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

Riyao reached out with his right hand, his five fingers gripping the strange bird's cleaving claws like iron pincers.

He stood firmly in place, not taking a single step back, and even had the leisure to turn around and wink at Mirajane.

"Is he handsome?"

Mirajane rolled her eyes without any politeness, then turned back to continue suppressing the still struggling Mineba with Erza, not even bothering to give a perfunctory "hmm".

"Get out of here!"

He hurled the strange bird at Delyatai, who had just gotten up, like a bowling ball.

With a muffled "boom," the two monsters collided and rolled on the ground in the shattered ice.

Before they could get up, Riyao suddenly exerted force with his feet, and like an arrow released from a bow, he rushed forward with a piercing sound.

Just as Delyatai struggled to stick his head out, he was met with a fist the size of a sandbag.

"You're really going to suffer today!"

Without any fancy magic, Sunshine simply rode on Delyatai's back, punching him again and again.

They forcefully hammered this enormous cyborg demon into the thick iceberg below, inch by inch, like driving a nail.

The ice surface collapsed in large areas, and ice fragments mixed with thick blood splattered everywhere.

"It's really durable, no wonder it's from the Gates of Hell."

After throwing more than a dozen punches, Riyao stretched his wrists, feeling a bit bored with this monotonous physical ritual.

He took a deep breath, his eyes suddenly turning cold.

He brought his right fist to his waist, the power in his muscle fibers was compressed wildly, and then a heavy punch, like a battering ram, slammed into Deliatai's left chest.

Click~

With a deafening crash as his sternum shattered, the terrifying penetrating force pierced directly through Delyatai's chest cavity.

That resilient heart, modified by demonic power, burst instantly under absolute pressure.

Delyatai's eyes bulged out, the fierce light in his pupils quickly dissipated, his massive body twitched twice, and he was completely dead.

After dealing with the big guy, Riyao stood up, grabbed the neck of the strange bird next to him that was already terrified, and swung it around twice in mid-air.

"Is this edible? Should we make soup or braise it?"

Lucy, who was watching from the side, kept rubbing her arms. When she heard Sun's outrageous statement, she couldn't hold back any longer and started yelling and complaining.

"Even if you could eat it, you wouldn't be able to bring yourself to eat it because of its grotesque shape!"

Riyao thought about it and realized it made sense. He casually tossed the strange bird aside, patted the ice shards off his hands, and looked back.

He discovered that the degeneration spell cast on everyone had been lifted, and everyone had returned to their normal size, except for Wendy, who was pouting and looking sullen.

Minerva is in a bad situation. Erza and Mirajane are pinning her to the ground, one on each side. Erza is holding a gleaming knight's sword, the blade pressed directly against Minerva's neck.

"Let me go! I don't need your help! You people have no idea what I've been through!"

Although Minerva was completely subdued, she still held her neck high, her face full of humiliation and resentment.

"Huh? Doesn't she usually like to refer to herself as 'Young Miss,' 'This Concubine,' or 'This Humble Girl'? Why is she suddenly referring to herself as 'I'?"

Riyao curiously approached and squatted down next to Minerva, looking her up and down.

Mirajane stretched out her fair finger and poked Minerva's forehead hard, making her grit her teeth.

"Perhaps given her current image as a prisoner, she herself feels it's inappropriate to use those pretentious self-references."

"What a pity, I didn't have a chance to hug Xiaomila more just now, she felt so good." Riyao stroked his chin, looking regretful.

Mirajane's eyes became extremely "kind".

"I'll hit you if you say that again."

"Hehehe, can you turn back into Mira before you fight me? I won't fight back."

Instead of showing any restraint, Riyao smiled even more broadly and shamelessly leaned closer.

Mirajane immediately took action, grabbing Sunrise's ear and twisting it halfway around.

While Riyao cried out in pain, his body language betrayed him as he grinned and leaned closer, clearly enjoying himself.

"what!"

Just then, Lucy suddenly let out a short scream.

Everyone was startled and turned to look in the direction Lucy was staring in terror.

While Minerva was pinned to the ground, she took advantage of the moment when everyone was distracted and Erza loosened her grip, and immediately activated the spatial magic [Absolute Territory].

With a spatial distortion, she vanished from the spot and ran away.

Erza punched the ice in frustration, grunted, and turned away with her hands behind her back.

Mirajane's lips curled up as he moved closer to Erza.

"Oh dear, does your hand hurt?"

Sunshine shrugged, ignoring the runaway Minerva, and instead looked in the direction Lucy had been looking.

A woman with floor-length red hair and an eerie look appeared there at some unknown time.

"Isn't that Freya from Raventail? What's she doing here?" Sunrise raised an eyebrow.

Freya acted as if she hadn't heard Sunrise's words, her red hair dancing wildly in the wind, her eerie eyes fixed on Lucy as if she were staring at some rare treasure.

"Blonde hair..."

Lucy felt her hair stand on end from being stared at, and instinctively shrank behind Wendy, gripping Wendy's shoulders tightly with both hands.

"Stop staring at me! Why do these scenes of being stared at so intently always happen? Juvia was like that before too!"

Wendy was forced to stand between the two.

She smiled awkwardly but politely, completely unsure of what to do.

He turned to look at Riyao, trying to seek help from the adults.

When she turned around, she found that Riyao had pulled out a handful of sunflower seeds from somewhere and was leaning against the ice wall, happily cracking them open, looking like a front-row spectator.

"Sunshine, save me!" Wendy cried, tears welling up in her eyes.

"It's alright, it's alright. Freya was just tricked into Raven's Tail by that old fox Ivan. She doesn't have any bad intentions."

Riyao spat out the sunflower seed shells, cleared his throat, and spoke with righteous indignation.

"Lucy is really something, using such a cute child like Wendy as a shield. I strongly condemn this."

"It's easy for you to say that when you're not the one experiencing it. Try being stared at like that for a while!"

Lucy peeked out from behind Wendy and yelled at Sunshine.

After yelling, she forced herself to turn to Freya and force a smile that looked worse than a grimace.

"Freya, what are you doing here? It's been so long, hahaha..."

"I'm just going home."

Freya tilted her head, her red hair wriggling like a snake.

"Besides, it hasn't been that long since we last met. I went to Magnolia and followed you, watching you from the shadows..."

"Hey! That's even scarier, isn't it!?"

Lucy was so startled by Freya's blunt declaration of following her that her voice cracked.

In an instant, she conjured up a series of images in her mind of having eyes watching her from behind while she was walking down the street, eating, or sleeping, and she felt a chill run down her spine.

"I thought it was my imagination. You wouldn't even see me while I'm showering..."

"Mmm." Freya responded with a resounding "Mmm" without any hesitation.

Lucy covered her face in despair.

She seriously suspected that her body was cursed, always attracting strange and perverted people.

"Hey everyone! We got the Moon Drop!"

In this eerie atmosphere, Natsu's signature loud voice came from afar.

Natsu ran back, holding a bottle full of purple liquid aloft.

Not far behind them, the three treasure hunters were chasing them relentlessly in a fit of rage.

"Damn it, give it back to us! That's an S-grade treasure, you bunch of robbers!"