There's not enough labor to weed by hand.

These mines are ancient. Tunnels everywhere.

Even this island could have been underwater in the ancient times.

Yup. Long ago, this was a place where people made offerings to the sea gods.

That was a long time ago, okay?

No way! Zeref is a person from a long, long time ago!

It could be anywhere after all this time.

Something promised that long ago must be invalid now!

I bet it was some demon sealed in the Holy Grail a long time ago.

They're the ones who sealed the Weiss once before, right?

It's an ancient way of controlling someone else's mind.

You hesitate to set fire to coal because you feel sorry for a tree that died ages ago?

Were you fooled by that dusty old fairy tale?

We heard that the land and water were contaminated in ancient wars, and that deadly radiation and noxious fumes still remain, enough to kill you on arrival.

It was a very popular pasttime for our country's citizens long ago.

It was formed long ago, when a great number of slaves were brought together.

Living magic? Zeref? Isn't he ancient history?

Since long ago, we have had terrible things done to us by the humans.

The forbidden magic, Lullaby, was given birth by the Black Wizard Zeref long ago.

Every bit has its history, not just the fields and rice paddies, someone's great-great-grandpa planted it, or cleared it, gathered firewood or picked mushrooms there.