the process of being an official guild instead of a dark guild, since Lucy had jurisdiction over Kuchiba for that to automatically happen, but the thought of things being legal and fair here caused Lucy to softly smile at the thought of how she first came here with the Crimson Ring that hadn't been acquired from the fairest opponent.
One hour later, in Cramoisi Town...
Lucy went back through the staircase in Kuchiba Town's Bell Tower to be in the room of the goddesses' statues again, and going down the red path allowed Lucy to run on a path that had crimson red walls matching the floor that was in a candy apple shade of red. There were some candy apple red twisters of fire on this particular path, prompting Lucy to send some of her magical power into the Crimson Ring. As a crimson red aura surrounded Lucy's body, she ran up to the twisters of fire and lightly touched them as a way of absorbing their Fire Magic.
After getting rid of those obstacles, Lucy ran further down this specific underground path to see the ground become a raspberry shade of red while the walls were in a scarlet shade of red. She soon smiled in a happy manner from seeing the first step of the staircase, which was carmine red, and Lucy quickly climbed up the stairs with her friends running after her. Everyone soon saw Lucy reach the top of the staircase, before she made the aura around her body become celestial red. Lucy thrusted her right palm upward to break through this part of the cobblestone street that had been in multiple shades of red.
Going on to the cobblestone street made Lucy interestingly see that she was now in front of the coffee shop, which had several people immediately look outside from hearing the sudden noise that was created by Lucy. Some of those people happily smiled from seeing her, displaying some respect for the girl who defeated Akai Hinotama in Cramoisi Town's traditional battle that occurred after her concert. Lucy chose to smile in a very humble manner while waving at her fans, and she turned around for a moment to see that Cramoisi Town had built a music store on an adjacent street.
That carmine red building had some crimson red music notes on the front of it while Lucy could see that posters of Akai were on the walls of the shop, and Lucy sighed in a somewhat embarrassed manner at how Akai Hinotama was likely capitalizing on all the attention that Lucy was getting. Lucy got to hear the lyrics of a song called Celestial Red Flames of Inspiration play loudly as a red-haired woman entered the store, and she had seen an article in the newest issue of Sorcerer Magazine talk about how Akai was letting her newest songs be released very quickly.
"Well, I'm not interested in buying her music." Rogue suddenly stated aloud, before interestingly walking off to the shop where Lucy bought the Celestial Mage Ring.
Lucy asked Rogue with a curious look on her face, "Rogue, where are you going?"
The shadow dragon replied with a kind facial expression, "I just have to go buy something."
Rogue quickly walked up the street to go into that store, but Lucy and Sting both had nice smiles on their faces. They watched Risa go into the coffee shop with Sorano and Kusabue while Yukino wanted to go buy some of Akai's music, and Sting seemed a bit interested in what Rogue was going to buy. The black-haired male didn't need the magic of a Celestial Mage Ring or any items that pertained to Fire Magic, but Rogue's time that was spent in Noire Town allowed him to have experience with seeing some of the most beautiful gifts.
After he walked into the shop that now had lipstick red carpeting with ruby red walls to match, Rogue went up to the blonde-haired shopkeeper who stood in front of a rectangular rose red table that had several items on it. Since the stories about Lucy's Fire Magic and the Crimson Ring became so popular throughout the kingdom of Fiore, Rogue took notice of how there was a cherry red ring box on the table. This ring box was in between a berry red ring box and a plain red ring box, all of the rings inside them possibly being beautiful.
Rogue gently opened the cherry red ring box to see a cherry red ring that was as large as the Crimson Ring, but casually putting the ring near the window allowed Rogue to see some cherry red beams of light brightly shine from it. This ring was just referred to as the Cherry Red Ring, as evident by its description on the box. It wouldn't provide the wielder of the ring with any Fire Magic, but it also seemed like a beautiful ring that could be given to someone as a gift. Although, Rogue's eyes soon glanced at the fourth ring box that had been behind the other three.
"How much will it cost me to buy this ring and one of the others that's on the back part of the table?" Rogue asked the shopkeeper with a nice smile on his face, taking notice of the rose red ring box.
The shopkeeper told him with politeness in her eyes, "If you buy both of those rings, the price will be 100,000 jewels."
"All right." Rogue told her in a calm manner, before pulling out 100,000 jewels from the right pocket of his ebony black pants.
Rogue walked up to the counter, which was now in a plain shade of red, and he handed all of the money to the shopkeeper. She had a soft smile on her face while counting the money for a moment, and she got to see that Rogue paid the full price for both of the rings. That prompted Rogue to pick up the rose red ring box, and he closed the cherry red ring box that he was already holding. Rogue put that ring box in the left pocket of his pants. He proceeded to put the rose red ring box in the right pocket of his pants, and Rogue felt happy about his purchases.
He thought about how Risa would probably be happy enough to perceive the rings as engagement rings, but Rogue's smile slightly faded a bit as he walked out of the store. Since Risa would have to go back to Parmanie and enjoy the festivities of her coronation, the act of presenting the princess with some engagement rings would feel like an event that couldn't really have prominence in comparison to that. Also, Rogue did seem a bit nervous at the thought of Risa thinking that either ring didn't look good with her coronation dress. Rogue simply walked past Lucy while wondering about how to surprise Risa, but he casually left Lucy to deal with a little surprise of her own as she decided to walk towards the fashion store.
When Lucy got close to the fashion store's door, she found herself quickly having to step back from how Akai Hinotama was leaving the store. Akai and Lucy comically gasped at each other in a shocked manner, noticing that they wore the exact same type of party dress while the only difference involved Akai's dress being celestial red while she wore high-heeled shoes that were in a candy shade of red. Akai also had her signature scarlet red bow above her forehead, accompanying her crimson red hair.
"Hey, Lucy! I hope you weren't planning to outdo me in a shopping spree! That would be just as bad as any song that topped one of my many amazing hit singles!" Akai told Lucy in a friendly manner, having a slightly annoyed look on her face as she still perceived herself as Lucy's first major rival.
That caused Lucy to confidently reply with an optimistic smile on her face, "Hey, Akai Hinotama! I was just thinking about kicking your butt in a fiery modeling competition that we could have in Cramoisi Town! I'm sure that I could look just as good as you in any outfit! As for your music, just enjoy dominating the charts without me as your main competition!"
"If we had a fiery modeling competition, I'd still get higher scores than you from the judges! In fact, my fame might overshadow your achievements in Gunjou Town after my band and I perform there tonight!" Akai responded to Lucy with an arrogant smirk on her face, making a scarlet red aura of Fire Magic surround her body.
As Lucy made a celestial red aura of Fire Magic engulf her body, she responded to Akai with a look of assurance on her face, "If that gets you more fame in Cramoisi Town, then don't be surprised if your level of fame gets topped by me defeating you in a battle again!"
That caused Akai to simply laugh in an amused manner, believing that she had trained hard enough on her days off from the music industry to where she would be just as strong as Lucy. Even though Akai wouldn't be able to reach Lucy's level of skill with Fire Magic right now or have that legendary ring, she still considered herself to be in the front of the line of people who were either alive or dead while viewing Lucy as a rival. She had heard about Lucy being rivals with Emiria Hidenka, who Akai viewed as being delusional if she thought that a pop idol's fire couldn't melt an arrogant mage's ice.
Akai started to giggle in a proud manner from recalling that she released a new hit song after she got the news of Lucy obtaining the Sapphire Blue Ring, and Akai's song had been titled The Wind's Green Flames Persistently Burning. The song referenced how Lucy used Wind Magic to overcome her opponents who used Water Magic and Ice Magic, but thinking about Lucy's journey made Akai start to confidently smirk at Lucy. Despite still being friendly rivals with the blonde-haired girl, Akai could only make herself feel triumphant from remembering when Lucy had light green hair and not much magic.
She certainly made her magic shine brightly in some of her ardous journey's toughest times, and Akai started to smile more happily as she envisioned some song lyrics in her mind. In fact, the lyrics and the imagined musical melody could even be part of the new song that she and her band planned to play in Gunjou Town. Before she went back to see Kaen, Akai set some of her shopping bags down on the ground to just stretch out her right hand. Lucy shook Akai's right hand with her left hand, both of the girls being silent as they both inspired each other in different ways. Akai inspired Lucy to put more focus on fashion in her life, and Lucy inspired Akai to be a better musician who also wouldn't cheat to get win anymore battles. Akai picked up her red shopping bags and walked away while wanting to be genuine in music and battling, being as genuine as the sight of Risa walking out of the coffee shop with a latte in her hand while signing autographs for the fans of Sabertooth who witnessed her coronation.
One hour later, at the ruins near Parmanie Town... (Risa's POV)
After getting some coffee in Cramoisi Town with Kusabue and Sorano, I went back to Parmanie Town with the rest of my friends. Lucy and Sting decided to go to the clothing store known as Parmanie Fashions, since being one of the heroes who saved Parmanie Town from Kyoko's wrath allowed Lucy to get some pink outfits for free. I hoped that she would pick out some more fashionable outfits for herself, especially since Lucy's fight against Kotomi involved her displaying different shades of pink to where Parmanie Fashions felt inspired to produce more clothes in varying shades of pink.
Personally, I hoped to soon get more coronation dresses and party dresses that were celestial pink. The celestial hue of pink would make those clothes look great alongside my inventory of fashionable bubblegum pink clothes that accompanied my other pink clothes, and I smiled nicely from thinking about how I could make my closet look more beautiful. Beauty also existed in the underground ruins beneath Parmanie Town, since one of the pink tiles of the ruins turned out to be an illusory tile with a hot pink staircase being beneath it.
That hot pink staircase would lead to an area with fuchsia pink walls complimenting the watermelon pink floor, and bubblegum pink orbs of Psychic Magic floated down in that underground path. I attempted to touch those orbs with Rogue beside me, only for us to get lightly repelled by their Psychic Magic. Lucy had no issue with absorbing the Psychic Magic with the power of the Fuchsia Pink Ring, though, and it felt very fun to use the underground path as a way of quickly getting back to Parmanie Town.
As I sat down on this brown bench for a moment and remembered the day where Rogue and I almost had our first kiss, an interesting thought entered my mind. Where had Rogue gone for the past twenty minutes? He wanted to be in this part of Parmanie Town with me, but he suddenly walked down one of the streets as if he was looking for someone. Upon seeing him come back here from the main castle's street with Miru and Shizue respectively on his left and right sides, I confidently smiled at Rogue, wondering if he wanted us to have a rematch against Miru and Shizue on the tiled ruins.
After seeing me build up magical power to where a magenta pink aura surrounded my body, Rogue told me with a kind facial expression, "Risa, relax. Miru and Shizue aren't here to fight us."
Miru told me with a sly smirk appearing on her face, almost like she wanted to add some suspense to this new situation, "Princess Risa, it would be wise of you to perceive us as your best witnesses for what happens next."
Shizue added nicely, smiling in a respectful manner, "Don't worry, princess. We'll keep you from fainting."
I asked Miru and Shizue with a curious look on my face, having my eyes on them as they approached me in the moments where I walked on to the pink tiled ruins, "Why would I faint? Are you two planning to attack me and possibly knock me out on my first official day of being the town's princess?"
Rogue explained to me with a loving smile appearing on his face, getting down on one knee as he took out a cherry red box, "Risa, you won't have a conflict with them anymore. Although, I hope there's no conflict when I say that I immensely love all the time that we've spent together. That bench was where we almost had our first kiss, and the ruins are where Miru and Shizue saw us try to fight together as a great tag-team. I hope that we can be a great team as a married couple, Risa Ryusei, and I want to spend the rest of my life being married to you. Marry me, and become my wife."
At that moment, I could only place my hands over my mouth in a shocked manner while having a very happy expression on my face. I felt so much joy from the fact that Rogue was wanting me to marry him, and this meant that I could become the queen of Parmanie Town without appointing that title to myself like a tyrant. Rogue was wanting me to promote from being a princess to being a queen on my very first day of officially living here again, but he would be the intelligent and noble king working alongside me.
Rogue had always been very noble, wanting to keep me from becoming evil like a vicious dark witch. He was like the dark shadow that would never leave my side, but he also provided the confidence that was necessary for me to use my magenta Psychic Magic at its fullest extent. Even if I had days where I would be scared or nervous, Rogue always believed that I could accomplish my goals. He was so supportive of me, even helping me fully revive the magenta magic and confidence that I thought I permanently effaced from my life after being alone without Master Sara.
Master Sara would probably be happy to see this beautiful moment of Rogue proposing to me while we were under the trees that now had some magenta pink leaves on them during this Autumn season, and seeing the leaves fall towards us like cherry blossoms made me move my hands away from my face to look at the wedding ring that Rogue picked out. The ring was cherry red, just like my eyes. That really made me feel like Rogue viewed me as being such a beautiful person who deserved to be married to him, and thinking about how he had been there for me to help with creating happy memories when Sara's red sunglasses were a reminder of my trauma only made tears start to well up in my eyes.
"Rogue, I'll... My... my answer is yes! Yes, Rogue! I'll marry you!" I exclaimed with happiness in my voice, crying as I managed to utter those words.
As I hugged Rogue and happily wrapped my arms around him, I curiously asked him in the small moment after feeling something in his other pocket, "Rogue, did you buy two rings? Were you wanting me to have more accessories, or is that part of your second wedding proposal?"
Rogue responded to me in a kind manner, taking out the rose red ring box, "That one was actually for me, Risa. It just symbolizes my love for you, which grew like a rose that bloomed over time."
I could only sigh in a loving and happy manner while my cheeks blushed light pink from hearing Rogue say something that was so beautiful, and I watched him open up the rose red ring box. He put the ring on the ring finger of his left hand while the pink light from the trees' leaves shined down on it to make the ring look like it became rose pink in that moment, and Rogue ended our hug before he calmly smiled at me. I happily smiled back as he put the cherry red ring on my right hand's ring finger, and something beautiful occurred when I put that under the shade of the tree.
The cherry red ring became somewhat darker in the shade while sparkling with cherry red glitter emerging from it, and I looked back at Rogue's ring. These wedding rings really displayed our connection, darkness and light being symbolized by the cherry shade of red and rose hue of red going quite well together like how my eyes were slightly darker than his eyes. Although, we wouldn't just have symbolism of our love being associated with those rings. Our two types of magic were certainly compatible, allowing us to really be a great team.
Plus, being around Rogue also helped us both be fashionable. Several shades of black definitely complimented many shades of pink, and any outfits that were too bright needed to have a bit of darkness to them. That certainly created harmony, just like the harmony of Rogue and I getting up from the grass at the exact same time to just walk off to the largest castle together. Nazuna would need to be informed that Parmanie's royal princess and queen now had a prince and a king by our side with Miru and Shizue as our royal guards. However, I smiled softly from realizing that my royal titles weren't making me as famous as someone who truly had more notoriety in Fiore.
Later that night, at the Sabertooth guild in Fiore... (Lucy's POV)
I had become quite famous in Fiore to where visitors from other towns were either standing outside of the Sabertooth guild to wait for me, or they were inside of the Sabertooth guild and feeling happy to see the guild that I chose to be in. Some reporters from Sorcerer Magazine came to Sabertooth yesterday for the purpose of asking important questions, and one of those questions had been about which guild I would've joined if I had fled from Tokiwa Town without any help. If I had been forced to leave Tokiwa Town alone while being pursued by the townspeople who mistook me for Kotomi Takeuchi, I still would've ran all the way to Kogane.
Kogane Town was such a nice town to live in, as I enjoyed being around all of my new friends who wanted to fill the void that was created after Kotomi tricked all of my teammates. I hadn't seen Erza and the others from Fairy Tail during my recent days of being very famous, but a recent issue of Sorcerer Magazine informed me that Erza and the others felt like they would be chastised for going into any of the towns where the legendary rings had been acquired. They probably didn't want to face any backlash from the people who believed that Fairy Tail nearly destroyed the kingdom by allowing Kotomi to gain so much strength.
The fact that Kotomi got so strong with Celestial Spirit Magic made me have a soft smile on my face from feeling like the long quest of getting all the rings taught me a very important lesson, and I really had to learn that I needed to be both strong and smart with whatever kinds of magic I wielded. Only having intelligence without much strength would lead to me being weak, and having too much strength without any wise thoughts of restraint would just lead to corruption. Therefore, those philosophical vices could be avoided by my actions of choosing to be a virtuous mage.
In my opinion, having a good balance of intelligence, strength, and maturity allowed me to be a very good person. Although, I couldn't have gained much more maturity in my life without Sting being by my side. He was always encouraging me to fight hard against any opponents who came my way, and he also encouraged me to restrain myself from fully giving in to all of my dark thoughts when using Darkness Magic. Thinking about my Darkness Magic made me look at Sting and smile, as he was right beside me throughout that entire adventure in Gunjou Town. He even called out to me when Suou Shui almost devoured me, and I couldn't have been more grateful to have him by my side.
"Sting, it would be a nice idea for us to become a married couple like Risa and Rogue." I kindly told Sting with a happy and joyful smile on my face, before gently closing my eyes and hugging him as we were in the guildhall.
That caused Sting to say in a flustered manner, my eyes slowly opening to see his face blushing pink as my own cheeks blushed bubblegum pink, "Well, I...! Lucy, I...! I've thought about that, and...! Maybe we'll just get some wedding rings in the future, and-"
I told him with feelings of happiness in my cocoa brown eyes, blushing more as I looked into my boyfriend's beautiful blue eyes, "You don't have to decide on anything right now, Sting. Let's just give it time."
Sting nodded in an agreeing manner, before telling me with a look of realization appearing on his face, "Yeah, that's a great idea. Speaking of time, Akai Hinotama's concert is starting soon."
Upon hearing Sting agree to just wait until we would be married, I felt warmth in my chest. My heart was now warm from feelings of happiness, since the day that I married Sting would end up being very special. We could probably even end getting married in a very lovely place in Fiore, and I lightly giggled at how that would be nice. Sting and I were going to have a happy future together, but it wouldn't just be a future that involved wedding rings and a beautiful wedding ceremony. Sting and I would be sharing a future of viewing life as an adventure.
Throughout our lives, we were probably going to have many more fun adventures together. We were going to have feelings of joy in our lives, and any tough times that we encountered would be handled by us working well together. We certainly worked well together in the Spectral Tower, which was displayed on a pink Music Lacrima Crystal that I purchased during Parmanie Town's festival. This pink orb that was on the table didn't just play songs from musical artists, but it also managed to pick up on frequencies of musical songs that were being played at concerts.
The pink Lacrima Vision Screen that appeared in midair within Sabertooth's guildhall displayed Akai Hinotama on a boysenberry purple rectangular stage that was set up in the plaza of Gunjou Town, and the audience consisted of many dark mages from Hexing Enchantress while they stood alongside the townspeople. As everyone watched Akai start to perform her newest song and play the lead guitar, the sounds of the crimson red flames shooting up from the flamethrowers on the stage were accompanied by the sound waves pertaining to the musical notes of Akai Hinotama's electric guitar.
"Wow, it's another hit single!" Yukino happily stated with a pleased smile on her face, dancing happily in the guildhall as she enjoyed the beginning of the song's melody.
Sorano added in a calm manner, having a nice facial expression, "Yeah, I like this song. Akai Hinotama seems like the energetic type of pop idol who make many crowds of people start to dancing."
As I saw Akai wear her celestial red dress and perform on the stage, the sight of the Spectral Tower's satellite dish made me tell Sting with a very happy smile on my face, "Well, I'm glad that we chose to fight the commanders who were in that tower. Maybe they're confidently dancing along with everyone else."
Gunjou Town's mages such as Rairakku and Kajino were happily dancing to Akai Hinotama's song in the plaza with many other dark mages, but the citizens in other parts of Gunjou were also happily dancing to her song as they could hear it in close proximity. That was due to Kusabue's powerful waves of Sound Magic from her rampage reaching the satellite dish, which was still engulfed in a shamrock green aura. That caused the satellite dish to massively strengthen the range of Akai's music, and everyone danced as if she was performing right in front of them.
Although, Sting and I smiled with much more happiness as we could sense that the range of Akai's music extended far beyond Gunjou Town. I could sense Kusabue's magic all the way in Ryokufū Town while she had also been informed about the concert, and I assumed that Haruna and all of the researchers in that town were also dancing to the song. They would be accompanied by the people in Seigan Town, and even a cold mage like Emiria would have to admit that this song certainly suited the events surrounding the sixth legendary ring for people to be dancing to it.
The song also fit well with my time battling Miru and Shizue, who were dancing to the song with Risa, Rogue, Frosch, and many other citizens of Parmanie. They could even hear the song loudly playing in the town of Yamabuki, which had its lightning-wielding mages dancing as they felt very free. Even the people of Kuchiba were dancing to Akai's new song, since I did smile nicely at how it had been about me. Seeing each other in Cramoisi Town made me also realize that her fans there were also enjoying the song, and everyone in Fiore was enjoying the sound of this concert. Sting and I smiled at each other for a moment, thinking about how we met in the Tokiwa Forest that had its leaves being so green. If that was part of Akai's inspiration for writing the song titled Green With Genuine Brightness, then I just felt glad that I now felt my mind have some inspiration regarding my future with someone as amazing as Sting Eucliffe.
How was Chapter 76? Feel free to tell me your thoughts on it. Everyone in the entire kingdom of Fiore now knows who is the real Lucy Heartfilia, meaning that they now officially realize who should officially be celebrated for all of her accomplishments throughout her long and harsh journey of getting those seven legendary rings! Additionally, the people in the places where Lucy acquired those rings are now starting to move on with their lives! Lucy is planning to move on with her life, too, and she shall someday marry Sting! Lucy and Sting will actually have their story and romance conclude within this arc! By the way, this is the third part of the Final Arc! I'll update soon. :)
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