Compared to the two fairies, Natsu is truly slaying a dragon!

As for Natsu and Gajeel?

They're just remnants of the old era. Even if they couldn't beat us when we were kids, they can't beat us now.

Strength is the only truth, and it is also the reason why they are currently considered the strongest.

One day, while the five little ones were still making a ruckus, a young and beautiful woman appeared in their lives.

"This lady is named Anna, a remarkable Celestial Spirit Mage. She will be in charge of your academic classes from now on, so please call her Teacher Anna."

[In the scene, Igneru points to Anna and introduces her with great ceremony.]

Natsu: "Teacher?!"

Gajeel: "Tch, what's that? I don't need that kind of thing!"

Wendy: "Um...Ann...Hello, Ms. Anna..."

Sting: "Natsu is the strongest!"

[Rogge: "Bullshit, it's clearly Gajeel!"]

[With that, Sting and Roger prepared to fight again over this issue. After all, as true fans, they absolutely could not allow their idols to be humiliated.]

Seeing the two kids fighting, Natsu and Gajeel naturally couldn't just stand by and do nothing. As the leaders, they had to stand up for their underlings.

So the two little ones started fighting too.

Seeing this, Anna looked at Igneel with a hint of helplessness: "Is this how you raise children?"

Faced with Anna's questioning, Igneel scratched his head sheepishly.

He chuckled and said, "Hehe, we're all a bunch of roughnecks, except Grandini is a bit gentler, but she doesn't know how to raise children, so that's why we invited you over."

At this point, Igneru straightened his expression.

"As you know, we have less than a year left in our plan. These children are our hope, so they must learn some basic skills in this remaining year."

"They need to learn common sense about the human world, interpersonal relationships, and even language and writing systems much faster."

"Okay, okay, I got it, but my methods aren't exactly gentle."

Anna shook her head, interrupting Igneel's rambling.

"It's alright, it's alright, I'll leave everything to you. We'll be responsible for teaching magic and such, and you'll handle the cultural aspects."

"As for gentleness... these children don't need gentleness!"

[Igneru said firmly.]

Anna understood, and then focused her gaze on the five children; four were arguing, and one was crying.

Anna shook her head helplessly, then waved her hand: "Spell, no fighting, no noise."

Strange magic flowed, and the next moment, rules that appeared out of thin air completely bound the four fighting little ones.

[Faced with the puzzled looks of the little ones, Anna approached them with a smile.]

"Okay, let me introduce myself."

"My name is Anna, Anna Heartfilia!"

Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Year of Self-Discipline

Natsu: "A year? What does that mean?"

Inside the Fairy Tail guild, Natsu looked at the words Igneel spoke on the screen above the ceiling and asked in confusion.

Gajeel glanced sideways at Natsu and said helplessly, "Is there even a need to think about it? Idiot."

His gaze was fixed on the sky, and he said in a deep voice, "It is very likely that the dragons disappeared on July 7th, 777."

777 7 Month 7 Day.

When this date was mentioned, both Natsu and Wendy fell silent.

For the Dragon Slayers, it was a special day.

Since that day, all the happy times I had spent with my father and mother have vanished like bubbles.

To this day, the three Dragon Slayers still don't know what exactly happened back then.

This is why the dragons that nurtured them disappeared on the same day.

So much so that even today,

They are still searching everywhere for traces of the dragon that raised them.

But after all these years, nothing has been gained.

Wendy: "I think that through this canopy, we might be able to find out exactly what happened back then."

Just like Makarov's idea.

Wendy also believes that perhaps only the heavens can tell them the answer to what exactly happened on that day many years ago.

The images on the sky continued.

Anna's arrival greatly displeased the five children.

Imagine a child who was once carefree and did whatever they wanted, suddenly being told they had to go to school. The feeling is incredibly frustrating.

[Especially Natsu and Gajeel, they fall asleep the moment they hear anything about facts or knowledge.]

He's always daydreaming.

However, he also suffered considerable punishment from Anna as a result.

Lucy: "I'm a little puzzled. Why is it that Natsu from our world is completely clueless when it comes to studying, even though we're both Natsu?"

Gray: "What else could it be? Someone has an IQ problem."

Natsu: "? Gray, you have no right to laugh at me, okay?"

Gray: "At least, when I was little, Erza didn't force me to learn to write."

"You were taught this by your teacher when you were little, but you still can't get it. Isn't that just stupidity?"

Natsu: "I...I just don't want to learn..."

"When Erza taught me later, didn't I learn pretty quickly?"

Erza: "Hmm...indeed, Natsu does learn quite quickly in life-or-death situations."

Erza's words instantly brought back memories of many years ago for everyone in the guild.

At that time, Natsu couldn't even understand the task requirements on the letter of commission.

Let alone doing missions.

Therefore, the kind-hearted Erza offered to help Natsu learn to write and recognize characters.

At the time, Natsu did not realize the seriousness of the situation.

I was very happy to agree.

However, what happened next was practically Natsu's nightmare!

A nightmare even more terrifying than Anna's!

You've seen...

Are you going to withhold food just because you can't read an article?

You've seen...

Do you have to get a beating just because you can't write a single word?

You've seen...

Is it the scene of someone holding a sword to their neck and making them recite words?

Young Natsu made rapid progress under Erza's tutelage.

There's no other way; if we don't unleash some of our potential, we'll be dead in no time.

Moreover, the most frustrating part is that no one can help Natsu.

Yes, when Natsu was forced to study all night long.

Not a single person dared to stand up and plead for mercy.

After all, that's Erza, the Fairy Queen, Erza!

Who dares to try and persuade them?

However, although Erza was strict, her methods were indeed remarkably effective.

The book that Natsu couldn't understand before, he quickly came to comprehend.

I can now read words that I couldn't read before fluently.

I can now write characters that I couldn't write before without any problems.

And all of this happened in less than a week.

This at least proves that Natsu's learning ability is actually very strong.