When men see a beautiful woman, they would be mesmerized.
Similarly, when women see a handsome man, they would be mesmerized.
Appearance might be the most superficial reason for someone to like others, but even so, similarly to us who wanted to have a beautiful woman as our wife, women also wanted to have a handsome man as their husband.
Haru, whose charm had reached an extent where it could be called a weapon, directly stunned Aquarius, before she quickly shook her head and showed a calm expression. Looking at her reaction, he didn't feel surprised since even though his charm was powerful, it didn't mean that it could seduce anyone if he didn't do anything.
If that someone had a lover or was in love with someone, then his charm might not work directly instead he needed hard work to seduce this woman.
Aquarius had a lover, so even though she was quite stunned by Haru's appearance, she quickly calmed down, while looking at Lucy directly scolding him. "Why the hell, you suddenly summoned me?! Do you want to die?!"
"....." Lucy.
Still, Brandish looked at Aquarius in a stunned manner and was unable to say anything since it had been a while for her to meet her and when Aquarius suddenly appeared, she just didn't know what to say.
"So what's wrong?" While asking that, Aquarius kept glancing at Haru.
Lucy rolled her eyes and asked, "Brandish wants to see you."
"Brandish?" Aquarius then noticed the beautiful young woman with short green-haired that had been hugging Haru's arm. She looked at her weirdly before she looked at Haru. "This... what's your relationship?"
"You ask me, or you ask her?" Haru asked.
"I ask you." Aquarius looked at Haru and asked, "By the way, what's your name ---" Before she finished her words, Brandish directly hugged him, showing that she was his, which caused Aquarius to have veins on her forehead, but she quickly calmed down and looked at Brandish with a smile. "It has been a while, Brandish."
"...." Brandish didn't say anything, only stared at Aquarius.
"Do you know her, Aquarius?" Lucy asked curiously.
"The little brat said herself before, didn't she? My key was in her mother's care for some time. That really takes me back. The two of us used to play all the time, didn't we Brandish?"
"..." Brandish kept staring at Aquarius.
"Hey! Wake up, you damn squirt?! After all this time, you can't even muster a hello?!" Aquarius roared.
"My.. my deep apologies, master..." Brandish said shakingly.
"Mas... WHAAAAT?!" Lucy was surprised.
Haru stared at Aquarius curiously and thought that the development was different from the original.
In the original, Aquarius's key was destroyed because Lucy used to summon the Celestial Spirit King, but this time, it was different, considering the Tartaros and all the demons of Zeref were destroyed by the members of the Group Chat so Lucy didn't need to destroy Aquarius to destroy the Celestial Spirit King.
"Still, it surprises me that you have a boyfriend, Brandish," Aquarius said with some disbelief.
"Of course!" Brandish said smugly, which somehow caused Aquarius to feel annoyed, but then, Aquarius sighed and didn't say much, and asked, "So what's wrong? Why did you summon me so suddenly?"
"I..." Lucy looked at Aquarius and wasn't sure how to answer this question since there was no way for her to ask nor believe that her mother would kill Brandish's mother to get Aquarius's key, right?
Aquarius looked weirdly at Lucy before she looked at Brandish.
Being stared at by Aquarius, Brandish felt pressure and said, "I... I can forgive her. I will never be able to forgive Layla for killing my mother."
Aquarius understood what was happening and said, "But Lucy isn't Layla, right? Not to mention that Layla didn't kill Grami (Brandish's mother) in the first place. She would have never in a million years."
Brandish and Lucy were surprised but then Aquarius used her magic to show them what was happening.
Haru wasn't sure why, but he was also included in this magic and his lower body had become a mermaid. He might be half-Atlantian, but it felt weird when he became a mermaid. However, when he saw Aquarius licking her lips secretly when she looked at him, he decided not to say anything and kept quiet all the time while listening to the story of what was happening to Brandish's mother.
When Layla (Lucy's mother) was about to pass away because of her frail body and magic deficiency, she gave one of the 12 Golden Zodiac Keys to her disciples, one of them was Brandish's Mother, Grami.
Grami respected and loved Layla so much that she even cleaned Aquarius's key every day.
Watching the scene before him, Haru sighed inwardly, thinking that he almost made a similar mistake as Brandish's father.
Brandish was taken care of by her mother alone and she was from a single-parent family.
Luckily, Haru didn't make her pregnant or else, he would make her a single mother too like Grami.
'Well, I'll take care of her from now on.'
As the scene progressed, Grami was killed by Zoldio, who was also one of Layla's disciples because of misunderstanding since he thought that she was the one who killed Layla.
Brandish screamed, trying to stop Zoldia as she cried, but she couldn't since the whole scene before them was just an illusion from Aquarius's magic.
Haru could only hug Brandish and stay by her side.
Fortunately, with this, the misunderstanding had cleared up, and Brandish understood everything as she cried.
Lucy also joined in hugging Haru and Brandish while saying, "It may be too late, but the two of us can be best friends from now on... just like our mothers."
Haru looked at Lucy and thought that this girl was really the main heroine, but then again, why he felt Brandish's expression was a bit weird.
'Was it my imagination?'
Haru then looked at Aquarius, who also looked at him. "So are you going to go with Brandish now?"
Hearing Haru's question, Lucy and Brandish looked at Aquarius at the same time.
Even though Aquarius was held by Lucy now, it was given to Grami in the past, which was why Brandish should be the owner of the Aquarius key.
Still, Brandish shook her head and said, "Lucy, you take care of Aquarius."
"Eh? Is that okay?" Lucy asked in surprise since if Brandish asked her to give the Aquarius key, then even though she was quite sad since she would part with Aquarius, she didn't really mind.
"Yeah." Brandish nodded, then hugged Haru's arm. "I have him now."
Haru smiled as he stroked Brandish's hair.
"......" Lucy and Aquarius smiled wrily, feeling quite jealous.
"Should we go back now?" Haru asked.
"Um." Brandish nodded since she also wanted to see all the women that Haru had met during his endeavor.
However, as they were about to go, suddenly Happy, the flying blue cat, charged into the infirmary while crying out loud.
"Hel... Please help me!!!"
"Happy...?" Lucy looked at Happy with a confused expression until...
"Natsu just passed out and stopped all of sudden... someone, anyone, you have to save him!" Happy begged.