Recaps

After a goddess accidentally killed him, a thesis-writing student was reborn as three-year-old Riyao in the Fairy Tail world with powerful healing magic. Makarov found him near Magnolia and brought him to the guild, where Riyao began a new life.

• A goddess admitted she had accidentally killed the student instead of a drunk driver and sent him to another world with healing magic.
• The student awoke as a three-year-old boy in the wilds near Magnolia and named himself Riyao.
• Makarov found Riyao, comforted him, and sensed his unusually pure magical potential.
• Riyao pretended to be lost and hungry, and Makarov offered to take him in at Fairy Tail.
• Makarov carried Riyao into Magnolia and declared that the guild would be his new home.

Riyao joined Fairy Tail and discovered that his healing magic could send people rushing to the bathroom. Makarov brought him to Porlyusica to learn medical magic, and she agreed to teach him despite his outrageous claims and clingy persuasion.

• Riyao received a Fairy Tail mark and demonstrated his healing magic, accidentally curing Makarov's constipation.
• Riyao used his magic on Gildarts and sent him running to the bathroom too.
• Makarov took Riyao to Porlyusica's treehouse and asked her to teach him healing magic.
• Riyao declared himself a former human and a child of a god, then clung to Porlyusica and begged her to teach him.
• Porlyusica agreed to teach Riyao medical knowledge and proper healing magic every afternoon, on the condition that he stop experimenting and causing trouble.

In X772, Riyao returned to Fairy Tail after five years of training with Porlyusica and turned the guild into chaos while brawling with Laxus. He recognized Cana when she came looking for Gildarts and brought her to him, leaving father and daughter face to face as Cana grew tearful.

• Porlyusica chased Riyao away after he took her herbs, and he cheerfully promised to visit again.
• Riyao reflected on how his Healing Magic had strengthened and continuously nourished his body.
• Riyao returned to the guild, fought Laxus, and sparked a brawl that Makarov ended by pinning the guild members down.
• Riyao recognized Cana outside the guild and led her to Gildarts, who was about to leave on a job.
• Gildarts complimented Cana, and she stared at him before growing tearful as he tried to comfort her.

Cana joined Fairy Tail while keeping her identity as Gildarts' daughter secret, and Riyao helped her settle into the guild. After the guild celebrated her arrival, Riyao prepared a new potion for the hungover mages.

• Cana asked Riyao to keep her parentage secret after she saw Gildarts, and he promised not to tell anyone.
• Riyao introduced Cana to Makarov, who welcomed her into Fairy Tail, and she received a black guild emblem on her lower abdomen.
• The guild held a party for Cana, while Riyao brought her pastries and fruit juice and promised to help her settle in.
• After the party, Riyao helped Cana prepare a room in the dormitory, and she went to sleep feeling she had found a home.
• Riyao returned to his laboratory and picked up a purple potion, anticipating the guild members' hangovers.

Riyao treated Macao and Wakaba’s hangovers with a painfully potent potion, then welcomed Cana to breakfast and reassured her as she settled into Fairy Tail. Makarov welcomed Cana as family, and Riyao invited her to use his inventions for pranks, leaving her feeling at home in the guild.

• Riyao forced his Sobering Potion 3.0 into Macao and Wakaba, curing their hangovers but temporarily destroying their sense of taste.
• Cana saw the potion’s effects from her dormitory window, then joined Riyao for breakfast.
• Macao and Wakaba shouted angrily at Riyao over their lost sense of taste while he insisted the potion had worked.
• Makarov checked that Cana had slept well and promised to protect her from anyone who bullied her.
• Riyao told Cana she could come to him for medicine or prank inventions, and Cana happily accepted her place in Fairy Tail.

Riyao took Cana along on his medical rounds in Magnolia and treated Uncle Thomas for a poisonous beast bite. After saving Thomas’s leg, Riyao teased Cana by offering her a dubious stamina potion, leaving her frightened as they walked back through town.

• Riyao invited Cana to join him on his house calls, and the townspeople greeted them warmly as they walked through Magnolia.
• Riyao examined Uncle Thomas and identified a Purple Poison Badger bite that had spread toxin through his leg.
• Riyao used Healing Magic, silver needles, and herbs to purge the poison and repair Thomas’s wound.
• Cana praised Riyao’s skill, and Riyao jokingly offered her a strawberry-flavored stamina enhancer that might keep her awake for three days.
• Cana refused the potion in alarm, and she and Riyao continued through the streets of Magnolia.

Riyao showed off his modified Strength of a Hundred Technique to Gildarts and challenged him to test it. As the guild watched and teased Riyao about his glowing golden markings, the fight had yet to begin.

• Riyao dragged Gildarts into the guild's backyard to test his new move.
• Laxus, Macao, Wakaba, Cana, and Makarov watched as Riyao and Gildarts faced off.
• Riyao activated the technique, revealing golden markings and runes across his body.
• Riyao asked if he looked cool, and Macao and Wakaba mocked his boast and appearance.

Riyao tested his Hundred Battles magic against Gildarts, but Gildarts struck him hard enough to break his arm and send him crashing into a wall. Riyao used the technique to heal his wounds and restore his arm, leaving the guild stunned.

• Makarov and the guild members teased Riyao about the golden light of his magic before Gildarts challenged him to show what he had developed.
• Riyao activated Hundred Battles and charged Gildarts, who met his punch with one of his own and sent him flying into a stone wall.
• Makarov scolded Gildarts for using too much force as Macao and the others rushed to check on Riyao.
• Riyao emerged from the rubble with a broken arm and other injuries, then told everyone to wait and demonstrated Hundred Battles.
• Riyao healed his cuts and regenerated his fractured arm in seconds, reassuring the guild with a grin.

After Riyao’s broken arm healed in seconds, he explained his supposed Healing Magic: Hundred Battles to the astonished Fairy Tail guild. Makarov warned him not to rely on his recovery, and the guild returned to its usual good cheer while Riyao quietly asked Gildarts to stay behind.

• Riyao’s arm healed almost instantly, shocking Cana, Makarov, Gildarts, and the guild members.
• Riyao called his ability Healing Magic: Hundred Battles and claimed it stored vitality and magic power in his guild mark to regenerate injuries.
• Riyao asked Gildarts to hit him harder in future sparring, but Makarov scolded him for risking his life.
• Gildarts praised Riyao’s potential and cautioned him not to depend on his recovery ability.
• Makarov invited everyone to celebrate with free drinks, and Riyao quietly asked Gildarts to stay behind as the others returned to the hall.

Riyao tricked Gildarts into believing he was his son, then revealed that Gildarts really had a child in the guild whom he had just seen. Gildarts tried to guess the child’s identity as Riyao slipped away.

• Riyao pulled Gildarts aside and falsely implied that Gildarts had fathered him.
• Gildarts embraced Riyao and promised to make up for neglecting him, until Riyao clarified that he was not the child.
• Gildarts raised his fist at Riyao for the prank, but stopped when Riyao insisted that Gildarts truly had a child.
• Riyao told Gildarts the child was in the guild and that he had just seen her, prompting Gildarts to recall a small figure.
• Riyao quietly made his exit while Gildarts tried to identify his child.

Gildarts recognized Cana as his daughter and, after learning that her mother was Cornelia, tearfully reunited with her in the Fairy Tail guild hall. Their reunion stunned the guild, while Riyao secretly captured the moment.

• Gildarts entered the guild hall and approached Cana, struggling to control his emotions and accidentally crushing the floor with his magic.
• Cana recognized Gildarts and nervously called him Uncle as he fell to his knees before her and apologized.
• Gildarts asked if Cana's mother was Cornelia, and Cana realized he knew the truth about her.
• Gildarts embraced Cana, called himself her Daddy, and promised never to leave her again; Cana hugged him and cried.
• Makarov and the guild members reacted with shock when they learned Cana was Gildarts's daughter, while Riyao put away his camera.

Gildarts smothered Cana with affection after their reunion, while Riyao teased him about possibly having other children and photographed his panicked reactions. Riyao’s antics sparked a brawl across the guild hall.

• Gildarts hugged Cana tightly and rubbed his stubble against her cheek until she complained.
• Gildarts promised to shave for Cana, while Riyao watched and considered how to profit from his photographs.
• Cana confronted Riyao for not warning her, and Riyao joked that Gildarts might have other children.
• Gildarts denied having any other children, but Cana’s doubts left him nervously swearing to his innocence.
• Riyao photographed Gildarts again and dodged him, then stepped on Laxus’s foot and triggered a guild-wide melee.

Riyao teased Laxus about his changed personality while Gildarts spent time with Cana at the guild. After Cana and Makarov persuaded Gildarts to resume his travels, he left money for Cana and set off on another adventure.

• Riyao provoked Laxus with comments about his father, and the two fought.
• Cana complained about Gildarts hovering over her and said she could manage on her own at the guild.
• Cana and Makarov persuaded Gildarts to leave on another journey.
• Riyao reminded Gildarts to leave Cana living expenses and jokingly requested support money for himself.
• Gildarts left money for Cana with Makarov and for Cana herself, punched Riyao into a wall, and set off into the morning sunlight.

Gray joined Fairy Tail, but learning that undoing Ur’s Iced Shell would kill her left him devastated. Riyao provoked Gray into releasing his grief, then faked being fatally wounded, easing the mood before leading Gray to the guild dorms.

• Riyao covered Cana’s eyes as Gray arrived naked and asked to join Fairy Tail, then helped him complete the membership formalities and receive an ice-blue guild emblem.
• Gray asked Makarov how to undo Iced Shell and collapsed when Makarov explained that the caster had to die.
• Gray told Riyao that Ur had sacrificed herself to save him, and Riyao called him a coward for despairing over her sacrifice.
• Gray attacked Riyao with Ice Make: Lancer, but Riyao pretended to die before revealing his healing power and getting back up.
• Riyao teased Gray about stripping off his clothes again, then led him and Cana toward the guild dorms as Gray’s spirits lifted.

Gray settled into the Fairy Tail guild and was welcomed at a party, where Levy also agreed to join. The next morning, Riyao tested a strawberry-flavored hangover potion on sleeping guild members and tried to tempt Gray with a new banana potion, sending him fleeing in terror.

• Riyao showed Gray his room and told him he could eat at the guild, while Gray thanked him before they resumed teasing each other.
• At the guild party, Riyao introduced Gray to Cana and Levy, and Levy decided to join the guild.
• The guild members celebrated late into the night, eating, drinking, and bickering.
• The next morning, Riyao secretly made Macao, Wakaba, Nab, and other sleeping members drink his strawberry-flavored hangover potion, causing them to wake up gagging and screaming.
• Riyao frightened Cana by suggesting he might make her a banana-flavored potion, then offered Gray a strange new potion after Gray slipped on pink slime.
• Gray recoiled from the potion and called Riyao a perverted poison maker as the guild began another noisy day.

Riyao reviewed his healing magic and went to the Fairy Tail guild hall to find a healing request. When Makarov stopped Gray from taking a job, Riyao taunted him into a fight, and Gray launched an ice attack as Riyao laughed.

• Riyao practiced his morning routine, then reread his notes on his custom Healing Magic: Hundred Battles.
• Riyao went to the guild hall and took a healing request from the board.
• Gray tried to take a request, but Makarov stopped him and said he was too new to go on a job.
• Riyao mocked Gray for being too weak to fight magical beasts, provoking Gray into challenging him.
• Gray cast Ice Make: Lancer and sent dozens of ice spears toward Riyao, who responded with a villainous laugh.

Riyao beat Gray with punches that hurt and healed him at the same time, then left to complete his healing commissions around Magnolia. After returning to his room with gifts from grateful townspeople, he found Cana helping herself to his snacks.

• Riyao punched Gray while using Healing Magic, leaving Gray confused by the abrupt shifts between pain and relief.
• Cana, Makarov, Macao, and Wakaba explained Riyao’s strange fighting style, and Gray vowed to stop his fists next time.
• While treating Grandma Grace and other townspeople, Riyao imagined using Gray as a summer punching bag and Natsu as a winter one.
• Riyao finished his commissions and returned to his dormitory with fruit and snacks given to him by the townspeople.
• Cana entered Riyao’s room, opened a bag of snacks, and began eating without asking.

Cana told Riyao that Gray had devised a plan to challenge him, and Riyao returned to the guild to face him. Gray’s spiked ice armor failed to stop Riyao, and the challenge turned into another guild-wide brawl.

• Cana warned Riyao that Gray planned to challenge him, while Riyao offered her a bubbling potion that she refused to drink.
• Riyao went with Cana to the guild, where Gray announced he was stronger and challenged him, despite accidentally stripping off his shirt again.
• Gray used Ice-Make: Spike Armor and taunted Riyao, who grabbed Gray by the ankle and hurled him into the crowd.
• Gray’s ice spikes injured Macao and put Wakaba in danger, while Riyao laughed and offered free healing.
• A wine glass hit Laxus, who blamed Riyao and threatened to fight him, as Magnolia residents avoided the noisy guild hall.

Riyao persuaded Makarov to let him travel beyond Magnolia, and Gray and Cana joined him after pleading for permission. The three set off for Hargeon on a safe healing request, while Riyao secretly photographed Gray and planned to use the picture to tease Juvia.

• Riyao clung to Makarov and persuaded him to let him travel, then hurried to choose a request.
• Gray and Cana copied Riyao’s pleading and convinced Makarov to let them accompany him under strict safety rules.
• Riyao chose a request to use Healing Magic on an ill noble in Hargeon, and Makarov approved the trip.
• Riyao, Gray, and Cana headed for the train station, where Cana scolded Gray for stripping and Riyao secretly photographed his embarrassment.
• Riyao tucked away the picture, planning to use it to tease Juvia when he met her.

Riyao, Gray, and Cana faced an attack by the Spectral Bone Trickster Guild aboard a train bound for Hargeon, protecting the passengers and fighting back. After the passengers escaped, Riyao engaged most of the dark mages while the remaining attackers targeted Gray and Cana.

• Riyao, Gray, and Cana enjoyed their first official job journey on a train from Magnolia toward Hargeon.
• The Spectral Bone Trickster Guild seized a carriage and threatened to kill the passengers regardless of whether they surrendered.
• Riyao activated Life Link as Gray and Cana attacked the guild members and helped the passengers flee to the rear carriages.
• Gray sealed the aisle with an ice wall while he and Cana guarded the passage, and Riyao took the other end of the carriage.
• Riyao activated Hundred Battles and fought off the guild's bone magic as several remaining mages circled around to attack Gray and Cana.

Riyao split the train carriage to stop the Spectral Bone Trickster Guild mages from attacking Gray and Cana, then fought their leader while Gray and Cana battled the lackeys. The leader sacrificed his guild members to create a Skeleton King, and the trio retreated from its attack to protect the stranded passengers.

• Riyao activated Monstrous Strength Mode and broke the train carriage in two, leaving its rear half stopped in the wilderness with Gray, Cana, and the mages.
• Riyao hurled a steel beam at the guild lackeys while Gray and Cana used ice and card magic to fend them off.
• The guild leader attacked Riyao with Bone-Make: Bone Dragon Fang, but Riyao blocked the giant bone blade.
• The leader drained his guild members' magic power and life force to create a Skeleton King that quickly recovered after Riyao shattered its ankle.
• Riyao lifted Gray and Cana and retreated beyond the wreckage to shield the passengers from the Skeleton King's stomp.

Riyao lured the Skeleton King into the forest, where Gray and Cana helped trap it, but its boss freed it by ordering it to cut off and reassemble its own lower body. As the exhausted Gray and Cana were forced out of danger, Riyao drew life force from the forest and faced the Skeleton King’s attack with a glowing fist.

• Riyao led the Skeleton King into the forest, where he uprooted trees to pin its legs while Gray iced its joints and Cana obscured its vision.
• Riyao sensed a magic circle linking him to the forest, but the villain ordered the Skeleton King to cut off and reassemble its trapped lower body.
• Riyao absorbed the forest’s life force and recovered his magic as Gray and Cana, exhausted, refused to leave him.
• Riyao picked up Gray and Cana and threw them out of the forest toward the train, telling them to wait for the Rune Knights.
• Riyao turned to meet the Skeleton King’s sweeping bone blade, striking forward with his gold-and-green glowing fist.

Riyao transformed and overwhelmed the Skeleton King, then escaped a bone cage and defeated its leader with a barrage of punches while continuously healing him. Gray and Cana watched the brutal victory in stunned disbelief.

• Riyao shattered the giant bone blade and transformed, combining the power of Hundred Battles with the forest's life force.
• Riyao battered the Skeleton King's joints while taunting its leader, who struggled to keep the giant skeleton assembled.
• The leader dispersed the Skeleton King into smaller skeleton soldiers, which buried Riyao inside a bone cage.
• Riyao smashed his way out of the cage, caught the leader, and pinned him to the ground.
• Riyao repeatedly broke the leader's bones and magic while healing him, leaving him helpless and mentally broken.
• Gray and Cana stopped in shock as they watched Riyao's victory.

After the Magic Council cleared Riyao, Gray, and Cana of responsibility for the train wreck, the three reached Hargeon and continued to their client Eker’s estate. Riyao uncovered a cursed skeleton beneath a dead patch of garden soil, suggesting Eker’s failing health was linked to the Spectral Bone Trickster Guild.

• Riyao explained that the Spectral Bone Trickster Guild had hijacked the train, and the passengers defended him, Gray, and Cana until the Rune Knights dropped the compensation claim.
• Makarov worried that Fairy Tail would have to pay for the wrecked train and destroyed forest, unaware the three had already been cleared.
• Riyao, Gray, and Cana changed their damaged clothes in Hargeon, then traveled through Eker’s estate to meet their client.
• Riyao questioned Eker about the mysterious loss of his vitality and learned that a patch of the estate’s garden had withered half a month earlier.
• Riyao, Gray, and Cana found a skeleton marked with the same bone curse as their earlier enemy beneath the dead patch of soil.

Riyao destroyed the cursed skeleton beneath Eker's estate and restored Eker's health, then returned to Fairy Tail with Gray and Cana after spending the night there. Makarov celebrated their successful mission, and the guild welcomed Riyao home.

• Riyao purified the cursed skeleton beneath the estate and used life magic to restore Eker's strength.
• Eker thanked Riyao, Gray, and Cana, hosted them overnight, and urged them to enjoy the estate's hot spring and dinner.
• The next morning, Eker served the trio breakfast before they set off for the Fairy Tail guild in Magnolia.
• Cana announced their successful mission at the guild, and Riyao explained that the Spectral Bone Trickster Guild remnants had been responsible for the trouble.
• Gray told Makarov that Eker had paid them double for defeating the spirit-draining skeleton, and Makarov celebrated Riyao's first job away from home with a feast.