Recaps

Chiba Uchiha awoke in the Fairy Tail world as a boy and discovered he had the Sharingan after confronting a violent moneylender. He left Mira and Lisanna stunned by introducing himself as a ninja.

• Chiba awoke in Mira and Lisanna Strauss's home and learned that it was the year 776.
• Chiba realized he had been reborn as a twelve- or thirteen-year-old boy and asked whether Mira and Lisanna were mages.
• A burly moneylender stormed in and demanded that Mira repay her debt of 30,000 J.
• Chiba's eyes awakened with the Sharingan, allowing him to dodge the man's attack and knock him unconscious with one punch.
• Chiba showed Mira and Lisanna his red eyes and told them he was a ninja.

After waking in Earth-land, Chiba Uchiha accepted Mira’s offer to stay with her and Lisanna while he recovered. He discovered his chakra and a mysterious Ninjutsu Chamber filled with scrolls, then began taking techniques he hoped to learn.

• Chiba thanked Mira and Lisanna for saving him and agreed to stay with them until he remembered more.
• Elfman returned, thanked Chiba for protecting his sisters, and carried the unconscious Alili home.
• After Mira and Lisanna went to prepare dinner, Chiba tried to activate his Sharingan and sensed chakra within himself.
• Chiba found himself in a dark Ninjutsu Chamber and discovered its shelves were filled with Ninjutsu scrolls.
• Chiba took scrolls for the Substitution Technique, Body Flicker Technique, Wind Release: Gale Palm, and Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique.

Chiba obtained five Ninjutsu scrolls and two beginner guides, then studied and practiced chakra techniques while growing closer to Mira and the others. As Mira asked to learn ninjutsu, the burly man Chiba had fought arrived with more than a dozen men and attacked him.

• Chiba woke with five Ninjutsu scrolls and two chakra guides, then hurried out to eat with Mira and the others.
• Chiba studied the guides for several days and practiced molding chakra, mastering the Body Flicker Technique and the Substitution Technique.
• Chiba struck a tree with a chakra-enhanced punch, and Mira came to watch him train and asked to learn ninjutsu.
• The burly man arrived with more than a dozen lackeys, accused Chiba of attacking him and failing to repay him, and ordered the group to seize Chiba.
• One of the lackeys swung a stick at Chiba as Mira shut her eyes in fear.

Chiba rescued Mira from Alili and his gang, then persuaded her that magic suited her better than ninjutsu. While practicing the Great Fireball Technique, he discovered that his ninjutsu had normal and enhanced modes, leaving him to weigh greater power against higher chakra consumption.

• Chiba used his newly awakened One-Tomoe Sharingan, the Body Flicker Technique, and the Substitution Technique to defeat Alili and more than twenty men who had come to collect an inflated debt.
• Chiba forced Alili to accept three months for repayment and sent the group away.
• Chiba encouraged Mira to pursue magic, mentioning Transformation Magic and Take Over Magic, and she took him inside for dinner.
• Chiba spent the next few days training and learning the Great Fireball Technique.
• Chiba tested both modes of the Great Fireball Technique and found that the enhanced version was about fifty percent stronger but used twice as much chakra.

After training for three months with Mira and the others, Chiba went into the mountains to hunt so he could earn money. There he met a starving old man who claimed to be one of the Ten Wizard Saints and offered to teach him magic.

• Chiba asked Mira and Lisanna how people in the village earned money, then chose to hunt rather than mine.
• Chiba climbed the mountain alone, killed a wild boar, and roasted it with his Great Fireball Technique.
• An old man rushed out of the woods and begged Chiba for the remaining half of the boar, which he quickly ate.
• The old man offered Chiba a book about magic power, then mistakenly showed him Tales of Romance.
• The old man claimed to be one of the Ten Wizard Saints and offered to teach Chiba magic.
• Chiba considered the basics of Earth-land, its wizard guilds, and the distinction between holder and caster magic.

Chiba tried to shake off Hodrian Cross, a Ten Wizard Saints mage who wanted to make him a disciple, but Hodrian insisted after discovering Chiba was a ninja. Impressed by Hodrian’s physical strength, Chiba agreed to take him to his home, leaving the question of discipleship undecided.

• Chiba rejected Hodrian Cross’s offer to teach him magic and tried to leave with his book.
• Hodrian refused to let Chiba go, introduced himself as a Grand Mage, and claimed expertise in five kinds of magic.
• Chiba used the Substitution Technique to show Hodrian that he was a ninja, and Hodrian offered to teach him Taijutsu instead.
• Hodrian struck the ground with his palm and split it into a ravine about a hundred meters long, convincing Chiba of his strength.
• Chiba agreed to take Hodrian to his home, and the two returned to the village with several wild boars and black bears.

Chiba brought Hodrian to stay at Mira’s home, then sold the beasts he had caught and ordered ninja weapons from a village blacksmith. As Chiba left the shop, an unknown voice interrupted him.

• Chiba introduced Hodrian as his temporary master, and Mira accepted him and took his payment of 100,000 J.
• Chiba showed Mira the beasts he had caught, then took them to the village to sell.
• The beast shop bought the three bears and three wild boars for 480,000 J.
• Chiba visited the blacksmith and ordered 100 kunai, 50 shuriken, and one ninja blade, paying a 100,000 J deposit for delivery in a month.
• A discordant voice called out just as Chiba was about to leave the blacksmith’s shop.

Chiba confronted Alili’s men when they demanded protection money at the smithy, then watched Alili arrive and behave humbly after recognizing him. After Chiba repaid the debt and warned Alili not to bully the blacksmith, Alili knelt and asked to become his lackey.

• A young thug demanded fifty thousand J from Chiba and threatened him, but Chiba sent him and his two companions flying with a burst of chakra.
• Chiba told the thug to bring Alili to the smithy, and the blacksmith warned Chiba that Alili was a notorious bully.
• Alili arrived with a dozen or more men, recognized Chiba, and bowed to him instead of confronting him.
• Chiba made Alili slap and reprimand Yani for insulting him, then forced Alili to accept repayment and warned him against bullying the blacksmith.
• Alili knelt and begged Chiba to accept him as a lackey, leaving Chiba wondering whether he had triggered a hidden plot.

Chiba evaded Alili’s request to teach him by telling him to find a reason to seek power, then began training in Taijutsu under Hodrian. After watching Hodrian demonstrate his style once, Chiba copied all thirty-six forms perfectly with his Sharingan.

• Chiba refused to teach Alili magic and told him to find the meaning of power before seeking it again.
• Chiba asked Hodrian to teach him Taijutsu, and Hodrian insisted that he study a magic-power training book first.
• Chiba studied the book for three days while living with Mira, Lisanna, Elfman, and Hodrian, then asked to begin training.
• Hodrian demonstrated the first thirty-six forms of his Taijutsu style, Shadow Flame Splits the Heavens.
• Chiba used his Sharingan to reproduce all thirty-six forms perfectly, leaving Hodrian shocked.

Hodrian taught Chiba his method of strengthening the body with magic power, explaining the wide range of strength among S-Class Mages. Chiba discovered that he could use Chakra in place of magic power, making the body-tempering process much more effective.

• Hodrian praised Chiba for learning every Taijutsu move after seeing them once and offered to teach him body-tempering.
• Hodrian explained that S-Class standards differed between guilds and that their strength could vary enormously.
• Hodrian spent the afternoon injecting magic power into Chiba’s body so he could memorize its proportions and marks.
• Chiba woke after remembering the marks on his left hand, then punched Hodrian without using Chakra.
• Hodrian sensed energy flowing through Chiba’s fist far faster than expected, and Chiba revealed that he had replaced the missing magic power with Chakra.

After adapting Hodrian’s body-tempering method to Chakra, Chiba rested, then encouraged Hodrian to teach Lisanna and Elfman Take Over Magic while he practiced Ninjutsu. The chapter ended with Alili warning Chiba that Mira had been stopped by newly arrived mages in the village, and Chiba set out to find her.

• Chiba told Hodrian he had used Chakra to complete the tempering marks, earning Hodrian’s praise, then went to bed exhausted.
• Mira woke Chiba at noon and served him fish soup; Lisanna and Elfman returned and explained that they had quit their jobs to study magic with Hodrian.
• Chiba recommended that Hodrian teach Lisanna and Elfman Take Over Magic, then left to practice Ninjutsu.
• Chiba practiced the Gale Palm until Alili arrived and reported that a group of new mages had stopped Mira in the village.
• Chiba ordered Alili to lead him to Mira and promised to teach Alili magic the next morning if Mira was safe.

Chiba rescued Mira from five mages who were trying to extort money from her, then defeated them with his techniques. A blond priest reprimanded Chiba for attacking the invited mages, but Chiba left with Mira after making the frightened ringleader promise not to bother her again.

• Five mages surrounded Mira in the marketplace and demanded three hundred thousand J for supposedly dirtying a robe.
• Chiba struck down the bald mage when he tried to grab Mira, then defeated the skinny mage and blocked the other three mages' magic bullets with a Great Fireball Technique.
• Chiba took Mira to a rooftop, learned that she was unharmed, and returned to fight the five mages with four Shadow Clones.
• Chiba's five Great Fireball Techniques overwhelmed the mages' wind blades and sent all five flying.
• Chiba threatened the skinny mage until he promised to leave Mira alone, then threw him aside when he begged for mercy.
• A blond priest scolded Chiba for attacking the invited mages, and Chiba sprang onto the roof without answering him.

Chiba protected Mira from mages who had harassed her, then spent the evening on a mountain cookout with Mira, her siblings, and Hodrian. After Chiba went off to digest, Mira approached Hodrian and asked him to teach her magic.

• Chiba confronted Bobbit after beating the mages who had threatened Mira, and Alili revealed that Bobbit was his cousin.
• Chiba and Mira returned home, where Lisanna thanked Chiba for rescuing her sister and teased them about getting married.
• With no food at home, Chiba, Mira, Lisanna, Elfman, and Hodrian went up the mountain for a cookout.
• Hodrian caught three wild boars, and Chiba roasted them with Great Fireball before the group shared the meal around a campfire.
• After Chiba left to digest the extra roast meat, Mira asked Hodrian to teach her magic.

Chiba and Mira continued training as Hodrian taught the children his body-tempering method and left Alili to learn magic from books. After Chiba decided to destroy the mountain demon to prevent Mira’s future awakening and exile, Hodrian departed, leaving the group to continue without him.

• Hodrian teased Mira about wanting to study magic so she could help Chiba, then advised her to tell him how she felt.
• Chiba and the others returned home, where Alili eagerly waited to begin learning magic from Hodrian’s books.
• Alili told Chiba that Father Bobbit had hired mages to hunt a monster on the mountain, and Chiba decided to destroy the demon before it could awaken Mira’s magic.
• Over the next week, Chiba learned two versions of Gale Palm, Mira’s magic power rose rapidly, and Hodrian’s body-tempering method spread to the others.
• Hodrian told Chiba and the others that he had matters to attend to, then left.

Chiba went to the church and climbed the mountain to confront the monster threatening the villagers. He defeated the black gorilla with Shadow Clones and powerful techniques, then wondered whether this world had Tailed Beasts and a God Tree.

• Chiba told Mira he would hunt the monster and asked Alili to take him to the church.
• At the church, Bobbit mocked Chiba, but Chiba opened the back door and went up the mountain alone.
• A black gorilla appeared and threw Chiba aside, only for him to vanish and reveal his Shadow Clones.
• Chiba and his clones battered the gorilla with Gale Palm, then Chiba burned it with the Great Fireball Technique.
• After defeating the gorilla, Chiba noted that he had spent nearly half his Chakra and wondered whether this world had Tailed Beasts and a God Tree.

Chiba discovered that the church priest was using Mira as an offering to a demon, but Mira’s magic devoured the demon and transformed her right arm. Chiba rescued her and confronted Bobbit, while Alili woke and recognized Bobbit’s dark magic.

• Mira prayed for Chiba’s safe return, and Bobbit’s summoned demon poured black mist into her before trying to consume her.
• Mira’s magic formed a black vortex that swallowed the demon and turned her right hand into a demon’s arm.
• Chiba arrived, took the unconscious Mira from Bobbit, and sent a Shadow Clone to carry her away.
• Chiba stopped Bobbit from pursuing Mira and kicked him into a wall, prompting Bobbit to reveal his dark magic.
• Alili woke up and recognized Bobbit’s power as dark magic.

Chiba defeated Bobbit, who had used black magic to manipulate Mira and tried to kill Alili, and Bobbit died in Alili’s arms. Chiba left the church, promising to wait for Alili if he ever sought revenge, while accepting that killing Bobbit would not be his last time.

• Chiba shielded Alili from Bobbit’s dark magic and told him he would kill Bobbit if he got the chance.
• Alili remembered how Bobbit had cared for him, but realized Bobbit had tried to kill him and had controlled Mira with black magic.
• Chiba used his Sharingan and close-range attacks to overwhelm Bobbit, then dodged Bobbit’s Dark Torrent with a Substitution Technique.
• Chiba struck Bobbit with a Great Fireball, leaving him fatally burned as Alili rushed to his side.
• Bobbit died after telling Alili he had wanted to send him to the divine realm, and Alili broke down crying.
• Chiba left the church and told Alili he would wait for him to become strong enough to seek revenge.

After Mira took over a demon, Chiba comforted her and stayed by her as the villagers grew increasingly hostile. He mastered new techniques while preparing to collect weapons, then set out with Mira, who overheard villagers wishing she would die.

• Chiba returned home and reassured the crying Mira that he, Lisanna, and Elfman would not reject her.
• Over the next week, villagers blamed Mira for spreading demonic energy and avoided her and her family.
• Chiba learned Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu and Water Release: Water Formation Wall Technique through Shadow Clones, mastered water-attribute Chakra conversion, and perfected the Hel Body Tempering Method.
• Chiba agreed to take Mira with him to collect his ordered weapons after she insisted on accompanying him.
• On the way into the village, Mira heard villagers call her a cursed demon and say they wished she would die.

After a blacksmith recoiled from Mira’s demonic hand, Chiba defended her from the villagers’ accusations but realized they would not accept her. The next day, he led Mira, Elfman, and Lisanna away from the village after burning down Mira’s house.

• Chiba collected his weapons from the blacksmith, who panicked when he saw Mira’s right hand and called her a demon.
• Chiba explained that a demon had corrupted Bobbit and that Mira had destroyed it, but the villagers still demanded that Mira’s family leave.
• The villagers gathered outside Mira’s house with farm tools, intending to drive the family out by force.
• Mira agreed when Chiba asked whether he should burn down her house.
• Chiba set the house ablaze and led Mira, Elfman, and Lisanna toward the mountain.

Chiba comforted Mira after she tried to burn away her demonic arm, promising to take her to a mages' guild so she could learn to control her Take Over Magic. Days later, snow wolves surrounded the group, and Chiba's independently minded Shadow Clones fought them as the battle continued.

• Mira secretly tried to burn her demonic arm, but Chiba stopped her and comforted her as Lisanna and Elfman promised they would always love her.
• Chiba promised Mira he would take her to a mages' guild to learn to control her Take Over Magic.
• While traveling through the snowy mountains, Chiba heard movement and warned Mira, Lisanna, and Elfman that something was nearby.
• Snow wolves emerged from all directions, and Chiba summoned nine Shadow Clones to fight alongside him.
• The wolves overwhelmed the first group of Shadow Clones, so Chiba summoned nine more, one of whom wondered why he had been sent back into battle.

Chiba and Mira escaped an earlier pack of snow wolves, but they were surrounded again by a larger pack led by a talking snow wolf king. Chiba and his Shadow Clones fought back, and the chapter ended with the wounded king enraged and Chiba still facing its freezing magic.

• Chiba and the others used the Shadow Clones’ Gale Palm to escape the first pack, then slowed their fall with another gust of wind.
• Mira pulled Chiba out of the snow, but the group soon found itself surrounded by nearly a hundred snow wolves and their enormous, talking king.
• Chiba summoned nine Shadow Clones, and they used Phoenix Flower Jutsu to kill roughly a third of the wolves.
• The snow wolf king attacked Chiba with a powerful ball of ice, but Chiba blocked it with Water Formation Wall and wounded the king with Winter Water.
• Chiba retreated from the king’s spreading freezing aura and struck it with Shuriken combined with Phoenix Flower Jutsu, enraging the wounded beast.

Chiba and his companions defeated the Snow Wolf King, but its final attack triggered an avalanche that swept them to a cliff. After helping Lisanna and Elfman climb to safety, Chiba tried to reach Mira, who was suddenly threatened by strange birds.

• Chiba and his Shadow Clones used Water Formation Wall, then combined Fire Style and Wind Release attacks against the Snow Wolf King, but it survived the flames as Chiba ran out of Chakra.
• The dying Snow Wolf King charged into the mountainside, triggering an avalanche that buried Chiba, Mira, Lisanna, and Elfman after the snow wolves fled.
• Chiba and the others were swept to a cliff edge, where Chiba used Winter Water and Kunai to climb up with Lisanna and Elfman.
• Chiba climbed back down to help Mira, but strange white birds flew in and one attacked her.
• Chiba threw Shuriken at the bird, but it knocked them aside with its claws.

Chiba fought the strange birds on the cliff to protect Mira, Lisanna, and Elfman, using his last Chakra to help Mira reach safety and bring down the attackers. He survived his fall into the birds’ corpses, then heard a girl’s voice nearby.

• Chiba refused to climb away, taunted the strange birds, and drew their wind attacks onto himself despite being wounded.
• Chiba used a Shadow Clone and Gale Palm to send Mira up to a foothold, then attacked the birds with Phoenix Flower Jutsu.
• Chiba used his final Chakra on another Phoenix Flower Jutsu, then struck the burning birds with Kunai as he fell with them.
• Mira and the others believed Chiba had died and mourned him as he plunged down the cliff.
• Chiba crawled out from the strange-bird corpses after surviving the fall, and a nearby girl said he was still alive.

Chiba survived his fall and encountered Ultear, who spared him before deciding to keep him around to study his power. After recovering by eating the strange birds, Chiba challenged her and was beaten down.

• Chiba woke in a wilderness and recognized the armed girl who threatened him as Ultear.
• Ultear considered killing Chiba, but spared him after he pleaded to be kept around for company.
• Chiba roasted and ate the strange birds, recovering enough strength and Chakra to challenge Ultear.
• Ultear said she was interested in Chiba's power and wanted to observe him.
• Chiba challenged Ultear, who beat him and pinned his face beneath her heel.

Chiba lost to Ultear’s Time Magic and became her personal attendant rather than a member of Grimoire Heart. At the guild’s hidden base, Ultear began to suspect that Chiba’s calm demeanor concealed formidable combat instincts.

• Ultear defeated Chiba and threatened to kill him, but made him her personal attendant after he explained that he was a ninja who used Chakra.
• Ultear led Chiba through a spatial illusion that concealed an ice-covered world from the outside.
• Chiba followed Ultear toward Grimoire Heart’s base and met Sawen, whom Ultear identified as a powerful A-Class mage wanted for slaughtering a town.
• Ultear explained that strength determined status in Grimoire Heart, while Chiba admitted that he was hungry.
• Ultear noticed that Chiba showed no real panic and recognized that his combat instincts were unusually strong.