Chapter Summaries

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.

Hong Siyu returned as Morning Glory and used Memory Record to unleash a barrage of powerful Spell Formulas against Yuan. As Yuan fired a lethal Flower Rank arrow at Hong Siyu, she calmly invoked a new technique to protect Larkspur.

• Hong Siyu reunited with Larkspur and said she would explain her return after they dealt with Yuan.
• Yuan smashed through Hong Siyu's Magic Barrier, but Hong Siyu used Memory Record to bombard her with Spell Formulas.
• Yuan dodged Hong Siyu's attacks while Semi urged her to stop playing around and fight seriously.
• Yuan formed a black bow with her liquid metal Magic Armament, Hundred Weapons, and shot a deadly arrow at Hong Siyu.
• Larkspur tried to shield Hong Siyu, but Hong Siyu assured her she was safe and invoked Morning Glory, Grand Flourishing Blossoming, Hundred Records of the Memory Sea.

Hong Siyu revealed her Flower Rank Flourishing Bloom, Hundred Records of the Memory Sea, and used it to summon recorded Magic Armaments against Yuan. When the copies failed to stop Yuan, Hong Siyu gave Larkspur a reproduction of Larkspur’s lost Tailor’s Scissors, hoping its original owner could wield it to turn the fight around.

• Hong Siyu’s notebook blocked Yuan’s arrow and transformed into a wall of books as she revealed her Flower Rank Flourishing Bloom, Hundred Records of the Memory Sea.
• Yuan fired three arrows, but Hong Siyu’s books blocked them, and Yuan eagerly pressed the attack without using her Wonderland.
• Hong Siyu explained that her new ability could record and recreate extraordinary things, then sent dozens of archived Magic Armaments to fight Yuan.
• Yuan countered the Magic Armaments with her own shifting weapon and combat skill until Hong Siyu’s reproductions vanished after about five minutes.
• Larkspur and Hong Siyu concluded that the copied weapons and Spell Formulas could not overcome Yuan’s white mist and close-combat ability.
• Hong Siyu revealed that she had reproduced Larkspur’s Tailor’s Scissors and handed them to Larkspur, asking her to wield the Magic Armament again.

Larkspur fought Yuan while using the temporary Tailor’s Scissors replicated by Hong Siyu, then separated Yuan from the mysterious energy that empowered her. The separation weakened Yuan but placed a heavy strain on Hong Siyu, and Larkspur still had to end the battle before the five-minute copy expired.

• Hong Siyu gave Larkspur a replicated Tailor’s Scissors that could last five minutes while consuming Hong Siyu’s magical power.
• Yuan challenged Larkspur to a fight and offered to recruit her into Claw Mark, but Larkspur refused and told her to leave Fangting City.
• Larkspur and Yuan fought at close range, matching each other’s shifting weapons as Semi watched in disbelief.
• Yuan explained that the white mist was energy from ancient martial traditions and said she had joined Claw Mark to pursue stronger powers, not for its cause.
• Larkspur used the scissors’ separating ability to cut Yuan off from her energy, weakening Yuan and causing Hong Siyu to suffer a severe magical strain.

Larkspur used Separation to identify and remove the physicalization ability from Yuan’s Magic Armament, ending their duel with Yuan conceding defeat. Yuan refused to leave Fangting City, while Hong Siyu reunited with Larkspur and welcomed her back.

• Larkspur pressed Yuan with increasingly aggressive attacks, trying to reveal the ability of her Magic Armament before her reproduced weapon expired.
• With seconds left, Larkspur threatened Yuan with her scythe, prompting Yuan to activate Hundred Weapons and expose its physicalization ability.
• Larkspur declared Yuan’s ability to be “Demagification, physicalization,” and successfully separated it before her scissors and Yuan’s Magic Armament collapsed.
• Yuan admitted defeat but said she would stay in Fangting City and challenge Larkspur again, then left with Semi.
• Hong Siyu flew to Larkspur and embraced her, and Larkspur welcomed her back.

Larkspur brought Morning Glory, her junior Hong Siyu, to meet the Secret Base as a non-resident team member. The girls reacted with surprise when they learned Hong Siyu had retired before but had returned to magical-girl duty, while Lin Xiaolu fixated on the apparent closeness between her and Larkspur.

• On a cold weekend, Lin Xiaolu waited for Larkspur and bickered with Xia Liang about having nothing to do.
• Larkspur returned with an unfamiliar crimson-purple magical girl and asked the others to gather so she could introduce a new member.
• Larkspur explained that the new member would help with important battles and training but would not live at the Secret Base or join routine patrols.
• Moko objected that she had not known about the newcomer, while Lin Xiaolu and the others asked where she came from.
• The newcomer said she had once retired, prompting the girls and Fairies to cry out in surprise.
• Larkspur revealed that the newcomer was her junior, Morning Glory, also known as Hong Siyu, and Lin Xiaolu wondered about their relationship.