266 Chapter 266 : Meeting...

Inside the tower, as Erza was walking through the corridors, it triggered her to remember her monstrous past.

When the guards came asking who was the mastermind behind the plan to escape, Jellal courageously said that it was him but the guard decided that it was Erza.

Despite the fact that it was Shô who had the idea, Erza accepted the punishment trembling with fear but also smiling, to assure the others that she was not afraid.

Coming back from the short flashback she had she heard a few noises and when she looked deep in the corridor a figure started walking towards her.

??? : It's been a long time Erza...

Erza almost froze at the familiar voice and when the figure came closer to her she recognised with his almost moist eyes...

It was Shô her childhood friend inside the tower which had blond hair, arranged in a wavy look with fringes hanging above his forehead and has tan skin.

He has somewhat dark beady eyes and a small 5-shaped tattoo can be located below his lower lip. He wears an earring with diamond ornaments attached on his left ear.

He wore a long red robe with collar along with a pink pinstripe suit underneath it.

Now in the same tower again after years, both of them looked at each other as Erza was happy to see him alive and well...

Erza : Shô what are you planning to do with the R-System??

Sho : Obviously to resurrect the Dark Mage...

Erza : But That will cause consequences unreversible to the Magic World.

Shô : You who escape so many years have no right to say that. Jellal will bring us to "Paradise" and then all of us will rule together.

Erza : It seems Jellal has brained washed you Sho... Because i have some important news for you guys...

Sho : Oh?? What would a traitor know....

Erza : Zeref is pretty much alive, this whole tower has no meaning with the so-called R-project...

Up to some point Erza had learned from Ryouji, the purpose of the Tower and that it was impossible to use that magic because the person he wanted to resurrect was not even dead...

When she had learned that, she wanted to rush and save her friends but she knew she lacked the strength to do so and therefore was trained like the rest of the Guild members by passing through the hellish pressure of Ryouji...

Sho : Hahahahaha, what are you saying Erza... Our life long goal was to escape from this nightmare and you abandoned us... Jellal showed us the way forward, the only truth in this world...

Erza : Then answer me this, where was Jellal during the revolt and how did he know that i revolted and abandoning you...??

Sho froze, it was something that he had buried deep within him within the passing years, back then it was Erza who almost helped them escape and went to look for Jellal.

Then Jellal, appeared and told them that Erza abandoned them, but in the end, how did he know it, he looked at Erza who had tears in her eyes refusing to believe anything...

Erza : I'll tell you how... Because when i went to find him he had already lost himself to this tower madness...

Erza : He attacked me and almost killed me... Threaten me with your lives if i said anything about the tower only to have myself be woken up somewhere far away...

Sho : No, no, this isn't real..... You are lying...

Sho : Jellal had said that you planted bombs in their ships and that if he hadn't noticed, everyone would have died.

Sho : He then made everyone get back to work on the tower, claiming it was a sign that the tower must continue to be built.

Erza : Shô i would never do that, you know it inside you....

As Sho was grimacing in his face from being confused by all this Another voice appeared from somewhere before a figure approached them...

??? : So i was always right, Jellal had changed completely within the night we almost escaped...