Chapter Summaries

Riyao played a crystal ball showing Makarov, Gildarts, and Cana secretly drinking from his wine cellar and getting tied up outside afterward. As the guild laughed at the embarrassing footage, Riyao noticed he had two crystal balls in his hands.

• Mirajane served fish soup, and Riyao, Mirajane, and Happy ate together before the guild members returned from the treasure hunt.
• Natsu brought Riyao a crystal ball containing Makarov's embarrassing past, and Erza restrained Makarov as the guild gathered to watch.
• Riyao used magic to project footage of Makarov, Gildarts, and little Cana sneaking into his wine cellar and drinking several barrels of wine.
• The footage showed Riyao tying the drunken trio together and hanging them from the Parasol Tree, where Cana vomited on Makarov and Gildarts.
• The guild laughed at the footage while Lisanna held Cana back, and Riyao noticed he had two crystal balls.

Riyao revealed a crystal ball showing childhood footage of Levy, Lisanna, and Erza learning makeup in the library, while the guild laughed at their embarrassing appearance. Levy and Lisanna relaxed after Riyao said the two remaining balls were about animals and writing, unaware of what the next reveal might show.

• Cana and Lisanna tried to grab Levy when Riyao announced he had found the remaining crystal balls.
• Riyao projected footage of young Lisanna and Levy applying makeup together in the library, then young Erza joining them.
• The three girls gave each other disastrous makeovers, prompting the guild to laugh until Gray mocked Erza and she knocked him out.
• Young Riyao appeared in the footage, secretly laughing as the girls continued drawing on their faces.
• Erza, Levy, and Lisanna charged Riyao, but stopped when he said the two remaining crystal balls were about animals and writing.
• Levy and Lisanna each decided the remaining footage could not concern them and relaxed while waiting for the others.

The crystal ball showed Freed secretly documenting Laxus’s habits and following him around as a child, exposing embarrassing details that left Freed mortified and Laxus furious. Riyao then picked up the last crystal ball to continue the treasure hunt.

• Young Laxus sent Little Natsu flying with one punch while Little Gray laughed nearby.
• Young Freed secretly watched Laxus and filled a notebook with details about his habits and daily life.
• Young Freed tried to follow Laxus into the restroom, but young Bickslow pulled him back, and Freed wrote down that Laxus had taken a huge dump.
• Young Evergreen complained about the noise from the restroom, and Erza held her back as the children dragged one another away.
• Laxus blushed and crackled with lightning while the others laughed, and Riyao picked up the last crystal ball.

Riyao showed the guild a recording of Wendy and Carla’s first visit to his estate, which revealed a string of childhood mishaps involving Gray, Happy, and Carla. After the guild laughed at the footage, Riyao slipped away with Mirajane, but Erza, Lisanna, Cana, and others set off for the estate to beat him up.

• Riyao projected a recording of Little Wendy studying with him at his estate while Little Carla rested nearby.
• Little Natsu and Happy arrived with a bundle of fish, while Little Erza went to the orchard and Riyao threw the clothes-shedding Little Gray over the fence.
• Little Happy tried to charm Little Carla with a fish, but its tail smacked her into a tree hollow, and Wendy accidentally fell on her after pulling her free.
• Carla chased Happy around the yard, and Wendy tripped and landed on Carla, making everyone in the recording and the guild laugh.
• Happy offered Carla another fish as an apology, and Carla punched him into the bar before Riyao and Mirajane quietly left the guild.
• Erza, Lisanna, Cana, and several others headed to Riyao’s estate to punish him.

Riyao brought Lucy to the Eclipse Gate as the Black Dragon hunted them, then used the collapsing timelines to return to the Fairy Tail guild hall. Lucy briefly remembered the future before the memories faded, while Riyao made a noisy entrance.

• Riyao transformed into an Azure Dragon and carried Lucy toward the Eclipse Gate while the Black Dragon pursued them.
• Riyao opened the Eclipse Gate and kicked Lucy through it, then sat with the Black Dragon as the timelines began to converge.
• Riyao used Life Magic on the Black Dragon amid the golden light as the world changed around them.
• Lucy found herself in the Fairy Tail guild hall, where her memories of the future began to fade.
• Riyao kicked open the guild doors, and Lucy scolded him for closing them just so he could kick them open.

Fairy Tail discovered that Riyao had gone missing and that the Celestial Spirit World had fallen into chaos, with the Twelve Gates of the Zodiac attacking the other spirits. Lucy and the guild members set out to investigate, though Crux could not say whether Riyao was involved.

• Mirajane found that Riyao’s crystal key had gone lifeless and could not summon him.
• Yukino and Lucy arrived at the guild, where Crux appeared injured and warned that the Twelve Gates of the Zodiac were suppressing the Celestial Spirit World while the Celestial Spirit King was missing.
• Crux said he had not seen Riyao, and Mirajane punched him back to the Celestial Spirit World after he fell asleep again.
• Gray compared Mirajane to Erza and was punched by both of them.
• Lucy led Levy and the others to search the magic library for information, and the guild members set out together.

Fairy Tail searched the magic library for information about the Celestial Spirits, but Leo arrived and claimed Riyao was about to die. After Mirajane battered Leo and the spirits escaped with the Celestial Globe, Princess Hisui offered a route to Astral Spiritus, and the group prepared to search for Riyao.

• Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel fought in the library until Erza and Mirajane’s killing intent forced them to sit quietly.
• Leo arrived with the other eleven zodiac spirits and told Mirajane that Riyao was probably about to die.
• Mirajane attacked Leo and demanded to know what had happened, while the others confronted the remaining spirits.
• Levy found a clue in Historical Donation Records and warned that the Celestial Globe could start the Liberum Freedom Ritual, but Virgo and the spirits vanished with it.
• Leo told them Riyao was trapped beside the Celestial Spirit King, and Virgo said the king was far stronger in the Celestial Spirit World.
• Princess Hisui offered to take them to Astral Spiritus, and Mirajane steadied herself before ordering everyone to hurry.

Princess Hisui and Arcadios watched the guild members challenge the Celestial Spirits to stop the Liberum Freedom Ritual, and they bet on whether Taurus would be defeated first. Elfman closed Taurus’s gate by smearing him with sweat, leaving Princess Hisui to claim a month free from her father’s control.

• Princess Hisui explained that the Liberum Freedom Ritual would free the Celestial Spirits but leave them only twelve days to live, and the group chose keys and entered their assigned gates.
• Princess Hisui bet Arcadios that Taurus would be the first to have his gate closed; Arcadios wagered that she would not make trouble for a month if she lost.
• Elfman transformed with Beast King Soul and attacked Taurus, but Taurus blocked every punch with a book while barely moving.
• Elfman’s sweat landed on Taurus, who panicked at the stain, so Elfman tackled him and rubbed sweat over his body.
• Elfman touched Taurus’s forehead with the gate-closing key, successfully shutting Taurus’s gate and ending the fight.
• Princess Hisui celebrated her victory, while Arcadios abandoned his plan for a month-long schedule for her.

Erza defeated Sagittarius by riding him and closing his gate, while Lucy endured Aquarius’s pursuit and demands in an amusement-park-like setting. Aquarius then dragged Lucy toward a towering roller coaster, leaving Lucy terrified of the ride.

• Erza entered Sagittarius’s gate and found her power suppressed, but she hit all ten distant targets with arrows.
• Erza fought Sagittarius with naginatas, then leaped onto his back, subdued him, and closed his gate with his key.
• Princess Hisui and Arcadios wondered whether the Celestial Spirits were resisting Erza only halfheartedly and might not be acting freely.
• Aquarius chased Lucy with water blasts, then demanded that Lucy make her a strawberry-and-vanilla twist ice cream.
• Aquarius ate her ice cream, grabbed Lucy, and ran toward a towering roller coaster, leaving Lucy pale with fear.

Gray broke free of the lock on his heart and danced his way through a battle with Caelum before closing Cancer’s gate, while Mirajane defeated Virgo and closed her gate. Princess Hisui secretly recorded Gray’s embarrassing dance and planned to use it to get a favor from Riyao.

• Princess Hisui recorded Gray’s dance through her crystal ball while Arcadios worried about her growing interest in Riyao.
• Cancer Caelum broke the lock on Gray’s heart, and Gray danced with an ice pole before fighting Caelum to a battle rhythm.
• Gray and Caelum performed the Dream Waltz, which froze Caelum in ice, and Gray closed Cancer’s gate in horror at what he had done.
• Princess Hisui kept the recording and decided to show it to Riyao in exchange for a favor.
• Mirajane overpowered Virgo with her ink-flame whip and Heaven-Burning Ink Flame Slayer, then closed Virgo’s gate.

Levy and Caprico competed in a rigged quiz inside the Gate of Capricorn, where wrong answers tilted Levy’s slide toward a hidden cutting machine. Levy answered the final question about who she liked, and the gate closed successfully after Caprico crashed into and destroyed the machine.

• Levy and Caprico entered a quiz-show set inside the Gate of Capricorn while Princess Hisui recorded the scene with a crystal ball outside.
• Caprico buzzed in first on the opening question, and the host tilted Levy’s slide; Levy later answered a question about Fairy Tail’s three great Super Magics correctly but lost the buzzer race.
• Levy buzzed in before the third question was finished, interrupting it, and Caprico explained that the host would not repeat it.
• Levy guessed that Riyao’s favorite sunflower-seed flavor was five-spice, but the host said it was hot and spicy, tilting her slide toward a concealed cutting machine.
• Caprico answered incorrectly when asked which Zodiac keys Lucy possessed, and Levy realized he could stand steadily on the steep slide because he was a goat.
• Levy answered the final question about who she liked, causing Caprico to fall into and destroy the cutting machine; Levy then used the key to close the Gate of Capricorn, and Princess Hisui put away her crystal ball.

Gajeel and Lily escaped Gemini's cage despite being turned into squirrels and closed Gemini's gate. Juvia recovered from severe thirst by taking Aries's water, then trapped Aries and closed her gate.

• Gemi and Mini turned Gajeel and Lily into squirrels, caged them, and humiliated Gajeel while Princess Hisui recorded the scene.
• Gajeel discovered he could still use magic and shattered the cage with Iron Dragon's Sword.
• Lily distracted Gemi and Mini, and Gajeel knocked them down and used the gate-closing key to close Gemini's gate.
• Aries taunted the dehydrated Juvia in the desert and refused to give her water.
• Juvia split Aries's water tank with Water Stream Slash and absorbed the escaping water to recover.
• Juvia trapped Aries with Water Lock and pressed the gate-closing key against her forehead to close Aries's gate.

Cana discovered that the duel against Scorpio was shaped by imagination, then used cards depicting her Fairy Tail companions to defeat him. She closed Scorpio’s gate after winning.

• Scorpio began the duel by summoning Gemini and setting a card, while Cana found her cards blank.
• Cana realized that the cards reflected what she imagined and summoned Riyao and Mirajane.
• Cana fused Riyao and Mirajane with Star Dress, and Mirajane destroyed Gemini and reduced Scorpio’s life points.
• Scorpio summoned Two-Star Leo, but Cana used Riyao’s Protection to block its attack.
• Cana used Dragon Force and Star Dress to attack Scorpio, then sacrificed Mirajane to summon Makarov and reduce Scorpio’s final life point to zero.
• Cana won the duel and used the gate-closing key to close Scorpio’s gate.

Yukino struggled against Libra while Princess Hisui investigated the newly appearing Ophiuchus gate. As new gates appeared and Natsu battled Leo, a mysterious green energy blasted Natsu and Happy out of Leo’s gate and into the sea.

• Yukino fought Libra on an unstable platform, but Libra kept her on the defensive while speaking cryptically about balance.
• Princess Hisui and Arcadios saw a thirteenth gate appear and entered Ophiuchus’s gate; a fourteenth gate bearing the Fairy Constellation appeared afterward, unnoticed.
• Natsu fought Leo with Dragon Force and urged him to remember Lucy, but Leo denied that he was the former partner Loke.
• A stream of green energy carrying Riyao’s scent struck Natsu and blasted him out of Leo’s gate, and Happy followed.
• Natsu fell into the sea.

Natsu, Wendy, Carla, and Happy fought Pisces in the sea after Natsu was blasted into the battle. They defeated the Celestial Spirits with Natsu's fire attack and Wendy's wind magic, and Carla closed Pisces's gate.

• Happy spotted Natsu sinking beneath the water, and Wendy and Carla swam to help him as Pisces attacked.
• Natsu learned that the dark green energy that had blasted him away carried Riyao's scent, then discovered that the kappa's black wave energy canceled magic.
• Natsu shared his plan with Wendy and Carla, and Wendy obscured the water with her Sky Dragon's Wing Attack while Natsu prepared a powerful fireball.
• Natsu's fireball blasted him and Pisces out of the sea, and Wendy struck the shark mother and kappa son with her modified Sky Drill, sending them crashing onto the island.
• Happy caught Natsu, and Carla used a key to close Pisces's gate.

Violent tremors shook every space, scattering Lucy and Yukino into Ophiuchus's passage, where Natsu and the others also gathered. Ophiuchus emerged from the wall and addressed someone as “nurse,” saying the group's presence made things difficult.

• The tremors shook the island and Aquarius's gate; little Aquarius closed her gate, then a wave of green energy sent Lucy into Natsu's arms.
• Yukino closed Libra's gate during the quake, but the platform split apart and she fell before green energy swept her into another space.
• Yukino landed in Ophiuchus's passage, where Princess Hisui and Arcadios were exploring and discussed the worsening tremors.
• Natsu, Mirajane, Erza, Gray, and the others joined Princess Hisui, Arcadios, and Yukino in the passage.
• Ophiuchus emerged silently from the wall, looked at a certain spot, and said that the group being gathered together made things difficult for the nurse.

Fairy Tail was attacked by Ophiuchus inside the spiral passage, which turned out to be part of a huge creature. As the passage rotated and filled with stomach acid and acid rain, the group flew onward in search of an escape.

• Natsu and Gray were seized by cables emerging from the wall, but escaped by burning and freezing them.
• Ophiuchus sent more cables after the group, then merged into the wall and made the passage rotate and grow spikes.
• Princess Hisui realized they were inside a creature, and Lucy discovered corrosive stomach acid rising across the floor.
• Erza lifted Arcadios and Princess Hisui into the air while the others used magic, cards, cats, and flight to evade the acid.
• The group sped deeper into the passage as stomach acid fell from above, and Gray made ice umbrellas to shield them from the acid rain.

Fairy Tail escaped the collapsing spiral passage by combining their attacks, then crashed into the cave outside and regrouped. Natsu could not find Riyao’s scent, and the group debated whether they were still inside Ophiuchus.

• As the passage crushed inward, Natsu used Fire Dragon's Roar to propel the group forward, and Gajeel and Wendy added their attacks to increase their speed.
• Erza and Mirajane broke through the passage wall just before it closed, allowing the Fairy Tail members to escape and crash into the cave beyond.
• Erza struck Natsu for celebrating the dangerous escape, and the injured group complained about their bruises and burns.
• Mirajane asked Natsu to search for Riyao, but he detected only a snake-like scent and said Riyao was not nearby.
• Princess Hisui and Yukino suggested the group might still be inside Ophiuchus, but Natsu insisted the smell they had noticed earlier was gone.

Natsu and the others escaped the cave by smashing through a wall and found Leo fighting near the Celestial Spirit World. As Ophiuchus began the ritual’s final step atop a gigantic mechanical serpent, Leo warned the humans to stay out of the conflict, but Natsu refused to abandon their friends.

• Natsu followed Leo’s scent to a cave wall, and Wendy combined everyone’s magic to smash it open.
• The group emerged onto a vast meteorite surrounded by stars and found Mirajane, Natsu, and Erza attacking Leo.
• Gajeel joined the fight while Lucy, Levy, Yukino, Hisui, and Arcadios watched from behind a pillar.
• Hisui noticed Ophiuchus was missing, and a giant mechanical serpent coiled around the meteorite as Ophiuchus appeared above them.
• Ophiuchus began the final step of the ritual with the Celestial Globe, while Erza attacked her and Leo blocked the swords with dark fire.
• Leo told the humans to stay out of the Celestial Spirits’ conflict, but Natsu insisted they would not leave their friends to die.

Natsu fought Leo while Erza, Mirajane, and the others failed to damage the Celestial Globe because it reflected their attacks. After Natsu’s cyan flames began draining his magic and burning a spatial node, the group heard glass shatter above them.

• Natsu ate Leo’s dark flames and gained black and cyan flames alongside his own red fire.
• Natsu battered Leo with his three-colored flames, but Leo absorbed and returned Natsu’s Fire Dragon’s Roar.
• Erza, Mirajane, and the others attacked the Celestial Globe, but it reflected every strike.
• Natsu and Leo resumed close combat, trading blows until both were driven apart.
• Natsu’s cyan flames erupted into a pillar and drained his magic as they burned a spatial node in the air.
• Lucy warned the others that Riyao’s flames were draining Natsu, and Mirajane flew back as a sound like shattering glass rang out above them.