The Magic word
Author: Mark Harrison
last update2025-02-11 21:30:11

Laxus stayed longer in his grandmother’s gigantic mansion longer than he expected. When he touched that safe, he had to spend more than an hour trying to decipher the code to the safe lock.

He tried multiple times, but none of them was opening the safe.

“There has to be a code to the lock,” Laxus said to himself.

He knew that he could not just walk away from now having found that his grandmother had a safe. He used to come into the room whenever he stayed with her, but then again, his stay was brief, and he only either came to ask for something or play with his grandmother. Also, the reason why Laxus even stumbled upon the safe lock was as a result of the consistent cleaning, which had made them take out the upper layer of her room’s design.

It was probably old and worn out, but Laxus remembered vividly that when it came to cleaning, his grandmother was really particular about cleaning her room by herself. Then, of course, Laxus hadn’t thought anything of it; he was still much younge
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