Chapter 39

The Truth is a Sorrowful Blade of Ice is the thirty-ninth chapter of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail.

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Gray orders Lyon to retreat, and when he doesn’t, he initiates the Iced Shell. Lyon thinks it’s a bluff, but Gray is serious. Gray unleashes the Iced Shell, but Natsu punches him out of it. They bicker as always, but this is cut short as the tower begins to shake.

Outside, Lucy, Erza and Happy are fighting against the priests. They too witness the un-tilting of the ruins, which is shown to be Zalty’s doing. Natsu chases after him and leaves Gray to fight Lyon saying not to disgrace the name of Fairy Tail. Gray then asks Lyon what he would do, if the Iced Shell hit, to which Lyon replies that he would take it, since he has comrades with the same goal as him.

Gray then tries to persuade Lyon to leave Deliora be, and tells him the truth about Ur, that Ur is not dead but is alive, just turned to ice. Unfortunately Lyon already knows of this, and draws his sword and stabs Gray saying that the ice is no longer Ur...