Chapter 44

The Villagers' Secret is the forty-forth chapter of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail.

Full Summary
Natsu, Happy and Lucy celebrate. They have completed their first S-class request, but Erza interrupts and reminds them that the request was not to destroy Deliora; it was to destroy the moon. They now need to cure the villagers, but have no idea how. Gray asks Lyon, but he too, has no clue. Furthermore, he states that his team has been there for nearly three years, and in that time, not a single villager has approached them. He also calls attention to the fact that he and his team have been under the same light for the same time, but they have no deformity. Erza then explains the other survivors’ ideas and history, and partially forgives them. Gray stands back to talk to Lyon and suggests to him to join a guild, which Lyon brushes off as pointless.

The guys return to village to see that it is intact, and Natsu, after some consideration, concludes it was Zalty who rebuilt it. Erza gathers everyone in the village, and claims that destroying the moon will be easy. She asks some questions about the color of the moon and their transformation, and while walking, falls into Lucy’s trap. After getting up acting like nothing happened, she inquires why the villagers didn’t investigate. They confess that every time they went near the ruins, they would find themselves into the village’s entrance. Erza concludes something, and requips into her Giant Armor, ready to destroy the moon.