Chapter Summaries

Mira protected her older brother Yuri from guild members who insulted and harassed him, while Yuri struggled with the stigma of having killed their abusive father and becoming a Devil. After Mira discovered Yuri’s scars, she beat up the men tormenting him and learned that Caso had arranged the attacks, leaving Caso badly injured the next day.

• Mira regained her memories and recognized Yuri as her older brother and fellow member of the Fire-Bellied Toad.
• Mira threatened guild members who called Yuri a Devil, then comforted Yuri after he scolded her for fighting over him.
• The chapter revealed that Yuri had killed their abusive father to protect Mira and their mother, after which his mother feared him and left.
• Mira brought Yuri lunch on the guild rooftop and noticed his hidden, scarred right hand.
• Mira secretly beat up the men who had been tormenting Yuri and forced their leader to name Caso as their employer.
• Caso appeared badly beaten the next day, while the guild members dismissed the idea that Yuri had retaliated.

Caso lured Mira into a magic-restricted forest, but Yuri arrived and killed Caso and his men after they threatened his sister. Mira’s love helped Yuri accept that they were family, and Mirajane awoke from the nightmare as Griffon sent her back to someone waiting outside.

• Caso decided to abduct Mira and force her to abandon Yuri, then lured her into a forest where a device suppressed magic power.
• Mira fought Caso’s armed men until Yuri arrived, and Yuri struck Caso down despite the restriction device.
• Yuri slaughtered the attackers and killed Caso, then feared Mira would see him as a monster.
• Mira embraced Yuri and told him she was not afraid because they were family, and Yuri accepted her love as his white hair turned black and the Devil Bringer vanished.
• Mirajane woke in the dark world, learned from Griffon that she had cleared the nightmare, and was pulled toward the exit.

Mirajane accepted her Devil Power as a means to protect her family and agreed to join Fairy Tail. Yuri carried her to meet the others, reflecting on the nightmare he had created from memories of his previous life.

• Mirajane woke after the nightmare and admitted that seeing Devil Power from the outside had changed how she felt about it.
• Yuri reassured Mirajane that her love and grief for her family showed she was still human, and that Devil Power could be used to protect them.
• Thinking of Lisanna, Elfman, and Yuri, Mirajane accepted her demon arm and took Yuri's hand when he invited her to join Fairy Tail.
• Yuri carried the injured Mirajane as they headed to meet Erza and the others.
• Yuri recalled that Griffon had used memories from Yuri's former life to shape Mirajane's nightmare, and that its effects would fade after waking.

Yuri and Erza brought Mirajane, Lisanna, and Elfman to Fairy Tail, where the newcomers saw the guild’s rowdy atmosphere and Erza disciplined its members. After Yuri reported that the job had failed and explained what happened, Makarov asked to examine Mirajane’s arm.

• Yuri and Erza escorted Mirajane, Lisanna, and Elfman into Fairy Tail, where Mirajane questioned whether the chaotic guild was really her new home.
• Erza stopped the guild members’ fighting and drinking, while Yuri helped reprimand them.
• Yuri told Makarov that the job had failed and tried to borrow money for next month’s rent.
• After Yuri explained what had happened, Makarov looked at Mirajane and asked to examine her arm.

Makarov identified Mirajane’s demonic arm as a result of Take Over Magic and offered to help her master it, while Yuri agreed to teach the siblings for pay. Lisanna, Elfman, and Mirajane joined the guild and chose their emblems, leaving Mirajane flustered over Yuri’s red emblem and its placement.

• Makarov explained that Mirajane’s arm held demonic power through Take Over Magic and offered to teach her to control it.
• Lisanna and Elfman asked to learn magic from Yuri, and Makarov persuaded Yuri to teach them for 300,000 J a month.
• Makarov stamped guild emblems for the new members, and Lisanna proudly showed off her white-and-blue emblem while Elfman chose black.
• Mirajane asked Yuri about his red emblem on his left arm and became visibly distressed as she tried to interpret his choices.

Mirajane and her siblings settled into Fairy Tail and grew stronger, while Cana and Erza worried about their relationships with Yuri. Months later, Laxus returned and challenged Yuri to a duel at the S-Class Mage examination.

• Mirajane mastered Devil Take Over in ten days, while Elfman and Lisanna learned their own Take Over forms over the next month.
• Mirajane began training with Yuri, making Cana worry that Yuri might be taken from her and reviving her doubts about whether he was Gildarts's son.
• Erza recalled being turned down when she asked Yuri for swordsmanship guidance and wondered why he rejected her invitations to team up.
• Several months later, Mirajane had become powerful enough to match Erza and frequently picked fights with her.
• Laxus returned to the guild, and Yuri asked him what he wanted before Laxus challenged him to a duel at the S-Class Mage examination.

Yuri accepted Laxus’s challenge to compete in the S-Class Mage promotion exam, then reunited with Gildarts when he returned to Fairy Tail. As the guild celebrated Gildarts’s arrival, Yuri let Cana try a drink, and Macao and Wakaba stole the bottle while he was distracted.

• Laxus challenged Yuri to fight at the S-Class Mage promotion exam, and Yuri agreed.
• Yuri reflected on the exam requirements and how he had teamed up with Griffon for his recent missions.
• Magnolia transformed to make way for Gildarts’s return, and Yuri greeted him after nearly three years apart.
• Gildarts reported to Makarov that he had completed his mission, while the guild members welcomed him back.
• Yuri gave Cana permission to have one glass, but Macao and Wakaba stole his bottle, prompting him to chase them.

Makarov announced that Laxus Dreyar and Yuri Redgrave would take Fairy Tail’s S-Class promotion exam in the Lansala Rainforest one week later. After the guild celebrated and the younger members resolved to train for a future exam, Levy McGarden offered to help Yuri learn about the rainforest.

• Natsu and Gray argued while the guild members speculated about who would be chosen for the S-Class exam.
• Mirajane and Erza traded insults and declared their team disbanded as Makarov and Gildarts came onstage.
• Makarov named Laxus Dreyar and Yuri Redgrave as the two exam candidates and announced that the exam would begin in a week at the Lansala Rainforest.
• The guild members reacted to the announcement, and Yuri wondered what kind of place the Lansala Rainforest was.
• Levy McGarden approached Yuri and offered to help him learn about the rainforest.

Yuri and Laxus began their S-Class Exam in the Lansala Rainforest, but both headed toward its central lake to settle their duel instead of hunting marked beasts. Yuri fought through a pack of Deinonychus as Makarov and Gildarts watched, concerned that the rainforest king might not be strong enough to challenge them.

• Yuri and Laxus started from opposite ends of the Lansala Rainforest, and each headed for the central lake to duel rather than search for marked magical beasts.
• A pack of marked Deinonychus surrounded Yuri, and he killed them with the Red Queen.
• Yuri praised the Red Queen’s mechanical design and continued deeper into the rainforest.
• Makarov and Gildarts observed Yuri and Laxus heading toward the lake and realized they intended to fight there.
• Makarov worried the rainforest king might not be enough to challenge Yuri and Laxus, and Gildarts offered to go ahead.

Yuri confronted Echidna, the S-Class magical beast known as the Mother of the Forest, and fought her with kicks, guns, and his sword. After burning her reproductive organs, he dodged her tentacle attacks, but Echidna swallowed him as he tried to escape.

• Yuri noticed that magical beasts had stopped appearing nearby and realized a powerful creature was approaching.
• Echidna attacked Yuri with giant seeds, and he redirected them back at her before identifying her as the Mother of the Forest.
• Yuri evaded Echidna’s charge, struck her head, and shot down the seeds she fired at him.
• Echidna trapped Yuri with tentacles, but he burned her reproductive organs with the Red Queen, forcing her to retreat and roar in fury.
• Echidna planted herself in the ground and attacked Yuri with eight hook-bladed tentacles; when he escaped the cage, she swallowed him.

Yuri defeated Echidna during the S-Class Exam and found an exceptionally durable piece of metal inside her remains. He continued toward the central lake while Laxus headed for their duel, as Makarov prepared the exam’s real trial.

• Yuri overpowered Echidna with the Red Queen and Devil Bringer, then crushed her with an enormous magical fist.
• Yuri found a silvery-white metal chunk in the pit that had survived his attack without a scratch, and he packed it to take along.
• Yuri set off toward the lake at the center of the forest, believing he was close after encountering an S-Class magic beast.
• Laxus also defeated an S-Class magic beast and headed toward the battlefield where he and Yuri would duel.
• Makarov lamented that the two candidates had barely cleared any of the marked beasts, then revealed that the true S-Class Exam was about to begin.

Yuri and Laxus met at a lake in the Lansala Rainforest and fought to test their strength. Their duel stopped when Gildarts appeared atop a colossal creature rising from the lake.

• Yuri arrived at the lake first and waited for Laxus.
• Yuri and Laxus clashed, trading attacks with magic, lightning, and Yuri’s Devil Bringer.
• Laxus revealed he could transform into lightning and evade Yuri’s grip.
• Yuri and Laxus agreed to fight more seriously, then stopped when a giant creature erupted from the lake.
• Gildarts appeared on the creature and greeted Yuri and Laxus.

Laxus and Yuri teamed up to challenge Gildarts after he revealed himself as the exam’s strongest magic beast. Gildarts overwhelmed them at first, but Yuri broke through his Crush Magic, and Laxus revealed his Dragon Slayer Magic as the battle continued.

• Gildarts revealed that defeating him would earn an immediate S-Class promotion, and Yuri and Laxus agreed to attack him together.
• Laxus struck Gildarts with Lightning Strike Fist, but Gildarts caught the blow and slammed him into the magic beast’s shell.
• Gildarts shattered Yuri’s magical arm and engulfed him in a blast of magic, but Yuri tore through the light and punched Gildarts back.
• Yuri warned Laxus to stop holding back, and Laxus revealed his Dragon Slayer Magic.
• Gildarts welcomed the challenge from Laxus and Yuri and urged them to show him Fairy Tail’s new era.

Yuri and Laxus teamed up against Gildarts, combining their attacks but failing to seriously hurt him. After Gildarts destroyed the Red Queen and left both young mages exhausted, Laxus urged Yuri to use another move, and Yuri called out Griffon.

• Yuri used afterimages to approach Gildarts, but Gildarts saw through the trick and stopped the Red Queen with his fingers.
• Yuri used the Devil Bringer as a pivot to kick Gildarts, creating an opening for Laxus to fire Thunder Dragon's Roar.
• Yuri compressed his magic arm into the Devil Bringer and struck Gildarts, who blocked the attack with Crush Magic.
• Gildarts knocked Laxus into the lakebed, destroyed the Red Queen, and sent Yuri crashing downward before Laxus caught him.
• Laxus asked Yuri to use his other moves, and Yuri called out Griffon.

Yuri combined with Griffon to gain Godspeed and joined forces with Laxus to land a series of powerful attacks on Gildarts. Though they injured him, Gildarts stood firm and announced that he would stop holding back.

• Yuri merged with Griffon's power and unveiled his lightning-enhanced Godspeed.
• Yuri used his speed to strike Gildarts, while Laxus helped him avoid Gildarts's counterattack.
• Yuri and Laxus combined their attacks and sent Gildarts crashing into the ground.
• Yuri and Laxus blasted Gildarts with Thunder Dragon's Breath and the Devil Bringer, injuring him but failing to defeat him.
• Gildarts praised their strength, then released his full magic power and warned that he would no longer hold back.

Gildarts tested Yuri and Laxus by overwhelming them with his magic, and the two young mages struggled onward despite the crushing pressure. Laxus declared that he would someday defeat Gildarts, while Yuri revealed his own reason for fighting; Gildarts then invited them to attack with everything they had left.

• Gildarts unleashed a pillar of magic that immobilized the lake water and crushed Yuri and Laxus with his immense pressure.
• Laxus fought through the pressure until he stumbled, and Yuri caught him before he fell.
• Yuri encouraged Laxus to keep going and summoned purple lightning, insisting that they still had magic left to use.
• Laxus told Gildarts he would accept failure but never give up, and vowed to defeat him someday.
• Yuri told Gildarts he wanted to punch him as hard as he could, and Gildarts acknowledged both boys' determination and urged them to strike with everything they had left.

Yuri and Laxus joined forces to unleash their strongest attacks against Gildarts, devastating the Lansala Rainforest before all three were injured. After recovering under Porlyusica’s care, Yuri and Laxus learned that they had both passed the S-Class Exam and become S-Class Mages.

• Gildarts withdrew his magic power, and Yuri and Laxus charged their strongest attacks before striking him together.
• Gildarts met their blows with his own attack, and the collision destroyed the lake and left a massive crater in the Lansala Rainforest.
• Gildarts carried unconscious Yuri and Laxus from the forest, both injured, while his own arm was dislocated.
• Porlyusica treated Yuri and Laxus at her cabin, and Makarov endured her scolding over their injuries.
• Makarov announced that Yuri and Laxus had both passed the S-Class Exam because they had earned the same number of points.

After Yuri and Laxus became S-Class Mages, Fairy Tail celebrated their achievement and Yuri recovered from his injuries. A nervous bunny girl named Lucy entered the guild, where Yuri recognized her as a supposed fan and wrote her an autograph.

• Yuri told the younger guild members that his fight with Laxus had ended in a draw and that they never found the king of the magical beasts.
• Erza and Mirajane argued over who would care for Yuri, then pulled on his injured arms while the other children watched helplessly.
• Fairy Tail celebrated Laxus and Yuri becoming S-Class Mages, though Yuri had to watch from the sidelines because the girls would not let him drink.
• Yuri recovered in less than five days and distracted Erza with strawberry cake so he could drink, while Mirajane admitted she had eaten the cake.
• A blonde bunny girl entered the guild and claimed to be Yuri's fan, but Yuri wrote “Lucy” on her autograph despite her giving her name as Louise.

Lucy struggled through drinks with Yuri while hiding that she had come from the future to find her missing companions. Later, Yuri spotted two suspicious youths and a flying lion-like cat near Natsu and Gray, and recognized that the cat resembled Happy.

• Lucy admitted she could not drink more, while Yuri repeatedly got her name wrong before finally calling her Lucy.
• Yuri realized Lucy was searching for someone and suspected she might be a spy, but let her keep her reason secret.
• Yuri left Lucy with the drink bill, and she had to dance at the guild to pay her debt.
• Yuri saw Natsu and Gray fighting by the river while two unfamiliar youths cheered them on and then began fighting each other.
• Yuri approached the flying lion-costumed cat, whose companions introduced themselves awkwardly as Naray and Gazu before hurrying away with it.
• Yuri noticed that the little lion looked like Happy and even shared the same catchphrase.

Erza, disguised in a cat costume, met her younger self and urged her to apologize to Natsu and Gray, then revealed herself to Yuri. She and Yuri parted after exchanging news about her future, leaving Erza still waiting for him to return her feelings.

• Erza, disguised as a cat girl, told her younger self to apologize to Natsu and Gray, but the younger Erza stubbornly refused.
• Yuri exposed Erza's disguise after she accidentally revealed the names of Lucy, Natsu, and Gray.
• Erza asked Yuri whether the future was going well, and told him she lived an easy life and still sparred with others.
• Erza thanked Yuri for cutting away her nightmare, but Yuri said she had overcome it herself and walked away.
• Erza watched Yuri leave and wondered how long he would keep making her wait, while Yuri scolded Griffon for narrating his thoughts.