Chapter Summaries

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.

Eleven tried to arrange Cana’s first job with Gildarts, unaware that she was hiding a secret about him. After Cana stopped Eleven from revealing what he had guessed, she admitted that Gildarts was her father.

• Eleven complained to Maria about Gildarts’s dirty books, but Maria mistakenly thought Eleven wanted to read them.
• Eleven arrived at the guild the next morning still confused about his anger toward Gildarts and greeted Cana.
• Cana told Eleven that the master had agreed she could take her first job and asked him to accompany her.
• Eleven urged Gildarts to take Cana on her first job, but Gildarts refused and said Eleven could take her instead.
• Cana dragged Eleven into a deserted alley and asked how he knew her secret; Eleven explained that he had noticed how she reacted to Gildarts.
• Cana admitted that Gildarts was her father, leaving Eleven stunned.

Cana told Eleven that Gildarts was her father and asked him to keep it secret until she became a powerful mage. When Eleven rejected her choice of first job and she challenged him to prove her strength, the guild gathered to watch their duel, which ended with Eleven knocking her cards to the ground.

• Eleven learned that Cana was Gildarts’s daughter, and Cana explained that she planned to keep her identity secret until she was strong enough to feel worthy of him.
• Eleven comforted Cana and promised nothing explicitly, while she asked him to keep her parentage secret from Gildarts.
• Cana chose an 800,000 J demon-purification job, but Eleven rejected it and registered her for a safer 200,000 J bandit job instead.
• Cana challenged Eleven to a duel, and Erza refereed while the Fairy Tail guild members gathered to watch.
• Cana attacked with enchanted cards, but Eleven slapped every card onto the ground while admiring their magic circles.

Cana fought Eleven with a range of card-based spells, then caught him in a lightning trap that barely hurt him. She surrendered the duel, leaving Eleven the winner but frustrated, while Cana secretly celebrated having gotten to attack him.

• Cana attacked Eleven with fire and several elemental spells, but his Telekinesis shield blocked them all.
• Eleven swept Cana's cards from the air and moved to counterattack.
• Cana triggered a lightning trap using cards Eleven had knocked to the ground, but Eleven endured the shock with little harm.
• Cana surrendered, and Erza announced Eleven as the winner before comforting Cana.
• Eleven sat despondently on the ground, while Cana secretly smiled and left pleased with herself.

Eleven took Cana on her first job to clear robbers from a bridge, but his attempt to stop the fleeing chief destroyed the bridge and left them liable for damages. As they argued afterward, Eleven sensed a demon’s aura from a cloaked girl approaching with two companions and prepared to defend Cana.

• Eleven lectured Cana on his wizarding theories as they traveled to a job clearing robbers from a bridge.
• Cana defeated the robbers with elemental magic, but their chief escaped using acceleration magic.
• At Cana’s urging, Eleven stopped the chief by destroying the bridge, causing the client to dismiss them and demand compensation.
• Cana berated Eleven for wrecking the bridge while he tried to frame the mishap as a job-related difficulty.
• Eleven sensed a demon’s aura from the arm of a cloaked girl approaching with two white-haired youths, pulled Cana behind him, and readied himself to attack.

Eleven confronted Mira, Lisanna, and Elfman after sensing the demonic aura in Mira’s arm, frightening the siblings and knocking Mira unconscious. After Lisanna slapped him for calling Mira’s arm ugly, Eleven asked Elfman to explain what had happened to it.

• Mira sensed Eleven’s hostility and tried to lead Lisanna and Elfman away, but Eleven stopped them.
• Mira begged Eleven to spare her siblings, and Lisanna and Elfman stood between them before Eleven knocked Mira unconscious with Telekinesis.
• Eleven revealed Mira’s transformed, demon-tainted right arm to Cana and explained that he sensed a demonic aura from it.
• Lisanna slapped Eleven for calling Mira’s arm ugly, and Elfman apologized and offered to explain the arm’s history.

After waking, Mira heard Eleven explain that her demon form might be the result of Take Over magic rather than possession. Fearing she could someday harm Lisanna and Elfman, she agreed to go with Eleven to the Fairy Tail guild for help.

• Mira woke beside the fire and hid her demon arm when Eleven offered her water.
• Eleven introduced himself and Cana as Fairy Tail mages and said he had heard how Mira gained her demon form while saving her siblings and village.
• Eleven suggested Mira had used Take Over magic on the demon and might be cured, though he could not be certain.
• Eleven urged Mira to consider the risk that she might lose control and hurt Lisanna and Elfman.
• Mira stopped Lisanna from attacking Eleven and agreed that the siblings would go with him.

Eleven led his companions through a primeval forest shortcut, where they were ambushed by lecherous gorilla monsters and endured a barrage of filthy projectiles. After Eleven shielded the group with Telekinesis and they escaped, an unexpected burst of dust startled him again.

• Eleven chose to lead Cana, Mira, Elfman, and Lisanna through a forest he believed was a shortcut to Magnolia.
• A gorilla monster tried to abduct Cana and the others, but Eleven defeated it with Telekinesis.
• Eleven smashed a second gorilla, then the group dodged a third gorilla's thrown filth as more monsters gathered.
• The gorillas launched a coordinated volley, and Eleven carried Lisanna while the group fled under a Telekinesis shield.
• Eleven withdrew the shield after the danger passed, and the exhausted group noticed night had fallen.
• Eleven stepped on something that burst into a cloud of dust, making him leap away in alarm.

Eleven and the others rested among glowing mushrooms in the dark forest, where he comforted Mira about the demon arm she had gained while protecting her family. Mira thanked him, and the chapter ended with her siblings and Cana revealing they had heard his words and approving of them.

• Eleven and the others discovered that glowshrooms were harmless and watched their spores illuminate the forest.
• Lisanna and Cana played among the mushrooms before falling asleep beside their companions.
• Mira silently scratched at her demon arm, and Eleven asked whether she regretted gaining it to save someone.
• Eleven told Mira he would risk anything to protect his family and friends, and assured her that her body was proof she had protected her family.
• Mira thanked Eleven, then Cana, Lisanna, and Elfman revealed they had been awake and listening.

Eleven and his companions got lost in the misty forest, where they encountered a unicorn that welcomed their touch. Its affection for Mira helped her believe that her demonic arm did not make her evil, and she finally released the pain she had been carrying.

• Eleven used a Telekinesis shield to keep the group dry as they set out in the drizzle.
• Eleven led the others off course, and they became lost in the mist-covered forest.
• A unicorn emerged from the mist and approached Cana, who stroked it.
• Lisanna and Mira also touched the unicorn, which showed particular affection for Mira.
• Eleven told Mira that the unicorn’s acceptance proved her demonic arm was not evil, and Mira broke down crying as her doubts and pain poured out.

Eleven and the others followed a unicorn into a dense thicket, where they discovered that the forest stood on a gigantic plant that launched them above the clouds. Eleven used Telekinesis to guide everyone toward Magnolia, bringing their strange adventure to an end.

• The unicorn rejected Eleven and Elfman, then led Mira, Lisanna, Cana, Elfman, and Eleven to a dense thicket instead of taking them out of the forest.
• Eleven suspected the unicorn had deceived them, but he followed the others into the thicket when he could not prove it.
• The group struggled through the vegetation and reached a clearing, where the ground began rising and revealed itself to be the top of a gigantic plant.
• Eleven called out to the plant, and it abruptly retracted into the earth, sending the group soaring through the clouds.
• Eleven linked everyone through Telepathy, and the five formed a hand-holding circle as he used Telekinesis to guide them down toward Magnolia.