Chapter Summaries

The Mastermind and Cobra tried to seize Nirvana, but the arriving Christina and the gathered allies disrupted their plans. The Mastermind began releasing Nirvana as the others assembled aboard Christina, where a chaotic reunion left the Emperor and several others battered.

• Natsu arrived and confronted Prince Jellal, while Cobra struck Jellal and the Mastermind disabled Jellal's linked destruction array.
• The Mastermind learned that Midnight and Racer had been defeated and Angel and Hot Eye had betrayed the Oración Seis, but he pressed on to release Nirvana.
• Christina arrived with Wendy and Erza, prompting the Mastermind and Cobra to hurry their attempt to take control of Nirvana.
• The gathered allies recognized Christina and suspected that a magical copy had replaced the ship they saw earlier, then traveled aboard it to meet the others.
• Pink Ball sent Gray flying into Christina's cabin, and the Emperor arrived after being launched through the air with Ren, Iffy, and Natsu caught up in the mishap.
• Irene struck the Emperor for flirting with Yukino, while the Emperor and Golden Mask traded barbs about concern and training.

The Emperor and Irene argued over his flirtatious behavior while the crew's brawl aboard Christina ended when they discovered Nirvana had disappeared. They learned Nirvana was heading for Cat's Inn, and Christina shielded the guild from its attack.

• Irene confronted the Emperor about his flirtation with the women in their party, and he apologized before they performed a Kaba Symphony in front of everyone.
• Pink Ball's antics caused Gray, Kana, Natsu, Lucy, and others to fight aboard Christina, while Erza and Jellal rolled back into the cabin.
• Happy spotted that Nirvana had vanished, and Sordil revealed that Cat's Inn's members were Nirvit, the tribe that created Nirvana.
• Nirvana reached Cat's Inn and fired a massive blast at the guild, but Christina intercepted it and rescued Robinsru and the guild members.

The Christina crew learned how to disable Nirvana by destroying its six Magic Crystals simultaneously and organized teams to attack them. As they prepared to land, Angel warned that the Mastermind’s sealed second personality, Chairman Wu, wanted to destroy all life.

• The Emperor and Irene argued over whether they could join the landing operation, so Athena knocked them unconscious and carried them into the cabin.
• Hibiki explained that Nirvana drew power through six tentacles and would stop working if all six Magic Crystals were destroyed at once.
• Angel revealed that the Oración Seis served as seals suppressing Chairman Wu, the Mastermind’s more destructive personality.
• The mages divided into teams and assigned themselves Magic Crystals, while Lucy, Wendy, and others stayed back or took support roles.
• Jellal asked Simon’s group for a chance to atone, but they refused to work with him, so Pink Ball invited him to join her group.
• Hibiki announced that the teams were ready to begin the operation.

Erza and the others set out to destroy Nirvana’s six Magic Crystals while His Majesty the Emperor received a report about Albares and sent Iron Blue Mask to seek reinforcements. In passage six, Pink Ball and Jellal confronted Cobra, and Pink Ball unleashed a massive battleship attack that shook Nirvana.

• Lazy God created sky stairways so Erza and the others could reach their assigned Magic Crystals.
• Iron Blue Mask reported Albares’s infiltration and heavy losses to the intelligence network, and His Majesty the Emperor sent him to find Tingmei for reinforcements.
• Pink Ball revealed that Cobra was waiting at Magic Crystal Six as her final test, while Jellal was ordered not to intervene unless she faced a life-or-death crisis.
• Pink Ball and Cobra exchanged attacks, with Cobra swallowing her copied roar and retaliating with Poison Dragon’s Scale-Tooth.
• Pink Ball summoned a battleship with Memory Shape-Making and fired a massive beam at Cobra and the Magic Crystal, shaking all of Nirvana.

Pink Blue Team defeated Cobra and Cerberus, while Fairy Tail's strongest team brought Brain down after a coordinated attack. Brain then revealed Chairman Wu, who opened a rift with Genesis Zero and unleashed hostile souls as Erza prepared to face them.

• Prince Jellal and the blue-haired boy trapped Cobra in a rain of golden swords while a flaming-fist boy struck the giant snake, and Pink Ball's team subdued both opponents.
• Crimson led Fairy Tail's group out of Passage Number One, where they encountered Brain and his forces.
• Erza and her companions coordinated their attacks to break through Brain's defenses and knock him down.
• Brain's eyes turned blood-red as he rose again and revealed Chairman Wu, who unleashed Genesis Zero and tore open a spatial rift.
• Erza equipped a shield and spear; the shield glowed against the approaching souls while the spear pinned itself to the rift.

Viola and the others defeated Chairman Wu, while Hibiki coordinated the destruction of the Magic Crystals that supported the giant spider. The guild members regrouped after the spider fell, and Mind Talk confirmed that Kornech and Jellal had returned safely to Christina.

• Viola punched Chairman Wu, and Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Taurus, and Happy each attacked him until Happy confirmed he was alive but unconscious.
• Hibiki received reports that Erza and Kornech had defeated Chairman Wu and Cobra, then ordered Ichiya and the others to move against the Magic Crystals.
• Ichiya used Power Parfume: MAX to destroy Magic Crystal No. 3, while the other teams prepared their assault.
• Six explosions struck at once, destroying the Magic Crystals and causing the giant spider to collapse; Lazy God and the others hurried down to check on Erza's team.
• Erza reunited with Natsu, Happy, Gray, and Viola, and Lazy God promised to teach Ichiya a better finishing move after the battle.
• His Majesty the Emperor agreed to let Leon and Jelly study at the Royal Magic Academy, Simon and the others emerged safely, and Mind Talk confirmed that Kornech and Jellal had returned to Christina.

As the group prepared to leave on Christina, the Magic Council’s Fourth Restraint Force and the Fiore Royal Army arrived. His Majesty Sordil subdued the Council force, allowed Angel and Hot Eye to say goodbye, and then teleported the Council party away before departing with the others.

• Ichiya explained how the Space Magic Crystal worked, and Angel declined her sister’s offer to keep one.
• A hidden spell blocked the gangplank to Christina, and His Majesty Sordil warned Woolie and Angel that the Magic Council had arrived.
• Arcadius and the Royal Army greeted Sordil and Irene, while Sordil forced Bunny Head and the Fourth Restraint Force to kneel.
• Arcadius explained that the Council force had come to arrest Grimoire Heart, and Sordil made them wait while Angel and Hot Eye said goodbye before they were taken away.
• Sordil teleported Bunny Head and the Council force away, then returned to his relaxed manner and boarded Christina with Irene, Erza, and Kana.
• The others hurried onto Christina, which departed with a roar.

Lazy God left a hidden safeguard for the guild members, while Robinsru prepared to pass on his promise before leaving. After a chaotic clothing prank, the group gathered in the village square, where Lazy God revealed the ancient magic of Spirit Summoning.

• Lazy God admitted to Irene that he had left the guild members a trump card in case the Magic Council threatened them.
• Irene and the others dressed Erza, Lucy, Jelly, and the guild members in cute outfits, prompting the women to flee and protest.
• Robinsru told Lazy God that he planned to leave and entrust his heavy promise to someone more capable, and Lazy God agreed to handle it as a greeting gift.
• Sherry summoned Wendy and the others to the square, where Robinsru had an important announcement to make.
• Lazy God revealed that the magic array he was drawing was Spirit Summoning, an ancient magic that used the remains of the dead to bring them back from the underworld.

Sordil summoned Chairman Robinsru and the deceased members of Cat's Inn from the underworld so they could say goodbye to Wendy and Sherry. Robinsru revealed the village's history and entrusted the two girls to their living companions before the summoned group departed.

• Sordil completed the Spirit Summoning array, and the Lord of All Souls demanded a sacrifice before letting Robinsru and the others pass through the gate.
• Robinsru explained that the Nirvit Tribe created Nirvana four hundred years earlier, suffered its backlash, and later settled near the sealed city.
• Robinsru revealed that Jellal had brought Wendy to the village seven years earlier and that Sordil discovered the truth about him during a visit five years ago.
• Robinsru told Wendy and Sherry that the Cat's Inn guild they knew was made of Thought Bodies, while the people gathered before them were real members of the Nirvit Tribe.
• Robinsru comforted Wendy and Sherry, entrusted them to Ichiya and the others, and led them to say goodbye to the departing villagers.

Aboard a passenger ship, Irene beat Pink Ball after the girl joked about her being a cross-dressing big shot. In Philiers, the Emperor investigated a treasury theft, recognized the stolen Phoenix Stone, and decided to use Eclairea’s likely arrival in Fairy Tail to draw out his enemies; the chapter ended with the Ice Dragon King asking where Irene and Pink Ball were.

• Pink Ball joked about Irene being a cross-dressing big shot, and Irene chased her while Cole and the others fled or stayed out of the family dispute.
• In Philiers, the Emperor heard reports from his ministers and learned that the palace treasury had been robbed.
• The Emperor reprimanded Heradi and Seraf after discovering that thieves had stolen a stone tablet from the treasury.
• The Emperor identified the missing tablet as the Phoenix Stone and ordered Heradi and Seraf to find the thieves and recover it.
• The Emperor reasoned that Eclairea would go to Fairy Tail and decided to protect her to draw out his enemies.
• The Ice Dragon King asked the Emperor why Irene and Pink Ball had not returned with him, and the Emperor’s expression fell.

Sordil and his allies continued their chaotic rivalries while Irene’s group returned to Magnolia and discovered that Sordil might have forgotten to award Erza’s ten points. When Erza confronted him over the assessment, the competing factions erupted into another fight at Fairy Tail.

• Sordil teased Divine Constable Di, and their allies escalated the quarrel into a battle with saliva cannons and Death Rays.
• Irene’s group realized Sordil might not have added Erza’s ten points, then arrived in Magnolia and headed to Fairy Tail.
• Gildarts and Sonia compared assessment results and revealed they had bet on whether they could disqualify the person overseeing the exam.
• Irene and Erza confronted Sordil, who admitted the instructors had bet on disqualifying the assessment’s overseer.
• Erza’s allies and Sordil’s faction took sides, and the two groups started fighting inside Fairy Tail.

Makarov revealed that Erza, Laxus, and Mirajane had all scored 60.01 on their S-Class assessments, prompting them to plot against their examiners. Meanwhile, Lucy twice sensed someone following her along the canal, and the chapter ended with her hearing many footsteps behind her again.

• Makarov broke up a guild argument about Red Mill and Dragon Boat, then called Erza, Laxus, and Mirajane in to give them their assessment results.
• Erza, Laxus, and Mirajane learned they had all received 60.01 and agreed to join forces against their examiners, while Makarov silently blamed Sordil.
• Lucy spotted a shadow following her home, rushed inside, and spent the night on edge while Natsu and the others went fishing.
• Mira advised Lucy to have someone accompany her, while Erza and Mirajane argued over Erza's late-night whereabouts.
• Lucy walked beside the canal again with Plue and heard numerous footsteps behind her, then hurried home despite finding the alley empty.

Lucy was escorted home after a chaotic encounter with her guildmates, where she learned the Heartfilia Family had gone bankrupt because of Grimoire Heart’s actions. She agreed to meet her father, who was waiting at the town entrance before leaving Fiore for the Erus Empire.

• Golden Softie found Laxus fighting the guild members, then watched Irene, Pink Ball, and Erza chase him away after mistaking him for a stalker.
• Gildarts arranged for Elfman to escort Lucy home, and Elfman tackled Gray when he spotted him hiding near her house.
• Lucy invited Gray and Elfman inside to dry off, but they declined and left after confirming they had heard about the supposed stalker.
• Grandma Spetta told Lucy that the Heartfilia Family had gone bankrupt after Grimoire Heart’s train hijackings, and she gave Lucy the new location of her mother’s grave.
• Lucy agreed to meet her father before he left Fiore for the Erus Empire, while he waited at the town entrance and argued with a mysterious voice in his mind.

Jude gave Lucy a platinum mask and key to the Heartfilia family’s hidden assets before leaving with Spetta for the Erus Empire. After Lucy was attacked and rescued an injured woman, the Fairy Hills residents found a badly wounded yellow bird and decided to save it.

• Jude gave Lucy the mask and key to assets her mother had arranged for, explaining that only Major General Gwell could open the treasury.
• Lucy tearfully told Jude to stay safe as he and Spetta departed, then asked her mother's spirit to protect him.
• A mysterious, injured woman attacked Lucy, who fought back and dragged her to her residence for help.
• At Fairy Hills, Irene flirted with Bisca and Juvia while the other women left the bathhouse.
• Erza, Wendy, and Pink Ball found a seriously injured yellow bird near the dormitory and decided to take it inside and save it.

Pink Ball, Irene, and Erza arranged a Fairy Tail request to find Eclairea for the injured yellow bird. Meanwhile, Anna learned that Number Two’s group was pursuing a girl connected to the Phoenix Stone, and the chapter ended when Mira recognized Eclairea’s description.

• The yellow bird woke in Erza’s room and insisted on finding Eclairea, but Irene used gravity to keep him resting and offered to post a request on his behalf.
• Irene and Pink Ball left to register the request, while the yellow bird asked them to spend a day having fun with him as payment.
• Anna reported that Number Two’s group had investigated a weapons factory, stolen a stone tablet from the imperial palace, and chased a girl toward Magnolia.
• The Emperor explained that the Phoenix Stone involved the Phoenix Priestess, the Phoenix’s bloody tears, and two innocent lives, then sent Anna on another mission to protect the stone pieces and the people involved.
• At Fairy Tail, Erza, Irene, and Pink Ball described their request for Eclairea, and Mira reacted in shock when she heard the name and appearance.

Lazy God captured several members of the enemy group and rescued Eclairea, while the remaining fugitives fled toward a hidden valley. The Emperor’s forces gathered at the valley and prepared to attack.

• Anna teased the Emperor before he ordered her and the summoned commanders to hunt down the enemy remnants.
• Lazy God fought four attackers in Magnolia, captured several of them, and pursued the fleeing survivors.
• Lazy God caught the light-blue-haired man, severed his arm, killed him, and rescued Eclairea.
• At a nameless valley in the Erus Empire’s Southeastern Province, Sordil warned against rushing the enemy hideout, and the Emperor ordered everyone to prepare for battle.

The guild members reunited Mengmeng and Eclairea, but attackers abducted Eclairea and destroyed part of Fairy Tail. Meanwhile, Sordil’s group finished fishing, and the guild members split up to intercept the attackers as Mengmeng collapsed.

• Golden Softie told Erza and the others that Eclairea was staying at Lucy’s house, and they realized she had rescued Mengmeng.
• At the lake, the group competed to catch fish while Yellow Meow Meow returned from her mission and Happy challenged her to a fight.
• Mengmeng and Eclairea met at Fairy Tail, but Eclairea refused to stay and left with Mengmeng.
• Attackers blasted through the guild hall, seized Eclairea, and escaped; Mengmeng collapsed after asking Cole to save her.
• Irene sent the sister duet after Eclairea, while the returning fishing group organized to ambush the attackers along their escape routes.

His Majesty the Emperor’s forces captured an enemy arsenal and prepared to strike three headquarters. Meanwhile, His Majesty the Emperor intercepted Rua Musor outside Magnolia and knocked her unconscious after she attacked him.

• Heradi, Seraf, and Kurelle received orders from His Majesty the Emperor, and Kurelle’s First Division broke through the arsenal’s defenses and captured it.
• Kurelle reported that some documents had burned, while the equipment remained mostly intact; His Majesty the Emperor then assigned Heradi, Seraf, and the First Division to attack three enemy headquarters.
• Purple Meow Meow told the group that the attackers had been dealt with, and they headed to see who needed to be picked up.
• His Majesty the Emperor tracked Rua Musor near the outskirts of Magnolia and confronted her as she tried to reach a Teleportation Array.
• Rua attacked His Majesty the Emperor over her father’s death, but he knocked her unconscious with a hand strike to the neck.

His Majesty the Emperor coordinated attacks on several hidden bases while the Royal Knights assaulted a stronghold in Snow Dragon City. After the remnants were cleared, Lazy God's true body faced an angry crowd demanding justice.

• His Majesty the Emperor spared the unconscious Big Sister, sent a violet glimmer into her head, then burned her body and destroyed the teleportation Magic Array.
• His Majesty the Emperor ordered Hail to mobilize troops for a combat mission in the Southeastern Province.
• At Snow Dragon City, Heradi and Big Baldy used intelligence from the Plum Blossom Agency to plan an assault on a hidden stronghold.
• The First and Third Regiments attacked the stronghold while the Second Regiment sealed its exits, but headquarters reported that Seraf and Kurelle had already eliminated their targets.
• At Rubenkard, His Majesty the Emperor ordered a search of the castle and pretended to take a nap while privately plotting how to punish Heradi for being slow.
• Lazy God's true body faced the bartender, Ice underwear, Natsu, Empress Irene, Pink Ball, Fairy Queen, and Laxus as they demanded an explanation, while Makarov and Seki avoided taking his side.

After being forced to accept a mountain of demands, Sordil arranged a three-day group tour to Crocas, where the group planned to shop, drink, and train. Meanwhile, Silent City waited for Fairy Tail to honor its promise to find Daphne and help the town recover.

• Irene and the guild members presented Sordil with an enormous list of demands, and he reluctantly agreed to read them rather than risk being beaten.
• Sordil found an invitation and decided to make Toma pay for the group's expenses by arranging a tour, then announced the trip to the guild the next morning.
• The group departed by airship for Crocas, while Sonia, Leena, and the others stayed behind to handle the guild's work.
• Pink Ball realized Sordil was using the trip to settle Toma's debt for his help with Grimoire Heart, and Sordil threw her out of the cockpit after she exposed his plan.
• In Silent City, the mayor and townspeople worried about their recovery and hoped Fairy Tail would find Daphne soon.