Recaps

Tachibana confronted Kazama Kiriori with claims that Haihara had abandoned many adopted children and was not Kiriori’s biological mother. The chapter ended with Tachibana insisting that Haihara had blood relatives of her own and that Kiriori was an unwanted adopted child.

• Tachibana asked Kazama Kiriori to hand Miss Haihara over to her, and Kiriori broke Tachibana’s arm.
• Tachibana compared Kiriori to a stray puppy and claimed Haihara had abandoned many such children, including herself.
• Kiriori rejected Tachibana’s claims and insisted that Haihara was still her mother despite their lack of blood relation.
• Tachibana reminded Kiriori of their previous conversation and asserted that Haihara had biological parents of her own and that Kiriori was an unwanted adopted child.

Tachibana threatened to tempt Haihara Lily Chou with the possibility of resurrecting her dead parents unless Kazama Kiriori accepted her proposal. After Tachibana escaped, Kazama’s fear for Haihara led her to insist that Haihara stay by her side.

• Tachibana offered to bring Haihara’s parents back to life and revealed that Kazama had hidden their deaths from her.
• Tachibana threatened to take Haihara away and offer her a wish, then disappeared as her magical-power clone.
• Kazama struggled with guilt and fear, then decided to tell Doctor what had happened.
• Haihara offered to fetch the groceries Kazama had left downstairs, but Kazama grabbed her arm and begged her not to leave her sight.

Haihara Lily Chou reassured Kazama Kiriori that she would stay by her side, while Kirishima Ai and the other Problem Children dealt with increasingly frequent monster attacks. After school was canceled because of heavy snow, the group headed to Teacher Haihara's vacant home next to Kuroki Yuka's house.

• Haihara Lily Chou asked Kazama Kiriori if she was worried about her disappearing and promised to stay by her side.
• Kirishima Ai and Kuroki Yuka arrived at school exhausted after taking turns responding to frequent monster attacks.
• Sakaki Chika and Takanashi left class on excuses and secretly transformed to head toward monsters elsewhere in the city.
• Teacher Roland announced that heavy snow had canceled afternoon classes and told students to take their homework home.
• The Problem Children left school together and headed to Teacher Haihara's long-vacant home next to Kuroki Yuka's house.

Takanashi explained that the Flower Demon King’s base was in the World Apart and linked the Demon King, Teacher Haihara’s transformation, and Maple Plain City’s urban legends to the Overlord’s magical artifact. The group realized the demon tree could drain snake-type Magical Girls, leaving them without enough fighters to attack the base until Doctor found a way to counter it.

• The Problem Children gathered at Teacher Haihara’s home to plan an assault on the Flower Demon King’s headquarters in the World Apart.
• Takanashi explained that the group could now enter the World Apart voluntarily, but the giant demonic tree there remained a major obstacle.
• Takanashi connected the demonic tree’s ability to drain snake-type magic power with the Overlord’s magical artifact and suggested the artifact was under the Flower Demon King’s control.
• Takanashi concluded that the artifact likely caused Teacher Haihara’s situation and the urban legends across Maple Plain City, making the Demon King’s defeat necessary to resolve them.
• Kuroki Yuka and Takanashi recognized that only Sakaki Chika and Kazama-senpai could currently fight the Demon King, while its powerful subordinates made their numbers insufficient.
• Kirishima Ai asked whether Doctor was researching a way to protect them from the demonic tree’s magic-draining ability.

As the Doctor’s research neared completion, the girls prepared for a final battle expected within days while sparing Kazama Kiriori from being called back into magical-girl duties. Kirishima Ai returned to her family’s apartment during a blizzard and spent a quiet afternoon with Hina and Silver Feather, chatting with Haihara Lily Chou.

• Takanashi said the Doctor expected to have results within a few days, allowing the group to confront their greatest problem.
• Sakaki Chika said Kazama Kiriori should be left to care for Haihara Lily Chou and prepare for exams rather than join the battle.
• Kirishima Ai transformed into Fate Kite, flew through the blizzard with her bicycle, and returned to her mother and Hina’s apartment.
• Hina welcomed Kirishima Ai home and brought her Silver Feather, who settled on Kirishima Ai as she relaxed on the sofa.
• Kirishima Ai messaged Haihara Lily Chou about the school closure and sent her a photo of Silver Feather perched on her head.
• Hina noticed Kirishima Ai’s chat with Haihara Lily Chou and teased her while leaning against her sister.

Kirishima Ai reassured Hina about the rising number of Monsters as a snowstorm raged outside, while Haihara Lily Chou spent a quiet day beside Kazama. As evening came, Haihara asked Kazama to share more about what she liked, disliked, and what made her sad.

• A heavy snowstorm startled Kirishima Ai, Hina, and Silver Feather, and Ai worried about her mother getting home safely.
• Hina told Kirishima Ai that she had noticed the increased Monster attacks and promised that she and Silver Feather would help if trouble came.
• Haihara Lily Chou read messages from Sakaki Chika, Kuroki Yuka, and Takanashi, and told Takanashi that she missed her.
• Haihara waited beside the sleeping Kazama, who slept peacefully after sensing Haihara nearby, and the two remained together until evening.
• Haihara asked Kazama to get to know each other better by sharing what she liked, disliked, and what made her sad.

Kazama Kiriori and Haihara shared their wishes and dislikes, and Haihara admitted she felt deceived when people made decisions for her without telling her the truth. Haihara then developed a dangerously high fever, leaving Kazama anxiously caring for her at home.

• Kazama told Haihara she had once wished to grow taller so she could protect someone and let her lean on her.
• Haihara said she hoped someone would sincerely like her for who she was, and admitted she disliked being kept in the dark and having others decide things for her.
• Kazama fell silent after Haihara described feeling deceived by people who had helped her.
• Kazama noticed Haihara was unusually tired and hot, and Haihara realized she might be sick.
• Haihara came down with a high fever during heavy snowfall and lay on Kazama's bed while Kazama watched over her anxiously.

Haihara recovered from a fever while Kazama Kiriori stayed by her side, and she reflected on her forgotten memories and approaching return to adulthood. Star Flower visited to care for her, then recognized the transformation crystal Haihara wore as the president’s.

• Kazama Kiriori cared for feverish Haihara through the night, and Haihara said she would never have children because she could not care for them properly.
• Haihara wondered whether she would soon recover her memories and return to adulthood as her fever began to subside.
• After seeing Sakaki Chika’s messages, Haihara invited Star Flower to visit while Kazama slept.
• Star Flower tried to heal Haihara, then brought her water and used magic to cool it to a comfortable temperature.
• Star Flower recognized Haihara’s pendant as the president’s transformation crystal, which Haihara said had been given to her as a protective charm.

While sick, Haihara discovered that Kazama Kiriori’s protective crystal carried a Forgetting Spell, and removing it helped her remember Kazama’s promise to ask Kougami about her parents. The chapter left Haihara alone and feverish after Star Flower left to fight a Monster, unable to reach Kougami and wondering whom she could call.

• Star Flower noticed unfamiliar magic on Haihara’s crystal but dismissed her suspicions while caring for Haihara’s fever.
• Haihara asked Cangyue Yuri to identify the spell and learned that it caused people to forget important things and overlook matters they cared about.
• After Star Flower left to fight a Monster, Haihara removed the crystal and remembered Kazama Kiriori had promised to ask Kougami about her parents.
• Haihara called Kougami for help, but he did not answer, leaving her to wonder whom else she could call.

Haihara Lily Chou tried to call her family home but found the number disconnected, then searched through Kazama Kiriori’s keepsakes and asked who Kazama was. Kazama continued hiding the truth about Haihara’s parents as Haihara pleaded for a call they would answer.

• Haihara repeatedly called her home number, heard that it had been suspended, and cried over how unfamiliar everything had become.
• Kazama woke and found Haihara sitting among the photographs and mementos she had hidden away.
• Haihara asked why her life was full of pictures with Kazama and demanded to know who Kazama was.
• Kazama tried to make Haihara return to bed, but Haihara refused and asked whether Kougami had found out anything about her parents.
• Kazama claimed Kougami had been too busy to investigate, and Haihara showed her the failed call records and asked for a call her parents would answer.

Haihara, sick and desperate to leave Kazama Kiriori’s house, confronted Kazama about keeping her isolated and hiding the truth. Their argument exposed their clashing fears and left Kazama deciding to imprison Haihara until she was safe.

• Haihara tried to leave to find Kougami, but Kazama Kiriori blocked the door because Haihara was feverish and the storm made going outside dangerous.
• Haihara demanded to know how long she had to stay and accused Kazama of treating her like everyone else; Kazama said they were different because she had adopted Haihara.
• Haihara insisted she could never have adopted a child because everything she raised died, and Kazama rejected her words as impossible for her mother to say.
• Kazama argued that she had hidden the truth and kept watch to protect Haihara, while Haihara said she did not need that protection or to be kept ignorant.
• Haihara refused to seek help from Takanashi and the others, and Kazama ordered her to remain in the house until it was safe, turning her protection into imprisonment.

Kazama Kiriori transformed into Phantom Wind and rushed the collapsing Haihara Lily Chou toward a hospital, but Haihara suddenly became younger and the Flower Demon King appeared. Elsewhere, Hina and Silver Feather planned to help Kirishima Ai, while Fate Kite discovered that adults across the city had turned into children.

• Kazama Kiriori caught Haihara Lily Chou when she collapsed, then tried and failed to contact Sakaki or Aunt Kougami.
• Kazama Kiriori transformed into Phantom Wind and flew through the blizzard with Haihara toward a hospital.
• Phantom Wind noticed Haihara had shrunk to the size of a twelve- or thirteen-year-old, and the Flower Demon King appeared to tease her.
• Hina worried about her missing mother and Kirishima Ai, then agreed with Silver Feather that they would help Kirishima Ai if danger arose.
• Fate Kite saw adults throughout the city transform into children around thirteen or fourteen years old.

Fate Kite discovered that the Flower Demon King’s magic was drawing citizens into World Apart and had affected her mother, while Magical Girls across Maple Plain City dealt with simultaneous crises. At Doctor Kougami’s empty laboratory, Thousand Sins learned Doctor had left suddenly and found that the unfinished protective crystals would force them to ask the president to anchor their formation.

• Fate Kite found Shiratori Aoi among citizens heading toward the vortex gate, but her mother did not recognize her and did not know who Hina was.
• Prison Flowers blocked Fate Kite from interfering with the citizens and challenged her to fight while she held back to avoid harming civilians.
• Magical Girls responded to disasters across Maple Plain City as broadcasts were disrupted by the appearance of portals and witches.
• Takanashi and Thousand Sins found Doctor Kougami’s laboratory empty, and Thousand Sins discovered the unfinished anti-drain Magic Crystals at Doctor’s workstation.
• Haro reported that Doctor had suddenly left the laboratory and that only a limited number of usable crystals remained, so Thousand Sins concluded they would need the president to serve as the formation’s core.

Kazama Kiriori, as Phantom Wind, fled Tachibana Aeruru with the feverish Haihara Lily Chou after Tachibana explained that Haihara’s wish was making people in the city regress into childhood. After finding no way to contact anyone, Phantom Wind saw citizens being led toward World Apart and feared her mother had been affected too.

• Kazama Kiriori confronted Tachibana Aeruru after Haihara grew younger while unconscious, and Tachibana said Haihara’s wish had been granted.
• Tachibana explained that Haihara feared growing up and longed for the past, while Monsters surrounded Phantom Wind and Haihara.
• Phantom Wind fought through the Monsters and escaped with Haihara, then searched for somewhere safe but could contact no one.
• Phantom Wind noticed groups of citizens wandering like children as Prison Flowers guided them toward World Apart.
• Phantom Wind suspected that her mother had also been affected as the city’s residents lost their memories of growing up.

Phantom Wind tried to flee with the awakened, childlike Haihara Lily Chou, but the Flower Demon King, Tachibana, intercepted them. Haihara mistook Tachibana for her mother and went to her, leaving Phantom Wind trapped and crying out for her to give Haihara back.

• Haihara Lily Chou woke in Phantom Wind’s arms, confused and feverish, and asked where she was and who Phantom Wind was.
• The Flower Demon King, Tachibana, blocked Phantom Wind’s escape with monstrous vines.
• Haihara pulled free of Phantom Wind and called Tachibana “Mom,” asking her to take her home.
• Tachibana’s vines separated Haihara from Phantom Wind and restrained Phantom Wind as she tried to reach the child.
• Tachibana comforted Haihara while Phantom Wind struggled against the vines and shouted for her to give Haihara back.

Tachibana used a wish to make Haihara believe she was her mother and took her away from Phantom Wind, who was overwhelmed by Haihara’s lunar magic and swallowed by demonic vines. Tachibana carried the sleeping Haihara through the aftermath in Maple Plain City and discovered a crystal inside her, intending to take her back to World Apart.

• Tachibana explained that her wish made her a mother to Haihara, whose memories and perception had been altered.
• Tachibana called on Haihara to stop Phantom Wind, and Haihara used lunar magic to crush Phantom Wind and hold her in place.
• Phantom Wind pleaded with Haihara to return, but Haihara only said that seeing her made her feel sad, and Phantom Wind was swallowed by demonic vines.
• Haihara asked Tachibana to take her home, and Tachibana carried the feverish child away as she fell asleep.
• After the chaos in Maple Plain City subsided, Tachibana prepared to take Haihara to World Apart and found a crystal inside her body.

Tachibana left the frozen, chaotic city after learning that Lilith still possessed the Devil King Crystal, while the magical girls regrouped at Doctor Kougami's laboratory. Kazama Kiriori arrived wounded and revealed that the Flower Demon King had taken Haihara, leaving the group facing the city's ongoing crisis without knowing what to do next.

• Tachibana confirmed that little Haihara still carried the moon-aligned Devil King Crystal, then left through the gateway to World Apart after hearing the report about Kougami Kage's laboratory.
• Roland froze the city to prevent accidents while the magical girls gathered at Doctor Kougami's empty laboratory and realized the president had tried to contact them.
• Sakaki Chika called Kazama Kiriori, who gave a numb reply and later came to the laboratory with untreated wounds.
• Takanashi asked Kazama Kiriori what had happened, and Kazama revealed that the Flower Demon King had taken Haihara.
• Kazama explained that Haihara had been made younger, lost more memories, viewed the Flower Demon King as her mother, and gained the power of a moon-type monster.

Kazama Kiriori revealed that Haihara had become a younger version of herself with no memories beyond her first year of high school, after wishing to escape painful memories. The group prepared a spell that might restore some of Haihara’s memories, while Kazama left to ask the principal for help despite her injuries.

• Kirishima Ai asked why Kazama Kiriori had lost confidence, and Kazama explained Haihara’s altered age, memories, and the Flower Demon King’s offer to resurrect the dead.
• Takanashi described the enemies and reported that Doctor had mysteriously left her laboratory, leaving behind unfinished devices and a spell designed with the principal to address Haihara’s amnesia.
• Takanashi proposed adapting the spell to influence Haihara’s altered perceptions, and Kazama gave her a blue crystal already inscribed with a similar curse.
• The group prepared the memory spell and unfinished anti-absorption crystals for combat while Takanashi told everyone to rest or prepare.
• Kazama Kiriori left the laboratory to seek help from the principal, refusing Sakaki Chika’s request to treat her bloodied wounds first.

Kazama Kiriori visited Liang after the Flower Demon King took her mother, Haihara, and admitted how badly she was struggling. Liang promised to step in if Kazama could not save them, leaving Kazama to confront the pain and plans she had buried.

• Kirishima Ai worried that Kazama was more troubled than she let on and went to check on her.
• Kazama found Liang at the Haihara home, where Liang treated her lingering pain despite most of her wounds having healed.
• Kazama told Liang that the Flower Demon King had taken Haihara and asked whether Liang would help.
• Liang promised to handle things if Kazama could not, easing Kazama's panic.
• Kazama broke down over her injuries, ruined clothes, and the Christmas plans she had hoped to share with Haihara.

Kazama Kiriori learned why Liang had chosen not to intervene in Haihara’s troubles, and Liang entrusted her with making the right choice. At Doctor Kougami’s laboratory, Takanashi Shiori broke down over feeling responsible for the failed plan and their teacher’s capture, while Sakaki Chika comforted her.

• Kazama Kiriori asked Liang why she had watched Haihara’s troubles unfold without helping, and Liang said Haihara no longer wanted or needed her help.
• Liang revealed that she had chosen Kazama Kiriori as her extension and continuation, while hoping she would still make her own choices.
• At Doctor Kougami’s laboratory, Takanashi Shiori began crying as she worked on the crystals, and Sakaki Chika noticed and went to comfort her.
• Takanashi Shiori said she felt useless despite trying to grow stronger and help, and she blamed herself for the danger and their teacher’s capture.
• Sakaki Chika realized Takanashi Shiori had been carrying the responsibility of leading them and continued wiping her tears and comforting her.

Kazama Kiriori returned to the research institute and admitted to Fate Kite that she feared losing the chance to apologize to her mother, as she had after her parents died. The Magical Girls gathered to attack the Flower Demon King’s base in World Apart, rescue the captured people, and confront the enemy inside the enormous demon tree.

• Sakaki Chika encouraged Takanashi Shiori and the others to keep working hard and believe they could save everyone from Miss Tachibana.
• Kazama Kiriori spotted Fate Kite following her and learned that she had not overheard her private conversation.
• Fate Kite asked what was troubling Kazama Kiriori, who recalled fighting with her mother before her parents died and feared she would never get to apologize to Haihara.
• Fate Kite urged Kazama Kiriori to defeat the Flower Demon King with them and resolve the issue with Haihara afterward.
• Cangyue Yuri reported that the Flower Demon King was likely inside the enormous demon tree in World Apart, where the Magical Girls planned to strike and rescue the captives.

Star Flower carried Takanashi, Kirishima Ai, Kuroki Yuka, Kazama Kiriori, and Cangyue Yuri through a portal into World Apart to reach the colossal magic tree. After destroying the pursuing Monsters, they entered the tree’s eerie interior, where Takanashi sensed an attack just as Star Flower prepared to speed upward.

• Star Flower piloted her magical armament, Final Song, through a spatial rift while the untransformed Magical Girls clung to it and guarded crystals meant to protect their snake-type magical power.
• The group entered World Apart and saw the enormous magic tree rising above the city, while Star Flower detected and fought off the flying Monsters pursuing them.
• Star Flower used Hundred Thousand Extinction Wave to destroy the pursuing Monsters, then followed Cangyue Yuri’s directions to a narrow entrance in the tree wall.
• Inside the tree, Star Flower found no enemies as she cautiously guided the group upward through its dark, poisonous, tower-like interior.
• Takanashi suddenly sensed that enemies had arrived, and Star Flower sent out flower buds to form crimson barriers around the group.

The Magical Girls fought their way up the Demon Tree while the Black Death Cults tried to keep them from reaching the Demon King. Thousand Sins stayed behind to face the Torch Dragon Black Death Cult, and another girl jumped down to confront the pursuing Curse Poison Black Death Cult as it closed in on Star Flower.

• The Torch Dragon Black Death Cult shattered the barrier with a time-stopping ambush, but Star Flower blasted it back after Takanashi detected its position.
• Takanashi transformed into Magical Girl Thousand Sins—Reverse Scale and challenged the Torch Dragon Black Death Cult, telling her companions to continue upward.
• The Torch Dragon ordered the other Black Death Cults to pursue Star Flower and the advancing Magical Girls while it fought Thousand Sins.
• The Snowy Owl Black Death Cult, a Black Goat spawn, a Nine-Tailed Fox, and the Curse Poison Black Death Cult pursued the group, and Kuroki Yuka questioned Kirishima Ai about Snowy Owl's return.
• The Curse Poison Black Death Cult broke through Star Flower's barrage, prompting another girl to leap from the stage and intercept it.

Dark Kite confronted the Black Death Cultists while Star Flower and her allies fought upward through the demonic tree toward the Flower Demon King. The group split up to navigate the shifting paths, and Kazama Kiriori encountered the Black Goat Black Death Cult alone with Takanashi’s memory-awakening spell.

• Dark Kite descended on the Snowy Owl Black Death Cult and challenged the four Black Death Cultists surrounding her.
• Star Flower carried the group past attacks from the demonic tree, while Shadow Moon transformed and stayed behind to fight the newly hatched Monsters.
• The Flower Demon King spoke to Kirishima Ai, said that Lily and the others were dreaming, and twisted the tree’s upper paths to slow their advance.
• Kazama Kiriori proposed splitting up, and Star Flower threw her and Kirishima Ai onto separate routes before continuing alone.
• Kazama Kiriori reached a chamber with Takanashi’s memory-awakening spell and came face-to-face with the powerful Black Goat Black Death Cult.

Kazama Kiriori used her Ace crystal to transform herself into a powerful Black Death Cult-like knight and attacked the remaining cultists. She faced their crystal barrier and questioned whether she could still be called Phantom Wind in this form.

• Kazama Kiriori ignored the Black Goat Black Death Cultist’s warnings and approached it without transforming.
• The Black Goat attacked Kazama Kiriori, but she seized its neck and revealed that her body had already gained extraordinary strength.
• Kazama Kiriori thrust the pitch-black Ace crystal into her body and transformed into a dark, armored pegasus knight.
• Kazama Kiriori blasted into the room where three Black Death Cult members waited and declared that they should not block her path.
• Crystal Armor protected the other cultists with a crystal barrier, and Kazama Kiriori wondered whether she could still be called Phantom Wind.