Chapter 73

The Year 781: Blue Pegasus is the 73rd chapter of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail.

Summary
Back at the water fall, Lucy asks again, now shocked “You killed Karen?” Loke doesn’t deny it, but continues to say that a Celestial Spirit that killed his master is forbidden from returning to the Celestial World. Loke’s story unfolds...

Three years ago, in the Blue Pegasus guild, Karen Lilica was being asked out by a group of men. She told them she can’t go, so she summoned Aries, the Ram. Aries said she is not meant to entertain men, but Karen ordered her to go. When they leave, Karen and Bob started talking, and Karen said that spirits shouldn’t talk back to their masters. Bob told her not to use spirits as bad as she does, but she brushed it off, saying that spirits don’t have feelings, they’re just tools. Bob’s face thundered, and he tells her that spirits are living things, and if she makes them suffer, she will be the one suffering next.

Back at her room, Karen was beating Aries for making her look bad in front of Bob. She said that her punishment will be staying in the human’s world for 1 week, and when Aries said she didn't have that kind of Magical power, she brought out a chain, but Leo, the Lion switched places with her, forcibly summoning himself. He tells her to release them from their contracts. Karen tries to force him back, but since she doesn’t have enough Magical power, fails. Leo than went as far as to decide to stay there for as long as she doesn’t release them. Since she was not strong enough, she wouldn’t be able to summon more than one spirit, so she wouldn’t be able to go on missions. There’s another detail. Since Leo came to the Human’s world by himself, it’s his power that would be used, not Karen’s, so Karen is completely powerless to him. He retreated to the ruins and asks for Karen to look for him, when she decided to let go.

In the ruins, Leo was getting tired by the minute. Karen tried to negotiate her way out of this situation, and when she couldn’t she tried to beat her way out, but Leo didn’t back down. Sometime later, he noticed that while he couldn’t stop his life-force from eroding, he isn’t suffering like before. He decides to forgive Karen, and returned to the village but heard that Karen has died during a mission because she could not summon another spirit.

Back to the present, Loke starts vanishing for good. Lucy is frightened, and Loke tells her that he hasn’t been in the Spirit World in three years, so his Magic is almost gone. He thanks Lucy for being able to meet a Wonderful Celestial Spirit Mage, and asks to her to give his regards to everyone at Fairy Tail. Lucy doesn’t let him go, and tells him that she would help him get back.

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