Recaps

Eleven discovered that casting magic with Spiritual Power let him read Warren’s thoughts, then returned to Fairy Tail after teaching Warren unsuccessfully. He arrived to find Gray had been knocked into a bar, and Cana revealed that a red-haired girl had sent him flying.

• Eleven read Warren’s thoughts through Telepathy and concluded that the ability could help with missions, though he wanted to avoid using it casually.
• Eleven spent two more days in Rakao Village teaching Warren to project Spiritual Power, then left for home.
• Eleven returned to Fairy Tail and, startled by Gray’s bare butt flying at his face, used Telekinesis to send him crashing into a bar.
• Eleven asked Cana who had knocked Gray flying, and she pointed to a red-haired girl in the guild.

Eleven tried to welcome Erza to Fairy Tail, but she kept her distance and left him curious about her past. The next morning, after learning Erza had registered for a job, Eleven followed her to investigate.

• Eleven approached Erza and introduced himself, but she drew her sword, mistaking him for someone seeking revenge for Gray.
• Erza thanked Eleven for welcoming her, then told him to leave her alone and walked out of the guild.
• Cana, Macao, and Wakaba teased Eleven, while Gray declared he would never accept Erza as his partner.
• Eleven asked Makarov about Erza, but Makarov said she had been recommended by an old friend and he knew little else about her.
• The next morning, Makarov told Eleven that Erza was capable and had registered for a job.
• Eleven told Makarov he would follow Erza to investigate, while promising not to interfere with her job.

Eleven secretly followed Erza as she left on a mission, but Cana caught him near the girls' dormitory and questioned him. He convinced Cana that the guild master had assigned him a secret mission to watch over Erza, then continued tailing her through town.

• Eleven followed Erza toward the girls' dormitory after promising the guild master he would only help if necessary.
• Cana caught Eleven following Erza and stayed to find out what he was doing.
• Eleven claimed the guild master had secretly ordered him to watch over Erza, and Cana believed him.
• Eleven caught up with Erza using his Spiritual Power and carefully hid among the streets as he followed her.

Eleven secretly followed Erza to a quiet town and watched her shop, while a local punk tried to extort him. The punk fled after Eleven defeated him, and Eleven saw Erza make a suit of black armor disappear, leaving him curious about her magic.

• Eleven followed Erza onto a train and then into a quiet town, using his Spiritual Power to keep watch on her.
• Eleven hid in an alley and watched Erza enter a weapon shop before a local punk confronted him and demanded money for protection.
• Eleven politely refused to hire the punk, who took offense and tried to attack him.
• After recovering from a bump on his head, the punk mistook Eleven for a mage sent after Boss Jack and fled to warn him.
• Eleven watched Erza buy black armor and saw it vanish in her hands, leading him to suspect she used space magic.

Eleven subdued a gang led by Jack and unexpectedly became their teacher while Erza went to meet the mayor about the job. The chapter ended with Erza finding Eleven among the thugs and cutting down Jack, who mistook Eleven for his boss.

• Eleven watched Erza shop before heading to the government building, then faced Jack and his gang when they returned to confront him.
• Eleven used his power to defeat the thugs and delivered a lecture about protecting others without resorting to violence or seeking money.
• Jack struck a subordinate for questioning Eleven, then begged forgiveness after Eleven rebuked him.
• Erza broke into the gang’s hideout, and Jack charged at her before she wounded him with both swords.
• Jack asked Eleven to avenge him, leaving Eleven stunned.

Eleven tried to hide his identity from Erza, who mistook him for the Rock-Crushing Gang’s boss and attacked him. As he subdued her, he realized Erza had sealed away her emotional and spiritual connection to others, leaving her unable to form bonds unless she chose to open her heart.

• Erza confronted Eleven at the gang’s hideout, believing he was Mighty King Jack, but a thug called Eleven the boss and exposed his cover.
• Erza charged at Eleven, who used Telekinesis to trip her and catch both of her swords before they could strike him.
• Eleven noticed that he could not sense any emotional or spiritual fluctuations from Erza, even while she fought.
• Eleven concluded that Erza had deliberately sealed herself off from others and that only she could open her heart.

Eleven repeatedly thwarted Erza’s attacks during her guild mission, then realized he needed to let her succeed. He staged an elaborate defeat and disappeared through a hole in the wall, leaving Erza and the watching thugs bewildered.

• Erza kicked Eleven in the stomach, but he recovered and froze her sword attacks with his Telekinesis.
• Erza guessed that Eleven could not control human bodies and charged him, but he froze her midair and threw her aside.
• Erza changed into Flight Armor and attacked at increased speed, but Eleven caught her again and hurled her away.
• Eleven remembered that Erza was on a guild mission and realized he should not make her fail it.
• Erza launched a barrage of swords at Eleven, who blocked the attack before pretending to be defeated.
• Eleven performed an exaggerated death scene, declared Erza his queen, and used an illusion to make his body break apart and drift away.

Eleven’s dramatic exit from the fight moved Erza, who defeated the thugs and completed her mission. After Makarov exposed Eleven’s lie and chased him from the guild, Eleven stayed away the next day and spotted someone unexpected by a remote riverbank.

• The thugs laughed at Eleven’s final words, but Erza defended him and charged at them.
• Erza defeated the thugs, tied them up, and reported the completed mission to the mayor, describing Elizabeth as having scattered with the wind.
• Eleven returned to the guild, where Cana and Makarov confronted him about his lie, and he fled from Makarov’s furious pursuit.
• Eleven hid at the orphanage the next day, then went out to shop for Maria and spotted someone unexpected by a remote riverbank.

Eleven sat with Erza by the river and shared his painful past, encouraging her to accept support from her new guild family. Erza resolved to face the future and grow strong enough to protect her comrades, then chased Gray around the riverbank while Eleven watched.

• Eleven found Erza crying alone by the river and told her that tears did not need to be hidden.
• Eleven shared his story of suffering in a research institute and dying before waking in a new life, and Erza listened and cried with him.
• Eleven introduced himself properly, and Erza told him her name; when he joked about it, she hit him and laughed through her tears.
• Eleven told Erza that Fairy Tail was her family and that her comrades could help her bear her past.
• Erza thanked Eleven and declared that she would move toward the future and grow strong enough to protect her comrades.
• Gray arrived to challenge Erza, who chased him around and beat him while Eleven watched the sunset.

Eleven invited Cana, Gray, and Erza to a cake party at the orphanage, where Erza’s happiness over tasting cake broke through the seal on her mind. He realized that a simple piece of cake had helped Erza more than all his efforts over the past two days.

• Eleven returned late to the orphanage after beating Gray and bought food and drink for the children with his earnings.
• Eleven invited Cana and Gray to Maria’s cake party, then found Erza at the guild and persuaded her to come too.
• Maria served homemade cake to the children, and Erza cautiously tasted her first piece.
• Erza’s happiness from eating cake burst through a large part of the seal on her mind, and she quickly finished her slice.
• Eleven gave Erza his cake, Cana shared hers, and Gray promised to give Erza cake another time.
• Eleven felt delighted that Erza had made progress, but resented that cake had succeeded where his recent efforts had not.

Eleven planned to mentor Erza, but Laxus returned from training and challenged him to a duel. Laxus knocked Eleven out with a lightning-fast attack, and Eleven woke in the guild infirmary determined to get even.

• Eleven saw Erza settle into the guild after her eye healed and decided to take her on a job as her mentor.
• Laxus returned to Fairy Tail after nearly half a year away, and Eleven teased him about being afraid to come back.
• Laxus and Eleven faced off outside the guild, where Laxus used a lightning-powered attack to knock Eleven out in one blow.
• Eleven woke in the infirmary, complained that Laxus was a lousy friend, and ran off to seek revenge.

Eleven challenged Laxus to another fight, and their fierce duel left both badly hurt. Meanwhile, Teng Brain and a woman visited the orphanage, where Teng introduced himself to Maria as Eleven’s biological father.

• Eleven returned to the guild and challenged Laxus to a rematch, while Erza warned him not to embarrass himself again.
• Erza tried to stop Eleven and Laxus from fighting, but the three of them went outside and Makarov refereed their duel.
• Laxus used Lightning Transformation Mode to attack at tremendous speed, while Eleven defended with shields and acceleration.
• Eleven and Laxus continued their exhausting fight, each sustaining injuries as their attacks shook the area.
• Teng Brain and a hooded woman visited the orphanage and introduced themselves to Maria; Teng claimed he was Eleven’s biological father.

Teng Brain and Amanda Brain visited the orphanage claiming to be Eleven’s parents, then erased Maria’s memory of their visit. After recovering from his fight with Laxus and beginning perception training, Eleven headed home and spotted two hooded strangers waiting along his route.

• Teng Brain introduced Amanda Brain as Eleven’s biological mother and asked Maria to let them take Eleven home.
• After learning Eleven belonged to Fairy Tail, Teng Brain used magic to make Maria forget meeting them, and the pair left the orphanage.
• Erza stopped Eleven and Laxus’s fight, and Makarov declared her the winner.
• Erza knocked Eleven and Laxus unconscious again in the infirmary while Cana admired her.
• Eleven began training his Spiritual Power to maintain perception over a limited area, hoping to anticipate Laxus’s lightning-form movement.
• On his way home, Eleven noticed two hooded strangers waiting in a secluded corner and walked toward them.

Eleven reunited with Teng and Amanda, who had come to take him home, but he struggled with leaving his friends and the orphanage behind. He asked for time to think and ran off, while his parents acknowledged that he had changed and would not leave willingly.

• Eleven recognized Teng and Amanda as his parents, and Amanda embraced him and examined his injuries.
• Teng and Amanda told Eleven they had come to take him home, but Eleven said he wanted to stay in Magnolia.
• Amanda said they could not stay and urged Eleven to stop working as a mage because it was dangerous.
• Teng tried to make Eleven forget his companions and come with them, but Eleven resisted and pulled away.
• Eleven asked for time to think and promised to return the next evening with his answer before running off.
• Teng and Amanda watched Eleven leave and agreed that he had changed and would not come with them willingly.

Eleven struggled with the choice of whether to return to his biological parents, but Maria comforted him through the night and his friends reminded him where he felt at home. He ended the chapter embracing Maria, Cana, Laxus, Gray, and Erza, certain that his life with them was what he wanted.

• Unable to sleep after talking with his biological parents, Eleven went outside, where Maria found him and brought him to her room to comfort him.
• Eleven slept peacefully beside Maria and woke in a better mood, though he still dreaded giving his answer about leaving.
• At the guild, Eleven asked Cana whether she would miss him, but he hesitated to explain his troubles when she showed concern.
• Gray challenged Laxus, and their fight escalated when Erza joined in after Gray ruined her strawberry.
• Eleven laughed at the brawl, then tackled Maria, Cana, Laxus, Gray, and Erza into a heap and declared that being with them made him happiest.

Eleven decided to stay in Magnolia and Fairy Tail, but his parents never came to meet him, despite his waiting for them for a week. Later, Makarov gave him his first personal request and told him to team up, leaving Eleven set to go with Erza and a reluctant Laxus.

• Eleven let Gray go after their challenge and used Telekinetic Hammer to shake the guild building.
• Eleven waited all night at the agreed meeting place, but his parents did not show up.
• For a week, Eleven returned to the meeting place and asked around about his parents before giving up on finding them.
• Makarov gave Eleven a personal request and instructed him to team up with someone.
• Eleven asked Erza to join him and teased Laxus about the request until Makarov ordered Laxus to go along.

Eleven, Erza, and Laxus set out on a job to calm a rampaging young magical beast, but their journey was filled with arguments about clothes and mage rules. They camped in the forest for the night, where Eleven crossed out Erza’s notes of Laxus’s advice.

• Erza joined Eleven and Laxus, and the three departed for their job.
• On the train, Eleven argued with Erza about whether boys could fight in skirts, then lectured her on the rules for Fairy Tail mages.
• Laxus grew weak after they left the train, but recovered as they walked toward the forest.
• The three entered the woods and stopped at night to make camp and roast a magical beast.
• Eleven wore Laxus’s bearhide cloak and argued about what powerful people should wear.
• Erza wrote down Laxus’s opinions, so Eleven took her pen and scribbled them out.

Eleven, Laxus, and Erza set out in heavy rain to complete a Fairy Tail request, but Eleven sensed two hostile men and used illusions and Telepathy to investigate them. The group followed the men deeper into the forest while suspecting the job was a trap.

• Eleven asked Erza for rain gear, but she had packed souvenirs instead, and Laxus urged the group to move on.
• A torrential downpour soaked the trio as they traveled through the forest toward their destination.
• Eleven sensed two hostile men ahead, signaled Laxus and Erza to conceal themselves, and sent illusionary copies forward.
• Eleven used Telepathy to learn that the tall, thin man expected Eleven to arrive alone, while the short, stout man’s mind seemed blank.
• The tall, thin man told the illusionary trio to follow him and spoke sarcastically about a young magic beast, while Eleven and his companions considered whether to flee or capture the men.

Eleven, Laxus, and Erza were ambushed by a fog-wielding man, who captured Eleven while leaving the other two bound and unconscious. Laxus woke up to find Eleven missing and tried to rouse Erza.

• Eleven overruled Laxus and Erza and led them back toward the forest’s edge while maintaining illusions to distract their pursuers.
• A magic-sealing net passed through the illusions, and Eleven led his companions onward as dense fog rose and blocked his Spiritual Power.
• A middle-aged man used the fog to suffocate Eleven and knock out him, Laxus, and Erza, then carried Eleven away with the tall, thin man and the short, fat man.
• The men bound Laxus and Erza with Magic Sealing Stones and left them alive, while the suited man took Eleven deeper into the woods.
• Laxus woke up bound and weakened, saw that Eleven was gone and Erza was unconscious, then kicked Erza in an attempt to wake her.

Erza and Laxus escaped their Magic Sealing Stone ropes and tracked down the kidnappers, but Eleven was carried off while the two guild members were forced to fight. The chapter ended with Erza facing the tall, thin man as Laxus was thrown into the woods by the transformed short, stout man.

• Erza used a broken sword hidden in her suitcase to free Laxus, and Laxus followed the kidnappers by scent.
• Laxus and Erza caught up with the group, but the suited man fled into the jungle carrying Eleven.
• The tall, thin man sent the short, stout man flying at Laxus, who punched him and continued after Eleven.
• The short, stout man transformed into a three-meter-tall mass of flesh, slammed Laxus into the ground, and hurled him into the woods.
• Erza prepared to fight the tall, thin man after he blocked her path and taunted her.

Erza was badly wounded by a lanky man whose Requip Magic, Fireworks, turned weapons and outfits into tools for slaughter. As Laxus planned a lightning attack while injured, Eleven escaped his restraints and fought the suited man, who transformed into mist and trapped him in a dense fog.

• Erza attacked the lanky man, but his Requip—Western Shooter wounded her with gunfire and his Requip—Assaulter shattered her shield and riddled her with fragments.
• Laxus awoke with broken bones, watched the monster search for him, and began preparing a high-intensity lightning attack.
• Eleven used his Spiritual Power to break the Magic Sealing Stone net and repeatedly blasted the suited man with Telekinesis.
• The suited man revealed that his magic was Mistification, turned his body and the rain into mist, and surrounded Eleven with fog.
• Eleven shielded his nose and mouth with Telekinesis as the suited man thickened the fog and warned that Eleven would soon be unable to breathe.

Eleven broke free of the man in the suit’s attack by using Magic Sealing Stones to destroy his mist form, while Laxus and Erza defeated their own opponents. The three battles ended with the group badly injured but alive, and sunlight broke through the storm.

• Eleven thinned the fog by blocking the rain with Telekinesis, then trapped the man in the suit and crushed him until the man turned Eleven’s blood into mist.
• Laxus was pinned by the mountain of flesh, but drew lightning from the clouds, devoured it, and killed the monster with Lightning Dragon’s Halberd.
• Erza used Flight Armor and Sonic Blades to evade the tall man’s gunfire and pierce his heart, then collapsed before reaching her companions.
• The man in the suit approached Eleven, who revealed he had survived and unleashed a telekinetic tornado around him.
• Eleven threw the Magic Sealing Stone net into the tornado, forcing the man in the suit’s mist body apart and ending the fight.
• The tornado burst through the clouds as Eleven lay in the mud beneath falling blood, feeling sunlight reach him.

After a deadly mission left Eleven, Laxus, and Erza badly injured, the Fairy Tail guild investigated the attackers and discovered that the client and every member of the dark guild had killed themselves. Eleven suspected his parents were involved, but an extensive investigation failed to uncover any trace of them or his origins.

• Teng and Amanda watched the aftermath of the attack and decided to leave before attracting the Magic Council's attention, trusting Eleven and the lord to protect him.
• Eleven found Laxus trying to treat Erza's severe wounds, helped stop her bleeding, and later used his recovering telekinetic power to carry both injured guildmates back to Fairy Tail.
• At Ms. Porlyusica's cabin, Eleven blamed himself for his companions' injuries, but Laxus told him that getting hurt on a mission was normal and not his responsibility.
• Makarov investigated the attack and discovered that the client and the members of the dark guild had gouged out their eyes and killed themselves.
• Eleven told Makarov that he had glimpsed his parents and suspected they were connected to the attack, but Makarov and later Gildarts found no clues to their identities or Eleven's origins, even after six months.

Eleven returned to Magnolia with Gildarts, whose distracted walking demolished thirteen houses and enraged Makarov. Gildarts proposed rebuilding the town with a straight road to the guild, and the Fairy Tail members began supporting the plan.

• Eleven returned to Magnolia with Gildarts after Makarov suspended the investigation into Eleven's origins.
• Gildarts walked through thirteen houses, and Eleven admired him while the residents stared at the damage.
• Makarov berated Gildarts and Eleven as Magnolia residents complained about the destruction.
• Eleven tried to defend Gildarts, making Makarov cry harder, while Erza briefly joked that the world was at fault.
• Gildarts proposed clearing a straight road from the town entrance to the guild, and Eleven and the other Fairy Tail members supported his plan.

Gildarts planned to remodel Magnolia by shifting sections of the ground instead of demolishing buildings, and he sought permission from the mayor and Cardia Cathedral. After seeing Gildarts charm Sister Maria, Eleven grew jealous and declared himself Gildarts’s enemy.

• Gildarts decided to move blocks of ground to create an avenue through Magnolia and asked the mayor for permission, mistaking the mayor’s silence for agreement.
• Eleven accompanied Gildarts to Cardia Cathedral and reunited with Sister Maria.
• Gildarts flirted with Maria, who agreed to help persuade the priest to move the cathedral.
• Eleven sulked as Gildarts and Maria went to speak with the priest, then kicked Gildarts in the knee and shouted that he would not agree before running off.