Dashing a few steps to Natsu's side, she grabbed his collar and shook him vigorously: "Natsu! Pull yourself together!"
"I clearly haven't done anything, why do I have to take the blame for this?"
Natsu forced his eyes open, glanced at Lucy, and said: "Lucy! My closest..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Natsu closed his eyes, his head tilted to the side, looking as if he had fainted from hunger!
The whole guild got excited.
Gray looked at Lucy with a face full of surprise: "Oh! You're already in the closest relationship, since when..."
Mirajane smiled and said: "My, my! Only Lucy could conquer Natsu!"
"To have broken him to this extent, Lucy, you have to take responsibility!"
Cana, carrying a barrel of liquor, walked up to Lucy and threw an arm around her shoulders: "Yo-ho! Little girl, not bad, you even managed to conquer Natsu!"
"Come! To celebrate your great victory, let's have a drink!"
Seeing the liquor barrel Cana offered, Lucy immediately blew her top: "Is that a glass? That's a whole barrel!"
"Besides! I clearly haven't done anything to Natsu, why do you all insist that I broke him?"
Feeling that her words sounded wrong, Lucy complained with sheer powerlessness: "Natsu is perfectly fine right here, nothing is broken."
Macao and Wakaba were sitting together with their arms around each other's shoulders, muttering about some not-so-wholesome things.
They occasionally shot weird looks at Natsu and Lucy, making Lucy want to send them to the Celestial Spirit World.
Makarov jumped down, walked over to Lucy, and said with a solemn expression: "Lucy!"
"Ah?" Seeing Makarov's solemn expression, Lucy understood that finally someone was stepping forward to say something fair for her.
"Master! Natsu's situation has nothing to do with me."
"I don't know why he became like this either."
However!
His next action made Lucy want to send him to the Celestial Spirit World too.
Makarov bowed to Lucy: "Please take care of Natsu!"
Mirajane also bowed to Lucy: "Please take care of Natsu!"
Gray smiled and said: "Although I don't like that simple-minded, droopy-eyed guy, we've been partners for a long time after all."
"Lucy! Please take care of Natsu."
Everyone in the guild joined in the chorus: "Lucy! Please take care of Natsu."
Looking at Natsu, who was limp from hunger, Lucy wanted to cry but had no tears, her heart filled with sorrow: "I clearly haven't done anything."
Natsu, pretending to be unconscious, curled his lips into a smile.
Perfect!
From now on, there would be free lunches.
Delivered by a great beauty like Lucy.
Much better than that dumb cat, Happy.
Standing on the counter, Makarov stared at Natsu.
He understood Natsu's situation a little bit.
His magic power had surged for an unknown reason, putting his body in a state of self-protection.
Affected by this state of self-protection, Natsu didn't move at all, and even when starving, he couldn't be bothered to move.
Yet he had to eat to recover from this state.
Once Natsu recovered from this state, his magic power would increase tremendously.
He glanced at Mirajane next to him.
Another woman in armor appeared in his mind.
As the strongest two women in the guild, their magic power was terrifying, and their abilities in all aspects were especially strong.
They were currently the pillars of the guild.
As for the other S-Class mages.
One wasn't very willing to stay in the guild, and the other was doing a ten-year mission, no one even knew where he was.
There was also one whose true face no one had seen except Makarov.
"If Natsu safely gets through this period, his magic power will be almost on par with hers."
"It's just a pity! Natsu refuses to pull himself together."
"Or rather, he can't. In just three months, he ate through all his savings."
"Starving all the time, where would he get the energy to work."
"It's not that this old man is stingy, but a Natsu like this is simply impossible to feed. A month's worth of food in the guild is eaten by him in a single day."
"Half of this old man's life savings has already been eaten, who can afford to feed him?"
Thinking of this, Makarov raised his staff high and shouted: "Lucy! Do your best!"
Everyone in the guild cheered along: "Lucy! Do your best!"
Mixed in were various meaningless phrases like "A real man."
Looking at the limp Natsu, Lucy felt helpless.
She complained powerlessly: "Telling me to do my best?"
"Idiot Natsu!"
"Natsu, you big idiot!"
"Pull yourself together already!"
"Or at least tell me where I should go to do my best?"
"F... ood..." Natsu struggled to spit out a word.
Feeling the malice radiating from Natsu, Lucy wanted to send this guy to the Celestial Spirit World.
"He went to my house to freeload food and drinks before, and now he wants to freeload off me in the guild."
"Natsu is too awful!"
Having no other choice, Lucy could only take out her money to buy food for Natsu.
The moment the food was placed on the table, Natsu resurrected with full health, and a large table of food was polished off in a few bites.
Feeling the malice once again, Lucy looked at her flimsy wallet.
She walked up to the guild's mission board and picked a high-paying mission.
Without even looking closely at the mission details, she walked over to Natsu and slammed the mission flyer down in front of him.
"If you want to freeload off me, I won't mind, but I'm almost out of money, you have to go on a mission with me!"
Happy fluttered his wings and floated over: "Lucy is so mean, Natsu is already broken by you, and you're telling him to go on a mission!"