Chapter Summaries

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.

Alili confronted Chiba over Bobbit’s death and the destruction of his village, forcing Chiba to question why he protected Ultear while fighting to save his friend. Chiba explained his choices and adapted his Ninjutsu to counter Alili’s interruptions, ending the chapter as he unleashed Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.

• Alili revealed that the Shadow Skull had killed the villagers, implanted demon factors in him, and recruited him after he survived.
• Alili accused Chiba of judging others by strength while protecting Ultear, and the two fought evenly as Chiba’s doubts left openings.
• Chiba explained why he had killed Bobbit, how Ultear had saved him, and why he would try to save Alili even if he had to kill him.
• Alili interrupted Chiba’s Hand Seals with quick magic and identified the preparation time required for some of Chiba’s Ninjutsu as a weakness.
• Chiba used one-seal Ninjutsu, outmaneuvered Alili in close combat, and began casting Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.

Chiba defeated Alili and two Shadow Skull mages, but Qilin and a group of Frog in the Pond mages ambushed him and drove a sword into his chest. Chiba used Sharingan genjutsu and the Substitution Technique to escape with Ultear and Wendy.

• Alili battered Chiba with Shadow Thirty-Six Forms, but Chiba recovered and beat him in their technique contest.
• Chiba used Earth Release and Lava Release to bury Alili and two Shadow Skull mages in a pit of lava.
• Qilin, the master of Frog in the Pond, stabbed Chiba from behind and revealed that his mages had surrounded them.
• Chiba recognized Qilin's plan to capture them, then used Sharingan genjutsu and the Substitution Technique to escape with Ultear and Wendy.

Chiba, Ultear, and Wendy evaded the Frog in the Pond for two months while rumors about Chiba turned wizards against him. In Magnolia, Mira and the Fairy Tail guild carried on without Chiba, and Erza returned with news of the wanted “Lava Monster,” unaware that the rumor concerned him.

• Qilin failed to track down Chiba, Ultear, and Wendy, then spread stories portraying Chiba as a destructive monster and drew other wizards into the hunt.
• At Fairy Tail, Natsu and Gray brawled until Mira beat them both into behaving.
• Mira privately missed Chiba while bathing, though she had become known as the formidable “Demon” Mira after joining Fairy Tail.
• Erza returned to Fairy Tail after completing three A-Class jobs, and Makarov praised her skill.
• Erza told Makarov she had brought back a wanted poster for the “Lava Monster,” a magicless monster Mira was interested in.

Mira recognized Chiba on a wanted poster and set out with Erza to find him. Meanwhile, Chiba brought Wendy to Rob and left her in his care before heading toward the danger pursuing him.

• Mira read Chiba’s wanted poster, wept with relief that he was alive, and decided to bring him back with Erza.
• Chiba recognized the abandoned village as the place where Rob would establish Cait Shelter for Wendy.
• Chiba told Wendy that he and Ultear could endanger her, then used his Sharingan to hypnotize her after she refused to leave him.
• Chiba and Ultear found Rob and asked him to take Wendy in, and Rob agreed.
• Chiba left Wendy with Rob and departed with Ultear, believing his chances of survival were slim.

After months on the run, Chiba and Ultear were cornered by a force of dark guild mages. Chiba revealed his Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and unleashed a massive attack, but an S-Class mage emerged from the flames and destroyed nearly all his Shadow Clones.

• Chiba told Ultear that their pursuers had driven them to a dead end, but urged her to flee if the situation became desperate.
• Chiba revealed that he still had a trump card as dozens of mages surrounded the Four-Pillar House.
• Chiba used Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to create a thousand clones and activated Partial Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Chiba's Shadow Clones attacked the mages with Taijutsu, Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, and Earth Dragon Bullet while other clones protected Ultear.
• An S-Class mage unleashed a powerful tornado from the sea of flames and destroyed nearly all the Shadow Clones.

Chiba fought Shadow Skull’s S-Class mage Rina while Feiyin’s volatile Chakra pushed him toward violent agitation. He devastated the guild’s mages, survived their strongest attacks, and challenged the remaining fighters to keep going.

• Rina confronted Chiba and said he was too dangerous to capture, so he would kill him instead.
• Chiba used Lava Armor and Partial Tailed Beast Transformation to clash with Rina, then countered the other mages’ attacks with fire and a Shadow Clone.
• Chiba charged into the crowd, killing a mage and punching through a muscular mage’s axe and chest.
• Shadow Skull’s water mages doused Chiba’s Lava Armor, and Rina broke through his defense with a hurricane-wreathed palm.
• Chiba’s wounds healed rapidly, and he struck Rina hard enough to send him crashing through trees before taunting the remaining mages.

Chiba defeated Rina and devastated the Shadow Skull forces, but collapsed after their final clash. Ultear killed the young man who tried to eliminate Chiba, thanked the unconscious boy, and left.

• Rina wounded Chiba with Blazing Wind Arrows, but Chiba healed and retaliated with Earth Lava, killing dozens of Shadow Skull mages.
• Rina launched Death Blazing Wind, and Chiba countered with a Tailed Beast Bomb that annihilated the surrounding forces and left Rina gravely wounded.
• Chiba released his transformations and collapsed, and Ultear returned to find him unconscious among the devastation.
• A young man appeared and moved to kill Chiba, but Ultear struck him down and froze him.
• Ultear stood beside Chiba, thanked him softly, and left.

Qilin captured Chiba and arranged a public execution, while Mira and Erza rushed to stop it after learning he had been caught. As the executioner’s sword shattered, Chiba’s fate remained uncertain.

• After Ultear left, Qilin picked up Chiba and decided to take him back and execute him publicly.
• Mira and Erza learned from a newspaper that the Lava Monster had been captured and sentenced to execution in three days, so Mira vowed to crash the execution.
• In Deli Town, Qilin announced Chiba’s execution to a large crowd and portrayed him as a dangerous criminal.
• When Qilin asked for Chiba’s last words, Chiba shouted that he would become King of the Pirates and laughed.
• Qilin ordered the executioner to strike, but the broadsword shattered before it could kill Chiba.

Chiba broke free during his public execution, but Erza Scarlet arrived and helped him escape Frog in the Pond’s control. After Mira attacked the guild’s headquarters, Qilin withdrew his wizards, leaving Erza and Chiba alone in the square.

• Chiba escaped his restraints, caused panic at the execution, and attacked the platform with a fireball as Qilin tried to kill him.
• Erza Scarlet rode through Frog in the Pond’s wizards, destroyed the burning execution platform, and confronted Qilin.
• Erza identified herself as a Fairy Tail wizard and said Mira had attacked Frog in the Pond’s headquarters.
• Qilin called off the execution and led Frog in the Pond’s wizards back to headquarters, leaving Erza and Chiba alone.

Chiba reunited with Mira after months apart and agreed to join Fairy Tail. Erza set out to bring him to the guild, while Mira's feelings for him became apparent.

• Erza introduced herself to Chiba and said Mira had attacked Frog in the Pond's rear camp and was on her way.
• Mira rushed at Chiba, knocked him off the horse, and beat him while demanding to know why he had not come to find her.
• Chiba explained that he had been hunted, and Mira accused him of getting involved with another woman.
• Erza teased Mira and Chiba about their position, then asked whether they were a couple; both denied it.
• Erza invited Chiba to join Fairy Tail, and he accepted, explaining that he was not a mage and had only temporarily defeated an S-Class Mage.