Chapter 74

The Stellar Spirit King is the seventy-fourth chapter of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail.

Full Summary
Loke is vanishing and tells Lucy to give his regards to Fairy Tail, but Lucy doesn’t let him go, and tries to open his gate forcibly. She says she can’t stand the loss of her friend, and uses all of her magic power to open the gate. Loke tries to stop her, but she persists. Loke keeps trying to make her give up, but Lucy won’t hear of it. Her power starts surging out like never before. Lucy is hell-bent on changing the rules, and after she shouts this, time stops, and the Celestial Spirit King arrives.

The King refers to Loke as old friend, and voices his crime. He says it doesn’t matter is the fault is direct or indirect, he cannot return to their kingdom. Lucy then interferes and sys that the punishment is going too far. She says that Loke has been suffering for three years, for his friend’s sake. The King says that he is pained by his old friend's fate, and Lucy says that he isn’t “old” he is right there, before his very eyes. She tells to the "Mustache Man" that Loke did nothing wrong and that she won’t accept anything but his innocence. At this point, Loke shouts that he wants to repent, but Lucy yells that he can’t since it is not a sin to care for your friends. Using all of her strength, she summons all her Zodiac spirit and Plue at once, an action which would have killed another Celestial Mage. She however cannot hold them for long, but the Spirit King concords that maybe the law is in error. After all, Leo did what he did to protect Aries, and Lucy did the same thing to protect Loke. The king doesn’t want this bond to be broken, so he makes an exception for this time. He grants Loke permission to return to the Spirit world. If Leo wants to repent, he should live on and protect Lucy, as he believes her to be a friend of such worth. Time then restarts, and Loke thanking Lucy returns to the Spirit World.