Alex removes the sand that wraps around Brain's body. But he leaves the sand that covers Brain's mouth. Brain drops on the beach and lies down because he can't stand with broken legs. His arms are also broken, so he can only glare at Alex.
Alex then makes stone cuffs for Brain's feet and hands. Then with his sharp claws, Alex scratches Brain's skin many times, leaving a lot of cut wounds that make blood flow out of Brain's body. He also makes some stabs with his sharp claws to add the wounds.
Brain is still holding onto his life and he tries to give the control of the body to Zero so he won't feel the pain anymore. But Zero also doesn't want to feel the pain, so he is resisting Brain's attempt to hand over the body control.
This is the first time both of them don't want to have control of their body. They always try to suppress each other, but now they are doing the opposite. Their fight makes their personalities show up in turn, which is very amusing to look in Alex's eyes.
Alex just watches now because it's really an interesting show. Then in the end, somehow by miracle caused by their strong persistence, both personalities, Brain and Zero are showing up at the same time.
They strangely become half-half. The left side is Brain while the right side is Zero. Both of them are surprised by this and keep arguing while still having their mouth closed with sand and enduring the great pain in their body. Alex is amused seeing this crazy situation.
"Well, isn't this perfect? Now I can make sure both of you are feeling the pain you're about to experience." Alex decides to end this now because Mavis really feels uncomfortable now.
He picks up Brain/Zero by feet and then throw them into the ocean. They fall and quickly drown into the deep sea because they can't swim with broken arms and legs. There are heavy stone cuffs on their feet and hands too, making them sink even quicker.
But the sinking isn't their only problem. They also feel stinging pain from all over their body when the salt water seeps into their wounds. The great pain they already feel is getting even worse.
"Pouring salt on wounds. Well, it's more correct to say that I just put the wounds into salt in this situation. I heard death by drowning is one of the most painful ways to die too. So this should be many times worse than it should be." Alex is nodding in satisfaction.
".... You really are ruthless and merciless."
"I am always ruthless and merciless to evil doers who don't care about people. Sometimes you need to be a demon to take down a demon. Well, many people took it literally. They learn magic from Demons to kill Demons, learn from Dragons to kill Dragons, learn from Gods to kill Gods. That's the origin of Devil, Dragon, and God Slayer Magic, right? They learned it even though there was a great potential for them turning into those creatures. Humans can do and be anything to achieve their goals."
Now the matter against Grimoire Heart is fully over. Alex also has thrown Zeref away from Tenrou Island. But he is still worried that Acnologia will still come and he is also worried that if he returns to the mainland, Acnologia will follow him there.
So Alex decides to stay here for now while suppressing his magic power to avoid attracting Acnologia's attention. He goes to the exam camp where they left many things because they were in a rush to evacuate.
Alex searches the camp and finally finds the communication lacrima. He wants to contact Makarov, but then he remembers that Makarov is on the Council's battleship and he has no way of contacting them.
Mest also has left the island, so he can't even ask that guy to go to the battleship. Now he doesn't know who he needs to contact. He can contact the ones left in the Guild because the Guild's communication lacrima device is registered in this lacrima.
He can call them and ask them to connect him with the Council so they can inform Makarov on the battleship. But the Council is a bunch of troublesome folks. They might decide to send the battleship to Tenrou Island to verify Alex's claim instead of just connecting him to Makarov.
"Sigh, I should've just gone back."
Alex thinks that with just his presence alone here, Acnologia won't come to Tenrou Island. Instead it will make more sense for Acnologia to go to the place with more Mages present, which means he might go to the mainland instead.
If that really happens and he's not there, then the situation might be very bad. So he decides to just go back to the mainland while being very careful. He suppresses his magic power and transforms into Mini Isobu after he arrives on the coast.
"1st Master, there might be danger that comes here after I leave. After all, I fought a very dangerous Dark Guild, so there might be more unknown things to come. If anything happens, I want you to move using the mark on Cana's arm and inform me."
"Alright, be careful." Mavis agrees because she knows dealing with Dark Guilds won't be so easy.
Alex then swims in his Mini Isobu form. He swims underwater at a very high speed. While in his Mini Isobu form, Alex can hold his breath for 20 minutes while swimming very fast.
He can run on the water like when he chased after Grimoire Heart. But swimming underwater will conceal his presence even more. It is to avoid being detected by Acnologia just in case that Black Dragon really shows up.
That seems to be the correct decision because not long after leaving Tenrou Island, Alex suddenly feels a very oppressive presence coming from afar. It moves very fast toward the island and gives him a very terrible feeling.
Without thinking for too long, Alex quickly dives deeper while concealing his presence even more. He doesn't dive too deep so he still has a rather clear view of the surface. Obviously, he wants to know what creature can emit such a presence, although he already knows the answer.
Just as he has guessed, the source of that oppressive presence is a Black Dragon, it's Acnologia. That monster suddenly shows up here when Alex doesn't expect it. Acnologia comes from the south and stops above Tenrou Island.
Alex keeps hiding while looking at Acnologia who looks around the island as if searching for something. He doesn't use his magic sense to avoid being discovered by Acnologia, but Alex can already tell that this is not an opponent he can beat at his current level.
Acnologia hovers above Tenrou Island while Alex can only look at the Dragon nervously. But it seems whatever Acnologia is looking for isn't on the island, so he is going to leave, which makes Alex sigh in relief.
But to his surprise, Acnologia suddenly looks in his direction. No, actually Acnologia looks past him, further away from his location. Alex looks back to check what Acnologia sees and his eyes widen when he sees the Council's battleship there.
Alex thinks that Makarov, Gildarts, and Laxus are still on that ship. But he can't sense their magic power on the battleship when he approaches it fast to save them just in case Acnologia suddenly attacks the battleship.
He makes sure once more and really doesn't sense those 3's magic power on the battleship. This means that those 3 have returned to the mainland or this is a different battleship owned by the Magic Council.
It calms him down a bit, but he's also worried that the battleship will agitate Acnologia. His worry becomes reality because suddenly Acnologia accumulates a lot of magic power in his mouth and quickly shoots a big blue energy ball.
It flies very fast towards the battleship while Alex has already moved away since he saw Acnologia prepared to attack. He doesn't know how strong Acnologia's attack is and decided to not try taking it. He doesn't care what happened to the council's ship as long as his friends aren't there.
As expected, the ship explodes and a rather big hole is created in the sea as the sea water is pushed away. This attack is strong, but surely not Acnologia's serious attack. Still, Alex can feel the dangerous nature of Acnologia's magic from that attack.
He looks at Acnologia again and realizes the Dragon is looking even further than before. Alex also looks there and his eyes widen to the max. After all, he sees his Guild's ship a long distance away from the destroyed battleship.
Alex can sense his friends on that ship and Acnologia has set his eyes on them. This has turned out for the worst scenario.
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Ch. 196. Best Pairs Battle