Chapter Summaries

Yuri and Griffon struggled with overdue bills at their agency until Yuri found a commission request hidden beneath a pizza. They left for a job that promised money for their expenses and a grand party.

• Yuri asked Griffon why the water had been cut off, and Griffon explained that the agency had neglected its bills and rent.
• Yuri brushed off the debts and ate the pizza that had appeared on the desk, despite Griffon's warning that it might be poisoned.
• Yuri found an envelope addressed to him beneath the pizza and read that a commission would provide money for their expenses.
• Yuri took his coat and left with Griffon to begin the commission.

Erza took a guard job at Caro Town’s festival, where a white-haired boy burst in and shot the priest before she could stop him. She faced the boy alone in the theater, and he ended their exchange by revealing that his gun was empty and laughing at her.

• Erza accepted a well-paid job protecting Caro Town’s festival and learned that the ceremony honored the mage Cain, who had died defeating the demon Qliphoth.
• A white-haired boy crashed through the theater roof and shot the priest, then attacked the guards and threatened Sonia.
• Erza intercepted the boy as he aimed at Sonia, and the others escaped with the injured and the priest’s body.
• The boy’s bullets shattered Erza’s armor and swords, but his next shots produced only empty clicks.
• The boy revealed that he had tricked Erza with an empty gun and laughed while she glared at him.

Yuri Redgrave recalled that he was the human half of a transmigrator who had split himself with Yamato, and he traveled in search of his dangerous demon half. At the theater, Yuri defeated Erza Scarlet with a fiery sword strike and disappeared.

• Yuri recalled his past life and learned from Griffon that he was the discarded human half of a powerful half-demon who had split himself with Yamato.
• Yuri traveled the world searching for his demon half, fearing the monster might pursue its obsession without restraint.
• Yuri teased Erza Scarlet and told her to abandon her commission, but Erza refused and identified herself as a Fairy Tail mage.
• Erza equipped her Heaven's Wheel Armor and unleashed a storm of swords at Yuri.
• Yuri drew his blazing sword, shattered Erza's attack, and sent her crashing into a statue beneath falling rubble.
• Yuri remarked that Erza's attack had not been enough and vanished from the theater roof.

Erza came to Sonia’s house to apologize for failing to catch the priest’s killer, but found Yuri there and learned Sonia had commissioned him. Sonia began explaining the real reason Caro Town held its festival.

• Erza failed to find the priest’s killer and visited Sonia to apologize and complete the commission handover.
• Sonia brought Erza inside, where Erza discovered Yuri sitting down to eat strawberry cake.
• Yuri taunted Erza by eating the cake, and she summoned a longsword before Sonia stopped her.
• Sonia told Erza that Yuri was a mage she had commissioned, and Erza suspected Sonia had arranged the priest’s murder.
• Sonia admitted she had concealed the truth because she feared her father would find out, then began recounting Caro Town’s true history and the festival’s purpose.

Sonia explained how Qliphoth broke free of his seal seven years earlier and how her father later drained visiting mages of their blood. Yuri suspected Cain’s Blessing had driven the priest’s awakening and revealed its true nature, and Sonia confirmed that Cain was the Blood Devil.

• Sonia explained that Qliphoth’s escape made the Blessed targets, and her father awakened as a mage to drive him away; only Sonia and her father survived among the Blessed.
• Sonia said her father turned the Blessing Festival into a way to lure low-ranking mages to Caro Town and drain their blood.
• Yuri suggested the Blessing had influenced the priest’s heart and awakened his magic, possibly as a curse from Cain.
• Sonia removed her veil and revealed her pale skin, pointed ears, and blood-red eyes, showing signs of devilization.
• Yuri identified Sonia as half human and half devil, and Sonia confirmed Cain was the Blood Devil and that the Blessing came from his power.

Sonia explained that her father had grown increasingly demonic and that Caro Town was trapped by Qliphoth’s roots, leaving her unable to seek help openly. Yuri realized her request to kill the priest concealed a larger plan, and Sonia asked him and Erza to help defeat Qliphoth.

• Sonia admitted that her father’s demonic corruption had made his thoughts and will increasingly dangerous.
• Sonia explained that Caro Town could not afford powerful mages and that her father had forbidden anyone from revealing the town’s faith and bloodline.
• Sonia said she had secretly posted her request through independent mages because Qliphoth’s roots prevented the townspeople from leaving.
• Yuri accused Sonia of using the request to conceal another plot and pointed his revolver at her.
• Sonia admitted she had hired mages to defeat Qliphoth and asked Yuri and Erza to help her.

Sonia explained that she was willing to die if it meant defeating Qliphoth and protecting Caro Town, then asked Yuri and Erza to take her savings and accept her request. Yuri agreed after questioning why she would sacrifice herself for humans, and Erza also committed to helping, though she framed it as a private contest with Yuri.

• Yuri threatened Sonia with his revolver, but she calmly said she would give up her life if Qliphoth could be defeated and offered Yuri and Erza 736,800 J.
• Yuri pulled the trigger on his unloaded revolver, then told Sonia not to throw her life away so casually.
• Yuri asked Sonia why she would risk her life for humans despite being half demon, and Sonia answered that perhaps it was because half her blood was human.
• Yuri accepted Sonia's request, and Erza hesitated before Yuri provoked her into agreeing to help as part of a private contest.
• Yuri told Erza she was too weak to be his opponent, infuriating her.

Yuri, Erza, and Sonia agreed to split up to weaken Qliphoth and destroy its main body. Yuri stayed behind in the sewers to draw Qliphoth’s attention and cut its roots while Erza and Sonia headed for the church.

• Sonia explained that Qliphoth’s roots filled the sewers and supplied its main body, so the roots needed to be destroyed before the church could be attacked.
• Yuri volunteered to act as bait and destroy the roots, and Erza promised to take down Qliphoth quickly.
• Erza and Sonia left for the church while Yuri entered the sewers alone.
• Yuri summoned Griffon to light the way and found enormous, dormant thornlike roots.
• Yuri turned down Griffon’s offer to help pull up the roots, then hinted that he had another task for him.

Erza and Sonia fought their way through Qliphoth’s man-eating flowers to reach the church, while Yuri cleared the thorn-filled sewer alone. The chapter left Erza and Sonia heading onward and Yuri lost in the sewer, unaware that someone was watching him.

• Erza and Sonia encountered a man-eating flower, and Erza escaped after it swallowed her by cutting off its head from inside.
• Erza saved Sonia from a second flower by throwing her sword through its throat, then caught her as she fell.
• Erza saw a photograph in Sonia’s pendant, and Sonia revealed that her mother had stayed behind during the disaster seven years earlier.
• Sonia urged Erza to continue because Yuri was waiting, and the two set off toward the church.
• Yuri used his demonic aura to subdue and uproot the thorns in the sewer, clearing his route toward the church.
• After clearing the sewer, Yuri realized he was lost and hummed to himself, unaware of a lurking shadow nearby.

Erza and Sonia confronted Qliphoth in the ruined church, where Erza destroyed its roots and man-eating flower clones before reaching for its life core. Qliphoth knocked Erza into the rubble, and she discovered that its supposedly missing flower had burrowed underground, leaving its location unknown.

• Erza and Sonia entered the ruined church, where Qliphoth attacked them with a man-eating flower clone.
• Erza cut down the flower and several thorny roots, then climbed onto the mother nest and pinned another flower to the floor.
• Sonia drew the remaining roots away by bleeding, allowing Erza to escape Qliphoth’s attack and approach its life core.
• A man-eating flower emerged beside the core and blasted Erza through a pillar into the rubble.
• Erza climbed out, noticed that the flower’s stalk connected to a growth she had already attacked, and realized a missing flower might have burrowed underground.

Yuri encountered a man-eating flower clone while searching for the church and let it drink his blood, causing it to overload on the Power of Sparda and die. He then continued along the now-dead stem to see how things were going elsewhere.

• Yuri intimidated the man-eating flower clone with his demonic power, but it lingered nearby, drawn to his strength.
• Yuri used his pet-training skill to lure the flower close, and it suddenly bit him and tried to tear him apart.
• Yuri allowed the flower to drink his blood, but the Power of Sparda overwhelmed it and made its head explode.
• Yuri left the lifeless stem behind and continued toward the church to check on the others.

Erza struggled to defeat Qliphoth as her strength and magic dwindled, until Sonia offered to draw the demon’s attacks away with her blood. Sonia’s plan lured Qliphoth’s roots and flower clones after her, leaving the core defended by the demon’s main consciousness alone.

• Erza’s attacks failed to break through Qliphoth’s regenerating minions, and she was injured and exhausted.
• Sonia caught Erza as she fell and offered to create an opening by using her blood to attract Qliphoth’s minions.
• Erza agreed, and Sonia cut open her wrist before charging toward Qliphoth.
• Qliphoth’s thorny roots and man-eating flowers abandoned Erza to pursue Sonia, forcing Qliphoth’s main consciousness to guard the core alone.

Erza pinned Qliphoth’s minions and destroyed the hive core, giving Sonia the chance to confront the creature that had killed her mother. Sonia stabbed Qliphoth and the core, triggering a pillar of blood-red energy from which a familiar yet unfamiliar figure emerged and told Erza that her mission ended there.

• Sonia weakened as she drew Qliphoth’s pursuing roots and flowers away from the hive core, until Erza arrived and pinned the minions in place.
• Erza unleashed Heaven’s Wheel: Circle Sword and pierced Qliphoth and the hive core after a sudden azure glow weakened him.
• Sonia asked Erza to let her end Caro Town’s three-hundred-year fate herself, and Erza handed her a longsword.
• Sonia identified herself as Sonia Gate, accused Qliphoth of murdering her mother seven years earlier, and stabbed him and the hive core.
• The strike unleashed a pillar of blood-red energy that destroyed the church and sent Erza flying.
• A familiar yet unfamiliar figure emerged from the fading light and told Erza that her mission ended there.

Yuri, Erza, and Griffon confronted Sonia after her demonic transformation, and Griffon explained that she had evolved by devouring a compatible demon plant. Yuri arrived as Sonia questioned why he was unsurprised, leaving the group poised to deal with her transformation.

• Sonia told Erza that the mission was complete and urged her to leave, but Erza questioned her transformation.
• Sonia attacked Erza with a giant maw, and Griffon rescued Erza before introducing himself as Yuri's ally.
• Griffon explained that Sonia had evolved through devouring and said Yuri might know how to change her back.
• Yuri emerged from the sewer, learned that Griffon had failed to keep the situation under control, and turned to face Sonia.
• Sonia asked Yuri why he was not surprised by her appearance.

Yuri and Sonia questioned each other about their identities and Qliphoth, revealing that Sonia had lied about its magic and knew someone deliberately broke its seal seven years earlier. When Sonia described the culprit as a black-robed man with silver-white hair, she urgently asked whether Yuri knew him.

• Sonia questioned Yuri about his identity, strength, and reason for coming to Caro Town, but Yuri insisted he was a freelance mage completing her commission.
• Yuri showed Sonia her handwritten commission letter and explained that he had picked it up from its dead original owner.
• Yuri asked whether Qliphoth drew its magic from the earth, and Sonia admitted she had lied because it was a Blood Demon Tree that fed on human blood.
• Sonia asked whether Yuri worked for the kingdom or the Magic Council, and he denied belonging to either.
• Yuri asked Sonia whether she knew why Qliphoth's seal had broken seven years earlier, triggering a surge of magic from her.
• Sonia revealed that a black-robed, silver-haired person had deliberately released Qliphoth, then asked Yuri if he knew the culprit as she sought revenge for her mother's death.

Yuri tried to persuade Sonia to give up the demonic power consuming her, offering to avenge her mother, but she refused and attacked him. The chapter ended with Yuri easily destroying her man-eating flower and warning that she could not defeat him.

• Sonia accused Yuri of knowing or working with the man who killed her mother, while Yuri said he was searching for him too.
• Yuri warned Sonia that excessive demonic power was eroding her humanity and offered to kill her mother's killer if she gave up that power.
• Sonia rejected Yuri's offer, insisting she would avenge her mother herself and accusing him of wanting her power.
• Yuri threatened to make Sonia surrender after a fight, and Sonia attacked him with a man-eating flower.
• The flower swallowed Yuri's arm, but he destroyed it in an explosion and told Sonia she could not beat him.

Yuri overwhelmed Sonia with Blue Rose, but her demonic powers drove her toward a transformation. As Yuri drew Red Queen to face her, Griffon warned Erza that the sword’s power would overwhelm someone with her build.

• Sonia regenerated her severed arm and attacked Yuri with six thorny roots, but he shattered each one with precise shots from Blue Rose.
• Griffon explained Blue Rose’s armor-breaking and piercing rounds, while Yuri reloaded the gun in an instant.
• Sonia lost control as Cain’s and Qliphoth’s powers consumed her reason, and she mistook Yuri for the person who had killed her mother.
• Yuri drew Red Queen and remarked that Sonia’s transformation confirmed Cain had gained Qliphoth’s power through a duel.
• Griffon warned Erza that Red Queen was not made for mages like her, as Yuri revved the sword and its engine roared.

Yuri used the Red Queen’s EX Second Gear to overwhelm Sonia’s demonic plants, but Sonia fled after a man-eating flower distracted him. As Yuri moved to pursue her, a pale figure emerged from the forest and blocked her path.

• Yuri activated the Red Queen’s EX Second Gear and blasted through Sonia’s enlarged man-eating flowers and thorny roots.
• Yuri cut down the plants charging at him and approached Sonia, whose demonic instincts and resentment struggled for control.
• A third man-eating flower seized Yuri and launched him into the air, giving Sonia a chance to run.
• Yuri realized the flower’s attack had been a deliberate distraction and set off after Sonia.
• A ghastly pale figure emerged from the forest and blocked Sonia’s path.

Yuri confronted the priest, who revealed that he was Cain, the Blood Devil, and explained how he had returned to life and manipulated events to defeat Qliphoth. Cain also revealed that Yuri was not entirely human but a devil, leaving the two facing off after Cain explained why he had brought Fairy Tail into his plan.

• Sonia attacked the priest, but he stopped her and her man-eating flowers with blood threads.
• Yuri shot the priest with Blue Rose, and the priest healed while revealing that Yuri was a devil.
• Yuri recognized the priest as Cain, the Blood Devil, and learned that blood manipulation had helped him survive being shot in the head.
• Cain explained that he had used his Demon Heart as a blessing to revive himself, then devoured mages to regain strength and prepare to fight Qliphoth.
• Cain revealed that he had chosen Fairy Tail for the escort request because he needed a strong mage who would not disrupt his plans.

Cain tried to recruit Yuri as a fellow demon, but Yuri refused, leaving Cain to attack him. The chapter ended with Cain launching a barrage of blood-red spears at Yuri, who was protecting Sonia.

• Cain explained that Yuri’s arrival had disrupted his plan to weaken Qliphoth and sacrifice Caro Town’s people.
• Cain proposed working with Yuri, arguing that the Magic Council would target them both because they were demons.
• Yuri agreed that the Magic Council was troublesome but refused Cain’s offer.
• Cain attacked Sonia and tore out her heart; Yuri tried to stop him and caught her corpse.
• Cain pierced Yuri with a blood-red spear, then dismissed Sonia as a dog and sent more spears toward him.