Recaps

Lin Yun learned that his Wonderland might be dormant rather than lost, and Emerald offered to repair his True Form and help him reclaim Flourishing Bloom in exchange for the Beast Source. Lin Yun withheld his agreement until he understood Emerald’s motives, while she proposed that he secretly enter the Magic Kingdom next year and asked him to find a site for her research institute in Fangting City.

• Emerald explained that Lin Yun’s lost magical power could not be restored, but his injuries could be healed and his remaining power rehabilitated so he might unfold his Wonderland and regain Flourishing Bloom.
• Emerald proposed that Lin Yun travel to the Magic Kingdom for surgery, but Lin Yun pointed out that he was forbidden from entering; she suggested creating a false magical-girl identity for him to use in next year’s certification exam.
• Emerald offered Lin Yun her share of the Magic Affairs Institute’s authority in exchange for his agreement, but Lin Yun asked what secrets the Beast Source held before accepting.
• Emerald said Lin Yun had five months to learn about her and consider the trade, and announced that she would establish a private research institute in Fangting City.
• Emerald asked Lin Yun, as Director, to find a suitable location for her research institute.

Lin Yun encountered Tian Sheng on the train after work and learned that Tian Sheng had recovered fragments of his memories from an Aberrant Beast attack at an orphanage. Tian Sheng believed he had seen a Magical Girl with green magic power, which might explain his strange dreams and sudden increase in strength.

• After seeing footage of Larkspur as Cornflower on Tian Sheng’s phone, Lin Yun quietly tried to avoid speaking with him at the station.
• Tian Sheng spotted Lin Yun, boarded the train with him, and asked why the director chose to commute by light rail.
• Tian Sheng told Lin Yun that he had reconsidered their earlier conversation about the orphanage and remembered encountering an Aberrant Beast there.
• Tian Sheng said he also remembered seeing a Magical Girl’s green magic power and suspected it was connected to his strange dreams and sudden growth in strength.

Larkspur wondered whether Bai Jingxuan’s rare healing magic was connected to Tian Sheng’s transformation, but decided to ask her later. The next day, Bai Jingxuan returned from the orphanage and stormed into the director’s office at the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau.

• Larkspur considered asking Emerald about Offsetters and Bai Jingxuan’s possible role in Tian Sheng’s changes.
• Lin Xiaolu told Larkspur that Luoming District had been quiet, as the three younger Magical Girls continued managing their assigned districts.
• Nini prepared dinner at the Secret Base while disciplining Moko, and Xia Liang said Bai Jingxuan had returned to the orphanage to look for something.
• Larkspur decided to wait until the following evening to ask Bai Jingxuan about Tian Sheng.
• The next day, Bai Jingxuan returned alone from the orphanage and barged into the director’s office at the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau.

Lin Yun screened Tian Sheng and the other Third Squad members for beastly mana, then met Bai Jingxuan, who had come to join the fight against Black Ash Dawn. After Bai Jingxuan revealed her desire for revenge, Lin Yun refused to let her take part and ordered Tian Sheng to escort her outside.

• Lin Yun sensed beastly mana within Tian Sheng while screening him and the other Third Squad members for Magic Armaments.
• Bai Jingxuan entered the director's office and asked to join the slaughter of Black Ash Dawn, citing Larkspur as her example.
• Tian Sheng supported Bai Jingxuan's desire to attack Black Ash Dawn, but Lin Yun argued that adults should keep children from bearing the burden of killing humans.
• Bai Jingxuan said she wanted revenge because Black Ash Dawn had caused her parents' deaths and killed Cherry Blossom Senior.
• Lin Yun refused to let Bai Jingxuan participate and told Tian Sheng to take her outside.

Lin Yun tried to stop Bai Jingxuan from joining Bureau operations to take revenge, urging her to consult her teacher, Larkspur. When Bai Jingxuan revealed that Moko, Xia Liang, and Lin Xiaolu had told her Lin Yun planned to marry Larkspur and might adopt her, Lin Yun abandoned his plan to reveal his identity and asked what else Lin Xiaolu had said.

• Lin Yun returned to his office and found Bai Jingxuan still waiting after Tian Sheng failed to persuade her to leave.
• Lin Yun refused to let Bai Jingxuan join operations unless she gave up her desire for revenge and told her to seek her teacher's advice.
• Bai Jingxuan argued that Lin Yun should let her avenge Cherry Blossom Senior, but he insisted he would not let her kill anyone.
• Lin Yun considered revealing that he was Larkspur so he could dissuade Bai Jingxuan as her teacher.
• Bai Jingxuan said Moko had told her Lin Yun and Larkspur might become a couple, then said Lin Xiaolu had told her they might adopt her.
• Lin Yun decided not to reveal his identity and asked Bai Jingxuan what else Lin Xiaolu had told her.

Lin Xiaolu reflected on her resistance to her father finding another partner and came to believe that her dead mother had appeared in a dream to approve of Larkspur becoming her stepmother.

• Lin Xiaolu recalled suspecting that her father and Larkspur had a secret relationship after seeing her father leave home and Larkspur arrive during the Full Moon Festival battle.
• Lin Xiaolu realized that she sensed her deceased mother, Anya, in Larkspur despite their very different personalities.
• Lin Xiaolu dreamed that Anya handed her to a woman with blue eyes who seemed to be Larkspur.
• Lin Xiaolu woke and concluded that Anya had visited her in the dream and approved of Larkspur becoming her stepmother.

Larkspur confronted Lin Xiaolu, Xia Liang, and Bai Jingxuan over their rumors, but Bai Jingxuan revealed that she had called Lin Yun “Dad” and told him about Lin Xiaolu’s theory. Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan then began calling Larkspur “Mom,” leaving her speechless as the chapter ended.

• Larkspur scolded Lin Xiaolu for deciding that she and Lin Yun were romantically involved, and reprimanded Xia Liang for encouraging the theory.
• Larkspur softened her response to Bai Jingxuan, while Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang protested the difference in treatment.
• When Xia Liang asked how Larkspur had learned about their conversations, Bai Jingxuan admitted that she had accidentally told her Dad.
• Bai Jingxuan explained that Lin Yun had accepted being called Dad, and Lin Xiaolu took this as evidence that Larkspur was meant to become her stepmother.
• Xia Liang suggested that Larkspur was not ready to become a mother, prompting Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan to call Larkspur “Mom” repeatedly.

Lin Yun struggled to handle Bai Jingxuan's belief that he was her father while trying to keep her from joining the purge. After Bai left with candy, an electronic female voice teased him by calling him “Dad,” and Lin Yun turned to confront the Chief.

• Lin Yun considered how to resolve his daughter's misunderstanding, Bai Jingxuan's adoption hopes, and her dangerous intentions without revealing that he was Larkspur.
• Bai Jingxuan called Lin Yun “Dad,” and he asked her to stop because they did not yet have a father-daughter relationship.
• Bai Jingxuan asked to join the purge, but Lin Yun refused and offered her candy to persuade her to go home.
• Bai Jingxuan accepted more candy for Sister Xiao Lu, said she would return the day after tomorrow, and left the office.
• The Chief called Lin Yun “Dad” in a teasing electronic voice, and Lin Yun told her to stop joking around.

Emerald drew Lin Yun to her newly completed research facility by revealing that Bai Jingxuan, codenamed Bo Xue, carried the scent of an Aberrant Beast. She explained that Bo Xue’s magic was innately aligned with beasts and that, had she not become a magical girl, she would have become a natural-born Beast Shifter.

• Emerald told Lin Yun that her private research facility was complete and invited him to visit.
• When Lin Yun asked about Bai Jingxuan, Emerald said the girl carried the scent of a beast and had unusual magic.
• Emerald agreed to explain Bo Xue’s magic in exchange for Lin Yun visiting the facility.
• Lin Yun notified the Bureau that he was leaving and went with Emerald.
• Emerald explained that Offsetters had shifted Magic Base-Color Attributes, giving them magical characteristics associated with more than one faction.
• Emerald said Bo Xue’s magic was innately inclined toward beasts and that she would have become a natural-born Beast Shifter if she had not become a magical girl.

Emerald brought Larkspur to her secret research institute and offered to use a treatment bed to stabilize the severe damage to her True Form. When Larkspur grew suspicious and tried to leave, Emerald began revealing that her real purpose involved the Beast Source and Claw Mark.

• Emerald showed Larkspur the hidden institute and explained that its treatment bed could help stabilize her injuries before repairs in the Kingdom next year.
• Larkspur agreed to test the treatment bed, but Emerald told her to remove all her clothes while the doll avatar watched.
• Larkspur became suspicious of Emerald’s motives and left the treatment bed, then challenged Emerald over the data she wanted to collect.
• Emerald admitted she had brought Larkspur there for another purpose and promised to explain why she needed the Beast Source.
• Larkspur refused to return without hearing something substantial, so Emerald offered to start by telling her about Claw Mark.

Emerald told Larkspur how the former Gem Scepter Purple Diamond stole two Beast Sources, defected, and founded Claw Mark under the name White Wolf. She revealed that Bai Jingxuan might be an even more complete form of Claw Mark, leaving Larkspur with the implications of the girl’s nature.

• Emerald explained that three Beast Sources were stolen from the Royal Court, and Larkspur learned that Purple Diamond had taken two and defected.
• Emerald revealed that Purple Diamond became White Wolf and formed Claw Mark with the magical girls who followed her, cooperating with Black Ash Dawn.
• Emerald explained that Claw Mark members used Aberrant Beast power to counter the decline of their magic and became beings with both magical-girl and beast identities.
• Emerald connected Claw Mark’s nature to Bai Jingxuan, calling her a natural-born Beast Shifter who had become a natural-born Claw Mark.
• Emerald concluded that Bai Jingxuan was purer and more complete than White Wolf, the true Claw Mark.

Bing Bee Seven planned to seize Bai Jingxuan and use her as a hostage to escape Fangting City, while Lin Yun received a search request concerning the neighborhood where the Ash Soldiers were hiding. The chapter ended as Lin Yun recognized the target neighborhood as Lakeside Spring.

• Bing Bee Seven told Bing Bee Twenty-Five that their dwindling forces had to break out of Fangting City and bring back their mission target, Bai Jingxuan.
• Bing Bee Seven outlined a plan to divert the magical girls, kidnap Bai Jingxuan, negotiate with Lin Yun, and escape through the Wasteland with help from Bee's forces.
• Bing Bee Seven revealed that he had killed the residence's owners and planned to use their bodies as food for the next two days.
• Lin Yun returned to the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau after declining Emerald's product trial, and Tian Sheng brought him reports about recent captures and a request to search a residential neighborhood.
• Lin Yun read the search request and recognized the neighborhood as Lakeside Spring.

Bai Jingxuan told Tian Sheng that she became a magical girl after Cherry Blossom’s actions awakened feelings she had lost. As Third Squad headed to Lakeside Spring to search for Black Ash Dawn, Tian Sheng called the Director, who asked Bai Jingxuan to answer.

• Bai Jingxuan recalled losing her dreams and sense of desire after her parents died, and how Cherry Blossom’s rescue made her feel alive again.
• Bai Jingxuan told Tian Sheng that she had wanted to become a magical girl like Senior Cherry Blossom.
• Third Squad encountered Bai Jingxuan while traveling to Lakeside Spring to investigate Black Ash Dawn, and she joined them despite Li Yingwei’s objections.
• Tian Sheng asked whether Bai Jingxuan wanted to capture Black Ash Dawn because they were likely responsible for Senior Cherry Blossom’s death.
• Bai Jingxuan said she wanted to punish Black Ash Dawn and explained that Teacher’s actions inspired her.
• Tian Sheng called the Director, then handed the phone to Bai Jingxuan, who greeted him as Dad and Uncle.

Lin Yun uncovered an attempted assassination inside the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau and traced Tao Fang’s movements to Lakeside Spring, where Bai Jingxuan and Third Squad were ambushed by Black Ash Dawn. As Bing Bee Seven overpowered Bai Jingxuan, he revealed that the parents she remembered were researchers who had taken her from Black Ash Dawn, not her biological parents.

• Lin Yun sensed a hidden accomplice when a man posing as Liu Dachun entered his office, then restrained the impostor and the fleeing Zhuang Yang.
• Lin Yun ordered the Intelligence Department to investigate Tao Fang and recognized Lakeside Spring as the crucial location in her movements.
• Bing Bee Seven and four other Beast Shifters ambushed Third Squad at Lakeside Spring, leaving Li Yingwei and Tian Sheng gravely incapacitated.
• Bai Jingxuan fought to protect the squad, but Bing Bee Seven defeated her and demanded that she surrender.
• Bing Bee Seven told Bai Jingxuan that she was a Beast Child created from abandoned infants and that the researchers she believed were her parents had taken her from Black Ash Dawn.

Bing Bee Seven told Bai Jingxuan that her adoptive parents had been researchers who raised her as cover, and that her power had drawn the Aberrant Beast that killed them. After Bai Jingxuan transformed and defeated her enemies, Larkspur found her torturing a Pupa Stage Aberrant Beast and brought her back from the brink by embracing her and promising to take her home as her mother.

• Bing Bee Seven explained Bai Jingxuan's origins and said her influence had drawn the Aberrant Beast that killed her parents.
• Bai Jingxuan declared she would kill Bing Bee Seven, transformed with black sclera and vertical pupils, and attacked him.
• Larkspur reached Lakeside Spring, found many dead Third Squad employees, and entered the plaza where Bai Jingxuan was repeatedly cutting apart and healing a Pupa Stage Aberrant Beast.
• Bai Jingxuan proudly showed Larkspur the injured Bureau employees she had healed and the Black Ash Dawn members she had killed, then called Larkspur her mother.
• Larkspur embraced Bai Jingxuan, promised to take her home and find her sister, and watched the girl's beastly appearance fade as she fell asleep in her arms.

Emerald examined Bai Jingxuan and revealed that her magical nature was that of an Aberrant Beast transformed toward a Magical Girl, possibly tied to Black Ash Dawn’s Sainthood Project. Larkspur decided to guide her despite the demands it would place on her, then affirmed Bai Jingxuan’s request to become her mother.

• Emerald told Larkspur that Bai Jingxuan was an Aberrant Beast whose appearance and power resembled a Magical Girl, and warned that others might treat her as a threat.
• Emerald linked Bai Jingxuan’s condition to Black Ash Dawn’s Sainthood Project and said her transformation was her natural state rather than an injury or abnormality.
• Emerald advised Larkspur that guiding Bai Jingxuan would require sustained effort, while the Gem Scepter would recommend killing or imprisoning her for research.
• Larkspur resolved to become Bai Jingxuan’s guide, believing she was the only person who could keep the girl connected to humanity.
• Bai Jingxuan woke in Larkspur’s car and asked whether she had called Larkspur Mom; Larkspur confirmed it and called her Xiaoxuan, making Bai Jingxuan smile with delight.

Lin Xiaolu rejected a classmate’s confession because she opposed dating at their age and had no time for dates. Back in class, Jiang Yuan introduced her to a mobile game called Magical Girl Squad.

• A boy confessed to Lin Xiaolu beside the school track and asked her to be his girlfriend.
• Lin Xiaolu refused, explaining that she opposed puppy love and had little free time, then returned to class.
• Jiang Yuan asked Lin Xiaolu whether she had accepted the confession, and Lin Xiaolu told her she had rejected the boy.
• Jiang Yuan celebrated the rejection and joked that dating would betray their Outcast Alliance.
• Jiang Yuan showed Lin Xiaolu the game icon and name for Magical Girl Squad.

The chapter traced Magical Girl Squad’s unlikely rise from a failing mobile game to a hit after Blue Star shared a screenshot revealing its uncanny depictions of real magical girls. After school, Lin Xiaolu reluctantly tried the game and encountered a new banner character, Morning Glory, whose image briefly seemed familiar to her.

• The Magic Kingdom ended the public conflict over portrayals of magical girls, and commercial works about them largely disappeared from the market.
• Magical Girl Squad nearly failed until its version 2.0 update added richer worldbuilding, story, and gameplay.
• Blue Star posted a screenshot of a character that matched her closely, drawing a flood of players and attention to the game’s realistic magical-girl details.
• After school, Lin Xiaolu downloaded the game, grew bored with its tutorials and turn-based combat, but continued playing.
• Lin Xiaolu reached the recruitment banner and briefly felt that the new character Morning Glory looked familiar before pressing the beginner banner’s recruitment button.

Lin Xiaolu spent the money Larkspur had given her for supplementary textbooks on a gacha game, while Xia Liang admitted she had also used money meant for books. When Larkspur returned and mentioned tutoring and the textbooks, both girls confessed, leaving her confused.

• Xia Liang discovered Lin Xiaolu was playing a magical-girl gacha game and repeatedly borrowing the support character Dawn Grass.
• Lin Xiaolu ran out of support uses, spent money to try for Dawn Grass, and accidentally bought the 648-yuan option instead of the 68-yuan one.
• Lin Xiaolu revealed that Larkspur had given her money to buy supplementary textbooks, and Xia Liang realized she had spent her own book money on getting her hair done.
• Larkspur returned with Bai Jingxuan, asked about patrol, and reminded Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang to prepare for tutoring and their exams.
• Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang apologized to Larkspur together, leaving her puzzled.

Larkspur confronted Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang about spending their study-material money on a game, then approved of Lin Xiaolu's purchase after learning she had spent it to obtain a character resembling Cherry Blossom. The girls searched the game for a character based on Larkspur but found none, and Lin Xiaolu ended the chapter puzzled by a preview for an upcoming event.

• Larkspur asked Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang to explain why they had spent their study-material money without buying books, and Lin Xiaolu cried while insisting it had been an accident.
• Larkspur comforted Lin Xiaolu, accepted Xia Liang's apology, and asked to inspect the game that had prompted Lin Xiaolu to spend money.
• Larkspur found the character Dawn Grass, which reminded her of Cherry Blossom, and treated Lin Xiaolu's purchase as an allowance for her patrol work.
• Xia Liang suggested the game might include a character based on Larkspur, but the girls searched the gallery and found no such character.
• Lin Xiaolu saw an announcement for the upcoming event "Attack! Claws" and felt that something about it seemed off before putting away her phone.

Yuan and Black Cat Fairy camped in the Wasteland and planned to recover the Beast Source and find Bai Jingxuan and Cornflower. In Fangting, Nini prepared to leave for the Kingdom and asked Larkspur to help Moko adjust to her new role as Seeder.

• Yuan watched Fangting from the Wasteland while Black Cat Fairy reminded her that recovering Moth's Beast Source was their main objective.
• Yuan said the boss had also asked her to bring back Bai Jingxuan and Cornflower, and she reflected on Sparrow's capture and possible fate.
• Black Cat Fairy agreed to keep watch as Yuan went to sleep, and she called the girl by her name.
• Nini told Larkspur that the Kingdom had ordered her to return for observation and training, after which Moko would officially become Fangting City's Seeder.
• Nini explained that Moko was a Fairy from the Garden and asked Larkspur to guide her; Larkspur agreed to give Moko a chance.

Yuan arrived in Fangting City with Semi and struggled to adapt to modern city life, only to discover that her old banknotes were unusable after eating at a breakfast shop. The shop owner called the police, and Lin Yun learned that the person arrested in the resulting disturbance might be a magical girl.

• Yuan told Semi that she planned to lure magical girls into a confrontation, defeat Cornflower and Bai Jingxuan, and take them and the Beast Source.
• Yuan and Semi failed to find a taxi because Yuan had no phone, then walked to a breakfast shop for food.
• Yuan tried to pay with banknotes from at least forty years earlier, and the owner refused to accept them.
• The breakfast shop owner spotted a patrolling police officer after Yuan refused to settle the bill another way.
• An Intelligence Department employee told Lin Yun that the arrested suspect had caused trouble with a Spell Formula and might be a magical girl.

Lin Yun questioned a captured magical girl and her fairy, who claimed to be officials from the Magic Kingdom and said they had come to find Cornflower. As he hosted them at the Bureau, Lin Yun’s transformation aftereffect began, and the girl sensed a powerful magical girl’s presence after he left.

• Lin Yun watched the captured Daoist-robed girl and black-cat fairy argue, and their conversation suggested they came from Claw Mark.
• Lin Yun questioned them in person, but the girl and fairy gave clumsy claims that they were Kingdom officials on urgent business.
• The girl called herself Gladiolus, asked Lin Yun to contact Cornflower, and said she could solve a problem with Cornflower’s body.
• Lin Yun brought the pair to a reception room and served them lunch, where the girl drank and let slip information that reinforced his suspicion she came from Claw Mark.
• Lin Yun’s Heart Gem released magic power, signaling that his transformation aftereffect had begun, so he hurried away to find privacy.
• After Lin Yun left, the girl sensed a strong magical girl’s magic power and told Semi about it.

Larkspur contacted Emerald after learning that the powerful Claw Mark defector Gladiolus had come to Fangting City, likely seeking the Beast Source. When Gladiolus exposed Larkspur’s knowledge and tested her with an attack, Larkspur revealed her Magic Armament, and Gladiolus identified her as Cornflower.

• Larkspur asked Emerald to investigate Gladiolus and learned she was a former Flower Card who defected with White Wolf more than ten years earlier.
• Larkspur and Emerald concluded Gladiolus might be after the Beast Source, and Emerald began to explain what would happen next.
• Gladiolus burst into the reception room with Semi and caught Larkspur speaking about the Beast Source through her Magic Mirror.
• Gladiolus admitted that she and Semi were from Claw Mark and said they had come to reclaim the Beast Source and complete other tasks.
• Gladiolus asked Larkspur where Cornflower was, then attacked her; Larkspur blocked the strike with her Magic Armament, revealing herself as Cornflower.

Larkspur stalled Yuan and Semi to avoid being captured by Claw Mark, but the negotiation turned into an attempt to take her away. Just as Larkspur prepared to resist, Morning Glory burst into the room and rescued her.

• Yuan revealed that she knew Larkspur was Cornflower and urged her to join Claw Mark, but Larkspur refused.
• Larkspur kept Yuan talking while secretly warning her three juniors and waiting for Emerald's help.
• Semi pointed out that Larkspur was too injured to use much of her strength, prompting Yuan to decide to capture her and take her to Claw Mark.
• Yuan tried to handcuff Larkspur, who weighed her options as she faced overwhelming odds.
• Morning Glory smashed through the window, blocked Yuan's attack, and carried Larkspur to safety before announcing her protection mission.