Chapter 72

The Lone Star That Can't Return to the Sky is the seventy-second chapter of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail.

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Loke is telling Lucy that he doesn’t have a long time to live, but suddenly laughs, saying that it was one of his ruses. Lucy slaps him and leaves with Happy and Plue, saying that she doesn’t like that kind of jokes. Loke then thinks to himself that he shouldn’t be doing what he is doing, as he can’t get Lucy involved, just because of his feelings.

The next day at Fairy Tail, Gray and Natsu are fighting over who won the pillow fight. Lucy watches them with angry eyes and tells them to shut up. They obey, much to everyone’s surprise. Happy then asks her why she is so down, and offers to talk to her, Lucy declines but thanks him for his offer. Meanwhile a bunch of girls come to the desk, all claiming to be Loke’s girlfriends. They say he tried to break up with them the last night.The girls all turn to Lucy and think that she is now his girlfriend. She runs away, and went home. Lucy summons the Southern Cross, Crux. Crux is specialized in Celestial information and she asks to find info about the celestial mage Loke was last with. He finds out that the wizards name was Karen Lilica but cannot say more than that, since the records are sealed. Karen was a Celestial mage, a poster girl like Mirajane, but she died on a mission. Gray then breaks in, and informs Lucy that Loke has gone and left Fairy Tail. The entire guild goes to search for him.

Loke has gone to Karen Lilica’s grave. There is where Lucy finds him. She tells him that everyone has been searching for him, and refers to him as Leo, the Lion. Relieved, Loke acknowledges the fact that Lucy understood what he was; Lucy explains that in the case of death of the owner, a spirit is forced to return to the Spirit World. Loke then tells her that he is at his limit, after being in the human world for three years. She yells that she might be able to save him, but he explains that he can’t be saved, since he broke a fundamental rule of a spirit’s contract. He tells her that because of his crime, he will accept even death. Because, he killed Karen Lilica.