Chapter 58

Holistic Fantasy Chapter 58: What has changed and what has not changed since then

“Let’s settle this once and for all~~~!”

What nostalgic sounds .

What nostalgic words .

Those nostalgic figures .

These familiar scenes .

This nostalgic scene dispelled the out of place feeling he had due to being away from this place for 4 straight years . It also made him grin at the sight of it all .

This scene seems like it just happened yesterday, and he reacted as if he had just done the same feat yesterday as well . Noah lifted his arm and clenched his fist before striking the pink haired youth in the solar plexus with speed many times faster than what the youth could muster .

Bam

“Ogh!”

With a moan, the pink haired youth went stiff while his eyes started to bulge before he fell to the ground in a limp .

“I just came back and I could use some rest . Can we continue this the next time?”

Noah withdrew his fist and smiled at the collapsed youth before greeting him under the speechless gazes of the other guild members .

“It’s been a while! Natsu!”

“He… Hehe…”

Natsu grew much taller and his face also matured a lot since the last time he saw him . However, his refreshing smile is still plastered onto his countenance as the guy shouted out loud while holding down his aching stomach .

“Still so excitingly strong as usual!”

Noah smiled but before he could say anything, a small figure descended from above and landed beside Natsu .

“Natsu, are you okay?”

“Eh?”

Noah is amazed .

For no other reason than because the creature that landed at Natsu’s side is but a cat . It’s a blue cat with a pair of pure white wings .

“I am alright!”

Natsu energetically jumped up and rubbed his stomach before turning towards the cat with wings .

“This kind of damage is nothing, Happy!”

“Happy?”

Noah curiously examined the cat with wings .

“You’re Happy?”

“Aye!”

The blue cat named Happy responded with vigor .

“Happy hatched from an egg that squinty eyes picked up from somewhere, it happened not long after you were gone!”

From within the crowd, a black-haired kid with the guild insignia on his right chest walked out . He was bare-chested of course, with only a short pants he came and hugged Noah .

“Finally home, ya bastard!”

“Gray!”

Noah returned his hug and then laughed .

“It’s been so long since we last see each other and I see that you still haven’t changed, you are still not a big fan of shirts . ”

“Crap! I forgot!”

Gray looked like he just realized this now, the guild members can’t help but laugh in an uproar .

“Heeerr—!”

A tender voice came and a figure appeared behind Noah before lifting her legs and kicking at his Noah’s direction .

Even before he heard the noise, he already sensed her appeared behind him .

The rapid kick turned into afterimages as it approached him, the winds the attack drew also started hitting his back . Noah kept smiling like he hadn’t noticed a thing . His figure shifted half a step to the side in a deceptively slow speed which in reality was a very rapid dodge .

Swish

The kick cut through the air around where he was standing just a short while ago .

“Heeeerrr—-!”

Another tender sound came and another figure appeared at his other side, a short glint of light appeared as an arming blade materialized . The figure grabbed the blade and swung it at Noah with a faster momentum than the kick before, it’s path leaving a trial of sword light, its owner clearly isn’t holding back on this attack .

Ding

Noah didn’t even bother to dodge . He lifted his hand and pinched the sword in the middle of its rapid slash some 10 centimeters away from his face thereby thwarting the attack .

The whole process seemed complex but to the other guild members, they just heard two tender kiais within the short frame of a second . After that, Noah shifted to his side by half a step as a leg poked out from where his right torso was at . Meanwhile, he is pinching a blade that is aimed at his head from his left side .

The two figures finally appeared .

The onlookers finally dropped their jaw when they saw what happened and subsequently registered what had happened after adding in the details of the assailant to their cognitive processes .

Noah showed a helpless expression at the sight of it all .

‘Is this how you girls greet people?”

The assailants who kicked and slashed him withdrew their stances and walked in front of him .

The two assailants are young girls close to Noah’s age, around 17 years old .

The girl on the left had long white hair which reached down to her waist tied up in a ponytail by a butterfly looking hairband . The shirt she was wearing could do no more than cover those magnifent twin mounds on her body but could do little to hide her navel . The shirt certainly didn’t cover her back as well . She wore black mini skirt and black kneesocks .

The girl on the right had flaring red hair reaching her waist, she donned a silvery armor with a blue pleated skirt and had an arming sword in her hand . She looked like a total martial goddess with how heroic she looked .

These two girls are very familiar existences to him .

Different from Lisanna, they each transformed in a way . They are no longer the little girls he had known in the past, they had matured into mature maidens . They are Mira and Erza .

“You asshole!”

Although she had grown up to be a very charming girl, her verbal mannerisms are still unchanged from how he knew it . Crude and very fierce, even her eyes that are directed at him were filled with killing intention .

“So you still knew what it means to come home huh?!”

She sounded very fierce but no matter how one looks at it, it sure sounded like a wife scolding her husband for messing around outside and never returning home .

In stark contrast to Noah, Erza very simply stored away her arming blade and greeted him with a smile after sizing him up .

“Long time no see, you have changed . ”

“You girls changed drastically as well . ”

He expressed that line very emotively especially after inadvertently seeing those big ass jugs that her small vest can barely hold . (Tl: “inadvertently” . Er huh . )

“So much in fact that quite frankly I almost didn’t recognize you girls . ”

“Noah, surely you haven’t forgotten about us!”

At one of the table on the sides, a tanned beefcake with white hair wearing a high school uniform stood up while grinning at Noah .

“We are over here!”

“Oh, you’ve returned?”

A young girl in a bikini who had curly long black hair called out to him after chugging down a huge barrel of booze, she is clearly intoxicated .

“Finally, a fine specimen of a man in this guild!”

“You guys are… Elfman and Cana?”

Noah asked in a startled manner .

“Wow had you guys changed or what, and you Cana, when did you start drinking?”

“Maa maa… . ”

Cana heartily laughed while flushing from the inside of her .

“Don’t mind the small stuff!”

He glanced through those faces and recalled what his childhood friends used to look like and he compared them to what they looked like now . He could only sigh at how time can change anything .

At this point, a midget of an old man walked over from the bar and arrived in front of Noah .

The guild stood still as Noah looked eye to eye with this old man who he hadn’t see for 4 years . The emotional turbulence within their eyes is something that not many could detect .

After quite some time, the old man finally opened his mouth .

“You’ve grown…”

Noah nodded and responded with all his feelings in his sentence .

“I am back, gramps…”