‘…’

It was already evening now, and Lucy was walking silently on the sunset path with her shoulder bag.

At this time, she lowered her head, walked forward step by step on the desolate road without any haste.

She is not in a good mood now.

Just now, she had a showdown with her own father in the study, with the so-called family interests, and the kind of person who wanted to marry her to a guy she had never met before, and she had a complete breakup, and it was a very difficult and difficult to repair.

If...

If she had run away from home secretly before, then this time, she would have been blatantly "abandoned her home" and would probably not even know when she would come back in the future.

Because there is no longer anything that makes her attached to in this family...

What she wants is never money or beautiful clothes, nor is it the so-called wealthy marriage arranged by the other party. What she wants is just a place where she can play her role, recognize her as a person Lucy, and treat her as a companion and family.

And in such a place, the place where she realizes her life value and makes herself no longer an optional puppet and a "tool person", she has actually found it and is about to return to it.

‘You guys see?’

?(ψ｀▽′)?

‘Isn’t she just there? People say she will definitely be fine, but you still have to pull them to search for it. It’s really…’

(′～`●)

At this time, a familiar and slightly complaining voice came from a distance.

‘!!’

This made Lucy stunned.

Then, she, who was originally thinking about her own thoughts, couldn't help but subconsciously stop, looked up in surprise, squinted her eyes, and blocked the golden but still a little dazzling light with her hands, and then carefully looked at the somewhat dazzling place in the distance.

'Hello!'

‘Lucy?’

‘Lucy!!!’

‘Hi! Lucy!’

Then, the familiar voices and figures of Lucy ran towards her at the same time, which made her heart startle and suddenly warmed up.

‘!!’

‘It’s Anne!’

‘And Natsu, Gray, Habi and Elusa…’

‘How could it be?’

Whrew, standing in the manor of the Hartfiria family that once belonged to her and grew up, Lucy covered her mouth and smiled for the first time and shed a few crystal tears.

‘Everyone, everyone…’

Then she shook her eyes hard, rushed towards the companions in front of her desperately, and hugged each other so much, cheering and enthusiastically.

‘Naz…’

‘And Habi…’

‘Why are you all here?’

‘It’s very simple!’

‘Are you a little worried about you?!’

‘Haby is worried about Lucy too!’

'But……'

'Didn't I leave a letter? I knew that you guys would definitely break into my room without authorization!'

‘That would make you more worried!’

'that……'

'Actually, it was because of the lot of letters you wrote that you had not sent out. After reading it, everyone thought they had to pay more attention to you, so they came here.'

‘!!’

'you……'

‘Damn it! You guys have opened the letters I have written to my mother in the box?!’

‘No, not me!’

‘It’s Habi!’

‘Eh?’

‘Naz, didn’t you take it apart first? What Hubby found was obviously those weird underwear…’

‘!!’

‘Return the underwear…’

‘Damn it! You guys, stop me!’

'Ouch!'

‘Don’t run!!!’

Soon, while chatting, Natsu, who accidentally said something "unspeakable" and a certain unscrupulous cat named Habi quickly became the target of venting and attacking Lucy, who was so embarrassed that she was angry, and the few people were hustling here and making a noise.

The laughter and crying sound soon spread around the Hartfilia manor, causing the servants who were originally worried about Lucy's condition to be attracted to look out from a distance, and showed a different expression.

“Really…”

╮(╯▽╰)╭

"Hello!"

(●'?'●)?

"Lucy! Since everyone is here, your castle still looks luxurious, then hurry up and invite everyone to eat a ton (read dùn)?"

?(????)?

After seeing those guys finally had enough trouble, Annie hurried forward, couldn't wait to pull the corner of Lucy's skirt, and signaled the other party to take her to find the delicious food.

You know, she was pestered by those guys and rushed here overnight. In addition, she slept all the way and missed breakfast and lunch after getting up. Now she was so hungry that she couldn't stand it anymore, so she just waited to go to Lucy's house for a few days before she went back!

"ah?"

"this……"

His best companions traveled thousands of miles to find him, and even found his home directly. For reasons, Lucy should have a good meal and arranged accommodation.

but……

"Sorry, Annie, and everyone... Or, let's go out to eat. I'm afraid it's a bit inconvenient for everyone at home..."

Thinking about the farce I had just had with my father and what I had said, she was really not convenient to do that kind of thing at this moment, so she could only say with a wry smile.

"Ah? Why? Is it possible that there is no food for that big house?!"

=????(???*)

Anne felt a little unbelievable. Anyway, she didn't believe that the guy living in such a big castle would not even have good chefs or food!

Besides, Queen Anne had lived in a castle like that, or a larger and more luxurious than that, but she knew that there must be many large and spacious rooms, a large restaurant, a large group of servants and chefs, and it was impossible for them to be able to not be able to accommodate them.

"Okay!"

"Anne!"

"Lucy is afraid that he has some difficulties, so don't ask so much. Besides, we are not very hungry, so it's not impossible to eat outside."

Elusa seemed to see that Lucy's face was a little unnatural. Thinking that the matter with the Ghost Guild was caused by the other party's father, she hurriedly stopped her and wanted to pull Lucy to the castle not far away, and then persuaded her, preparing to give Lucy a step so that she would not embarrass her too much.

She occasionally felt delicate and noticed Lucy's abnormality, and felt that before they came, something must have happened here that they didn't know.

Guru~!

Of course, although she said that, her belly betrayed her at this time, making her "not very hungry" speech unreasonable at all.

"But, what's the point of asking?"

(??ˇεˇ??)

Anne, who just wanted to fill her stomach and wanted to have a delicious meal, would she care about Lucy's difficulties? So, she still stubbornly wanted to pull Lucy back and eat and drink well in that big mansion, and stay for at least one or two days.

"cough!"

"Anne..."

Elucy didn't know what to say, so she could only pretend to cough, and then kept winking at the other party.

"Why are you staring at me? Did you get into the sand? They won't blow it to you!"

(?˙ー˙?)
To be continued...