Chapter 72: Daylight

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They all stood in shock as the Dragon they met during the Eclipse incident, was now in front of them again.

Gray: That's....

Lucy: One of the dragons who came out of the Eclipse door!

Yukino: The Eternal Flame is Atlas Flame?!

Flare: Huh? Flare seemed confused.

Carla: Didn't he return to his own time, 400 years in the past?

Atlas Flame: 400 years? Yes...four centuries I have burned.

Natsu: So you're still alive, mister?

Happy: Long time no see!

Atlas: Alive? No...not quite.

Wendy: This form is Atlas Flame's soul manifested through my Milky Way magic.

Marcel: So...that means he's...

Atlas Flame: It seems I am...perhaps... dead...In fact, it must have happened long, long ago...

Gray: You weren't aware of it?

Atlas Flame: Not so much awareness...as memory. My memory is clouded. Hmm...This place is...I am...

Natsu: Pull it together, mister!

Atlas Flame: I remember you, child of Igneel...and you, Marcel...

Carla: What's going on? Zirconis remembered everything clearly.

Wendy: Maybe it was the ice. It takes a very strong will for one's presence to persist after death, but it is very weak magic. And because he was frozen for a long time in this magic ice, a portion of his memory was damaged.

Atlas Flame: Yes...Hmm...it was ice...The world covered in ice!

Natsu: You're talking about this village, right, Mister?

Flare: Um...Could you please tell us what happened here?

Atlas Flame: Grr... That man...thought...I was...something I am not...Hmm...

Lucy: "That man"?

Atlas Flame: Yes...A single human changed the world to ice.

Gray: This was the work of an ice wizard?!

Marcel: So one person was responsible for all this?

Flare: Wh-why would anybody do that?

Atlas Flame: That man thought I was evil. He froze the village to eliminate me. A wizard who exorcises evil. A Devil Slayer.

Natsu: Devil Slayer?!

Lucy: Not a dragon slayer or a god slayer, but a wizard with devil-slaying magic?

Wendy: Is it magic to destroy demons?

Carla: It's the first time I've ever heard of that kind of magic!

Marcel: Same here. Yukino?

Yukino: I thought there were only two types of Slayer Magic.

Gray: 'I see now! So that's why the ice of the village worked on that guy! An Ice Devil Slayer! But who?!'

Atlas Flame: Grr...I do not remember...Just what...was I...

Flare: You are the guardian deity of this village! The flame of the giants!

Atlas Flame: Hmm...

Flare: Please, I beg of you! Shine your light on this place once more! Please save the
village!

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