Recaps

Kirishima Ai learned that Magical Girls who surpassed the Holy Domain were called Crown Bearers, including Teacher Roland, the Queen, the Demon King, and the Holy Lord, an Abailia. Haihara Lily Chou faced trouble at school and with the Villainous Female Executive, then met privately with Principal Haihara Ryo, where their encounter ended with Haihara ordering her to repaint her faded toenail polish.

• Takanashi Shiori explained to Kirishima Ai that Crown Bearers surpassed Holy Domain Magical Girls and named the Holy Lord as an Abailia and the older sister of the former Overlord.
• Haihara Lily Chou worried over her class's poor attendance, her interrupted cooperation with the Villain Organization, and her uncertain future as a teacher.
• Haihara encountered her daughter, Kazama Kiriori, outside the principal's office before entering for a meeting about Class Four's attendance.
• Principal Haihara Ryo locked the office and submitted to Haihara, who stepped on her face and told her to get it over with.
• Afterward, Haihara pointed out that the principal's nail polish had faded while the principal held and stroked her foot.

Haihara reflected on her growing loneliness before meeting her student Takanashi Shiori, whose mysterious circumstances Kirishima Ai investigated. The chapter ended with Ai learning that Shiori survived on snacks classmates gave her and went hungry when she had no money.

• The principal painted Haihara’s toenails, and they arranged to eat zhajiangmian together the following weekend.
• Haihara smoked alone at school and thought about how quiet and lonely her life had become.
• Takanashi Shiori joined Haihara at the stairwell, skipped P.E., and shared rice crackers with her.
• Kirishima Ai asked Shiori about her life outside school, but Shiori refused to say where she lived.
• Shiori told Ai that she went hungry when she ran out of money and relied on classmates for snacks to fill her stomach.

Takanashi Shiori struggled to get by without money or a place to sleep, then called Teacher Haihara and offered to keep her company in exchange for help. The next morning, Shiori met Haihara in the city and called her “Mom” as Haihara laid out what she expected from their paid outing.

• Kirishima Ai realized her guess about Takanashi Shiori’s circumstances was mostly right, but stopped asking when Shiori avoided discussing them.
• Shiori bought a discounted boxed meal with her remaining coins, ate in the park, and shared her fried chicken with the stray cats.
• After hearing people discuss a serial killer and victims who would not wake up, Shiori ignored the rumors and worried that her money would soon run out.
• Shiori called Teacher Haihara and offered to keep her company that weekend in exchange for money, calling her “Mom” when Haihara demanded it.
• On Saturday, Shiori met Haihara in the city, linked arms with her, and listened as Haihara told her to serve and please her.

Takanashi Shiori went on a date with Teacher Haihara, who took her for ice cream and planned to buy her new clothes. Their outing was interrupted by an unexpected encounter with Kirishima Ai, and the chapter ended with Shiori cleaning melted ice cream from Haihara’s hand at her request.

• Takanashi Shiori agreed to follow Teacher Haihara on their date, and Haihara said they would get ice cream and shop for clothes.
• Takanashi went downstairs to order ice cream and discovered that Kirishima Ai was working at the counter.
• Kirishima asked whether Takanashi had come with someone, and Takanashi claimed she planned to eat both ice creams herself.
• Takanashi returned upstairs and shared the ice cream with Haihara while worrying that Kirishima might learn they were on a date.
• Haihara asked Takanashi to clean melted ice cream from her hand, and Takanashi licked it clean.

Takanashi Shiori reflected on how she had met Haihara and how their paid dates had become a familiar mother-daughter arrangement. Over lunch, she asked whether Haihara dated other girls and invited her to call her Mom, and Haihara whispered the word in her ear.

• Takanashi Shiori remembered arriving on Earth with little money or support and finding Haihara through an online post seeking easy work.
• Takanashi Shiori recalled that Haihara had supported her in exchange for weekend dates, and that Haihara had become her only acquaintance outside her Magical Girl classmates.
• Takanashi Shiori and Haihara went to a pork cutlet restaurant where Takanashi explained she was hungry because she had shared food with cats.
• Takanashi Shiori asked whether Haihara dated other people and made them call her Mommy, and Haihara said she did.
• Takanashi Shiori admitted she had only called Haihara Mom and accepted Haihara's offer to call her that too.
• Haihara leaned close and whispered, "Mom," into Takanashi Shiori's ear.

Takanashi Shiori went on a date with Haihara, but a sudden monster outbreak forced her to transform and fight alone. After defeating most of the Sprout Forms, she encountered a mysterious dark figure who recognized her as a nameless Magical Girl.

• Haihara teased Takanashi Shiori by calling her Mommy, leaving Shiori flustered during their date.
• Haihara entered a lingerie store, and when rain began, she left to find an umbrella while Shiori waited inside.
• A monster alarm sounded, and Shiori could not reach Haihara, so she transformed into Wingless Bird and went outside.
• Shiori found twenty to thirty Sprout Form monsters and used magical threads and her wand to defeat most of them alone.
• A dark figure appeared atop a statue and praised Shiori for fighting despite being weak.

Takanashi Shiori encountered the Black Magical Girl Dark Feather, who revealed a weapon resembling Silver Feather’s Broken Wing and challenged Silver Feather when she arrived. The two clashed with matching power, and Dark Feather demanded that Silver Feather hand over her magical device.

• Takanashi Shiori recognized the mysterious magical girl as Dark Feather, a Black Magical Girl, and prepared to face her despite being nearly out of magic.
• Dark Feather declined to fight Shiori and waited for Silver Feather to arrive, calling her the main course.
• Silver Feather arrived and recognized that Dark Feather’s magical tool was connected to Broken Wing.
• Dark Feather killed a Monster, extracted its crystal, and used her wand, Fallen Heaven, to attack Silver Feather.
• Silver Feather and Dark Feather’s attacks collided, and the two fought evenly with their magical wands.
• Dark Feather declared that Silver Feather shared the Overlord’s power and demanded that she hand over her magical device.

Dark Feather appeared before Silver Feather, requested her magical tool, and withdrew after restoring the damaged street. Takanashi Shiori, feeling weak and alone after the fight, was found by Haihara, who took her home and agreed to stay with her a little longer.

• Dark Feather asked Silver Feather to hand over her magical tool, then restored the damaged street and vanished without continuing the fight.
• Silver Feather defeated the remaining monsters, and Takanashi Shiori and Kirishima Ai ended their transformations.
• Takanashi Shiori sent Haihara worried messages, but received no reply and crouched alone in the rain.
• Haihara returned with an umbrella, offered to take Takanashi Shiori home, and told her to try to win her over when she said she did not want their date to end.
• Takanashi Shiori leaned against Haihara and asked her to stay with her longer, while Haihara reflected on how readily she had begun caring for young girls.

Haihara and Takanashi Shiori spent the rainy evening at Haihara’s home, where Shiori tried on the lingerie Haihara had bought for her and called Haihara “Mom” when prompted. They settled together on the sofa, and the chapter ended with Haihara going to heat up some leftover bread after Shiori said she was hungry.

• Haihara looked at an old photograph of herself with her daughter and reminded herself to keep an appropriate distance from her students.
• While showering, Takanashi Shiori briefly saw the reflection of a gray-haired woman with violet eyes, then dismissed it as a hallucination.
• Shiori found the blue lace lingerie Haihara had bought and wore it to show her; Haihara praised her, told her to dry her hair, and prompted her to call her “Mom.”
• After changing into a yukata, Shiori leaned against Haihara on the sofa, examined her ring, and asked to stay for dinner.
• When Shiori said she was hungry, Haihara offered to heat up the leftover bread from that morning.

Haihara and Takanashi shared a quiet evening, where Takanashi asked whether Haihara hated her and learned why Haihara had started meeting high school girls. Later, Haihara’s worsening mood unsettled Class Four as the students awaited mock-exam results and anticipated trouble over their absences.

• Haihara teased Takanashi into acting like a kitten before feeding her bread, then grew too tired to continue playing.
• Takanashi asked Haihara if she hated her for the trouble she and the other Magical Girls caused, and Haihara said she did a little but would not hate her when she was a good child.
• Takanashi asked why Haihara invited female students to meet, and Haihara said loneliness and seeing the idea online had led her to try it and become addicted.
• Takanashi asked if Haihara would keep calling her if she were free every week, but Haihara said she did not have enough money.
• Class Four noticed Haihara seemed increasingly gloomy after their mock exams, while her frequent trips to the principal’s office raised concern about their absences and expected grades.

Haihara grew increasingly frustrated with her students’ absences and poor test results, while the magical girls worried that she had stopped speaking to them. Takanashi told Sakaki Chika and Kirishima Ai that they might visit R'lyeh during the holiday, and Haihara ended the chapter drinking with Ms. Suzuki, still unable to shake her anger.

• Sakaki Chika and the other magical girls worried that Haihara was angry because she had stopped reprimanding them or responding to them.
• Takanashi invited Sakaki Chika and Kirishima Ai to prepare for a possible holiday trip to R'lyeh, where they could learn magic and investigate Magical Girl Dark Feather.
• Haihara brooded over her students’ renewed absences and poor test results, fearing the impact on her performance evaluation and bonus.
• Haihara drank with Ms. Suzuki, asked about her relative staying with her, and remained too distracted to feel better.

After learning about the new Magical Girl Dark Feather, Haihara reflected on her growing desire for the Devil King Crystal and prepared to confront a Magical Girl without relying on a Monster. That night, she sensed a Magical Girl nearby as a Wind-type Monster appeared in the city.

• Ms. Suzuki told Haihara that a new Magical Girl called Dark Feather had been reported in the city, and Haihara recognized her as a Black Magical Girl.
• Haihara examined the Devil King Crystal, recalled how she had taken it from Kirishima Hina, and considered the increased power and dangerous memories it brought her.
• Haihara admitted to herself that she desired the crystal and decided to make another appearance as a villainous witch after sensing a Magical Girl at night.
• A girl in an ornate black-and-purple gown waited in a dim street corner as an alarm announced a Monster sighting.
• A towering Wind-type Monster resembling a windmill emerged and announced that it had detected a Magical Girl.

Dark Feather defeated a Windmill Monster and revealed her plan to obtain Broken Wing and become an Overlord, but a mysterious witch confronted her. The witch offered to help Dark Feather defeat the magical girls and effortlessly deflected her attacks.

• Dark Feather killed the Windmill Monster and took its unpurified Windmill Crystal.
• Dark Feather resolved to obtain Broken Wing, join it with Fallen Heaven, and defeat Maple Plain City's magical girls, especially Silver Feather.
• A mysterious witch appeared and questioned Dark Feather about her magical implement and objectives.
• The witch offered to help Dark Feather, but Dark Feather refused and fired her magic gun at her.
• The witch batted aside Dark Feather's bullets without harm, leaving Dark Feather stunned by her power.

Dark Feather rejected the witch’s offer and insulted her age, so the witch restrained and punished her. The witch, who revealed that she was also a Magical Girl named Haihara, left Dark Feather bound and helpless, insisting she could not defeat the other magical girls.

• Dark Feather refused the witch’s help and tried to attack her, but black-mist ropes seized her wrists and lifted her into the air.
• The witch bound Dark Feather to a tree and punished her for calling her old, while Dark Feather continued to provoke her.
• The witch told Dark Feather she had blocked nearby surveillance cameras and explained that she could handle Dark Feather’s magical attire because she was also a Magical Girl.
• Dark Feather questioned how the witch could be a girl, prompting the witch to threaten further punishment.
• The witch grabbed Dark Feather’s heart-tipped tail, making her lose her defiant composure, then reminded her that she had no power to resist.

Miss Witch offered Dark Feather Magic Crystals and her help in exchange for cooperation, and Dark Feather accepted before being sent home without her undergarment as punishment. The story then shifted to Suzuki, who called her older sister to talk about Yu Ke.

• Miss Witch offered Dark Feather access to Magic Crystals so she could become stronger and threaten the Magical Girls.
• Dark Feather accepted Miss Witch's offer, forming a temporary alliance with her.
• Miss Witch kept Dark Feather's undergarment and ordered her to go home without it as a final punishment.
• Suzuki watched television alone while worrying about the child staying at her home.
• Suzuki called her older sister and said she wanted to talk about Yu Ke.

Suzuki worried about how to care for her niece Yuka, who returned home after being forced by a witch to cooperate with her. Yuka met a powerful chameleon-like Monster that demanded she defeat Silver Feather soon, while Haihara dreamed of the witch’s childhood and woke to an intimate encounter with a golden-haired woman.

• Suzuki's niece Kuroki Yuka returned home tense and flushed, then hurried into her room while Suzuki wondered whether she disliked her.
• Yuka recalled the witch forcing her to agree to help defeat Silver Feather and lend her a Magic Crystal, and she found her black wing-like wand on the floor.
• A rational chameleon-like Monster appeared in Yuka's room, asked about her Magic Crystals, and warned that she had little time to defeat Silver Feather and become Dark Feather.
• Yuka told the Monster she had found an apartment near her school and would move there soon.
• Haihara dreamed of the witch's childhood, her friend Al, and the witch's arranged betrothal, then found a golden-haired woman beside her in bed calling her Lily.

Haihara dreamed of an intimate woman whose identity she could not remember, then woke alone and used newly recovered witch memories to consider traveling to R'lyeh with Dark Feather. She met her new neighbor, Kuroki Yuka, and the chapter ended with Kuroki settling into her apartment.

• Haihara dreamed that a mysterious woman held and kissed her before fading away as Haihara woke.
• Haihara found herself drenched in sweat and recalled knowledge from the witch's memories about traveling to R'lyeh.
• Haihara heard her new neighbor moving in and opened the door to meet Kuroki Yuka.
• Kuroki introduced herself, gave Haihara yokan as a housewarming gift, and returned to her apartment to unpack.

After moving into her own home, Kuroki Yuka used the Magic Crystals lent to her by the witch to transform into Dark Feather and confront a Monster in a subway station. She trapped the two of them inside a barrier and wounded the Monster, which revealed it had been created by Mother years ago.

• Kuroki Yuka examined her collection of Magic Crystals and decided to test her new powers when her wand warned her that a Monster had appeared.
• A blood-red, parasite-covered Monster attacked passengers in a subway station while Kuroki Yuka walked toward it against the fleeing crowd.
• Kuroki Yuka used a Shadow Feather crystal to transform into Dark Feather, then crushed a Windmill crystal to isolate herself and the Monster inside a barrier.
• Dark Feather dodged the Monster’s attacks and repeatedly stabbed it with her wand, enjoying its cries of pain.
• The Monster survived her assault, threw Dark Feather away, and claimed it was one of the Monsters Mother had personally created years earlier.

Dark Feather killed a monster and confronted Star Flower, but their fight was interrupted by a runaway train carrying passengers. Silver Feather arrived and stopped the train, while Dark Feather and Star Flower’s battle remained unresolved.

• Dark Feather defeated the monster, which mistook her for Color Feather, and recovered its Parasite Seed Magic Crystal.
• Star Flower arrived, and Dark Feather aimed her wand at her, beginning a standoff that was interrupted by a train rushing toward the ruined station.
• Dark Feather and Star Flower jumped onto the train, and Dark Feather used a Magic Crystal to protect it as their fight continued on its roof.
• Kirishima Ai transformed into Silver Feather, evacuated the next station, and rushed to the train after learning Star Flower was in danger.
• Silver Feather braced against the train and cut its electrical current, bringing it to a halt.

Dark Feather fought Silver Feather and Star Flower in a subway station, but Silver Feather revealed a powerful fusion transformation that turned the battle against her. Meanwhile, Haihara found an old train ticket to R'lyeh in Kurosaki Asuka’s name and recalled her past before sensing the fight; Dark Feather ultimately fell.

• Silver Feather confirmed the train’s passengers had evacuated while Star Flower and Dark Feather paused their battle.
• Dark Feather used the Peacock and bat Magic Crystals to attack the two girls, injuring Silver Feather before Star Flower rescued her from another blow.
• Silver Feather combined the Green Lock Dragon Forest Boa Crystal with a red Crystal through Fusion Destiny and transformed with Phoenix Myth.
• Haihara found a train ticket to R'lyeh bearing the name Kurosaki Asuka and remembered that she had once been an ordinary person caught up in Monster incidents.
• Haihara sensed that Dark Feather had begun fighting the girls, and a few minutes later Dark Feather lay defeated and badly battered.

Magical Girl Silver Feather transformed into Fate Kite and overwhelmed Dark Feather, but the Witch intervened and carried Dark Feather away after fighting off Fate Kite and Star Flower. The Witch told Dark Feather that she still could not match Fate Kite, leaving Dark Feather silent and defeated.

• Silver Feather transformed into Fate Kite, trapped Dark Feather in flames, and prepared to end her transformation.
• The Witch emerged from black mist, bound Dark Feather with tentacles, and announced she was taking her away.
• Fate Kite attacked to stop the Witch while Star Flower supported her, but the Witch escaped with Dark Feather amid the clash.
• The Witch brought Dark Feather to a dark alley and told her she was still no match for Fate Kite.

Dark Feather sought power to match Fate Kite, but Miss Witch turned her failure into a humiliating punishment. Meanwhile, Haihara grew closer to Suzuki and became concerned about the troubled girl living alone, while Kuroki Yuka remained weakened at home after her battle with Fate Kite.

• Miss Witch told Dark Feather there was a way to gain power comparable to Fate Kite's and teased her before suspending her upside down with a black mist whip as punishment for failing.
• Haihara and Suzuki discussed the end of term, Suzuki's young relative, and the girl's apparent cold and psychological problems.
• Haihara thought the girl should not be living alone and reflected that she would like to marry someone like Suzuki.
• Kuroki Yuka lay exhausted in her dark, messy home, still recovering from her fight with Magical Girl Fate Kite after draining much of her magic power.

Kuroki Yuka brooded over her failures and recalled the mysterious witch who had humiliated her. During vacation, Teacher Haihara comforted Kirishima Ai when she visited school to retrieve something, and Takanashi Shiori handed Ai a ticket after she left.

• Kuroki Yuka remembered the witch who had spanked her and vowed to get revenge if she ever became powerful.
• Teacher Haihara stayed at school during vacation to compile her class’s grades and reflected on her first semester as a homeroom teacher.
• Kirishima Ai came to retrieve something she had left at school, and Teacher Haihara wiped away her sweat and gave her mango juice.
• Kirishima Ai met Takanashi Shiori outside, and Shiori handed her a ticket with Ai’s name written on it.

Kirishima Ai and Takanashi Shiori prepared to travel to R'lyeh, while Dark Feather boarded a hidden train there with Miss Witch, hoping to gain power to defeat Silver Feather. The train entered darkness as Dark Feather asked whether R'lyeh could give her the strength she needed.

• Kirishima Ai worried about being unreachable during the trip, and Takanashi Shiori explained that less than a day would likely pass on Earth while they traveled through time and space.
• Dark Feather conjured a purple balloon for a little girl, but it burst shortly afterward and made the child cry.
• Dark Feather followed Miss Witch's directions to a hidden underground station, where a magical device welcomed her as Color Feather before letting her enter.
• Dark Feather waited at eerie Belial Station until Miss Witch arrived, then boarded a train bound for R'lyeh.
• As the train traveled through darkness, Dark Feather asked Miss Witch whether they would obtain power capable of defeating Silver Feather in R'lyeh.

Dark Feather traveled with the witch through a tunnel to R'lyeh, where they hoped to find a Magic Crystal left behind by the Overlord. The train reached Black Forest at three in the afternoon, and Dark Feather looked out at the unfamiliar buildings as their journey began.

• The witch told Dark Feather that an Overlord’s Magic Crystal might still be in R'lyeh and began considering names for it, including Blade of the War God.
• Dark Feather discovered that she could remain transformed without using magic power inside the tunnel, and the witch compared the effect to Ultraman in the Land of Light.
• Dark Feather took her medicine and asked for water, so the witch summoned a spider Monster that served them water and Black Forest wine.
• After drinking the wine, the witch’s black mist dispersed and revealed her silver-gray hair and striking appearance, leaving Dark Feather flustered.
• The train arrived at Black Forest at three in the afternoon, and Dark Feather saw unfamiliar buildings outside the window.