Chapter Summaries

Yuri visited Nico in Fortuna to have her repair the damaged Red Queen and ask her to craft a stronger melee weapon. When Nico could not forge the rare Impact Steel, she pointed him toward the far north in search of the supposedly extinct Hearth Family, and Yuri left her the Blue Rose to modify as well.

• Yuri traveled to Fortuna and brought his damaged Red Queen to Nico for repairs.
• Yuri asked Nico to forge him a stronger melee weapon and showed her the rare metal he had found in the Lansala Rainforest.
• Nico identified the material as Kivira Metal, also called Impact Steel, but said she could not forge it herself.
• Nico advised Yuri to seek the Hearth Family in the far north, though she said they had died out two hundred years earlier.
• Yuri left Nico a deposit and his requirements, asked her to modify the Blue Rose, and departed thinking about the Hearth Family.

Gildarts revealed that a powerful man in a black robe had been standing beside Yuri when he found him unconscious in the Sky-Splitting Grand Canyon, and gave Yuri a mysterious book the man had dropped. When Yuri poured magic power into the book, he discovered something alarming and said, "God..."

• Gildarts told Yuri he was leaving and explained that he had delayed his departure because he was unsure whether to give him a book.
• Gildarts revealed that a man in a black robe had been beside Yuri in the Sky-Splitting Grand Canyon and fled after Gildarts interrupted him.
• Gildarts warned Yuri that the black-robed man had terrifying magic power and might be stronger than Gildarts.
• Yuri opened the book and sensed it contained magic, though Gildarts and Makarov had been unable to understand or activate it.
• Yuri poured magic power into the book, experienced a strange sensation, and gravely said, "God..."

After learning that the mysterious book’s magic was connected to gods, Yuri revealed to Gildarts that Cana was his daughter, leading father and daughter to reunite at the guild. Inspired by their bond and by a secret Gildarts had shared, Yuri set out with Griffon for the far north to seek greater power.

• Yuri and Gildarts discussed the mysterious book and its possible connection to gods, then Yuri told Gildarts that Cana had longed for him for years.
• Cana waited at the guild for Gildarts, who rushed in and embraced her after Yuri’s revelation.
• Gildarts told Cana that Cornelia had been his wife and that he had only just learned Cana was his daughter; Cana tearfully accepted him as her father.
• Yuri reflected on the bond between Cana and Gildarts and resolved to gain enough power to protect what mattered to him.
• Yuri and Griffon left together for the far north.

Yuri got lost in the northern continent, where hunter Macken told him about Ur’s sacrifice to seal Deliora and gave him a map. After setting out with Griffon, Yuri became lost again in the snow.

• Yuri and Griffon realized they had been lost in a snowfield for nearly three days, then spotted a town and hurried toward it.
• Yuri reached Brago, met the hunter Macken, and accepted his invitation to dinner.
• Macken explained that Deliora had devastated the northern continent until Ur sacrificed herself to seal the demon.
• Yuri recalled hearing about Ur from Gildarts, then received a map of the northern continent from Macken.
• Yuri and Griffon set out again, but seven days later they were lost in the snow once more.

Yuri searched the northern continent’s uninhabited depths for the long-lost Hearth Family and met a snowman who claimed to know their location. After dragging the snowman through the storm, Yuri reached a camp filled with magical weapons and opened a tent.

• Yuri continued searching the forbidden depths of the northern continent as his food supplies ran low.
• A snowman emerged from the snow and said the Hearth Family were wandering smiths hidden in the wastes.
• The snowman pointed Yuri toward firelight, and Yuri dragged him along in case the directions were false.
• Yuri and the snowman walked for nearly half a day until they reached a camp in the storm.
• Yuri saw tents and rows of finely crafted magical weapons, opened a tent flap, and looked inside.

Yuri fought off a horde of bearmen while Brax sneaked into their camp and recovered a horn. Yuri caught Brax and took the horn, but Brax revealed surprising strength with a gauntlet, making Yuri suspect he might truly know where the Hearthians were.

• Yuri stumbled upon two bearmen mating, then fled as the camp's warriors chased him.
• Yuri fought the charging bearmen, using a hammer to spin up a snow tornado and launch them into the air.
• While the bearmen were distracted, Brax disguised himself as a snowman, searched the largest tent, and retrieved a horn from the wall.
• Yuri caught Brax as he tried to escape, discovered he was a young child, and confiscated the horn after accusing him of lying about the Hearthians.
• Brax broke free and punched Yuri with strength amplified by a gauntlet, leading Yuri to think Brax might really know about the Hearthians.

Yuri learned that Brax was the last surviving member of the Hearth Family, whose people had been hunted by the Stormbringer for refusing to forge weapons for war. Brax admitted he feared the Hearth Family and its god, Ornn, had been forgotten, leaving him in tears.

• Yuri demanded that Brax lead him to the Hearth Family, but Brax insisted he was its last member and showed Yuri the gauntlet he had forged.
• Brax said the Stormbringer's followers had killed his tribe after they refused to forge weapons for him.
• Brax explained that Ornn had fought the Stormbringer two hundred years earlier, and the battle nearly wiped out the Hearth Family.
• Brax said Ornn had disappeared afterward and the Hearth Family had spent two centuries trying to earn his notice again.
• Yuri suggested Ornn might have died, and Brax broke down, saying he only wanted the world to remember the Hearth Family.

Yuri and Brax sheltered in the ruins of the Hearth Family’s ancestral home, where Brax explained the family’s devotion to forging and the meaning of his horn. The chapter ended with Brax revealing that each Hearth Family child forged a horn as proof of their identity and faith, despite Ornn never acknowledging them.

• Brax brought Yuri to his cave in the ruins of Hearth Town and said he would guide him out of the snowfield after daybreak.
• Yuri quickly fell asleep, while Brax stayed awake by the cave entrance until Yuri joined him to talk.
• Yuri asked why Brax treasured his horn enough to risk his life and trade his half-finished gauntlet for it.
• Brax explained that the hammer and horn were more important than life to Hearth Family members because the horn represented their devotion to the God of the Forge.
• Brax told Yuri that Hearth Family children received a hammer at five and forged their own horns at seven, even though Ornn had never acknowledged them.

Brax told Yuri how the Hearth Family had scattered across the snowfield and revealed that his horn had never sounded, even when he tried to summon help as his tribe was slaughtered. After learning Hearthhome was an active volcano that had not erupted in two hundred years, Yuri suspected no one had checked its summit and dragged Brax toward it.

• Brax explained that the surviving Hearth Family tribes had never found one another, and Yuri urged him to search for them himself.
• Brax gave Yuri his treasured horn to blow, but it made no sound, bringing back Brax’s memories of finding his slaughtered tribe.
• Brax explained that molten fire stones kept him warm and that Hearthhome above the cave was an active volcano.
• Yuri realized that no one might have climbed Hearthhome in two hundred years and pulled Brax toward the mountain’s summit despite Brax’s protests.
• After Yuri and Brax left, a pair of seemingly crimson eyes appeared in the snow.

Yuri and Brax searched Hearthhome for the god of the Hearth Family, and Yuri forced open the guarded gate beneath the mountain. Inside, Yuri encountered Ornn, who attacked him with an enormous hammer.

• Yuri kicked Brax into the crater basin, then caught him as they slid down the rock wall.
• Yuri punched through the basin floor, and he and Brax fell into a cavern beneath Hearthhome.
• Yuri led Brax to a massive gate carved with a ram's head and repeatedly struck it when it would not open.
• Yuri shattered the gate's magical barrier and knocked the gate out of the mountain with a powerful punch.
• An enormous hammer struck Yuri as he entered, and he saw the goat-like Ornn standing on a stone platform.

Yuri confronted Ornn in the lava-filled forge and pushed him to appraise Brax’s gauntlet and face his guilt over the Hearth Family. The chapter ended with Ornn and Yuri preparing to fight as their magic surged against each other.

• Yuri met Ornn, who identified him as a devil and ordered him to leave.
• Brax introduced himself as Ornn’s devoted follower and asked him to appraise his gauntlet.
• Ornn judged the gauntlet not good enough, and Brax left the platform in a daze without taking it.
• Yuri returned the gauntlet to Brax, then asked Ornn to forge a weapon and challenged him about his past with The Stormbringer.
• Yuri accused Ornn of rejecting Brax and isolating himself out of guilt, provoking Ornn to erupt in anger and gather power for a fight.

Yuri challenged Ornn and tried to help Brax regain confidence in his forging, while Ornn reconsidered why he had shut out the Hearth Family. The chapter ended as war horns sounded and towering figures appeared on Hearthhome beneath dark clouds.

• Yuri and Ornn clashed, then Ornn agreed to forge a weapon from Yuri’s Impact Steel and asked him to return in ten days.
• Yuri bet that Ornn still cared for the Hearth Family, promising to leave with Brax and end the family’s following if he lost.
• As he forged, Ornn wondered whether he had been wrong to keep his followers away to protect them.
• After five days of waiting, Brax asked Yuri whether he should continue learning to forge, and Yuri urged him to follow his love for it.
• Yuri blew Brax’s horn as a signal of longing, but a war horn answered as dark clouds covered the sky and towering figures appeared on Hearthhome.

Yuri faced Volibear in the crater while Brax and the bearmen fled toward Ornn’s cave. After taunting Volibear and trading blows with him, Yuri was struck by a lightning-powered claw and hurled into a stone wall.

• Volibear arrived and demanded that Yuri submit, but Yuri refused and threatened him.
• Ornn warned Volibear from underground, but fell silent when Volibear challenged him to resume their old battle.
• Yuri sent Brax toward the cave, and the bearmen followed before Volibear attacked.
• Yuri dodged Volibear’s charges and knocked him down with the Devil Bringer.
• Lightning struck both fighters, leaving Yuri paralyzed, and Volibear’s claw sent him crashing into a stone wall.

Brax begged Ornn to save Yuri, but Ornn initially refused, so Brax chose to return to the fight despite knowing he was outmatched. Ornn finally acted, unleashing a molten goat that met Volibear in a battle above Hearthhome.

• Brax escaped the pursuing bearfolk by jumping into Ornn’s lava cavern and pleaded with Ornn to save Yuri.
• Ornn refused, but Brax left his treasured horn behind and headed back toward the fight, determined not to watch another friend die.
• Yuri, badly wounded, prepared to draw Yamato after admitting Godspeed Mode could not defeat Volibear.
• Ornn picked up Brax’s horn, sounded it, and sent a molten goat bursting through the cage around Hearthhome.
• Volibear abandoned Yuri and charged the growing molten goat, and the two giants collided in the sky.

Yuri defeated Volibear with the newly acquired Devil Arm Balrog, and the Hearth Family rallied to defeat the surviving bearmen. After Ornn finished forging his equipment, Yuri absorbed Volibear’s magic core and prepared to leave, while Ornn reconsidered his isolation.

• Yuri took Balrog from the fallen molten goat, infused it with magic, and struck Volibear with a molten, impact-enhanced blow that destroyed him.
• Brax moved to protect the exhausted Yuri from surviving bearmen, but the Hearth Family arrived and drove the attackers back.
• Five days later, Yuri brought Brax to Ornn, who returned Brax’s horn and acknowledged him as a member of the Hearth Family.
• Yuri absorbed Volibear’s magic core, taking in its magic and giving its lightning power to Griffon.
• After Ornn finished forging his gear, Yuri said goodbye, and Ornn wondered whether he should go out and look around more often.

Erza and Mirajane brooded over Yuri’s absence before fighting Natsu and Gray, then each other, and accidentally wrecked the guild. Yuri returned just as they were wrestling outside, and the two women welcomed him back.

• Cana worried that Yuri had been gone for over a month without contacting her, while Erza and Mirajane also seemed troubled by his absence.
• Erza and Mirajane dragged Natsu and Gray into a fight and beat them while the guild cheered.
• Erza and Mirajane argued about what was bothering them, then resumed their unfinished duel with magic.
• Their fight caused an explosion that wrecked Fairy Tail and sent them grappling outside.
• Yuri returned and greeted Erza and Mirajane, who stopped fighting and welcomed him back.

Yuri and Laxus served as examiners for Fairy Tail’s S-Class Exam, where Erza, Mirajane, and Cana faced different challenges on an uninhabited island. Erza and Mirajane began their first stage against Griffon, who revealed his power and transformed into a giant, radiant form.

• Yuri and Laxus traveled with the candidates to the exam site, where Cana was assigned to face Laxus alone and Erza and Mirajane were paired against Yuri.
• Yuri told Erza and Mirajane that they would have to pass two stages, with Griffon serving as their first examiner.
• Erza and Mirajane recognized Griffon but wanted to fight Yuri instead, so Yuri taunted Griffon by saying they were looking down on him.
• Griffon attacked Erza and Mirajane with purple lightning, but they dodged and emerged unharmed.
• Griffon expanded to about seven meters as purple lightning shifted into blue-white radiance around him.

Erza and Mirajane defeated Griffon after a fierce battle, though Yuri revealed that Griffon had been holding back because his magic power was limited. Yuri then unleashed his own magic power and announced that their boss battle was next.

• Erza and Mirajane transformed and attacked Griffon together, but he outmaneuvered them and struck Erza with lightning.
• Erza used Lightning Empress Armor to protect herself and disrupted Griffon's lightning attack while Mirajane hit him with Sadistic Flash.
• Griffon defeated Erza in a high-speed clash, but Mirajane trapped him with Dark Eruption so Erza could cut him down with Black Wing Armor.
• Yuri recalled Griffon and explained that the Nightmare's strength depended on the magic power its contractor supplied.
• Yuri overwhelmed Erza and Mirajane with his magic power and announced the boss battle.

Erza and Mirajane challenged Yuri together in the S-Class Exam, but he overwhelmed them and seemed ready to declare the result. After Mirajane proposed a bet and Yuri accepted, the two prepared to use a secret weapon while he was distracted.

• Erza and Mirajane attacked Yuri together, but he dodged Erza's sword strikes and knocked her away with the Devil Bringer.
• Mirajane hit Yuri with Ultra Torture Rage, but he barely moved before slamming her into the ground, then struck Erza as she tried to protect her.
• Yuri flung Mirajane toward a mountainside, but Erza reappeared in Giant Armor and threw an Evil-Slaying Spear at him.
• Yuri realized Mirajane had used her tail to pull Erza out of danger, and Mirajane proposed a bet that he would team up with her on missions if they won.
• Yuri accepted the bet, and Erza and Mirajane exchanged a glance and struck while he was distracted.

Erza and Mirajane combined their attacks and transformations against Yuri, but he survived their strongest strikes and countered with the Balrog’s flames. The women protected each other and remained defiant despite exhausting their magic, leaving Yuri facing a fight that was not yet over.

• Erza hurled Mirajane at Yuri, and Mirajane combined her dark vortices into a spiral before blasting him with Sadistic Flash.
• Erza attacked Yuri with the Morning Star Armor, then Mirajane transformed to resemble Erza and restrained him with her tail.
• Erza struck Yuri with the Purgatory Armor while Mirajane fired Soul Extinction, blasting a hole through the mountain.
• Yuri emerged from the dust and shattered Erza’s Adamantine Shields before engulfing her and Mirajane in flames from the Balrog.
• Erza shielded Mirajane with the Flame Emperor’s Armor, and both women remained defiant despite running out of magic.