Recaps

Ultear brought Chiba to a hideout, warned him not to escape, and left him to recover and train. After Chiba began studying two B-Class Ninjutsu, two hostile healing mages arrived, and he sensed that the scarred mage was plotting against him.

• Ultear led Chiba to a rundown room and told him he would stay there for at least a week because he lacked a guild emblem.
• Chiba created two Shadow Clones and entered the Ninjutsu Chamber to take the Earth Dragon Bullet Technique and Fire Dragon Flame Bullet scrolls for training.
• At night, two unfriendly healing mages arrived, and Chiba let them treat his injuries despite their insults.
• While the scarred mage healed him, Chiba sensed suspicious magic like the kind he had felt from Bobbit.
• After claiming Chiba was healed, the scarred mage began explaining the dark guild's rules.

Chiba fought two boys who attacked him and destroyed his cabin, then Ultear stopped his fire attack and sent the boys away. With nowhere to sleep, Chiba accepted Ultear's offer to stay in her room, while wondering how Mira was doing.

• Chiba threw the scar-faced boy and his companion out of the cabin after they threatened him and tried to use magic on him.
• The boys destroyed the cabin with wind blades, but Chiba dodged their attacks and knocked them both down.
• The boys combined Wind Current and Fire Rain against Chiba, who countered with Great Fireball Technique and Gale Palm.
• Ultear used her Time Magic to make Chiba's fireball disappear, then kicked the boys away after they blamed Chiba and claimed he had insulted the guild.
• Ultear told Chiba to sleep in her room, warned him not to try anything, and Chiba wondered how Mira was doing.

Chiba chose to accompany Ultear on a dangerous mission against Shadow Skull rather than help attack an ordinary town, refusing to kill unarmed people. Ultear questioned his resolve and admitted she wanted to see how long he could resist the darkness, while reflecting on her own path and her devotion to Zeref.

• Chiba practiced Ninjutsu through the night, then woke to find he had used Ultear's toothbrush and was beaten for it.
• Ultear ordered Chiba to join her on a mission and described two choices: suppress a rebellion tied to Shadow Skull or take a southern town and kill its inhabitants.
• Ultear warned that the rebellion would be dangerous for Chiba and offered the town mission as the easier option.
• Chiba chose the rebellion mission, saying he would not kill a group of unarmed ordinary people.
• Ultear said she wanted to see how far Chiba could go without becoming a mage or succumbing to darkness, and recalled that she had once held a similar attitude before devoting herself to Zeref.

Ultear gathered about a hundred Grimoire Heart members, including Chiba, to travel toward a rebellious town. After a day of travel and punishing training, Chiba returned exhausted and accidentally called Ultear “Sister Lei,” provoking her surprise and menace.

• Ultear introduced Chiba to Sawen and the other black-robed members, then led the group to a stable to prepare for the mission.
• Chiba admitted he could not ride a horse and persuaded Ultear to let him ride behind her, provoking Scarface and Cross-Eyed Wolf.
• That night, Ultear noticed Chiba was missing while he trained alone in the forest, enduring painful Chakra conditioning and reflecting on his motives.
• Chiba returned to Ultear's tent exhausted from his week of weighted running and Taijutsu training and said he was hungry.
• Ultear reacted sharply when Chiba accidentally called her “Sister Lei.”

Chiba was forced out of Ultear’s tent after calling her “Sister Lei,” leaving her alone with painful memories of Ur. While he slept outside, two guild members tried to kill him, but he killed them first and faced their furious father before Ultear intervened.

• Ultear asked Chiba why he called her “Sister Lei,” then sent him out of her tent and brooded over her mother, Ur.
• Scarface and Squint-Eyed Wolf carried the exhausted Chiba into the forest and attacked him.
• Chiba used his Sharingan and Gale Palm to overpower the two men, then killed them with his Kunai.
• The men’s father, Qiaote, confronted Chiba and attacked him with black magic.
• Ultear’s emerald-green Free Ball stopped Qiaote’s attack, and she challenged him for trying to kill her guard.

Ultear stopped Qiaote from retaliating against Chiba, then scolded Chiba for failing to guard himself. After Chiba fell asleep, the Ninjutsu Chamber upgraded his talent, leaving him able to learn ninjutsu more easily and use certain techniques with greatly increased power.

• Ultear explained that Qiaote's son and his accomplice had tried to assassinate Chiba and declared the matter closed under Grimoire Heart's rules.
• Ultear threatened Qiaote and took Chiba back to camp, while Qiaote secretly resented them.
• Ultear scolded Chiba for not watching his back, and Chiba realized she had been keeping an eye on him.
• Chiba fell asleep on a stool, and the Ninjutsu Chamber upgraded his talent and awarded him a Kekkei Genkai before settling on Yamato-version Wood Release.
• Chiba woke to find he had gained Complete Version Ninjutsu and Simplified Ninjutsu, which made techniques easier to learn and strengthened eligible ninjutsu.

Chiba woke to find that Ultear had ordered him carried to bed, then discovered that Grimoire Heart’s negotiations with Shadow Skull had erupted into battle. As he joined the fight, Qiaote turned against Ultear, blaming her for protecting Chiba.

• Chiba created two Shadow Clones and ordered them to study earth-attribute shape transformation and Fire Dragon Flame Bullet before heading to the confrontation.
• Ultear rejected Puroke’s demand to surrender the traitor and give Shadow Skull Lute Town, and Sawen killed the captive traitor.
• Puroke declared war, and the two guilds began fighting; a stray magic missile hit Chiba, who joined the battle with a kunai.
• Puroke called for action, and Qiaote attacked Ultear with a book before accusing her of forcing him to betray Grimoire Heart by protecting Chiba.

Chiba intervened when Sawen betrayed Ultear and stabbed her, but Ultear revealed that she had anticipated the betrayal and used Time Reversal to heal herself. She launched an attack on Sawen, beginning the fight she had planned to use to kill him.

• Sawen revealed himself as a Shadow Skull spy, stabbed Ultear, and killed Qiaote while Puroke joined him.
• Chiba attacked Sawen and Puroke with fire-wreathed shuriken and a powerful Great Fireball, then blocked Sawen's Dark Spirit with a Water Formation Wall.
• Ultear healed her wound and restored her clothing with Time Reversal, explaining that she had known Sawen's allegiance and provoked him to expose himself.
• Ultear attacked Sawen with lines of free spheres, and Sawen sent Dark Spirit to intercept them.

Ultear and the Grimoire Heart mages were trapped in Puroke’s Magic-Sealing Space, which suppressed their magic and left them outnumbered by Shadow Skull. Chiba entered the fight unaffected by the spell and faced two B-Class mages as his improved strength was put to the test.

• Ultear battered Sawen with Free Balls, but Puroke used a one-use Magic-Sealing Space to suppress the magic power of everyone inside its barrier.
• More than two hundred Shadow Skull mages entered the barrier, giving Puroke’s side a numerical advantage over the weakened Grimoire Heart mages.
• Puroke and two A-Class mages attacked Ultear, but Chiba knocked all three aside and revealed that the barrier did not weaken him.
• Chiba burned many Shadow Skull mages with Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu, while Ultear used Free Ball to stop the remaining A-Class mage from joining the fight.
• Puroke and another A-Class mage attacked Chiba from opposite sides, and Chiba prepared to fight them using the strength he had gained over the past week.

Chiba used Shadow Clones and powerful fire and wind techniques to defeat Puroke and an A-Class mage, then fought his way through Shadow Skull’s forces. Puroke returned with enhanced power and struck Chiba with a crimson sword attack.

• Chiba and his Shadow Clones combined Gale Palm with a Great Fireball, breaking through a Rock Barrier and badly burning Puroke and the A-Class mage.
• Chiba saw that the A-Class mage had stopped breathing, while Ultear was close to defeating Shadow Skull’s other A-Class mage.
• Puroke ordered the surrounding mages to stop Chiba, who used his Two-Tomoe Sharingan to fight through them and kill many of them.
• Puroke reappeared with a crimson longsword, strange markings, and power beyond that of an ordinary B-Class mage.
• Puroke blocked Chiba’s Kunai strike, sent him flying, and launched a streak of crimson sword energy at him.

Chiba found that Puroke could destroy his strongest defensive ninjutsu and overpower him in close combat, so he fled the Magic-Sealing Space. He turned back to carry Ultear to safety, while Grimoire Heart mages fought to shield them from Puroke and the pursuing Shadow Skull mages.

• Puroke detonated his magic power inside Chiba’s Water Formation Wall, destroying it, then overpowered Chiba in hand-to-hand combat and hurled him into the crowd.
• Chiba escaped Puroke’s attack and ran toward the edge of the Magic-Sealing Space, but reconsidered leaving Ultear behind.
• Chiba returned, hoisted Ultear over his shoulder, and used Gale Palm to shatter stone spikes as he continued fleeing.
• Puroke ordered the Shadow Skull mages to pursue and kill Ultear, while a Grimoire Heart mage rallied his allies to protect her escape.
• Puroke and an A-Class mage attacked the fleeing pair, but more than ten Grimoire Heart mages raised stone barriers to slow Puroke’s sword aura.

Chiba and Ultear fought to escape the Magic-Sealing Space while Shadow Skull overwhelmed Grimoire Heart. After awakening Lava Release and covering himself in Lava Armor, Chiba killed an A-Class mage and charged at Puroke.

• Ultear's magic failed to break the barrier, and Chiba discovered that his Ninjutsu could damage it.
• Puroke and Shadow Skull's mages surrounded Grimoire Heart, forcing Chiba to abandon his assault on the barrier and help Ultear.
• Ultear trapped Puroke and his companion in Ice Condensation, Rose Garden, but struggled to sustain the spell as the enemy mages attacked.
• Chiba released his Shadow Clones and gained Wood Release, Lava Release, and the Lava Armor technique.
• Chiba's Lava Armor melted through Ultear's ice and let him kill the A-Class mage with a single strike.
• Chiba and Puroke charged at each other, and their lava and blood-red sword collided.

Chiba defeated Puroke in their final clash, but the battle left him unconscious and Ultear exhausted amid the destruction of Shadow Skull and Grimoire Heart. When a mysterious book sealed Ultear’s magic and stranded them in the snow, Chiba woke and built a wooden cabin to shelter them.

• Chiba and Puroke’s final clash left Chiba unconscious and Puroke dead.
• Under Ultear’s lead, the survivors killed nearly all of Shadow Skull and Grimoire Heart, leaving Ultear and Chiba alive inside the Magic-Sealing Space.
• After the barrier vanished, a book that Qiaote had failed to open entered Ultear and suppressed her magic, forcing her to carry Chiba through the snow.
• Ultear collapsed from cold and exhaustion while clinging to Chiba, who later woke and found her nearly frozen.
• Chiba carried Ultear and used Wood Release, Four-Pillar House to make a crude cabin for shelter.

Ultear woke in a snowbound cabin that Chiba had made and questioned why he had stayed with her after she lost her magic power. As Chiba considered taking her to find Mira and the others, a mysterious female voice suddenly spoke in his mind.

• Ultear awoke in the cabin and discovered Chiba’s coat and the strange trees and lava that warmed the room.
• Chiba returned and told Ultear he had stayed because she had saved him and he considered them friends.
• Ultear rejected the idea of friendship and explained how magic power had changed animals and made ordinary beasts rare.
• Chiba decided to leave the wilderness to find Mira and the others and considered bringing Ultear with him.
• A female voice called Chiba a scumbag inside his mind, startling him.

Chiba and Ultear settled into a remote mountain house, where he cooked for them and used his abilities to expand and furnish their shelter. Ultear insisted on staying with him for now, while Chiba remained worried about his friends and planned to find them when he could.

• Chiba cooked the snow deer with help from his Shadow Clones and shared it with Ultear.
• Chiba told Ultear he wanted to find his friends, but she asked to stay in their shelter and reminded him he was her bodyguard.
• Ultear guessed Chiba was thinking about a girl, and he insisted she was only a friend.
• After dinner, Chiba made a water tank, furniture, and a second house, using lava to warm and light the space.
• Ultear revealed that her spatial item contained several dresses, and Chiba joked that he had no clothes to change into.

Chiba met Feiyin, a dragon-shaped being who said she was this world's Ten-Tails and the Ninjutsu Chamber’s artificial intelligence. She explained that she had lost most of her power after Acnologia attacked and ended up sharing Chiba’s body, then transformed into a small girl as Chiba questioned his identity.

• Chiba heard Feiyin’s voice and entered the Ninjutsu Chamber, where he saw her as an enormous white dragon.
• Chiba guessed that Feiyin was a Tailed Beast, and Feiyin said she was this world’s Ten-Tails, though she did not know who had told her that.
• Feiyin explained that she had created Chiba’s body with Yin-Yang Release, but Acnologia attacked while she was merging with it, allowing Chiba’s soul to enter.
• Feiyin said she had taken Chiba’s body to his girl’s hometown and stayed inside him, and that she now had roughly as much Chakra as a Tailed Beast.
• Feiyin transformed into a petite silver-haired girl, and Chiba asked why he was called Uchiha Chiba instead of his original name.

Chiba learned from Feiyin that she could help him develop powerful abilities, including Fairy Chakra and White Dragon Senjutsu, and she asked him to avenge her against Acnologia someday. The next morning, Feiyin appeared outside him and suggested he introduce her to Ultear as his daughter.

• Feiyin explained that she had given Chiba the Uchiha name and could help him awaken his eyes, alter his constitution, and create Kekkei Genkai.
• Feiyin described Fairy Chakra and her White Dragon Senjutsu, then asked Chiba to avenge her against Acnologia when he became strong enough.
• Feiyin told Chiba to train his Chakra and build up enough magic power for Fairy Mode before going to sleep inside him.
• Chiba returned to the real world, learned Feiyin could read his memories, and went to sleep.
• The next morning, Feiyin came out to wake Chiba and proposed that he tell Ultear she was his daughter.

Chiba and Feiyin invented a cover story for Feiyin’s appearance, then Chiba trained through the winter and completed the first stage of the Heru Method. With his body at its limit, he shifted toward mental training and began practicing the Shadow Thirty-Six Forms.

• Chiba and Feiyin decided to tell Ultear that Feiyin was Chiba’s younger sister, sealed inside his body since childhood.
• Ultear arrived, believed their explanation, and reassured Feiyin that Chiba would keep her safe.
• Chiba trained outside in the falling snow and continued strengthening his body with Chakra and the Heru Method.
• After more than three months, Chiba completed the first stage of the Heru Method with Feiyin replenishing his Chakra.
• Chiba reached a physical saturation point and focused on training his mental strength to avoid losing control.
• Chiba began learning the Shadow Thirty-Six Forms and considered combining their kicks with his Lava Release Armor.

After five months of training, Chiba and Ultear set out for Fairy Tail and found two mages trying to take Wendy away. Chiba drove them off, leaving Wendy safe and Ultear reacting to the mention of Jellal.

• Chiba mastered the Shadow Thirty-Six Forms and greatly improved his Chakra control during five months of training with Ultear and Feiyin.
• Chiba and Ultear left the forest after Feiyin went to sleep inside Chiba.
• They found two Frog in the Pond mages pressuring Wendy to go with them while she waited for Jellal.
• Ultear urged Chiba to kill the mages, and Chiba confronted them after they mocked him and Ultear.
• Chiba hurled one mage into a tree and blasted the other away with Gale Palm.

Chiba protected Wendy from two mages and discussed with Feiyin how fate constrained their ability to change the world’s outcomes. After Jellal reunited with Wendy, Chiba and Ultear agreed to travel with them.

• Chiba comforted Wendy, who said Jellal had gone to find food and had not returned.
• Feiyin told Chiba that they could change the course of events but not their outcomes, and that breaking cause and effect could leave Acnologia undefeated and destroy the world.
• Jellal returned after sensing magic, reunited with Wendy, and thanked Chiba and Ultear for protecting her.
• Two mages threatened Chiba with Frog in the Pond’s judgment, but he frightened them into fleeing with his Sharingan and Chakra.
• Jellal warned Chiba and Ultear about Frog in the Pond and invited them to travel with him and Wendy; Chiba accepted and introduced himself.

Jellal left Chiba and Wendy to hunt down the increasingly rampant 'souls,' trusting Chiba to protect Wendy. After Chiba promised to take Wendy to a mage guild and brought her to Deli Town, men from the Frog in the Pond guild confronted him over a fight from two days earlier, and Chiba prepared to retaliate.

• Jellal asked Chiba to look after Wendy, then left quietly to destroy the 'souls' because he feared putting her in danger.
• Wendy cried when she learned Jellal had left, and Chiba reassured her that he had promised to take her to a mage guild.
• Chiba, Ultear, and Wendy traveled to Deli Town, where Chiba sold fifteen blue frost wolf pelts for 1.5 million J.
• Several men from Frog in the Pond confronted Chiba, citing his beating of two men two days earlier and threatening to teach him a lesson.
• Chiba calmly challenged the men, then let his eyes turn scarlet as he prepared to fight.

Chiba fought off a group of mages who attacked him, Ultear, and Wendy, destroying their shop before fleeing to avoid the cost of the damage. Another group from Frog in the Pond cornered them in an alley after identifying Ultear as a member of Grimoire Heart, and their attack left Chiba’s Water Formation Walls exploding around the trio.

• A giant-sized mage attacked Chiba, who knocked him away with Chakra-enhanced strikes.
• Chiba’s Shadow Clones engulfed two attackers in fireballs, destroyed the shop, and Chiba replaced it with a wooden house before escaping with Ultear and Wendy.
• In an alley, Ultear questioned why Chiba had run, while Chiba reassured Wendy that he would protect her.
• More than a dozen mages from Frog in the Pond surrounded them and identified Ultear as a dark mage from Grimoire Heart.
• Chiba’s Shadow Clones and the mages exchanged fire, water, and ice attacks, until the enemy leader made the Water Formation Walls explode.

Chiba fought Manli and the mages of Frog in the Pond, using his clones and multiple techniques to resist their attacks. After Manli charged him, Chiba revealed his Lava Armor and unleashed lava throughout the alley, leaving the guild members horrified.

• Manli boasted about breaking Chiba's Water Formation Wall, but a Shadow Clone kicked him through a wall.
• Manli attacked Chiba with stone spikes and water magic, while Chiba and his clones blocked the strikes with fire and wooden walls.
• Chiba sent two Shadow Clones to carry Wendy and Ultear away, then used Gale Palm, Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, and Earth Dragon Bullet against the guild mages.
• Manli charged Chiba with water magic as the other mages attacked from behind, but Chiba covered himself in Lava Armor and sent Manli flying.
• Chiba drove his hand into the ground and made lava erupt beneath the alley, terrifying everyone inside.

After escaping the fight with Frog in the Pond, Chiba learned that mysterious guests had revealed Ultear’s dark-guild identity to the town’s mages. He returned to the others as the guests prepared to target him, having confirmed that Ultear’s magic was sealed.

• Chiba fled after his Earth Lava dissipated, while Manli ordered the surviving mages to report the attack and rally nearby guilds to hunt the dark guild members.
• Tori told Deo that three young dark-guild mages had fought Manli, and that Frog in the Pond’s honored guests had identified them.
• Chiba, disguised with the Transformation Technique, learned that the honored guests had supplied Ultear’s identity and suspected they were Shadow Skull members.
• A guild member told three black-robed envoys that Ultear’s magic was sealed and warned them about Chiba’s elemental power.
• The black-robed envoys decided they would deal with Chiba themselves.

Chiba, Ultear, and Wendy fled from pursuing mages, but Shadow Skull ambushed them during a rest. Chiba recognized their leader as Alili, a former friend who had joined a dark guild and attacked him with powerful magic.

• Chiba refused to abandon Ultear, and the group fled while his Shadow Clone stayed behind to fight the Frog in the Pond mages.
• Chiba carried Ultear and Wendy away, then explained that the Shadow Clone was part of him and could be replaced if destroyed.
• Ultear sensed an approaching presence, and three black-robed Shadow Skull members emerged from distorted space.
• The leader revealed himself as Alili, and Chiba recognized the former friend whose appearance now carried a sinister aura.
• Alili accused Chiba of treating him like a dog and charged, spreading dark magic across Chiba's arm on contact.
• Chiba repelled Alili with Chakra, but Alili taunted him with magic power stronger than that of the A-Class mage Chiba had fought earlier.