Recaps

After recovering at Grandma Porlyusica’s house, Hughes discovered the system had assigned him a quest to trample a Celestial Dragon, then returned to the rebuilt Fairy Tail guild with Mira. There, Lisanna showed off her new Take Over magic, and Hughes provoked the guild into a fight.

• Mira calmed Hughes after he noticed their guild marks, and Grandma Porlyusica sent them away with his medical bill for Makarov.
• The system gave Hughes the quest “Trample the Celestial Dragons,” and Hughes suspected it had mistaken Porlyusica for a Celestial Dragon of Edolas.
• Mira warned Hughes about a branch, but he failed to dodge it, hit his forehead, and angrily blamed her for not leading him properly.
• Hughes and Mira arrived in Magnolia and entered the rebuilt Fairy Tail guild, where Lisanna greeted them and showed off her Animal Soul: Cat magic.
• Hughes threw clothes at Lisanna and told her to take over a normal animal, angering the guild members; he challenged them all to fight.

Hughes joined the Fairy Tail guild and fought its members in a no-magic brawl, wrecking the newly rebuilt hall. Mira gave Makarov Porlyusica’s medical bill, and he considered making Hughes repay it through future commissions.

• Makarov allowed Hughes and the guild members to fight without magic, forbidding Hughes from using his flame ability.
• Hughes dodged Natsu’s attack and threw him through the guild roof, then used Tekkai to beat back the members who attacked him.
• Mira gave Makarov a bill for 20 million J for Hughes’s potions, and she suggested deducting the cost from Hughes’s future commission rewards.
• Hughes pinned Erza, Natsu, Gray, and other guild members, while Natsu and Gray started arguing and fighting again.
• Makarov beckoned Hughes over to show him a treasure, but Hughes refused because he thought Makarov meant his stick or goldfish.

At the guild, Hughes argued with Makarov over his medical bill and used his torn underwear to get money from him. Mira secured medicine for Hughes and arranged for herself, Hughes, Lisanna, and Elfman to live together, so Makarov offered to take them to a house in the suburbs.

• Hughes refused to pay his 20-million-J medical bill, but Mira handed him medicine that would prevent attacks when he used his flames.
• Mira and Makarov explained that Hughes could repay his debt through guild jobs, while Hughes suspected they were setting a trap for him.
• Hughes claimed his underwear had ripped and persuaded Makarov to give him 100,000 J.
• Mira asked Makarov for money and learned that the guild had free dorms, but she chose to live with Hughes, Lisanna, and Elfman.
• Makarov decided the group could not stay in the guild dorms because of Hughes's condition and offered to take them to his suburban house.

Hughes and the others cleaned Makarov’s old house, then Hughes spent his money on clothes and took a simple job with Mira. The chapter ended with Makarov discovering that Hughes had learned the guild’s job rules from Macao—and had gotten them all wrong.

• Makarov brought Hughes, Mira, Lisanna, and Elfman to the house where he and Laxus had once lived.
• Hughes assigned everyone chores, but Makarov made him pull weeds after Hughes tried to talk him out of working.
• Makarov eventually took over the weeding and punched Hughes into the sky with Giant Magic.
• Hughes spent the 100,000 J on new clothes and went to the request board with Mira, only to realize he could not read the job postings.
• Mira explained a D-rank request to find Madam Yasulien’s orange cat, and Hughes chose to take the job with her.
• Makarov quizzed Hughes about job rules, and Hughes repeated Macao’s absurd advice, prompting Makarov to summon Macao in a rage.

Hughes and Mira went to find Madam Yasulien about a job involving an orange cat, but Hughes got distracted by the women and commotion on Magnolia’s busiest street. At a pet stall, he recognized a blue-nosed raccoon dog as Tony Tony Chopper, and his system activated a quest to save him.

• Mira decided they should ask Madam Yasulien whether the orange cat had returned home before searching the eastern forest.
• Hughes admired a young woman in the crowd and used pebbles to stop a burly man from groping her.
• Mira scolded Hughes for his behavior, and he ran over to investigate a nearby stall selling small pets.
• Hughes recognized a blue-nosed raccoon dog as Tony Tony Chopper, and the system activated the quest “Save Tony Tony Chopper.”
• Hughes accepted the quest and asked the stall owner how much the raccoon dog cost, but the owner joked about preparing it as food.

Hughes and Mira took Madam Yasulien’s request to find her missing cat, Little Flower, after Hughes acquired a blue-nosed civet from a stall owner. They headed for the eastern forest, where Little Flower had gone to attack the civet she blamed for her unusual parentage.

• Hughes haggled for a blue-nosed civet by pretending the stall owner had beaten him, and the guilty owner eventually gave it to him for free.
• Mira and Hughes arrived at Madam Yasulien’s home, where Hughes became convinced she had taken a fancy to him.
• Madam Yasulien told them that her orange cat, Little Flower, had run into the eastern forest to find her biological father.
• Mira explained that Little Flower’s mother was a Pupil Kitten who had mated with a civet, then run away after giving birth.
• Hughes and Mira set off for the eastern forest, learning that Little Flower wanted to bite the civet to death because she blamed him for her birth.

Hughes and Mira completed Madam Yasulien’s job by catching Little Flower, and Hughes accepted Yasulien’s invitation to dinner. Makarov revealed that Yasulien was actually a male mage who used magic to deceive and tease men, but Mira decided to let Hughes attend the dinner without warning him.

• Hughes and Mira found Little Flower, and Hughes caught him before he could attack Chopper in the cage.
• Back at the guild, Wakaba and the others discussed the secret that Yasulien was a man, while Macao angrily attacked them for keeping it from him.
• Hughes and Mira returned Little Flower to Yasulien, who paid Hughes 100,000 J and invited them to dinner.
• Mira dragged Hughes back to the guild before he could answer Yasulien’s invitation.
• Makarov told Mira that Yasulien was a male mage who used Transformation, Smell, and Charm Magic to trick male mages.
• Mira decided not to warn Hughes and said she would make sure he went to Yasulien’s dinner.

Hughes tried to recover from his embarrassing night with Yasulien by declaring he would abstain from alcohol, meat, lust, and women, then returned to his usual antics at the guild. After Natsu showed off a mysterious egg, Hughes realized his blue-nosed raccoon cat was missing and learned Mira had already brought it to the guild.

• Hughes vowed to beat up mages who used Transformation, Smell, or Charm Magic and announced that he was abstaining from alcohol, meat, lust, and women.
• Wakaba, Macao, Lisanna, and the others teased Hughes about Yasulien, and Hughes sent them into a commotion by spilling his soy-milk-and-salad-dressing drink on Macao.
• Hughes ate steak with Mira and agreed to take another request, then rested in a corner of the guild.
• Natsu showed everyone an egg, prompting Hughes to remember his missing blue-nosed raccoon cat and panic that he had left it at Yasulien's house.
• Mira revealed that she had found the cat outside the guild and made Hughes promise to fulfill one condition in exchange for returning it.

Hughes got Makarov to stamp Chopper with the Fairy Tail emblem, completing the quest and increasing his physical strength. The guild then learned that Gildarts had returned and accidentally destroyed more than half of Magnolia, leaving Makarov fearing the compensation costs.

• Hughes asked Makarov to stamp Chopper with the guild emblem, but Makarov doubted the sleeping tanuki could use magic and worried about Hughes's condition.
• Hughes explained that Lisanna's Animal Soul Take Over could use Chopper, and Makarov agreed to stamp him after Hughes promised his strength would increase.
• The system confirmed that Hughes had completed the quest to save Tony Tony Chopper, and Hughes felt his physical attributes improve dramatically.
• Makarov sensed Hughes's sudden increase in strength, accepted that Hughes had his own secrets, and warned him to ask for help if he was in danger.
• Reedus announced that Gildarts had returned and destroyed more than half of Magnolia while spacing out, and Makarov collapsed at the thought of paying compensation.

Gildarts returned to Fairy Tail after completing a Ten-Year Quest, triggering a system challenge for Hughes to defeat the supposed Four Emperors Red-Haired Shanks. Hughes left the challenge alone and met Gildarts, who mistakenly gave him an explicit book that Makarov said could overstimulate him.

• Gildarts entered the guild by destroying its wall, then sent Natsu crashing through the roof when Natsu challenged him.
• Makarov scolded Gildarts for wrecking Magnolia, while Hughes received a quest to defeat Four Emperors Red-Haired Shanks and chose not to accept it yet.
• Makarov introduced Hughes to Gildarts, who doubted Hughes was eighteen because of his beard.
• Gildarts told Makarov he had completed a Ten-Year Quest in a month and had returned to seek a harder one.
• Gildarts gave Hughes a private collector's edition book, and Makarov warned that it could overstimulate Hughes because something was wrong with his head.

Hughes prepared to leave on a commission with Mira, but Laxus confronted them over Hughes renting his old house. Hughes beat Laxus and destroyed his Sound Pod, then agreed to move out the next morning before heading to bed with Mira.

• Hughes reviewed his system tasks and planned to travel with Mira to Xiluo'er Village for a commission.
• Laxus returned from his tasks, found Hughes living in his old house, and demanded that he leave.
• Hughes agreed to move out the next morning, but Laxus insulted him and struck the ground with lightning.
• Hughes punched Laxus, withstood his lightning through Elementalization, and crushed his Sound Pod.
• Hughes returned to Mira and joked about the fight, and Mira scolded him to get to bed before their commission.

Hughes and Mira traveled to Xiluo'er Village to drive away wild beasts attacking the settlement. After hearing the village chief explain that the attacks had begun two months early, Hughes suspected something more sinister was behind them.

• Hughes persuaded Mira to leave Elfman and Lisanna at the guild dormitory while they went on a mission.
• Hughes suffered another disturbing vision of Vegeta and Kakarot fusing, then traveled with Mira by train to Clover Town.
• Hughes and Mira carried their luggage through the difficult terrain and reached Xiluo'er Village.
• Hughes tried to reassure the village chief by exaggerating Mira's demonic power, frightening the elderly man.
• The village chief explained that hungry beasts from Clover Grand Canyon had started attacking two months earlier than usual, and Hughes voiced his suspicion that something unusual was causing it.

Hughes and Mira investigated the beasts that had trampled Xiluo'er Village’s rice field and discovered signs of a demon in Clover Grand Canyon. Hughes absorbed Devil Origin from the air, strengthening his Flame-Flame Fruit, then warned the village chief that the demon could drive more beasts toward the village.

• Mira and Hughes followed the village chief’s directions and found huge beast tracks across the flattened rice field.
• Mira deduced that the herd had panicked and fled from something, while Hughes received a system alert detecting Devil Factor ahead.
• Hughes discovered that breathing in the air absorbed Devil Origin and raised his Flame-Flame Fruit Awakening from 6% to 7%.
• Hughes and Mira told the chief that the attacking herd had fled, then Hughes warned him that more beasts and a crazed demon might threaten the village.

Hughes entered Clover Grand Canyon to absorb Devil Origin, but found a stampeding herd of beasts threatening Xiluo'er Village and fought them off before battling a fast magical beast. After hearing that a devil had devoured the canyon’s beasts, he continued deeper while Makarov sent Mira and Laxus to Xiluo'er Village.

• Hughes returned to Clover Grand Canyon alone and absorbed Devil Origin until his Flame-Flame Fruit awakening progress reached 9%.
• Hughes killed the rampaging beasts before they could reach Xiluo'er Village, then confronted a wind hound magical beast that had wounded him.
• The wind hound warned Hughes that a devil had eaten the canyon’s magical beasts; Hughes burned it to bones, and his awakening progress reached 10%.
• After resting and marking his route, Hughes continued deeper into Clover Grand Canyon to absorb the remaining Devil Origin.
• Mira told Makarov about the S-Class quest, and after consulting the guild library, he called on her and Laxus to go to Xiluo'er Village.

Hughes discovered that the demon sealed in the Clover Grand Canyon was Satan, a primordial demon whose Devil Origin rapidly increased Hughes's Flame-Flame Fruit Awakening. Their fight began with Satan's powerful attack, but Hughes survived and struck back before the system converted a failed Dark-Dark Fruit Awakening into more progress for his Flame-Flame Fruit.

• Makarov read about primordial demons in History of Earth-land and sent Laxus to the Clover Grand Canyon, fearing the demon Mira and Hughes had found was Satan.
• Hughes absorbed Devil Origin in the canyon, raising his Flame-Flame Fruit Awakening from 10% to 15%, and wondered how powerful the demon was.
• Satan flew toward Hughes, while Hughes reached the seal site and found mountains of corpses and a vast magic circle.
• Satan attacked Hughes with Curse Power, and Hughes recognized him as Satan before countering with Fire Fist.
• Satan's Soul Extinction shattered Hughes's fireball and blasted his body apart, but Hughes re-formed from a spark and kicked Satan to the ground.
• The system detected Devil Factors in Hughes's body, failed to awaken the Dark-Dark Fruit because his slots were full, and added 0.1% to his Flame-Flame Fruit Awakening.

Hughes unlocked the Flame-Flame Fruit’s Initial Awakening while Satan battered him, then broke free of Satan’s sealing chains and struck back. Both fighters collapsed from their injuries, and Mira arrived to give Hughes medicine.

• Hughes learned that he needed to unlock a Devil Fruit Slot before he could gain another Devil Fruit power.
• Satan bound Hughes with Dark Écriture: Sealing Chains and battered him with lightning, while Hughes absorbed Devil Origin and increased his Awakening progress.
• Hughes reached 30% Awakening, activated the Flame-Flame Fruit’s Initial Awakening, and broke free of Satan’s chains.
• Hughes attacked Satan with pillars of fire, but both of them collapsed, badly injured.
• Mira found Hughes and gave him Laxus’s medicine, and Hughes insulted her demon face as she clenched her fists.

Hughes recovered from his fight with Satan while Mira took over Satan’s corpse and gained a new demon form. After reporting the mission in Xiluo'er Village, Hughes, Mira, and Laxus headed toward Clover Town, with Hughes being dragged on a board.

• Mira brought Hughes his medicine, and he took four bottles to suppress the pain caused by his Flame-Flame Fruit’s preliminary Awakening.
• Hughes had Mira repeatedly throw rocks at Satan’s body, then asked her to try taking over the dead demon.
• Mira successfully took over Satan but could not yet use his abilities because her magic power was insufficient.
• Hughes asked Mira to make him a wheeled board instead of carrying him, while Laxus stood nearby unnoticed.
• Hughes told the head of Xiluo'er Village about the mission, collected five million J, and let the villagers claim the beast corpses.
• Mira dragged Hughes toward Clover Town on the board, and Hughes accepted the cost of his medicine after noting his Awakening had reached 30%.

Mira reported the job and Satan’s defeat to Makarov, who warned her about the risks of using Take Over Magic and agreed to teach Hughes how to shape his flames and break sealing magic. Hughes returned to the guild, where he encountered its usual chaos and provoked Mira by teasing Lisanna about being Happy’s mother, leaving Lisanna to face Mira’s anger.

• Mira told Makarov about the job, Satan, and Hughes’s growing flame powers, and relayed Hughes’s request for training in flame shaping and breaking sealing magic.
• Makarov warned Mira that Satan’s power could affect her personality and agreed to teach Hughes when he returned from Porlyusica’s care.
• Hughes asked Porlyusica for free potions, misunderstood her response, and returned to the guild, where he knocked Macao out with one punch as the others began fighting.
• Hughes met Natsu, Lisanna, and Happy, then teased Lisanna about becoming a mother and Mira an aunt.
• Mira confronted Lisanna and Natsu in anger, while Hughes walked away to avoid getting caught up in the trouble.

Hughes visited the Fairy Tail library to find books on flame transformation and sealing magic, but got distracted by a risqué collector’s edition and asked Mira to help him read. There he discovered Laxus studying sealing magic to prepare for a rematch, and they agreed to fight the morning after next for a million J.

• Makarov woke up after Hughes teased him and promised him useful magic books plus a better collector’s edition.
• Hughes found the collector’s edition, then tried to study his prepared books but could not read them.
• Hughes asked Mira to translate phrases for him, and she discovered the risqué book hidden in his clothes.
• Laxus confronted Hughes for disturbing the library and admitted he was studying sealing magic to defeat him.
• Hughes provoked Laxus into agreeing to a rematch the morning after next, with the loser paying a million J.

Hughes bought a villa with Makarov’s help, then got drunk at the guild while Laxus prepared for their duel. He joined Lisanna and the others at the lake to fish instead of taking her home, leaving Mira on her way to confront them.

• Hughes bought a three-story villa for twenty million J using money borrowed from Makarov’s pension.
• Makarov taught Laxus Lightning Sealing Magic while Hughes drank with Macao and Wakaba, who hoped to influence their betting pool on the duel.
• Hughes set out to escort Lisanna home, and Macao, Wakaba, and other guild members followed him to the lake behind Fairy Tail.
• Hughes found Lisanna, Natsu, Gray, Erza, Happy, and Gildarts failing to catch fish and challenged the group to a fishing contest.
• Mira, who had been waiting for Lisanna to come home, roared toward the lake.

Hughes joined the guild’s fishing competition, where Mira caught the biggest fish and Hughes struggled to land anything. After mistaking a mossy stone for a huge catch, Hughes burned the lake dry, alarming the Master.

• Gildarts hooked a fish, but Hughes and the others crowded around and helped it escape; the group then dragged Wakaba away and Macao broke Wakaba’s line.
• Macao and Erza tangled their lines and lost both fish, so Hughes proposed that the biggest catch would win and that anglers could no longer interfere with one another.
• Natsu caught a tiny carp, while most of the competitors eventually left the lakeshore and Lisanna went home with Elfman.
• Mira caught a half-meter fish and then a one-meter fish, prompting Hughes to give up the competition until she showed him that his rod had bent.
• Hughes pulled a moss-covered stone from the lake instead of a fish, then burned the lake behind the guild dry, and someone rushed to tell the Master.

Hughes and Laxus finally began their duel after Hughes made the guild come fetch him from the hall. Hughes gained the upper hand with his new flame technique, but Laxus trapped him in chains of lightning as the fight continued.

• Guild members spread confused rumors about Hughes, then realized nobody had told him the duel had been moved to the outskirts.
• Hughes refused to leave the guild hall until Mira and Erza persuaded him, then arrived and blamed Macao for the missed message.
• Hughes and Laxus clashed with a flame spear and a lightning halberd, and Gildarts protected the spectators from the explosion.
• Laxus sent lightning racing across the ground, but Hughes used Elementalization to avoid it and burned Laxus with Firefly: Fire Daruma.
• The system offered Hughes a quest to defeat Thunder God Enel, and Hughes accepted it for the perfected Geppo secret art.
• Laxus unleashed Lightning Dragon's Roar, then joined it with the lightning on the ground to ensnare Hughes in chains.

Hughes defeated Laxus despite his Lightning Chains, then returned to the guild with the others for a party. Hughes and Mira exploited the party and betting payouts to earn over seven million J, bringing them closer to repaying Makarov's forty-million-J debt.

• Laxus bound Hughes with Lightning Chains and attacked with Narukami, but Hughes broke free, overwhelmed him with Fire Fist, and Makarov stepped in to stop the flames.
• Hughes declined Gildarts's challenge, reassured Laxus about improving his Lightning Chains, and told Lisanna that Natsu would grow stronger after digesting his flames.
• Makarov hosted a guild party, and Hughes and Mira quietly piled up purchases on his tab.
• Macao and Wakaba settled the guild's bets, including Mira's million-J wager on Hughes.
• Hughes and Mira earned over seven million J, while their debt to Makarov stood at forty million J.

Hughes trained his Flame-Flame Fruit and Geppo abilities while Makarov taught the others about magic at the guild. He learned to fly using Geppo and flame propulsion, while Natsu and Happy focused on the fish stirred up by the lake’s explosion.

• Hughes arrived at the guild and found Makarov teaching Mira, her siblings, Natsu, and the others to meditate and seek their magic.
• Hughes sneaked outside to the lake and used its water pressure to train his flames, causing a huge explosion that sent water and fish into the air.
• Hughes reviewed his abilities and practiced Geppo, stepping through the air and changing direction freely.
• Hughes combined Geppo with flames beneath his feet and streaked through the sky.
• Makarov and the others watched Hughes fly, while Happy ate grilled fish and Natsu jumped into the lake hoping to get some.

Hughes practiced flying with his Flame Jet and then asked Natsu to attack him so he could study the characteristics of Fire Dragon Slayer Magic. After enduring Natsu’s attacks without using Tekkai, Hughes stopped the sparring, having begun to understand how Natsu’s flames worked.

• Hughes showed off his flame-powered flight to Makarov, Gray, and the others, while Makarov concealed the truth about Hughes’s abilities.
• Hughes remembered that Natsu was END and decided to investigate the devouring and body-strengthening traits of Fire Dragon Slayer Magic.
• Hughes fed Natsu his flames, then asked him to use Fire Dragon’s Iron Fist and Fire Dragon’s Crushing Fang on him.
• Natsu hit Hughes with several fire techniques, but Hughes took the attacks without activating Tekkai.
• Hughes stopped the sparring and told Natsu he would return later, having begun to grasp the characteristics of Natsu’s flames.