Recaps

Hong Siyu explained the Gem Scepter and the Queen’s authority over the Magic Kingdom to Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang. The conversation ended with Hong Siyu cooking lunch while the others grew wary of her seasoning.

• Hong Siyu explained that magical girls’ codenames usually came from flowers and that their names appeared when their Heart Seeds awakened.
• Hong Siyu told Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang that the Queen had granted five gems, authority over the Five Great Institutes, and exceptional power to trusted magical girls known as the Gem Scepter.
• Hong Siyu identified Chrysoberyl Cat’s Eye as the Gem Scepter responsible for the Investigation Institute and said the Magic Affairs Institute remained under the Royal Court’s authority.
• After discussing the Magic Kingdom, Hong Siyu volunteered to cook lunch using ingredients from the refrigerator.
• Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang watched Hong Siyu cook and became uneasy as she added increasingly questionable amounts of seasoning.

Lin Yun considered resigning and prepared to mark his fifteenth wedding anniversary with a crystal gift for Anya, whom he planned to visit at her grave. Later, Lin Xiaolu went downstairs to return Hong Siyu’s forgotten Certification Card and unexpectedly found Hong Siyu talking with her father, Lin Yun.

• Lin Yun decided he could resign after finishing his remaining work and looked for crystal jewelry to give Anya on their wedding anniversary.
• Lin Yun met Hong Siyu in his apartment lobby, thanked her, and grew uneasy when an elevator rose to his floor despite no one entering from outside.
• After Hong Siyu left Lin Xiaolu’s home, Lin Xiaolu found her forgotten Certification Card and went downstairs to return it.
• Lin Xiaolu stepped out of the elevator and saw Hong Siyu speaking with her father, Lin Yun.

Lin Xiaolu struggled with the possibility that Larkspur’s attention toward her was connected to her father, then tried to ignore her suspicions. After seeing Lin Yun dress up, she decided to have Moko help her follow him when he went out.

• Lin Xiaolu wondered whether Lin Yun knew Larkspur and whether Larkspur’s kindness toward her was a favor to her father.
• Lin Xiaolu remained distracted during a study session at Xia Liang’s house, then decided to stop searching for answers and enjoy the moment.
• A few days later, Lin Xiaolu noticed Lin Yun grooming himself unusually carefully and suspected he was preparing for a date.
• Lin Xiaolu told Xia Liang she did not want Lin Yun dating Hong Siyu, while privately fearing he might be meeting someone else.
• Lin Xiaolu asked Moko to help her follow Lin Yun when he went out in private.

Lin Yun drove alone toward Luoming District’s commercial center to talk with Lin Xiaolu about Anya, but Moko secretly followed him, prompting Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang to trail him in a taxi. Lin Xiaolu tried to reassure herself that Larkspur would not intrude on another family, and the group continued toward the person Lin Yun planned to meet.

• Lin Yun sensed that the tracking Spell Formula on Moko had activated and discovered it clinging to his car window with Xia Liang’s phone around its neck.
• Lin Yun suspected Xia Liang had been behind the earlier incident in his apartment building’s elevator lobby, but continued driving without letting Moko know he had noticed it.
• Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang followed Lin Yun in a taxi, with Moko tracking him and reporting his location through Xia Liang’s phone.
• Lin Xiaolu insisted she wanted to find out whom Lin Yun planned to meet, while Xia Liang teased her about whether she would accept Hong Siyu as a possible stepmother.
• Lin Xiaolu said she had to believe Larkspur would not intrude on someone else’s family, and kept watching the locations on her phone as they followed Lin Yun.

Lin Yun discovered that Moko was secretly following him and used feints to make it keep its distance before trailing it to Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang. He found the girls watching him from the mall atrium, and the chapter ended as he tapped Lin Xiaolu on the shoulder.

• Lin Yun startled Moko at a jewelry counter and repeatedly feinted toward it until it stopped creeping close to him.
• Moko received an apparent instruction on its phone, then flew away from Lin Yun.
• Lin Yun followed Moko through the mall and saw it meet Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang on the third floor.
• Lin Xiaolu argued with Moko about keeping track of Lin Yun, while Xia Liang pointed out that they could no longer see him.
• Lin Yun approached the girls and tapped Lin Xiaolu on the shoulder, startling her.

Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang confronted Lin Yun after following him, and Lin Yun explained that he was shopping for a gift for his fifteenth wedding anniversary. He invited Xia Liang to join them for lunch and gift shopping, and she accepted.

• Lin Xiaolu startled and hit her head when Lin Yun caught her and Xia Liang watching him from a mall railing.
• Lin Xiaolu admitted she had followed Lin Yun because she thought he might be looking for a stepmother, and Lin Yun explained he was preparing for his anniversary with her mother.
• Lin Xiaolu apologized, agreed to help choose a gift, and said she would visit her mother's grave with Lin Yun the following week.
• Xia Liang tried to leave so Lin Yun and Lin Xiaolu could spend time together, but Lin Yun invited her to join them for lunch and offered to drive her home.
• Lin Xiaolu urged Xia Liang to stop acting like an outsider, and Xia Liang accepted their invitation.

Lin Yun, Lin Xiaolu, and Xia Liang spent the day shopping, watching a movie, and having lunch before an Aberrant Beast attack struck the mall. Lin Yun tried to get the girls out while planning to transform into Larkspur, but Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang hesitated because they intended to protect the civilians.

• Lin Yun, Lin Xiaolu, and Xia Liang shopped together and bought Lin Xiaolu a rose-quartz cherry-blossom necklace.
• The three watched a movie and ate lunch at a Hong Kong-style café.
• A tremendous crash rang out across the mall, and Moko sensed a nearby Aberrant Beast.
• Lin Yun used an evacuation alert from the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau to explain the danger and urged the girls to leave by another exit.
• Lin Yun planned to get separated from the girls so he could transform into Larkspur, but Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang stayed seated, unwilling to abandon people in danger.

Xia Liang revealed that she was a magical girl and prepared to confront the Aberrant Beast, prompting Lin Xiaolu to confess the same to her father, Lin Yun. After the girls left, Xia Liang called Larkspur and exposed that Lin Yun was carrying Larkspur’s phone.

• Xia Liang showed Lin Yun her Heart Seed and told him she was a magical girl so she could fight the Aberrant Beast.
• Lin Xiaolu called Lin Yun “Dad,” revealed her own Heart Seed, and said she had to go too.
• Lin Yun accepted their decision and asked Lin Xiaolu to stay safe before she, Xia Liang, and Moko left the restaurant.
• Lin Yun planned to transform into Larkspur and follow them, but Xia Liang stopped to call Larkspur.
• Xia Liang found Larkspur’s number and called it, making the ringtone sound from inside Lin Yun’s coat.

Lin Yun struggled to hide that he was carrying Larkspur’s phone when Xia Liang called, then got caught after she hung up. Their awkward conversation ended when an Aberrant Beast attacked Golden Fort Shopping Plaza, sending Xia Liang off to respond while Lin Yun prepared to transform.

• Lin Yun tried to silence Larkspur’s ringing phone without letting Xia Liang realize it was not his.
• Xia Liang hung up her call and worked out that Lin Yun was carrying Larkspur’s phone; Lin Yun admitted it and claimed they were not romantically involved.
• Xia Liang suspected Lin Yun and Larkspur were in a relationship, and Lin Yun tried to redirect her by saying Larkspur was closer to Lin Xiaolu’s mother.
• Lin Xiaolu and Larkspur posted in the Magical Girl Squad group that an Aberrant Beast had attacked Golden Fort Shopping Plaza in Luoming District.
• Xia Liang left to deal with the Aberrant Beast, while Lin Yun stayed behind and considered where to transform.

Lin Yun watched Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang defeat an Aberrant Beast, then began explaining why he had been worried when his daughter became a magical girl. He shared a photograph that revealed Larkspur’s connection to Lin Xiaolu’s mother, leaving both girls stunned.

• Xia Liang and Lin Xiaolu defeated the Aberrant Beast while Larkspur watched from the shadows, then Lin Yun arranged for the Bureau to handle the aftermath.
• Lin Yun picked up Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang, and Lin Xiaolu asked when he had learned she was a magical girl.
• Lin Yun admitted he had been worried about losing Lin Xiaolu and apologized for not trusting her enough to discuss the danger.
• Lin Xiaolu praised Larkspur for protecting her, prompting Lin Yun to ask whether the senior was called Larkspur.
• Lin Yun recalled his promise to tell Lin Xiaolu the truth and sent her a photograph of four magical girls standing atop an Aberrant Beast’s corpse.
• Lin Xiaolu recognized Larkspur and her mother in the photograph, and she and Xia Liang stared at it in shock.

After seeing a photograph of her mother with Larkspur, Lin Xiaolu realized her mother had been a magical girl and broke down grieving the years she had spent without knowing. Lin Yun revealed that her mother was a Lifetime Magical Girl and began explaining her reputation, leaving Lin Xiaolu to face the mystery of how she died.

• Lin Xiaolu recognized Larkspur beside her mother in the photograph and understood that her mother had been a magical girl.
• Lin Xiaolu sobbed over all the things she had wanted to tell her mother, while Xia Liang and Lin Yun let her grieve.
• Xia Liang asked why Larkspur had not retired if she and Lin Xiaolu’s mother had belonged to the same generation.
• Lin Yun explained that Lin Xiaolu’s mother had been a Lifetime Magical Girl, and Moko said that such a title honored exceptional achievements and allowed its holder to remain in the Material Realm.
• Lin Xiaolu asked how her mother had died and whether Lin Yun had told her to forget her for that reason.
• Lin Yun said that other magical girls had recognized her mother as the Strongest Flower Card.

After learning the truth about Anya’s death, Lin Xiaolu remained distracted while Lin Yun prepared to leave his job and focus on magical girl affairs. Xia Liang successfully constructed her True Form on her first attempt, reached Bud Rank, and was ready to awaken her Magic Construct.

• Lin Yun recalled how Anya’s body had vanished into mana particles after her death, leaving only her gravestone.
• Lin Xiaolu reconsidered her anger at Lin Yun for keeping her from seeing Anya’s body.
• Moko continued searching for new magical girls and reported a lead in Dawnstar District.
• Xia Liang sensed she was ready to construct her True Form during a study session at home.
• With Larkspur’s guidance, Xia Liang transformed her Heart Seed into a Heart Bud and successfully merged her soul and mana on her first attempt.
• Xia Liang reached Bud Rank, making awakening her Magic Construct the next step.

Xia Liang awakened her Magic Construct, a mirror with powers to reflect and redirect mana, and explored its abilities with Larkspur and Lin Xiaolu. She named the Magic Armament Diversion.

• Larkspur guided Xia Liang through channeling mana into her wand and extracting her Magic Construct.
• Xia Liang's Magic Construct appeared as a palm-sized vanity mirror, which she first inspected with surprise.
• Larkspur warned Xia Liang not to test the mirror's power inside the house, so Xia Liang went outside with Larkspur and Lin Xiaolu.
• Xia Liang discovered that the mirror could multiply and enlarge itself, block and reflect mana, and transport mana between mirrors.
• Larkspur assessed the mirror as a support-focused Magic Armament and urged Xia Liang to name it.
• Xia Liang revealed that her Magic Armament was called Diversion.

Larkspur told Lin Xiaolu that her mother, Anya, had been an optimistic magical girl who gave others hope. Lin Xiaolu admitted she felt inferior to her mother and unworthy of Larkspur’s attention, so Larkspur invited her to walk and talk further.

• After researching the Magic Armament with Xia Liang, Larkspur prepared to fly home, but Lin Xiaolu followed her and asked about her mother.
• Larkspur confirmed that Anya had been a magical girl and her former teammate, and described her as optimistic and able to inspire hope.
• Lin Xiaolu wondered whether Larkspur was disappointed in her for being unlike Anya and said she felt untalented, difficult, and unworthy of Larkspur’s care.
• Larkspur recognized Lin Xiaolu’s low self-worth and invited her to take a walk so they could talk more.

Lin Xiaolu reflected on how her assumptions and resentment had deepened the rift with her father, while Larkspur encouraged her to give him another chance. As they crossed Sunset Bridge, Lin Xiaolu gathered the courage to tell Larkspur that she had lost the courage to fight.

• Lin Xiaolu admitted that she had felt sorry for her father and realized she had judged him without truly wanting to hear his reasons.
• Lin Xiaolu explained that she had misunderstood her father's choices after her mother's death and directed her resentment at him.
• Larkspur urged Lin Xiaolu to tell her father what she thought and said they could forgive each other's mistakes.
• Lin Xiaolu wondered whether Larkspur had children, but Larkspur only told her to guess.
• On the bridge, Lin Xiaolu decided to confess that she felt she had lost the courage to fight, and Larkspur encouraged her with a look.

Lin Xiaolu confessed that learning the truth about her mother’s death had made her afraid and unsure whether she could keep fighting, and Larkspur comforted her and promised to stay until she and her team could stand on their own. Lin Xiaolu reaffirmed that she wanted to remain a magical girl and left the bridge with renewed confidence, while Larkspur admitted that she would eventually leave.

• Lin Xiaolu told Larkspur that she feared death and revenge after learning how her mother died, and felt guilty for wanting to run away.
• Larkspur reassured Lin Xiaolu that she did not have to seek revenge and that she could take time to decide whether to keep fighting.
• Lin Xiaolu said she still wanted to be a magical girl, but worried that Larkspur would leave Fangting City and they would become distant.
• Larkspur promised to remain until Lin Xiaolu, Xia Liang, and their team could stand on their own, even if that meant waiting until Lin Xiaolu retired.
• Larkspur said she believed Lin Xiaolu could become strong enough to protect others, and Lin Xiaolu's gloom eased as they continued across the bridge.

Bai Jingxuan, an orphan with one eye and a difficult congenital illness, befriended Moko, a tiny Fairy who told her stories about Magical Girls. After learning that a Magical Girl once saved her life, Bai Jingxuan became even more interested in them, and Moko revealed that she could become one too.

• Bai Jingxuan continued living at Fangting City First Social Welfare Institute after her illness and missing eye had deterred prospective adoptive parents.
• Bai Jingxuan met Moko, a small flying Fairy, and began meeting her in a secluded courtyard spot to talk.
• Moko told Bai Jingxuan stories about Magical Girls, including their flaws and everyday troubles.
• Bai Jingxuan recalled how a Magical Girl saved her after an Aberrant Beast attacked the hospital and killed her parents.
• Moko told Bai Jingxuan that she could become a Magical Girl.

Moko secretly befriended Bai Jingxuan, a sick girl with a prosthetic eye, hoping to recruit her as a magical girl and improve its standing in the squad. After leaving the orphanage, Moko struck an invisible barrier in the street and realized it was trapped again.

• Moko decided to recruit a prospective magical girl as an ally because it felt overlooked by Larkspur, Lin Xiaolu, and Xia Liang.
• Moko met Bai Jingxuan at an orphanage and built her trust by chatting, boasting about its role, and sharing stories about the Magic Kingdom.
• Moko told Bai Jingxuan she could become a magical girl and assured her that magic could heal her illness and restore her eye.
• Moko promised to introduce Bai Jingxuan to the squad soon and imagined how her recruitment would prove its worth.
• After saying goodbye to Bai Jingxuan, Moko hit an invisible barrier in the street and recognized that it had become trapped again.

After Moko left, Bai Jingxuan noticed the welfare institute was unusually quiet and hurried toward her room after spotting black figures in a nearby building. Meanwhile, Director Liu Wenqin was forced to submit to a black-robed group searching the institute for a girl who had lost her left eye.

• Bai Jingxuan left the secluded courtyard and noticed that no one had passed through the welfare institute all afternoon.
• Bai Jingxuan spotted several black figures in the office building and hurried down the corridor.
• Liu Wenqin obeyed the black-robed man's orders to keep the institute's staff from resisting, while his followers killed those who fought back.
• Liu Wenqin tried to contact the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau, but the black-robed man threatened to kill everyone unless she hung up.
• The black-robed man told Liu Wenqin his followers were searching for their target and asked whether the institute had a girl who had lost her left eye.

Tian Sheng hid from the Gray Magic Organization’s attack on Fangting City No. 1 Welfare Institute, while Bai Jingxuan discovered that the intruders were searching for her because of the Xizhao Minxin Hospital incident. As she tried to flee upstairs, her legs suddenly stopped working and she fell on the staircase.

• Tian Sheng concealed himself in a storage room and decided to wait for the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau to rescue him.
• Bai Jingxuan spotted masked, black-robed intruders and turned back to avoid them.
• Bai Jingxuan overheard the intruders discussing a search for a girl connected to Xizhao Minxin Hospital and realized they might be looking for her.
• Bai Jingxuan tried to escape upstairs before the intruders reached the corridor.
• Bai Jingxuan lost control of her legs, fell forward, and crashed onto the stairs.

Bai Jingxuan’s illness left her unable to escape the black-robed figures, but caregiver Tian Sheng rescued her and fled with her. As the pursuers closed in and prepared to use magic, Tian Sheng drew Spell Formula media to cast a Magic Barrier.

• Bai Jingxuan collapsed during an attack of her congenital illness as two black-robed figures found her on the stairs.
• Tian Sheng rushed from a storage room, lifted Bai Jingxuan over his shoulder, and ran from the pursuers.
• The black-robed figures chased Tian Sheng through the corridor, gradually gaining on him.
• Tian Sheng spotted violet-black glimmers in the pursuers’ hands and warned Bai Jingxuan to hold on.
• Tian Sheng took out two Spell Formula media to use Magic Barrier, the spell he could manage as a rookie Mage.

Tian Sheng tried to protect Bai Jingxuan from the black-robed Mages while Moko helped her flee through the sealed orphanage. Remembering the magical girl who saved her three years earlier, Bai Jingxuan decided to ask Moko how she could become a magical girl.

• Tian Sheng blocked the black-robed figures’ Flame Bullets with a Magic Barrier, then threw Bai Jingxuan away from the blast and urged her to run.
• Bai Jingxuan thanked Tian Sheng and fled while he stayed behind to fight the pursuers again.
• Bai Jingxuan met Moko, who warned her that she was the attackers’ target and that the orphanage was sealed by a Magic Barrier.
• Bai Jingxuan and Moko ran upstairs to evade people in the corridors as Bai Jingxuan recalled the magical girl who had saved her three years earlier.
• Bai Jingxuan stopped running and asked Moko what she needed to do to become a magical girl.

Tian Sheng, badly wounded and out of magical power, prepared to die when the black-robed men found him. A mysterious girl named Bo Xue arrived in a pale green radiance and began a breakout operation against them.

• Tian Sheng hid in an empty hospital room after escaping the black-robed men, but his severe abdominal wound and dwindling Spell Formula mediums left him close to death.
• Two black-robed men found Tian Sheng, and his ambush failed to penetrate their barriers, leaving him without magical power or a way to fight back.
• Tian Sheng gave up hope and closed his eyes as the black-robed men approached him.
• A pale green radiance appeared, and Bo Xue stepped beside Tian Sheng and told him to step back.
• Bo Xue raised her wand, identified herself as Magical girl Bo Xue, and announced that the breakout operation was beginning.

Bai Jingxuan became the magical girl Bo Xue and rescued Tian Sheng from the black-robed attackers. After they regrouped, Tian Sheng proposed using her magical energy to break the orphanage’s barrier and seek help.

• A black-robed man learned that the designated Sacrificial Child had become a magical girl and left to pursue the one-eyed girl, while his subordinates guarded Liu Wenqin.
• Bai Jingxuan accepted Moko’s Heart Seed, transformed into the magical girl Bo Xue, and hurried toward Tian Sheng’s fight.
• Bo Xue overwhelmed the black-robed Mages by disrupting their Spell Formulas and knocking them unconscious, saving Tian Sheng.
• Tian Sheng suggested that he, Bo Xue, and Moko head for the orphanage’s outskirts and try to break the barrier with Bo Xue’s magical energy.
• As Bo Xue carried him, Tian Sheng asked how she had become a magical girl after escaping.

Bai Jingxuan, Tian Sheng, and Moko tried to break through the barrier, but a powerful black-robed man attacked them and revealed that he had targeted Bai Jingxuan as a Sacrificial Child. Just as the man seized Moko and threatened to kill them, White Rose and Little Brocade arrived to confront him.

• Bai Jingxuan told Tian Sheng that Moko had chosen her as a magical girl, and Moko gave an uncertain explanation for Bai Jingxuan's mana healing Tian Sheng's wounds.
• Tian Sheng examined the barrier and began explaining how Bai Jingxuan and Moko could disrupt it so he could dispel it, but a black-robed man interrupted them.
• The man claimed Bai Jingxuan's illness came from powerful mana in her soul and said she had been chosen as a Sacrificial Child for the Lord.
• The man attacked with powerful Shadow Vortices, overpowered Bai Jingxuan in close combat, and struck her into the barrier while Tian Sheng was also injured.
• The man seized Moko and threatened to kill her, but Hibiscus Purple Mana Beams forced him to retreat as another girl helped Bai Jingxuan stand.
• White Rose and Little Brocade introduced themselves as magical girls and declared that they would judge the man's evil deeds.