Fairy Tail: This Healing Mage's hits hurt so much!

The morning sunlight streamed through the Fairy Tail guild's huge stained-glass windows, casting dappled patterns on the slightly disheveled hall after a night of revelry.

The air still carried the excitement of last night's explosive news, mixed with the aroma of freshly baked bread and rich coffee.

The guild members gathered in twos and threes, holding breakfast in their hands, but their eyes kept glancing towards the bar, their eyes filled with gossip and undisguised surprise.

In the center of that highly anticipated bar sat the father and daughter, Kyldas and Cana, who had just completed their "reunion of the century" the day before.

However, the scene at this moment is completely different from the heart-wrenching embrace and weeping last night, and is full of comedic elements that make people laugh and cry.

"Oh! My lovely Kana! Daddy's sweet daughter! Let Daddy look at you again!"

Gildarts's originally rugged, resolute, and weathered face was now contorted into an extremely exaggerated, even somewhat eccentric, smile.

His massive body clung tightly to Kana's petite frame like a giant piece of chewing gum.

"Dad...you...you're too close..."

Kana was held tightly in Gildarts' arms, almost unable to breathe.

Her once fair and lovely face was now distorted from being squeezed.

What she found even more unbearable was that Gildarts's stubble-covered chin was rubbing wildly against her cheeks like a wire brush.

"Kana! Daddy misses you so much! I've missed so much these past ten years. From today onwards, Daddy will never leave your side for a single second!"

Gildarts was so overjoyed at having his daughter back that he didn't notice her resistance at all.

As he loudly proclaimed his suffocating fatherly love, he rubbed his stubble against Kana's delicate skin with even more vigor, making a teeth-grinding "shush-shush" sound.

"Ouch! Dad, your beard is so prickly!"

Kana finally couldn't hold back and cried out in pain.

Tears of grievance welled up in her large amber eyes as she forcefully pushed against Gildarts's chest, which was as hard as an iron tower.

But for the strongest mage in Fairy Tail, Cana's resistance was weaker than a cat's scratch.

"It pricks? Oh! I'm so sorry, so sorry! Dad was so careless!"

When Gildarts heard his daughter cry out in pain, he was so frightened that he immediately let go of her and stood there helplessly like a child who had done something wrong.

But his eyes remained fixed on Kana, staring at her longingly, like a large dog abandoned by its owner, wagging its tail pitifully.

"Then...then Daddy will go shave his beard? No, Daddy will go right now! For Kana's sake, Daddy will shave every day from now on!"

Seeing Gildarts's trembling and completely devoid of dignity as a strongman, the rest of the guild members couldn't help but cover their faces, their shoulders shaking violently as they desperately tried to suppress their laughter.

Who would have thought that Gildarts, the "Destroyer King" who once single-handedly destroyed countless dark guilds and even made dragons retreat, would become such a shameless "daughter slave" in front of his own daughter?

Just then, Riyao, who was sitting on the other side of the bar, was holding a steaming cup of black tea and watching this family comedy with a smile.

A sly glint flashed in his eyes as he toyed with the camera he'd taken the day before—the one that captured "Kildas weeping bitterly"—as if pondering how to maximize the photograph's value.

Kana jogged over to Riyao's side and looked at him with a resentful expression.

Riyao suppressed a laugh and vigorously rubbed his face.

"I'm professionally trained, and I don't usually laugh unless it's really funny."

"Brother Riyao, why didn't you tell me beforehand!"

"Riyao, you brat, you bullied my daughter, didn't you?"

"Don't think I can't see it, you bastard, you're clearly just looking for revenge! Kana, you've been holding back for two years, if you don't say something now, who knows when it'll happen? What if you have a younger brother or sister or something, and you form a 'Father's Avengers' alliance?"

"Father...Father's Avengers Alliance?!"

Upon hearing this murderous word, Gildarts' tall and imposing body trembled violently, as if struck directly on the top of his head by an invisible bolt of lightning.

His eyes, already wide with tension, bulged out even more dramatically, the whites of his eyes filled with bloodshot veins of terror.

He suddenly turned his head and shook it wildly like a rattle drum, waving his hands frantically in front of his chest, trying to clear Kana of his unfounded "crime".

"No, no, no! Kana, listen to Daddy's explanation! Daddy absolutely did not do anything outside! What younger brother or sister? Absolutely not! Daddy only has you and your mother in his heart! That brat Riyao is completely slandering us; he's trying to destroy the bond between us that we've just built, a bond stronger than diamonds!"

Gildarts's voice was distorted by extreme panic; his rough voice now sounded like a screaming chicken whose tail had been stepped on, echoing in the empty guild hall and triggering an even more unrestrained burst of laughter from those around him.

Marcao, who was sitting in the corner of the bar smoking a pipe, finally couldn't help but slap his thigh and burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! Gildarts, you've finally met your match! The strongest mage of Fairy Tail, you've been scared into speechless state by a little brat. If word gets out, those dark guilds you beat up will laugh their heads off!"

Wakaba, standing to the side, exhaled a smoke ring and chimed in with a mocking comment: "Yeah, Gildarts. But seriously, given your past promiscuous nature, who knows what kind of 'romantic debts' you've accumulated outside? Cana, you'd better give your unreliable father a good interrogation!"

"You two bastards! Shut up! Shatter Magic, believe me or not, I'll turn you and the bar counter to dust!"

Gildarts roared at his two friends in a fit of rage, a chilling magical aura emanating from his body.

But just as he was about to lash out, Kana's resentful and suspicious gaze fell on him again.

"Dad...you really...don't have any other children outside?"

Kana bit her lower lip. Although she knew that Sunrise was probably joking, she couldn't help but feel a little suspicious when she saw Gildarts' guilty look.

After all, in her memory, her father's reputation didn't seem to be very good.

That one glance shattered the imposing aura that Gildarts had just managed to cultivate.

His magic deflated instantly like a punctured balloon, and he slumped down again, squatting in front of Kana like a husky that had made a mistake, his hands clasped together, tears welling in his eyes as he swore an oath.

"Absolutely not! Kana, I swear to God! If I have another child outside, may I always get lost on missions and may barbecue always be stuck in my teeth!"

"Snap!"

"Sunrise! What are you filming now, you bastard?!"

Upon hearing the shutter sound, Gildarts jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, reaching out to snatch the photo from Sunrise's hand.

Sunburst darted away, and the two began to chase. He took the opportunity to stomp on Laxus's foot, and Laxus joined the melee. Then a large-scale melee began, involving guild members who were drinking at the scene.

"Sunrise, you did this on purpose, didn't you? You absolutely did it on purpose."

"It was unintentional, but I did it on purpose."

"Thunder Dragon's Crushing Fist".

"Unparalleled superhuman strength".

"Rules are meant to be broken."

"I brought you braised noodles."

"Magic tricks."

......

A head popped out from a wine barrel in the corner. Riyao looked at the fighting crowd and grinned crookedly: "Naive, naive."