"Shaping Magic is a magic that uses magic power to give 'shape,' and it can also be magic that takes 'shape.'"
Mira took the time to educate Rhode about the related magic knowledge.
"Shaping Magic seems quite convenient." Rhode was a little tempted. This is practical magic, always having a chair to sit on or a house to live in, anytime, anywhere.
Mira nodded: "That's right, besides the Wood-Make used by Laki, there's also Ice-Make, Earth Form, etc. It's magic that can really showcase the technician's personality."
"Personality?" Rhode couldn't see it. Was Laki's personality reflected in naming things?
"By the way, I haven't asked, Mira, what is your magic?"
Makarov glanced drunkenly at the two without speaking.
"Me?" Mira's expression was normal, "Let me show you now, watch carefully."
"Transform· Head Only as Poro!"
A puff of smoke passed, Mira's body didn't change, but her head had turned into Polverom's likeness.
Rhode was startled.
Polverom was even more shocked, sitting on the counter at once, scrambling with its front legs to drag its butt backward.
"It's not over yet, Transform· Head Only as Rhode!"
"!!!" Rhode watched wide-eyed as his own face appeared across from him, only from the neck down was still Mira in a red dress.
Rhode covered his eyes: "Sister, you're my sister, spare me!"
Mira returned to her original form, smiling broadly: "Ah, don't I look like it?"
"It's because you look too much like it that I'm troubled by trivial fears."
Mira corrected him: "It's 'troubled.'"
"Right, troubled... So you knew!" Rhode felt there was a bit of a mischievous gleam in Mira's smile.
Pah! Someone slapped some big bills on the counter: "Mira, I want a barrel of wine!"
"Kana, starting to drink this early today?"
"Hehe..." Kana leaned against the counter, sitting on a stool, giving Mira a wink with her left eye,
"I was planning to work after lunch, but thanks to Toma Kaio, just won some money!"
"Congratulations." Mira smiled as she lightly picked up a barrel of wine, placing it on the counter, not a bit out of breath.
Rhode was surprised; he had tried to lift that barrel, dead heavy, but Mira did it so effortlessly, like a hero with unsurpassed power.
Is this a mage?
The girl Mira called Kana wasn't bad either, popping the cork out of the wine barrel and drinking directly from it, so bold.
He really didn't know where their slender arms got so much strength, does magic have this effect?
After glancing at Kana a few times, Rhode awkwardly averted his gaze.
This beauty dressed way too boldly!
Below, she wore ordinary capris and leather sandals, but above, just a...
Rhode, inexperienced as he was, couldn't tell if it was lingerie or a swimsuit.
Anyway, at a glance, his gaze involuntarily got drawn to her waist, cleavage, and curves, making Rhode very embarrassed.
In reality, he had never encountered such a sight.
Polverom wasn't troubled by this, seeing someone sit down and ran over, eager for food.
"Huh? You want a drink too?" Kana noticed the little furball, asking Mira for a cup to feed it some wine.
Mira wanted to confirm: "Rhode, can Poro drink alcohol?"
Rhode thought for a moment and said: "I don't know, maybe let it try?"
"Hey, do you really talk without turning your head?" Kana's voice carried a hint of drunkenness; Rhode's actions were somewhat impolite,
"You're the newbie, right? Do you have something against me?"
"No, sorry." Rhode had to turn to face Kana with difficulty, still not knowing where to look, his eyes flitting all over, "I just, um..."
"Oh?" Kana seemed to understand something, asking with interest,
"Could it be that you... are you the reserved type? Haven't even dated a girlfriend?"
Rhode felt he might have met a mischievous woman, not knowing what to do: "..."
Kana didn't need an answer, reading it from Rhode's embarrassed face; she laughed out loud:
"Hahaha, this reaction is too funny! So, want big sister to take good care of you?"
"N-no need." Rhode's face turned red, wondering if this big sis had drunk too much or if this was just her nature?
He didn't know that the self-proclaimed big sister Kana was actually only 17 years old, a bit younger than him.
But Rhode was bluffed, not knowing how to deal with girls of this type.
"Rhode, Gray at table 3 wants fried pork chops and spaghetti."
Luckily, Mira came to the rescue at the crucial moment; Rhode cast her a grateful glance, taking the tray and fleeing.
"So boring, Mira." Kana grumbled discontentedly, lifting the wine barrel to take several big gulps.
"Sorry, I should have watched how big sis Kana cares for Rhode."
Mira smiled, "Is it a hug first, a kiss, or even..."
"Pff... enough, enough!" Kana spat out a mouthful of wine; the seemingly mature and casual she was now blushing.
Apparently, in some areas, her experience might not actually be any better than Rhode's: bold-dressing was just that, bold dressing.
Purely a master of words.
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Rhode knew the name Gray, having glanced at posters a few times.
But for Rhode, Gray compared to Natsu wasn't very distinctive; before Mira's introduction, he dared not recognize him.
However, after meeting Gray face to face, Rhode immediately remembered him because:
"Nu-nu-nu-nu-nu... Naked man!"
Rhode felt his eyes were going blind; what was up with this Gray?
His chest and abdominal muscles looked quite firm... but that wasn't the point.
The point was why in public was he not wearing clothes?
Seeing the scattered shirt, trousers, and underpants on the floor, had he purposely taken them off after arriving at the guild?
"Hmm?" Gray was puzzled for a moment, looking down at himself, "When!?"
Turns out he didn't even know when he had taken them off!
Rhode felt he was going to get an eye infection.
Gray hurriedly dressed himself, while a bucktoothed guy sitting opposite helped explain:
"Don't mind, Gray isn't a pervert, he just has a habit of unknowingly stripping his clothes off."
"..." Rhode hesitated, "Well, um, I'm not good with the common language, isn't stripping anytime considered perverted?"
The bucktoothed guy glanced at Gray, uncertainly: "Pretty much... or you can just consider him a pervert."
"Who are you calling a pervert, you jerk!" Gray slapped the table, raising his hand, "Want to fight?"
Rhode felt he was adapting to the communication styles here: sharp words and fighting when pissed off.
So, when he felt he couldn't handle it with Kana, should he have fought?
No, no, that's different; hitting girls isn't good...
Besides, as a half-baked mage himself, he probably couldn't beat her.
Wait, speaking of which, where had Gray's just-worn shirt gone again?