Chapter Summaries

Feiyin healed Chiba with the remaining Magic Divine Crystal after the white dragon vanished, and Mira carried him to safety. Elsewhere, a black-robed man rescued Nuolin, but she left to return to Chiba while he disappeared.

• The white dragon gave Feiyin the remaining Magic Divine Crystal, which she merged into Chiba to heal him.
• Feiyin told Mira that Chiba had survived the dragon's power but would likely be bedridden for months.
• Laxus recognized that Chiba had transformed into the white dragon, and Mystogan and Laxus left the group.
• Mira carried Chiba toward the Magic Council's encampment, while Erza agreed to take Feiyin after Mira forgot her.
• A black-robed man revealed that he had rescued Nuolin, who left to return to Chiba despite his questions.
• The black-robed man watched Nuolin go and then vanished along with the house.

Mira brought the badly injured Chiba back to camp after a dragon attacked the battlefield, where she encountered Ultear disguised as a doctor. Ultear revealed that she had come to treat Chiba because he had once saved her life.

• Mira carried Chiba into the command tent and told Jikade that a dragon had gravely injured him.
• Mira explained that a huge white dragon had killed the attacking dragon, so Jikade called off the army's planned attack.
• Mira followed the doctor to a medical tent, where the doctor transformed into Ultear and identified herself as Chiba's master.
• Mira attacked Ultear after she teased her about being Chiba's girlfriend, but stopped when Ultear warned her not to endanger the patient.
• Chiba woke briefly and recognized Mira before Ultear greeted him, and Ultear clarified that Chiba was her benefactor and that she had come to treat him.

After learning that Grimoire Heart and Shadow Skull had allied to destroy a town, Chiba rushed to the military camp to warn Jikade that Tianna was in danger. He exposed Kangnaite’s lie by drawing Heaven's Blazing Sun against his neck.

• Ultear revealed that Grimoire Heart was working with Shadow Skull, and that their target was a nearby town whose people they planned to kill.
• Chiba summoned the Water King and raced to the military camp, believing Tianna had known her mission was dangerous and might have been trapped by Bolunte.
• Chiba told Jikade that Shadow Skull and Grimoire Heart were allied and that the town was their real target.
• A middle-aged man challenged Chiba’s information, while Kangnaite claimed Mira had reported that a dragon attacked both sides.
• Chiba drew Heaven's Blazing Sun and pressed it against Kangnaite’s neck, demanding to know when Mira had said that.

Chiba exposed Kangnaite’s deliberate concealment of the attack on Tianna and severed his arm after discovering he served Bolunte. Jikade learned that his sister faced near-annihilation, while Chiba demanded to know how Kangnaite was connected to Bolunte.

• Chiba urged Jikade to send troops to help Tianna, but Kangnaite argued that the army should continue its assault on the enemy headquarters.
• Chiba used his Sharingan on the intelligence officer, who revealed that Shadow Skull and the Earth Throne had attacked Tianna and her forces were close to being wiped out.
• Jikade seized Kangnaite after the intelligence officer identified him as the one who ordered the information hidden, and Kangnaite defended his decision as a way to protect the army’s chance at glory.
• Chiba asked about Kangnaite’s connection to Bolunte, then cut off Kangnaite’s arm and kicked him while demanding an answer.
• Chiba told Jikade to deal with Kangnaite, and Jikade explained that Bolunte targeted him and Tianna because he could not have Tianna and abused women who fell into his hands.

Chiba killed Kangnaite and led the troops toward Dragon Corpse Valley despite his severe injuries. Mira and Ultear pursued him, and Ultear warned that the Magic Divine Crystal could intensify Chiba’s rage and drive him into darkness before asking Mira if she knew his true origins.

• Jikade ordered four squads to support Tianna, and Chiba killed Kangnaite after he threatened to report him to Lord Bolunte.
• Chiba rode the Water King toward Dragon Corpse Valley with the human magic force, while black vapor curled around his bloodshot eyes.
• Mira and Ultear arrived at the position and learned from Jikade that Chiba had already departed.
• Ultear explained that Chiba was badly injured and that the Magic Divine Crystal could amplify his negative emotions and push him toward darkness.
• Ultear asked Mira whether she knew where Chiba really came from.

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.