Maybe there had been a day where Freed would have played ignorant to the meaning behind the lion’s words in order to maintain the facade that the girls had won against both Bixlow and himself by nothing more than sheer wit and ingenuity. But now, when so many months - or rather it was years now, wasn’t it? - had transpired since the event, it was no longer any real secret that both he and his comrade had intentionally allowed the two to vanquish them in their match.
For that reason, he found no harm in explaining the reasoning that drew him to that conclusion regardless of whether or not Loke thought his actions to be necessary.
“Perhaps I did not need to technically…” Came his easy agreement, light eyes just moments before absorbed with the words aligning his book flickering up to instead regard the male whom he had felt appear, but had not expected to address him of all people, “But I owed Cana for my actions throughout the duration of the Battle of Fairy Tail. I was aware of the importance winning brought to her and made it my duty to ensure she progressed in the competition to the best of my abilities. If anyone deserved to emerge victorious and represent Fairy Tail with the title of an S Class Mage, it was her, not I.”
Naturally the rune mage had not thrown the fight to gain forgiveness from either Lucy or Cana for what he and his comrades had put them through during the Fantasia parade, as he was well aware that what he had done - or rather, what he was very nearly going to do to his own comrades - could never be fully forgiven.
Instead he had done it in hopes of assisting Cana in achieving a dream she had been working towards for years - a dream that she had every right to see come true.
“I suppose I should extend a similar apology to you as well on behalf of Bixlow. While I was not present, I was informed that you were forced to engage him in combat with Lucy during the games. For that, I am truly sorry; our intentions were never to go that far.”
He would slowly slip down into the chair next to his fellow Mage, a glance given to the book that he had been reading, wondering what it was that had gained Freed’s interest for the moment. Part of him wondered, and almost hoped, that during the time that had passed he and Lucy had struck up a friendship. After all, they had a lot of common interests, and she really did need some calmer influences in her life. Just Levy wasnt enough.
“I of course wasnt there, I was with Gray--” Their trail had lead to Mest and Wendy, he actually wondered if everyone had their own contingency plan to deal with the young Dragon Slayer. At the time, none of them would have wanted to go full strength on her. Now though, it was a lot different. She had grown into a very impressive young Mage. “--But I heard about it. I couldn’t help but laugh a little.” He maybe felt a little guilty about that. But such a ‘weakness’ to pull out of the Shinki Mage was a little amusing.
He knew that ‘Sexy Lady Card’ all too well. There were far too many times she had sprung it on him more times than he could count. He’d turn, and then, bam, half naked women everywhere. She of course found it funny.
“Still, you gave up a lot in the way of that forgiveness.” He had remembered Freed’s words the day the candidates were announced, that he’d be doing it for Laxus, who’d have thought the events that occurred on that Island would have been, indeed, the ones to bring back the Lighting Slayer to the fold. “I’d be betraying my partner if I said I agreed Cana should have been the one to win though.” Even though he completely agreed.
She had struggled for so long. She deserved it.
Hand would wave in a motion at the words on Bixlow, head shaking a little. “It’s no real problem. Nothing got too out of hand, and I really owe him a lot for helping keep my true identity under wraps for as long as I did.” With the Seith Mage able to see souls, he was truly thankful for the fact he kept that Loke was not what he said he was to himself. “You just wanted to make us stronger, I understand.”
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