Chapter Summaries

Laxus reunited with Lisanna in Edolas and followed her to its Fairy Tail guild, where the contrasting counterparts of their friends were startled by his Lightning Magic. As Fairy Hunting arrived, Laxus moved to hold it off while Levy worked to complete the guild’s escape plan.

• Laxus recognized Lisanna, who revealed that she had been pulled into Edolas and taken the place of its dead Lisanna.
• Lisanna and Laxus discussed their guildmates and the differences between the Fairy Tail guilds in their respective worlds as they headed to the Edolas guild hall.
• Lisanna introduced Laxus to the guild, where Happy and Natsu recognized her and the group reacted to the strikingly different versions of their friends.
• Laxus used a burst of lightning to quiet the guild and began exchanging information with the Edolas Natsu, but someone announced that Fairy Hunting had arrived.
• As Levy’s escape plan neared completion and Fairy Hunting reached the entrance, Laxus agreed to hold it off and hurled a bolt of lightning.

After Fairy Tail escaped to Edolas, Laxus explained the two worlds to the guild, and the group learned that Edolas's Ifrit was a celebrated leader of the Muscle Supremacy movement. Lucy and Emily then watched him win a town eating competition, while Lucy took a photograph to preserve the moment.

• Levy teleported the guild away, and Erza and a pink-armored man wondered whether Laxus had betrayed the kingdom.
• Laxus told the guild about Edolas while leaving Lisanna's secret out, and the two groups compared their counterparts and discussed Ifrit.
• Lucy and Emily heard a crowd acclaim Ifrit, then saw him preach muscle training and reject hostility toward people who relied on magic.
• Ifrit encouraged the timid, skinny Edolas Laxus and then joined the town's eating competition.
• Laxus withdrew after choking on a few bites, while Ifrit ate with ease and won; Lucy photographed him with Emily's camera.

Lucy and Emily encountered Edolas Ifrit, a celebrated duke whose ideals differed from their own Ifrit’s, and asked him for help finding their companions. Meanwhile, their Ifrit watched from nearby with Miko, hiding his identity and reflecting on their relationship.

• Fairy Tail’s members described Edolas Ifrit’s rise to fame as a muscle-training advocate and duke, and Lucy and Emily decided to leave without meeting him.
• Lucy and Emily encountered a powerful tiger chasing Laxus, turned back to help him, and attacked the beast with Emily’s sword and Lucy’s celestial magic.
• Edolas Ifrit arrived, defeated the tiger with his strength, and recognized that Lucy and Emily came from another world.
• Lucy and Emily explained their situation, and Emily asked Edolas Ifrit to help them; he agreed to protect them and take them to his city residence.
• Nearby, their Ifrit and Miko discussed Edolas Ifrit’s fame, their own relationship, and the different way this world used magic.

Natsu and the others reunited in Edolas, where Lucy met her counterpart and learned more about the kingdom’s persecution of Mages. The group headed to Ifrit’s manor after Natsu and Laxus were exposed while fighting soldiers, and Edolas Lucy revealed that the soldiers had recognized her as a wanted Mage.

• Natsu and the others ate a desert monster, and Lucy comforted Edolas Lisanna before the group continued toward the royal capital.
• Lucy and Emily were surprised by the size of Ifrit’s estate, while Ifrit explained that he had once been the kingdom’s chief military instructor but had left to grow stronger.
• Gajeel met Edolas Gajeel and convinced him that the king had stolen magic from another world, prompting the journalist to help expose the truth.
• Banjou defeated bandits and their three-headed beast while protecting a merchant caravan, then reunited with Ifrit and traveled with him toward the capital.
• Natsu and Laxus fought soldiers in the city until Emily rescued them and led the group to Ifrit’s manor, where Lucy met Edolas Lucy and reunited with Lisanna.
• Edolas Lucy explained that soldiers had recognized her because Mages in Edolas were wanted criminals.

Laxus and the others met their Edolas counterparts before traveling with Edolas Ifrit to the royal capital, where they discovered that Magnolia was being turned into Magic Crystals to supply the city. They received Ifrit’s instructions to wait and prepare for a coordinated operation, while Happy and Charle considered the possibility of finding their parents.

• Edolas Laxus admired Edolas Ifrit, irritating Laxus, until Lisanna led Laxus away and Natsu showed off before being blasted by Laxus’s Lightning Dragon’s Roar.
• Edolas Lucy left to seek help from her guild, while Edolas Ifrit took the others to the royal capital.
• Edolas Ifrit explained that the king had concentrated magic power in the capital, and the group saw a Magic Crystal made from part of Magnolia.
• Banjou delivered Ifrit’s recorded instructions to avoid acting rashly, wait for his message, and prepare operations on multiple fronts.
• Ifrit’s recording reminded Happy and Charle that they might find their parents, and reassured Natsu and Wendy that the dragons could still be alive.

Ifrit infiltrated the palace, uncovered King Faust’s plans to capture Dragon Slayers and turn the Exceeds into Magic Crystals, then organized a counterattack with the guild. After Natsu and Wendy were captured, Ifrit rescued them and sent them to Maria’s courtyard while he stayed behind to monitor the king.

• Ifrit secretly listened to the king’s council meeting while eating ramen, then asked Maria to shelter him and later read the king’s plans in his office.
• Ifrit warned the guild that Faust planned to capture Natsu and transform every Exceed into a Magic Crystal, and he laid out a three-step plan to rescue the prisoners and expose the king.
• Lisanna reunited with Ifrit, and her return helped heal the resentment between Ifrit and Laxus.
• Natsu, Wendy, and a woman were captured, so Ifrit replaced the documents intended for Happy and Charle, knocked Byro unconscious, and freed Natsu and Wendy from the dungeon.
• Ifrit sent Natsu and Wendy to rest at Maria’s courtyard and stayed in the palace to keep the king under control with Lucy.

Happy and Charle brought evidence of Faust’s plan to Queen Shagotte, but she ordered them arrested before revealing her reasons to Natsuya and hearing Ifrit’s proposal. As Happy and Charle fled, the others prepared to oppose Faust, while Ifrit and Lucy remained disguised inside his meeting.

• Ifrit freed Lucy, who used Gemini to disguise herself as Byro while they ate palace food.
• Happy and Charle met Queen Shagotte and presented documents proving Faust planned to turn the Exceeds into Magic Crystals; Shagotte ordered them arrested.
• Happy escaped with Charle using Ifrit’s cards, then urged her to trust their friends and make their own future; after they fell from a cliff, a white cat demanded they come home for food.
• Shagotte told Natsuya that Faust’s plan and Charle’s prophecy were true, and explained why she had sent newborn Exceeds to another world.
• Natsuya found Ifrit’s recording, which asked Shagotte to cooperate with their plan to overthrow Faust and recognize Prince Jellal’s claim.
• Faust celebrated the prospect of drawing endless magic from Dragon Slayer Mages as Ifrit and disguised Lucy sat across from him, eating snacks during the meeting.

Mystogan reunited with Maria as the Fairy Tail group prepared to stop King Faust’s plan to seize the Exceeds’ magic. Faust declared war and ordered the Dragon Lock Cannon fired, but Coco stole its key, leaving the weapon’s activation uncertain.

• Mystogan reunited with Maria, while Ifrit told Lucy to inform the king that the conversion device was ready and instructed the group to prepare for battle.
• Gemini, disguised as Byro, told Faust that the conversion device and Dragon Lock Cannon were ready, and Faust ordered the ETD Operation Plan to begin.
• Gajeel fought Pansy Lily in the grand plaza, overpowering him and his subordinates while trying to recruit Lily as his cat.
• Faust rallied the city to conquer the Exceeds’ kingdom and claim its magic, while opponents warned that the king would monopolize the power.
• Ifrit told Lucy to let the Dragon Lock Cannon fire as part of his plan to leave Faust responsible for exhausting the world’s magic and help Mystogan take power.
• Coco stole the cannon’s key to prevent the Exceeds from being wiped out, and Byro demanded that she return it.

Coco freed Lucy, but Mystogan took the activation key and Byro used it to start the magic that pulled Extalia and the human landmass together. As the battle spread through the palace and across the floating island, Shagotte and the Exceeds fought to protect their home while Natsu and Wendy attacked the Magic Crystal.

• Coco freed Lucy from the dungeon, but Lucy took Coco's key, revealed herself as Mystogan, and vanished with it.
• Byro found a key near his feet and activated the magic, sending two enormous chains into the landmasses and drawing them together.
• Shagotte revealed that she was a weak cat with no godly magic, then flew to defend Extalia; Natsuya, Nadi, and many Exceeds followed her.
• Gajeel ate a sword to restore his magic, defeated Lily, and revealed that Ifrit and Jellal had planned the events; Lily chose to protect Extalia.
• Gajeel broke the conversion magic and explained the situation to Erza and Gray, who joined the assault on the palace alongside the Fairy Tail members of Edolas.
• Erza fought Edolas Erza, Gray confronted Sugarboy, and Natsu and Wendy reached the floating island and struck the Magic Crystal with Dragon Slayer Magic.

Mystogan confronted King Faust as the Dragon Knight threatened Edolas, while Fairy Tail and the residents fought back and Lucy stopped the Dragon Lock Cannon from pulling the floating islands together. Faust remained in battle, but Mystogan began rallying the people to support him, and the fighting continued as more allies arrived.

• Laxus joined Natsu in destroying the magic structures, while Faust activated the Dragon Knight and drained magic from Edolas.
• Mystogan warned the residents and declared that he should be sacrificed first, prompting them to call for him to replace Faust as king.
• Fairy Tail's Dragon Slayers attacked Faust's Dragon Knight as Wendy boosted their abilities, while Mystogan sought the residents' support.
• Lucy removed the key from the Dragon Lock Cannon, stopping its pull and preventing the floating islands from colliding.
• Erza defeated Edolas Erza, who vowed to marry Mystogan and take revenge on Ifrit, while Gray and Juvia faced Sugarboy.
• Mirajane reunited with Lisanna, and Banjou helped Lucy escape her pursuers as the battle continued.

Ifrit and the Fairy Tail guilds fought Ansa and his zombie army while Mystogan helped destroy King Faust’s dragon and took command of Edolas. As the battle devastated the capital and exhausted the fighters, Ifrit caught Mirajane, who told him to let go.

• Ifrit sensed Ansa approaching, and Edolas Ifrit transformed into a hulking, bald fighter before blasting away Ansa’s zombies.
• Ifrit warned that Ansa would take fifteen minutes to defeat, and the group changed battlefields after Ansa revealed he could use the Eight Knights’ magic.
• Mystogan joined the Dragon Slayers in destroying King Faust’s dragon, then ordered Edolas Erza to evacuate the civilians and led the fight against Ansa.
• Fairy Tail, Edolas Fairy Tail, Mystogan, Lily, and other allies attacked Ansa and the zombies while Ifrit supported them with barriers.
• As the battle dragged on, Gildarts, Mystogan, and Mirajane were badly hurt, and Ifrit caught Mirajane before they crashed into Miko.
• Mirajane pinched Ifrit and told him to let go while Lisanna watched with amusement.

Ifrit entered the battle against Ansa after the other fighters were exhausted, using Miko’s protection and his concealed magic power to overwhelm the god with attacks from every direction. With one minute left, Ansa was still roaring as Ifrit continued fighting.

• Ifrit joined the battle and struck Ansa’s neck with Hani, but Ansa trapped the blade in his bones and counterattacked; Miko shielded Ifrit from a sword thrust.
• Laxus and Gajeel helped free Ifrit, but Ansa pierced Gajeel through the stomach, leaving him unable to fight.
• Ansa knocked Natsu unconscious, and Wendy withdrew; Ifrit asked Miko to protect him for two minutes, and she promised to do so.
• Ifrit revealed his immense magic power and combined Deception Magic with Tiffanya’s red threads to confuse Ansa and batter him alongside Laxus and Makarov.
• After Laxus was badly injured, Ifrit continued attacking Ansa with concealed strikes while Miko endured Ansa’s wide-range assault; with one minute remaining, Ansa roared in anger.

Fairy Tail and their allies defeated Ansa through a desperate, coordinated battle that culminated in Ifrit's final deception magic trick. In Edolas, Mystogan rallied the ruined city's people as King Jellal, while Ifrit promised Fairy Tail they might meet again.

• Ifrit overwhelmed Ansa with deceptive attacks until Tiffanya's blood-powered connection failed, allowing Ansa to turn the fight around and brutally attack Ifrit and Mirajane.
• Makarov, Natsu, Erza, Gray, Lucy, Laxus, Gildarts, Mystogan, and the others used their last strength to protect Ifrit and help him strike Ansa with a combined attack.
• Ifrit announced his miracle magic trick, and Ansa suddenly fell face-first, leaving him unable to move and securing the victory.
• Emily embraced Ifrit and celebrated his deception magic, while Tiffanya recovered in an Edolas inn and decided to postpone her mission.
• Mystogan rallied Edolas's grieving people and was acclaimed as King Jellal, while Fairy Tail renewed its bond and Ifrit suggested they could meet again.

After the reverse Anima sent Edolas’s magic to Earthland, Ifrit preserved a portion of Ansa’s magic and planned to bind it to himself. The guild returned to Magnolia, where Shagotte explained the truth behind Charle’s supposed mission and the Exceeds’ departure.

• Ifrit used Miko to turn Ansa into natural magic power, infected it with his magic, and gave the remaining power to Mystogan after the reverse Anima transferred Edolas’s magic to Earthland.
• Queen Shagotte apologized to humanity and announced that the Exceeds would leave Edolas, while the two worlds’ residents exchanged tearful farewells.
• Ifrit, Lisanna, and the Fairy Tail members returned to Magnolia, where Lisanna reunited with Levy and the others.
• Shagotte revealed that Charle’s mission had been a prophecy she had mistaken for an assignment, and that the Exceed cubs had been sent away to preserve their civilization.
• Charle realized her prophecies had not meant what she believed, then angrily led Happy away as Shagotte asked Happy’s parents to care for him.

Ifrit introduced a magical mirror that let Fairy Tail members experience imagined futures, while secretly using their choices to help Aza evolve a Mirror World. He left Aza to develop autonomously as the guild members tried the mirror and saw futures they liked.

• Emily ran to the guild to complain that Ifrit had insulted her weight, and Romeo teased her about her rounder face.
• Ifrit unveiled a mirror that simulated possible futures, and Natsu cleared several stages before choosing Lucy as his reward each time and seeing them together ten years later.
• Ifrit explained privately that he was developing Aza to build a Mirror World where demons could live and his Deception Magic might eventually spread through mirrors worldwide.
• Emily entered the mirror, chose to study with Ifrit, and came out pleased with a photograph of herself as a beautiful S-Class mage beside him.
• Wendy tried the mirror and returned satisfied with her imagined adult future as the guild members took turns exploring their own simulations.
• Aza evolved as it gathered the guild members’ choices, and Miko warned Ifrit that he was creating a god, which he denied.

Ifrit asked Makarov for access to the guild’s forbidden books so he could find a life-saving magic before future threats arrived. He chose a guide to building an enormous teleportation circle, intending to connect it to Aza, while Makarov remained worried about the dangerous knowledge Ifrit was approaching.

• Ifrit asked Makarov to teach him Fairy Sphere, and Makarov said the lost magic might be connected to Tenrou Island.
• Makarov allowed Ifrit to read one forbidden book, and Ifrit took the library key after joking with Lisanna about her reading habits and romantic fortunes.
• Ifrit searched the forbidden section, ignored its risque books, and selected a guide to constructing super-large teleportation magic circles.
• Makarov rushed in to stop Ifrit from reading the forbidden books, but fell asleep before Ifrit left with his chosen book.
• Ifrit learned that the teleportation magic required vast resources and a demon to sustain it, but decided to study it and link it to Aza.

Lisanna persuaded Ifrit and Laxus to join her on a commission after defeating Ifrit in a fishing bet, and the trio accepted a missing-cat request connected to an S-Class Magic Beast investigation. As they rested in the forest, Ifrit encouraged Laxus to pursue becoming Guild Master and told Lisanna not to rush toward her goals.

• Lisanna beat Ifrit at fishing with her Mermaid's Song and convinced him and Laxus to accompany her on a commission.
• The trio accepted Edilane's request to find her missing son Speed and linked it to an S-Class commission investigating Magic Beasts near Araka Town.
• After reaching Araka Town, they entered the forest, where Lisanna fought the Magic Beasts until Laxus helped defeat them.
• While resting overnight, Lisanna asked Ifrit about his future, and he teased Laxus about reading novels with multiple female leads.
• Ifrit told Laxus that he supported him as Guild Master, then advised Lisanna not to rush her goals when she asked what she should do.

Ifrit, Laxus, and Lisanna reached the laboratory where a dark Mage was trying to resurrect his dead brother in a Magic Beast body. Laxus broke into the laboratory to rescue Speed, while Ifrit watched the experiment unfold and waited to see what the body could do.

• Laxus, Ifrit, and Lisanna traveled deeper into the forest, where Ifrit deduced that a dark Mage was creating increasingly humanlike Magic Beasts.
• Ifrit slipped past the Magic Beasts guarding a research facility and found a laboratory with Speed imprisoned and a dark Mage operating on a powerful humanoid body.
• The Mage finished preparing the body and began a ritual to summon his dead brother's soul, while Ifrit secretly altered the Magic Circle.
• Laxus burst into the laboratory and attacked the Mage, but the burly humanoid Magic Beast blocked his lightning and charged at him.
• Ifrit pulled Lisanna aside and told her to wait, explaining that he wanted to see the body's potential before intervening.

After Laxus defeated a dark mage with help from Speed’s Synchronization Magic, Fairy Tail learned that Mirajane had been captured. Ifrit reconstructed the battle and identified the Roa organization as the enemy, then received a warning that the kidnapping was a trap targeting him.

• Ifrit gave the burly man adrenaline to test his body, and the man revealed transplanted wings before Speed synchronized with Laxus and helped him defeat the attackers.
• Laxus accepted Speed into the Raijinshuu, and Speed decided to join Fairy Tail.
• Lucy told Ifrit that Mirajane had vanished after a battle, and Makarov ordered Fairy Tail to prepare for war.
• Ifrit examined the battlefield and used Aza and the Mirror World to reconstruct how enemies using Magnetic Field Magic had defeated and taken Mirajane.
• Tiffanya sent Ifrit a note saying Mirajane was safe under her protection and that the Roa organization had abducted her to lure Ifrit into a trap.

Fairy Tail mobilized to crush the Roa Organization after it captured Mirajane, despite pressure from two kingdoms and the Magic Council. In the Rikkenkaphilia Kingdom, Ifrit learned that the organization was moving Mirajane to its headquarters and decided to trade himself for her.

• Ifrit told Fairy Tail what he had learned, and Makarov ordered the entire guild to gather and depart for battle.
• Emily insisted on joining Ifrit and said she was prepared to kill; Banjou took Mirarite to Sister Marcy at the church.
• Fairy Tail boarded a train and publicly declared that it would destroy the Roa Organization, while the King of Rikkenkaphilia fled to Fiore.
• Tiffanya told Ifrit that Roa’s people had captured Mirajane in a sturdy cage that sealed her magic and were taking her to their headquarters.
• Ifrit concluded that Roa wanted Miko and chose to walk into the organization’s trap, planning to exchange himself for Mirajane.