Recaps

Lin Yun returned to magical-girl work as Larkspur, secretly training his daughter Lin Xiaolu and helping her recruit Xia Liang while investigating Fangting City's strange Aberrant Beast activity. The arc ended with revelations about the organization behind the beasts, Tea Rose's departure and later death, and Lin Yun left to consider the warning about what he carried.

• Lin Yun recognized his daughter Lin Xiaolu as White Rose, but she rejected his attempt to apologize, and he found the dormant Shard-Pattern Gem Flower he had kept for nineteen years.
• After an anonymous caller warned Lin Yun about an Aberrant Beast, he rushed to Wetland Park and transformed into Larkspur to save Lin Xiaolu from a two-headed monster.
• Larkspur defeated the Aberrant Beast, revealed herself as a Magic Kingdom Inspector, and agreed to train Lin Xiaolu while hiding that she was her father.
• Larkspur and Lin Xiaolu recruited Xia Liang as a potential Magical Girl, and Larkspur later trained Xia Liang and Lin Xiaolu to fight together against an Aberrant Beast.
• The girls killed the Aberrant Beast, but its stored slime exploded over them, and Xia Liang followed Lin Xiaolu home after revealing she had run away from home.
• Xia Liang asked Lin Xiaolu about her estrangement from Lin Yun, and Lin Xiaolu recounted her parents' history and the argument that led her to leave home.
• Tea Rose apologized to Lin Yun for failing to save Anya and revealed that the killer was connected to a mysterious organization cooperating with Aberrant Beasts.
• Tea Rose said she and her companions would join the Special Investigation Team and leave Fangting City, while Morning Glory, whose real name was Hong Siyu, would transfer there.
• Tea Rose relayed Lady Chrysoberyl Cat's Eye's warning that Lin Yun should consider what he was carrying and avoid acting impulsively, then left without replying.
• A year later, Tea Rose died in Binhai City after ensuring intelligence reached safety, and a teammate from Fangting City continued the investigation.

Larkspur hunts a Pupa Stage Aberrant Beast and learns that Claw Mark may have been involved in Cherry Blossom’s death, while Lin Yun and Lin Xiaolu begin repairing their relationship. As Larkspur trains Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang, she learns about Xia Liang’s painful past, and Hong Siyu arrives to explain the magical-girl system and warn that the girls’ sheltered life will not last.

• Larkspur finds a Pupa Stage Aberrant Beast’s nest in the sewers, kills the beast, and discovers an altar before escaping and demanding answers from the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau.
• Lin Yun meets Moss, who explains that the defector group Claw Mark may have killed Cherry Blossom, then transforms as Larkspur to stop an Aberrant Beast attacking a tram.
• Lin Yun arrives late to Lin Xiaolu’s parent-teacher conference after defeating the tram beast, and Lin Xiaolu waits for him and shares her umbrella as they head inside.
• Larkspur trains Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang in mana control, sets an intense summer plan that includes studying, and agrees to let Lin Xiaolu accompany her on safer missions.
• Larkspur learns that Xia Liang’s father is dead and her mother is imprisoned for killing him, then listens as Xia Liang describes her loneliness and asks for a closer relationship.
• Hong Siyu tells Lin Yun that Central City’s Seeders will not reinforce Fangting City and asks to help train the newcomers.
• Hong Siyu visits Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang, explains the Certification Card ranks and the Investigation Institute’s role, and warns that Larkspur’s protection will not keep the girls sheltered forever.

Lin Xiaolu learned the truth about her mother and found new resolve, while Xia Liang awakened her Magic Armament. At a welfare institute, Bai Jingxuan became the magical girl Bo Xue and joined the fight against the attackers, with White Rose and Little Brocade arriving as the arc ended.

• Hong Siyu explained the Gem Scepter and the Magic Kingdom to Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang, then cooked a lunch that made them uneasy.
• Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang followed Lin Yun, discovered he was preparing an anniversary gift for Anya, and joined him for a family outing that was interrupted by an Aberrant Beast attack.
• Xia Liang and Lin Xiaolu revealed their magical-girl identities to Lin Yun and went to fight, while Lin Yun recognized their decision and later showed Lin Xiaolu a photograph of Anya with Larkspur.
• Lin Xiaolu learned that Anya had been a magical girl and grieved, while Larkspur reassured her that she could take time to decide whether to keep fighting.
• Xia Liang reached Bud Rank and awakened Diversion, a mirror Magic Armament that could enlarge, reflect mana, and transfer it between mirrors.
• Moko befriended Bai Jingxuan at the welfare institute and offered her a chance to become a magical girl, but masked intruders attacked the institute searching for a one-eyed girl.
• Tian Sheng protected Bai Jingxuan from the attackers, and Bai Jingxuan accepted Moko’s Heart Seed and transformed into Bo Xue, who rescued Tian Sheng from the black-robed Mages.
• A black-robed man attacked Bo Xue and Tian Sheng, seized Moko, and was driven back by Hibiscus Purple Mana Beams as White Rose and Little Brocade arrived and challenged him.

Larkspur and the girls defeated Claw Mark and Black Ash Dawn’s attack, while Lin Xiaolu took her first steps as a magical girl and Lin Yun faced Anya’s death. Afterward, Larkspur gathered the team in a new Secret Base, where they began training and settling into life together as she prepared to honor her promise to Xia Liang.

• Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang entered the welfare institute’s Magic Barrier, where a black-robed man transformed into an Aberrant Beast, while Larkspur fought Sparrow, who revealed Claw Mark’s interest in magical girls’ Heart Gems.
• Larkspur defeated Sparrow despite her damaged Heart Gem, and Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang defeated the Aberrant Beast before Larkspur arrived and praised the girls.
• The Bureau secured the two incident sites, and Larkspur promised Liu Wenqin she would guide Bai Jingxuan, though she told Bai that Cherry Blossom had left Fangting City rather than reveal Anya’s death.
• Lin Yun and Lin Xiaolu visited Anya’s grave, where Lin Xiaolu vowed to find her mother’s killer and protect her companions, while Lin Yun resolved to face what he had avoided.
• Cat Tail’s team took Sparrow into custody, and Chrysoberyl told Larkspur that Tea Rose had died fighting Black Ash Dawn and that the organization had joined Claw Mark in attacking Fangting City.
• Larkspur trained Bai Jingxuan and tutored the girls, while Lin Xiaolu grew jealous of Bai’s attention and the squad began planning a Secret Base.
• Larkspur admitted to Xia Liang that she was Lin Yun, and Xia Liang asked to share the familial love Larkspur gave Lin Xiaolu, leaving them both time to consider what family meant to them.
• The Bureau transferred a villa to the Fangting City Magical Girl Squad, and the girls moved in, began studying and training together, and celebrated their placement exams with hot pot as Larkspur remembered her approaching promise to Xia Liang.