Recaps

Mira questioned whether her feelings for Chiba were love or gratitude, while Ultear helped her confront her doubts. Meanwhile, Tianna’s forces struggled to defend a surrounded town as Luodi prepared to kill a woman on the battlefield.

• Ultear pointed out that Chiba’s account of his amnesia conflicted with what he knew about Feiyin, and Mira said Fairy Tail was now his home and family.
• Mira recalled how Chiba had comforted her, fallen from a cliff protecting her, and later reunited with her, but she worried that he was distancing himself.
• Ultear told Mira that gratitude was not necessarily the same as liking someone, leaving Mira uncertain about her feelings.
• Monsters and dark guild mages attacked the town, forcing Tianna’s troops and the town guard to retreat while the townspeople panicked.
• Luodi and a middle-aged man watched the fighting from a hillside, and Luodi agreed to kill a slender woman in black.

Jikade reflected on how Tianna was the one exception to his disciplined life, then diverted part of his force to rescue her. He arrived just in time to block an enemy swordsman’s killing blow, leaving Tianna facing her brother’s protection.

• Jikade recalled how his hostility toward Bolunte began when Bolunte pursued Tianna and how he later made Jikade’s life difficult.
• Jikade recognized that Tianna was his greatest weakness and the exception to his strict routines.
• Jikade ordered Jien to lead the main force to the battlefield while he took the ninth and tenth squads to reinforce Tianna.
• Tianna, exhausted after resisting a lecherous swordsman, faced his descending blade.
• Jikade appeared before Tianna and blocked the swordsman’s attack.

Chiba arrived to protect Tianna despite his severe injuries and fought Earth Throne Luodi using the Magic Divine Crystal's power. When Luodi attacked Tianna, Chiba intervened, losing an arm while piercing Luodi's chest with his sword.

• Tianna felt relieved by Chiba's arrival but became alarmed by his pallor and bleeding wounds.
• Chiba fought Luodi with his Sharingan and the Magic Divine Crystal's power despite his depleted Chakra and severe injuries.
• Magic Council soldiers joined the battlefield but could not intervene in Chiba and Luodi's battle.
• Luodi knocked Chiba back, collapsed the ground behind him, and charged toward Tianna, cutting down the soldiers who tried to stop him.
• Chiba intercepted Luodi's attack, lost an arm, and drove his sword into the left side of Luodi's chest.

Chiba fought Luodi but was gravely wounded, and Tianna sacrificed herself to save him before Luodi repeatedly stabbed her. As Tianna died in Chiba’s arms after asking him for a kiss, he was left holding her cooling body amid the ongoing battle.

• Luodi revealed that his heart was on the right side, then struck Chiba down and prepared to kill him.
• Tianna rushed in front of Luodi’s sword and was stabbed while protecting Chiba.
• Luodi dragged Chiba to Tianna and repeatedly stabbed her as Chiba struggled helplessly to stop him.
• Chiba released a wave of black vapor that hurled Luodi away, then reached Tianna as she lay dying.
• Tianna confessed that she liked Chiba and asked him to kiss her, and he kissed her before she died.
• Chiba held Tianna’s cooling body while fighting and death continued across the battlefield.

After Tianna’s death and Chiba’s grievous injury, Chiba awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and manifested a black, armored Susanoo. He unleashed a devastating assault on Luodi, leaving the battlefield in ruins as the chapter ended.

• Mira, Ultear, Erza, and Nuolin fought the middle-aged man, but they could only hold him off while Chiba and Tianna faced Luodi.
• Feiyin ran toward Chiba as a surge of power erupted from him and his Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Chiba summoned Susanoo, which turned black and gained tengu armor as it reached its third form.
• Chiba carried Tianna’s body forward and slashed at Luodi with Susanoo’s crimson greatsword, destroying Luodi’s rocky defense and killing many people in the blast.
• Chiba continued attacking Luodi, and Susanoo’s final sword wave split the earth and triggered a massive explosion.

Jikade’s forces fought Kailin and the Shadow Skull while Chiba’s devastating attack left him collapsed beside Tianna’s corpse. As dawn rose, Jikade sent Tianna one last message and died from his wounds.

• Jikade fought Kailin’s forces in a snowy valley after learning Kailin had allied with the Shadow Skull to take Tianna away.
• Chiba’s attack carved a vast scar through the battlefield, and he fell to the ground carrying Tianna’s corpse.
• The Shadow Skull’s vice guild master tried to kill Chiba, but a black-robed stranger blocked the attack and frightened him into fleeing.
• Jikade spoke with Jien through a crystal ball and asked him to tell Tianna to make herself a cup of milk before bed.
• Jikade cut off the communication and died as the morning sun rose.

Chiba spent three months recovering as Shadow Skull dissolved and Oración Seis rose to replace it. A month later, he visited Tianna's grave with Seele, while Bolunte had shifted his attention from Tianna to Seele.

• Bolunte received news of Tianna's death indifferently and revealed his interest in Seele.
• The Magic Council's army captured the Sword of Slaughter's headquarters, but its southeastern force suffered devastating losses.
• Mira, Nuolin and Erza brought the severely injured Chiba back to Magnolia, where he stopped most guild members from seeking revenge against Shadow Skull.
• Chiba slept through three months of treatment while Laxus became an S-Class Mage and Erza and Mira grew stronger and began taking jobs together.
• Chiba became famous for defeating Shadow Skull's three Thrones, and Oración Seis replaced the dissolved guild in the Balam Alliance.
• Chiba visited Tianna's grave with Seele, touched the gravestone with his mechanical left hand, and briefly imagined Tianna greeting him in the wind.

Seven months after the southern war, Chiba returned to Fairy Tail and learned that Makarov had defended the guild from the Magic Council’s attempt to disband it and arrest him. He carried the drunken Mira away while Erza, barely awake, recognized him and let him go.

• Cana drank heavily at the guild tavern, while Macao and Wakaba watched and Mira and Erza drank themselves sick.
• Chiba returned from a job, submitted a request to Makarov, and declined the Master’s suggestion that he take the S-Class Exam.
• Chiba said he would work toward becoming one of the Ten Wizard Saints and thanked Makarov for protecting him and Fairy Tail from the Magic Council.
• Makarov recalled that public support in southern Fiore had helped defeat the Council’s attempt to arrest Chiba and disband the guild.
• Chiba took the wine jar from Mira and lifted her into his arms, while Erza briefly mistook him for someone threatening her friend before recognizing him.

Chiba brought the heavily drunk Mira home, then listened as Feiyin confronted him for avoiding Mira despite her devotion. He confessed that he believed he could not change the world’s predetermined story or take responsibility for Mira’s future.

• Chiba carried Mira from the guild and told Lisanna and Elfman he was taking her to his home for the night.
• Mira woke in Chiba’s arms, tried to punch him, then clung to him as he carried her into the house.
• Chiba tucked Mira into bed and asked Seele to bring her warm milk with honey.
• Feiyin confronted Chiba on the balcony about avoiding Mira and letting guilt over Tianna keep him from her.
• Chiba said that Tianna was destined to die in the original story and admitted he could not take responsibility for Mira’s future.

Chiba explained why he had kept his distance from Tianna and described Bolunte and the formidable Blood Demon Knights, whom he intended to target despite his current weakness. Mira decided to wait for Chiba and asked Feiyin to keep him away from other women.

• Chiba told Feiyin that Tianna was destined to die at sixteen in the original story, which was why he had avoided her, though he brought her home after finding her drunk.
• Chiba revealed that Bolunte led the Blood Demon Knights and hunted dark guild members across the mainland, and he named his powerful subordinates Suomeier, Kailin, and Linweier.
• Chiba admitted he could not face Bolunte with his current Chakra and Jutsu, while Feiyin warned that removing more layers of the Seven Star Seal could kill him.
• Feiyin gave Chiba two Ninjutsu scrolls and teased him for seeking Earth Release techniques after struggling with Flying Thunder God.
• Mira told Feiyin she would wait for Chiba, then asked her to keep an eye on him and ensure he stayed away from other women, including Seele.

After a sleepless night caused by Mira, Feiyin, and Seele, Chiba struggled with his Flying Thunder God training at the guild. Haiweier delivered Nuolin’s request for him to meet her beneath a waterfall in the eastern forest, and Chiba set out to find out why she wanted to see him.

• Mira asked Feiyin to keep an eye on Chiba, then joined Feiyin and Seele for a noisy night together.
• Chiba stayed awake listening to the women, while Mira accidentally knocked out Natsu when he came to investigate the noise.
• Chiba reflected on his lack of progress learning the Flying Thunder God Technique and admired Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze.
• Haiweier told Chiba that Nuolin wanted to meet him beneath a waterfall in the eastern forest, and he decided to go.
• Haiweier wondered why Nuolin had been acting differently and spending so much time around Chiba.

Haiweier secretly followed Chiba to investigate her suspicions about his relationship with Nuolin, then mistook Nuolin’s sword training for danger. After Nuolin dispersed the waterspout, she found Chiba dry and Haiweier drenched, and Haiweier hurriedly tried to explain herself.

• Haiweier convinced herself that Nuolin and Chiba might be secretly together and decided to follow them.
• Chiba walked through the forest to a waterfall, aware that Haiweier was trailing him.
• Nuolin stood on a rock in the river and drew the surrounding water into a massive waterspout with her sword qi.
• Nuolin sent the waterspout into the sky, then countered it with seven giant swords formed from sword qi.
• Haiweier rushed out of the forest shouting a warning, got drenched by the falling water, and told Nuolin it was not what she thought.

Nuolin rescued Haiweier from the falling water and then began teaching Chiba swordsmanship. After Chiba accidentally destroyed Nuolin’s cabin, he used his power to grow trees into a house.

• The Seven-Star Sword Formation shattered Nuolin’s waterspout, and Chiba stepped in front of Haiweier as the water fell.
• Nuolin scolded Haiweier for following her, clarified that Chiba was her junior fellow disciple, and took her to change clothes.
• Nuolin attacked Chiba with sword energy that seemed to have a heartbeat, then asked him to try it himself.
• Chiba’s sword strike felled a tree onto Nuolin’s cabin, and Haiweier angrily told him that she and Nuolin had spent a day building it.
• As Haiweier protested, trees beneath the wreckage grew into the shape of a house.

Chiba practiced swordsmanship with Nuolin but struggled to understand her sword qi until she told him it was connected to life. The next day, Natsu brought a large egg to the guild, and Chiba started a betting pool by claiming it was a cat egg.

• Chiba practiced swordsmanship with Nuolin all day, but he could not understand how her sword qi differed from his.
• Nuolin told Chiba that sword qi was about life, leaving him to wonder whether his life-attribute magic could bring sword qi to life.
• Chiba returned home, where he joked with Seele and Feiyin, then thought of a girl as chrysanthemums swayed outside.
• Natsu brought a large white egg with blue markings to the guild and said he had found it in the East Forest.
• Chiba claimed the egg was a cat egg and persuaded the guild members, including Makarov, to join a betting pool over what it would hatch into.

Chiba watched the guild members bet on what would hatch from Natsu’s egg, then teased Natsu while Lisanna offered to help him care for it. After Natsu and Lisanna left for the eastern forest, Laxus approached Chiba and remarked that his magic power had grown considerably.

• Chiba wagered his remaining 100,000 J on the egg, and several guild members followed his lead with large bets.
• Erza and Mira argued and grappled after Macao teased them about their recent drinking and a failed client job.
• Lisanna offered to help Natsu look after the egg, and Natsu tried to warm it with Fire Dragon’s Roar before Chiba corrected him.
• Chiba refused to accompany Natsu and Lisanna to the eastern forest, then knocked Natsu down when he attacked him.
• Laxus approached Chiba and observed that his magic power had increased since he first woke up.

Chiba met Mest and spent days learning about space by experiencing Mest’s Teleportation magic, which helped him make progress with the Flying Thunder God Technique. When Nuolin resumed his sword training, she proposed teaching him to cut through space.

• Laxus came to ask Chiba to spar, but left after Mest appeared and challenged Chiba instead.
• Chiba apologized to Mest, bought him drinks, and learned that his magic was Teleportation.
• Chiba showed Mest the Flying Thunder God scroll, and Mest teleported him around Magnolia so he could experience space firsthand.
• Chiba made progress with the Flying Thunder God Technique and continued training with Mest for several days.
• Haiweier brought Chiba back to Nuolin, who offered to teach him how to cut through space.

Chiba reluctantly let Seele take her first guild mission after worrying that she was not ready to go out alone. Seele and Feiyin left to arrest Yves's Gang, while Chiba stayed behind anxious about her safety.

• Nuolin trained Chiba by attacking him with sword qi and forbidding him from using Chakra to defend himself.
• Seele offered to take a mission, and Chiba agreed to bring her to the guild the next day.
• Chiba rejected every mission he thought unsuitable for Seele as Feiyin and Mira teased him for acting like an overprotective father.
• Seele chose the subjugation mission to arrest Yves's Gang, and Mira encouraged her to take it.
• Seele and Feiyin left for the mission, while Chiba continued worrying about Seele.

Chiba and Mira agreed to take a mission together, and Laxus offered them an S-Class request to exterminate a demon in Morabai. The job required three S-Class Mages and had already been accepted by Lamia Scale and Phantom Lord, leaving Chiba to consider Fairy Tail’s strength and his own.

• Mest approached Chiba and Mira, and Chiba explained that he had asked Mest to help him learn Ninjutsu.
• Mira suggested that she and Chiba go on a mission together, and Chiba quickly agreed.
• Laxus offered Chiba and Mira an S-Class mission to exterminate a demon terrorizing Morabai, with a reward of twelve million J.
• Chiba and Mira discovered that the request required three S-Class Mages, and Laxus explained that Lamia Scale and Phantom Lord had already accepted it.
• Chiba considered Phantom Lord’s S-Class Mages and Fairy Tail’s powerful members as he assessed his own strength and remembered Feiyin’s warning about his Chakra.

Chiba learned that Fairy Tail’s tensions with Phantom Lord had begun after a brawl between Makarov and Jose, then joined Laxus, Mira, and Erza on a mission to Molabai Village. There, the gathered guild teams met Phantom Lord’s Totomaru and Aria, while Chiba was shocked to see that Jura was only twenty-one.

• Feiyin revealed that her real body had been inside Chiba all along and argued with him about the snacks she had demanded.
• Chiba learned how Makarov and Jose’s fight at a guild masters’ banquet had worsened relations between Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord.
• Erza accepted Laxus’s invitation to the mission, and Chiba agreed to go with her, Mira, and Laxus.
• The group arrived in Molabai Village and met the wealthy village chief, who gathered the participating teams together.
• Totomaru mocked the others, and Mira identified him as Phantom Lord’s fire element; Chiba recognized Aria and realized Jura was only twenty-one.

Chiba and the Fairy Tail mages clashed with Phantom Lord’s Totomaru before the guilds accepted a village job to eliminate a demon haunting a mine. On the mountain above the village, Laxus revealed that the Magic Divine Crystal was also connected to the mission.

• Totomaru provoked Laxus by mocking Fairy Tail and calling him the grandson of one of the Ten Wizard Saints, and Chiba insulted Totomaru in response.
• Jura interrupted the argument, and the village chief explained that a demon appeared nightly at the mine, destroyed tools, and devoured anyone who tried to stop it.
• Jura proposed that the mages go to the mine at night to eliminate the demon, and the groups set out separately for the same destination.
• Mira and Laxus vented their anger at Phantom Lord while the Fairy Tail mages watched the village from a mountain.
• Erza suggested Phantom Lord had come for the Magic Divine Crystal, and Laxus confirmed it was there.

Chiba and his companions learned that the teams investigating the village were drawn by its Magic Divine Crystal deposit, while Chiba was warned that Aria’s magic could still threaten his life. After meeting a girl named Menair on the hillside, Chiba recognized that she was part of an overwhelming genjutsu and broke free, leaving the source of the illusion unclear.

• Laxus explained that Chiba’s Magic Divine Crystal had transformed him into an A-Class mage and that the village mission attracted mages seeking a nearby crystal deposit.
• Chiba warned the others to be wary of Phantom Lord, and Feiyin told him that losing all his magic power would still endanger his life.
• Erza helped an injured little girl, and Chiba healed her legs with Healing Magic.
• The girl introduced herself as Menair and said she had grown up in the village after her parents died.
• Feiyin sensed something strange about Menair and identified the scene as genjutsu.
• Chiba used his Mangekyō Sharingan to shatter the illusion and return to the hillside with Mira, Erza, and Laxus.

Chiba and his companions investigated the mysterious girl Menair, only to learn that a woman with that name had died years ago. Menair appeared again through Genjutsu and attacked Mira, leaving her body breaking apart as the chapter ended.

• Chiba told Laxus, Mira, and Erza about the nearly undetectable Genjutsu and suspected the mysterious man from the hospital might be connected to the girl.
• Chiba learned that the girl had called herself Menair, and Erza suggested investigating her possible link to their target.
• The village chief said Menair had been a woman from the village who died several years earlier, and he refused to let them investigate where she had lived.
• Mira collapsed after leaving the chief's manor and said Menair wanted them to go to her former home halfway up the mountain.
• Menair froze time, told Chiba that she had first chosen him but found Mira more suitable, then sent a beam of light into Mira as her body began to break apart.

Chiba and the others investigated Menair’s abandoned home and grave, where Chiba saw memories suggesting she had been imprisoned and executed for violating the village’s rules. After hearing Menair’s eerie voice, Chiba rushed back outside with Laxus and found Erza and Mira fighting in earnest.

• Chiba, Mira, Erza, and Laxus climbed the mountain to visit the place Mira had seen in a vision.
• Chiba used his Sharingan to glimpse memories of a woman living in the cottage with two children and comforting them on a wooden bed.
• Chiba and Laxus discovered Menair’s grave, where Chiba witnessed villagers mourning after declaring that Menair had died following her postponed execution.
• Chiba heard Menair’s voice and saw her faint smile before an explosion from the yard drew him and Laxus outside.
• Chiba and Laxus found Erza and Mira fighting, and Mira had transformed into something other than her usual Demon Satan.

Chiba subdued Mira after a powerful Demon Soul made her lose control, and Laxus chased a witness who claimed she was demon-possessed. The witness called Mira condemned by a lord god, while two spear-wielding figures attacked Laxus.

• Mira transformed with blue scales and a tail, then attacked Erza until Chiba stopped her with Wood Release and knocked her unconscious using his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Chiba concluded that the little girl had placed a Demon Soul in Mira, whose Take Over Magic affinity made her especially suited to it.
• Laxus discovered a young man hiding near the courtyard and questioned him about what he had seen.
• The young man fled after throwing a smoke bomb, and Laxus pursued him before two spear-wielding strangers attacked.
• The young man called Mira demon-possessed and said the lord god had judged her, prompting Laxus to threaten him with lightning.

Laxus confronted the village chief and guards after they decided to destroy Mira, whom they believed was possessed by a demon. Mira revealed her Satan Soul form and declared that neither the villagers nor the Magic Council could intimidate her, then returned to her comrades.

• Laxus challenged the village chief's decision to lead the guards toward Menair's home and warned him not to harm Mira.
• Jura, Totomaru, and Aria arrived as Fairy Tail's conflict with their client escalated.
• Chiba, Mira, and Erza came down the mountain path, and a young man identified Mira as the supposed demon-possessed girl.
• Mira transformed into her Satan Soul form, frightening the young man and the villagers into backing away.
• Mira lifted the village chief by his collar, introduced herself as Fairy Tail's Demon, and warned the villagers not to threaten her or her comrades.
• Mira released her transformation and returned to Chiba and the others, while Chiba praised her boldness.