The Truth

Obviously, the first choice was the worst choice for it. It was only the remnants of the Demon King's soul, after being sealed for hundreds of years, its soul slowly weakened and even it felt it was no longer worth being called the Demon King's soul.

Although it did not know what the 'Council' meant, its instincts said that it should not fall into the hands of the Council. It was an existence that lived hundreds of years ago, after being reawakened in a new Era made it him feel foreign to the current system of the magical world.

It seems like only the third option was the most likely allows him to stay alive after being sealed for several years. He is also curious about the current magic system in this world.

"I... choose to submit..." at least it still has a chance to...

"Even if you say so... what's the advantage for me to keep you alive?" Nathan said lazily while leaning his back.

It's true, all he needs is the ability of this flute, devouring souls either it's life soul or dead soul. Therefore, he needs this flute for his future plans. As for the demon soul within it, he thought it was just additional ability of the eeriness of the Lullaby.

Lullaby silent for a moment, if it had a head maybe it could shake it right now. As expected from humans, humans are humans in the end, they are cunning, more cunning than the whisperers' devil.

"If you think my existence is merely one of the Lullaby's features, you're totally wrong! the 'Devouring' ability comes from my existence and without my existence, this magic item will never become a Lullaby."

"What!!?" that means what is recorded in the book turns out to be out of reality, "...Wait! you were created by Great Dark Mage Zeref right?" he had read a number of books concerning Zeref's dark magic, it said that Zeref had created those terrible demons and turned them into the form of magic itself.

Lullaby is one of the few magic items in a special case, the book recorded that Lullaby is a magic item developed by Zeref, and the "Demon Form" is one of its abilities. But this demon soul said as if it was a separate existence from Lullaby.

Meanwhile, the Lullaby was displeased after hearing that it was created by humans, "Humans are humans, demons are demons. We are different entities and we are definitely not created by humans"

Nathan raises his eyebrows, even though he understood in general but he still could not perceive why most of the demons in Earthland acknowledge themselves was an entity created by Zeref.

Seeing the boy confused, Lullaby couldn't help explain it, "To begin with it, the demons live in a different world. It was humans who summoned demons into this world in order to fulfill their desires. But human's nature is way too greedy, they are never satisfied with what they have got. One day, some human decided to seal the demons they summoned and make it an experiment to fulfill their greed. And you can see the fate of mine..." when it mentioned its own fate, its tone turned dejected.

Nathan was shocked, this was a truth that was far too shocking to him. The explanation he had just heard made his mind a bit chaotic, because the truth behind Zeref's demon and the truth that Lullaby said was rather contradictory, "Ugh ..." he massaged his temples.

Alright, he is only a ten-year-old child, it's not good for his babyish skin if he keeps thinking about things that are too complicated. He can learn little by little as the time will answer everything.

"Cough... let's back to our main topic!..." after hearing Lullaby's words, for some reason he felt rather pity toward the demon soul inside the Lullaby. It cannot be helped, you see! It was summoned, then captured, experimented, exploited, sealed, and It will be used as a slave.

"Well... you know, you killed innumerable human..."

"I killed because it was an order"

"... you ate their souls..."

"It's not like in the Demon World there is no better foods!!"

"... peoples even gave you the epithet "Mass Murder Curse Magic", you see it rather coo..."

"Snort! just return me to the Demon World!"

"..."

Just Nathan was about to continue his conversation with Lullaby, suddenly a small knock was heard from outside his door, "Nathan are you okay?" the door slowly opened as Lucy entered the room.

"I heard a noise from your room," Lucy said while looking around the room.

"I'm fine, just a bad dream." Nathan pretended to lie in the bed as he had put back Lullaby in his bag and hide the assassin's corpse into the shadow.

"Poor my little 'cousin', you don't wet your bed right? don't hide the wet sheets! get up, let me see it!"

Nathan's face turned flushed in shame, "I'm not!" does she think he's still a three-year-old child?

"Let me accompany you until you sleep!"

"It's fine, I don't want to disturb mom and dad's night time!" of course he points it to Natsu.

Lucy's turn flushed this time, "We're in the different room!!!" Lucy stomped off out the room, "go back sleep brat! we leave for Magnolia tomorrow morning!" then she closed the door.

Nathan just smiled seeing Lucy come out, he wanted to talk again with Lullaby but it said it had to save its energy. To restore it he needed to feed it another soul, so he didn't force him and decided to sleep.

...

Early morning mist beginning to clear, dew-laden grass and trees, sunrises casting the thin layer of cloud, birds sing, tap horse carriages, the noise of city dwellers.

"Why do we have to ride a carriage again? Just kill me already! ueee.." Natsu protested with a nauseated face, he had just recovered yesterday from motion sickness, and yet now it happened again.

Lucy massaged his back neck, sighing "Hold on Natsu, we've arrived!"

Nathan shook his head at the weakness of the Dragon Slayer toward the vehicle.

Initially they boarded the train from Oshibana to Magnolia, however, they were forced to stop at Onibas because of the repair of the railroad.

So they were no other choice to ride a horse-drawn carriage, though there's no different for Natsu either, their journey became much longer.

Along the way, Nathan also brought a newspaper that one of the news reports about the dark guild Eisenwald who was arrested for committing riots and hijacking at several stations. Another one is the name Fairy Tail which successfully thwarted the mass murder plan by Eisenwald and there also the details about some property damages done by Fairy Tail.

Nathan frowned, there was something fishy about this news, or rather said there was news that was deliberately covered, it was the facts about the Lullaby used by Erigor were false didn't mention in the news. If that news is spread, Eisenwald will be a laughing stock in Fiore, even Fairy Tail will also be affected.

Though, Fairy Tail will never give a damn about something that as their reputation was already poor to begin with.

However, he was curious. Who did that? helping Fairy Tail? what for? after a fruitless attempt to thinking over it he assumed that he is overthinking it.

Even though it was the Council who helped Fairy Tail, only two people were most likely to do that, they are Siegrain and Yajima, or another one...? well, forget about it! Nathan shook his head.

Shortly thereafter, the group finally arrived in their beloved city, Magnolia Town. It's lively as ever.

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