Chapter Summaries

Overlord Lilith effortlessly defeated Dailuoluo at close range, then revealed her identity as the strongest magical girl in history. Faust and Dailuoluo combined their abilities to trap Lilith in the Crown Rank spell Flower Above, one of the spells once used to seal her.

• The magical girls watched from the peaceful school plaza as the excited students treated the battle as a spectacle.
• Lilith caught Dailuoluo’s wrist and offered her a black rose, which exploded and blasted Dailuoluo more than a thousand meters away.
• Dailuoluo returned bloodied but determined to keep fighting, while Faust prepared a forbidden spell to help her.
• Faust’s chains formed a cage around Lilith, but Lilith released black birds that tore through it as Dailuoluo appeared above with angelic wings and a giant bow.
• Lilith turned Dailuoluo’s charged arrow into flowers, and Dailuoluo took control of them to form Flower Above, the Crown Rank spell once used to seal the Flower Demon King and help seal Lilith.

Faust’s ultimate sealing spell failed when the Overlord extinguished the stars and erased it, leaving Faust at her mercy. After Faust offered to serve her and revealed that Kougami Kage could be used in a ritual, Lilith sentenced Faust to death; Faust then tried to teleport away but could not.

• Faust completed the Flowers, Birds, Wind, and Moon spell, but the Overlord extinguished the stars and made it collapse.
• The Overlord took Faust’s Grimoire and questioned why she had entered Earth without permission.
• Faust claimed she had sought the Overlord’s lost power and offered to serve her, then revealed that Kougami Kage could be sacrificed for a ritual.
• The Overlord forgave Faust’s earlier disrespect and told her to die.
• Faust tried to escape using the Teleportation Magic in her Grimoire, but it had no effect.

Overlord overwhelmed Faust, drove her across a burning city, and hurled her into space after Faust tried to escape with lunar time magic. Faust fought back by throwing planets and unleashing a star-filled spell, but Overlord answered with darkness that swallowed the light as their battle continued.

• Overlord strangled Faust and struck down Dailuoluo when she charged in to stop the attack.
• Overlord carried Faust to a city under monster attack, destroyed the monster, and battered Faust through buildings and across the planet.
• Overlord released Faust high in the sky, but Faust’s time magic failed to stop her, and Overlord hurled her into space.
• Faust attacked Overlord with enormous hands from her grimoire, seizing planets and throwing them at her.
• Faust unleashed a spell formed from gathered stars, and Overlord swept Lost Paradise Twilight upward, engulfing the surrounding universe in darkness.

Overlord Lilith defeated Faust with a devastating attack, and Faust died after Dailuoluo failed to heal her. Dailuoluo then attacked Lilith in grief and fear, but Lilith struck her down and stood over her with the scythe raised.

• Overlord Lilith overwhelmed Faust with attacks that culminated in her using Conqueror's End to destroy a black hole and finish the battle.
• Back at the campus plaza, Faust's damaged Transformation Crystal fell, and Dailuoluo tried in vain to heal her with magic.
• Faust admitted she had only been using Dailuoluo, but Dailuoluo said she had known and still loved her as the person who raised her.
• Faust's crystal shattered, killing her as Dailuoluo held her; Dailuoluo grieved over her death.
• Lilith taunted Dailuoluo, who raised her sword and attacked out of fear, but Lilith blocked her strike and knocked her down with a crushing blow.

Overlord Lilith nearly killed Dailuoluo, but Star Flower rescued her and the other magical girls stood between them. Lilith attacked the group, and Thousand Sins blocked her strike while Dark Kite escaped.

• Lilith knocked Dailuoluo unconscious and prepared to finish her, but Star Flower rescued her and began healing her.
• Dark Kite, Kirishima Ai, Takanashi Shiori, and Cangyue Yuri stood with Star Flower to protect Dailuoluo, while Lilith privately promised Dark Kite she would not really hurt her.
• Lilith told the magical girls that undoing Dailuoluo’s curse required Royal Family blood, then vanished and appeared before Star Flower.
• Shadow Moon carried Star Flower and Dailuoluo away, while Fate Kite tried to block Lilith’s spell and was blasted through the school wall.
• Dark Kite interrupted Lilith’s next spell, and Thousand Sins arrived with her Cross-shaped Great Nail to block Lilith’s scythe strike.

Overlord Lilith revealed to the magical girls that her friendship with Fate Kite had been a plan to use her, then confirmed that her bond with Thousand Sins was real because Thousand Sins was her daughter. She identified Thousand Sins as Takanashi Shiori and suggested she was the daughter of Lilith and Al White, leaving everyone stunned.

• Star Flower, Shadow Moon, Thousand Sins, Dark Kite, and Fate Kite coordinated attacks against Lilith, but Lilith countered them with copied magic.
• Fate Kite recognized Lilith as Teacher Haihara and Miss Lily, and Lilith admitted that she had used Fate Kite to retrieve the Devil King Crystal and revive herself.
• Lilith confirmed that her kindness, care, and dates with Fate Kite had all been intended to lower Fate Kite's guard.
• Thousand Sins asked whether Lilith had helped her only to use her, and Lilith said their mother-and-daughter relationship was real.
• Lilith called Thousand Sins Takanashi Shiori and asked why she could resist Lost Paradise Twilight, wield serpent-type power, and had been sent by R'lyeh to find it.
• Lilith revealed that Thousand Sins was her daughter, probably hers and Al White's, leaving the magical girls stunned.

Lilith revealed that she intended to start another rebellion in R'lyeh, then subdued the magical girls one by one and put them to sleep. As Lilith patted Fate Kite’s head, Kirishima Ai fell asleep and began dreaming of a frightening childhood in a village overrun by Monsters.

• Thousand Sins realized that Lilith had been her mother’s beloved lover, and Lilith asked her to join her side.
• Lilith confirmed that she would start another rebellion, and Thousand Sins refused to agree with her.
• Lilith made Shadow Moon and Star Flower fall asleep, then put Thousand Sins and Dark Kite out of action.
• Lilith gently patted Fate Kite’s head and told her to sleep, leaving Kirishima Ai unsettled by Lilith’s sad expression.
• Kirishima Ai dreamed that she was a small child hiding from Monsters in a freezing village, and someone came to save her.

Kirishima Ai woke after the battle with Overlord to find her sister and classmates unaware that it had happened. At school, the familiar Teacher Lily appeared, leaving Ai stunned as everyone else greeted her normally.

• Kirishima Ai woke at home and asked Kirishima Hina what had happened after the magical girls fought Overlord, but Hina did not recognize the battle.
• Kirishima Ai messaged Takanashi and her other friends, then hurried to school as Fate Kite when they did not reply.
• Kirishima Ai found Kuroki Yuka and Sakaki Chika at school, but neither remembered fighting Teacher Haihara.
• Kirishima Ai noticed the students acting unusually quiet and eager for morning study.
• Teacher Lily entered the classroom, and the students greeted her warmly while Kirishima Ai recognized her with growing shock.

Kirishima Ai discovered that everyone at school remembered Haihara Lilith, the silver-haired version of their teacher, as having always been there. Lilith revealed that she had altered reality or people’s memories, leaving Ai to demand that she change back.

• Kirishima Ai questioned Sakaki Chika about Teacher Haihara’s changed appearance, but Chika and the other students saw nothing unusual.
• Kirishima Ai checked the teachers’ register and found the name “Haihara Lilith.”
• Kirishima Ai followed Haihara Lilith to the office and confronted her about the altered world.
• Haihara Lilith explained that she could change people’s memories or rewrite events so she had always taught at the school in this form.
• Kirishima Ai realized the situation was real and told Haihara Lilith to change back.

Kirishima Ai sought Kazama Kiriori’s help in understanding Teacher Haihara’s altered appearance and the memories everyone else seemed to have lost. She explained Haihara’s identity as a magical girl and the events of the School Festival, leaving Kazama surprised but the effect of the memory alteration unresolved.

• Kirishima Ai realized Teacher Haihara would not restore her former appearance or everyone’s memories, and resolved to find out what had happened.
• Kirishima Ai visited Kazama Kiriori, hoping the president might remember the changes or help persuade Haihara.
• Kazama Kiriori insisted Haihara had always looked as she did and dismissed Ai’s concerns about how close the magical girls were to their teacher.
• Kirishima Ai told Kazama about the School Festival battle, Haihara’s transformation into the Overlord, and her use of magic to alter everyone’s perceptions.
• Kazama Kiriori reacted with surprise when she heard that Haihara had been a magical girl all along and was the legendary strongest one.

Kirishima Ai asked Kazama Kiriori to help restore the world, but Kiriori said she would not oppose Haihara Lilith unless there was danger and privately wondered why Ai alone still remembered. Takanashi Shiori woke at Haihara’s home to learn that Lilith now considered her another daughter and Kiriori her older sister, then found Kirishima’s message and replied.

• Kirishima Ai told Kazama Kiriori she wanted to convince their companions to make Haihara change the world back.
• Kazama Kiriori said she would respect her mother’s wishes, though she would help if danger arose, and urged Ai not to assume the worst.
• Kirishima Ai left to ask the others for help, while Kazama Kiriori wondered why Ai was the only one who still remembered.
• Takanashi Shiori woke beside Haihara Lilith and realized she had been sleeping in Lilith’s bedroom.
• Haihara Lilith told Takanashi that she and Kazama Kiriori were both her daughters, making them sisters.
• Takanashi checked her phone, saw Kirishima Ai’s message, and sent a reply about her situation.

After the world’s memories changed to make Haihara Shiori seem like Haihara Lilith’s daughter, Takanashi Shiori struggled to accept that Haihara was her mother and Kazama Kiriori was her big sister. At dinner, Shiori’s jealousy and pain surfaced as she asked Haihara whether she and the Queen had abandoned her because they did not love her.

• Takanashi Shiori reflected on her unhappy childhood and her unfamiliarity with family and relatives.
• Haihara Lilith teased Shiori as her daughter over dinner, and Shiori awkwardly played along while eating.
• Haihara explained that she used a magic door to keep visiting both Shiori and Kazama Kiriori, but needed time before introducing them as sisters.
• Shiori felt hurt that Haihara seemed closer to Kiriori and revealed that Al White had never told her who her mother was.
• Shiori asked Haihara why she and the Queen had conceived her and whether they had abandoned her because they did not love her.

Haihara told Takanashi Shiori that she had only recently learned they were mother and daughter, but confirmed she still intended to start a rebellion in R'lyeh. The next day, Takanashi and Kirishima Ai returned to school and Takanashi told Kuroki Yuka and Sakaki Chika about the truth, only to learn they were too busy preparing for finals to help investigate.

• Haihara explained that she had no memory of how Takanashi Shiori was born and said she wanted to become a proper mother, but admitted she still planned to rebel in R'lyeh.
• Takanashi Shiori and Kirishima Ai attended school the next day as Monsters created by the Black Death Cult began appearing again in Maple Plain City.
• Takanashi Shiori told Kuroki Yuka and Sakaki Chika that Teacher Haihara was a magical girl and explained what she and Kirishima Ai knew.
• Kuroki Yuka said she and Sakaki Chika had little time to help because they needed to prepare for final exams.

Kirishima Ai struggled to reconcile the ordinary routines around her with the magical crisis, while Takanashi Shiori’s attempts to contact R'lyeh continued to fail. At school, Teacher Suzuki came to take Kuroki Yuka home, and Yuka’s question about her drinking outings with Teacher Haihara left Suzuki looking puzzled.

• Takanashi Shiori discovered she could not contact R'lyeh, Dean Roland, or Cangyue Yuri, and Princess Dailuoluo had vanished.
• Kirishima Ai saw reports about Monster Disease deaths and disasters, then continued to worry that everyone was accepting Teacher Haihara’s altered appearance as normal.
• Kirishima Ai noticed Teacher Haihara watching Teacher Suzuki as though she recognized something unusual, but Haihara said nothing was wrong.
• Teacher Suzuki took Kuroki Yuka’s hand and invited her to stay over at her home.
• Kuroki Yuka asked Teacher Suzuki why she had stopped going out drinking with Teacher Haihara, and Suzuki reacted with confusion.

Cangyue Yuri learned that R'lyeh had declared war on Haihara Lilith and decided to return to the kingdom, while Takanashi Shiori prepared to join her. Back on Earth, Kuroki Yuka panicked after Kirishima Ai realized she remembered a past that the altered world had erased.

• Kirishima Ai noticed that Kuroki Yuka remembered Haihara and Suzuki going out drinking together, despite Suzuki denying they had been close, and concluded that Yuka had betrayed her.
• Takanashi Shiori contacted Cangyue Yuri through a ritual and learned that R'lyeh's nobles planned to wage war against Haihara, threatening Earth.
• Cangyue Yuri explained that R'lyeh's council had taken control while Queen Al White stepped back, and that the kingdom's decision to fight Haihara had broad support.
• Takanashi Shiori asked Cangyue Yuri to arrange a ritual so she could return to R'lyeh.
• Cangyue Yuri told a fellow student that people on Earth would be hurt by the war, and privately struggled to understand why the magical girls had turned against Haihara.
• Kuroki Yuka received a barrage of messages from Kirishima Ai and texted Miss Haihara in fear that Ai might murder her.

Haihara and Takanashi Shiori argued in a snowy park after Shiori refused to go home with her, fearing the danger from R'lyeh. The next day, heavy snow canceled classes, leaving Haihara asleep and Kuroki Yuka alone with her worries.

• Haihara tried to take Takanashi Shiori home, but Shiori refused because R'lyeh was coming to attack Haihara.
• Haihara insisted she would face the Kingdom and raise her daughter, while Shiori asked to hide together and then firmly told Haihara to let her go.
• Haihara returned home alone, regretted having made too much food, and comforted herself by petting the stray cats Shiori had fed.
• Haihara planned to seek emotional comfort from the former little idol over the weekend, then slept in with Kazama Kiriori after school was canceled for heavy snow.
• Kuroki Yuka received the school-closure message and felt some of her anxiety ease.

Kirishima Ai confronted Kuroki Yuka at home after learning that Yuka still remembered her past and had been working with Teacher Haihara. Yuka finally gave in under Kirishima’s pressure and agreed to tell her everything.

• Kuroki Yuka spent the snowy morning at home with Silver Feather before Kirishima Ai arrived carrying fruit.
• Kuroki Yuka asked how Kirishima had found her home, and Kirishima said Takanashi had told her.
• Kirishima accused Kuroki Yuka of lying about her memories of Teacher Suzuki and Teacher Haihara.
• Kuroki Yuka admitted she still had her previous memories, and Kirishima inferred that she had long known Teacher Haihara’s identity and cooperated with her.
• Kirishima threatened to duel Yuka unless she told the truth, and Yuka gave in and promised to explain everything.

Kirishima Ai and Kuroki Yuka discussed how little they could do to stop Haihara and R'lyeh from fighting, but found possible leads in Teacher Roland and Haihara’s former home. Haihara later met Sakaki Chika at a café, accepted comfort and cake, and avoided explaining what was troubling her.

• Kirishima Ai pressed Kuroki Yuka for information, but Kuroki said she knew nothing useful about Haihara’s plans.
• Kirishima Ai said she did not want to sit idle, and Kuroki suggested asking Teacher Roland or looking for clues at Haihara’s former home in R'lyeh.
• Kuroki Yuka invited Kirishima Ai to share pizza, and they temporarily reconciled over lunch with Silver Feather.
• Haihara woke and began replying to the many messages Kuroki Yuka had sent her.
• At a café, Haihara asked Sakaki Chika to feed her cake because she wanted comfort, and Sakaki happily obliged.
• Sakaki Chika asked whether something was troubling Haihara, but Haihara declined to explain, and Sakaki told her to talk when she felt ready.

Takanashi Shiori and Kirishima Ai returned to R'lyeh to investigate the hidden causes of the coming war and find a way to stop it. They split up to search the Overlord's former sites as R'lyeh prepared to decide whether to wage a holy war against her.

• Sakaki Chika told Haihara that she believed her friends would do what was right and offered to help them if they needed it.
• Haihara received leave messages from Takanashi Shiori and Kirishima Ai, who had opened a portal to R'lyeh in Maple Plain City.
• Takanashi Shiori and Kirishima Ai decided to investigate the Royal Library, Abailia Prince's Territory, and the Overlord's former Magic Tower for clues about the war.
• Takanashi Shiori assigned Kirishima Ai to search Lilith's former home in Abailia and chose to investigate the Overlord's tower herself, while Cangyue Yuri sought clues at the library.
• Takanashi Shiori saw that R'lyeh's nobles and witches were gathering for the final deliberations on the holy war, while the sovereign remained silent in the Royal Palace.

Kirishima Ai searched Lilith’s former home in the Abailia Territory for clues about Teacher Haihara, then found a photograph of a girl who looked like herself. Meanwhile, Thousand Sins explored Lilith’s old Magic Tower and discovered an unexpected portrait in her former bedroom.

• Kirishima Ai teleported to the Abailia Territory and entered Lilith’s snow-covered manor without being discovered.
• Kirishima Ai examined the manor’s portraits and belongings, then felt a strange ache in Lilith’s preserved bedroom.
• Kirishima Ai found a photograph of a black-haired, black-eyed girl who looked strikingly like her and stared at it in confusion.
• Thousand Sins crossed the Black Forest and entered Lilith’s hidden Magic Tower, finding its rooms largely empty of dangerous remnants.
• Thousand Sins reached Lilith’s old bedroom and found dolls, hair clips, flower wreaths, and a portrait of someone other than Lilith, leaving her stunned.