Chapter Summaries

Erza thanked Riyao for helping her eye, and the guild debated the curse that followed changes to the future while she gave him a strawberry cake. Riyao left Magnolia to handle medical requests, still unsure what triggered the curse and wary of the goddess behind it.

• Erza bowed to Riyao in thanks, and Levy reasoned that the severity of the curse depended on how much a changed future affected people.
• Riyao proposed calling the curse the “Aha Moment,” while Makarov kept quiet about what he knew and Erza offered Riyao her strawberry cake.
• Riyao pretended to have a toothache so Erza would take the cake back, and she happily ate it while Gray and Cana tried not to laugh.
• Riyao wondered whether the curse had another trigger and privately prayed to the goddess, who angrily confronted an office worker for nearly calling her “bratty.”
• Makarov screened out many minor medical requests for Riyao, who packed his luggage, tended his garden, and left for the train station to treat patients along the way.

Riyao arrived in Crocus for a medical commission from the Fiore royal family and spent time exploring the city and its food stalls. After an awkward encounter with Ichiya, he met Jura, who warned him about monsters in the western alleys and then continued on his own commission.

• Riyao arrived in Crocus to examine an ill member of the royal family, but decided to explore and sample the city's food first.
• Ichiya clung to Riyao and asked for advice on mixing Life Magic with perfume until his disciples pulled him away.
• Riyao continued through Crocus, eating snacks as he walked through its streets.
• Riyao bumped into Jura, who thanked him for treating Lamia Scale's injured guildmates and said they had recovered.
• Jura warned Riyao to avoid the western alleys after dark because of lingering monster activity.
• Riyao said he would bring Jura food after finishing his royal commission, then went to buy honey pies and look for berry pies.

Arcadios escorted Riyao through the lavish palace to meet the king, who had summoned him to treat a mysterious, bedridden patient. Riyao remained more interested in the palace treasures than in proper etiquette as they approached the main hall.

• Arcadios summoned Riyao to the king, and Riyao hurriedly finished his pie and gathered snacks before following him.
• Riyao marveled at the palace's luxury and tried to pry gems and inspect valuable decorations while Arcadios urged him onward.
• Riyao asked who he would treat, and Arcadios said the patient had been bedridden for days despite Healing Magic and medicine.
• Arcadios reassured Riyao that the high-status patient was gentle but warned that the illness was unusual.
• Riyao boasted that he could cure nearly anything and continued eyeing and touching palace ornaments as Arcadios led him toward the main hall.

Riyao examined Prince Leo and discovered that a contagious curse and slow-acting toxin were consuming him. He suspected the attack came from a dark guild or remnants of the Magic Development Bureau, leaving King Toma pleading for a cure.

• King Toma asked Riyao to help his nephew Leo, who had been wasting away from a mysterious illness.
• Riyao used Healing Magic to examine Leo and identified a powerful curse intertwined with a slow-acting toxin.
• Riyao warned Toma and Arcadios that the curse spread through contact, and he found a faint mark on a maid who cared for Leo.
• Toma begged Riyao to cure Leo and everyone exposed to the curse, promising any price.
• Riyao suspected forbidden experimentation by a dark guild or remnants of the Magic Development Bureau.

Riyao healed Leo’s maid and suppressed the curse and poison afflicting Leo, explaining that a full cure required three treatments and rare ingredients. After the palace arranged the ingredients, Princess Hisui visited Riyao, offered help from her Celestial Spirits, and asked to observe the first treatment the next morning.

• Riyao used Healing Magic to remove the lingering poison and curse from Leo’s maid, then suppressed the curse and sealed the poison in Leo’s meridians.
• Riyao told Toma and Arcadios that Leo needed three treatments using moonlight flower petals, stardew grass juice, and obsidian powder, and Arcadios arranged to obtain them before dawn.
• Toma invited Riyao to stay at the palace and ordered a feast, which Riyao eagerly ate in a side hall.
• Princess Hisui visited Riyao and asked whether he could cure Leo; Riyao assured her that he could treat him once the ingredients arrived.
• Hisui offered her Celestial Spirits’ support, but Riyao declined and agreed to let her watch the treatment the next morning if she stayed quiet.

Riyao prepared a grape-sweet healing potion for Leo, but its eerie appearance frightened the boy until Hisui and Arcadios reassured him. Leo drank the potion, and Riyao revealed that a booger had accidentally fallen into it.

• Riyao stirred a thick purple healing potion while Arcadios watched warily and Hisui opened the curtains to brighten the room.
• Leo entered, saw the potion, and began crying in fear, so Hisui comforted him and Arcadios confirmed that it could cure him.
• Riyao teased Leo by claiming the potion could turn him into a goblin, then admitted it tasted like grapes and encouraged him to drink.
• Hisui offered to drink alongside Leo, and Leo drank the potion after tasting it.
• Riyao said a booger had accidentally fallen into the potion, prompting Hisui to shout at him.

After curing Leo, Riyao received treasure and a complete basic Enchantment Magic book from King Toma, then hurried to leave Crocus for the guild. Leo hoped to join Fairy Tail someday, while Hisui admitted Riyao had made an impression on her.

• Riyao fully healed Leo, and King Toma thanked him by offering both gold and gems and a rare Enchantment Magic book.
• Riyao accepted both rewards and imagined developing powerful new enchantments, which he named the Great Mercy and Compassion Fist.
• King Toma invited Riyao to stay for a feast, but Riyao insisted he needed to return to the guild and its sweet bread.
• Riyao demonstrated his new magic pose, nearly crashed into a bookshelf, and promised Leo, Hisui, and Arcadios future lessons and gifts.
• Riyao left with the treasure and magic book after asking King Toma to direct him to the city's honeyed berries shop.
• Leo said he wanted to join Fairy Tail someday, and Hisui smiled as she reflected on Riyao.

After finishing the king’s commission, Riyao was lured out of Crocus by Aris El, who claimed his family’s elder needed urgent healing. Riyao recognized the signs of an ambush and followed Aris toward the outskirts, unaware that a third figure planned to attack them both.

• Riyao ate at a skewer stall in Crocus when Aris El asked him to save an unconscious elder in his family.
• Riyao agreed to help, and Aris led him away from the city while secretly planning to rob him with accomplices at an abandoned mill.
• Riyao noticed the route was remote and suspected Aris was leading him into an ambush, but he continued toward the stone bridge.
• A dark figure watched Riyao and Aris from a locust tree, intending to avenge his elder brother after they had fought each other.

Riyao was ambushed by Aris and the Buried Love Family, who demanded his treasure and magic books and tried to recruit him. He activated the Hundred Battles Spell Formula and defeated the gang, leaving its members fleeing or begging for mercy.

• Aris stopped on the forest road and revealed that more than a dozen Buried Love Family members had surrounded Riyao.
• Aris demanded Riyao’s treasure and magic books and offered to recruit him into the family.
• Riyao activated the Hundred Battles Spell Formula and attacked the gang with powerful magic and fists.
• Riyao knocked down Aris and several underlings, while the rest of the Buried Love Family fled or begged for mercy.
• Riyao laughed in his own strange “geh heh heh” style as the forest filled with the gang’s screams and pleas.

Riyao was ambushed by delinquents who exploded, leaving him badly wounded and weakened by poison gas. Nibu Longra revealed himself, attacked Riyao, and transformed into a beast as Riyao prepared to face his next strike; meanwhile, Arcadios mobilized troops in the royal capital.

• The delinquents' bodies swelled and exploded, injuring Riyao and spreading poison gas that slowed his healing.
• Nibu Longra emerged from hiding, kicked Riyao into a tree, and took his Enchantment Magic book.
• Nibu explained that he wanted revenge because Riyao had beaten his brother Nildo Longra into an idiot, then attacked him with earth magic.
• Riyao used Modified Life Link on Nibu, but Nibu transformed into a fur-covered beast and charged at him.
• Nibu raised both hands to strike Riyao as Arcadios mobilized troops after the explosions near the royal city.

Riyao recovered from Nibu’s blows by removing the toxin suppressing his healing, then fought Nibu after the creature mutated into a giant beast. He began draining Nibu’s vitality with his Weight of Life magic as Arcadios hurried toward the woods, leaving Hisui and Leo behind.

• Arcadios learned that Lord Riyao had left the city with a civilian and led troops toward the woods, while Hisui and Leo were kept from joining him.
• Riyao used Purification, Dispelling, and Strength enchantments to remove the toxin, restore his injuries, and send Nibu flying.
• Riyao provoked Nibu, who lost control and transformed into a giant beast before charging into a fierce hand-to-hand fight.
• Riyao combined two magic circles and cast Weight of Life, attaching his vitality to his punches and forcing Nibu’s vitality out through his wounds.
• Arcadios rode toward the woods with his hand tight on his sword, while Hisui and Leo remained behind.

Riyao defeated and paralyzed Nibu inside the poison gas zone, then emerged and asked Arcadios for a clean uniform. Arcadios ordered one brought and Riyao cheerfully thanked him.

• Riyao changed tactics and dodged Nibu's attacks before landing repeated blows on his vital spots.
• Arcadios arrived with the magic knights, withdrew them from the poison gas, and sent a knight to the capital for a poison-neutralizing unit.
• Riyao struck the back of Nibu's neck, shattered his cervical spine, and left him paralyzed in a crater.
• Riyao left the poison zone with his magic restored and walked over to Arcadios.
• Riyao asked Arcadios for a spare uniform, and Arcadios ordered one brought.
• Riyao called Arcadios a really nice guy, making the knights hide their laughter.

Riyao escaped the aftermath of Nibu Longra’s ambush and returned to Fairy Tail, where he was immediately swept into the guild’s usual brawl. He left the others fighting after warning them that the master had arrived, but nobody believed him.

• Arcadios asked Riyao what had happened, and Riyao explained that Nibu Longra had used scene kids to kidnap him and avenge Nildo Longra.
• Riyao told Arcadios that the scene kids were dead and the poison gas would dissipate, then hurried away to avoid paying for the damage.
• Riyao returned to Magnolia, caught Gray as he flew out of the guild hall, and threw him back inside.
• Riyao entered the brawling guild hall and joked with Gray, Wakaba, Levy, and Cana before being dragged into the fight.
• Riyao warned the guild that the master had arrived, but Gray and the others dismissed him as a liar, so Riyao slipped behind the bar and watched them fight.

Makarov returned to the guild and punished the members for wrecking the hall, then called out Riyao over the destruction he had caused on a job. After joking with the guild members and brawling with Gray, Riyao left with cola to relax at his manor.

• Makarov entered the rowdy guild hall, enlarged his hand, and scolded the members for damaging the building while he was away.
• Riyao tried to blame the others, but Makarov accused him of wiping out a forest during his royal capital job.
• Riyao bragged to Gray and Cana about defeating demons and claimed the first guild master had taught him Fairy Law in a dream.
• Levy tried to peek at Riyao's magic book, so he lent it to her and tied her hair into twin tails in exchange for keeping the style for a month.
• Riyao and Gray fought after sharing chicken soup, and Makarov hit them both before ordering Macao to give Riyao chilled cola.
• Riyao teased Gray and left the guild, planning to tidy his manor and spend the day relaxing.

On July 7, X777, Riyao searched for Dragon Slayers near Magnolia but instead found Mirajane’s village and introduced himself to her and her siblings. He left them bewildered by his jokes and boasts, while Mirajane remained suspicious of him.

• Riyao searched the outskirts of Magnolia for Dragon Slayers and wondered what had triggered the curse after helping Erza.
• Riyao decided to visit Mirajane’s village and crept toward her while she watched Lisanna and Elfman gather wild fruit.
• Mirajane confronted Riyao, who first claimed he was a pilgrim seeking scriptures and then said he had come to take a dump.
• Lisanna offered Riyao a tissue, and Elfman quietly asked him to go somewhere else.
• Riyao gave his name, claimed to be Fairy Tail’s super invincible badass healing mage, and offered Lisanna candy.
• Mirajane challenged Riyao about his pilgrim story, and he flirted with her until she lost her patience.

Riyao left the Strauss siblings after paying them for a meal, then returned to Magnolia when his search for a Dragon Slayer failed. He was caught by Makarov outside a women's clothing shop just as he planned to try on a dress.

• Riyao faked an injury to get Mirajane to take him home, where he ate the Strauss siblings’ meal.
• Riyao left most of a bag of gold coins with Mirajane, Lisanna, and Elfman before tricking them and slipping away.
• Mirajane decided the siblings would keep the money for now and repay Riyao when they visited Fairy Tail in Magnolia.
• Riyao searched the mountains and streams around Magnolia for a Dragon Slayer but found no sign of one, so he headed back to the guild.
• Riyao stopped outside a women's clothing shop and prepared to try on a dress, but Makarov grabbed him and confronted him after overhearing his plan.

Riyao asked Cana to get him a dress, then met Natsu, who came to Fairy Tail looking for his dragon father, Igneel. Makarov recruited Natsu, while Riyao’s attempt to claim him as a son ended with him crashing through a wall; the chapter left Natsu and Gray on the verge of a fight.

• Riyao asked Cana to get him a dress, and Cana called him a pervert after he explained that a shopkeeper had refused to sell him one.
• Natsu burst into the guild and asked whether anyone had seen Igneel, his dragon father.
• The guild members laughed at Natsu’s claim, but Natsu insisted that Igneel had disappeared only a few days earlier.
• Makarov told Natsu that dragons had vanished centuries ago and persuaded him to join Fairy Tail.
• Riyao rushed over and declared that Natsu should be his son, so Makarov punched him through a partition wall; a kitten then scratched Riyao’s face.
• After Riyao crawled free, Natsu and Gray began squabbling face-to-face as the guild members settled in to watch.

Riyao used magic to give Natsu and Gray twin tails, then teased them and Erza while taking pictures in the guild hall. After healing Natsu and Gray, he deliberately made them react with embarrassment and photographed them again, prompting their anger.

• Riyao magically grew Natsu's hair and tied it into twin tails, making Gray laugh at him.
• Riyao gave Gray matching twin tails and photographed both men as they threatened him.
• Erza entered and broke the guild door, mistook Natsu and Gray for girls, and let Riyao tie her hair into twin tails.
• Natsu bit Riyao's calf, and Riyao joked that dog dirt had transferred onto Gray, angering him.
• Riyao healed Natsu and Gray, then took another photo as the magic made them cry out and blush.

Riyao teased Natsu and Gray, then used a new spell and Cana’s old dress to transform himself into Fairy Tail’s self-proclaimed poster girl, leaving Cana and Erza stunned. He ended the chapter admiring his feminine appearance while Cana and Erza looked him over.

• Riyao dodged Natsu and Gray’s attacks until Erza knocked them both down for fighting in the guild.
• Cana strangled Riyao with his twin tails, and Natsu and Gray joined in before the three ended up asleep on the floor.
• Riyao teased Cana about becoming her big sister, and Cana told Erza he wanted to dress as a girl and be the guild’s poster girl.
• At Cana’s apartment, Riyao used a spell to shrink himself and chose an old pink dress from her trunk.
• Riyao emerged dressed as a girl, called himself Big Sister Tequila, and declared he would be the guild’s poster girl.
• Erza struggled to call Riyao big sister while Cana laughed, and the three compared their appearances in the mirror.

With Makarov and Erza away, a brawl led by Natsu and Gray wrecked the guild, while Riyao secretly healed the fighters to prolong the spectacle. Makarov returned, uncovered Riyao’s meddling, punished the guild members, and assigned them cleanup duties under Erza’s supervision.

• Gray provoked Natsu, who tripped over Gray’s clothes and spilled Cana’s juice, starting a fight that pulled the guild members into the chaos.
• Riyao joined the brawl, then secretly healed the fighters while hiding Levy behind the bar.
• Makarov returned to find the guild in ruins and strung up and thrashed the members, while Riyao tried to avoid being caught.
• Makarov discovered Riyao had been healing everyone to keep the fight going, and Riyao was dragged out by Erza.
• Makarov lectured the guild and assigned Gray and Natsu to mop, Cana to clean tables, Riyao to take out the trash, and Erza to supervise.