Recaps

Wendy and Carla continued settling into Fairy Tail when the guild heard bells announcing Gildarts’s return after three years away on a 100-Year Quest. Lucy, Wendy, and Carla went outside to witness Magnolia rearranging itself into a path for him, and the chapter left them stunned as the street reached the guild.

• Jiang Bai checked how Wendy and Carla were adjusting to guild life, and Wendy said she was enjoying herself while Carla praised the girls’ dormitory.
• Bells rang through Magnolia, and the guild members recognized them as the signal that Gildarts had returned.
• Lucy learned that Gildarts was Cana’s father and had been away on a 100-Year Quest, which Mirajane said only Jiang Bai had completed.
• The town broadcast ordered residents to take shelter for Gildarts Mode, and Lucy, Wendy, and Carla ran outside to see what it meant.
• Magnolia’s streets and buildings shifted as the ground rearranged itself, forming a broad avenue from the town entrance to Fairy Tail.

Gildarts returned to Fairy Tail after three years away, where he revealed that he had failed his 100-Year Quest and accepted Makarov’s reassurance. Jiang Bai noticed something about Gildarts and arranged to visit him, while Gildarts left by smashing through the guild wall.

• Mirajane explained to Lucy and Wendy that Magnolia changed its layout whenever Gildarts returned because his Crush magic could destroy anything he touched.
• Gildarts arrived at the guild, greeted Mirajane and the others, and sent Natsu flying when Natsu challenged him to a fight.
• Gildarts reunited with Cana and told Makarov that he had failed the 100-Year Quest, and Makarov reassured him that returning alive mattered most.
• Jiang Bai suggested Gildarts must have encountered serious trouble, and Gildarts praised Jiang Bai for completing a 100-Year Quest before agreeing to see him later.
• Gildarts headed home by blasting through the guild wall, prompting Makarov to yell at him to use the front door.

Jiang Bai told Natsu and Gildarts that Lisanna was alive and would be brought back in two days, then stopped Natsu from rushing to confront the black dragon that had defeated Gildarts. The chapter ended with Gildarts agreeing to tell Cana about his injuries.

• Jiang Bai took Natsu and Happy to visit Gildarts, who mistakenly asked Natsu about his relationship with Lisanna.
• Natsu said Lisanna had died, but Jiang Bai corrected him and revealed that Lisanna was alive and could be brought back in two days.
• Gildarts told Natsu that he had encountered a black dragon on Mount Zonia and failed his quest because of it.
• Natsu tried to rush off to fight the dragon, but Jiang Bai immobilized him with Infinity and warned him that he was not strong enough.
• Jiang Bai urged Gildarts to tell Cana about his prosthetic limbs and scars, and Gildarts agreed.

Lucy learned that Igneel, Grandine, and Metalicana all disappeared on July 7, X777, while Jiang Bai reassured Wendy about Carla’s mood. As rain fell, Jiang Bai, Mirajane, and Elfman left the guild to pray for Lisanna’s safe return.

• Lucy asked Wendy when Grandine disappeared, and Wendy said it was July 7, X777; Natsu and Gajeel revealed Igneel and Metalicana vanished that same day.
• Lucy joked that the dragons might have held an official picnic, and Jiang Bai teased her and Natsu as they bickered.
• Carla rejected Happy’s offer of fish and flew out of the guild, with Happy chasing after her.
• Jiang Bai told Wendy that Carla had something on her mind and advised her to talk with Carla, easing Wendy’s self-reproach.
• As a storm began, Wendy went out to find Carla, while Jiang Bai, Mirajane, and Elfman left under an umbrella to pray for Lisanna’s safe return.

As Anima activated over Magnolia, Jiang Bai, Mirajane, Elfman, and the Fairy Tail guild were pulled toward Edolas. Jiang Bai stopped his own absorption and let the others vanish, leaving him poised to pursue his goal of finding Edolas.

• Gray recognized that Mirajane and Elfman were going to church on the anniversary of Lisanna's death, while Natsu kept quiet about Jiang Bai's claim that Lisanna would return.
• Wendy found Carla and encountered Mystogan, who warned her to flee because he and Jiang Bai faced danger, but she ran to the guild instead.
• Mystogan collapsed after warning Wendy, while Jiang Bai, Mirajane, and Elfman began turning into light under Anima's pull.
• Jiang Bai told Mirajane that Lisanna would be back when she woke, and Mirajane and Elfman vanished toward the vortex.
• Wendy and Carla watched Fairy Tail disintegrate into light, while Jiang Bai halted Anima's absorption of his own magic and drew the scattered light back into himself.

After Anima absorbed Fairy Tail into Edolas, Jiang Bai comforted Wendy and explained how his control of magic had kept him from being taken. Carla revealed that she and Happy had been sent to this world with a mission, and the chapter ended with Jiang Bai preparing to enter Edolas and bring back Lisanna.

• Wendy found Jiang Bai at the ruined guild, and he reassured her that everyone was safe.
• Natsu emerged from underground and learned that Anima had taken the guild and its members.
• Jiang Bai explained that his control over his magic had prevented Anima from absorbing him.
• Carla revealed that the guild had been transported to Edolas, a world running out of magic, and admitted that she and Happy had been sent with a mission.
• Jiang Bai stopped Carla from blaming herself, then agreed with Natsu that they should go to Edolas and bring everyone back.
• Jiang Bai told Natsu that it was time to bring Lisanna back.

Jiang Bai and the others crossed into Edolas, where the world’s dwindling magic power left Wendy, Natsu, Happy, and Carla unable to use their magic. After spotting the Edolas Fairy Tail guild hall, they headed toward it to find the others.

• Natsu, Happy, Wendy, Carla, and Jiang Bai entered the vortex and arrived in Edolas, a world of floating islands beneath a yellow-green sky.
• Happy and Carla lost their wings, and Jiang Bai used telekinesis to catch the falling group.
• Carla explained that Edolas’s scarce magic power and an invisible barrier prevented Earth-land mages from using magic; Jiang Bai revealed he had refused Mystogan’s offered medium.
• Wendy suggested Mystogan might have intended Jiang Bai to give the medium to the others, and Natsu laughed until Jiang Bai punched him.
• Natsu spotted the Fairy Tail emblem on a huge root-shaped building and rushed toward it with Happy, while Jiang Bai, Wendy, and Carla followed.

Natsu, Jiang Bai, Wendy, and Carla entered a parallel Fairy Tail guild where the members behaved very differently and feared Jiang Bai as a kingdom general who had never lost a battle. The chapter ended when Mirajane realized Jiang Bai was not the Jiang Bai she knew and demanded to know who he was.

• Natsu rushed into the tree-root building and found Juvia preparing for work while Gray, bundled in coats, pleaded to go with her.
• Jiang Bai recorded the guild members behaving in unfamiliar ways, including Droy and Sarukusuke scolding Elfman, Nab celebrating work, and Cana refusing wine.
• Natsu shouted that everything was wrong, and the guild members panicked when they recognized Jiang Bai as a kingdom general.
• Lucy called Jiang Bai a general who had never lost a battle, then punished Natsu for bringing him to the guild.
• Levy warned Jiang Bai that Fairy Tail would not disband or hand Mirajane over, unless he came to marry her properly.
• Jiang Bai laughed at the guild's antics, but Mirajane's expression turned cold and she accused him of pretending to be someone else.

Jiang Bai revealed that Lisanna had been pulled into Edolas from another world, where Mirajane and Elfman had mourned her for two years. Lisanna broke down and admitted she had denied the truth to spare Edolas Mirajane pain, and Edolas Mirajane comforted her as she understood.

• Edolas Mirajane accused Jiang Bai of pretending to be Xiao Bai, but he said he was Jiang Bai himself and told Lisanna it was time to go home.
• Natsu asked Lisanna if she was really Lisanna, but she denied knowing him because she did not want to hurt Edolas Mirajane.
• Jiang Bai explained that Lisanna had vanished into an Anima rift while protecting Mira and that Mira and Elfman had grieved for her for two years.
• Lisanna broke down, apologized, and confessed that she had denied the truth to spare her sister in this world.
• Edolas Elfman and the guild realized Lisanna belonged to another world, and Edolas Mirajane knelt to embrace her.

Lisanna chose to return to her family after Edolas Mirajane and Elfman urged her to go, but the Royal Army arrived before she could leave. Levy teleported the guild away, while Erza Knightwalker ordered her fleet to search for Fairy Tail after suspecting Jiang Bai was with them.

• Edolas Mirajane and Elfman encouraged Lisanna to return to her real family, and she agreed.
• This world's Levy spotted the Royal Army approaching and used a group teleportation spell to move the guild.
• Erza Knightwalker arrived at the guild’s former location with the Royal Army and found it gone.
• Knightwalker told Sugarboy she suspected Jiang Bai had been there, though he doubted her.
• Knightwalker ordered the fleet to search the airspace for Fairy Tail as Jiang Bai and the others arrived somewhere unfamiliar.

After Fairy Tail’s guild lands in Edolas, Lisanna explains that Jiang Bai Warren is a battle-hardened general who spares the guild because of his childhood sweetheart, Edolas Mirajane. Jiang Bai then asks Edolas Levy and Lucy what they plan to do now that they can no longer stay hidden.

• The guild lands hard on unfamiliar ground, and Jiang Bai stays steady using a telekinetic platform.
• Lisanna explains that Jiang Bai Warren lost his parents to a dark guild, joined the kingdom’s army, and became its undefeated general.
• Lisanna says Jiang Bai Warren repeatedly showed Fairy Tail mercy because Edolas Mirajane was there.
• Queen Lucy says she respects Jiang Bai Warren for protecting the country and suggests they might have fought beside him if the king had not branded Fairy Tail a dark guild.
• Jiang Bai asks Edolas Levy and Lucy what they plan to do now that they can no longer hide.

Jiang Bai replenished the Edolas guild's nearly depleted Magic Crystal, allowing it to keep relocating and easing tensions with the visitors. After learning that he planned to search the kingdom's capital for his companions, Queen Lucy challenged him to prove his strength.

• Levy reported that the guild had only enough magic power left for one more relocation.
• Jiang Bai touched the Magic Crystal and filled it with his own magic power, securing many more relocations for the guild.
• Lisanna explained that she could not use her internal magic power in Edolas, while Jiang Bai said the world could not restrict him.
• The Edolas guild welcomed the visitors after learning that they had come to find their missing companions.
• Edolas's Wendy met little Wendy and expressed disbelief at her counterpart's smaller size.
• Queen Lucy challenged Jiang Bai to a fight before he went to the kingdom's capital, while Happy, Natsu, and Lisanna openly doubted her chances.

Wendy revealed that Jiang Bai dated Mirajane and Erza in her world, shocking the Edolas guild and embarrassing Edolas Mirajane. Queen Lucy challenged Jiang Bai to a fight, but he effortlessly disarmed her and trapped her in a looping fall until she surrendered.

• Wendy told Queen Lucy that Jiang Bai was Mira's boyfriend in her world, and Lisanna called him her brother-in-law.
• Natsu added that Erza was also Jiang Bai's girlfriend, and Queen Lucy explained that Erza Knightwalker was the Fairy Hunter who led the Royal Army against their guild.
• Queen Lucy demanded a fight and attacked Jiang Bai with her whip.
• Jiang Bai caught the whip, pulled it from Queen Lucy's hand, and trapped her in a repeating fall through spatial holes.
• Queen Lucy became dizzy and nauseated, then surrendered.

Jiang Bai persuaded the Edolas guild to reveal the way to the kingdom, promising Mirajane he would not harm Warren. As Jiang Bai and his companions set out, Queen Lucy and the guild struggled between fear of the Royal Army and hope that he might defeat it, and Lucy secretly went after them.

• Jiang Bai dismissed the spatial cavern holding Queen Lucy, and Wendy warned that the kingdom had defeated nearly every magic guild and had its own Jiang Bai Warren.
• Jiang Bai insisted he could defeat the kingdom, and Edolas Mirajane asked him to spare Warren; he promised he would and said he admired his counterpart.
• Edolas Mirajane showed Jiang Bai and his companions the road to the kingdom, and Jiang Bai asked her to look after Lisanna before they left.
• Queen Lucy tried to reassure the guild that their replenished Magic Crystal would help them escape, but Levy and other guild members worried that their magic would eventually run out.
• Queen Lucy ran after Jiang Bai and his companions, claiming she wanted to watch the Royal Army defeat them and collect their bodies, while the guild recognized her soft-hearted concern.

Jiang Bai led Natsu, Wendy, Happy, Carla, and Queen Lucy toward the royal capital to find Mystogan and obtain the pills needed to restore Natsu’s magic. At the city gates, Jiang Bai chose to draw attention rather than disguise himself, hoping Mystogan and Gajeel would come to them.

• Jiang Bai explained that Anima’s magic crystal would take time to stabilize and that Dragon Slayer magic would be needed to safely free the guild members.
• Natsu charged a giant frog, failed to hurt it without his magic, and Jiang Bai subdued it with his Spiritual Pressure so the group could ride it.
• Queen Lucy caught up with the group, and Jiang Bai used Space Magic to teleport her onto the frog’s back.
• The group rode the frog to the royal capital, where Jiang Bai said they should cause a commotion to draw Mystogan and Gajeel out.
• Queen Lucy warned that Fairy Tail was wanted and Jiang Bai’s resemblance to Jiang Bai Warren would attract attention, but the group headed for the city anyway.

Jiang Bai led Natsu, Wendy, Queen Lucy, and the others into the city, where Edolas soldiers mistook him for their revered General Jiang Bai. After he revealed he was from Earth-land and planned to stop Anima, the soldiers turned against him and charged.

• Jiang Bai led the group through the city gate despite Queen Lucy's warnings, and the guards surrounded them.
• The captain and soldiers recognized Jiang Bai as their general and saluted him, leaving Natsu, Wendy, and the others confused.
• Jiang Bai told the captain that he was from Earth-land and had come to stop Anima.
• The captain accused Jiang Bai of impersonating the general and ordered the soldiers to seize him.
• As the soldiers charged, Jiang Bai asked whether they wanted to dance too, while Happy, Wendy, and Carla reacted to his remark.

Jiang Bai defeated the soldiers who confronted him, learned that Magnolia’s Magic Crystal was in the royal capital, and declared war on Edolas. At the palace, Jiang Bai Warren questioned the extraction of magic power as Byro taunted Erza Knightwalker about her failure to capture Fairy Tail.

• Jiang Bai used Red to scatter the charging soldiers without killing them, then learned that the Magic Crystals were in the royal capital and would be drained in five days.
• Jiang Bai declared war on the kingdom and led Natsu, Wendy, Carla, and the others farther into the city.
• At the royal capital, Erza Knightwalker, Jiang Bai Warren, Hughes, and Sugarboy looked at Magnolia’s Magic Crystal as Jiang Bai Warren wondered whether their actions were right.
• Byro confronted Erza Knightwalker and told her not to let Jiang Bai Warren’s lover in Fairy Tail tarnish her reputation as the Fairy Hunter.

Jiang Bai Warren and Erza Knightwalker confronted Byro before a messenger reported that another Jiang Bai had appeared in a frontline town and declared war on the Kingdom of Edolas. The report shook Jiang Bai Warren’s faith in the king and the plan to use Anima.

• Erza Knightwalker rebuked Byro for criticizing her, and Jiang Bai Warren threatened him into silence.
• A messenger reported that a man identical to General Jiang Bai had appeared in a frontline town and defeated its stationed troops with one move.
• The messenger said the other Jiang Bai came from Earth-land and had declared war on the Kingdom of Edolas.
• Erza Knightwalker realized the other Jiang Bai was the figure she had seen while pursuing Fairy Tail, while Byro showed interest in the news.
• Jiang Bai Warren questioned whether their actions were right and wondered if the king had been lying to him from the beginning.

King Faust ordered his forces to stop Jiang Bai after learning that the Royal Army had been defeated, while Jiang Bai continued toward the next city with his companions. Queen Lucy took Natsu and Wendy to buy magic items with gold Jiang Bai gave her, leaving him to wait for them.

• Faust dismissed the first report of Jiang Bai’s attack, then ordered Sugarboy’s and Hughes’s troops to respond after hearing the Royal Army in Moran City had been wiped out.
• Faust ordered Jiang Bai Warren and Erza Knightwalker to remain in the royal capital and guard the Magic Crystal until the impostor was captured.
• Jiang Bai led Queen Lucy, Natsu, Wendy, Happy, and Carla toward the next city, and Queen Lucy offered to take Natsu and Wendy to buy magic items.
• Jiang Bai gave Queen Lucy a large gold nugget to pay for the magic items, and she led Natsu and Wendy toward the black market.
• Jiang Bai sat on a roadside bench and waited for Queen Lucy and the others to return.

Natsu and the others equipped themselves with recovered magic gear before setting out for the next town in Edolas Natsu’s vehicle. Jiang Bai’s attempt to convince Natsu he would avoid motion sickness by driving failed, and the group stopped so Natsu could vomit.

• Natsu, Wendy, Happy, and Carla received magic equipment, while Queen Lucy worried about Jiang Bai’s use of magic.
• Queen Lucy said she had arranged a ride, and Edolas Natsu arrived in a magic four-wheel-drive vehicle.
• Jiang Bai convinced Earth-land’s Natsu that driving might prevent his motion sickness, and Queen Lucy kicked him into the vehicle.
• Edolas Natsu sped across the desert while Wendy and Happy enjoyed the ride and Natsu grew increasingly ill.
• After a sharp drift, Natsu vomited beside a rock, and Queen Lucy called for the vehicle to stop.

Jiang Bai brought his companions to the commercial city of Shika, where they found Earth-land's Lucy fleeing the Royal Army. After rescuing her, he announced that he would visit the king in the royal capital the next day.

• Edolas's Natsu became timid and apologized after the ride, while Jiang Bai filmed him before using Space Magic to leave with his companions.
• Hughes and Sugarboy arrived at the ruined town, found the defenders alive with only superficial injuries, and returned to report to Faust and Warren.
• Jiang Bai transported his companions to Shika and sensed Royal Army soldiers pursuing someone familiar.
• Earth-land's Lucy ran to Jiang Bai for help, and he used telekinesis to knock down the pursuing soldiers.
• Jiang Bai told the soldiers to inform their king that he would visit the royal capital the next day.

After regaining their magic, the Fairy Tail group split up to attack the palace and destroy Edolas’s giant Magic Crystal. Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy shattered the crystal and freed two people trapped inside, leaving the Royal Army stunned.

• Queen Lucy rushed naked from the bath after discovering that Earth-land Lucy had a smaller chest, and Earth-land Lucy dragged her back inside.
• Gajeel gave Natsu and Wendy pills that restored their magic, while Happy and Carla regained theirs after resolving their doubts about whom they wanted to protect.
• Jiang Bai assigned Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy to destroy the palace’s giant Magic Crystal and said he would visit King Faust; Gajeel agreed to join after hearing about a cat at the palace.
• Gajeel and the others reached the capital square, where Lucy and Loke fought off Royal Army soldiers as the Dragon Slayers advanced on the crystal.
• Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy struck the giant Magic Crystal with their Dragon Slayer Roars, shattering it and releasing two people from inside.

After Erza and Gray recovered, they learned that Jiang Bai had gone alone to face Edolas’s kingdom and set out to support him. Jiang Bai reached King Faust’s throne room, where he confronted his identical counterpart, Jiang Bai Warren, and discovered Warren had no knowledge of his own world’s Palace Jade Elixir Wine.

• Erza and Gray woke after being freed from the Magic Crystal, and Natsu explained how Jiang Bai had gone to challenge the kingdom alone.
• Erza ordered the Fairy Tail mages to go back up Jiang Bai, while Queen Lucy stayed behind and wished them luck.
• Jiang Bai advanced through the palace, using telekinesis to knock aside every Royal Army soldier who tried to stop him.
• In the throne room, Jiang Bai faced King Faust, Erza Knightwalker, and the Royal Army commander Jiang Bai Warren, who looked exactly like him.
• Jiang Bai asked Warren about Palace Jade Elixir Wine, and Warren’s confusion convinced Jiang Bai that his counterpart was not a transmigrator.

Jiang Bai effortlessly defeated Hughes, then accepted Jiang Bai Warren’s challenge and restricted his strength to make their fight more interesting. Warren realized Jiang Bai was holding back and angrily demanded to be taken seriously.

• Hughes insulted Jiang Bai and threatened him, so Jiang Bai vanished and beat him unconscious with a flurry of slaps.
• Jiang Bai Warren determined that Jiang Bai had moved through sheer speed rather than Space Magic.
• Jiang Bai challenged Jiang Bai Warren to a fight, and Warren accepted after ordering Erza Knightwalker to stand aside.
• Jiang Bai dodged Warren’s attacks and limited his own abilities to just below Warren’s level, turning their clash into a contest of technique.
• Warren recognized that Jiang Bai was holding back and accused him of looking down on him, but Jiang Bai said Warren could make him use more strength once he managed to beat him as he was.

Jiang Bai fought Jiang Bai Warren while holding back, proving Warren could not defeat him even at a disadvantage in strength. After Fairy Tail arrived, Jiang Bai explained how they could reverse Anima and bring everyone home, then openly kissed Erza Scarlet in response to Erza Knightwalker’s question about their relationship.

• Jiang Bai and Warren fought with close-quarters techniques until their final clash sent them sliding apart, and Warren admitted they were in trouble.
• Erza Knightwalker checked on Warren as he acknowledged Jiang Bai’s strength.
• Natsu, Gray, Erza Scarlet, Wendy, Gajeel, and Happy burst into the throne hall to help Jiang Bai.
• Erza Scarlet scolded Jiang Bai for sparring while everyone was in danger, and Jiang Bai explained that his Mental Magic was monitoring the capital and that destroying Anima would return everyone home.
• Erza Knightwalker asked about Jiang Bai and Erza Scarlet’s relationship, and Jiang Bai embraced and kissed Erza before answering.