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[deathsought]

[ Zeref appears to be in the middle of Fayren City; a very bad place for him to see something that angered him, or at least severely embarrassed him. He's glaring, but his eyes are barely visible; they're not quite red and glowing yet, though. ]

Who in their right mind would think this was a good idea? [ Zeref holds up a flier for the beauty pageant. The camera is centered on his name, in the list of male contestants. ] Whoever you are, do you realize what could happen if I participated in something like this!?

[ Ignoring the fact that he'd sooner volunteer one of the Books of Zeref to be reviewed in the Genessia Tribune, if his magic activated in the middle of something like that... ]

I can't participate in this. I'm sorry.

[ And with that, the feed ends. Attempts to convince him otherwise, go. Spoiler alert, they'll ultimately work. ]

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[tenminutes]

I have a question!

[ She's come up with a potential idea for how to fight Zeref's fears, even if it's probably stupid. ]

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[deathsought]

What?

[ He's obviously not in a good mood. Don't take it personally, Yuri. ]

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[tenminutes]

Can you be knocked out by knock-out gas?

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[deathsought]

[ What a bizarre question. ]

Why does that matter?

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[tenminutes]

Well if we get some in an aerosol can, then there's not a problem right? It's easy to hide around a beauty pageant because of all the hair spray and someone can spring up with it if you start having a problem and just knock you out before you do too much damage.

[Video]

[warring_triad]

And here I was thinking you'd grown a sense of humor~! C'mon, participate~ I hear that ghosty-goo girlfriend of yours is gonna be a judge~

[Video]

[deathsought]

Were you the one who signed me up?

[ Honestly, he was lower on his list of suspects. He knew Kefka was irredeemably evil, but he didn't think he was petty. Unless he was counting on Zeref's magic activating there, or something.

And totally ignoring that bit about Mavis. ]

[Video]

[warring_triad]

ME!? Why, I would never! [He totally would, and did.]

I mean, what would I have to gain from something as silly and childish as that?

[Besides hilarity and the possibility of lots of people dying?]

[Video]

[deathsought]

I couldn't even begin to apply logic the things you do.

[Video]

[warring_triad]

I assure you, I had nothing to do with it.

[He totally did.]

Though look at the bright side. A charm is being offered as a prize. Win it, and gather the other charms, and you can make a wish come true~

You could keep a better control over your power, become mortal, or even win the heart of your little girly~

[ifbymyhands]

I dunno, it sounds like fun. Are you scared you're gonna lose?

[deathsought]

No. I'm worried of something with much greater consequences.

[ifbymyhands]

Losing's that bad?

[deathsought]

Losing control over my magic?

Yes.

[ifbymyhands]

How does that happen with just a beauty pageant?

[video]

[melonsaregreat]

I don't know how to break this to you but you don't look that great.

[video]

[deathsought]

Noted.

[ Not really. ]

[video]

[melonsaregreat]

Competition saved, vapid entertainment for all. I should do this more often.

[video]

[deathsought]

I don't think we would be competing anyway.

[ Unless he misread the rules. ]

[video]

[melonsaregreat]

If we were competing I wouldn't be encouraging you.

[For certain twisted definitions of 'encouraging']

[ video ]

[fairytails]

Hmmm. [ Have a Mavis on screen. ] That is worrying.



[ ...You don't think she did it, do you?

Come on, she's irresponsible, but not that much. ]

[ video ]

[deathsought]

Are you sure it wasn't anyone in Fairy Tail?

[ He knows it wasn't Mavis. She knows his magic well enough to know that would be a very bad idea, regardless of her intentions.

Unless, of course, she had her own plan in place. ]

[ video ]

[fairytails]

I doubt anybody would, except perhaps Gildarts.

There's not much point in your competing. It's not as if they'd be giving out fantastic prizes for a competition like this.

[ video ]

[deathsought]

Gildarts? [ That's one he hasn't met. ]

Kefka said that the grand prize was another charm. [ Granted, Zeref should know better than to trust him, but... ]

[ video ]

[fairytails]

The Sixth Master. [ He was Fifth, Mavis. ]

A charm? [ Hmmmmmm. ] Doesn't something incredible happen if you collect those?