Chapter Summaries

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.

Hughes compared his Flame-Flame Fruit powers with Natsu’s Fire Dragon Slayer Magic, then tried and failed to get Makarov and Mira to feed him. Later, Hughes went to the job board seeking easy work and found Nab there, who said Laxus had taken nearly all the requests.

• Hughes worked out that Natsu’s flames could consume magic and become compressed, powerful attacks, and the comparison gave him ideas for developing his own flames.
• Hughes asked Makarov to buy him a meal, but Makarov scolded him and refused; Mira offered him bread and milk before taking them back after Hughes teased her about marrying him.
• Hughes watched Natsu and the other guild members start another fight and complained that he was excluded because he was not enough of a goofball.
• Hughes went to the job request board looking for well-paid, easy work that would keep him in the guild and found Nab studying the requests.
• Nab told Hughes that Laxus had taken nearly all the jobs, leaving only unwanted D-Class and C-Class requests.

Hughes learned why Laxus was rushing to complete jobs for the early S-Class Exam, then Makarov ordered Hughes to accompany him to the Guild Alliance meeting in Clover Town. Remembering a past meeting where Makarov defeated Jose Porla, Hughes looked forward to what might happen.

• Nab explained that Makarov had moved the S-Class Exam to the middle of the year, forcing Laxus to finish the required jobs early.
• Hughes and Nab discussed how Laxus would fare against Gildarts, who had to approve his exam.
• Makarov told Hughes he would take him to the Guild Alliance meeting in Clover Town the next morning, overruling Hughes's refusal.
• Hughes recalled that Makarov had defeated Jose Porla at the X778 meeting after they argued over whose guild was strongest, and Hughes smiled at the memory.

Hughes and Makarov prepared to travel to Clover Town for a guild alliance meeting, but Hughes overslept and nearly missed their train. They reached Magnolia Station just before ticket inspection ended, where Makarov complained about being carried through the air.

• Mira woke Hughes early, but he went back to sleep while she packed his luggage and prepared his favorite foods.
• Hughes got up at noon, told Makarov about his disturbing dream, and ate Mira’s cooking with him until they finished all seven portions.
• Mira revealed that Hughes had forgotten he had set the magic clock half an hour fast, leaving them only ten minutes to catch the last train to Clover Town.
• Hughes grabbed Makarov and their luggage and flew toward Magnolia Station using compressed flames, while Makarov shouted over the wind.
• Hughes reached the station just before ticket inspection ended and tossed down Makarov and the luggage before handing over their tickets.

Hughes and Makarov attended the guild alliance meeting, where Hughes encountered Blue Pegasus master Bob and noticed the gathering split between Makarov’s group and Jose Porla’s. A system quest identified Jose as Blackbeard and tasked Hughes with defeating him, which Hughes accepted.

• Hughes asked Makarov about Fairy Tail’s history with Phantom Lord, and Makarov said the guild was now legal despite its predecessor Blue Skull’s past.
• Hughes warned Makarov to watch Jose Porla at the alliance meeting.
• Hughes and Makarov arrived at the meeting and greeted old friends Goldmine and Bob; Hughes recoiled from Bob and avoided shaking his hand.
• Hughes saw the meeting hall divided between Makarov’s lively group and Jose Porla’s tense gathering.
• The system identified Jose as Blackbeard and activated a quest for Hughes to defeat him, and Hughes accepted it.

At the guild alliance meeting, Jose Porla challenged Makarov’s claims about Fairy Tail, then Aria of the wind tried to attack Hughes while Jose confronted Makarov. Hughes shrugged off Aria’s magic and knocked him into a wall, leaving the confrontation between Jose and Makarov unresolved.

• Goldmine and Makarov held a drunken drinking contest while Hughes watched from the sidelines.
• Makarov boasted that Gildarts had completed four Ten-Year Quests and declared that Fairy Tail was the strongest guild, angering Jose Porla.
• Jose insulted Fairy Tail and unleashed his Death Breath dark magic as he advanced on Makarov.
• Aria of the wind sneaked up on Hughes and used Airspace: Destruction, but Hughes remained unaffected and continued eating fruit.
• Hughes kicked Aria in the face, sending him crashing through chairs and into the wall.

Hughes watched Makarov and Jose battle at the guild alliance meeting, while worrying about the destruction and recording it as evidence. After Makarov transformed into a giant and shattered Jose’s strongest spell, Hughes charged in, eager to claim the finishing blow.

• Hughes thought about Aria’s Wind Magic and Juvia’s Water Magic before thunder and magic power shook the guild alliance meeting venue.
• Master Bob and Master Goldmine brought Hughes to safety as Makarov and Jose began fighting.
• Jose attacked Makarov with Dark Rondo and Soul Devouring, but Makarov destroyed both spells and blasted away the mountaintop behind Jose.
• Hughes recorded the battle with a Magic Crystal and worried about the compensation bill for the damage.
• Jose used Death Storm, but Makarov became a giant and destroyed it with one punch before firing golden beams at Jose.
• Hughes shouted that he would take the finishing blow and launched a Fire Fist behind Makarov’s beams.

Hughes defeated Jose and received a major boost to his physical abilities, then Makarov warned him to hide sudden changes in his strength. Makarov gave Hughes a Magic Council request ordering him to return to Clover Grand Canyon and investigate the incident involving Primordial Demon Satan and destroy the god race’s sealing array.

• Hughes’s attack overwhelmed Jose’s shield, and Hughes finished him off with a blaze of magic.
• The system declared the mission to challenge the Four Emperors’ Blackbeard complete and granted Hughes a substantial increase in physical abilities.
• Makarov punched Hughes after noticing his sudden increase in strength, then warned him that other wizards might notice it too.
• Makarov explained that ancient wizards had specialized in physical strength and examined Hughes’s unexpectedly powerful physique.
• Makarov handed Hughes a Magic Council request ordering him to investigate Clover Grand Canyon, where Hughes had encountered Primordial Demon Satan, and destroy the god race’s sealing array.

Hughes led Makarov into Clover Grand Canyon to find the magic circle sealing Satan, but his poor sense of direction kept them wandering in circles. The chapter left them fishing for Feather Fish from a cliff while Makarov wondered whether Hughes would ever find the seal.

• Hughes asked Makarov whether the Magic Council had objected to Mira taking over Satan, and Makarov implied he had made sure it would not.
• Makarov asked Hughes to guide him to Satan’s sealing circle in Clover Grand Canyon, and Hughes confidently set off in the wrong direction.
• After two days of wandering, Hughes and Makarov returned to the same cliff for the third time, where Hughes wanted to fish for Feather Fish.
• Hughes claimed he could catch fish without hooks or bait, and Makarov reminded him that he had failed to catch one during a previous guild fishing contest.
• Hughes teased Makarov about Master Bob, and Makarov punched him into the air before telling him they could leave if he did not want to fish.

Hughes and Makarov found and uncovered the damaged magic circle that had sealed Satan in the Clover Grand Canyon. As Makarov studied it, Hughes reflected on the Primordial Demons and gods he had learned existed in the Fairy Tail world.

• Hughes caught several Feather Fish, and he and Makarov decided to take them to Mira to cook.
• Makarov froze the fish, and Hughes carried him through the sky to search the Clover Grand Canyon for Satan’s sealed location.
• Hughes and Makarov found Satan’s former battlefield and uncovered the cracked golden magic circle beneath fallen rocks.
• Makarov began examining the circle, hoping to understand and learn from its ancient magic.
• Hughes recalled what Makarov had said about Satan, the Primordial Demons, and the Eighteen Battle Gods of Calamity Demons, and wondered how little he knew about gods and demons.

Makarov confirmed that the Clover Grand Canyon’s magic circle had sealed Satan and destroyed the now-defunct array and the surrounding corpses. He tried to teach Hughes to control his power and avoid damaging the surroundings, but Hughes exposed a recording of Makarov destroying mountains during his fight with Jose.

• Makarov examined the sealing array and realized that the History of Earth-land might describe other escaped Primordial Demons and gods.
• Hughes claimed the magic circle had swallowed the forbidden and super magic meant for him, but Makarov teased him by claiming he had found and learned two spells.
• Makarov used his immense magic power to erase the defunct array and the heaps of corpses without damaging the canyon.
• Makarov told Hughes he had acted carefully to avoid property damage, but Hughes played a recording of Makarov destroying several mountaintops behind Jose.
• Makarov lamented that Hughes had mistreated an old man after seeing the recording.