Recaps

Haihara, a lackluster teacher frustrated by her students’ unexplained absences, discovered that her student Kirishima Ai was Magical Girl Silver Feather after Ai went to fight a Monster. The Thorn Monster survived its defeat and encountered Haihara, who revealed she knew about the Black Death Cult and wanted it to make Ai quit being a magical girl and return to class.

• Haihara let Kirishima Ai leave class after she complained of a stomachache, then saw a news alert about a Monster attack.
• Magical Girl Silver Feather defeated the Thorn Monster, but noticed it left behind no crystal before her transformation ended.
• The Thorn Monster secretly regenerated in an alley and planned to grow stronger by absorbing more human emotions.
• Haihara approached the Thorn Monster, criticized its weakness, and said she had hoped it would make her student give up being a magical girl and return to class.

Haihara revealed herself as a powerful villainous Magical Girl and spared the Thorn Monster, ordering it to make Silver Feather give up being a Magical Girl. The chapter then showed Haihara’s hidden past with Monster crystals and ended with her reflecting on the Magical Girl students disrupting her quiet life.

• Haihara transformed and effortlessly seized the Thorn Monster, revealing herself as a villainous Magical Girl.
• Haihara released the Thorn Monster and told it to defeat Silver Feather and make her abandon her dream of saving the world.
• The Thorn Monster agreed to pursue its Mature Form and was drawn to a dark-green crystal Haihara offered it.
• Haihara washed her face and saw the beautiful, silver-haired Magical Girl whose memories sometimes appeared in her mirror.
• Haihara recalled gaining magical knowledge and power from Monster crystals before stopping because the memories and visions frightened her.
• Haihara reflected that her Magical Girl students kept disrupting her hopes of living quietly and confessing to Ms. Suzuki.

Kirishima Ai struggled with loneliness and her resentment toward Teacher Haihara while balancing school duty with her work as the Magical Girl Silver Feather. In the half-open Materials Room, she found a beautiful, disheveled woman who appeared to be a teacher, with a liquor bottle beside her.

• Kirishima Ai mopped the hallway while Takanashi Shiori questioned her bad mood and warned that the Black Death Cult's monsters were growing stronger.
• Kirishima Ai told Shiori that Teacher Haihara was a terrible teacher, then insisted she could defeat any monster.
• Kirishima Ai reflected on feeling lonely at school and on how nobody knew she was protecting the city as Silver Feather.
• Kirishima Ai went to the Materials Room to fetch an alcohol lamp and found its door half open, with clattering sounds coming from inside.
• Kirishima Ai entered the Materials Room and saw a beautiful, disheveled woman in a teacher's business suit beside a rolling liquor bottle.

Kirishima Ai encountered a drunken gray-haired teacher in the Materials Room, who kissed her and listened as she spoke about her frustrations with Teacher Haihara. The woman offered Kirishima wine, leaving her to decide whether to drink.

• The gray-haired woman called Kirishima Ai by name, lifted her chin, and kissed her while drunk.
• The woman apologized for her habit of kissing people when drunk and helped Kirishima find an alcohol lamp.
• The gray-haired woman mistook a bottle of 95% alcohol for a sobering-up drink and gulped it down.
• Kirishima Ai stayed with the woman and talked about feeling hurt by Teacher Haihara's criticism despite fighting Monsters to help people.
• The gray-haired woman offered Kirishima wine and said drinking could help her forget awful things.

Kirishima Ai found comfort in an embrace from a mysterious gray-haired teacher, who vanished before Ai could ask to see her again. Later, Haihara transformed the Thorn Monster with a snake crystal, and Ai headed toward a new Monster attack with Broken Wing and Silver Feather.

• The gray-haired teacher hugged Kirishima Ai until Ai felt better, then disappeared from the Materials Room without a trace.
• Kirishima Ai encountered her homeroom teacher, Haihara, while leaving the school with the alcohol lamp.
• Haihara visited the Thorn Monster and explained that the dark green crystal she had given it was a snake crystal that transformed it into a new kind of Monster.
• When a Monster appeared during Kirishima Ai’s convenience-store shift, Ai transformed with Broken Wing and prepared to use Silver Feather.

Kirishima Ai transformed into Magical Girl Silver Feather and fought a Thorn Monster strengthened by a Snake crystal. As Silver Feather struggled and spotted Teacher Haihara trapped nearby, Haihara confronted a Black Death Cult Apostle who had appeared in the alley.

• Kirishima Ai transformed into Magical Girl Silver Feather and raced toward the rampaging Thorn Monster.
• Silver Feather cut through the Monster’s thorns, but discovered its body had become a stronger, thorn-covered puppet.
• Silver Feather fought off the Thorn Snakes, was struck by a massive vine, and used a beam of magic to clear thorns from the sky.
• Silver Feather spotted Teacher Haihara hiding in an alley and grew anxious about her safety.
• Haihara told a Black Death Cult Apostle that only Silver Feather’s Magical Girl side would be hurt, then criticized the Apostle’s revealing outfit.
• Silver Feather was distracted by seeing Haihara, knocked down by a Thorn Snake, and bound by thorns.

Silver Feather defeated the Thorn Monster with a mysterious dark-green crystal’s overwhelming power, then collapsed after repairing the ruined street. Haihara confronted Black Death Cult executive Sha Qina, brought her to the cult’s headquarters, and began questioning her while the cult’s underlings speculated about Silver Feather and the strongest Magical Girl.

• Silver Feather tore the dark-green crystal from the Thorn Monster and used it in her wand to destroy the Monster with the Absolute Power Finish.
• Silver Feather repaired the devastated street with magic, then collapsed from exhaustion and was taken away by the other Magical Girls.
• Haihara met Sha Qina after the battle and used an unsettling display of intimacy to persuade the executive to talk.
• Haihara and Sha Qina arrived at the Black Death Cult headquarters, where the underlings whispered about Haihara and argued over which Magical Girl was strongest.
• Sha Qina’s expression darkened as she heard the underlings’ chatter, while Haihara silently judged the cult members to be a rabble.

Haihara helped the Black Death Cult create a new kind of Monster using a dark green crystal, while Takanashi Shiori identified the crystal as Snake magic tied to the legendary Overlord, Lilith. At school, Teacher Haihara reviewed the return of idol Tachibana Aeruru and the records of her problem students, including Kirishima Ai.

• Haihara offered to help the Black Death Cult create Monsters and transformed a Sprout Form minion with a dark green crystal.
• Takanashi Shiori explained to Kirishima Ai that the crystal was connected to Snake magic, created by the fallen Magical Girl Overlord, Lilith.
• Students at Kaedehara High School discussed the return of idol Tachibana Aeruru, and Teacher Haihara worried about managing her.
• Teacher Haihara reviewed Kirishima Ai's school record, noting her difficult circumstances and frequent absences.

Haihara considered the students connected to Magical Girls as Kirishima Ai and Takanashi Shiori discussed the other unknown Magical Girls in town. Kazama Kiriori visited Haihara with a message from the principal, then revealed her private affection for Haihara, who was her adoptive mother.

• Haihara identified Kirishima Ai, Takanashi Shiori, and Kazama Kiriori among the students connected to Magical Girls, while noting that Tachibana Aeruru would soon return to school.
• Kirishima Ai asked Takanashi Shiori about other Magical Girls in the city, and Shiori said several people at their school had unknown connections to them.
• Kazama Kiriori approached Kirishima Ai to ask where Haihara was, then went to find Haihara in the teachers' office.
• Kazama told Haihara that the principal was concerned about low attendance and Tachibana Aeruru's upcoming return, then locked the office door and closed the curtains.
• Kazama hugged Haihara and called her Mom, and Haihara reminded her not to do so because she was only twenty-seven.
• Haihara recalled that Kazama, now eighteen, was her adopted daughter, whom she had taken in during university.

Kazama Kiriori noticed a Monster at school and stayed behind because Haihara was still in the building. The Monster attacked Kirishima Ai, who transformed into Magical Girl Silver Feather and began fighting it, but she struggled with exhaustion and could not easily damage it.

• Kazama Kiriori visited Haihara, accepted the offer to stay over sometime, and asked her to go on a mother-daughter date.
• After leaving Haihara's office, Kazama Kiriori spotted a first-year student and recognized a faintly glowing armband as a sign of a Monster like herself.
• Kirishima Ai encountered a kite-like Monster while eating lunch, dodged its attacks, and triggered the school's Monster alarm.
• The Monster smashed through a wall and a window, throwing Kirishima Ai outside; she transformed into Magical Girl Silver Feather before hitting the ground.
• Magical Girl Silver Feather deployed a barrier and attacked the Kite Monster, but felt weakened after her previous battle and struggled to hurt it.
• The Kite Monster lashed Silver Feather with its cloth-covered spine as she pressed down on it.

Magical Girl Silver Feather struggled against the Kite Monster until Magical Girl Star Flower returned and helped her defeat it, after which Silver Feather collapsed from exhaustion. She woke in the infirmary with Teacher Haihara, who brought her a lunchbox, while the Kite Monster’s mention of three years ago left her wondering what had happened then.

• Magical Girl Silver Feather fought the Kite Monster while exhausted, and Kazama Kiriori watched from the empty school building.
• Magical Girl Star Flower arrived, restrained the Kite Monster with vines, and helped Silver Feather destroy its mask and defeat it.
• Magical Girl Silver Feather fainted after using up her remaining magic power, and Star Flower picked up the Monster’s crystal.
• Kirishima Ai woke in the infirmary, where Teacher Haihara told her that other students had brought her there.
• Kirishima Ai remembered the Kite Monster’s reference to three years ago and wondered whether something had happened at the school.
• Teacher Haihara noticed Kirishima Ai was hungry, left the infirmary, and returned with a lunchbox.

Kirishima Ai learned more about Teacher Haihara while eating her lunch, then visited Doctor Kougami to investigate the exhaustion that followed her transformations. Doctor found that Silver Feather needed time to recover and agreed to study the Thorn Monster’s unusual crystal, while Ai noticed a cheap-looking ring on Doctor’s finger.

• Kirishima Ai ate Teacher Haihara’s homemade lunch and learned that the rice design depicted her pet snake, Little White.
• Kirishima Ai went to Doctor Kougami’s laboratory for an examination because transforming into a Magical Girl left her exhausted and low on magic.
• Doctor Kougami found Ai’s ordinary body healthy but confirmed that Silver Feather’s condition was poor after an intense battle with the Thorn Monster.
• Doctor Kougami explained that Ai’s Magical Girl form absorbed injuries and needed rest to recover its magic power.
• Kirishima Ai showed Doctor Kougami the Thorn Monster’s dark-green crystal, and Doctor agreed to study whether it could be modified for use.
• Kirishima Ai noticed a small, inexpensive-looking ring on Doctor Kougami’s left ring finger.

Haihara dreamed of the gray-haired Magical Girl whose memories she had inherited, then went through an ordinary morning at home and school. The chapter left her accepting a croquette from Kirishima Ai while Sha Qina messaged her about a mature snake Monster.

• Haihara dreamed about the gray-haired Magical Girl’s long life and her wish for eternity.
• Haihara woke up, saw the gray-haired woman’s reflection in the mirror, and checked on her pet snake, Little White.
• Haihara went to school and learned that a troublesome Problem Child would return to her class that afternoon.
• Sha Qina messaged Haihara to ask whether they should release their mature snake Monster for battle.
• Kirishima Ai offered Haihara a croquette, and Haihara accepted it.

Haihara spoke with Sakaki Chika about returning to school and noticed signs that the girl was struggling. Sakaki began attending class and reunited with Kirishima Ai, but her anxiety surfaced when she was asked to sing in music class.

• Haihara let Kirishima Ai finish her croquette and messaged Sha Qina that she would give the girl time to develop.
• Haihara met with Sakaki Chika, who said she had returned because she wanted to study and asked to resume attending school.
• Haihara noticed bruiselike marks and cuts on Sakaki Chika, arranged for her to start class that afternoon, and promised to seat her with Kirishima Ai.
• Teacher Suzuki invited Sakaki Chika to sing in music class, but Sakaki froze and could not speak, so Suzuki let her sit down.
• Sakaki Chika told Kirishima Ai that she liked Teacher Suzuki because of her kindness.

Haihara tried to teach class while a new Monster escaped ahead of schedule, forcing Kirishima Ai and Sakaki Chika to leave the classroom as Magical Girls. The Monster overwhelmed Magical Girl Silver Feather at an amusement park, leaving her defeated and civilians panicking.

• Haihara watched Ms. Suzuki teach music class while messaging her childhood friend Kougami Kage, whose dinner and movie invitations she rejected.
• During Japanese class, Haihara received Sha Qina's message that a new Monster had escaped, and Kirishima Ai claimed her stomach hurt so she could leave.
• Haihara gave Kirishima Ai five minutes to return, then received word that the powerful Monster was defeating Magical Girl Silver Feather.
• Sakaki Chika also asked to leave because her stomach hurt, and Haihara coldly told her and Kirishima Ai to come to her office afterward.
• The Monster wreaked havoc at an amusement park and knocked Magical Girl Silver Feather unconscious as civilians fled in terror.

Magical Girl Star Flower arrived to help Silver Feather defeat the powerful Pterosaur Monster, while Haihara later questioned Sha Qina about Perfect Form Monsters and the Black Death Cult’s plans. Sha Qina asked whether Haihara was a Magical Girl, and Haihara gave an uncertain answer.

• Sakaki Chika transformed into Magical Girl Star Flower and joined the injured Silver Feather against the Pterosaur Monster.
• Magical Girl Star Flower prepared to cast a spell to finish the fight before Haihara noticed the battle’s aftermath.
• Haihara learned from Sha Qina that Monsters evolved into Perfect Form by fulfilling their desires, and that the Black Death Cult’s other executives were still recovering from injuries inflicted by Magical Girl Phantom Wind.
• Sha Qina explained that she sought to revive the Demon King by collecting Magic Crystals and had little reason to fight Magical Girls herself.
• Sha Qina asked Haihara whether she was a Magical Girl, and Haihara replied that it depended on how the term was defined.

Kirishima Ai and the other magical girls discussed the growing threat of Monsters and Takanashi Shiori’s mission to recover the Overlord’s Relic. After drinking, Haihara transformed into a silver-gray-haired woman and went looking for trouble, but she found Kirishima Ai waiting in the Materials Room and asking to talk.

• Kirishima Ai and Sakaki Chika were summoned to Haihara’s office, and Sakaki Chika came out crying.
• Kirishima Ai, Sakaki Chika, and Takanashi Shiori discussed stronger Monsters, powerful Magic Crystals, and Takanashi Shiori’s mission to recover the Relic of the Overlord.
• Haihara drank high-proof liquor in her office and transformed into a silver-gray-haired woman with magic powers.
• Haihara went to the Materials Room and found Kirishima Ai there, and Kirishima Ai asked to talk with her again.

Haihara, posing as Lily, learned why Kirishima Ai wanted to become a magical girl and comforted her. Later, Haihara found Sakaki Chika alone in the infirmary after school and invited her to talk rather than making her go home.

• Kirishima Ai asked Lily what Haihara was like, and Lily described Haihara as boring and unlikable, though Kirishima Ai disagreed.
• Kirishima Ai explained that she became a magical girl hoping to save her disabled younger sister and become her hero.
• Lily agreed to meet Kirishima Ai again, and Kirishima Ai asked for the comforting embrace they had shared before.
• Sakaki Chika stayed in the infirmary after school because she did not want to go home.
• Haihara found Sakaki Chika there, told her she would not force her to go home, and offered to talk with her.

Haihara spoke with Sakaki Chika about school, her reasons for becoming an idol, and Haihara’s own accidental path into teaching. Sakaki Chika reflected on how becoming a magical girl had seemed to improve her life, then returned home to find debt notices waiting again and faced her drunken father.

• Haihara, still drunk and using magic to alter her appearance, answered Sakaki Chika’s questions about studying and asked how she was getting along with her classmates.
• Sakaki Chika said she struggled to talk to people and claimed she became an idol because she liked making others smile, while Haihara noticed unexplained bruises on her.
• Haihara told Sakaki Chika she had become a teacher by following her college friends rather than from any special ambition.
• Walking home, Sakaki Chika admitted to herself that she had become an idol because her family was in debt and revealed that her grandmother’s Pendulum had turned her into a magical girl with the Magician.
• Sakaki Chika reached home and found debt notices on the floor, while her drunken father muttered about money.

After her exam results fell near the bottom of the class, Sakaki Chika tried to avoid a home visit, but Teacher Haihara insisted on accompanying her home. Chika feared Haihara would discover the secret and dangerous reality of her household as they set off together.

• Sakaki Chika felt overwhelmed by her poor exam results and considered abandoning school to return to work.
• Kirishima Ai tried to reassure Chika that Teacher Haihara probably would not actually visit her home.
• Teacher Haihara stopped Chika after school and ordered her to take her home, explaining that she needed to speak with Chika's parents about her grades.
• Chika lied that her family was not home, but Haihara refused to delay the visit.
• Chika walked home in growing desperation while Haihara followed, unaware of Chika's fear.

Haihara accompanied Sakaki Chika home and found her being abused by a drunken man who demanded her money. After Haihara beat him and comforted Chika, Chika admitted she was still afraid, leaving Haihara determined to help her deal with the threats.

• Sakaki Chika entered her home and found the drunken man demanding money and gifts from her.
• The man grabbed Chika, pulled her hair, and raised his fist, but Haihara intervened and beat him.
• Haihara examined Chika’s injuries and told her to seek medical care.
• Haihara questioned why Chika was paying the man’s debts, and Chika said he had something he could use against her as an idol.
• Haihara urged Chika to tell her manager and offered to help, while telling her to learn to protect herself.
• Chika thanked Haihara but began crying and admitted she was still scared.

After Sakaki Chika broke down over her home situation, Haihara took her in for a few days and brought her back to her apartment. The chapter left them settling in together while Haihara made dinner and Chika dried her hair after a shower.

• Sakaki Chika cried in Haihara's arms, then apologized and admitted she had little money and nowhere safe to stay.
• Haihara offered to pay for an inn, but Chika pleaded not to be left alone, so Haihara agreed to let her stay temporarily until she received her endorsement payment.
• Haihara brought Sakaki Chika to her small apartment and introduced her to Little White, a white snake she kept in a glass enclosure.
• Haihara told Sakaki Chika to shower while she cooked omurice, then waited for her to finish.
• Sakaki Chika came out of the bathroom freshly showered, and Haihara pointed her toward the hair dryer.

Haihara cared for Sakaki Chika at home and asked the Black Death Cult to deal with the man causing her trouble. After Sakaki Chika misunderstood Haihara’s mention of her adopted daughter, she joined Haihara on the balcony at night and hugged her, wishing her good night.

• Haihara shared her homemade omurice with Sakaki Chika, who cried while eating it.
• Haihara asked Sha Qina to have the Black Death Cult take Sakaki Chika’s troubled family member to a psychiatric hospital.
• Haihara prepared a room for Sakaki Chika and offered her pajamas that had belonged to her adopted daughter, Kiriori.
• Sakaki Chika mistakenly thought Haihara was married, then brightened when Haihara explained that her daughter was adopted.
• Haihara smoked on the balcony late at night until Sakaki Chika came over and hugged her, saying good night.

The magical girls used Takanashi Shiori’s spellbook to search for the high-proof liquor needed to summon a mentor from the Academy, and the spell led them to Teacher Haihara’s office. Kazama Kiriori arrived there hoping to see Haihara and found the three girls investigating the office.

• Kazama Kiriori woke during the night, felt lonely, and decided to surprise her mother by visiting home on the weekend.
• Kirishima Ai noticed Sakaki Chika’s unusually cheerful, lovestruck mood before Takanashi Shiori revealed that a mentor from the Academy would soon descend to Earth.
• Takanashi Shiori learned that the summoning required high-proof distilled liquor and used a Wine Seeking Spell to locate it.
• Kazama Kiriori rejected Chiba’s love confession but admitted that she liked someone exceptional and would have to work hard to be with her.
• Kazama Kiriori went to the first-year building to see Haihara and found Kirishima Ai, Sakaki Chika, and Takanashi Shiori outside Haihara’s office, where they believed the liquor was inside.

Kirishima Ai, Takanashi Shiori, and Sakaki Chika stole distilled liquor from Teacher Haihara's office and used it to summon a mentor from R'lyeh. The summoning brought forth Roland Eldritch, who recognized the liquor and learned that Sakaki Chika's grandmother was Tachibana Aeru.

• Kazama Kiriori arrived at Teacher Haihara's office, found it empty, and asked Sakaki Chika whether she was settling in at school.
• Takanashi Shiori and Kirishima Ai searched the office and found liquor jars hidden in a cupboard, while Sakaki Chika kept watch.
• The three girls took two jars to a secluded classroom, where Takanashi Shiori used the liquor and a Magic Crystal to perform a summoning ritual.
• Roland Eldritch appeared, and Takanashi Shiori recognized her as the Gemstone Duke and dean of Moon Academy.
• Roland introduced herself to Kirishima Ai and Sakaki Chika, who said that her grandmother, Tachibana Aeru, had told her stories about Roland.