Chapter Summaries

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.

Riyao visited Porlyusica to have her check the impure life force he had absorbed from a forest, and she gave him herbs and advice to prevent it from harming his magic. He decided to save up for land where he could cultivate plants with clean life force, then returned to Fairy Tail and joined the guild’s celebration.

• Riyao told Porlyusica that he had drawn on the forest’s life force during his mission, and she found impurities in his body that his Hundred Battles markings could only suppress for now.
• Porlyusica gave Riyao purifying herbs to take for seven days and warned him to filter outside power through his own magic before using it again.
• Riyao realized that growing special plants on his own land could provide pure life force and help replenish his magic.
• Riyao visited Magnolia Land House, found a suitable plot near Fairy Tail but could not afford its high price, and rejected a cheaper remote wasteland.
• Riyao returned to the guild, told Makarov he planned to save money for land, and joined the celebration with Cana and the others.

In X776, Riyao’s reputation as a healer kept him busy with medical commissions until a plague in Gelesa led him to uncover a dark guild’s plot. After capturing its members, he headed for their hidden base.

• Riyao used his specially cultivated purification trees to stabilize Gelesa’s plague and learned from Magic Council personnel that similar outbreaks had occurred in three other towns.
• Riyao followed the line of affected towns into the woods, where he found a magic circle designed to spread the plague.
• Riyao overheard black-robed wizards discussing their plague experiment and a ritual dedicated to Zeref.
• Riyao defeated and interrogated the wizards, learning that they belonged to the Black Light Society.
• Riyao tied up the Black Light Society members, signaled the Magic Council to collect them, and headed toward their hidden base.

Riyao was ambushed by Nildo Longra and the Black Light Society, who planned to capture him as a vessel for Lord Zeref. Riyao fought through the mages with his strength and healing magic, then charged at Nildo as the chapter ended.

• Riyao detected a large, organized group near the abandoned mine and decided to retreat for backup.
• Hidden vines sprang from the ground, and Nildo Longra revealed that he and the Black Light Society had lured Riyao into a trap to seize his body for Lord Zeref.
• Nildo ordered his mages to attack, and Riyao activated Healing Magic: Hundred Battles before charging into the crowd without using magic or plants.
• Riyao battered the black-robed mages with powerful strikes, healing rapidly as they attacked him.
• Nildo watched greedily as the mages fell, praising Riyao's body as a perfect vessel for Lord Zeref.
• After nearly defeating the crowd, Riyao charged at Nildo Longra, who gathered dark magic around himself.

Riyao fought Nildo Longra, a cyborg with black and purple wings, but struggled against his feather attacks and powerful magic. When Nildo threatened the residents of three southern towns, Riyao stopped trying to flee and continued fighting despite his injuries.

• Nildo Longra revealed his feathered wings and attacked Riyao with a barrage of explosive feathers.
• Riyao survived the blast with help from Healing Magic: Hundred Battles, then tried to escape the valley.
• Nildo Longra threatened to kill the residents of three towns if Riyao left, forcing him to turn back.
• Nildo Longra cast Dark Wing Storm, and Riyao endured the storm while taunting him.
• Nildo Longra dodged Riyao's thrown rock and demanded that he surrender to become Lord Zeref's vessel.

Riyao tricked Nildo Longra into lowering his guard, then teamed up with Laxus to capture him for the Magic Council. As they headed to the temporary camp, Riyao and Laxus traded insults, and Laxus noticed Riyao’s sunflower-patterned long johns.

• Riyao pretended to have exhausted his magic and taunted Nildo Longra into descending to capture him.
• Laxus attacked Nildo Longra from behind with Lightning Dragon's Roar, blasting apart one of his wings.
• Riyao seized the falling Nildo Longra and swung him into the ground until Laxus told him to stop because the Magic Council needed him alive.
• Riyao healed Nildo Longra enough to keep him alive, tied him up, and dragged him toward the Magic Council's temporary camp with Laxus.
• Riyao and Laxus bickered about the fight and Riyao's need for better ranged attacks, then Laxus laughed at Riyao's sunflower-patterned long johns.

Riyao captured Nildo Longra and helped the Magic Council eradicate the plague, then exchanged a tax exemption for rare seeds. Back at his Magnolia garden, he cooked river snail rice noodles while considering how to improve his combat abilities.

• Riyao delivered the concussed Nildo Longra to Raymond for interrogation and joked that the Council would have to pay for treatment.
• After the Black Light Society's base was destroyed, Riyao stayed three days to help develop medicine, and the plague was eradicated within a week.
• Raymond gave Riyao his bounty and a permanent tax-exemption certificate, but Riyao exchanged the benefit for snowfield edelweiss seeds for Porlyusica.
• On the train to Magnolia, Riyao considered learning Enchantment Magic or Take Over Magic, or acquiring a weapon to make up for his lack of offensive ability.
• Riyao returned to his garden instead of visiting Fairy Tail and cooked river snail rice noodles at home.

Riyao analyzed a sample from Nildo Longra and concluded that the modified human’s wings had grown from his body, then began exploring whether Healing Magic could mimic life. When Gray summoned him to see a new red-haired guild member with an eye problem, Riyao took eye drops and headed to the guild, expecting Erza.

• Riyao worried that Tartaros might target him, then used a magic detector to analyze the sample he had collected from Nildo Longra.
• Riyao concluded that Nildo was a different life-form whose wings had grown naturally, and he began writing about using Healing Magic for Life Mimicry.
• Gray told Riyao that Makarov wanted him to meet a new red-haired member who had an eye problem.
• Riyao took a vial of eye drops he had prepared for Erza, then left for the guild with Gray.

Riyao began treating Erza’s injured left eye after she joined the guild, using healing magic to revive the damaged tissue. As Erza felt the procedure begin without pain, Riyao remained focused on the delicate work.

• Riyao and Gray kicked in the guild doors, and Makarov threatened to deduct the repair costs from their rewards.
• Riyao met Erza and led her to the reception room to examine her eye after learning Granny Porlyusica could only offer an artificial replacement.
• Riyao removed Erza’s eyepatch, reassured her that the injury could be treated, and secretly took a photograph while she cried.
• Erza lay on the sofa as Riyao cleaned her eye socket and used healing magic to revive its optic nerve and tissue.
• Erza felt only a faint coolness, and Riyao told her to stay still while he continued the treatment.

Riyao treated Erza’s injured eye with a regenerative potion and Healing Magic, letting her sleep while it worked. As she rested, Riyao and Makarov ate noodles, but a guild brawl soon pulled Riyao into the chaos.

• Riyao poured regenerative potion into Erza’s eye socket and used Healing Magic to treat it.
• Riyao teased Erza about changing her eye color or giving her special abilities, then helped her fall asleep.
• Riyao and Makarov ate braised beef noodles while Erza slept through the treatment.
• A guild brawl erupted, and a glass mug struck Riyao, sending his face into his bowl.
• Riyao charged into the crowd to fight the two who had started the brawl while Makarov prepared to intervene if guild property was threatened.

After the guild brawl, Riyao was blamed for joining in while pretending to be innocent, and Erza thanked him for helping her. He showed Erza that one of her eyes had turned turquoise like his, and she accepted the change as pretty.

• Makarov scolded the guild members for wrecking the hall, while Gray, Macao, Wakaba, Cana, Levy, Laxus, and Warren accused Riyao of causing trouble during the brawl.
• Makarov knocked Riyao on the head for acting innocent and taking advantage of the others.
• Erza thanked Riyao, and he teased her into calling him her big brother before she punched him in the stomach.
• Riyao traded more jokes with Gray, Cana, and Levy as the guild laughed.
• Riyao showed Erza in a mirror that one of her eyes had turned turquoise, and she said the mismatched eyes looked nice.

Riyao suffered a string of humiliating accidents as the guild celebrated Gildarts's return to Magnolia. The chapter ended with Riyao slipping into a wine barrel while Gildarts tried to reassure him that good luck would follow bad.

• Riyao explained that Erza's eye had turned green because he had used too much concentrated life force to heal it, then Makarov slapped him into a wine barrel.
• Magnolia's Gildarts Mode alarm sounded, and Gildarts returned to town as Cana called out to her father.
• Gildarts ran into Riyao and sent him crashing into the bar before embracing Cana, while the guild laughed at Riyao's misfortune.
• Riyao slipped into spilled wine, fell into pastries, sneezed crumbs onto Cana, and crashed into the floor after Gray dodged him.
• Riyao tried to get water, but falling glasses and a wine bottle struck his foot, and Gildarts told him that good luck would come after bad.
• Riyao slipped again and plunged headfirst into a wine barrel as the guild roared with laughter.

Riyao escorted Erza on her first Fairy Tail job, trying to protect her while a string of mishaps kept striking him. They reached the abandoned mine, where Shadow Spiders and Ore-Devouring Giant Rats awaited.

• Riyao persuaded Makarov to let him take Erza on her first job, and Makarov approved her chosen request.
• Riyao bickered with Gildarts and Cana at the guild before leaving with Erza to clear monsters from an abandoned mine.
• On the way, Riyao narrowly avoided several mishaps, and Erza teased him about his bad luck.
• Erza's battered longsword struck Riyao in a vital spot, but he used Healing Magic to recover while Erza apologized.
• Riyao and Erza reached the pitch-black entrance of the abandoned mine.

Riyao and Erza fought through a mine full of monsters, escaped a collapse, and cleaned up at a stream before returning to the guild. After Gray accidentally knocked Riyao over at the entrance, Riyao fled home while Erza went inside to report to Makarov.

• Riyao ran from the Ore-Devouring Giant Rats and Shadow Spiders while Erza fought them, but the beasts swarmed him after Erza accidentally threw her sword past his head.
• Riyao activated the Hundred Battles Spell Formula and stomped the monsters apart, splattering himself and Erza with green fluid and triggering a cave-in that buried him under rocks.
• Erza freed Riyao from the rubble, and they laughed together before stumbling out of the mine and washing at a nearby stream.
• Riyao slipped and struck his face on a rock, giving himself a nosebleed, while Erza tried to hold back her laughter.
• Gray flew out of the guild and knocked Riyao down, prompting Riyao to run home while Erza went inside to report the request to Makarov.

After a week of strange bad luck, Riyao suspected his room was haunted, but Cana realized his misfortune had ended once he left home. The guild tried to punish him for the trouble he had caused, until Riyao retaliated with a modified spell that made everyone suffer the pain of their own beating, with Gray taking double damage.

• Riyao heard mocking laughter in his room, then rushed to the guild to ask Makarov about the apparent haunting.
• Riyao burst through the guild doors and accidentally hit Gray, spilled Erza’s strawberry cake, and disrupted Gildarts and Cana.
• Cana noticed Riyao’s bad luck had stopped since he left home, and her card reading prompted the guild members to attack him for the trouble he had caused.
• Makarov secretly helped the guild pin Riyao down, and Riyao used Healing Magic: Life Link: Modified to reflect the beating onto everyone, while Gray took double damage.

Riyao asked the guild about his unexplained bad luck, and Gildarts connected it to an ancient legend about Kainoshia, a god who governed fate. The guild realized Riyao’s misfortune had begun after he noticed strange laughter seven days earlier, then turned to Erza for an explanation of what he had done.

• Riyao showed off his modified Life Link magic, which made the guild members hurt themselves, before gathering the guild’s medical requests.
• Riyao asked Makarov whether he knew why he was suffering such bad luck, and Gildarts recalled an ancient account of a prophecy mage who was cursed after changing the future.
• Gildarts said the mage had seen a deity called Kainoshia, who governed the law of fate, and had suffered a string of accidents before dying.
• Makarov remembered that Riyao had noticed the same strange laughter seven days earlier, just before a flying mug knocked him into his noodles.
• Riyao wondered whether his bad luck was ending, while Erza suggested his healing ability had kept him alive; the guild then looked to Erza as they tried to remember what Riyao had done seven days ago.