Chapter Summaries

Makarov and Jiang Bai returned to Fairy Tail’s renovated guild, where Mirajane showed the members its new facilities and uniforms. After Makarov ordered everyone to clean the chaotic hall before a Weekly Sorcerer interview, Jiang Bai escaped with Mirajane by leaving the work to Elfman.

• Mirajane gave Natsu, Lucy, and the others a tour of the expanded guild, including its pool, training ground, and new waitress uniforms.
• Jiang Bai teased Makarov about the uniforms, then refused Natsu’s request to accompany him on an S-Class Mission.
• Makarov told Jiang Bai that Weekly Sorcerer would interview him the next day and ordered the guild members to clean up.
• Makarov grabbed Natsu and used him to scrub the floor, prompting the others to start cleaning.
• Jiang Bai left with Mirajane, and Elfman agreed to clean for them as well as himself.

Makarov prepared Fairy Tail for a Weekly Sorcerer interview, but reporter Jason repeatedly ignored his planned questions in favor of the guild’s famous members. Jiang Bai arrived late in a stylish suit, charmed the guild and Jason, and left the interview confirming he was content with Erza and Mirajane as his girlfriends.

• Makarov told Mirajane to dress Jiang Bai properly for the interview, and the guild members dressed up for Jason’s arrival.
• Jason interviewed Makarov briefly, then asked Erza about her armor and whether she was Jiang Bai’s girlfriend; Erza confirmed it.
• Jason asked Lucy about her supposed training, then approached Natsu, who recognized him and punched him flying.
• Mirajane arrived without Jiang Bai and explained that he planned to make his entrance last so the others could be interviewed first.
• Jiang Bai entered in a black suit and sunglasses, stunning the guild and prompting Jason to photograph him and request an autograph.
• Jiang Bai told Jason he felt no different as one of the Ten Wizard Saints and was satisfied with Erza and Mirajane, after which Jason left delighted with the interview.

Mirajane encouraged Lucy to enter Fairy Tail’s Harvest Festival beauty pageant to earn rent money, while Laxus grew furious at insults toward the guild and decided it needed a purge. A week later, the festival pageant began with Jiang Bai and Makarov as judges, and Cana was introduced as the first contestant.

• Mirajane told Lucy that the Miss Fairy Tail pageant offered generous prize money, and Happy explained the Harvest Festival.
• Weekly Sorcerer featured Jiang Bai, drawing public admiration and prompting several wizards to mock him and Fairy Tail.
• Laxus struck the insulting wizards unconscious with lightning, then decided Fairy Tail needed a thorough purge.
• Magnolia celebrated the Harvest Festival, and Marcus opened Fairy Tail’s beauty pageant with Makarov and Jiang Bai as judges.
• Marcus introduced Cana Alberona as the pageant’s first contestant.

The Fairy Tail beauty contest continued as the contestants performed, until Jiang Bai vanished from the judges’ table after sensing a malicious magic surge backstage. He found Evergreen targeting the female contestants, and confronted Laxus and the Thunder God Tribe after Laxus intervened.

• Cana, Juvia, and Erza performed for the crowd, while Jiang Bai and Makarov scored their acts.
• Mirajane transformed into strange creatures instead of revealing a swimsuit, then said Jiang Bai had told her and Erza not to dress too revealingly.
• Jiang Bai admitted to having double standards and intimidated the audience into agreeing with him.
• As Lucy began her performance, Jiang Bai sensed hostile magic backstage and vanished from the judges’ table.
• Evergreen prepared to petrify the female contestants, but Laxus pulled her away as Blue appeared in her place.
• Jiang Bai confronted Laxus and the Thunder God Tribe, accusing them of attacking Erza and Mirajane.

Laxus launched a battle to decide Fairy Tail’s strongest, threatening the guild members turned to stone to keep Jiang Bai from interfering. Makarov allowed Jiang Bai to fight, and the guild members rushed out to confront the Thunder God Tribe, but Freed’s enchantment trapped those over eighty and the statues in the guild hall.

• Jiang Bai confronted Laxus after he attacked Erza, Mirajane, and the other female contestants backstage.
• Laxus revealed the petrified guild members and announced that Magnolia would be the battlefield for a three-hour battle to decide Fairy Tail’s strongest.
• Jiang Bai warned Makarov he would hit Laxus hard, and Makarov gave him permission to fight as long as he left Laxus alive.
• Jiang Bai urged the guild members to settle their grievances, and Natsu, Gray, and the others rushed out to find opponents.
• Makarov tried to leave but struck Freed’s enchantment, which barred people over eighty and the statues from leaving the guild hall.

As Laxus’s enchantment trapped the older Fairy Tail members inside the guild, Natsu defended the guild’s bonds while Laxus revealed his ambition to become guild master and challenged Jiang Bai. Jiang Bai tracked down Evergreen, but after overpowering her, he learned she had tied the lives of the people she petrified to her own.

• Natsu tried to leave the guild to fight Laxus but was blocked by the enchantment, and Jiang Bai told him to ask Levy to rewrite it.
• Laxus’s Thought Projection mocked Makarov and declared that he wanted the guild master position and intended to make Fairy Tail the strongest guild in Fiore.
• Natsu and Happy defended Jiang Bai’s strength, and Laxus vowed to defeat him before his projection vanished.
• Jiang Bai warned Fairy Tail’s fighters not to damage Magnolia’s property, then used Mental Detection to find Evergreen and trap her in an enchantment.
• Evergreen’s Fairy Machine Gun attack failed against Jiang Bai’s Infinity, and his spiritual pressure forced her to her knees.
• Evergreen threatened that the people she had petrified would die with her if Jiang Bai came closer.

Jiang Bai defeated Evergreen and made her faint without killing her, while the petrified guild members recovered. Freed then challenged Jiang Bai alone, determined to clear the way for Laxus's plan to purge the guild.

• Jiang Bai overwhelmed Evergreen, threatened her with a lethal spell, and stopped the spell before it struck when she fainted.
• Jiang Bai changed the spell-script to declare his victory over Evergreen, and the barrier was lifted.
• Freed learned Evergreen had lost and the Petrification Magic had been undone, but Laxus insisted on continuing his plan to transform and purge the guild.
• Freed resolved to face Jiang Bai himself, while Mirajane told Jiang Bai the petrified members had recovered.
• Freed confronted Jiang Bai and vowed to eliminate him as an obstacle to Laxus.

Mirajane unleashed Satan Soul to confront Freed after he threatened Jiang Bai, while Jiang Bai went to Magnolia Cathedral to face Laxus. Laxus activated Thunder Palace over Magnolia, and the chapter ended with Sarukusuke warning them that Makarov was in critical condition.

• Freed said he intended to kill Jiang Bai, and Mirajane transformed into Demon Mirajane with Take Over: Satan Soul.
• Jiang Bai left Mirajane to deal with Freed and went to Magnolia Cathedral to confront Laxus.
• Laxus activated Thunder Palace, summoning three hundred lightning-filled Magic Crystals over Magnolia.
• Makarov collapsed after learning Laxus had endangered the town, and the guild members rushed back as Granny Porlyusica treated him.
• Sarukusuke reached the cathedral and shouted that Makarov was in critical condition, telling Jiang Bai and Laxus to stop fighting.

Jiang Bai confronted Laxus over Makarov’s illness and the danger Laxus posed to the guild, then overwhelmed him with his immense magic power. The pressure reached the guild as Erza and Mirajane returned with defeated Bickslow and unconscious Freed.

• Jiang Bai urged Laxus to return to Makarov, but Laxus dismissed the news as a lie and claimed no one could stop him.
• Sarukusuke asked Jiang Bai about the Thunder Palace, and Jiang Bai sent him back to reassure Makarov and the guild.
• Jiang Bai criticized Laxus for taking the guild’s support for granted, dodged his attacks, and slapped him when he refused to consider the guild members’ feelings.
• Laxus unleashed his golden lightning, but Jiang Bai released overwhelming magic power that subdued the lightning and pressed down across Magnolia.
• At the guild, the members struggled under Jiang Bai’s pressure as Erza and Mirajane returned with wounded Bickslow and unconscious Freed.

Jiang Bai effortlessly defeated Laxus in the cathedral, overwhelming his magic and physical attacks. Laxus then invoked Fairy Law across Magnolia, declaring he would use it to judge Jiang Bai and the guild.

• Erza and Mirajane recognized Jiang Bai's magic pressure and reassured the guild members that everything would be fine with him there.
• Laxus charged Jiang Bai, but Jiang Bai caught his wrist and hurled him into the cathedral wall.
• Jiang Bai blocked Laxus's Lightning Dragon's Roar and casually evaded or deflected his Dragon Slayer attacks.
• Jiang Bai kicked Laxus through the cathedral wall and into the square, leaving him badly injured.
• Laxus admitted he could not match Jiang Bai's strength, then gathered magic power across Magnolia to prove his justice.
• Laxus cast Fairy Law, forming a golden sphere between his hands.

Laxus’s Fairy Law failed to harm Jiang Bai, Erza, or anyone in the guild because he did not truly regard them as enemies, and Jiang Bai defeated him. Jiang Bai returned Laxus and the Thunder God Tribe to the guild, where Freed, Bickslow, and Evergreen apologized and waited for Makarov to wake.

• Laxus unleashed Fairy Law over Magnolia, but Jiang Bai and Erza emerged unharmed, and no guild members disappeared.
• Jiang Bai explained that Fairy Law only judged people Laxus truly considered enemies, exposing his care for his comrades.
• Laxus insisted he could still fight, but Jiang Bai knocked him unconscious and learned from Erza that Makarov’s condition had stabilized.
• Jiang Bai brought Laxus back to the guild and told Erza that Makarov should deal with his grandson.
• Jiang Bai asked Elfman to fetch ointment for Freed, Bickslow, and Evergreen, then the three apologized and said they would wait for Makarov.

Jiang Bai ensured Makarov was stable, subdued the guild’s unrest, and explained that Laxus’s Fairy Law had spared the guild because Laxus did not truly consider them enemies. Porlyusica said Makarov would wake soon but warned that another crisis could endanger his health.

• Jiang Bai took the unconscious Laxus to the infirmary, where Porlyusica said Makarov was stable and would recover after waking on his own.
• Jiang Bai silenced the guild, told members to settle their disputes and pay for damaged buildings, and deferred Laxus and the Thunder God Tribe’s punishment until Makarov woke.
• Jiang Bai told Natsu that Laxus had cast Fairy Law, and Levy explained that it had harmed no guild members because Laxus did not truly see them as enemies.
• Mirajane said that poor communication could make people act in ways they did not understand.
• Porlyusica said Laxus would recover after a few days and Makarov should wake soon, but warned the guild that another stressful incident could put Makarov in greater danger.

Makarov confronted Laxus in the infirmary after the Fairy Law trial and explained how Laxus had betrayed Fairy Tail by turning it into a battlefield. After Laxus admitted his jealousy of Jiang Bai, Makarov comforted him but formally expelled him from the guild.

• Makarov woke in the infirmary and called out Laxus, who had been pretending to remain unconscious.
• Makarov told Laxus that he had endangered Magnolia and made Fairy Tail’s members fight one another with Thunder Palace.
• Laxus admitted that he had been jealous of Jiang Bai and wanted to make the guild stronger.
• Makarov explained that Jiang Bai had created nearly all his techniques himself and urged Laxus to let go of his burdens and live happily.
• Makarov formally expelled Laxus from Fairy Tail.

Makarov expelled Laxus from Fairy Tail, and Laxus accepted the punishment and prepared to leave. Makarov then announced he would step down as guild master, but Jiang Bai redirected the discussion to the guild's losses from the Fantasia Parade, leaving Makarov focused on the compensation bill.

• Makarov formally expelled Laxus from Fairy Tail, and Laxus left the hospital room after saying goodbye to his grandfather.
• Jiang Bai told the guild members that Makarov had expelled Laxus, and Laxus accepted responsibility for his actions.
• Laxus told Freed, Evergreen, and Bickslow to remain in the guild, then asked Jiang Bai to look after it.
• Makarov announced that he would leave the guild and suggested Jiang Bai as the next guild master.
• Jiang Bai reminded Makarov about the Fantasia Parade and the guild's losses, prompting Makarov to ask how much compensation would cost.

Jiang Bai persuaded Makarov and the guild to let Laxus stay in Fairy Tail and repay the damage through jobs. Laxus and the Thunder God Tribe thanked the guild, and everyone prepared for the Fantasia Parade.

• Jiang Bai told Makarov that repairing Cardia Cathedral would take about thirty years of his savings, and Makarov collapsed in despair.
• Jiang Bai proposed that Laxus stay in Fairy Tail and repay the debt by taking jobs.
• The guild members supported Laxus staying, and Jiang Bai reminded Makarov that the guild should help its family recover from mistakes.
• Makarov agreed, and Laxus and the Thunder God Tribe bowed and thanked the guild.
• Natsu teased Laxus for crying, and the guild celebrated before Jiang Bai sent everyone to prepare for the Fantasia Parade.

Fairy Tail celebrated Magnolia’s Harvest Festival with a spectacular Fantasia Parade, as its members performed magic, dance, and music for the crowds. Jiang Bai’s finale with Laxus and Freed sent the audience’s excitement soaring.

• Makarov led the parade in a clown costume, delighting the children in the crowd.
• Gray created an ice castle, and Juvia circled it with water that Gray froze into the words “Fairy Tail.”
• Natsu breathed flames into the sky to spell “Fairy Tail,” while Erza performed a sword dance in her Heaven’s Wheel Armor.
• Mirajane and Elfman performed “Beauty and the Beast,” with Elfman transformed into the Beast King’s Soul.
• Jiang Bai performed a synchronized dance with Laxus and Freed, using his Telekinesis to control their movements and Laxus’s lightning for effects.
• The crowd cheered for Fairy Tail and Jiang Bai as the parade finale reached its peak.

Makarov’s gesture helped Laxus realize the guild had never stopped considering him family, and Laxus vowed to protect Fairy Tail. Meanwhile, Ivan revealed his plans for Laxus and ordered Gajeel to spy on the guild, as Fairy Tail celebrated its victory with a feast.

• Makarov and the Fairy Tail members made Laxus’s childhood gesture, and Laxus understood that he still had a place in the family.
• Laxus thanked Jiang Bai and vowed to protect Fairy Tail and its members.
• At Raven Tail, Ivan told Gajeel that Laxus’s Dragon Slayer power came from an implanted Magic Crystal and planned to capture him and remove it for money.
• Ivan ordered Gajeel to keep spying on Fairy Tail, unaware that Gajeel had originally been sent to spy on Ivan.
• Fairy Tail began its victory feast, with Cana targeting Evergreen and the guild members challenging Laxus, Freed, and Bickslow to drink.

Gajeel told Makarov that Ivan was hiding and planned to target the Magic Crystal inside Laxus, while Jiang Bai urged Makarov to let Laxus face the threat himself. After the guild repaired the damage from the civil war, everyday life resumed, and Lucy learned why Jiang Bai was choosing a mission and how much money he considered necessary to feel secure.

• Gajeel gave Makarov the location of his son Ivan and warned that Ivan was after the Magic Crystal inside Laxus.
• Jiang Bai told Makarov that Laxus should overcome the challenge himself, and Makarov agreed to speak with him.
• The guild members repaired the damage they had caused, and Jiang Bai and Laxus agreed to split the remaining repair costs for Cardia Cathedral.
• The guild returned to its usual routine as the Thunder God Tribe began trying to fit in with the other members.
• Lucy learned that Jiang Bai had bought houses across the kingdom, including her apartment, and was seeking work after helping pay for the cathedral repairs.
• Mirajane said Jiang Bai wanted about fifty million J on hand to feel secure, leaving Lucy stunned by the amount.

Lucy learned that the dark guilds were growing active after Etherion was destroyed, and Reedus showed Fairy Tail their network and the Balam Alliance. Jiang Bai then took a Ten-Year Quest worth sixty million J, leaving the guild members impressed but unable to join him.

• Lucy joined the crowd around Reedus as he drew a chart of the dark guilds, and Mirajane explained that Etherion’s destruction had emboldened them.
• Gray and Juvia identified the Balam Alliance’s three major guilds, while the others discussed Eisenwald, Raven Tail, and Oración Seis’s six members.
• Lucy worried about the dark guilds, but Jiang Bai broke the tense mood by claiming a Ten-Year Quest.
• Lucy saw the quest’s sixty-million-J reward, and the guild members envied Jiang Bai but knew they could not accompany him.

Makarov returned to Fairy Tail and ordered Jiang Bai to lead a coalition against Oración Seis, which had begun mobilizing its forces. He selected Jiang Bai, Erza, Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Happy for the mission, and Lucy agreed after hearing that one enemy mage mistreated Celestial Spirits.

• Makarov arrived as Jiang Bai prepared to leave and told him he had a more important mission to lead.
• Makarov explained that Oración Seis was mobilizing, so Fairy Tail, Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, and Cait Shelter would form a coalition against them.
• Makarov said Oración Seis controlled many subordinate guilds and that dark guilds had been attacking legal guild members.
• Makarov chose Jiang Bai, Erza, Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Happy for the mission.
• Lucy first protested going, but Jiang Bai told her an Oración Seis Celestial Spirit Mage treated her Spirits like slaves, and Lucy resolved to join and confront her.