Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan and Mira rescued the caravan members trapped in crystal by cutting the threads sustaining their captors. After sending the survivors back, they learned other caravans and mages were held deeper underground, where Lin Yuan sensed a powerful source of magic.

• Lin Yuan and Mira ignored the voices imitating people they knew and followed their marks through the passage.
• Lin Yuan found more than a dozen captives embedded in crystal, while six crystal dummies emerged to attack.
• Mira fought the dummies as Lin Yuan carefully severed the crystal threads connected to the captives.
• Lin Yuan and Mira caught the rescued caravan members, then Mira warned them to follow the marks and not trust familiar figures or voices.
• An elderly driver told Lin Yuan and Mira that other caravans and mages had been taken deeper underground, and Lin Yuan sensed a powerful source of magic below.
• Two familiar guards appeared from the darkness, but the driver remembered Mira's warning, picked up his companion, and left.

Lin Yuan and Mira fought their recorded copies and severed the Crystal Mother’s connections, then destroyed it without harming the trapped people. The rescued search-and-rescue mage asked if they were real, and Mira confirmed that they were.

• Lin Yuan and Mira entered the cavern and found the Crystal Mother connected to the trapped people and the cavern’s supports.
• Mira lured her copy away from the core and snapped the crystal thread connecting them.
• Lin Yuan outmaneuvered his copy and severed its thread, causing it to crumble.
• As the cavern shook and crystal spikes rose, Mira protected the trapped people while Lin Yuan cut the threads connecting them to the Crystal Mother.
• Mira pulled the Crystal Mother’s roots taut, allowing Lin Yuan to sever its connections to the supporting pillars, and then she shattered it.
• The crystal shells opened and the captives awoke; Mira picked up the quest sheet and told a wary search-and-rescue mage, “This time it’s real.”

Lin Yuan and Mira returned to Magnolia after rescuing everyone missing from the canyon, then shared dinner with the Strauss family. Seeing the warmth of their home made Lin Yuan consider buying a house of his own.

• Lin Yuan and Mira reported that they had rescued everyone and warned the Northern Chamber of Commerce that the canyon passages needed inspection and sealing.
• Lin Yuan and Mira returned to the Guild, where Natsu and Gray resumed fighting after learning that no crystals remained to challenge.
• Lisanna invited Lin Yuan to dinner at the Strauss home, where Mira cooked and Elfman struggled to repair the table.
• After leaving the Strauss home, Lin Yuan stopped at a real estate agency and considered buying a house in Magnolia.

Lin Yuan took a string of jobs to save enough money to buy a house near Fairy Tail, while rejecting cheaper homes that were too far from the Guild. He accepted a dangerous mine-clearing job whose 800,000 J reward would cover the last of his shortfall.

• Lin Yuan learned that the Magnolia house cost 19 million J, leaving him two million J short, and returned to his old dormitory to count his savings.
• Lin Yuan completed escort, livestock recovery, and burrowing-rat jobs, steadily building his funds while checking other towns for houses near Fairy Tail.
• Mira noticed Lin Yuan’s house plans, learned he had not inspected the property, and advised him to check it before buying.
• After taking three more jobs, Lin Yuan returned to find the Magnolia house still for sale and accepted an 800,000 J request to clear armored beasts from an abandoned mine without damaging its tunnels.
• Makarov stamped the request, and Lin Yuan calculated that the reward would cover his remaining shortfall if he earned it in full.

Lin Yuan cleared an abandoned mine without damaging its supports or equipment and earned 800,000 J. He and Mira chose a house in Magnolia, leaving them with only 40,000 J after the purchase, and agreed to complete the paperwork the next day.

• Lin Yuan entered the mine alone and killed all twelve shell beasts while preserving the tunnels and stored equipment.
• The mine's manager inspected the work, signed the task sheet, and paid Lin Yuan 800,000 J.
• Mira met Lin Yuan in Magnolia, and they inspected a house on the southeastern side of town.
• Lin Yuan calculated that buying the house and paying its transfer fee would leave him with 40,000 J, while Mira noted the repairs and living costs still ahead.
• Lin Yuan told the agent they would handle the paperwork the next day.

Lin Yuan finalized the purchase of a house and spent the day repairing and cleaning it with Mira. He settled into his new home, where a plaque bearing his name hung beside the door the next morning.

• Lin Yuan signed the transfer papers, paid 19.5 million J, and received the keys to the house.
• Mira arrived with cleaning supplies, and she and Lin Yuan cleaned the house while he repaired the roof and other fixtures.
• Lin Yuan and Mira restored the yard and bedrooms, making the house fit to live in by evening.
• Mira left after Lin Yuan said he would eat at the Guild because he had only 40,000 J left.
• Lin Yuan retrieved his bedding and clothes from the old dormitory and spent the night in his new home.
• Lin Yuan stepped outside the next morning and saw his name carved on the new door plaque.

Lin Yuan and Mystogan joined forces to take a dangerous flood-control job after Mystogan became a member of Fairy Tail. They left Magnolia by train to inspect the failing magic array, while the Guild remained asleep until Mystogan dispelled his spell.

• Lin Yuan entered the Guild and found its members asleep under Mystogan's magic, which had no effect on him.
• Makarov accepted the masked Mystogan into Fairy Tail despite his refusal to reveal his face or explain his past.
• Makarov assigned Lin Yuan to accompany Mystogan on a red-rated job to restart Luowei Town's flood-control magic array.
• Lin Yuan and Mystogan signed the request and left the Guild, with Mystogan dispelling the sleep magic after they had gone.
• Lin Yuan and Mystogan boarded a northbound train to begin their first job together.

Lin Yuan and Mystogan inspected Luowei Town’s failing flood-control array and found that its six subarrays needed to be supplied at different rates. With the reservoir nearing the dam’s limit and reinforcements unable to arrive in time, Lin Yuan began powering the entire array himself.

• Lin Yuan and Mystogan arrived in Luowei Town, where the request manager expected at least eight high-level mages.
• Mystogan examined the flood-control array and explained that its six subarrays had different levels of damage and could not safely receive magic power at once.
• Mystogan used five magic staffs to create a temporary diversion array that would regulate the power and startup timing for all six subarrays.
• Mystogan confirmed that ordinary mages would need at least eight people to power the array, but the rising water left no time to wait for reinforcements.
• Lin Yuan took his place at the central core and opened all six subarrays at once.

Lin Yuan powered the reservoir’s six subarrays alone while Mystogan adjusted the flow, restoring the sealed waterways. As they headed back after completing the task, Lin Yuan estimated that starting the array had used less than twenty percent of his magic power.

• Lin Yuan sent magic power into the reservoir’s central core, filling all six channels at once.
• Mystogan adjusted the distribution to protect the damaged eastern runes and balance the subarrays.
• The six towers lit up, the array began its self-sustaining cycle, and the reservoir’s water level started to fall.
• The mages on the outskirts stayed out of the array, and the person in charge stamped the task sheet as complete.
• Mystogan asked Lin Yuan how much magic power he had used, and Lin Yuan said less than twenty percent.

Lin Yuan and Mira accepted a two-person grape-harvesting job at Lyle Vineyard, where sunset grapes had to be picked and sorted during a brief ripening window. As the fruit changed color at sundown, they began the harvest.

• Lin Yuan and Mira accepted the 160,000 J job at Lyle Vineyard after two of the vineyard's workers were injured.
• Lin Yuan and Mira traveled to the vineyard and repaired trellises and guide ropes while preparing the barrels.
• Lyle explained how to sort the grapes and warned that the harvest had to be completed in the half hour after sunset.
• Lin Yuan and Mira took their positions in the upper vineyard as the sunset ripened the grapes and Lyle rang the brass bell to start the harvest.

Lin Yuan and Mira harvested the Sunset Glow grapes before their magic faded, and Lyle confirmed that they had cleared the upper vineyard. On the walk back to Magnolia, Mira asked Lin Yuan if he had time tomorrow.

• Lin Yuan and Mira coordinated their work, picking ripe grapes and sorting the baskets into the correct barrels.
• As the sunset approached, Mira spotted the remaining bunches while Lin Yuan and she rushed to harvest them before the fruit lost its magic.
• Lyle and the workers searched the upper vineyard and found no grapes left on the vines, though Mira pointed out a damaged grape meant for jam.
• Lyle praised their teamwork and served them fresh grape juice after stamping their task sheet.
• Mira walked quietly with Lin Yuan toward Magnolia, then stopped near the town lights and asked if he had time tomorrow.

Mira challenged Lin Yuan to a private duel to settle their old bet, with the loser owing the winner one request. The chapter ended as they confirmed the bet still stood and prepared to fight.

• Mira led Lin Yuan to a secluded clearing so Natsu and the others would not interrupt their duel.
• Mira reminded Lin Yuan that he had won their old S-Class bet but had never asked her for anything, then proposed a new bet with the same conditions.
• Lin Yuan and Mira agreed that either could use magic and that the duel would end when one could no longer fight or admitted defeat.
• Mira transformed with Satan Soul: Full Take Over while Lin Yuan drew Nameless and readied his spatial magic.
• Mira asked whether their bet still stood, and Lin Yuan confirmed that it did.

Lin Yuan defeated Mira in a rematch after she revealed her new Halphas Take Over. He postponed claiming his wish, leaving Mira to accept that he would decide later.

• Mira attacked Lin Yuan, and they exchanged blows as he used No Form, No Interval, and spatial folding to counter her moves.
• Mira transformed into Satan Soul: Halphas and unleashed a barrage of magic bullets before pressing Lin Yuan with faster, stronger attacks.
• Lin Yuan closed the distance, pinned Mira's arms, and stopped Nameless beside her neck, forcing her to admit defeat.
• Lin Yuan said his wish could wait until he decided what he wanted Mira to do.
• Mira accepted the delay and reminded Lin Yuan that he still had one wish.

When the Guild planned its Fantasia parade for Magnolia’s Harvest Festival, Makarov insisted that Lin Yuan take part instead of avoiding it again. Mira signed up to perform alongside him, and the chapter ended with her saying she had an idea for their act.

• Mira told Lisanna that Lin Yuan had won their fight, then warned her not to ask about it.
• Makarov announced the Harvest Festival parade, and the Guild members proposed floats and performances.
• Makarov stopped Lin Yuan from leaving and said he had to join Fantasia because the Guild wanted to show off its new faces.
• Mira volunteered to perform with Lin Yuan, and Makarov assigned them the sixth float.
• Mira gave Lin Yuan the warehouse key and said she had an idea for their performance.

Lin Yuan and Mira repaired the guild’s old float and rehearsed a magic performance using glowing paper wings. They perfected the effect, but Mira insisted the real reveal would be at Fantasia.

• Lin Yuan and Mira repaired the float’s wheel and post, then decorated it with red and silver fabric and a Fairy Tail emblem.
• Mira and Lin Yuan tested cutting glowing paper into wings, but their first attempts failed to keep the pieces aloft.
• Makarov warned them after silver paper flew into the hall, while Natsu and Gray’s float mishap sent an iceberg rolling through the courtyard.
• Lin Yuan used spatial openings as Mira controlled the airflow, keeping the paper wings suspended and guiding them around the float.
• Lin Yuan and Mira expanded their rehearsal to hundreds of paper wings, drawing applause from children watching over the courtyard wall.
• Mira said the performance would count when Fantasia began and promised to let everyone see.

On the day of Fantasia, Lin Yuan and Mira were sent to find a stolen wagon carrying the festival’s fireworks. They traced it to an abandoned quarry outside the north gate, where a Magic Crystal began heating up with only forty minutes left before the parade.

• Macao reported that the wagon carrying the fireworks had disappeared, and Makarov ordered the parade to proceed while Lin Yuan and Mira investigated.
• Lin Yuan found that the wagon’s chain had been cut with bolt cutters, while Mira identified a Harvest Festival freight marker left along its route.
• Lin Yuan traced a faint trail of fire-attribute magic toward the north gate, and witnesses said three people had driven the covered wagon toward an abandoned quarry.
• Lin Yuan noticed the magic trail flickering as one of the fireworks’ Magic Crystals began heating up inside the wagon.

Lin Yuan and Mira recovered Fairy Tail’s stolen fireworks from Phantom Lord members and saved the remaining crates from an exploding Magic Crystal. They returned to town just in time to join their float before Fantasia began.

• Lin Yuan and Mira found three Phantom Lord members at the quarry with the stolen fireworks, and Lin Yuan warned that their Magic Crystal was about to explode.
• Lin Yuan contained the Magic Crystal in a spatial barrier while Mira and Lin Yuan subdued the three men and tied them up.
• Lin Yuan sent the exploding Magic Crystal high into the sky, where it burst without damaging the fireworks.
• Mira gave Makarov proof of the men’s Phantom Lord membership, and he said they would deal with it after the Harvest Festival.
• Lin Yuan and Mira rushed back to town with the fireworks and climbed aboard the sixth float before the last streetlamp lit up.

During Fantasia, Lin Yuan and Mira helped create a dazzling parade display before Lin Yuan gave Mira the key to his house and asked her to be its mistress. He confessed he still planned to travel through rifts to find Yui, and Mira agreed to the relationship while insisting he tell her before leaving and return to her first.

• Erza led the parade, while Natsu and Gray fought over control of their float and caused chaos.
• Mira and Lin Yuan transformed silver paper into fairy wings and sent them flying over the crowd to form a Fairy Tail emblem.
• The guild members launched the recovered fireworks above the riverbank.
• Lin Yuan gave Mira a spare house key and asked her to be the mistress of his house, and Mira accepted after scolding him for taking so long to ask.
• Lin Yuan told Mira he planned to enter future rifts to find a way back to Yui, and Mira demanded that he tell her before leaving and come to her first when he returned.
• Mira took Lin Yuan's hand and declared that the house and Lin Yuan were under her control.

Mira used her spare key to visit Lin Yuan’s house, where she directed him to buy furniture and arrange their home together. At the Guild, Lisanna revealed that Mira had the key, and Mira declared herself the lady of Lin Yuan’s house.

• Lin Yuan woke to find Mira inspecting his house with the spare key he had given her.
• Mira pointed out what the house needed, and she and Lin Yuan went shopping for furniture and kitchenware.
• Mira directed Lin Yuan as he arranged the new furniture and placed her cup beside his.
• At the Guild, Lisanna revealed Mira had brought Lin Yuan’s house key, drawing everyone’s attention.
• Mira stopped the Guild’s teasing by declaring herself the lady of Lin Yuan’s house and challenging anyone to object.

Mira and Lin Yuan celebrated their relationship with the Guild and shared dinner with Mira’s family. After Lin Yuan promised Elfman he would not leave Mira waiting alone, Mira asked him to come over for dinner again the next day.

• The Guild celebrated Mira and Lin Yuan becoming lovers until Makarov warned everyone not to damage anything else.
• Mira took Lin Yuan to her family’s house for dinner, where Elfman warned him to treat Mira well and Lin Yuan promised he would not leave her waiting alone.
• Mira served Lin Yuan stewed meat, and he praised her cooking while Lisanna laughed at their exchange.
• After dinner, Mira told Lin Yuan to let her know before he left, no matter which house he was leaving from.
• Mira invited Lin Yuan to come over for dinner the next day, and he agreed.