Chapter 234 - Return To Ishgar {12} Journey Towards The Council [1]

After having taken a walk around Saint City, Amell returned to the apartment just in time for the morning sun to peek through the windows. When he opened the door and stepped inside he heard voices coming from the living room. In there sat everyone awake except for Lisa and drank their morning coffee, something Amell was also craving.

"Welcome back, master! How was your walk?" Jugo stood up and bowed then sat down again. He was speaking in a soft and quiet tone since Emilio had the biggest headache of his life.

"It was good." He answered and turned to Emilio, "Hello again, friend. I trust you have been made aware of my identity?" His tone quite stern despite having a slight smile on his lips.

"Y-Yes, Sir Amell!" Emilio stood up and performed a proper bow even though he felt like he had mini bombs going off inside his head from the slightest movement. Right now he didn't care about himself or how much he was hurting, he had the worlds most famous wizard in front of him so he focused solely on that.

Amell saw the struggle he faced when moving so he took a step forward and placed two fingers on Emili's forehead. "This should help," he said and Emilio felt the headache slowly fading away into nothingness.

"H-Healing magic! How marvellous, such ancient magic, absolutely amazing!" Emilio believed what Amell did was thanks to healing magic, which it wasn't. But since healing magic was extremely rare magic, it was no surprise Emilio had a bright smile on his face.

"I must say, albeit no disrespect to you, Sir Amell, I refused to believe them when they said you had been here last night! I just couldn't think of a reason as to why you would be in my apartment." Emilio stretched out his hand for a handshake.

"Yes, I wouldn't have been here unless you had spent last night drinking. Alcohol arranged our meeting rather than fate this time." Amell said as he returned the handshake.

"I can't say I remember much about yesterday, I just hope I didn't say anything to offend you, Sir Amell."

"Not at all. From what your wife said, I had prepared myself for a much more overblown reaction from you. I believe the words she used was a fanatic fan. But as I stand here, I don't see much of that going on." Lupus came and delivered a coffee mug to Amell as well.

"Angela! How could you say that!" Emilio turned around and glared at his wife, "I'm sorry for that, Sir Amell. I am very interested in wizarding history, and I guess she only saw that as me being a fanatic fan, which I am not." Emilio quickly cleared up that misunderstanding and continued talking now when his headache was gone.

"I was also told you wanted to speak to me. I can only assume that it involves the council since otherwise, I don't know what I could offer someone great as you!" Emilio said cheerfully. He couldn't wait to see the faces of those arrogant bastards over at HQ when he brought back the Eight Saint.

"That is correct. I simply needed you to tell me if the council is located in the same place as it always has. I would hate to get lost looking for the magic council, that would be highly embarrassing." Amell said, smiling.

"Of course, no problem. Let me just fetch my map!" Emilio ran away into the bedroom. He came back a few seconds later and sprawled the map onto the coffee table and placed a finger on the map. "Here, this is where we are now, Saint City. You want to head straight north from here and you will eventually come across HQ."

"I see." Amell leaned over the map and inspected it. The world map was incredibly detailed if compared to the time he joined Fairy Tail. Everything on the map was so detailed that even roads through dense forests were highlighted.

"This is great, thank you very much, friend."'

"Please, call me Emilio. And it was no bother, helping the Eight Saint made the rest of my life worth living!" He said in a fit of excitement. Angela hit him on the head from behind.

"What about me, or Lisa. Aren't we worth your time on this earth?" Her tone was dangerous and her face was red from the anger bubbling up inside her.

"S-Sorry, honey, I just got so excited!" Emilio said quietly while standing there and taking the abuse his wife layed on him.

For the rest of the day, they continued talking and discussing magic with each other. Emilio laid out all his questions on the table and finally after years, he got confirmed which rumours about Amell was true and which were not. And as it turned out, all the rumours he had heard were false. He was especially crushed when he heard that Amell hadn't really battled Zeref like most of the world thought.

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