Chapter Summaries

Fairy Tail’s arena tournaments and publicity made the guild famous across Fiore and Ishgar, while Mirajane decided to leave her village with Lisanna and Elfman to start a new life. King Toma approved the Heartfilia Family’s plan to open the Eclipse Gate after learning their payment could fund a grand Mage tournament.

• Kirinu boasted in the infirmary that Erza was shameless for calling Ywen to help her fight.
• Fairy Tail’s tournaments and Sorcerer Magazine coverage made the guild renowned, with Kirinu becoming a popular arena celebrity.
• Mirajane read about Fairy Tail, then asked Lisanna and Elfman to leave their village with her and begin a new life.
• King Toma became eager to host a kingdom-wide or continental Mage tournament after reading about Fairy Tail’s powerful Mages.
• The finance minister told Toma that the Heartfilia Family would pay a substantial sum to open the Eclipse Gate, and Toma approved the plan.

After transforming his three forms of Haki into a single, stronger ability, Ywen received two missions from Zeref involving the Eclipse Gate and Layla Heartfilia. Ywen accepted eagerly, while Zeref set out to search for clues about God Ankhseram.

• Ywen fused Observation, Armament, and Conqueror's Haki with Aileen's help, raising his Haki to level eleven and making it an instinctive ability.
• Ywen considered how One Piece abilities scaled with their user's strength and realized he could use fusion to improve other abilities beyond their level caps.
• Zeref contacted Ywen through Thought Projection Magic and asked him to help Layla open the Eclipse Gate so Natsu and the other chosen children could reach this world safely.
• The system offered Ywen two Ten-Year Mission Medals for helping Layla gather all twelve Celestial Spirit Gate keys and bring the children through the Eclipse Gate.
• Ywen accepted Zeref's request and urged him to keep searching for information about God Ankhseram.
• Zeref ended the communication and went to investigate a ruined palace for clues about defeating God Ankhseram.

Ywen planned to visit Layla Heartfilia to discuss her preparations for the Eclipse Gate, then went to bed while Aileen let him rest undisturbed. The next morning, after Aileen and Erza made Kurnugi donate dragon scales for Erza’s armor, Ywen set off for the Heartfilia estate.

• Ywen decided to visit Layla Heartfilia and ask about her progress collecting the Twelve Zodiac Celestial Spirit keys, then returned home and fell asleep.
• Aileen and Erza stopped Kurnugi from going upstairs and began taking his scales to make Dragon Scale Armor for Erza.
• The next morning, Ywen found Kurnugi bald and crying, but Aileen assured Ywen she would handle him while Ywen went to the Heartfilia Family.
• Ywen asked the Magic Council for the Heartfilia Family’s address and flew toward their estate.

Jude and Layla Heartfilia struggled to find the missing Aquarius Key needed to open the Eclipse Gate, while Layla privately prepared to sacrifice her life if necessary. Ywen arrived at the Heartfilia manor and told Jude he had come to discuss the Eclipse Gate with Layla.

• Layla reassured Jude as they worried about being unable to contact Grammi and obtain the Aquarius Key.
• Jude promised to spend the Heartfilia Family’s wealth to gather all twelve keys, while Layla kept her willingness to sacrifice her life secret.
• A maid announced that a Fairy Tail Mage had come to see Layla, and Jude went to greet the visitor.
• Jude recognized the visitor as Ywen, the young Mage who had helped him in Fores two and a half years earlier.
• Ywen told Jude that he had come because of the Eclipse Gate and that the Heartfilia Family was not alone in its four-hundred-year inheritance.

Ywen met with Layla and Jude Heartfilia to discuss the Eclipse Gate and offered to help gather the Twelve Zodiac Celestial Spirit Keys. He revealed that he was Ywen Belserion of Fairy Tail, one of the Ten Wizard Saints, leaving Layla shocked by his identity.

• Jude brought Ywen to the Heartfilia hall and went to fetch Layla.
• Ywen told Layla that another family had also been involved in the Eclipse Gate plan and had entrusted him to help open it.
• Ywen confirmed that the Eclipse Gate required a Celestial Spirit Mage and the Twelve Zodiac keys, and Layla explained that only Aquarius's key remained unfound.
• Ywen offered to ask the Magic Council to help negotiate for the keys and to retrieve Aquarius's key from the Western Continent himself.
• Ywen introduced himself as Ywen Belserion of Fairy Tail, and Layla recognized him as the Ten Wizard Saint known as “Starfall.”

Ywen visited the Heartfilia family, where he met young Lucy and learned that she believed magic could solve the worries troubling her parents. After his simple firework display disappointed her, he encouraged her to believe that magic could be omnipotent if she followed the power of her heart.

• Layla recognized Ywen as the famous mage Starfall, and Jude recalled that Ywen had once helped recover Lucy's photograph in Fores.
• Lucy ran downstairs barefoot, greeted her parents, and asked Ywen to show her magic.
• Ywen created a firework display shaped like the Fairy Tail emblem, but Lucy dismissed it as boring.
• Lucy argued that magic should do what ordinary things could not and revealed that she hoped it would make her worried parents smile again.
• Ywen told Lucy that magic was the power of the heart and that believing in its possibilities could help her find the magic she sought.

Ywen gave Lucy’s doll Michelle a personality, hoping to inspire Lucy to pursue magic, but Lucy eagerly ran off to play with her new companion. He then learned that Layla and Jude knew almost nothing about Grammi’s location on the Western Continent, so he took her photograph and planned to seek help from Magic King August.

• Ywen read Lucy’s wish for companionship and used Personality Imbue to turn her doll Michelle into an independently thinking girl.
• Lucy ran to the garden with Michelle, ignoring Ywen’s attempt to encourage her interest in magic.
• Layla told Ywen that Grammi had been her maid and was safeguarding the Aquarius key somewhere on the Western Continent, but she and Jude knew no exact location.
• Layla found a photograph showing Grammi, and Ywen took it before agreeing to search for her himself.
• Ywen decided to contact Magic King August early and considered what identity to use when approaching him.

After leaving the Heartfilia estate, Ywen secretly gave Jude a burst of energy and headed to the Magic Council before continuing his search for Grammi in the Western Continent. At Yajima’s office, he startled Yajima by appearing without warning.

• Ywen said goodbye to Layla and Jude, then departed the Heartfilia estate while Lucy and Michelle continued playing in the garden.
• Jude ordered the servants to treat Michelle as a member of the Heartfilia Family and keep her identity secret, then returned to work with unexplained energy from Ywen’s magic.
• Ywen traveled to the Magic Council instead of going straight to the Western Continent.
• Ywen appeared in Yajima’s office while Yajima and Rob played a board game, startling Yajima and prompting him to scold Ywen for arriving unannounced.

Ywen visited the Magic Council, where Yajima agreed to help him gather the Celestial Spirit Gate keys. Ywen left for the dangerous Western Continent to find the final key, and Yajima realized the danger only after he had gone.

• Rob welcomed Ywen to the Magic Council while Yajima explained that the other councilors were sidelining him and Rob because Fairy Tail's influence had grown too strong.
• Ywen decided he would eventually forcefully take over the Council and planned to recruit Warrod Cken after returning from the Western Continent.
• Ywen asked Yajima to use the Magic Council's authority to gather the Celestial Spirit Gate keys, and Yajima agreed to contact their holders with help from Lady Layla and Mr. Jude.
• Ywen told Yajima and Rob that he was heading to the Western Continent to find the final key, then vanished in a streak of black light.
• Yajima realized where Ywen had gone, spat out his tea, and panicked about the danger he faced.

Yajima tasked Laharl and Jellal’s group with collecting the Twelve Zodiac Celestial Spirit keys for the Heartfilia Family while Ywen investigated the Western Continent. Erik heard Cubellios calling from afar and revealed news of a thirteenth Celestial Spirit key, leaving the group to consider gathering it as well.

• Yajima told Laharl that Ywen wanted him to collect the Celestial Spirit keys across Ishgar and deliver them to the Heartfilia Family.
• Laharl pledged to complete the mission and imagined that Ywen had gone alone to investigate the Alvarez Empire and protect the Magic Council.
• Jellal urged the former Oracion Seis members to help find the keys, and Sorano and Richard agreed while Erik initially refused.
• Erik heard Cubellios calling from Magnolia, then agreed to help search if he could see Cubellios; Rob approved the request.
• Erik announced that he had heard news of a thirteenth Celestial Spirit key, and Rob suggested they gather all the keys and let Ywen decide what to do when he returned.

Ywen reached the Western Continent and learned the route to the Alvarez Empire's capital from villagers after accidentally striking a mountain and melting its snow. He rewarded the villagers with slain magical beasts, then raced toward the capital, arriving within moments.

• Ywen crashed into a snow-capped mountain, triggered an avalanche, and melted the mountain's ice and snow with Enchant: Melt.
• Ywen asked villagers for directions to the Alvarez Empire's capital, and the village chief explained the route and warned him about the long, dangerous journey.
• Ywen used gravity to bring magical beasts from the mountains to the village and killed them with shots of black light.
• Ywen gave the magical beasts to the villagers, who celebrated and began dividing their meat and valuable materials.
• Ywen transformed into a streak of black light and sped toward the Alvarez Empire's capital.

Ywen traveled to the Alvarez Kingdom’s capital and confronted Magic King August to ask for help locating Grammi, the holder of Aquarius’s Celestial Spirit Key. After Ywen explained that Zeref had sent him to gather the keys, August dismissed Ajeel, who had backed down from his earlier challenge.

• Ywen used Observation Haki to find August in the royal capital and flashed into the palace.
• Ywen sensed August’s overwhelming magic power and realized he could not escape if August chose to stop him.
• Ywen asked August to help find Grammi, the final holder of a Zodiac Celestial Spirit Key, and explained Zeref’s plan for the Eclipse Gate.
• Ajeel angrily challenged Ywen, but changed his tune when Ywen invoked Zeref’s name and pressured him.
• August told Ajeel to return home, and Ajeel hurried out of the palace.

Ywen learned that August had glimpsed fragments of his memories, including Mavis’s happiness, and asked him to join Fairy Tail as its Fourth Guild Master. August declined, explaining that he could not leave Zeref alone, and the chapter ended with Ywen reflecting on August’s lonely place as Zeref’s only child.

• After Ajeel fled, August asked Ywen to explain how Zeref had assigned his mission, and Ywen questioned whether August would verify the order.
• August hinted that some truths could not be spoken aloud, then admitted he had briefly looked through Ywen’s memories and promised to keep his secrets.
• Ywen invited August to return to Fairy Tail and take Makarov’s place as its Fourth Guild Master, but August said he was grateful to have seen Mavis happy in Ywen’s memories.
• August explained that he could not leave Zeref because no one else would remain by the Emperor’s side, and Ywen understood that August worried about his father.

August used search magic to find Grammi, the former holder of Aquarius’s Celestial Spirit Key, and brought Ywen to her home. Grammi agreed to return the key to Layla, while Ywen suspected August knew more than he had admitted about the Heartfilia family.

• Ywen told August that the former key holder was Grammi, and August offered to locate her with search magic.
• August found Grammi in a village and transported himself and Ywen to her home.
• Grammi invited the two men inside, where Ywen learned that Aquarius had been playing with Grammi’s young daughter.
• Ywen explained that they had come for Aquarius’s key, and August clarified that Layla wanted to borrow it.
• Grammi agreed that Layla could take back the key, and Ywen questioned August about how much he knew of the Heartfilia family.

Ywen tried to bring Grammi and Brandish to the Ishgar Continent, while August offered to take Brandish as his apprentice. Brandish chose to stay on the Western Continent and accept August as her grandfather, and Ywen departed with Grammi after offering August a place in Fairy Tail if he ever needed one.

• Ywen invited Grammi and her family to return to the Ishgar Continent, then argued with August over whether Brandish should join Fairy Tail or remain in the Alvarez Empire.
• Ywen and August wrestled over August’s beard and traded threats until Brandish laughed at them and called them idiots.
• Brandish told Ywen she did not want to live on the Ishgar Continent long-term, then accepted August as her grandfather rather than as her master.
• Ywen accepted Brandish’s choice and set off for the Ishgar Continent with Grammi.
• Ywen told August that Fairy Tail would welcome him if he could no longer remain in the Alvarez Empire, and August said he might consider it someday.

August teleported Ywen, Grammi, and Brandish from the Western Continent to a forest on the Ishgar Continent. Ywen set off by flying carriage toward the Heartfilia Family, while his mission to lift Zeref’s curse and confront Ankhseram remained ahead.

• Ywen said he did not know how to return to Ishgar, and Grammi suggested traveling with a merchant caravan.
• August offered to use cross-continent Teleportation Magic and teleported Ywen, Grammi, and Brandish to a forest near Fiore.
• Ywen reviewed his mission to lift Zeref’s curse and eventually punch Ankhseram, then reassured Grammi that they were on Ishgar.
• Ywen used Imbue magic to build a carriage from trees and transformed two more trees into Pegasi for Brandish.
• Ywen drove Grammi and Brandish toward the Heartfilia Family in the flying Fairy Carriage.

After the Magic Council delivered several confiscated Zodiac keys to the Heartfilia Family, Layla summoned four Celestial Spirits and explained the family’s plan to open the Eclipse Gate. The Spirits swore loyalty to the family in temporary contracts, while Jude struggled with jealousy over Loke’s flirtation with Layla.

• The Magic Council delivered keys including Sagittarius, Virgo, Leo, and Aries to Jude, giving the Heartfilia Family half of the Twelve Zodiac keys.
• Layla planned to form temporary contracts with the Spirits and hoped Ywen would find Grammi and bring back Aquarius’s key.
• Layla summoned Loke, who flirted with her and kissed her hand, prompting Jude to snap two fountain pens in jealousy.
• Layla opened the gates for Virgo, Sagittarius, and Aries as well, summoning four Zodiac Spirits at once and leaving herself slightly fatigued.
• Layla told the four Spirits about the Heartfilia Family and the Eclipse Gate, and they swore loyalty to the family in temporary contracts.

Erik led Jellal and the Bad Boys Alliance to a temple where they found the key to the Ophiuchus Celestial Spirit. After the group defeated Ophiuchus, Sorano gained its key and immediately began bickering with Erik again.

• Sorano argued with Erik about collecting Celestial Spirit Keys until Jellal knocked both of them on the head and urged them onward.
• Richard sank the temple into the earth and uncovered a pale-gold key wrapped around by a giant python.
• Sorano picked up the key, summoning Ophiuchus, who challenged the person seeking a contract to a one-on-one fight.
• Jellal, Erik, Richard, and Macbeth attacked Ophiuchus together while Sawyer stayed out of the fight.
• Ophiuchus returned to the Celestial Spirit World as a key that landed in Sorano's hand, and she argued with Erik while Jellal approached them.

Layla and Jude prepared to open the Eclipse Gate with the gathered Celestial Spirit Keys while waiting for Ywen to return with Grammi. Ywen brought Grammi back to the Heartfilia estate, where she and Layla reunited in tears.

• Layla showed Jude the Ophiuchus Key and explained that they might use it as a substitute if Ywen could not find Grammi.
• Layla asked Jude about his sleeplessness, and he reassured her that he felt healthy before they were interrupted by news of Ywen's return.
• Ywen arrived at the Heartfilia estate after flying for three days and helped Grammi out of the carriage.
• Grammi rushed into Layla's arms and apologized for returning late, while Layla comforted her and said she had come back at the right time.

Ywen accompanied Brandish to the Heartfilia estate, where Lucy’s attempt to befriend Brandish led to a lecture and a spanking after Lucy admitted to swapping the family’s chicken eggs for wild bird eggs. After joining the Heartfilia family portrait and arranging to meet Layla on July 7, X777, Ywen returned to Magnolia and briefly saw Erza arguing with Mirajane before deciding to go home.

• Lucy invited Brandish to play, and Brandish gave Lucy her handkerchief after Lucy fell and dirtied her hands again.
• Brandish asked Lucy how she would survive in the wilderness, and Lucy said she would raid bird’s nests.
• Michelle revealed that Lucy had replaced the kitchen’s chicken eggs with eggs taken from bird nests, and Lucy defended her actions as helping the birds.
• Jude spanked Lucy, then Layla invited Ywen to join the family portrait with Jude, Grammi, Brandish, Lucy, and Michelle.
• Ywen stayed for a meal, arranged to meet Layla on July 7, X777, and flew back to Magnolia to check on the guild.
• Ywen opened the guild doors, saw Erza arguing with Mirajane, and turned away to go to his magic item shop.