After Alan brought everyone back to the guild, Gramet and Brandish moved into Layla's house. Thus, Brandish naturally became a member of Fairy Tail. With the final Celestial Spirit Key recovered, Layla began making preparations to open the Eclipse Gate on July 7. Compared to Anna, Alan was much more eager to meet those Dragon Slayers.
Time passed quickly; it felt as though in the blink of an eye, July had arrived. Ever since returning from the West Continent, Alan had been in seclusion, focusing on his cultivation. His previous battle with August had confirmed to him that he now stood a fighting chance against the Black Dragon. As for whether he could actually win, Alan felt it was still somewhat up in the air, mostly because he lacked sufficient means to inflict fatal damage on the Black Dragon. Dragon Slayer Magic certainly worked, but it required magic of the Dragon Slayer Secret Art level or higher; standard Dragon Slayer Magic was little more than an itch to the Black Dragon. Consequently, Alan had conducted deeper research into his two backup plans, yielding two distinct results over this period.
First, Alan managed to extract In-Training level digital data from Gallantmon X's DigiCore. However, he only managed to retrieve data for two In-Training Digimon: Botamon and Punimon. Alan thus surmised that this was a fragment of Omegamon's data preserved within Gallantmon X's data memories. Alan planned to materialize these two Digimon and give them to Sorano and Yukino. As…
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