Fairy Tail: I don't want to be the president

Chapter 189 Thinking of Peach

Natsu and Happy returned to the guild.

In fact, the lake had begun to freeze over at this season, and Natsu had crashed through the thin layer of ice and fallen into the cold water.

He was still wet when he returned to the guild.

Rhodes asked out of sympathy: "Do you want to take a shower and change into dry clothes?"

"Ah?" Natsu showed a puzzled expression, and then flames came out of his whole body like a Super Saiyan, and his clothes and hair were completely steamed dry in just a few seconds.

This Fire Dragon-Slaying Magic is really convenient. You don’t have to worry about the heat in the summer or the cold in the winter.

Rhodes waved his hand: "Just pretend I didn't say anything."

"Natsu is so mean," Happy complained, "He already fell into the water, but he didn't even help us catch the fish."

“……” Rod was speechless. I thought you chased him because you were worried about him, but it turns out you wanted him to catch fish at the same time.

"I didn't want to get into the water on my own! That Erza girl..." Natsu was angry, but immediately began to feel guilty. Although it was not intentional, he was the one who started it after all.

He looked at Rhode with admiration: "It's amazing that you can team up with Erza."

Mira finished what she was doing and asked curiously, "Yeah, how does it feel to team up with Erza?"

Rhodes recalled the scene in his dream where he was slapped away by Mira, and he always felt that the smile on her face now was a smile of death.

Isn't Natsu's experience just now exactly the same as the scene in his dream? If Erza can do it, maybe Mira can do it too.

No no no, impossible.

Rhodes considered it for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, he is a very reliable partner, especially in a fight."

Natsu agreed. If Erza stood on his side during a fight, she would of course be super reliable.

Rhodes recalled the scene at that time: "Both the offense and the defense were very strong... It felt like the battle was over before I even got involved."

"Huh? Isn't that super bad?" Natsu was shocked. He couldn't even get a fight with Erza when he teamed up with her?

Before Rhode understood what Natsu said was so terrible, he heard him say firmly: "I will never team up with Erza in the future!"

Mira thought for a moment and asked, "So if Erza invites you, will you refuse?"

"Of course... of course..." Natsu stalled, of course he didn't dare to refuse.

Rod looked at Mira and learned how to calm down the energetic Natsu with just one sentence.

After Natsu staggered away with Happy, Mira continued to ask, "Besides fighting? Have you found that Erza's personality is actually quite cute?"

"Not bad..." Rhode pondered for a moment and said with a smile, "Thinking about all my team-building experiences, the most enjoyable one was indeed teaming up with Miss Mirajane."

"Is that so?" Mira said with a smile, "Then do you want to team up again and try again in the future?"

"I think it would be best if we could form a team to practice after get off work today, go shopping tomorrow, and have dinner together the day after tomorrow..."

Rhode suddenly realized, "Hey, think about it carefully, when we were in the guild, didn't we work in a team every day?"

Mira smiled and said, "I don't think the word 'team' is used like this. Do you want to look it up in the dictionary?"

Rhode stared at her and said, "That's not how you use your hands."

Mira covered her mouth and laughed.

Rhodes felt that this woman had become a bad person and would deliberately imitate the way he spoke in the past to make fun of him.

Please be worse.

After get off work that day, Rod threw himself into his daily training with great enthusiasm.

It was not because Mira was with him, but because he truly felt the benefits of the increased magic power.

If there is enough magic power, hundreds of weapons can fly out with a wave of the hand like Erza, and the transformation magic can be turned into the King's Treasury and Infinite Sword Works.

Moreover, the high rewards for high-difficulty tasks are really good. If I always do tasks worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, I don’t know how many years it will take to settle down in Magnolia on my own.

But if a task costs several million, you can buy a nice house in just a few months.

——Why not just marry into the Strauss family? Mira is a wealthy woman with a house and savings...

"What are you thinking about?"

Think peach (not).

"I'm thinking about the next stage of practice."

"Could it be that you are feeling more pressure now that you have learned more about Erza's strength?" Mira asked. "It seems that you are training harder today than before."

"Well... maybe it's because I saw some cruel things." Rhodes recalled the townsman who was killed. "I suddenly realized that this world is not what I imagined, so I need to become stronger."

At first, Rhodes felt that everywhere was dangerous. He could easily be trampled to death by wild beasts if he left the town, so he didn't want to go out easily.

Later, he learned magic and became much stronger. He would occasionally go out to take on a mission. Coupled with the joyful atmosphere in the guild and the peaceful and prosperous life in Magnolia, he felt that the outside world was not that dangerous after all.

Isn't it said to have a happy ending? Life here seems to be much more peaceful than the One Piece and Naruto movies he is familiar with.

However, this mission of the Black Magic Cult, the previous mission of suppressing bandits, and the mission of arresting the Dark Guild before that made Rhodes realize that the reason Magnolia was so prosperous and stable might be because of the existence of Fairy Tail.

In remote villages and towns where there is no wizard guild, life is not necessarily that good. There are also many dangerous elements who are always doing some small tricks in secret, and they are even willing to sacrifice human lives to summon demons.

Rhodes did not have any great ambition to change the world, that was something the king should consider.

All he had to do was become stronger and protect the people he wanted to protect.

Currently, there are more than a hundred people that Rhodes wants to protect, and he knows that these people have been protecting him all the time.

……

The next morning, Rhodes came to the guild to work on time.

Mira felt that he seemed to be in a bad mood.

"What happened?" she asked, scrubbing a cup.

Rod said uncomfortably: "My son is dying."

Crack! Mira squeezed the wooden beer cup and cracked it. She put the cup down without changing her expression: "Son?"

"Well, I have three potted plants on the balcony. I usually take care of them like my sons and talk to them occasionally."

Rhode said sadly, "But I couldn't take care of them during the few days I was away. When I came back last night, I found that they were all wilted."

"..." Mira let out a long sigh. It turned out that she was raising the green plants as her sons.

Rhodes actually has such a strange hobby.

——It’s not strange to grow plants, but I call them my sons…

But there are indeed people who take care of flowers and plants like their children. It shouldn’t be considered strange, right?

Mira thought about it and suggested, "Should we ask Troy for help?"

"Yes, he loves to play with plants the most. I'll go back for a while!" Rhodes ran out of the guild.

Mira wrinkled her nose and took out the attendance sheet.

He actually made the matter of sick green plants sound so scary. Humph, I'll mark him as absent from work.

A few seconds later, Mira crossed out the record again. She was just out for a while, not as serious as absenteeism.

And didn’t he say hello to me before leaving? Well, let him go.

(End of this chapter)