Early the next morning after everyone returned, they all gathered in the guild hall, lining up to receive their cleaning assignments from Alan.
The students, including Natsu and his friends, only needed to clean the school, while the others were tasked with sweeping the guild both inside and out, as well as putting up some New Year decorations in preparation for the upcoming Year X780 New Year in a few days.
Every year around this time, the boys led by Natsu would try to shirk cleaning duty and do as little as possible, but this year they didn't dare entertain such thoughts at all, because Erza was right there at the school supervising them.
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