Chapter Summaries

Eleven read the Magic Council’s account of the dark guild war and discovered that he and Laxus had been named in wanted notices. He laughed at Laxus’s description as his attendant, then agreed with Erza that Elizabeth was dangerous and smacked Natsu for dismissing the threat.

• Eleven read the Magic Council’s report about the dark guild war and found his own wanted notice, though its blurry picture reassured him that he would be hard to identify.
• Eleven recalled Brain’s broken promise to reveal Jellal’s whereabouts and learned that Brain had once directed the Magic Council’s Magic Development Bureau, which had since been destroyed.
• Eleven laughed at Laxus’s notice, which identified him as Elizabeth’s attendant and left his gender uncertain, and showed it to Natsu and Happy.
• Erza warned that Elizabeth was dangerous and had reportedly defeated Rakshasa Evil Spirits’ senior members in one move.
• Natsu boasted that he could defeat Elizabeth with one punch, so Eleven slapped him and told him to respect the strong.

Eleven accepted an S-class job to return a golden key to the Heartfilia Family, while teasing Erik and reassuring Kinana that he would look after him. The client revealed that the key opened the Gate of Cancer, one of the Twelve Gates of the Zodiac.

• Eleven watched Erik awkwardly choose a job, and Kinana stopped him from taking a bunny-girl request.
• Kinana registered Eleven’s S-class job and asked him to look after Erik, while Eleven joked that everyone in the guild was an idiot except him.
• Eleven traveled to the client’s house to take on a job transporting a treasure to the Heartfilia Family.
• The client gave Eleven a silk-lined box containing a golden key and explained that it opened the Gate of Cancer.

Eleven accepted Layla Heartfilia’s Cancer key job and set off for the Heartfilia Family’s territory, but his magical navigator led him deep into the mountains. There, three members of the treasure hunter guild Sylph Labyrinth confronted him and demanded the key.

• Eleven learned from Layla Heartfilia’s former maid that the golden Cancer key was one of three keys entrusted to servants after Layla’s death, and that she had hired him to protect it from treasure hunters.
• The maid gave Eleven a black outfit for traveling at night, and Eleven escaped after demonstrating that he could turn invisible.
• Eleven followed a magical navigator through the night, only to discover at daybreak that it had led him into the mountains instead of the Heartfilia Family’s territory.
• Three treasure hunters confronted Eleven, identified themselves as members of Sylph Labyrinth, and demanded the golden key.

Eleven blasted the treasure hunters Hughes and Lala out of his way, then searched the forest for the Heartfilia mansion and found a crying blonde girl. After she mistook him for a pervert and summoned Aquarius for help, Eleven was left facing the spirit.

• Eleven confronted Hughes, Lala, and Drake after they admitted they targeted treasure in transit.
• Lala blocked Eleven’s first Telekinesis Impact with his hand-shaped weapon, but Eleven’s stronger attack sent Lala and Hughes flying through the forest.
• Drake took aim from a concealed position but found that his teammates had disappeared.
• Eleven searched the forest with Spiritual Power and discovered a crying blonde girl beside a stream.
• The girl screamed that Eleven was a pervert, fell into the stream, and summoned Aquarius with a golden key.

Eleven met a blonde girl who summoned Aquarius, and his black stealth suit led Aquarius to mistake him for a pervert. After Aquarius swept the treasure hunters away with a huge wave, Eleven forgave her when the girl apologized on her behalf.

• Eleven discovered that the blonde girl had summoned Aquarius with a gold Celestial Spirit Key.
• Aquarius and the girl mistook Eleven for a pervert because of his skintight black suit.
• The treasure hunter trio found Eleven and attacked him, but Aquarius unleashed a huge wave that swept them away.
• Aquarius returned to the Celestial Spirit World after warning the girl not to interrupt her dates again.
• The girl thanked Eleven and apologized for Aquarius, and Eleven told her he forgave Aquarius.

Eleven met Lucy Heartfilia, brought her home with the Cancer Celestial Spirit Key, and comforted her when she cried over her forgotten birthday. After delivering the key to Jude Heartfilia, he encountered a woman mourning at Layla’s grave, who recognized him as “Lord Eleven” before leaving amused.

• Eleven met Lucy Heartfilia, learned she belonged to the Heartfilia Family, and agreed to take her home with the Cancer Celestial Spirit Key for her father.
• On the way to the mansion, Lucy told Eleven that Jude had forgotten her birthday and that she missed her late mother, Layla.
• Eleven comforted Lucy and gave her a Fairy Tail key case as a birthday present.
• Eleven delivered the Cancer key to Jude Heartfilia and left the mansion at dusk.
• In the family graveyard, Eleven met a blond woman mourning at Layla’s tomb, and she recognized him as Lord Eleven before departing with a smile.

Eleven received a strange request by name from Cait Shelter, which revived the guild’s fears of a plot like the one that had nearly killed him and Erza four years earlier. As the guild tried to understand the request, Kinana revealed that Makarov had been confined by the Magic Council after fighting Phantom Lord’s master.

• Eleven returned to the guild and found Erza scolding Erik for beating up a client and abandoning the job.
• Eleven tried to mediate, but Erza punched him after he advised Erik to finish the job before collecting the reward.
• Kinana announced that a request had arrived specifically for Eleven, and the guild’s older members reacted with alarm because of a similar request four years earlier.
• Eleven and Erza noticed that the request from Cait Shelter was vague and repeatedly called him “Lord Eleven,” prompting him to wonder if it was connected to the woman he had met at the Heartfilia Family cemetery.
• Eleven asked where Makarov was, and Kinana explained that the Magic Council had confined him after he fought Jose at a routine meeting.

After learning that Makarov’s arrest was only a show, Eleven accepted a personal request that he suspected might concern his parents and planned to visit Cait Shelter the next day. When he returned home, he found Erza and several other guild members had invaded his house and were making themselves at home.

• Kinana explained that the Magic Council did not intend to keep Makarov imprisoned, calming the guild members.
• Eleven accepted the personal request and declined Erza, Gray, and Cana’s offers to accompany him.
• Eleven rested by the river and wondered whether his parents had returned, then decided to visit Cait Shelter the next day.
• Eleven sensed activity inside his house and found Gray, Lisanna, Cana, Mira, Elfman, Natsu, Happy, Levy, Jet, and Droy there.
• Eleven saw Erza eating his red bean pudding and let her keep it.

Eleven tried to keep his dangerous personal request to himself, but his friends insisted on helping. He agreed to bring Erik, then faced Erza and Mira’s anger after excluding everyone else.

• Erza and Mira explained that they had gathered to discuss Eleven’s personal request and offer help.
• Eleven thanked the group but refused to let anyone join him, citing Fairy Tail’s rules and his S-class status.
• Natsu attacked Eleven in protest, and the others urged Eleven to accept their help, with Cana warning that the job held serious danger.
• Eleven compromised by agreeing to take some companions, but said several members were not strong enough and ruled out Natsu.
• Eleven chose Erik as his companion, prompting Erza to summon a sword and Mira to transform into her demon form.

Eleven chose Erik to accompany him to Cait Shelter, explaining that Erik’s hearing and poison made him a better support mage than Erza or Mira. Erza, Mira, Natsu, Gray, and Happy secretly planned to go there too, while Erik joined Eleven after hearing the praise; on the train, Eleven began plotting strange poison tests for him.

• Eleven convinced Erza and Mira that Erik’s tracking and support abilities made him the best choice for the job.
• After the others left, Natsu, Gray, Erza, Mira, and Happy agreed to go to Cait Shelter and meet Eleven there.
• Erik, who had overheard Eleven’s praise the night before, stayed at the guild and agreed to accompany him.
• Eleven and Erik boarded a train, where Erik became motion-sick but kept up his aloof act.
• Eleven wondered whether Erik could eat poison gas and decided he would test strange substances on him later.

Eleven and Erik traveled toward Cait Shelter, where they were joined by Natsu, Happy, Mira, Erza, and Gray after Eleven scolded them for running ahead to help him. The group reached the village and was welcomed by its elderly leader, who studied them with a look of reminiscence.

• Erik kept his distance from Eleven as they walked toward Cait Shelter and joked that Eleven's companions did not listen to him.
• Eleven found Natsu, Happy, Mira, Erza, and Gray asleep by the roadside after they had run through the night to reach Cait Shelter ahead of him.
• Eleven scolded the group for recklessly going ahead, punched Erza when she asked him to punish her, and then let everyone continue with him.
• Erik reflected on the bonds between the Fairy Tail companions and wondered what kind of guild could inspire such loyalty.
• Eleven, Erik, and the others reached Cait Shelter, where the village's elderly leader welcomed them and looked over the group with a faint, reminiscent smile.

Eleven and the Fairy Tail guildmates visited Cait Shelter and discovered its members were Thought Projections with physical bodies. They met Wendy and Carla, whose first encounter with Happy began awkwardly and cutely.

• Eleven examined Rob and the Cait Shelter members with Spiritual Power, realized they were Thought Projections, and apologized for touching Rob's head.
• Eleven introduced himself and his companions as Fairy Tail members, and Rob welcomed them into the tribe's tent for food.
• Rob called Wendy to help welcome the visitors, but Wendy tripped and fell as she entered.
• A white winged cat named Carla came in, and the Fairy Tail members mistook her for a white version of Happy.
• Happy tried to befriend Carla, who turned away from him, while Wendy told Carla to be polite and called Happy a cute blue Carla.

At a celebration, Guild Master Rob asked Eleven to take Wendy to Fairy Tail because a dark guild was targeting her for her Sky Dragon Slayer Magic. Wendy ran away in tears, and Erik revealed that she had already been captured.

• Happy flirted with Carla while Wendy served the guild members at the party.
• Rob asked Eleven to take Wendy to live at Fairy Tail, and Wendy ran out of the tent when she heard the decision.
• Rob explained that a dark guild sought Wendy’s rare healing magic, Sky Dragon Slayer Magic, and admitted he could not protect her.
• Eleven accepted Rob’s request to take Wendy to Fairy Tail.
• Erik announced that Wendy had already been captured, and the others reacted in shock.

Eleven and the others pursued the kidnappers to rescue Wendy, but the giant carrying her shattered Eleven’s Telekinesis Shield and sent him flying. Mira recognized the giant as a demon and transformed, while the remaining enemies charged toward Natsu and Gray.

• Eleven used his Spiritual Power to locate Wendy being carried away by four strangers, then rushed after her with Erza, Mira, Natsu, Gray, and Happy.
• Eleven, Erza, and Mira raced ahead while Happy caught up and joined them; Erik stayed behind as Rob asked him to look after Wendy.
• Eleven warned Erza and Mira that the kidnappers had split up, and the group continued toward the tall man carrying Wendy while Carla hurried after them.
• Eleven lunged to grab Wendy, but the giant’s punch shattered his Telekinesis Shield and struck his chest, sending him crashing into the bushes.
• Mira sensed that the giant was a demon and activated Satan Soul Take Over, while the other three mages continued toward Natsu and Gray.

Natsu and Gray lost their way in the woods and were attacked by two enemies with Monkey Magic and Steel-Make. Gray battled the armored steel mage, but his attacks failed to break the man’s armor, and a steel spike pierced him.

• Natsu and Gray wandered through the woods, bickering after losing track of Eleven and the others.
• A monkeylike man mocked Natsu with a banana peel trap, then fled when Natsu attacked him.
• Gray dodged a steel hammer and faced an armored man using Steel-Make.
• Gray’s ice spears shattered against the man’s steel swords, and Gray froze a wound to stop his bleeding.
• Gray fired an Ice-Make cannon and attacked with a scythe, but the shield deflected the blast and the scythe broke against the armor.
• The armored man used Steel-Make—Ground Spike to pierce Gray.

Natsu and Gray fought Brain’s subordinates in the jungle, with Natsu chasing a monkey-like attacker and Gray defeating an armored man. After Natsu finally struck down the monkey, Erik confronted a man emerging from the bushes.

• Natsu battled the agile monkey man, who revealed Brain planned to capture and brainwash Dragon Slayers into serving Oración Seis.
• Natsu set the jungle ablaze to disrupt the monkey man’s movements, then followed him to Gray and the armored man.
• Gray froze the armored man’s steel rampart until Natsu’s heat made it brittle, then shattered it and chased the monkey man off with Natsu.
• Gray exploited the airtight armor’s gaps by sealing them with ice, forcing the armored man to remove it before Gray wounded him with Ice-Make—Ice Blade: Sevenfold Dance.
• Natsu caught the monkey man in midair and struck him with Fire Dragon’s Ball Crusher.
• Erik noticed a man hiding in the bushes and ordered him to come out; the man emerged and remarked that he had found quite a figure.

Erik, known as Cobra, fought a bespectacled slime mage who wanted to kill him and claim a place beside Lord Brain in the Oración Seis. Erik defeated him with Sound Magic and poison, but the man's final warning about the darkness following Cobra left him grim as he walked away.

• Erik dodged the bespectacled man's slime ambush and used his venom to destroy a hidden slime attack.
• The bespectacled man absorbed Erik's venom slime, gained his poison, and trapped him inside a mass of slime.
• The bespectacled man transformed into a colossal slime monster and swallowed Erik, but Erik shattered it from within using Sound Magic—Sound Wave Impact.
• Erik hurled the bespectacled man into the air and blasted his remaining slime body with Poison Dragon's Roar, leaving him mortally wounded.
• The bespectacled man warned that Cobra could never escape the darkness and that everyone around him would be dragged into it, then died.
• Cobra stood grimly over the corpse, spat on its face, and dismissed the man's attempt to frighten him.

Mira, Erza, and Eleven fought the demon Jack, who had kidnapped Wendy and possessed immense strength and rapid healing. Eleven restrained Jack long enough for Erza to sever the arm holding Wendy, leaving her flying away with it.

• Jack revealed his enormous demon form and declared that the group had trespassed on his territory while holding Wendy in one hand.
• Mira attacked Jack with dark magic, but he overpowered her and rapidly healed from her blasts.
• Eleven returned to the fight and used telekinesis against Jack while searching for a way to free Wendy.
• Eleven found an opening in the energy covering Jack and restrained him, then called for Erza to strike his arm.
• Erza donned the Black Wing Armor and severed Jack's arm, sending Wendy flying away with it.

Carla, Happy, and the others pursued the skull staff after it kidnapped Wendy, while Eleven, Mira, and Erza fought Jack after he transformed into a regenerating demon. Eleven sacrificed himself to free Mira from Jack’s grasp, and Mira began her Take Over spell as the battle continued.

• The skull staff seized Wendy and fled, so Carla and Happy chased after it while Jack transformed into a demon and attacked Eleven, Mira, and Erza.
• Eleven protected Mira and Erza from Jack’s attacks, and Erza used her Flame Emperor’s Armor to create an opening for Mira to attempt Take Over.
• Jack grew two extra arms and tried to crush Mira, but Eleven kicked her out of danger and was trapped between the demon’s hands.
• Eleven headbutted Jack until he shattered the demon’s head, then called for Mira to finish the attack.
• Mira kicked Eleven aside and began Take Over on Jack, forming a dark-purple magic circle.

Mira drained Jack’s demon factor, leaving him near death, and Eleven and Mira bickered while she helped him stand. Jack mistook Eleven for his former boss Elizabeth before dying after revealing that Tartaros and the Nine Demon Gates had transformed him into a demon.

• Mira absorbed Jack’s demon factor and left him withered and dying.
• Mira helped the injured Eleven stand, and they traded annoyed gestures as he leaned his weight on her.
• Jack recognized Eleven as his former boss Elizabeth, and Erza identified him as Mighty King Jack of the Rock-Crushing Gang.
• Jack told Eleven that Tartaros’s Nine Demon Gates had turned him into a demon, then died.
• Erza explained that Jack had confused Eleven with Elizabeth, and Eleven was relieved that Erza believed the mistake.