Chapter Summaries

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.

Chiba played a recording proving Bolunte had sought his body to gain power comparable to Zeref, then learned the Magic Council wanted him to replace Bolunte as commander of the Magic Custody Force. He agreed to join only if he could remain in Fairy Tail, and challenged the chairman to find a Ten Wizard Saints-level wizard instead.

• Chiba played a recording of Bolunte saying he wanted Chiba's body so he could stand alongside Zeref.
• The chairman told Chiba the council would not punish him, but explained that his arrest had been meant to appease the Magic Force after he killed Bolunte.
• The chairman offered Chiba command of the Magic Custody Force and asked him to leave Fairy Tail.
• Chiba refused to leave Fairy Tail, and the chairman proposed that he keep his guild mark but publicly announce that he had left the guild.
• Chiba reluctantly accepted the post but said the chairman could find a Ten Wizard Saints-level wizard to command the force instead.