Recaps

Haihara visited her parents’ memorial portraits in her childhood home and shared her loneliness and memories with Kougami Kage, who comforted her. They revisited an old oden shop, where Haihara remembered eating there after her parents died, and found its taste unchanged.

• Haihara cleaned her parents’ portraits and told them about her life, her loneliness, and her feelings for a music teacher.
• Kougami Kage and Haihara recalled playing house as children, then sat together while Kougami Kage held and comforted her.
• Kougami Kage remembered leaving Haihara to study abroad, misunderstanding her distance, and later learning that Haihara’s parents had died while she was alone.
• Kougami Kage found the old oden shop and took Haihara there for lunch.
• Haihara ate oden and remembered coming to the shop alone after her parents died, while Kougami Kage asked whether it tasted the same as before.

Haihara mourned her parents and childhood as Kougami Kage comforted her and revealed a magical device she had spent years making. Haihara agreed to try transforming with it in a hotel room, but the experiment had not yet begun.

• Haihara grew quiet and began crying as she and Kougami Kage drove through the city.
• Kougami Kage pulled over, held Haihara, and offered to show her the birthday gift she had prepared.
• Haihara opened a bracelet-like magical device, and Kougami Kage explained that she had made it to fulfill Haihara's childhood wish to become a magical girl.
• Haihara agreed to transform for Kougami Kage, but asked her to find a hotel first.
• At the hotel, Kougami Kage gave Haihara a colorless crystal to place in the device and told her to say "transform."

Haihara tried to transform with the device Kougami Kage had made, but it failed, and Kougami panicked that she had broken their childhood promise. When Haihara did not understand that the promise included marriage, Kougami feared she would be abandoned and broke down before her.

• Haihara wondered whether Kougami Kage's device could use colorless crystals and tried it after Kougami explained how it worked.
• Haihara set a crystal in the bracelet and whispered, "Transform," but nothing happened.
• Haihara suggested the device might not work on her because she was not an ordinary person, and Kougami apologized and promised to fix it.
• Kougami reminded Haihara that they had promised to marry and stay together forever, but Haihara did not understand what she meant.
• Kougami feared Haihara had become disappointed in her, knelt while holding her hand, and begged Haihara not to abandon her.

Haihara learned that Kougami Kage had loved her for years and had taken their childhood marriage promise seriously, while Haihara had never understood it that way. Haihara admitted she had dated and loved other people, leaving Kougami Kage devastated as she asked whether Haihara hated her.

• Haihara wiped away Kougami Kage’s tears and asked whether she liked her.
• Kougami Kage confessed that she had always loved Haihara and had meant their childhood marriage promise seriously.
• Haihara pinned Kougami Kage to the bed and explained that she had never taken the promise as real.
• Haihara revealed that she had dated other people and currently liked someone else, while Kougami Kage clung to her and asked her to stop.
• Haihara asked Kougami Kage whether she hated her.

Haihara tried to apologize to Kougami Kage by becoming intimate with her, and the two confronted the pain and misunderstandings behind their relationship. Afterward, Haihara asked about Kage’s support for Magical Girls, and Kage explained how she helped them.

• Haihara confessed that she was not a virgin, and Kougami Kage cried over the broken expectations surrounding their relationship.
• Haihara comforted Kage through intimacy and realized how deeply Kage cared for her, while Kage could not bring herself to hurt Haihara even when angry.
• Kougami Kage admitted that she had long supported Magical Girls by locating Monsters, processing Magic Crystals, and warning them when Monsters appeared during school.

Haihara and Kougami Kage returned from visiting Haihara’s parents after taking their relationship further, though Haihara could not yet define how she felt. After parting with Kougami, Haihara went to a home she had not visited in a long time.

• Haihara and Kougami Kage drove back to the new district after spending the previous day and night together.
• Haihara visited Kougami Kage’s remote research-institute home and told her to stop wearing the ill-fitting childhood ring, promising to buy her one that fit.
• Kougami Kage asked whether they were together, but Haihara did not give her a direct answer.
• Haihara reflected on her childhood wish to be liked for herself and realized that someone did like her.
• Haihara told her late parents she would become happy, then left for another home instead of returning to her apartment.

Haihara returned to Kazama Kiriori’s home and entered her daughter’s room, where an alarm led her to discover Kiriori’s secret collection of erotic mother-daughter novels. Meanwhile, Kiriori reclaimed the Gale crystal from Principal Haihara Ryo and returned home, where she caught her mother reading one of the novels.

• Haihara let herself into Kiriori’s home, reminisced over her daughter’s trophies and belongings, and waited for her to return.
• When Kiriori’s alarm rang in her room, Haihara entered despite her reservations about invading her daughter’s privacy.
• Kazama Kiriori asked Principal Haihara Ryo for the Gale crystal because she felt uneasy about the city’s safety, and Ryo gave it to her.
• Kiriori returned home in the rain and found Haihara reading a mother-daughter yuri novel in her bedroom.
• Kiriori accidentally knocked the door open, and she and Haihara stared at each other in stunned silence.

Haihara returned home and awkwardly discovered Kazama Kiriori’s hidden novel, but the two reconciled through affectionate time together. When thunder frightened Kiriori at night, Haihara comforted and kissed her, leaving them close as they went to sleep.

• Haihara found Kazama Kiriori’s novel and apologized for looking through her things, while Kiriori blushed and struggled to explain.
• Haihara held Kiriori after noticing she had caught a chill, and Kiriori complained that her mother rarely came home and smelled of another woman.
• Haihara cooked sweet-and-sour pork for Kiriori and fed her at dinner.
• Thunder frightened Kiriori, so Haihara let her cuddle close and comforted her with kisses on her forehead and cheek.
• Kiriori asked for a kiss on the lips, and Haihara kissed her before wishing her goodnight.

A Monster interrupted Kaedehara High School’s opening ceremony, forcing students and teachers to evacuate while Magical Girl Silver Feather fought a powerful Moth Monster. The monster recognized Haihara among those still in the auditorium and moved to take her hostage, just as a brilliant light flashed outside.

• Kazama Kiriori delivered a speech at the opening ceremony as student council president and top-ranked third-year student.
• Sakaki Chika and Takanashi Shiori received a message from Doctor about a Monster near the school, but Haihara watched them as they considered slipping away.
• A Moth Monster crashed through the auditorium wall, and Magical Girl Silver Feather struggled to restrain it while teachers evacuated the students.
• Silver Feather asked whether the Moth Monster had survived Phantom Wind’s defeat three years earlier, but it freed itself by releasing anesthetic and poisonous pollen.
• Kazama Kiriori recognized the monster as one that should have been defeated and stopped herself from revealing what was beneath her sleeve when she noticed Haihara.
• The Moth Monster spotted Haihara, approached her, and prepared to seize her as a hostage before a brilliant light flashed outside the auditorium.

Star Flower and Silver Feather defeated the Moth Monster while Takanashi Shiori escorted Teacher Haihara from the hall. The Chameleon sent new monsters after them, and when the Hummingbird Monster put Takanashi to sleep, Haihara revealed her shadow power and killed it.

• Star Flower blasted the Moth Monster away, and she and Silver Feather beat it unconscious after it threatened Teacher Haihara.
• Takanashi Shiori carried Haihara to safety, while the Chameleon used three scales to summon a fish-like monster, a Hummingbird Monster, and an orchid mantis-shaped monster.
• The Chameleon ordered the Hummingbird Monster to stop Takanashi and sent the other monsters to attack Star Flower and Silver Feather.
• The Hummingbird Monster overwhelmed Takanashi in the corridor, knocked away her wand, and put her to sleep with pollen-like gas.
• Haihara emerged from the shadows and pierced the Hummingbird Monster to death, then wondered aloud how it knew her.

Haihara subdued the Hummingbird Monster while Silver Feather and Star Flower struggled against three monsters at the hall, where the Moth Monster began ascending into a Perfect Form. An unseen wind-wielding figure killed all three monsters, and the story shifted to Haihara beginning the new school year as homeroom teacher.

• Haihara swallowed the Hummingbird Monster in darkness and carried the unconscious Takanashi Shiori toward the venue.
• Silver Feather transformed into Fate Kite as the Moth Monster began evolving, while two other Mature Form monsters attacked her and Star Flower.
• An unseen figure swept through the mist and killed the fish-like monster, the mantis-like monster, and the newly ascended Moth Monster.
• Fate Kite and Star Flower found the monsters dead and the Moth Monster's Perfect Form crystal discarded, but neither saw who had defeated them.
• The school opening ceremony ended after the Monster incident, and Haihara held her first-day class meeting with her students.

Haihara welcomed her class back, warned them about the day’s monster attack, and announced an upcoming Maple Plain Festival trip. During self-study, Takanashi learned that a mysterious, powerful figure had destroyed the monsters and began to suspect someone connected to the Kite Monster.

• Haihara chatted with her students, then warned them to stay safe after monsters entered the school and announced the class trip to the Maple Plain Festival.
• Takanashi gathered with Kirishima Ai and the others and learned that three powerful composite monsters had attacked after she evacuated Haihara.
• Kirishima Ai described how the Moth Monster began evolving into its Perfect Form before an unknown person defeated all the monsters almost instantly.
• Takanashi and the others discussed the damaged crystal left behind and Sakaki Chika sensed lingering magic similar to the Kite Monster’s wind magic.
• Takanashi and the others suspected that someone with extraordinary strength, who had previously appeared in the city, had intervened.

Takanashi, Kirishima Ai, and Sakaki Chika decided to investigate the enemy and seek clues about past magical girls, starting with Color Feather’s student identity. Meanwhile, Haihara reflected on her changing relationship with Kougami Kage and her fading feelings for Ms. Suzuki, who grew unexpectedly close to her; Haihara planned to cut her hair after the Maple Plain Festival.

• Takanashi urged the girls to investigate the Black Death Cult, the sudden appearance of four Monsters, and the mysteries surrounding past magical girls.
• Takanashi revealed that Color Feather had attended Kaedehara High School as Kurosaki Asuka, and the girls considered asking upperclassmen about her.
• Kirishima Ai and Takanashi spotted President Kazama and realized she could be a senior they might approach for information.
• Haihara recalled becoming romantically involved with Kougami Kage over summer break and wondered how to handle her former feelings for Ms. Suzuki.
• Ms. Suzuki spoke with Haihara about her vacation and her worries about remaining single, then touched Haihara’s hair and felt flustered by their closeness.
• Haihara told Ms. Suzuki she planned to cut her hair after the Maple Plain Festival so she could dress it up for the event.

Haihara considered the day’s sudden appearance of four Monsters, teased Kougami Kage over text, and declined Principal Ryo’s invitation to spend the night. Outside her office, she overheard Takanashi Shiori ask Kazama Kiriori about Kurosaki Asuka and reacted with unease; the Magical Girls learned Asuka had dropped out, but Kiriori would not explain why.

• Haihara worried that more Monsters could leave multiple students in her class absent and remembered to unblock Sha Qina.
• Haihara teased Kougami Kage by asking her not to use the bathroom before they met that night.
• Haihara declined Ryo’s request for dinner and an overnight visit, promising to keep her company another time.
• Haihara overheard Kirishima Ai and Takanashi Shiori ask Kazama Kiriori about Kurosaki Asuka and quietly reacted to hearing the name.
• The Magical Girls learned that Kurosaki Asuka had dropped out, while Kazama Kiriori refused to explain why she had left school.

Kirishima Ai followed Teacher Haihara to ask about Kurosaki Asuka, but impulsively kissed her and left without getting any information. After school, Haihara wondered why Ai had kissed her again and felt confused about her own reaction.

• Kirishima Ai followed Teacher Haihara to the office to ask what she knew about Kurosaki Asuka.
• Teacher Haihara pinned Kirishima Ai against the door and warned her to stop asking, and Kirishima Ai impulsively kissed her.
• Teacher Haihara angrily ordered Kirishima Ai to keep the incident secret and return to class, refusing to answer about Kurosaki Asuka.
• Kirishima Ai’s friends comforted her after she failed to get information, while she wondered whether she might kiss Teacher Haihara again and why the teacher avoided the subject.
• Teacher Haihara recalled that Kirishima Ai had kissed her before and wondered why the girl had done it, feeling confused and irritated.

Haihara met Aichi Misaki at a supermarket without recognizing her, while Aichi secretly transformed into Sha Qina and joined a Black Death Cult meeting. The three apostles discussed the unknown Chameleon Monster and agreed it had to be eliminated.

• Haihara bought the last discounted pack of pork belly after briefly touching hands with Aichi Misaki, who seemed startled to see her.
• Aichi recalled meeting Haihara at headquarters and went to the Black Death Cult's hidden base instead of going straight home.
• Aichi transformed into Sha Qina and found the Blue Dream Apostle and the injured Malicious Apostle waiting at the headquarters.
• Sha Qina called a strategy meeting about abnormal monsters attacking citizens, executives, and other monsters.
• The Blue Dream Apostle reported that Chameleon had caused the latest incident and fought Malicious to a draw.
• The Blue Dream Apostle insisted that Chameleon had to disappear.

Sha Qina learned that the Chameleon Monster could devour monsters and copy their abilities, and Blue Dream Apostle proposed using the Magical Girls to fight it. Meanwhile, Kirishima Ai and Hina prepared for the Maple Plain Festival, where Haihara’s memories of the festival and Phantom Wind surfaced as the students awaited her arrival.

• Blue Dream Apostle explained that the Chameleon Monster had appeared two years earlier, could absorb other monsters’ abilities, and had once been defeated by Phantom Wind and the other Magical Girls.
• Sha Qina questioned whether the monster’s teacher host had truly been involved in a student scandal, and Blue Dream Apostle angrily defended the teacher.
• Blue Dream Apostle suggested that the Black Death Cult reveal the Chameleon Monster to the Magical Girls and make them fight it, though they still needed a way to pass on the information.
• Kirishima Hina asked Kirishima Ai whether Teacher Haihara would attend the Maple Plain Festival, and Ai recalled kissing Haihara earlier that day.
• Haihara remembered the festival’s humble past, her unlucky fortune slips, and how Phantom Wind’s appearances helped make the celebration popular.
• Kirishima Ai arrived at the festival with Hina in a pale blue yukata as students gathered and waited for Haihara.

Kirishima Ai and the students gathered for the Maple Plain Festival while Haihara and Kazama Kiriori drew fortunes at the shrine. Takanashi Shiori arrived in a white yukata and, after learning Haihara was absent, bumped into a beautiful girl wearing an almost identical outfit.

• Kirishima Ai arrived in a yukata with Hina, and the students gathered to wait for Haihara while admiring Teacher Suzuki in her yukata.
• Teacher Suzuki told the students that Haihara had gone to the shrine to draw a fortune, and they decided they could find her there later.
• Haihara and Kazama Kiriori drew fortunes; Haihara hid her slip and revealed that she had drawn bad fortune, though it was actually great misfortune.
• Takanashi Shiori arrived in a plain white yukata and headed toward her classmates, who were gathered around Teacher Suzuki.
• Takanashi Shiori bumped into a graceful black-haired girl wearing a nearly identical white yukata, and the girl gently asked whether she was hurt.

Takanashi Shiori witnessed Kazama Kiriori kiss Teacher Haihara at the festival, then heard a mysterious girl say she had once attended the festival with Haihara. The chapter shifted to Haihara’s lonely past, ending with her wandering the streets at dusk and wondering what to do.

• Takanashi Shiori recognized Teacher Haihara and Kazama Kiriori at the festival and saw Kiriori kiss Haihara.
• A girl told Takanashi that she had attended the festival two years earlier with Teacher Haihara, then disappeared into the crowd.
• Takanashi was left unsettled by the kiss and the girl’s words.
• Haihara recalled leaving her internship, realizing she was lonely, and returning to her rented apartment alone.
• After becoming seriously ill and recovering, Haihara sank into despair and wondered where her life was going.
• Haihara came back to herself while walking alone through the streets at dusk, with nowhere to go.

Haihara nearly gave in to her loneliness at a bridge, but Kato-senpai’s daughter interrupted her and gave her a reason to hold on until tomorrow. Later, after Kato-senpai died in a car accident, Haihara met the grieving girl at the funeral and moved to comfort her.

• Haihara wandered to a bridge and leaned over the railing as her emptiness darkened into dangerous thoughts.
• Kato-senpai’s daughter offered Haihara water and asked her to meet again tomorrow, giving Haihara a reason to keep going.
• Days later, Haihara learned Kato-senpai had died in a car accident and attended her funeral in the rain.
• Haihara met the girl at the grave and learned that her grandparents were dead and she feared nobody wanted her.
• Haihara crouched beside the crying girl and held her umbrella over her to shelter her from the rain.

Haihara reunited with Kirishima Hina at the festival and admitted that she had tried to make the magical girls quit because their absences disrupted her classes. Seeing Kirishima Ai alone, Haihara recognized her own loneliness in the girl and wondered whether it was time to give up.

• Haihara parted from her newly adopted daughter to meet her students at the festival.
• Kirishima Hina recognized Haihara, told her she had returned to school, and accepted cotton candy from her.
• Hina asked whether the Devil King was with Haihara and whether she would suffer as Hina once had; Haihara reassured her.
• Haihara explained that she had tried to make the magical girls quit because they skipped her classes, but her efforts had failed.
• Haihara saw Kirishima Ai standing alone and realized that Ai's loneliness reminded her of her own.
• Haihara wondered what to do next and said she might give up.

At the Maple Plain Festival, Qingchuan Lan planned to use a monster scale to expose the chameleon to the magical girls, but Kazama Kiriori recognized the scale and decided to act herself. Meanwhile, Teacher Haihara spent the festival with Kirishima Ai, ending with a question about Ai’s future.

• Qingchuan Lan carried a scale from the chameleon and planned to use it to make the magical girls discover the monster.
• Kazama Kiriori grabbed Qingchuan Lan, saw the scale, and learned that the chameleon was still alive.
• Kazama Kiriori watched Kirishima Ai and resolved to handle the matter herself.
• Teacher Haihara and Kirishima Ai visited the festival stalls, and Ai won a goldfish for her younger sister.
• Teacher Haihara took Kirishima Ai’s hand when the crowd nearly swept her away, then asked what Ai wanted to do in the future.

Kirishima Ai told Teacher Haihara she wanted to attend college and apologized, while Haihara asked her to watch the festival fireworks together. At the Maple Plain Festival, Chameleon Monster prepared to attack the Magical Girls, and Takanashi Shiori questioned Ai about the student council president’s frequent visits to Haihara.

• Teacher Haihara asked Kirishima Ai about her plans after high school, and Ai said she wanted to go to college.
• Kirishima Ai apologized to Teacher Haihara, who offered to forget the past if Ai watched the fireworks with her.
• Chameleon Monster recalled its past at the festival and announced its plan to give the Magical Girls a fireworks display by attacking them.
• Takanashi Shiori returned to the student group and noticed Kirishima Ai was troubled, then asked what she thought of the student council president.
• Takanashi Shiori and Kirishima Ai agreed that the student council president’s repeated visits to Teacher Haihara’s office seemed unusual.
• A girl approached the woman in the black yukata, who had been following the students, and asked for her LINE contact.

At the festival, Takanashi and Kirishima Ai transformed to confront a teru teru bozu Monster that claimed it had come to deliver a message from Blue Dream Apostle. The Monster began revealing a connection between past monsters and strange incidents in the city, but a grotesque chameleon-like Monster appeared and silenced it before it could finish.

• Teacher Haihara’s true appearance surprised the students, and Kirishima Ai recognized her immediately.
• Takanashi and Kirishima Ai sensed a nearby Monster and left the festival to investigate.
• The girls transformed into Magical Girls and faced a teru teru bozu Monster, which said it had come to deliver a message from Blue Dream Apostle.
• The Monster gave Takanashi a glowing scale and described citizens falling into unexplained comas, strange behavior among people they knew, and the return of old monsters.
• As the Monster began to reveal the truth about a creature from years ago, a chameleon-like Monster stabbed through its chest and demanded that it continue.

Silver Feather transformed into Fate Kite to face the Chameleon Monster, which had killed the Teru Teru Bozu Monster and summoned four powerful masked monsters. As Hina sensed the danger and sought help at the festival, Fate Kite fought the monsters at the abandoned shrine and struggled to break free from their attacks.

• The Chameleon Monster pierced the Teru Teru Bozu Monster, pulled out its mask and crystal, and crushed them.
• Takanashi warned Silver Feather about the Chameleon Monster, and Silver Feather began transforming into Fate Kite.
• The Chameleon Monster revealed four masked monsters, and Fate Kite attacked the Mummy Monster in a burst of phoenix fire.
• At the festival, Hina sensed a terrifying magical aura and asked Teacher Suzuki to let her speak with Kazama and the student council president.
• Fate Kite fought the Pitcher Plant Monster and Eagle Monster, burning and throwing the Eagle Monster down before preparing a finishing move against the Pitcher Plant Monster.