Recaps

Mira suddenly demonized and stabbed Chiba, but he refused to hurt her while trying to reach her. Aria drained Chiba's magic power and Mira flew away, while Chiba rose again with the Mangekyō Sharingan restored.

• Mira abruptly transformed and pierced Chiba's chest, prompting Erza and Laxus to shield him from the village guards.
• Chiba let Mira pull her arm free, and she briefly regained control before Aria appeared behind them.
• Aria used Airspace: Destruction to drain Chiba's magic, and Laxus answered with a lightning attack that blasted open the mountain.
• Jura formed Rock Iron Walls to steady the mountain and catch falling guards as Mira's demon consciousness took control again and she flew away.
• Chiba rose despite his drained magic, and his Sharingan's three Tomoe spun into a new pattern as Erza and Laxus watched.

Chiba revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan ability, Seven Generations of the Age of Gods, and used it to empower Susanoo into its third form. He warned that he would not kill Aria and Totomaru, but his attack destroyed a neighboring mountain.

• Chiba cast off his robe, drew Heaven's Blazing Sun, and manifested a black, armored third-form Susanoo.
• Chiba's Mangekyō ability, Seven Generations of the Age of Gods, empowered techniques by raising their power for a time.
• Chiba told Jura to take the others to safety and said he would not kill Aria or Totomaru because he did not want to start a war with their guild.
• Jura led the village chief and guards away along a path he formed from rock.
• Totomaru attacked Chiba, and Chiba's Susanoo swept its sword at him and Aria; they dodged, but the sword wave cut into a neighboring mountain and caused it to collapse.

Chiba unleashed a devastating Rasengan at Aria and Totomaru, but Weir Isaac appeared and stopped it, warning him that fate would not let them die yet. She revealed that she was Demon God Halphas and that her journey was ending because Mirajane Strauss was destined to absorb her as magic.

• Chiba gave in to his murderous rage and attacked Aria with a dark red Lava Release: Big Ball Rasengan, forcing her and Totomaru to flee.
• Weir Isaac appeared in midair, stopped the Rasengan, and told Chiba that fate would prevent him from killing Aria and Totomaru.
• Weir warned Chiba that power could not free them from fate, and Chiba asked if she came from another world.
• Weir said her journey was ending and identified Mirajane Strauss as the one who would take her power.
• Weir revealed that she was Demon God Halphas and said she had been told she would die and become someone else's magic.

Weir revealed that she and Ailiya were Menair’s demon daughters and explained how their mother’s forbidden love and the villagers’ cruelty shaped their lives. After hearing why Ailiya had turned against her, Chiba faced the choice of killing Weir or letting her live.

• Weir explained that Mirajane’s demon transformation came from taking in part of her power and that Mirajane could eventually control it.
• Weir revealed that she and Ailiya were Menair’s daughters and that their mother had been a shrine maiden chosen by the Demon Sword Crimson Sakura.
• Weir recounted how their mother defied the shrine maiden’s rules to marry and have children, leading the villagers to kill her parents and eventually driving the sisters to become demons.
• Weir said Ailiya had harassed the village out of hatred, while Weir had stopped her from killing anyone and had killed a few people she considered deserving of death.
• Weir told Chiba that Ailiya had stolen her power and planned to absorb her, but Weir still loved her as her little sister.
• Weir left Chiba to decide whether to kill her or spare her, while her tense posture suggested she was prepared to fight.

Weir told Chiba, Laxus, and Erza that Ailiya might target Mirajane, hoping they would help ease the tension between the sisters, and they split up to search for Mira. Ailiya confronted Mira and revealed she wanted Mira to take over her sister; Mira admitted that she still hated the people who had driven her from her village.

• Weir explained that Ailiya might want Mirajane to suffer as they had after their village turned against them, and Chiba, Laxus, and Erza set out to find Mira.
• Mira regained consciousness after destroying forests, washed her face by a river, and decided to seek help from the guild master without returning to her companions.
• Ailiya emerged from the woods in a wheelchair with another girl and introduced herself as Menair's daughter.
• Ailiya transformed into a demon and told Mira that she and her sister were both demons, then said she wanted Mira to replace her sister.
• Ailiya reminded Mira that she had been driven from her village and asked whether she hated those people; Mira admitted that she did.

Mira confronted Ailiya about her hatred and learned that Ailiya intended to destroy the village and then go after Bolunte, before Ailiya sent a doll-like fighter to attack her. Meanwhile, Chiba and Erza searched for Mira until a creature disguised as Weir appeared, and Erza urged Chiba to find Mira while she faced it.

• Mira challenged Ailiya's desire for revenge and told her that her sister had wanted her to live with hope.
• Ailiya revealed her hatred for Bolunte and taunted Mira about Tianna, prompting Mira to warn her not to speak of Tianna to Chiba.
• Ailiya sent her doll-like sister to fight Mira, and Mira transformed into Satan Soul to face them alone.
• Chiba and Erza continued searching for Mira, while Erza reported that Jura was watching the mine and Phantom Lord's members had vanished.
• A creature disguised as Weir told Chiba not to stop Ailiya and began transforming into a partial demon.
• Erza identified the creature as a puppet and told Chiba to find Mira while she fought it.

Erza fought the puppet Weir while Chiba pursued Mira, and Bolunte revealed his history with his wife and daughters to Suomeier. Mira defeated Ailiya but left her alive, and Ailiya broke down over her sister’s fate.

• Erza clashed with the puppet Weir as Chiba went after Mira.
• Bolunte told Suomeier that his wife Menair had injected their daughters, Weir and Ailiya, with demon bloodlines, and explained why he had abandoned them.
• Bolunte told Suomeier that his body was failing and that he was about to die, though he still intended to give a young man a proper gift.
• Mira defeated Ailiya, found the puppet Weir motionless, and placed Ailiya in her wheelchair instead of killing her.
• Ailiya shouted that she wanted to die and blamed Mira, saying her sister could not survive.

Mira defended Ailiya from the village chief, who intended to burn her as a demon, until Chiba arrived and helped her resist. Chiba refused to hand Ailiya over, saying he had met her sister, and moved to take her away as the guards attacked.

• Ailiya told Mira that she believed fate meant Mira would take over her sister, while Mira questioned why she would do so and decided to bring Ailiya to her companions.
• The village chief arrived with armed guards and demanded that Mira hand Ailiya over so the villagers could burn her as a demon.
• Mira entered Satan Soul Form and stood between Ailiya and the village chief, but Chiba appeared and drove back the guards with a fireball.
• Chiba reunited with Mira, then rejected the village chief's demand to judge Ailiya and argued that her sister, not Ailiya, had killed the villagers.
• When the guards charged Chiba, he used Shadow Clone Technique and walked toward Ailiya, who asked why he was protecting her.
• Chiba told Ailiya that he had met her sister, leaving Ailiya stunned.

Chiba and his companions met Ailiya, who rejected their offer to join Fairy Tail and said she had decided to destroy the village. Back in her cave, Ailiya sent her Weir puppets to attack the village, while she headed for the shrine.

• Chiba healed Ailiya and Mira, then left the village with them after his Shadow Clone defeated the guards.
• In the forest, Chiba admitted that Mira would one day take over the Demon Soul Halphas, and he questioned whether fate could be changed.
• Ailiya used an illusion to escape, returned to her cave, and ordered her Weir puppets to destroy the village.
• The Weir puppets blasted through the village gate and overwhelmed the guards as they razed buildings and started fires.
• Ailiya arrived at the village shrine, where the shrine maiden lived and the gods were worshipped.

Ailiya confronted the old shrine maiden at the abandoned shrine, but was defeated and learned that Menair had given her and her sister their demonic bloodlines. The old shrine maiden called them forbidden lives, leaving Ailiya stunned by the revelation.

• Ailiya arrived at the shrine in a puppet's wheelchair, where the old shrine maiden attacked and killed the puppet Weir.
• The old shrine maiden trapped Ailiya inside a cube of magic circles and explained that she had prolonged her life to protect the village.
• Ailiya challenged the old shrine maiden over her mother's fate and the village's treatment of her, then fought her.
• The old shrine maiden defeated Ailiya, severed her wings, and approached her as she lay wounded.
• The old shrine maiden revealed that Menair had injected demonic bloodlines into Ailiya and her sister when they were young, making them forbidden lives.

The old shrine maiden revealed that Menair had treated Ailiya and her family as tools for forbidden magic and moved to kill Ailiya. Weir appeared to save her sister, and the two began fighting the old shrine maiden as she defended the village with the Heavenly Punishment Barrier.

• The old shrine maiden told Ailiya that Menair had violated the taboo of desecrating life and that Ailiya had been abandoned by the world.
• The old shrine maiden swung Crimson Sakura at Ailiya, but Weir intercepted the blade and blasted her backward.
• Weir picked up Ailiya and tried to fly through the magic circle, but the old shrine maiden restored the barrier and struck Weir with lightning.
• Weir shielded Ailiya from the lightning and crashed into the shrine, where the old shrine maiden cut the building apart with sword qi.
• Weir confronted the old shrine maiden over their mother's death and Ailiya's crippled legs, then fought her while holding Ailiya.
• Weir struck the old shrine maiden with a knee and blasted her with magic, forcing her to struggle to block the attack with Crimson Sakura.

Weir fought the rejuvenated old witch while carrying the gravely injured Ailiya, but a mysterious golden light drained Weir’s magic and brought both sisters down. Meanwhile, Seele and Feiyin set out to find Chiba, and Feiyin suddenly warned him that Seele was in danger.

• The old witch used forbidden magic to restore her body to its strongest stage and attacked Weir, who fought while protecting Ailiya.
• Ailiya briefly used genjutsu to help Weir land a counterattack, but the old witch prepared a powerful spell.
• A golden light appeared above Weir and drained her magic, causing her and Ailiya to fall to the ground.
• Weir lay unable to move as Ailiya crawled to her, and Weir reflected that she and her sister deserved the right to live despite being forbidden lives.
• Seele and Feiyin decided to search for Chiba after learning he was nearby.
• As Chiba and his group walked through the forest, Feiyin urgently warned him that something had happened to Seele.

Chiba learned that Seele had been captured and set out to rescue her, while the shrine maiden ordered Weir and Ailiya burned at the stake. Laxus, Mira, and Erza intervened and rescued the two demons, confronting the shrine maiden as the villagers protested.

• Feiyin told Chiba that Suomeier of the Blood Demon Knights had captured Seele, and Chiba decided to track them down.
• Chiba reassured Mira that he would bring Seele back safely and left to pursue the captors.
• After the village survived the Weir dolls' attack, the shrine maiden ordered Weir and Ailiya burned at the stake despite Jura's objections.
• Laxus arrived with lightning and extinguished the fire, while Mira and Erza took Weir and Ailiya down from the crosses.
• The shrine maiden challenged the Fairy Tail members for interfering, and Laxus frowned at her.

Weir survived because Ailiya transferred her remaining life force to her, while Fairy refused to surrender the two demons and Laxus fought Phantom Lord’s mages. After Aria intervened, Laxus unleashed his Lightning Dragon’s Roar, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Weir woke in Erza’s arms while Ailiya lay dead, having given Weir her life force.
• Laxus refused the old shrine maiden’s demand to surrender the demons and challenged Totomaru.
• Laxus endured Totomaru’s attacks and pierced his Seven-Colored Flames with a Lightning Spear.
• Aria intervened with Airspace: Extinction, dispelling Laxus’s Lightning Spear and protecting Totomaru.
• Laxus transformed, revealed his Lightning Dragon power, and unleashed Lightning Dragon’s Roar.

Laxus defeated Aria but recognized the old priestess as a dangerous opponent. Chiba stormed Bolunte’s manor while Mira learned that Weir believed she was destined to die by Mira’s hands and become her Demon Soul.

• Laxus erased Aria’s Lightning Dragon’s Roar, then defeated him with Lightning Dragon’s Halberd.
• The old priestess noted Laxus’s Dragon Slayer Magic and warned that he had likely reached his limit, while Laxus sensed how dangerous she was.
• Chiba arrived at Bolunte’s manor, knocked out a guard, melted the gate with lava, and called Bolunte outside.
• Mira tried to wake Ailiya, but Weir told her that Ailiya was dead.
• Weir told Mira that a man had predicted she would die at Mira’s hands and become the Demon Soul Mira used in Take Over.

Weir merged with Mira so she could kill the old shrine maiden, transforming Mira into a winged, scaled monster. Elsewhere, Chiba fought through Bolunte’s forces before Bolunte revealed that he wanted the Ten-Tails within Chiba and used Soul Swap magic.

• Weir explained that she had planned to destroy the village, the Demon Sword Crimson Sakura, and the old shrine maiden, while trying to protect Ailiya from bloodshed.
• Weir merged with Mira, whose eyes turned crimson and whose body grew sky-blue scales, wings, and a tail.
• Chiba used Shuriken Shadow Clone and Wood Release to overwhelm Bolunte’s forces until Bolunte stopped the battle.
• Bolunte showed Chiba an image of the unconscious Seele and admitted that Chiba had become his target because of the secret of his body.
• Bolunte revealed that he had taken a hidden magic from a small village and cast Soul Swap.

Chiba discovered Bolunte intended to seize his body, and the two summoned monsters for a four-on-four battle. Elsewhere, Weir used Reverse Take Over to occupy Mira’s body and fight the old shrine maiden, who unleashed Moon Sakura.

• Bolunte admitted he had lured Chiba there to take over his body and revealed that he had been watching Chiba’s power grow.
• Bolunte summoned four black monsters, while Chiba summoned the Water King, Susanoo, a Lava Behemoth, and a Wood Dragon, starting a battle between the eight creatures.
• With Laxus’s magic exhausted, the old shrine maiden realized that the dying Weir had used Reverse Take Over to seize Mira’s body in order to avenge Ailiya.
• Mira struck the old shrine maiden through a series of walls and stopped her sword-energy attack with her bare hands.
• The old shrine maiden invoked Moon Sakura, infused the Demon Sword Crimson Sakura with magic, and charged at Mira.

Chiba battled Bolunte and his Shadow Legion after the Susanoo destroyed Bolunte’s last monster, but Mangekyō backlash forced Chiba to stop using it. As his Wood Release clones began to fall, Chiba unleashed Demon Flash Heavenly Feathers and a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

• The old shrine maiden found Mira standing nearly unharmed in the crater and realized her attack had failed.
• Chiba’s Susanoo destroyed Bolunte’s final monster, but Chiba’s eyes bled from overusing his Mangekyō and the Susanoo vanished.
• Bolunte summoned a vast Shadow Legion, which overwhelmed Chiba’s Wood Release clones despite their Big Ball Rasengans and Demon Flash attacks.
• Chiba formed Demon Flash Heavenly Feathers and sent its needles sweeping toward the Shadow Legion.
• Chiba charged alongside the needles and formed a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

Chiba and Bolunte fought until both were badly wounded and exhausted, but Bolunte stood over Chiba after breaking free of his tree attack. Chiba questioned Bolunte about his motives, and Bolunte began explaining how he judged good and evil before Chiba challenged his contradictory dealings with dark guilds.

• Chiba used Demon Flash Heavenly Feathers and a blackened Rasenshuriken against Bolunte, who defended himself with Dark Shield.
• Chiba summoned a vast forest that depleted Bolunte’s shadow army, but Bolunte cut through the trees with Moon Sakura and struck Chiba with sword qi.
• Chiba survived the blow with Lava Armor and Tailed Beast Chakra, while Bolunte escaped the trees and approached him.
• Bolunte laughed that he could finally stand on equal footing with Zeref, while Chiba calmly admitted that he had exhausted his magic power and Chakra.
• Chiba asked about Bolunte’s history and absent subordinates, and Bolunte explained that he would not send his knights into a pointless battle.
• Bolunte said he judged everything by its benefits, and Chiba asked why he destroyed dark guilds while working with their members.

Chiba revealed his time-restoring Mangekyō Sharingan ability and captured Bolunte after learning about Bolunte’s motives and past. He warned Bolunte that he was likely destined to die, leaving Bolunte enraged and insisting that Soul Swap would save him.

• Bolunte told Chiba that Menair had been his wife and admitted that he had treated Tianna, Seele, and others as tools for his cultivation.
• Chiba restored himself to the condition he had been in earlier with his Mangekyō Sharingan ability, Beginning of Time, then bound Bolunte with Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.
• Bolunte warned that killing him could bring consequences for Chiba’s guild, but Chiba said Bolunte’s body could die without ending his life completely.
• Chiba recalled that Bolunte did not appear in events in the year 784 and concluded that he would likely die or lose his magic before then.
• Bolunte rejected Chiba’s prediction and roared that Soul Swap made it impossible for him to die.

Chiba defeated Bolunte and killed him after torturing him over Tianna’s death, while Feiyin and Seele joined him. Feiyin warned that the Magic Council might force Fairy Tail to disband, leaving Chiba to face the consequences of his actions.

• Bolunte transformed into a giant and attacked Chiba, but Chiba used Susanoo and the Seven-Star Sword Formation to defeat him.
• Chiba stabbed and healed Bolunte repeatedly, torturing him over Tianna’s death while questioning what would happen to the Magic Council and Fairy Tail.
• Feiyin appeared and revealed that Suomeier could not keep her and the others away, while Seele came to Chiba but retreated when he told her to stay back.
• Chiba killed Bolunte and promised to find and destroy his other body, then embraced Seele.
• Feiyin warned Chiba that killing the Magic Council’s commander-in-chief could lead to Fairy Tail’s forced disbandment.

Mira and Weir defeated the old shrine maiden, and Weir vanished after avenging Ailiya. When Chiba returned, he confessed to Mira, and the two kissed beneath the moonlight.

• Mira killed the old shrine maiden after accusing her of ruining her family’s lives, and Weir thanked Mira before disappearing into the sky.
• Chiba, Feiyin, and Seele returned to the village, where Mira reunited with Seele and told Chiba and the others what had happened.
• Chiba apologized to Mira for lying about losing his memory, but Mira revealed Feiyin had already told her the truth.
• Chiba struggled to confess his feelings, blurted out that he had killed Bolunte, then pulled Mira into a kiss.
• Mira called Chiba a pervert and a blockhead, but admitted she was glad he had not kept her waiting much longer.

After killing Bolunte, Chiba reunited with Mira and helped Fairy Tail resolve the village mission, while learning that Phantom Lord had taken the Magic Divine Crystal. The group returned to the guild, with Chiba warning that a conflict with Phantom Lord was likely.

• Mira learned Chiba had killed Bolunte, and she told him she cared about him regardless of his identity.
• Feiyin teased Chiba and Mira, while Erza and Laxus revealed that the guild had long known they liked each other.
• Chiba used Wood Release to rebuild the village, and the chief admitted the villagers had been wrong to persecute the girls.
• The chief paid Fairy Tail twelve million, and Laxus revealed that Aria and Totomaru had taken the Magic Divine Crystal for Phantom Lord.
• Chiba warned the group to prepare for a confrontation with Phantom Lord, and Fairy Tail traveled through the night back to the guild.

Chiba returned to Fairy Tail with Mira and confessed that he had killed Bolunte, commander of the Magic Council's Magic Custody Force. He offered to leave the guild to spare it from the fallout, but Makarov refused to let him go because of an outside threat, just as Lahar arrived to take Chiba in for questioning.

• Erza reported the group's job to Makarov, while Chiba and Mira reunited affectionately at the guild hall.
• Chiba told Makarov and the guild that he had killed Bolunte, and the guild members supported him rather than blaming him.
• Chiba asked to leave Fairy Tail so the guild would not suffer because of his actions, but Makarov refused his request.
• Lahar arrived with Magic Council officers and demanded that Chiba Uchiha come with them over Bolunte's murder.

After Chiba was taken into custody for killing Bolunte, Makarov rallied Fairy Tail to spread news of the arrest and seek pressure on the Magic Council. At Chiba’s hearing, he accepted that he had killed Bolunte and challenged the councilors to investigate Bolunte’s alleged ties to dark guilds.

• Chiba let Lahar’s soldiers shackle him and leave with them, while Mira, Natsu, and Erza reacted to his arrest.
• Makarov ordered the guild to publicize the arrest and Bolunte’s bad news, then sent Laxus to tell Hodrian.
• Makarov changed into his Ten Wizard Saints robes and took Mira, Erza, Seele, and Feiyin with him.
• At the Magic Council’s southern Fiore branch, Chiba faced a hearing as the councilors reviewed images of his battle with Bolunte.
• Chiba acknowledged killing Bolunte and asked whether the councilors had investigated him for colluding with dark guilds.