On the third day after joining the Fairy Tail Guild and becoming the official magician of the "Demon Tail", Anne and Lucy moved out of the building at the guild's residence with joy.
They had to do it because, the guild was mixed with dragons and snakes, and it was very noisy and hustle and bustle, just like a bar and a place to fight. So if it was a temporary place to be a place for renovation and play, it would be a barely enough to make do with it, but if you want to live there for a long time, it would definitely not work!
So...
After much thought, Lucy, with a little girl, joined the commercial area that has been very popular since ancient times and is completely different from the port city of Harugion. In this city called "Magnolia", a beautiful house with a garden and a swimming pool as residence.
This Magnolia city is very big. In the center of the city, it is the tallest building, Caldia Cathedral. Through the cathedral towering in the center of the city, walk along the spacious and straight avenue and heading northwest. After crossing the river-crossing stone bridge and extending to the seaside, the second tallest but most beautiful building in the city is their "fairy tail" guild base, and it is also the only Magician Guild in this city!
However, it is said that there were many other Magician Guilds here in the past?
But to this day, they have disappeared. As for whether they were bankrupt and disbanded by the "demon tail" for legal competition, or had to be evacuated for other reasons... Anyway, whether it is a bad little girl or Lucy, they will definitely not ask about those boring things in detail.
Anyway, after moving out of the "Demon Tail" guild station that was not suitable for long-term living and completely bid farewell to the narrow and noisy single dormitory of the guild members, Anne and Lucy "jointly ventured" at the foot of the western mountain of the city, in this beautiful scenic treasure land near the river and the sea, in this beautiful large bathroom, two cloakrooms, two master bedrooms, a hall, a kitchen and a dining room, as well as a large fireplace, a hot water boiler, as well as the garden and swimming pool mentioned earlier, and rented it in a large villa with two maids.
After staying here for two days, Lucy was very satisfied with everything here. Even if she was so picky, she couldn't find any big problems. She just wanted to live here forever and completely treat this place as her own home?
However...
Lucy knew that it was unlikely...
Because, the rent for this house is too expensive, it costs so much 360,000 J a year! Moreover, it is just rent, which is not considered the normal consumption every month, such as sanitation fees, firewood coal costs, city management fees, property fees, daily living expenses, and the salary of two employed maids, etc.
To be honest, Lucy didn't plan to rent a house that was so big, beautiful and luxurious, because at that price, you can buy a two-story cabin in the city after renting it for two years!
Before, before they were sure to rent this big house, she had a two-story wooden building beside the stone bridge near the river, not far from the guild. It was also very large, and it was more than enough to live in the two girls. The rent was only 70,000 J a year, and it was only about 600,000 J to buy it directly. How could it be as outrageous as the place you rent now?
Of course, the place I live in now is really comfortable, which makes Lucy no longer intend to move out and save money.
but……
There is one problem Lucy has to face, that is: she seems to be out of money!
If she rented the two-story small house with a loft she liked before, the cost of living in a year would not exceed 100,000 J at most. In that case, her life would be very wealthy and leisurely, and would not be too troublesome about money in a short period of time, as long as she didn't go shopping and spend money randomly?
However, when she accidentally gave up the principle she insisted on, surrendered to the attack of a little girl's sugar-coated shells, and agreed to share the rent with the other party and live in this beautiful villa, she found that even if the rent was shared by the two, her annual living cost would be at least about 300,000 J, which was three times that of her plan!!
So, when the plan could not keep up with the changes, and when the purse became increasingly haggard and gradually became weak, she had just joined the Fairy Tail Guild for a few days. Before she could adapt, she had to start facing reality and worry about her livelihood, and planned to take one or two money-making commissions to maintain her luxurious life like a noble lady who she didn't really want to change?
Although Lucy doesn't know what it means to go from frugality to extravagance to frugality, she only knows that once she has experienced the comfortable days of this luxury house, she will definitely go crazy once she has moved out to live in a small wooden building or a single dormitory in a guild!
So, Lucy rarely invited Natsu, who had a good relationship in the guild and could barely be considered a friend, and planned to work with the other party to make a lot of money, so that she would not have to move back to the guild to live in a single dormitory because she had no money to pay her living expenses one day?
“Huh?”
|??ω?`)
"Hello, Big Frog and Hubby, why are you two here too?"
(*′▽ｍ)ノHello!
At this time, just as Lucy frowned and pondered with a note of commissioning brought by Natsu, Anne finally appeared and happily waved to a certain cat, Habi and a large uncooked frog, Natsu.
"ah!"
"Hello, Anne, I'm visiting your house with Naz."
Hearing the sound, Hubby just turned around and waved his claws a little, and then continued to watch the extremely luxurious home of each other and Lucy.
In its opinion, this place is more than ten thousand times better than the doghouse in Natsu. It has begun to consider whether to change a shoveler... because it seems that it also wants to live in such a huge house, and then when it is okay, it can also stroll in the garden outside?
Unfortunately, there was no fish in the pool outside the garden, otherwise it would have made up its mind to get rid of Natsu for the time being and instead put it under the skirts of the two women.
"you!"
"snort!"
"I'm not a big frog. You can call me Naz. My full name is: Aitlias Naz Doragnier, the strongest 'fire dragon' of the fairy tail!!"
Natsu obviously didn't like the inexplicable nickname of "big frog" that the other party gave him, and he didn't like the other party to use magic tricks that can reshape reality and change the essential structure of the world, and use that weird transformation technique to tease himself, such as turning him into a frog, then putting it on the fire and baking it for fun, or something?
Although, due to the lost ancient magic "Fire Dragon-Extinguishing Magic", the flames cannot cause any harm to his own body, no matter what, he does not like to be turned into a frog and tied to the branch to reach the fire to roast, and then be nicknamed the hateful "big frog"!
If he hadn't been sure that he really could not do anything to the little girl with extremely weird magic, and would have only humiliated herself by doing it casually, he might have been to teach the other party a lesson long ago.
"oh!"
(??`?'??)
"Okay! Then from now on, I will call you the 'strongest fire dragon and big frog'!"
?(*?)?
Annie replied indifferently, then ran towards the restaurant.
Because she was hungry now, she was going to find the considerate maid and lady to ask for something delicious. As for whether the Fire Dragon Frog and the Cat Star Hubby want to eat, she wouldn't care. Anyway, she had already said hello and was already very polite.
“…”
Natsu was so angry that he turned his head and stopped talking.
snort!
He knew that it was useless to tell such a little girl. Since he couldn't beat him and didn't dare to scold him, what else could he do?
Fortunately, he was thinking about moving here to live with Lucy and the others. Anyway, there are many empty rooms in their house, so I definitely don’t mind being alone. But... I suddenly realized that there was a devilish little girl living here, and she was not willing to be teased by the other party every day with that strange magic, so I had to let that idea go dispelled sadly.
“…”
Lucy didn't care about the dialogue or conflict between Anne and Natsu. Anyway, the two of them didn't deal with such things. Both her and others in the guild were used to it, so she continued to look at the commission that Natsu chose, which was said to be able to earn 200,000 J at random, which was super easy to make.
“Um…”
“!!”
"Um?!"
Finally, as he looked, Lucy suddenly frowned and took the entrustment notice directly on the table in disbelief.
Bang!!
"Naz!!"
"This commissioned mission, this one goes to the town of Hilozme, stealing a book from Duke Aibar's mansion will have a task of 200,000 J. You wouldn't want me to pretend to be a maid and sneak in and steal the book from the erotic Duke Aibar?"
After watching, especially after seeing the very good reward, Lucy suddenly understood why Natsu was willing to work with him and come to his house when he heard his message. It turned out that the other party was trying to use her beautiful girl with a beautiful appearance?
Although, she didn't mind using her best and proud weapons to deal with the enemy, the feeling of being used by her own people still made her feel a little unhappy.
"ah!"
"You think so too?"
"really!"
"Lucy, I knew that you are indeed the one who is the best partner with me!"
“!!”
"Damn it! I just didn't mean this. Naz, you guy, don't be proud there!"
"But……"
"Lucy, do you think that plan doesn't work?"
“Um…”
"It's not impossible, but if I'm asked to sacrifice my beauty to get in and perform the mission, you guys who are supporting me outside must take less!"
"Ah! Then how much do you think you want?"
"Just press 8:1:1 to assign!"
“!!”
"this……"
"Wow!"
"Is it Lucy that you take one, Natsu that gets one, and then Habi gets eight?"
“!!”
"You dream! It's me, Lucy, got eight copies, and you guys, one copy each of them, and one of them! There can't be more!"
"There is no room for negotiation on this matter!!"
Seeing that a cat that was basically useless dared to appear and wanted to split the big head, Lucy kicked the other person away with anger, and once again slapped the table and insisted viciously.
“Eh?”
?|?'-'?)?
"Are you playing any interesting games?"
(???.???)??????
Finally, Anne, who had originally run to the restaurant to find something to eat, heard the huge noise outside that was quarreling and slamming the table, couldn't help but walk out again, and stood beside him and asked curiously.
"It's not a game!"
"It's because of a commission from the guild. I have no money recently. In order to maintain a decent life, I have to go out to work!"
If it weren't for the lack of money, Lucy wouldn't have compromised and wanted to do such a task so urgently! But there was no way, sometimes people always had to bow to life, otherwise, what else could she do?
"All right!"
"Annie, this is actually the case..."
Seeing that the other party seemed very interested, Lucy sighed and handed Anne the letter of entrustment sent to them Fairy Tail Guild on the table, and explained the reason why she was angry just now and the quarrel with Natsu.
"Uh-huh……"
(ー`′ー)
"So that's how it is..."
?_?
"Then, I'll go to participate too! Just so happens, I'm almost gone without that kind of small money recently!"
(*?′?`?)
It seemed quite fun, but it was just a simple thing like stealing a book. So Anne raised her hand directly and said that Queen Anne also wanted to participate in it.
“Huh?!”
"Anne, you will lose money so soon? Last time, I saw you sold a few magic books in Harrogon and earned several stacks of large banknotes. That was at least about one million J. Why did you say you lost money so quickly?"
Lucy said that she was a little puzzled and didn't understand why this little guy suddenly said he had no money. Logically speaking, so much money was enough for the other party to spend a year or two.
Of course, if it were Lucy, even if it was calculated based on the current super decent living cost, it would probably be enough for her to spend three or four years.
"I don't know..."
(^～^;)ゞ
"There are not many left as you spend it, it seems that there are really not many pictures, probably less than ten pictures..."
く(＾_?)ゝ
After reaching out to her pocket, Annie took out a few pitiful brand new banknotes with an innocent look on her face.
She scratched her head a little.
Anyway, she didn't know what was going on. She bought something delicious, and she bought it a lot. Even if she couldn't finish it for a while, she would throw it into her bag and save it. In addition, she had to eat several big meals and several desserts a day. As she ate, play, and rented a house...
Isn't this?
Just a few days later, she found that the small money that she originally thought would be much smaller and smaller.
“!!”
"That's all? How did you spend money?"
"besides!"
"Why do you dare to rent such a big house when you have no money? Are you not afraid of spending all the money and not being able to pay the maintenance fee, and then being kicked out?!"
Lucy was shocked. She couldn't imagine the little guy in front of her who was too busy to spend money, so she was so angry that she started yelling in that half-roaring tone.
Originally, she thought the other party was very rich, and she was worried that she could not afford the rest of her living expenses and had to move out... But now she realized that the other party had less than ten pieces of money. Even the one with the largest face value, it was probably poorer than Lucy, right?
"Not afraid, isn't this all spent yet?"
(*^▽^*)
Anne said with a careless and heartless smile.
Anyway, if she has no money, she can just continue to sell magic books, or, just like the two people in front of her, she will take on a few small tasks casually?
“!!”
"I don't care about you anymore!"
"Anyway!"
"We can't take you with this mission, you can think of a solution first!!"
Lucy was a little angry and firmly refused Anne's request just now, rejecting the other party's application to join their team.
"But……"
(≡??·???≡)
"I can use magic to turn you into small animals, so that you can easily get in and steal that book without pretending to be a maid!!"
?(ˊ?ˋ)?
Anne heard the conversation between the two just now and knew that Sister Lucy wanted to sneak into the Duke and Earl's house to steal books while pretending to be a maid, so she directly gave a better solution.
"Anyway, it just won't work!"
"Not this time!"
Lucy, holding her arms and feeling that she should teach the other party a profound lesson, turned her over so firmly.
“!!”
(???·????)
"If it doesn't work, it won't work. It's not rare for people!"
o(′^)o
Seeing that the other party had rejected his kindness so cruelly, Annie was also a little angry and turned around with resentment, and ran to the restaurant with a big angrily stride.
"snort!"
(??ˇ?ˇ?ˇ??)
"If you fail and want to ask someone to help, they will only give you a little share!"
?|?'-'?)??
After stretching out his head and threatening the two men fiercely, Annie quickly shrank back.
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Chapter completed!