Chapter Summaries

Miluno waited outside the Breeding Facility while Mom investigated A-Yao’s disappearance, then chased a mysterious shadow carrying A-Yao through Lunar City. Aldebaran arrived and revealed the shadow was an avatar of the great will, which had retaliated against the earth crystal’s targeting.

• Mom contacted someone and entered the Breeding Facility through Aldebaran’s golden portal after learning something had gone wrong.
• Terra told Miluno that A-Yao had gone offline in the Seal Hall, and a shadow appeared carrying her away.
• Terra disrupted the shadow’s teleport, and Miluno pursued it through Lunar City but lost it in a dark alley.
• Miluno illuminated the alley, but Terra said the shadow could not have teleported within a kilometer without her permission.
• Aldebaran arrived with Mom and told Miluno that the shadow was an avatar of the great will.

The group followed the great will’s avatar after it abducted A-Yao, but the trail vanished at a suspicious house that Aldebaran destroyed. Terra and Mom confirmed the avatar had teleported beyond their reach, leaving A-Yao’s fate unknown.

• The Proxy refused to return to base, and Mom followed the avatar’s intermittent thought traces with the group.
• The group lost the trail at a metal wall, so Aldebaran blasted through it with a cannon and exposed a fake house created by the great will.
• Aldebaran admitted responsibility for the ancient world’s destruction as the group continued searching.
• Terra and Mom confirmed that the avatar had teleported away and its thought traces had stopped.

Miluno and the Proxy discussed the missing Avatar of the Great Will, while the Great Blood joined their effort and rejected becoming the new Great Will. Aldebaran proposed using the Proxy’s domain and the Earth Crystal’s other simulacrum personality to locate the Avatar across Lunar City.

• The Proxy argued that the Great Will might use A-Yao as a hostage but refused to trade herself for her.
• The Great Blood awoke inside Miluno and insisted they find the Avatar as soon as possible.
• Aldebaran asked the Great Blood whether it still intended to become the new Great Will, and it said a more suitable candidate existed.
• Miluno explained that they had found a possible way to purify the darkness and asked the Great Blood to help.
• Mono suggested combining their powers to replace the Great Will, but Miluno doubted they could withstand the darkness.
• Aldebaran proposed extending the Proxy’s domain across Lunar City and connecting her to the Earth Crystal’s other simulacrum personality to track the Avatar.

The Proxy planned to expand her domain around the Lunar City by drawing on the Zodiacal's Energy Crystal Array and the magic witches and magical girls naturally released. While they waited atop the World Center for Aldebaran to connect the conduits, the Proxy asked Miluno to be her lover, but Miluno refused.

• The Proxy explained that she needed the Zodiacal's Energy Crystal Array to expand her domain, though accumulated excess magic would sustain it afterward.
• Aldebaran warned that the modular shelter was unsafe for the Proxy because sanctified magical girls had driven out the darkness, and proposed connecting the Array to the World Center instead.
• Aldebaran went to arrange the conduits with Metal and kept Great Blood in her laboratory while the Proxy and Miluno waited atop the World Center.
• The Proxy asked Miluno to let her stay by her side and take Ceruno's place as her lover until Ceruno returned.
• Miluno refused, saying she liked the Proxy but would accept any relationship other than lovers, and the Proxy grew unhappier when Miluno suggested they might balance their powers.

Ceruno used mana from the Energy Crystal Array and darkness supplied by Miluno to seal the Lunar City beneath a dome. She left Terra in charge of administering the city and considered whether the Avatar of the Great Will was still inside.

• Miluno brought Ceruno the pipe Aldebaran had sent, and Ceruno connected it to her domain to release mana.
• Ceruno combined the mana with darkness and began forming a barrier around the Lunar City.
• Miluno joined Ceruno inside the mana-filled domain and supplied her with darkness until the barrier closed.
• Ceruno summoned Terra and assigned her responsibility for managing the Lunar City.
• Terra warned that the Avatar of the Great Will might have left for Enheria, but Ceruno said she would notice if the Avatar entered her home base.

Miluno and Terra struggled to find the elusive Avatar of the Great Will while preparing to seal off the moon and test Time Acceleration. Antarctic Star asked to bring her Emperor Penguin colony to Lunar City, leaving Miluno to consider the request’s consequences for the ecosystem.

• Miluno said her other self was guarding the Proxy so closely that it raised questions about cheating, while Terra explained that the Earth Crystal had offered to help seal off the moon.
• Terra warned that the Avatar of the Great Will might evolve quickly and sabotage the upcoming Time Acceleration test, but neither of them knew how to find her.
• Antarctic Star visited Miluno with the Fake Magical Girl and asked to bring her colony of more than a thousand Emperor Penguins to the moon.
• Antarctic Star said she feared being separated from her colony for a thousand years, and Terra challenged whether bringing them was protection or selfishness.
• Antarctic Star argued that moving only a little over a thousand penguins would have little effect on the ecosystem.

The Proxy rejected Earth’s supply terms and ordered contact reduced to once every ten lunar years, while Antarctic Star’s proposal to bring in new life-forms remained under consideration. After the meeting, Mom told Miluno she had found traces of SpiCa in Zodiacal, where the Avatar might also be hiding.

• Antarctic Star proposed importing Earth plants and animals to improve Lunar City’s ecosystem, and Aldebaran supported the plan.
• The Proxy stressed that finding the Avatar of the Great Will was the priority and dismissed Earth’s refusal to supply Enheria’s witches.
• The Proxy ordered Zodiacal to contact Earth once every ten lunar years instead of annually.
• Terra presented a proposal from the Earth Crystal, but the Proxy reserved judgment about whether she could handle the entire Moon.
• Mom told Miluno she had found traces of SpiCa in Zodiacal and suspected the Avatar might be hiding there too.

The group searched Zodiacal for SpiCa and the Avatar of the Great Will, following thought traces into a hidden medical ward where darkness had gathered. They found Liuzi and learned SpiCa had brought out a restrained witch persona, which Liuzi and SpiCa had been teaching.

• The narrator, Mom, and Aldebaran decided to search Zodiacal for the Avatar of the Great Will and recruited the combat witches Alpha and Achernar.
• Terra lowered a lift, and Mom used Memory Tracking to follow SpiCa’s thought traces through the dark, mostly unpowered station.
• The group noticed that darkness was unusually thin throughout Zodiacal, then found it concentrated in a hidden ward beneath the medical department.
• Liuzi appeared from the room and revealed that she and SpiCa had been teaching SpiCa’s restrained witch persona.

Key Plot Points

• SpiCa is inside a black-and-white satin cocoon in a hospital room, undergoing a fusion with her Witch Persona rather than suppressing it.
• Liuzi explains SpiCa’s previous magic could only suppress the Witch Persona; now SpiCa wants to reconcile with and merge with it.
• Aldebaran reveals that Witch Personas are actually “version upgrades” that incorporate old memories rather than deleting them; she admits she transferred the original Golden Consort’s memories into Liuzi, meaning Liuzi is actually the real Aldebaran.
• Aldebaran also reveals that the Great Will escaped the Dark Seal as an incarnation, intending to absorb an agent and use her power to free its true body.
• SpiCa emerges from the cocoon with black hair and a changed demeanor, refusing to help design plans because she has other goals.
• SpiCa asks Miluno to use Sanctification on her, but only convert half of her darkness—she wants perfect balance between light and darkness, which she believes is a Witch’s ideal state.

Character Developments

• SpiCa: Has grown, trusting and fusing with the Witch Persona she raised “like a child.” She becomes more youthful and enigmatic, committed to achieving internal balance rather than relying on others.
• Liuzi: Discovers her real identity as Aldebaran, not an implanted fake. Though shaken, she accepts this reality and asks for the missing memories/experiences back.
• Aldebaran: Reveals herself as the “Great Brain” and a manipulative but not purely malicious figure; insists she didn’t devour personalities, merely moved them.

Significant Themes

• Balance vs. purity: SpiCa argues pure light or pure darkness is wrong; true Witch power comes from equilibrium.
• Identity and memory: Questioning whether memories define identity, and whether transferring memories makes someone someone else.
• Integration vs. suppression: SpiCa’s fusion with her Witch Persona contrasts with past attempts to suppress it.
• Hidden truths and deception: Aldebaran’s revelations complicate what the group thought they knew.

Character Interactions

• Achernar confronts Liuzi about SpiCa’s plan; Liuzi explains SpiCa’s decision.
• Aldebaran examines SpiCa and drops the truth about Liuzi’s origin, causing shock and distress.
• Liuzi struggles with her new identity while Aldebaran teases her about it.
• Miluno questions SpiCa about her fusion and motives; SpiCa calmly explains her philosophy of balance and requests half-conversion.
• Mom and Aldebaran corroborate the threat of the Great Will’s incarnation, raising the stakes for the group.

SpiCa explained that balancing Light and Darkness could allow the Great Will and the Earth Crystal to coexist, though Terra and Alpha doubted either god would agree. She proposed that witches could take the gods’ place and impose that balance themselves.

• SpiCa said she could control both energies and used silk balls to show that Miluno’s Light and Darkness were badly out of balance.
• Aldebaran agreed that Miluno could not safely absorb enough Darkness to balance her excess Light.
• SpiCa refused to help locate the Avatar of the Great Will unless Miluno first used Sanctification on her.
• SpiCa said she sought a new path for both worlds and proposed keeping Light and Darkness equal so the Great Will and Earth Crystal could coexist.
• Terra and Alpha argued that neither god would accept coexistence, and Mom noted that the Great Will’s avatar had shown signs of intelligence and feeling.
• SpiCa declared that witches could replace the Earth Crystal and the Great Will if the gods refused to coexist.

The group discussed how to find the Great Will’s avatar, which had taken A-Yao and stolen the Great Blood’s Life Management System. Liuzi volunteered to impersonate the Proxy as bait, and SpiCa prepared to track her as she headed for Monument Square.

• The narrator finished converting part of SpiCa’s darkness, and SpiCa celebrated her new witch nature.
• The group learned that the avatar had taken A-Yao and could use the stolen system to produce soldiers, while Alpha warned that supplying it with darkness might help it grow.
• Liuzi transformed into the Proxy and volunteered to lure out the avatar as a stand-in, despite SpiCa’s objections.
• SpiCa marked Liuzi with White Silk so she could sense Liuzi’s condition and chose Monument Square as the bait’s destination.

Miluno and the Proxy went to the Teleportation Hall to meet Sirius before Earth’s connection to the moon was severed. Yuehan and Barbara joined them, and Sirius arrived with Halley, leaving Miluno’s reunion with her unresolved.

• The Proxy reluctantly got out of bed to accompany Miluno, who wanted to meet Sirius before the last chance to travel between Earth and the moon passed.
• Miluno and the Proxy went to the Teleportation Hall, where magical girls said goodbye and Darkfolk arrived from Earth.
• Yuehan and Barbara met Miluno, and Barbara clung to her while arguing with the Proxy over her attention.
• Sirius emerged from the Wormhole Device with Halley, greeted the magical girls, and approached Miluno and the others.
• Sirius cupped the Proxy’s face and recognized her as the one who ousted SpiCa.

Sirius chose to stay on the moon with the others and proposed regular breaks from the accelerated timeline so they could rest and contact their families. As Antarctic Star discussed restoring Zodiacal to provide housing, the group discovered Betelgeuse hiding in her computer pod, and Sirius asked for her help.

• The Proxy accepted Sirius's decision to remain on the moon, while Sirius urged the group to offer Earth’s return option to Fake Magical Girls and Negative Variants instead.
• Sirius proposed stopping time acceleration periodically so residents could rest and speak with their families, and Halley said she would stay with Sirius.
• Sirius visited Antarctic Star’s cramped office, hugged her, and persuaded the Proxy to arrange a larger workspace.
• Antarctic Star explained that Zodiacal could be powered and moved to Betelgeuse’s Great Crater to provide housing on its main island and five Satellite Islands.
• Sirius found Betelgeuse hiding in a wall cabinet in her computer pod and asked to speak with her.

Sirius asked Betelgeuse to create a mechanical body that could operate across Earth and the moon, and Betelgeuse installed a Brain-Machine in her to control it. When Sirius transferred her consciousness into the new body, her original body began speaking as A-Yao before collapsing.

• Sirius brought Betelgeuse to the villa so she could discuss making a long-term mechanical body for Sirius's lunar business.
• Betelgeuse explained that Sirius needed a Brain-Machine implant to control a mechanical body during accelerated time, and Sirius agreed to the procedure.
• Betelgeuse performed the implant and made a mechanical body with bionic skin matching Sirius's appearance.
• Sirius transferred her consciousness into the mechanical body and confirmed that it worked without any noticeable delay.
• Sirius's original body moved and spoke in A-Yao's voice, asking Miluno not to look for her, then collapsed before Sirius could learn where she was.

Sirius, Yuehan, the Proxy, and the narrator searched the Central Main Island for A-Yao, whose distress signal had come through Sirius’s base body. Instead, they found a mysterious duplicate of the Proxy at Monument Square and watched her while Yuehan worried about A-Ji.

• Sirius transferred back into her Bionic Prosthetic Body, and the group decided to use her base body to track A-Yao.
• The narrator left Betelgeuse and Barbara behind on Satellite Island One and went to the Central Main Island with Sirius, Yuehan, and the Proxy.
• The Proxy and Yuehan concealed the group with a soundproof barrier and Moon-Hiding Veil as they searched.
• The group spotted another Proxy reading the memorial to magical girls killed in battle and decided to observe her.
• Yuehan asked about A-Ji, and the Proxy claimed that Fomalhaut fed him apple bunnies every day.
• The narrator stopped the Proxy from suggesting that A-Ji and Fomalhaut might become romantically involved.

Yuehan hesitated to visit the injured Sun Ji as darkness gathered around a decoy Proxy in Monument Square. The Avatar of the Great Will shut down Zodiacal’s power from the Central Control System, giving the group half an hour to regain control before the city became lethally cold.

• The narrator and the Proxy encouraged Yuehan to visit Sun Ji, and the Proxy urged Sirius to go with her.
• The group watched a disguised decoy Proxy draw several Shadow Soldiers, which she quickly destroyed.
• The narrator identified the black mist as a possible sign of the Avatar of the Great Will and learned from Betelgeuse that it was rising from Zodiacal’s core sector beneath Monument Square.
• The group headed toward the Central Control System, but the emergency lights went out as the Avatar took control and shut down Zodiacal.
• Betelgeuse warned that they had half an hour to regain control before the temperature plunged to minus one hundred and seventy degrees or lower.

Miluno and the others entered Zodiacal’s core area to confront the Avatar of the Great Will, but she tricked the Proxy into bringing her inside the barrier. As the Avatar tried to absorb the Proxy, Miluno began pulling the dark sludge into her own body.

• Betelgeuse guided Miluno, the Proxy, Sirius, and Yuehan through the dark subway station toward Zodiacal’s core area.
• A-Yao warned the group that a trap lay ahead, but the Proxy pressed on and ordered everyone to search the core room.
• The group found a girl floating in a glass tank, and the Proxy smashed it and carried her out.
• The supposed A-Yao dissolved into black sludge, revealed herself as the Avatar of the Great Will, and engulfed the Proxy.
• Miluno pushed Sirius aside and began drawing the Avatar’s sludge into her body to contain her.

After Liuzi was attacked by Shadow Soldiers, SpiCa discovered that darkness was being generated beneath Zodiacal as the temperature fell and the emergency lights went out. Lin Xi and Mom went to support Liuzi, and the chapter ended as Shadow Soldiers intercepted their Light Soldiers near Monument Square.

• Liuzi warned the group that Shadow Soldiers had attacked her but she had not seen the Avatar of the Great Will.
• SpiCa noticed there was more darkness beneath Zodiacal than expected, and Alpha reported that the temperature was dropping and the emergency lights had gone out.
• Aldebaran sent Alpha to inspect the Energy Crystal Array, while Liuzi went to investigate and SpiCa stayed behind to coordinate.
• Lin Xi and Mom traveled through a rail tunnel after Terra could not pinpoint the core area's distorted coordinates.
• Terra summoned Light Soldiers from Lin Xi to scout ahead and protect A-Yao and Liuzi.
• Near Monument Square, Shadow Soldiers intercepted the Light Soldiers as Lin Xi and Mom approached the platform.

Miluno learned that converting darkness strengthened her, but the Avatar of the Great Will had swallowed her other self and the Proxy and was heading for the Dark Seal. After reaching the avatar’s enormous head, Miluno prepared to rescue them as SpiCa tried to enter it through its nostrils.

• Miluno gathered nearly fifty Light Soldiers and followed Mom toward the core chamber, where they found darkness as concentrated as her own radiance.
• Aldebaran told Miluno that the avatar had swallowed her other self and the Proxy, and urged her to return to the past without the Morning Star Crystal.
• Miluno refused to give up on this loop, while Aldebaran ordered defenses reinforced and teleportation disrupted.
• Sirius, using a mechanical prosthetic body, brought the unconscious Yuehan and Sirius from below, and Mom carried them back to Lunar City.
• Miluno and Aldebaran reached the avatar’s enormous head, where Liuzi reported that Miluno’s other self, the Proxy, and the Earth Crystal’s Simulacrum Personality were inside.
• SpiCa plunged her two bandages into the avatar’s nostrils as Miluno prepared to act.

The narrator, the Proxy, and A-Yao were trapped in the Avatar of the Great Will’s Consciousness Sea, where SpiCa arrived with a plan after merging with her Witch Persona. SpiCa recognized the avatar as a newly developing brain, leaving the group facing her unexplained scheme to raise or influence it.

• The narrator and the Proxy were swallowed by the Avatar of the Great Will, and the Proxy protected them with a Bubble Membrane.
• The Proxy revealed that the narrator’s body was only one-eighth of the complete shell, then joined the narrator and A-Yao in a shared bubble to resist digestion.
• A-Yao explained that the avatar had swallowed her crystal fragment, but she had sent warning signals outside.
• SpiCa entered the Consciousness Sea and introduced herself as Reborn SpiCa, formed after merging with her Witch Persona.
• SpiCa identified the avatar as a newly formed, developing brain, prompting the narrator to wonder if she planned to raise it.