Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: Magical Girl? There Was No Going Back!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lilika explains that the Church has abandoned Clear Lotus City, leaving her—an inexperienced, long-retired Grade C magical girl—to handle monster extermination alone. Li Xuan agrees to have the city’s original three magical girls resume responsibility for protecting the city while Lilika focuses on business and intelligence.
• Li Xuan continues supplying ingredients for the Delusive Badlands’ cafeteria. Lona prepares high-quality meals, quickly becoming popular among the magical girls, who are tired of fast food.
• Lona’s competence sharply contrasts with Yuriko’s disastrous performance as a maid. Yuriko burns food, throws away useful belongings, and treats routine service work as beneath her noble status.
• After two weeks, Li Xuan publicly evaluates them: Lona receives 100 points, while Yuriko receives zero. He declares that Yuriko has failed and will lose her status as a human unless she can obtain Lona’s forgiveness.
• Yuriko begs Lona for mercy, invoking their childhood and former sisterly bond. Felia warns Lona that Yuriko’s remorse is motivated by fear and loss of power, not genuine repentance.
• Lona finally recognizes that her lifelong service was exploitation rather than kindness. She rejects Yuriko completely and declares that they are no longer related.
• Li Xuan offers Yuriko freedom if she can defeat him. During the fight, Yuriko uses powerful defensive and sealing magic, including Nine Admonitions and Rite of the Four Directions, but Li Xuan overwhelms her with superior strength and enhancements.
• Li Xuan uses prolonged magical and psychological torment to break Yuriko’s will. Under the pressure of overwhelming pleasure and the Curse Rune preventing climax, Yuriko renounces her humanity and even swears in the name of the Glazed River House to become anything necessary to obtain release.
• Li Xuan implants a bestialization suggestion through Mind Interference, then feeds Yuriko Fallen Blood. She undergoes complete Demonfall, permanently losing her human status.
• Yuriko is transformed into a living power generator in the Phase Two Project. Bound to a gear-driven mechanism, she must use her Evil Energy to power the facilities while being kept in a state of unfulfilled pleasure. Despite her degradation, Li Xuan preserves her noble title with a gold tag requiring others to address her as “Glazed River Princess” or “Lady Yuriko.”
• Because Lona has performed flawlessly, the magical girls propose rewarding her by giving her equal status as one of them. Lona is deeply moved by their acceptance but remains hesitant to submit herself to Li Xuan and become a monster.

Character Development

• Li Xuan: Demonstrates a more organized and managerial approach, delegating monster extermination, improving the Phase Two Project, and establishing a formal evaluation system. He also uses Yuriko’s punishment as both an experiment in Mind Interference and a demonstration of his authority.
• Lilika: Shows responsibility and attachment to Clear Lotus City despite her limited strength. Her willingness to protect her home contrasts with the Church’s abandonment of it.
• Lona: Gains confidence and independence. She moves from instinctive loyalty to Yuriko toward recognizing the abusive, exploitative nature of their relationship. Her acceptance by the magical girls begins replacing the identity she built entirely around serving Yuriko.
• Yuriko: Her pride and noble entitlement collapse completely. Her inability to perform basic maid duties reveals how dependent she was on privilege, while her desperate pleas and eventual Demonfall mark her transformation from arrogant noblewoman into a literal “beast.”
• Felia: Acts as a moral and emotional guide for Lona, helping her distinguish genuine kindness from manipulation.
• The magical girls: Develop greater affection for Lona and collectively support her inclusion in their group, showing that she has become a valued member of the community.

Significant Themes

• Privilege versus labor: Yuriko assumes that service work is beneath her, while Lona’s years of unrecognized labor are finally acknowledged. The chapter criticizes social systems that treat servants’ devotion as an obligation rather than a sacrifice.
• Abuse disguised as kindness: Lona realizes that Yuriko’s supposed generosity was merely control and exploitation. Their relationship was built on unequal expectations rather than mutual affection.
• Identity and dehumanization: Yuriko’s loss of humanity is presented as the final consequence of her behavior and her willingness to abandon every principle for pleasure and survival.
• Punishment and social justice: Li Xuan’s evaluation system creates a harsh but visible standard of accountability, while Lona’s reward establishes that good work and loyalty should be recognized.
• Belonging and found family: Lona’s growing acceptance among the magical girls offers her a new identity beyond servitude, though she still struggles to fully embrace it.
• Power and manipulation: Li Xuan controls both the physical environment and the characters’ fates, using rewards, punishments, and psychological tactics to shape the group.

Character Interactions

• Lilika and Li Xuan: Negotiate responsibility for Clear Lotus City, with Li Xuan reassuring Lilika that protecting the city will not threaten his authority.
• Lona and Yuriko: Their former master-servant bond finally breaks when Lona refuses to forgive Yuriko and openly identifies the relationship as exploitation.
• Felia and Lona: Felia’s warning prevents Lona from being manipulated by Yuriko’s emotional pleas.
• Li Xuan and Yuriko: Their confrontation shifts from a supposed test of combat ability into a complete psychological and physical subjugation, ending with Yuriko’s Demonfall.
• Lona and the magical girls: The group praises her cooking and service, then advocates granting her equal status, giving her the first real sense of appreciation and community she has experienced.
• Li Xuan and Lona: Li Xuan recognizes Lona’s value and considers elevating her from servant to companion, though her lingering dignity and hesitation leave the decision unresolved.

Chapter 82 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan offers Lona a deal: defeat him and regain her freedom, or lose and willingly become his maid. Despite Qi Mo’s warning that Lona is a powerful Grade A magical girl, Li Xuan is confident because he has studied her abilities and prepared countermeasures.
• They move the battle to an empty platform to avoid damaging the magical girls’ living area. Li Xuan releases Lona’s sealed magic, allowing her to transform and fight at full strength.
• Lona begins with Sakura Fall, filling the battlefield with beautiful but deadly cherry-blossom blades. Li Xuan realizes the spell requires her to remain stationary, so he interrupts it by attacking her directly.
• Lona reveals additional hidden techniques—Phantom Bloom, Butterfly Lure, and Drunken Fragrance—which combine illusions, explosive petals, distracting butterflies, and a magical perfume that temporarily disorients Li Xuan. He narrowly escapes the attack using Mind Interference and heavy firepower.
• Lona then combines Fan Unfurling, Radiant Blessing, and Sakura Fall, strengthening her offensive power while shielding herself from interruption. Li Xuan uses a magic-resistant monster as a temporary defense, but it is quickly destroyed.
• Li Xuan activates Creative Mode and spends 100 Creation Points to create the Stalwart Shield, a powerful magic-resistant tower shield that allows him to survive Sakura Fall.
• When Lona’s shield expires, Li Xuan launches a massive barrage of Evil Energy Cannons. However, Lona activates her Awakening, All-Encompassing Barrier, which absorbs and converts energy attacks into her own magic power.
• Lona gains the upper hand, attacking Li Xuan from every direction with cherry-blossom blades. His body is badly wounded, and the watching magical girls consider rescuing him.
• Black Cat remains confident that Li Xuan will win because he still has his own trump card. Li Xuan activates his Release, Feast of Frenzy, granting him nearly limitless vitality and rapid regeneration.
• Lona’s sustained area attacks and explosive petals cannot kill him quickly enough. Li Xuan reaches her and waits for her protective Radiant Blessing to expire. He then captures her, and his blood forms a scarlet cocoon around them.
• Inside the strange banquet realm connected to his Release, Li Xuan instinctively consumes endless food and drink, growing stronger. He encounters Lona in maid attire and, driven by the Release’s violent instincts, becomes intimate with her.
• After regaining his senses, Li Xuan questions whether the banquet is real or an illusion. Lona confirms that she remembers losing to him and being brought there.
• Since she lost the agreed battle, Lona accepts that she must become his maid and begins calling him “Master.”
• Li Xuan unsuccessfully attempts to wake himself, contact Mian Yin, or teleport back to the Delusive Badlands. These failures suggest the banquet may be a real location rather than merely an illusion.
• Lona explains that a large man seated at the head of the banquet told her to serve Li Xuan wine and congratulated him on “the birth of the King of Wine,” introducing a mysterious new figure and deepening the uncertainty surrounding the realm.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan: Demonstrates strategic planning, adapting to Lona’s techniques and using both Creative Mode and Release to overcome her advantages. He discovers that Feast of Frenzy grants extraordinary regeneration but also suppresses his conscious control, making him dangerous even to allies. His victory earns Lona’s submission, though he becomes increasingly concerned about the true nature of his Release.
• Lona: Shows herself to be a highly versatile and intelligent Grade A magical girl, using instant-cast magic, layered combinations, and a powerful Awakening. She nearly defeats Li Xuan, but her reliance on sustained damage leaves her vulnerable to an enemy who can regenerate rapidly. After losing, she accepts the terms of the duel and begins treating Li Xuan as her Master.
• Qi Mo: Acts as a cautious observer, warning Li Xuan about Lona’s strength and later noticing the unusually close connection between their energy reactions.
• Black Cat: Displays strong confidence in Li Xuan’s abilities and correctly predicts that his Release will turn the battle around.
• Felia and Saroye: Recognize the overwhelming power of Lona’s Awakening and briefly consider intervening on Li Xuan’s behalf.
• The mysterious banquet host: Appears to have authority over the strange realm and may know something about Li Xuan’s Release or transformation into the “King of Wine.”

Significant Themes

• Strength, submission, and consent through challenge: Li Xuan attempts to make Lona submit not through immediate force, but by offering her a fair chance to fight for her freedom.
• Adaptation versus specialization: Lona’s refined, powerful magic dominates the battlefield, but Li Xuan’s ability to improvise—creating a shield, exploiting her weaknesses, and activating his Release—ultimately gives him the advantage.
• The dangers of uncontrolled power: Feast of Frenzy makes Li Xuan nearly impossible to kill, but it also overwhelms his judgment and instincts.
• Reality versus illusion: The banquet realm feels completely real, yet its obscured guests and impossible properties suggest it may be a dream, pocket dimension, or manifestation of Li Xuan’s Release.
• Hidden abilities and unknown transformations: Both Lona and Li Xuan reveal powers that even the other does not fully understand, hinting that their abilities may have broader implications.

Character Interactions

• Li Xuan and Lona’s relationship shifts from captor and captive to combatants, then to Master and maid after their agreed duel.
• Lona and Li Xuan exchange increasingly personal and awkward dialogue inside the banquet realm as they try to determine whether their surroundings are real.
• The magical girls watch the battle anxiously, with Qi Mo expressing concern, Felia and Saroye discussing whether to intervene, and Black Cat insisting that Li Xuan still has a winning move.
• Lona’s mention of her friends, Kusakabe Miyou and Yunshi Yuli, provides new personal information about her life and reveals that she still owes money connected to Yuriko’s affairs.
• The chapter ends with Li Xuan and Lona facing a mysterious banquet host, whose announcement about the “birth of the King of Wine” raises major questions about Li Xuan’s Release and what has happened to them.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girl? There’s No Going Back!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan and Lona discover that the lively banquet they remembered is actually filled entirely with stone statues. The crowned statue at the head of the table appears to be the source of the strange illusion.
• Li Xuan notices that the statue wears a ring identical to his own Dionysus’s Ring. When the two rings approach each other, they repel one another, suggesting that they are connected to the portal or a way out.
• Lona cannot transform or sense the outside world, while Li Xuan lacks enough Evil Energy to overcome the ring’s repulsion. To level up, he uses Wine of Ecstasy, Curse Runes, and prolonged teasing to unlock the system’s “Idle Play” Defeat CG.
• The experience gained raises Li Xuan to Level 7, upgrades his Dark Pact to Grade A, and unlocks the skill Rain of Absolution.
• With his increased power, Li Xuan forces the two rings together, opening a small crack in the statue—and apparently in reality itself. Before they can escape, the banquet food transforms into an endless army of monsters.
• Li Xuan protects Lona while fighting the monsters. As his Evil Energy runs out, he uses Lona as a source of energy, allowing them to continue battling until the entire world becomes blood-red and the monsters fall silent.
• The portal closes, but Li Xuan accidentally tears open the sky itself after wiping blood from his face. A hand reaches through, pulls him and Lona out, and returns them to the Phase One Project platform.
• Felia explains that Li Xuan and Lona had actually remained inside a blood cocoon the entire time. This conflicts with Li Xuan’s vivid memories of the banquet world.
• Although Lona remembers only being trapped in the cocoon, Li Xuan confirms that the alternate world was real—or at least connected to reality—because he possesses a second Dionysus’s Ring and the system records the new Defeat CG.
• By asking Lona about her debts to Kusakabe Miyou and Yunshi Yuli, Li Xuan confirms that she had been with him in the banquet world, though her memories of it were erased.
• At the chapter’s end, Li Xuan reveals his newly upgraded Grade A Evil Energy, but it carries the same intoxicating, pleasure-inducing aura associated with the banquet.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan: Becomes more powerful and resourceful, advancing to Level 7 and Grade A Evil Energy. He demonstrates determination and protectiveness toward Lona, especially during the monster attack. However, his reliance on manipulation and sexual stimulation to achieve his goals also becomes more pronounced.
• Lona: Remains frightened and dependent on Li Xuan, but continues trusting him even under extreme circumstances. She helps him survive by supplying energy and follows his direction despite confusion and exhaustion. Her erased memories create a major mystery surrounding her connection to the alternate world.
• Felia: Acts as the outside observer and rescuer, pulling Li Xuan from the blood cocoon. Her explanation deepens the uncertainty over whether the banquet realm was an illusion, dream, or genuine alternate dimension.
• The other magical girls: Primarily serve as witnesses to Li Xuan’s return and the overwhelming aura of his upgraded power.

Significant Themes

• Reality versus illusion: The chapter repeatedly questions whether the banquet world truly existed. Physical evidence—the second ring and system records—contradicts Lona’s memories and the magical girls’ observations.
• Power gained through desire: Li Xuan’s advancement depends on manipulating pleasure, temptation, and forbidden abilities, reinforcing the story’s fusion of magical combat and erotic power systems.
• Protection and dependence: Li Xuan protects Lona, but also treats her as a tool for leveling up and recharging. Their relationship mixes affection, trust, control, and exploitation.
• Mystery and hidden mechanisms: The two rings, the blood cocoon, the statue, and the erased memories suggest a larger supernatural system whose rules Li Xuan does not yet understand.
• Transformation and escalation: Li Xuan’s new Grade A power changes how others may perceive him, but the intoxicating aura hints that his growing strength may also bring new dangers.

Character Interactions

• Li Xuan questions Lona about the statue and the missing wine, then reassures her that they will find a way home.
• He manipulates Lona into helping him level up, restraining and stimulating her until the system registers the new Defeat CG.
• During the monster assault, Li Xuan repeatedly shields and reassures Lona, promising to get her out alive.
• Lona supports Li Xuan by allowing him to draw energy from her while they fight, creating a practical but intimate survival partnership.
• After their return, Li Xuan tests Lona’s memories by mentioning her debts, confirming that she experienced the banquet realm even though she cannot consciously recall it.
• The chapter ends with Li Xuan unintentionally affecting the surrounding magical girls through the seductive aura of his newly strengthened power.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girls? There’s No Going Back Now!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After losing to Li Xuan, Lona kneels and pledges to serve him for life. She asks to drink directly from his body rather than consume Fallen Blood.
• When Lona drinks Li Xuan’s blood, the system unexpectedly announces that Demonfall has activated successfully. Li Xuan realizes that his own blood can apparently trigger Demonfall, possibly due to a newly acquired ability.
• Black Cat, jealous of Lona’s intimacy with Li Xuan, asks to undergo Demonfall as well. Despite Li Xuan warning that the transformation is permanent and will prevent her from ever being a magical girl again, she accepts without hesitation.
• Black Cat becomes a demonfall servant, then passes Li Xuan’s corruption to Felia by kissing her and sharing the substance in her mouth. Felia initially struggles with guilt and religious doubt but ultimately accepts Demonfall.
• Felia explains the sins associated with the members of

King’s Edict

• Felia bears the sin of greed, having once survived through robbery before being saved and adopted by a priest.
• Black Cat’s sin is theft.
• Yao committed multiple murders, though she killed only people she considered irredeemably evil.
• Saroye’s sin is arrogance; her reckless actions caused her sister’s death.
• Saroye reveals that she longs for death as punishment for her guilt. Li Xuan refuses to promise death but offers to help her escape her trauma. Trusting him, Saroye and her companions submit to him, and she undergoes Demonfall.
• Bing Rui initially requests Demonfall merely to avoid being the only outsider in the group. Li Xuan refuses because the decision seems insincere. Bing Rui then admits her genuine desire to serve Li Xuan and undergoes Demonfall.
• With nearly all the magical girls transformed, attention turns to Yao, the lone holdout. She insults Li Xuan and challenges him to release her seal so she can fight again.
• Li Xuan removes Yao’s magical power seal, deliberately giving her a chance to fight and defeat him. Yao transforms and prepares to attack, but Black Cat steps between her and Li Xuan, defending him and challenging Yao to strike her.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan becomes more aware of the power and implications of his blood. He also shifts from simply dominating the magical girls to trying to earn their willing loyalty, particularly in Saroye’s case.
• Lona openly embraces permanent servitude and becomes Li Xuan’s first Grade A subordinate, showing intense devotion and possessiveness.
• Black Cat abandons her identity as a magical girl out of love and jealousy, becoming fiercely protective of Li Xuan and actively encouraging Felia to join him.
• Felia undergoes a major spiritual crisis. Her faith and sense of guilt conflict with her attraction to Li Xuan and her desire for acceptance, but Demonfall ultimately makes her feel liberated and secure.
• Saroye reveals the depth of her survivor’s guilt over her sister’s death. Her decision to serve Li Xuan is motivated less by pleasure than by hope that he can help her overcome her self-condemnation.
• Bing Rui is forced to confront her true desires instead of hiding behind peer pressure. Once she honestly admits her attraction to Li Xuan, she is accepted for Demonfall.
• Yao remains defiant, prideful, and hostile. Her aggressive challenge appears partly genuine and partly intended to force Li Xuan to prove himself, while the others’ concern reveals that she is still connected to the group despite denying it.

Significant Themes

• Irreversible choice and surrender: Demonfall is repeatedly framed as a permanent loss of the magical-girl identity, making each transformation a decisive rejection of the girls’ former lives.
• Acceptance versus guilt: Several characters view Demonfall as freedom from social rejection, religious condemnation, or personal shame. Felia describes it as feeling accepted and safe, while Saroye hopes it can release her from guilt.
• Desire and sincerity: Li Xuan insists that Demonfall should come from genuine willingness rather than fear of exclusion or social pressure. Bing Rui’s transformation emphasizes the importance of honestly acknowledging one’s desires.
• Sin and moral judgment: The chapter questions whether people are condemned for the seriousness of their actions or for the guilt they feel afterward. Yao’s lack of remorse contrasts with Saroye’s overwhelming self-hatred.
• Transformation of relationships: Former teammates and family-like companions become connected through Li Xuan, while affection, jealousy, loyalty, and dependence reshape the group’s internal dynamics.
• Control versus trust: Li Xuan uses seals and power to control Yao, but he recognizes that genuine submission requires allowing her to resist and lose by her own choice.

Character Interactions

• Lona’s affectionate submission provokes Black Cat’s jealousy and pushes her to demand Demonfall.
• Black Cat’s loyalty to Li Xuan leads her to recruit Felia, treating the transformation as something worth sharing with her surrogate mother.
• Felia’s account of the group’s past brings the members closer to Li Xuan and reveals the emotional wounds behind their identities.
• Saroye’s confession creates a moment of sympathy and trust between her and Li Xuan.
• Bing Rui argues with Li Xuan over being accepted, forcing her to state her feelings honestly.
• The chapter ends with Black Cat physically defending Li Xuan from Yao, turning the group’s former conflict into an immediate confrontation between two transformed and untransformed members.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girls? There’s No Going Back Anymore!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Black Cat confronts Yao, reminding her of their former friendship and shared mischief. Yao threatens her but clearly cannot bring herself to attack a companion.
• To settle the matter, Li Xuan orders the other Demonfallen magical girls to stand aside and challenges Yao directly, promising not to use mental attacks or ambush tactics.
• Yao uses her Sealing Type magic and puppet threads to immobilize Li Xuan, then unleashes her signature technique, Yao Character Slash. However, Li Xuan’s newly developed Evil Energy Armor withstands the attack.
• Li Xuan explains that he has compressed Evil Energy into defensive armor rather than projecting it offensively. He then overwhelms Yao with numerous hardened tentacles and saturation attacks, defeating her despite her refined swordsmanship, sealing techniques, and exceptional durability.
• After healing Yao, Li Xuan continues to pressure her emotionally and sexually. The encounter triggers Yao’s long-delayed Awakening, transforming her appearance and greatly intensifying her powers and reactions.
• Yao’s former Awakening ability, Yin-Yang Union, is transformed through Demonfall into a Liberation ability that prolongs and replays pleasurable sensations. Though embarrassed and resentful about it, she eventually reframes the ability as a unique strength, restoring her pride.
• The other magical girls, having watched the confrontation, approach Li Xuan and demand his attention. He transports everyone to a luxurious room in the Phase Two Project.
• Li Xuan initially attempts to manage the group by pairing close companions together and using their mutual intimacy to occupy them while he focuses on the others. The situation soon reverses, however, as the newly Demonfallen girls overwhelm him with their enthusiasm.
• By using his enhanced Evil Energy, tentacles, and a strategy of concentrating on one opponent at a time, Li Xuan regains control and ultimately subdues all of the magical girls.

Character Developments

• Yao: Moves from defiant resistance to reluctant acceptance. Her defeat in a fair fight forces her to acknowledge Li Xuan’s growth, while her Awakening and Demonfall mark a major transformation in both power and identity. She remains proud and argumentative but begins accepting her bond with Li Xuan.
• Li Xuan: Demonstrates substantial advancement, reaching Grade A-level Evil Energy and developing a highly effective defensive combat technique. He also becomes more confident in managing the increasingly intimate and chaotic group dynamic.
• Black Cat: Shows greater emotional boldness after Demonfall, openly confronting Yao about their shared past and proving that their friendship still affects Yao.
• The other magical girls: Their reactions reveal growing attachment to Li Xuan and increasing willingness to participate in the group’s intimate relationships. They also show strong bonds and comfort with one another.
• Felia: Her past grudge over the stolen wallet is humorously revealed, while her aggressive initiative later emphasizes her confidence and forceful personality.
• Saroye, Bing Rui, Qi Mo, Wu Yan, and Xu Rou: Their interactions reinforce the closeness and mutual involvement of the group, with each taking an active role rather than remaining a passive spectator.

Significant Themes

• Friendship beneath hostility: Black Cat’s memories reveal that Yao’s cruelty is partly a defensive pose; their shared history still prevents Yao from treating her as a true enemy.
• Power through transformation: Yao’s Awakening and Demonfall represent both a literal increase in power and a psychological surrender to a path she had feared she could not escape.
• Pride and acceptance: Yao refuses to admit defeat even after losing, but eventually preserves her self-esteem by interpreting her unusual Liberation ability as something uniquely hers.
• Control and reversal: The chapter repeatedly shifts the balance of power—from Yao’s initial restraint of Li Xuan, to his domination of her, and later to the girls nearly overwhelming him as a group.
• Changing boundaries: The magical girls’ relationships with Li Xuan and one another become increasingly intimate and communal, suggesting that the group has moved beyond ordinary master-servant dynamics.
• Individual uniqueness: Yao’s unusual ability is portrayed not as a weakness but as a differentiated path that makes her irreplaceable.

Character Interactions

• Black Cat and Yao’s exchange highlights their complicated friendship and shared criminal past.
• Li Xuan and Yao’s duel combines genuine martial rivalry with personal tension; Li Xuan’s fair victory is important because it removes Yao’s usual excuses about ambushes or mental attacks.
• Yao’s transformation is witnessed by Felia and the others, making it a significant event for the entire group.
• Qi Mo, Wu Yan, and Xu Rou demonstrate how the girls support, tease, and involve one another during the gathering.
• Felia and Saroye’s close association becomes especially apparent when Li Xuan targets them together.
• By the end, Li Xuan has reasserted himself as the group’s master, but only after the girls’ collective enthusiasm temporarily threatens to reverse their established power dynamic.

Chapter Summary: Magical Girls? There’s No Going Back!

Key Plot Points and Events

• After defeating the magical girls in the previous battle, Li Xuan wakes the next day to find the room perfectly cleaned and everyone gone. Mian Yin explains that the girls are preparing a surprise.
• The magical girls emerge through a portal in a dramatic celebration. Wu Yan crowns Li Xuan with a golden crown, while Qi Mo and Xu Rou dress him in an elaborate robe. The Witch Band performs music for the ceremony.
• Because Li Xuan now commands five Grade A and six Grade B magical girls, the group decides to establish a formal organization. After several absurd suggestions, Li Xuan names it Witch Academy.
• The former magical girls officially accept the identity of “witches.” The Witch Band is renamed King’s Edict, while Li Xuan receives the public title Black King, symbolizing his Evil Energy, his name, and his ambition to conquer the world.
• The witches kneel and swear loyalty to him. Li Xuan grants Felia and Lona administrator privileges alongside Wu Yan, placing them in charge of helping manage the organization.
• He allows the witches to attend school, perform concerts, and maintain ordinary lives, provided they conceal their identities, avoid using their powers recklessly, and report their whereabouts.
• Li Xuan warns that the Church will eventually connect the incidents in Clear Lotus City and Glazed River City and attack them. He plans to convert the former Phase One Project site into a combat arena so the witches can train.
• The group discusses battle competitions and sparring. Yao challenges Black Cat after being mocked for having lost to her before, but Li Xuan postpones the match.
• Li Xuan gives Wu Yan Lilika’s bank card and orders the money to be divided among the witches so they can enjoy their new freedom.
• Li Xuan then teleports to Lilika’s home with Black Cat to discuss the Oracle Machine. Black Cat unexpectedly treats Lilika as her “mommy” and attempts to nurse from her, leaving Lilika embarrassed but unable to become angry at the childlike girl.
• Lilika explains that she cannot provide information about the Oracle Machine itself, but reveals the identity and abilities of Shen Liang, the Grade A Prayer-Type bishop of Flower River City. Li Xuan appears intent on reaching the Oracle Machine through her.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan embraces a more formal leadership role, accepting the titles of Black King and head of Witch Academy. His new crown and the witches’ loyalty strengthen his confidence and sense of authority.
• He also demonstrates growing responsibility by creating organizational rules, appointing administrators, encouraging the witches to live normal lives, and planning structured combat training.
• Felia and Lona are promoted because of their leadership and organizational experience. Their surprise at receiving administrator privileges shows how much they value Li Xuan’s trust.
• Black Cat becomes more openly mischievous and childlike after Demonfall. Her innocent behavior makes her both dangerous and comedic, and she naturally antagonizes Yao.
• Yao remains proud, aggressive, and competitive, especially when Black Cat exposes her previous defeat.
• Lilika continues acting as a cautious, practical adviser. Although she disapproves of Li Xuan’s plans against the Oracle Machine, she ultimately helps him by providing information about Bishop Shen Liang.

Significant Themes

• Transformation and new identities: The magical girls formally abandon their former identities and become witches, marking their separation from traditional magical-girl organizations.
• Power and leadership: Li Xuan’s coronation symbolizes the transition from an informal group to a structured faction with ranks, rules, and public identities.
• Freedom versus secrecy: The witches are allowed to live ordinary lives, but they must hide their powers because the Church remains a serious threat.
• Found family and belonging: Witch Academy gives former outcasts a shared home and purpose, while Black Cat’s attachment to Lilika highlights her longing for maternal care.
• Preparation for conflict: The planned arena and combat training emphasize that the organization cannot remain hidden forever and must prepare for an inevitable confrontation with the Church and the Oracle Machine.

Important Character Interactions

• Mian Yin teases Li Xuan about reality and dreams before disappearing, maintaining her mysterious and playful relationship with him.
• Qi Mo takes the lead in formalizing the organization and respectfully presents the ceremony’s purpose to Li Xuan.
• The witches collaborate in making Li Xuan’s crown and robe, demonstrating their loyalty and growing unity.
• Wu Yan, Felia, and Lona become central administrative figures, while Felia also acts as a practical voice regarding the Church and combat training.
• Yao and Black Cat develop a comedic rivalry, with Black Cat repeatedly provoking Yao and using Li Xuan as protection.
• Lilika and Li Xuan discuss the risks of confronting the Oracle Machine, with Lilika warning that it may self-destruct rather than be captured.
• Black Cat’s sudden attachment to Lilika creates an awkward but affectionate interaction, revealing Lilika’s unwilling tenderness toward her.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girl? Can't Go Back Anymore!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan persuades Lilika to visit Shen Liang, the bishop of the Church’s Flower River City branch. Although Lilika feels guilty about betraying her former junior, Li Xuan promises that Shen Liang will not be harmed or forced into Demonfall.
• Lilika meets Shen Liang at Church headquarters under the pretense of discussing monster activity in Clear Lotus City. Their conversation reveals:
  • The Church is short on manpower and has chosen not to intervene in Clear Lotus City.
  • Tensions with the Hunters remain unresolved.
  • The Magical Girl Disappearance Case and the defeat of the Witch Band have left the Church fearful.
  • The Church’s higher-ups have given little meaningful response to the threat of a Grade S monster.
• Lilika nearly reveals her connection to the monsters when she urgently tells Shen Liang to invoke her name if the Church is attacked. She quickly disguises the statement as a joke, and Shen Liang remains unaware of Lilika’s betrayal.
• After Lilika leaves, Li Xuan teleports to Flower River City with Black Cat and has Mian Yin enter Shen Liang’s dreams to gather intelligence.
• Through manipulating the dream, Li Xuan learns that the Church headquarters has numerous layers of defensive barriers. He also discovers that the Oracle Machine Terminal is hidden beneath the Church, behind a concealed spatial seal accessed through a saint’s portrait.
• Mian Yin places the Church’s personnel into deeper sleep, allowing Li Xuan and Black Cat to infiltrate the headquarters at dawn.
• Li Xuan initially cannot detect or open the sealed entrance. Black Cat then uses her Pupil Transformation ability to reveal the invisible seal as a physical golden door.
• Li Xuan creates a spatial passage through the opened seal, and he and Black Cat enter the Oracle Machine’s hidden chamber.
• Inside a sterile white room, they find a massive transparent spherical container filled with magic circles. A living, naked girl is suspended inside, restrained by numerous tubes and needles.
• The system identifies her as a “magical girl,” strongly implying that she is the true core or living component of the Oracle Machine Terminal.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan demonstrates increasing strategic skill and restraint. Rather than attacking Shen Liang immediately, he chooses infiltration and intelligence gathering to avoid alerting the Church.
• Lilika remains emotionally conflicted. She is willing to cooperate with Li Xuan but still deeply cares for Shen Liang and struggles with the moral consequences of betraying her former junior.
• Shen Liang is portrayed as responsible, courageous, and self-sacrificing. She insists that a bishop must remain with the Church and is prepared to die so that younger magical girls can escape.
• Mian Yin proves valuable as an intelligence-gathering partner, using dream manipulation and memory reconstruction to expose the Church’s defenses and hidden entrance.
• Black Cat reveals an unexpectedly powerful application of her abilities. She can physically transform magical seals, not merely affect living beings, making her essential to the infiltration.
• Li Xuan and Black Cat’s relationship remains intimate and trusting, with Black Cat assisting him loyally and Li Xuan relying on her unique abilities.

Significant Themes

• Loyalty versus betrayal: Lilika’s cooperation with Li Xuan conflicts with her affection and loyalty toward Shen Liang.
• Sacrifice and responsibility: Shen Liang’s willingness to die for the Church reflects the burdens placed on leaders and senior magical girls.
• Truth hidden beneath appearances: The Church presents itself as a religious institution, but its secrets—including the Oracle Machine—are concealed behind layers of deception and magical security.
• The exploitation of magical girls: The discovery of the imprisoned girl suggests that the Church’s power system may depend on the suffering or forced use of magical girls.
• Strategic power versus brute force: Li Xuan avoids open confrontation, relying on surveillance, dream manipulation, stealth, and spatial abilities to penetrate the Church.
• The cost of power and protection: The Church’s extensive defenses and the suffering girl at the heart of the Oracle Machine suggest that magical security may be maintained through disturbing sacrifices.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Xuan and Lilika: Li Xuan negotiates with Lilika by appealing to her concern for Shen Liang and promises not to harm her.
• Lilika and Shen Liang: Their warm senior-junior relationship is evident through mutual respect, concern, and shared memories of past battles. Lilika struggles to conceal her true intentions.
• Li Xuan and Mian Yin: Li Xuan directs Mian Yin’s dream infiltration, while she advises him on how to manipulate Shen Liang’s dream effectively.
• Li Xuan and Black Cat: Black Cat protects Li Xuan, assists with the infiltration, and ultimately solves the problem of the hidden seal. Their close, affectionate dynamic is emphasized.
• Li Xuan and the Oracle Machine: The chapter ends with Li Xuan finally locating the hidden terminal and discovering that it is connected to a living, suffering magical girl, setting up a major revelation for the next chapter.

Chapter Summary: Magical Girls? There's No Going Back!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan discovers that the Oracle Machine’s terminal is actually a living magical girl named Jiesha, a Grade B Prayer Type magical girl imprisoned inside a protected sphere.
• The terminal announces that the next oracle will arrive in roughly 338 hours, suggesting an imminent event that may once again target Li Xuan.
• Li Xuan cannot physically reach or teleport to Jiesha because of the sphere’s powerful protective field. Fearing that Evil Energy might activate the terminal’s self-destruct mechanism, he avoids using it.
• At Black Cat’s request, Li Xuan uses Mind Interference to ease Jiesha’s pain. The attempt causes him to receive bizarre voices, fragmented memories, and visions of ancient beings and a sleeping woman, implying a deep connection between Jiesha, the Oracle Machine, and Li Xuan’s own system.
• Li Xuan returns home with Black Cat and orders her to keep the discovery secret. He concludes that the Church may have imprisoned and exploited Jiesha as a living oracle.
• He attempts to contact Li Sijie, hoping she can explain the mystery, but learns that she has been absent from university for over a month and cannot be reached.
• While fishing at Clear River Lake, Li Xuan receives a request from Lona, who wants to return to Glazed River City to repay debts and recruit her former friends, Miyou and Yuli, into Li Xuan’s forces. He approves both plans and tells her to prioritize her safety.
• At the amusement park, Li Xuan creates a massive quantity of high-quality Fallen Blood using his improved Grade A Evil Energy. He shapes it into a ten-meter-tall blue-and-white mechanical giant modeled after a powerful robot.
• The mech cannot move independently because Li Xuan designed it to require a pilot. Felia mistakes it for the legendary “Lord Bajieli,” worsening a series of misunderstandings about Li Xuan’s creations.
• Before Felia can deliver her own report, Wu Yan arrives with an emergency: Xu Rou has been captured by a powerful octopus-like monster at sea.
• Li Xuan, Black Cat, Felia, and Wu Yan teleport to the scene. Li Xuan prevents Black Cat from using Instant Death, hoping to preserve the powerful Grade A monster, then battles it directly and rescues Xu Rou.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan becomes increasingly suspicious of the Church and the Oracle Machine. He recognizes that the system-like voice may be connected to his own origins or powers, but lacks enough evidence to draw conclusions.
• His attempt to help Jiesha shows that, despite his usual pragmatism, he is willing to take risks to relieve another person’s suffering—especially when encouraged by Black Cat.
• Li Xuan’s growing power is demonstrated by his ability to produce and manipulate vastly greater quantities of Fallen Blood, though his creations still reflect flaws in his imagination and planning.
• Black Cat displays compassion toward Jiesha and guilt when Li Xuan is hurt by the Mind Interference feedback. She also becomes increasingly dependent on Fallen Blood for food and energy, emphasizing her gluttonous, playful nature.
• Lona shows strong loyalty and diligence. She is determined to learn the Golden Kingdom’s language and culture so she can serve Li Xuan better, while also remaining devoted to her old friends.
• Felia continues to interpret Li Xuan’s strange creations through the exaggerated legends surrounding him, believing the immobile mech may be a divine or legendary being.
• Li Sijie’s unexplained absence becomes a new mystery, suggesting she may be avoiding Li Xuan or involved in events unknown to him.
• Li Xuan’s allies remain active and somewhat reckless, as shown by Wu Yan, Qi Mo, Tan Xiang, and Xu Rou going to sea to hunt monsters for amusement.

Significant Themes

• Truth versus misunderstanding: Li Xuan repeatedly encounters situations in which reality is obscured by incomplete information or mistaken interpretations. The Oracle Machine’s true nature, the mech’s identity, and Li Xuan’s own system all remain uncertain.
• Exploitation and morality: The Church’s possible use of a magical girl as a living tool challenges its claims of righteousness and highlights the abuse of power behind institutional authority.
• The danger of knowledge: Contact with Jiesha exposes Li Xuan to disturbing memories and voices, suggesting that uncovering the truth may be psychologically or physically dangerous.
• Power and responsibility: Li Xuan’s increased strength allows him to create powerful beings and rescue allies, but he must also control his impulses and avoid killing potentially useful creatures.
• Loyalty and belonging: Lona’s concern for her former companions and Li Xuan’s willingness to support her reveal the importance of relationships amid the growing conflict.
• Comedy amid danger: The chapter balances ominous revelations with humorous misunderstandings, Black Cat’s appetite, the mech’s failure to move, and the cramped chaos of the amusement-park rescue meeting.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Xuan and Black Cat: Black Cat urges Li Xuan to help Jiesha, while Li Xuan tries to protect her from the dangers of the Oracle Machine. Their relationship remains affectionate and playful, though Black Cat’s dependence on Fallen Blood causes comic tension.
• Li Xuan and Jiesha: Their brief mental contact links Li Xuan to mysterious cosmic memories and suggests that Jiesha may be more than merely a Church-controlled oracle.
• Li Xuan and Lona: Li Xuan reassures Lona, offers to cover her debts, and approves her plan to recruit Miyou and Yuli, strengthening her loyalty and confidence in him.
• Li Xuan and Felia: Felia misunderstands the mechanical giant as a legendary lord, while Li Xuan unsuccessfully tries to prove that it is merely one of his monsters.
• Li Xuan and Wu Yan’s group: When Xu Rou is captured, Li Xuan immediately intervenes but orders his companions to preserve the octopus monster rather than kill it, revealing his interest in obtaining powerful creatures.
• Li Xuan and Li Sijie: Although they do not meet, Li Xuan’s failed attempt to contact her establishes her unexplained disappearance as a significant unresolved thread.

Chapter Summary: Magical Girl? There’s No Going Back!

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• After rescuing Xu Rou, Li Xuan orders Tan Xiang and Qi Mo to withdraw and battles the giant octopus monster.
• Felia, in her Demonfallen form, transforms pieces of her nun’s habit into heavy machine guns and destroys the octopus’s tentacles. The creature rapidly regenerates.
• Black Cat uses the Word Spirit “Single-Target Takoyaki” to halt the octopus’s regeneration.
• A massive army of seafood-like monsters emerges from the sea to protect the octopus. The force numbers over ten thousand and includes Grade B and Grade A monsters.
• Black Cat temporarily suppresses most of the army with “Full-Scope Capture,” while Felia destroys monsters outside the spell’s control limit.
• Li Xuan discovers and activates his new skill, Rain of Absolution, using a paralyzing Wine of Ecstasy. Crimson rain covers the battlefield, paralyzing the monsters and creating mental links between them and Li Xuan.
• He uses Fallen Blood to convert the remaining powerful monsters into his subordinates, effectively gaining control of the entire seafood army.
• Li Xuan transports the monsters and surrounding seawater to the Delusive Badlands, constructing a huge aquarium-like defensive structure around the Phase Two Project platform.
• Felia reveals that her prayer, despite her transformation into a witch, received a response from an unknown existence unrelated to the world itself. This suggests that the entity granting magical-girl powers may exist on a level comparable to the world.
• Li Xuan develops a two-way consciousness communication system by combining his summoning channels with Mind Interference. The system works reliably nearby and can function across worlds, though long-distance use consumes substantial mental energy.
• After testing the communication system, Li Xuan orders Felia to notify all Grade A magical girls to gather in three days for an important undertaking.
• Li Xuan returns to studying the octopus and discovers that it has been guarding a gigantic, unusually hard pearl. Even under mental control, the creature resists giving it up.
• After forcing the octopus to spit out the pearl, Li Xuan finds that it cannot be damaged by ordinary Evil Energy blades and fires an Evil Energy cannon at it. The chapter ends before revealing the result.

2. Character Developments

• Li Xuan: Becomes increasingly confident in controlling large-scale situations. He expands his abilities from individual monster conversion to mass paralysis, mind control, and battlefield recruitment. He also begins improving the group’s communication infrastructure and becomes intrigued by the mysterious pearl and the unknown entity behind Felia’s prayer.
• Felia: Demonstrates greatly increased combat power after Demonfall, efficiently destroying the octopus army’s attackers. She remains devoted to her faith despite becoming a witch and shows loyalty to Li Xuan, while also acting as an important source of information about Prayer Type magical girls and divine phenomena.
• Black Cat: Proves essential for crowd control, first neutralizing the octopus and then immobilizing thousands of monsters with her Word Spirit.
• Wu Yan: Helps construct the aquarium defense and provides comic relief, particularly through her comments about aquariums and yuri dates.
• Xu Rou: Although she does not participate directly in the main battle, her earlier rescue motivates Li Xuan’s decisive actions and reinforces the dangers of the group’s limited communication.
• The Octopus Monster: Shifts from a dangerous enemy to a forcibly controlled subordinate, but its extreme attachment to the pearl suggests that it may possess unusual intelligence or that the pearl has extraordinary significance.

3. Significant Themes

• Power through control and conversion: Li Xuan’s growing strength comes not merely from defeating enemies but from turning them into resources, soldiers, and defensive infrastructure.
• Adaptation and innovation: He repeatedly finds new applications for existing abilities, especially Rain of Absolution and the consciousness channels.
• The unknown source of magical power: Felia’s prayer introduces a larger mystery involving an existence beyond the known “world,” expanding the setting’s cosmological stakes.
• Security versus freedom: The chapter presents Li Xuan’s expanding network of controlled monsters and witches as protection, while also emphasizing the loss of autonomy involved in his methods.
• Building a community and fortress: The aquarium and improved communication system show Li Xuan gradually transforming the Delusive Badlands from a temporary refuge into a fortified, organized base.
• Curiosity and hidden artifacts: The mysterious pearl establishes a new mystery and hints that the octopus may have been guarding something far more important than itself.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Xuan directs Felia and Black Cat during the battle, relying on their complementary strengths: Felia provides overwhelming firepower while Black Cat controls the battlefield.
• He works with Felia and Wu Yan to transport the sea monsters and seawater through portals and construct the aquarium defense.
• Felia and Li Xuan discuss the nature of Prayer Type powers and the mysterious response to her prayer, deepening the trust and information exchange between them.
• Li Xuan and Felia collaborate on testing the new communication system, successfully establishing two-way contact both locally and across worlds.
• Wu Yan interacts humorously with Felia while discussing the aquarium, then is assigned to comfort Xu Rou.
• Li Xuan asserts control over the octopus through Fallen Blood and Mind Interference, but the monster’s resistance concerning the pearl creates tension and suggests a deeper connection between them.

Chapter Summary

Plot Points and Major Events

• After his battle with Yao, Li Xuan perfects his ability to compress Evil Energy, making his attacks far more powerful despite their smaller size. He is unable to damage or open the mysterious bead, which appears almost indestructible, and stores it beneath the newly constructed arena.
• Because his Creation Points are capped, Li Xuan dismantles unnecessary academy buildings to gather enough resources for the Phase Two Project. He builds a large Roman Colosseum-style arena with floating stone platforms, cover, weapons, and dramatic lighting powered by Fallen Blood.
• The magical girls immediately begin using the arena for combat:
  • Bing Rui challenges Wu Yan to settle their old grudge but initially loses because Wu Yan’s speed prevents her from preparing Grand Spell: Mighty Dragon.
  • Li Xuan strengthens Bing Rui with Wine of Ecstasy and a Curse Rune that increases her Evil Energy limit. Bing Rui then defeats Wu Yan in a rematch.
  • Yao challenges Black Cat, but Black Cat seals her speed, bombards her with transformed stone projectiles, and defeats her with successive Word Spirits that induce sleep.
• Li Xuan helps Wu Yan rediscover her Release ability by having Qi Mo and Tang Xi seal her Evil Energy while he temporarily boosts it with wine. Wu Yan successfully activates Self-Release: Heartfire, revealing that her ability attacks the opponent’s mind.
• Wu Yan and Bing Rui fight a third time. Wu Yan’s full-power Judgment clashes with Bing Rui’s fully charged Mighty Dragon, resulting in a draw. Bing Rui’s immunity to mental attacks nullifies Wu Yan’s Release ability.
• Felia returns with the Grade A magical girls. Li Xuan gives them Wine of Ecstasy and replaces or enhances their Curse Runes:
  • Lona gains major overall improvements.
  • Saroye receives two Evil Energy enhancements because her Undying ability makes self-healing unnecessary.
  • Yao loses her Evil Energy Rune because her Containerization Rune cannot be removed, receiving speed and self-healing instead.
  • The others receive combinations of speed, self-healing, and increased Evil Energy.
• Li Xuan organizes extensive arena training, including individual and team battles. The results reveal that no magical girl is unquestionably strongest because their abilities counter one another:
  • Lona overwhelms Black Cat through large-scale magic and the All-Encompassing Barrier.
  • Yao and Saroye can withstand Lona’s attacks, making her ineffective against them.
  • Saroye would likely win a battle of attrition because of her effectively infinite survivability, though this does not necessarily reflect practical combat strength.
• The arena becomes both a training ground and recreational pastime, with Wu Yan especially eager to challenge stronger opponents.
• Li Xuan later visits Lilika with Black Cat and reveals that he successfully contacted the Oracle Machine during the previous operation. He warns that the Church may retaliate and asks Lilika to monitor it. Since communication with him is difficult, he claims to have prepared a way for her to send intelligence at any time, gesturing suggestively toward her bedroom.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan becomes more technically capable with Evil Energy but recognizes that his direct combat skills remain underdeveloped compared with the magical girls. He focuses on strengthening his allies and studying their abilities through organized combat.
• Wu Yan evolves from a Grade C fighter capable of defeating stronger opponents through speed into someone who can access Release and challenge Grade A witches. Her new ability, Heartfire, attacks the mind, though its effectiveness depends on the opponent’s resistances.
• Bing Rui overcomes her initial defeat, gains a substantial power boost, and successfully defeats Wu Yan. Her pride and competitive attitude become more pronounced, though her immunity to mental attacks makes her an important counter to Wu Yan.
• Black Cat demonstrates exceptional battlefield control and tactical efficiency. Her stationary bombardment, sealing abilities, and Word Spirits allow her to defeat Yao and completely neutralize opponents under favorable conditions.
• Yao remains highly competitive and easily provoked by past defeats, particularly her loss to Black Cat and earlier conflicts with her teammates.
• Lona becomes significantly stronger after her Curse Rune enhancements but remains reluctant to attack her companions. Her large-scale magic and barrier make her powerful against some opponents but vulnerable to Battle Types.
• Saroye emerges as an extremely durable combatant whose Undying nature allows her to outlast nearly anyone.
• Lilika remains resentful of Li Xuan’s poor communication but is still willing to help him investigate the Church.

Significant Themes

• Power growth and experimentation: Strength comes not only from innate rank but also from training, enhancements, tactical understanding, and the ability to awaken or refine special powers.
• The importance of counters: Combat strength is presented as situational rather than absolute. Speed, sealing, barriers, mental immunity, endurance, and attack style all determine matchups.
• Competition and camaraderie: The magical girls’ rivalries are intense but often function as training and entertainment rather than genuine hostility.
• Preparation and infrastructure: Li Xuan’s arena and replenishment facilities represent his effort to turn the group into an organized, increasingly professional fighting force.
• Hidden threats and secrecy: The Oracle Machine and the Church remain major mysteries. Li Xuan withholds crucial information from Lilika while preparing for possible retaliation.
• Humor and provocative relationships: Serious power development is repeatedly contrasted with playful insults, food breaks, flirtation, and Li Xuan’s exploitative treatment of the magical girls as sources of magical energy.

Important Character Interactions

• Wu Yan and Bing Rui’s rivalry drives three progressively more powerful matches, shifting from Wu Yan’s initial dominance to Bing Rui’s victory and finally a draw after Wu Yan’s Release.
• Yao and Black Cat’s old competitive tension culminates in Black Cat’s decisive defeat of Yao, followed by Black Cat treating the sleeping Yao like a body pillow.
• Tan Xiang prevents Wu Yan and Bing Rui from resuming their argument by inviting everyone to share ice cream, temporarily restoring peace.
• Li Xuan acts as trainer, enhancer, and mediator, strengthening the girls while studying their combat abilities.
• Lona’s reluctance to fight contrasts with Saroye’s practical acceptance of training, showing differing attitudes toward violence and duty.
• Li Xuan and Lilika combine flirtatious familiarity with a serious discussion about Church surveillance, ending with Li Xuan proposing an intimate communication method.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan brings the Witch Band's keyboardist, Lilika, to live with him to facilitate communication.
• A new, mysterious magical girl arrives in Flower River City, accompanied by the bishop.
• Li Xuan suspects this new magical girl might be connected to the Oracle Machine and prepares for a potential battle.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan continues to expand his territory and prepare for battles.
• Lilika accepts Li Xuan's decision to bring the keyboardist to live with them.
• The mysterious magical girl, Saint Sophia Lolin Marcias the Fourteenth, is introduced.

Significant Themes

• Power dynamics and preparation for conflict.
• The consequences of Lilika's Curse Rune and her relationship with Li Xuan.
• The mysterious new magical girl and her potential connection to the Oracle Machine.

Character Interactions

• Li Xuan and Lilika discuss the new magical girl and Li Xuan's preparations for battle.
• Li Xuan encounters the mysterious magical girl, Saint Sophia, and they engage in a brief exchange.
• Li Xuan's magical girls prepare for battle at his command.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girls? There's No Going Back Anymore!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan encounters Shichimiya Mayoi, a Grade S Fantasy-type magical girl sent by the Church to eliminate the supposed monster lord, “Lord Bajieli.”
• Mayoi immediately demonstrates overwhelming power:
  • She summons thirteen powerful angels whose light spheres destroy Li Xuan’s monsters.
  • Her summoning magic automatically detects and destroys spatial portals, preventing Li Xuan and his allies from escaping or reinforcing themselves.
  • Her weapon, the Eternal Spear, pierces both Li Xuan and a monster with supposedly perfect physical defense.
• Li Xuan uses a mental attack to create an opening, but Mayoi counters with Majestic Radiance, burning away his attempt to use Li Sijie’s stockings against her.
• Rather than killing him, Mayoi demands that Li Xuan lead her to the nonexistent Lord Bajieli. Li Xuan agrees and tricks her by summoning a giant mech as a decoy, allowing him to flee.
• Mayoi quickly sees through the deception and pursues him. She catches up just as Li Xuan’s witches arrive, revealing that she can teleport within her own anti-spatial domain.
• Mayoi recognizes Lona, an old school acquaintance who has undergone Demonfall but retained her sanity. She offers to capture Lona alive and take her to the Church for possible treatment, though she is prepared to kill her if no cure exists.
• The witches attack Mayoi. Through teamwork—especially Black Cat’s Word Spirit—they destroy the crown of the central Dominion Archangel, removing its defensive barrier and enabling them to defeat all thirteen original angels.
• Lona counters Mayoi’s Majestic Radiance with a barrier that converts the attack into flower petals and reflects its power back at her.
• Li Xuan’s delayed monster army finally arrives. He uses Rain of Absolution to create thousands more monsters and grant them the Demon-Breaking effect, which gradually weakens magical constructs and dissolves Mayoi’s magic-powered clothing.
• Mayoi responds by summoning an Angel Legion of hundreds of angels. The legion overwhelms and destroys the monster army while Mayoi holds off Li Xuan and the witches with her spear and parasol.
• Once the witches are weakened and separated, Mayoi summons Cat Bag, a giant Cheshire Cat-like creature capable of swallowing people and their magic through spatial abilities. It swallows Xu Rou, Wu Yan, Qi Mo, and the remaining Grade B witches.
• Li Xuan is left isolated and unable to rescue them, facing Mayoi and her angels while his allies are captured.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan is forced to confront the enormous gap between his power and that of a true Grade S opponent. His confidence gives way to fear, desperation, and tactical improvisation. He relies on deception, mental attacks, decoys, monster swarms, and exploiting Mayoi’s curiosity rather than direct strength.
• Shichimiya Mayoi is established as an overwhelmingly powerful but eccentric magical girl. Despite her childish, chuunibyou-like behavior and theatrical chants, she is highly skilled, strategically adaptable, and capable of fighting an entire army alone. Her initial arrogance fades once Li Xuan’s Demon-Breaking monsters threaten her.
• Lona is revealed to have known Mayoi in the past and to have undergone Demonfall without losing her sanity. Her barrier magic proves especially important because it can absorb and redirect Mayoi’s own power.
• The witches demonstrate improved coordination and teamwork, particularly in dismantling Mayoi’s angel formation. However, their combined strength remains insufficient against Mayoi’s full power.
• Wu Yan and the other allies remain loyal and responsive to Li Xuan’s commands, but their inability to use portals leaves them vulnerable and unable to escape the battlefield.

Significant Themes

• The overwhelming disparity between power levels: Li Xuan learns that Grade S power is not merely stronger than Grade A power but operates on an entirely different level.
• Strategy versus brute force: Li Xuan survives as long as he does through trickery, sacrifice, and exploiting weaknesses, while Mayoi ultimately prevails through superior power and versatility.
• Appearance versus reality: Mayoi looks silly and harmless, but her “idiot” persona conceals terrifying combat ability. Conversely, Li Xuan’s reputation as a monster does not match his desperate efforts to protect his companions.
• The ambiguity of salvation and monstrosity: Mayoi considers Demonfallen magical girls potentially redeemable, yet she is fully prepared to kill them if the Church cannot restore them. This presents the Church’s mission as both compassionate and ruthless.
• Teamwork and vulnerability: The witches can defeat Mayoi’s initial summons through cooperation, but their formation collapses once the enemy escalates. Their capture emphasizes how fragile their group remains against a superior opponent.
• Humor amid danger: Mayoi’s exaggerated chants, fake “sealed dragon” persona, embarrassment over her dissolving clothes, and Li Xuan’s sarcastic observations contrast with the seriousness of the battle.

Character Interactions

• Li Xuan repeatedly attempts to negotiate with and deceive Mayoi, while she treats him as a dangerous but amusing monster.
• Mayoi and Lona share a past connection from Mayoi’s time as a transfer student. Lona knows that Mayoi’s dramatic eyepatch and sealed-eye claims were largely an act, embarrassing Mayoi in front of the others.
• Lona appeals to Mayoi’s former familiarity to ask for mercy, but Mayoi refuses to release her and instead promises to have the Church investigate whether she can be cured.
• Li Xuan commands the witches and monster army throughout the battle, but their dependence on his portals becomes a major weakness once Mayoi counters spatial magic.
• The witches cooperate to destroy Mayoi’s angels, with Black Cat’s Word Spirit providing the decisive opening.
• Mayoi’s Cat Bag captures the witches one by one, while Li Xuan is forced to watch helplessly, ending the chapter with his allies defeated and his own survival in serious doubt.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girl? There Was No Going Back!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan battles Shichimiya Mayoi’s Angel army, using Feast of Frenzy to gain immense vitality and fight recklessly despite suffering repeated injuries.
• When his Liberation ends, Yao forces him to retreat. She reveals that almost everyone else has been defeated or swallowed by Cheshire Cat, while Black Cat is barely holding it back.
• Yao sacrifices herself by confronting Cheshire Cat, allowing Li Xuan to escape. However, Mayoi’s spatial magic prevents him from teleporting away.
• Li Xuan and Mayoi engage in a prolonged chase across the sea. His Evil Energy, stamina, and mental strength steadily run out while Mayoi deliberately wears him down.
• Realizing Mayoi’s teleportation triggers an automatic Angel-summoning response, Li Xuan sets a trap by opening hundreds of tiny portals around her teleportation circle. The summoned Angels are forced into a confined space, causing a massive explosion.
• Mayoi survives the blast with only minor injuries, but the attack convinces her to stop treating Li Xuan casually. She changes her summoning conditions and attacks seriously.
• Li Xuan attempts the same trick again, but Mayoi has adapted. She destroys his portals and impales him with her spear, apparently blowing his body apart.
• Meanwhile, Lilika learns that the Oracle Machine ordered Mayoi to investigate the disappearances. Feeling guilty for failing to warn Li Xuan, she confronts Bishop Shen Liang.
• Shen Liang reveals that the Church has been monitoring Lilika’s communications and activities with Li Xuan. Lilika is arrested and ordered to report to the central diocese, though Shen Liang promises to care for Alulu.
• Li Xuan later awakens severely injured in the cabin of a boat. He discovers that Li Sijie rescued and repaired him. Though his body is still barely held together, her presence gives him a rare sense of comfort and safety.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan: Demonstrates tremendous endurance and tactical creativity, but is pushed to the brink by Mayoi’s superior power. His reckless fighting style nearly destroys his judgment, yet he eventually identifies and exploits a weakness in Mayoi’s automatic summoning system. His defeat leaves him physically shattered and dependent on Li Sijie’s help.
• Shichimiya Mayoi: Establishes herself as overwhelmingly powerful, combining summoning, spatial magic, durability, and close combat ability. Initially playful and confident, she becomes genuinely serious after Li Xuan’s trap injures or challenges her pride. She adapts quickly, changing her summoning conditions to prevent him from repeating the tactic.
• Yao: Acts protectively toward Li Xuan and shows courage by staying behind to delay Cheshire Cat. Her sacrifice allows him to escape, though her fate remains uncertain.
• Lilika: Reveals deep concern for Li Xuan and strong guilt over accidentally misleading him about the Oracle Machine’s orders. Her emotional reaction exposes the extent of her loyalty and her conflict with the Church.
• Shen Liang: Shifts from her usual warmth to an authoritative, suspicious official. She reveals that the Church has been investigating Lilika for some time, but still treats her with a degree of personal consideration.
• Li Sijie: Re-enters the story as Li Xuan’s rescuer and caretaker. Her gentle, domestic behavior contrasts with the brutality of the preceding battle, highlighting her intimate familiarity with and affection for him.

Significant Themes

• The overwhelming gap in power: The battle emphasizes how vast the difference between Grade S and Grade A can be, especially when Mayoi’s abilities directly counter Li Xuan’s strengths.
• Adaptation and strategy: Li Xuan cannot defeat Mayoi through brute force, so he studies her abilities and exploits the conditions of her automatic summoning. Mayoi, in turn, learns from the attack and adapts immediately.
• Sacrifice and loyalty: Yao risks herself to save Li Xuan, while Lilika endangers her position within the Church because of her connection to him.
• Institutional secrecy and mistrust: The Church hides the Oracle Machine’s orders and secretly monitors Lilika, demonstrating the political tension between official organizations and independent actors.
• Vulnerability beneath strength: Li Xuan appears terrifying and nearly indestructible in battle, yet ends the chapter helpless and dependent on another person. His relaxed behavior with Li Sijie reveals a more vulnerable, affectionate side.
• Survival and recovery: Despite being dismembered and nearly killed, Li Xuan survives through his monster regeneration and Li Sijie’s care, suggesting that the conflict is far from over.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Xuan and Yao: Yao restrains Li Xuan when his berserk state makes him reckless and later sacrifices herself to give him time to flee, emphasizing her devotion and protective role.
• Li Xuan and Mayoi: Their chase becomes a contest of endurance, deception, and adaptation. Li Xuan discovers a temporary weakness in Mayoi’s magic, but she ultimately overcomes him through superior power and flexibility.
• Lilika and Shen Liang: Their confrontation exposes Lilika’s secret alliance with Li Xuan. Shen Liang’s evidence forces Lilika to acknowledge that the Church has been watching her.
• Li Xuan and Li Sijie: Their reunion is affectionate and playful. Li Sijie repairs his ruined body while Li Xuan jokes and behaves openly around her, creating a warm contrast to the violent battle and political conflict elsewhere in the chapter.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girl? There’s No Going Back Now!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan recovers after being nearly killed by the Grade S magical girl Shichimiya Mayoi. Li Sijie found him at sea in pieces and painstakingly reassembled his body.
• Li Sijie explains that the Oracle Machine had exposed her location to the Church, forcing her to flee Clear Lotus City while being pursued by dozens of magical girls.
• Her pursuers eventually lost the ability to track her because Li Xuan had previously infiltrated the Oracle Machine’s chamber and used Mind Interference on its terminal.
• Li Xuan reveals that the Oracle Machine is actually a living magical girl imprisoned inside a transparent container and connected to numerous tubes. His interference disrupted the system and inadvertently helped Li Sijie escape.
• Li Xuan recounts his disastrous encounter with Mayoi: his subordinates were killed by her summoned cat, and he was blown apart. He survived because his Evil Energy had reached Grade A, making his soul extremely difficult to destroy.
• Li Sijie treats Li Xuan’s wounds with regenerative fluids from mollusk-type monsters. He later uses Fallen Blood to create healing Wine of Ecstasy, restoring the hole in his chest and recovering much of his strength.
• After altering women’s clothing to fit himself, Li Xuan learns that Li Sijie has abandoned school because the Oracle Machine revealed her identity to the Church.
• Li Xuan asks Li Sijie to help locate Mayoi and rescue his captured witches. Before he can offer a reward, she reveals that she has already captured Mayoi and brought her back bound and unconscious.
• Li Xuan is stunned that Li Sijie defeated a Grade S magical girl, apparently through a sneak attack after Mayoi had already exhausted much of her magical power.
• The chapter ends with Li Sijie demanding additional compensation for handing over Mayoi, whom she regards as valuable prey.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan: Gains a clearer understanding of the significance of reaching Grade A and realizes that his new spiritual strength is what allowed him to survive bodily destruction. Despite his defeat by Mayoi, he remains ambitious and determined to rescue his witches. His confidence and shameless flirtatiousness quickly return as he recovers.
• Li Sijie: Is established as far more powerful and capable than Li Xuan had assumed. She survives a prolonged Church manhunt, tracks and reconstructs Li Xuan, and captures Mayoi alive. She remains eccentric, sexually provocative, and fascinated by stockings and unusual forms of prey, but also shows loyalty and practical concern for Li Xuan.
• Shichimiya Mayoi: Although previously portrayed as an overwhelming Grade S opponent, she is now helplessly restrained after Li Sijie’s ambush. Her capture creates a potential source of information about the Church and the imprisoned witches.
• The Oracle Machine: Is revealed to be a living magical girl rather than a mechanical device. Its existence suggests a disturbing system of imprisonment and exploitation at the heart of the Church’s tracking network.

Significant Themes

• Survival and resurrection: Li Xuan’s survival demonstrates that powerful souls cannot easily be destroyed, reinforcing the distinction between physical death and spiritual annihilation.
• The hidden cruelty of institutions: The Church’s use of the Oracle Machine—an imprisoned living girl—reveals the exploitative and morally disturbing structures behind its authority.
• Power and hierarchy: The gap between Grade A and Grade S becomes apparent. Li Xuan has grown considerably but remains outmatched by the strongest magical girls, while Li Sijie’s abilities place her among the Church’s most dangerous opponents.
• Mutual dependence and alliance: Li Xuan and Li Sijie have both saved one another indirectly and now form a stronger partnership based on shared secrets, attraction, and common enemies.
• Sexual humor and grotesque fantasy: The chapter repeatedly mixes absurd erotic comedy with violence, bodily reconstruction, monster medicine, and captivity, reflecting the story’s deliberately provocative tone.

Character Interactions

• Li Xuan and Li Sijie exchange stories about their recent hardships, with their familiar teasing revealing mutual trust and comfort.
• Li Sijie openly indulges Li Xuan’s interest in her body, while Li Xuan responds with his usual shameless advances.
• Li Sijie reassures Li Xuan that his witches are probably alive and merely detained by the Church, offering emotional support when he fears they may have been killed.
• Li Xuan asks for Li Sijie’s help against Mayoi, and she immediately agrees before revealing that she has already completed the task.
• Their relationship combines friendship, sexual tension, mutual exploitation, and genuine loyalty, with Li Sijie expecting payment for her help and Li Xuan eager to secure both her assistance and Mayoi’s capture.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girl? There’s No Going Back!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan negotiates with Li Sijie for the release of Shichimiya Mayoi, whom Sijie has captured and magically restrained. In exchange, Sijie demands a private beach trip with Li Xuan.
• Mayoi’s magic power is sealed by Sijie’s stockings, while Li Xuan inscribes a sensitivity-enhancing Curse Rune on her body.
• Mayoi awakens, panics at seeing her captors, and attempts to intimidate them by claiming that the sealed power in her “Evil Eye” could destroy the world. Li Xuan exposes this as a fake golden contact lens, revealing that Mayoi’s supposed terrifying power is largely theatrical.
• Li Xuan questions Mayoi about the magical girls she swallowed using the Cat Bag. Mayoi confirms they are still alive but refuses to release them, believing Li Xuan is a monster who has captured other magical girls.
• Li Xuan attempts to force Mayoi into submission through magical stimulation and psychological pressure. His Curse Rune, Fallen Blood, and Mind Interference intensify her physical responses and blur the distinction between pain, fear, and pleasure.
• Fallen Blood fails to corrupt Mayoi’s soul or trigger Demonfall, demonstrating the unusual strength of a Grade S magical girl’s spirit. Li Xuan instead uses Mayoi’s transformation umbrella to intimidate and overwhelm her.
• After initially refusing, Mayoi changes her position and agrees to make a deal—not “negotiate,” as she insists—in order to secure the release of the magical girls inside her Cat Bag.
• Li Xuan agrees, but because Mayoi needs to use spatial magic and could escape once her restraints are removed, he asks Sijie for a way to limit her powers while allowing her to cast a single spell.
• Sijie suggests a method that depends on Li Xuan’s “craftsmanship,” setting up the next development.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan remains calculating and opportunistic. He treats Mayoi’s capture as both a means of rescuing his allies and an opportunity to test his abilities, including the effects of Fallen Blood and the Curse Rune.
• Li Sijie shows her playful, sadistic, and voyeuristic side, enjoying Mayoi’s humiliation and taking photographs of the encounter. At the same time, she is cooperative with Li Xuan and values the promised private beach date.
• Shichimiya Mayoi is revealed to rely heavily on exaggerated bravado and chūnibyō-style threats. Although frightened and physically overwhelmed, she remains fiercely protective of her senior and the other magical girls, refusing to betray them until Li Xuan’s coercion becomes unbearable.
• Mayoi’s resistance ultimately shifts into reluctant pragmatism. She preserves her dignity by framing her surrender as a rational “deal” rather than a capitulation.
• The failed Demonfall attempt establishes that Mayoi’s soul is exceptionally resilient, even when her magic is sealed.

Significant Themes

• Power and vulnerability: Mayoi is a powerful Grade S magical girl, but her sealed abilities leave her physically helpless. The chapter contrasts combat strength with vulnerability under restraint.
• Resistance versus coercion: Mayoi’s moral determination to protect her companions is tested through intimidation, magical manipulation, and humiliation.
• Performance and reality: Mayoi’s dramatic claims about her hidden eye and world-destroying power are exposed as an act, emphasizing the gap between her theatrical persona and her actual fears.
• Negotiation and semantics: Mayoi insists that she is making a “deal,” not negotiating, using wordplay to preserve a sense of agency and pride.
• Corruption and spiritual endurance: The failure of Demonfall suggests that Mayoi possesses unusual inner resistance and that physical domination does not necessarily equal spiritual corruption.
• Cruel humor and objectification: Li Xuan and Li Sijie treat the situation with teasing humor, while Mayoi’s suffering becomes entertainment, highlighting the chapter’s deliberately grotesque power dynamics.

Character Interactions

• Li Xuan and Li Sijie: Their relationship is marked by familiarity, bargaining, and mutual amusement. Sijie teases Li Xuan about his concern for Mayoi, while Li Xuan promises her a private beach date in return for cooperation.
• Li Xuan and Mayoi: Their interaction is fundamentally adversarial. Li Xuan repeatedly offers Mayoi a way out if she releases the imprisoned magical girls, while using threats and magical manipulation when she refuses.
• Li Sijie and Mayoi: Sijie is the source of Mayoi’s fear and repeatedly mocks her. She enjoys watching Mayoi lose control and records the event, intensifying Mayoi’s humiliation.
• Li Xuan and the captured magical girls: Though absent, they remain central to the conflict. Mayoi’s refusal to release them is motivated by loyalty, while Li Xuan’s goal is to recover them.
• Li Xuan and Mayoi’s transformation umbrella: The umbrella, originally Mayoi’s weapon and likely transformation device, becomes a tool of intimidation and control, symbolizing the reversal of power between them.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girl? There’s No Going Back Now!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Sijie explains that she and Shichimiya Mayoi—referred to as Miss Zhenye—are bound together with pantyhose. Because one pair cannot fully restrain two magical girls, Mayoi can still use magic, but only by drawing power supplied through Sijie. Li Sijie can cut off that supply if Mayoi behaves suspiciously.
• Li Xuan decoratively binds the two women face-to-face, creating an intentionally provocative restraint that also prevents Mayoi from acting independently.
• On the ship’s deck, Mayoi summons her giant magical construct, Cat Bag, which has swallowed Li Xuan’s captured magical girls. Under threat, she orders it to release them.
• Ten magical girls emerge unconscious but unharmed. Mayoi explains that Cat Bag’s interior is a safe independent space and that the girls will awaken within twenty-four hours.
• Li Xuan refuses to release Mayoi immediately. He gags and knocks her unconscious, intending to return her to Flower River City while preserving the possibility of tracking and using her later. He has already placed a Hunting Mark on her.
• Li Xuan transports the rescued magical girls to the Delusive Badlands and travels with Li Sijie toward Flower River City. He and Sijie continue their flirtatious, sexually charged banter and physical teasing.
• In the city, Li Xuan tries to contact Lilika, who has been helping him gather intelligence. When she does not answer, he becomes suspicious that she may have been captured or placed in danger.
• Returning to Lilika’s home is considered too risky because the Church may be monitoring Flower River and Clear Lotus. Instead, Li Sijie contacts an intelligence agent, Cheng Xuan.
• Cheng Xuan appears as a ghostlike, pale-haired girl surrounded by chains. Li Sijie reveals that Cheng is a former magical girl who underwent Light Dissolution over forty years ago but was preserved in an energy state by a sealing spell.
• Cheng is only physically human during the day; at night, she becomes an intangible energy body capable of passing through walls and using magically created chains to interact with the material world. Li Xuan asks her to investigate Lilika’s disappearance and possible connection to the Church.
• While waiting for Cheng’s report, Li Sijie proposes testing Li Xuan’s liberated blood and essence. He offers her a taste, and she begins drinking it, immediately entering an intoxicated, euphoric state.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan demonstrates greater strategic caution. Although he is tempted to release or exploit Mayoi, he keeps her unconscious, marks her for tracking, and plans to use her as a source of intelligence on the Church.
• His concern for Lilika reveals that he genuinely values his allies, even while expressing his usual lustful and irreverent attitude.
• Li Sijie continues to act as Li Xuan’s partner and facilitator. She helps control Mayoi, pilots the ship, provides intelligence contacts, and supports the investigation into Lilika.
• Sijie’s attraction to Li Xuan remains overt, but she also shows practical judgment by warning him about Church surveillance and the dangers of returning to Flower River City.
• Shichimiya Mayoi is shown to be powerful but inexperienced at negotiation. She cooperates under pressure and fails to realize that the captured magical girls could have given her leverage. Despite her fear, she keeps her promise and releases them.
• Cheng Xuan is introduced as a mysterious, obedient, and highly capable intelligence operative. Her tragic history establishes her as a magical girl who exists in an unusual state between life, death, and transformation.

Significant Themes

• Power and control: Magical power can be transferred, restricted, or weaponized, as shown by the binding between Sijie and Mayoi and Li Xuan’s control over Mayoi’s access to magic.
• Trust and conditional mercy: Li Xuan honors Mayoi’s promise to release the prisoners but does not fully trust her, choosing to incapacitate and track her instead.
• The risks of magical-girl existence: Cheng Xuan’s Light Dissolution and incomplete survival emphasize that magical girls face permanent, supernatural consequences for death.
• Exploitation versus cooperation: Li Xuan’s relationships often mix alliance, coercion, sexual domination, and mutual reliance. The chapter repeatedly blurs the line between partnership and possession.
• Information as power: The rescue operation shifts into an intelligence-gathering mission, with Mayoi marked for tracking and Cheng sent to investigate Lilika and the Church.
• Hidden identities and unstable bodies: Cat Bag is an energy construct, Cheng is an intangible energy body, and magical girls may lose their human forms entirely, reinforcing the setting’s emphasis on transformation and impermanence.

Character Interactions

• Li Xuan and Li Sijie share playful, sexually charged intimacy, with Sijie encouraging his interests while also teasing and restraining his impulses.
• Li Xuan and Mayoi interact through coercion and mistrust: he threatens her into releasing the prisoners, while she repeatedly fears that he will break his word.
• Sijie and Mayoi cooperate unwillingly through their magical-power link, with Sijie serving as both Mayoi’s restraint and the condition that allows her to use magic.
• Sijie introduces Cheng Xuan to Li Xuan and explicitly instructs Cheng to treat him as seriously as she would treat Sijie herself, establishing Li Xuan’s importance within their alliance.
• Li Xuan is fascinated by Cheng’s ghostlike nature, while Sijie mocks his attraction to her.
• The chapter ends with Sijie accepting Li Xuan’s blood directly, suggesting a potentially stronger magical transformation or “Demonfall” effect and deepening their physical and supernatural connection.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan and Li Sijie continue their attempt to induce Demonfall in Sijie. She consumes his corrupted essence, experiencing stronger soul-level erosion than before, but still shows no measurable signs of transforming into a monster.
• Sijie admits that becoming a monster is a personal desire, though she refuses to explain her reasons yet. As a reward, Li Xuan asks only for another stocking, but Sijie instead gives him a mysterious ring identical to the two he already possesses.
• Sijie explains that she stole the ring from a statue in the Grand Cathedral during her earlier attempt to kidnap Miss Hongzhen. The statue resembles one Li Xuan encountered in a mysterious space, suggesting that the rings are connected to the Church, the cathedral statues, and possibly a larger supernatural mystery.
• Cheng Xuan reports that Lilika is imprisoned in the Church and that several powerful magical girls have arrived to help Bishop Shen Liang. Although Li Xuan initially considers intercepting Lilika during her transfer, Sijie argues that they must attack immediately before the Church summons even stronger reinforcements.
• Sijie removes the Church’s existing barriers and replaces them with her own soundproofed barrier, trapping everyone inside. Li Xuan and Sijie then launch a surprise assault disguised as a joke “delivery.”
• Li Xuan incapacitates the Church’s guards and battles Shen Liang and four Grade A magical girls. Sijie provides crucial support by sealing off the battlefield, blocking attacks, strengthening Li Xuan, and preventing the building from being destroyed.
• Cheng Xuan ambushes Shen Liang from behind the wall, disrupting the Church’s formation. Without Shen Liang’s healing and enhancement abilities, the other magical girls are gradually defeated.
• Sijie reveals that she has captured the rest of the Church’s magical girls, bringing the total number of prisoners to seventeen. She has also already rescued Lilika.
• Lilika is freed, though she is furious that Sijie bound and restrained her in an undignified manner. After Li Xuan teases and comforts her, she calms down.
• The chapter ends with Li Xuan asking Lilika how the prisoners should be dealt with.

2. Character Developments

• Li Xuan remains confident, mischievous, and strategically aggressive. He is increasingly willing to confront the Church directly and relies on both his overwhelming combat strength and psychological provocation.
• Li Sijie becomes a major ally rather than merely a subject of Li Xuan’s experiments. She demonstrates strong sealing and support abilities, tactical intelligence, initiative, and a willingness to take significant risks. Her unexplained desire to become a monster remains an important mystery.
• Cheng Xuan proves highly effective as an infiltrator and ambusher. Her ability to manipulate chains and move through walls allows her to bypass defensive formations and neutralize Shen Liang.
• Shen Liang is established as the battlefield’s key support figure. Though not a powerful direct fighter, her healing and enhancement magic make her essential to the Church’s defense.
• Lilika retains her irritable, proud personality but also shows her dependence on Li Xuan. Her anger at being treated like an object highlights her sensitivity to humiliation and lack of control.
• The Church’s magical girls are shown to be powerful individually but vulnerable when their healer and defensive coordination are disrupted.

3. Significant Themes

• Corruption and transformation: Sijie’s unusual desire to become a monster challenges the normal magical-girl resistance to corruption and raises questions about identity, free will, and the appeal of forbidden power.
• Mystery of the Church and the rings: The matching rings and cathedral statues imply a deeper connection between Li Xuan’s powers, the Church, and an ancient or divine system.
• Support versus direct strength: The battle emphasizes how sealing, healing, enhancement, and battlefield control can determine victory as much as raw offensive power.
• Reversal of power: The Church, normally an institution that imprisons and controls others, is suddenly trapped and defeated by Li Xuan’s group.
• Comedic irreverence amid danger: Li Xuan repeatedly treats the raid like a performance, using jokes and mock “delivery” language to undermine the Church’s authority and keep the tone playful despite the serious conflict.
• Control and autonomy: Lilika’s anger over being restrained and Sijie’s willingness to manipulate others both reflect the chapter’s recurring tension between personal freedom, domination, and consent.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Xuan and Li Sijie develop a more intimate and playful partnership, with mutual teasing and growing trust. He openly praises her contribution and jokingly calls her his “beloved big sister,” while she responds with embarrassment and mock reproach.
• Sijie and Li Xuan work together tactically: he takes the frontline role, while she controls the environment and strengthens his position.
• Cheng Xuan follows Sijie’s orders and works in coordination with Li Xuan, especially during the ambush against Shen Liang.
• Li Xuan treats Lilika with teasing affection, while Lilika alternates between outrage, embarrassment, and reluctant dependence on him.
• Sijie and Lilika have an antagonistic relationship in this chapter. Lilika resents Sijie’s rough handling of her, while Sijie remains practical and focused on the rescue.
• The chapter concludes by placing the decision about the captured magical girls in Lilika’s hands, potentially setting up a conflict between revenge, mercy, and Li Xuan’s more chaotic methods.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Lilika asks Li Xuan to spare Shen Liang, explaining that Shen only imprisoned her as part of her duties as bishop. Li Xuan agrees to honor his promise but decides to punish the magical girls who attacked Lilika.
• Li Xuan brings the captured magical girls into the church’s main hall. With the Church distracted by the search for Mayoi, he estimates they have several hours before reinforcements arrive.
• Lilika realizes her daughter, Alulu, is still at school and may be placed under Church custody after her betrayal. Rather than wait for assistance, she chooses to retrieve Alulu herself.
• Lilika asks to undergo Demonfall, formally breaking with the Church and joining Witch Academy. Li Xuan gives her Fallen Blood, completing the transformation.
• Demonfall restores Lilika’s former strength, elevating her to a powerful Grade A magical girl. Her Valkyrie armor also changes dramatically. Li Xuan grants her administrative access to the Delusive Badlands so she can hide Alulu there.
• While Lilika leaves, Li Xuan and Li Sijie remain with the captured magical girls. Li Xuan uses Wine of Ecstasy, curses, and various forms of coercion to break their resistance and engrave Servant Curse Runes on them.
• Shen Liang tries to preserve the group’s dignity and faith, but she is gradually affected as well. Li Xuan spares her from further abuse because of his agreement with Lilika.
• Li Sijie reveals that Mayoi was safely sealed and brings her into the church. The magical girls are shocked that their supposedly invincible monster-hunter has been defeated.
• Li Xuan privately questions Shen Liang about the Oracle Machine and its terminals. Under pressure, Shen explains the Church’s beliefs and the process by which magical girls become Oracle Machine terminals.

2. Character Developments

• Lilika completes her transformation from Church intelligence agent to committed member of Witch Academy. Her decision to undergo Demonfall demonstrates that she has fully chosen Li Xuan and rejected her former allegiance.
• Lilika’s hidden strength is revealed: Demonfall restores the power she possessed in her youth, making her a formidable Grade A combatant rather than merely an intelligence operative.
• Li Xuan becomes more trusting of Lilika, granting her significant authority over the Delusive Badlands. He also shows increasing interest in the Church’s deeper secrets, especially the Oracle Machine.
• Li Sijie remains playful and voyeuristic but also acts practically, helping maintain the barrier, protect Mayoi, and eventually urging Li Xuan to leave before the Church arrives.
• Shen Liang remains devoted to the Church and initially resists Li Xuan with courage. However, her compassion for her subordinates ultimately outweighs her loyalty to secrecy, forcing her to reveal what she knows.
• The captured magical girls experience a collapse of their discipline and faith under coercion. Their fear and vulnerability contrast sharply with their initial declarations of resistance.
• Mayoi’s reputation is emphasized through the shocked reactions of the other magical girls, who cannot believe that their celebrated monster-killer was defeated.

3. Significant Themes

• Betrayal and irreversible allegiance: Lilika’s Demonfall symbolizes the point of no return in her break from the Church and her commitment to Li Xuan.
• Power restored through transformation: Demonfall does not merely corrupt Lilika; it removes the limitations of age and restores her original identity and strength.
• Faith versus institutional control: Shen Liang believes the Oracle Machine communicates with the World, but the chapter raises doubts about whether the Church’s system may involve manipulation or brainwashing.
• Coercion and moral collapse: The magical girls’ resistance is undermined through physical and psychological pressure, showing how quickly ideals can be compromised when people are made vulnerable.
• Knowledge as leverage: Li Xuan uses threats against Shen Liang’s subordinates to force information from her, demonstrating that intelligence and personal loyalty are central weapons in the conflict.
• The hidden cost of religious devotion: Oracle Machine terminals are treated as sacred servants, yet they are placed in restrictive Containers and may endure great suffering in the name of purity and faith.

4. Character Interactions

• Lilika apologizes to Shen Liang and asks Li Xuan to spare her, showing that she still recognizes Shen’s professionalism and past relationship with the Church.
• Li Xuan and Lilika’s relationship becomes more explicit when she calls herself his woman, undergoes Demonfall, kisses him, and accepts membership in Witch Academy.
• Li Xuan and Li Sijie exchange flirtatious banter, with Sijie expressing jealousy over Lilika and joking about joining Li Xuan’s harem.
• Shen Liang repeatedly attempts to protect the other magical girls and maintain their morale, but Li Xuan exploits her concern for them to force her cooperation.
• Shen Liang’s private conversation with Li Xuan shifts from hostility and embarrassment to reluctant disclosure, revealing both her devotion and her compassion.
• The captured magical girls’ reactions to Mayoi’s defeat reinforce her legendary status and deepen the sense that Li Xuan has achieved a major victory over the Church.

Chapter 99 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xuan learns from Shen Liang that Oracle Machine Terminals suffer soul damage whenever they receive an oracle. Eventually, their souls dissolve into light and they die.
• Rejecting the Church’s belief that this is a noble sacrifice, Li Xuan and Li Sijie return to the sealed chamber beneath the Church to rescue Jiesha.
• Li Sijie breaks the hidden seal and removes the Oracle Machine’s Container. Jiesha is freed, but her soul has already been severely depleted.
• After Li Xuan removes the tubes and needles sustaining the system, Jiesha briefly awakens. She speaks mechanically, reports that her life functions are failing, then begins dissolving into light.
• Li Sijie gathers and seals Jiesha’s remaining soul inside a white stocking. Jiesha’s body is already dead, but Li Sijie believes she may be able to preserve her in a condition similar to Cheng Xuan’s and possibly restore her later.
• Li Xuan, Li Sijie, and Cheng Xuan return to the Delusive Badlands, where they reunite with Lilika and Alulu.
• Because they have attacked and humiliated the Church—and because the Oracle Machine can expose their locations—the group decides they must leave Clear Lotus City.
• Lilika explains that the Church has little influence in northern Golden Kingdom, Star Country, and Saint King Country. Li Sijie instead proposes traveling to the Lost Lands, a hidden region near New Sun Country that was erased from humanity’s collective memory after being overrun by monsters.
• The Lost Lands are physically real but sealed away from normal access. They are ruled by monsters and contain surviving humans, corrupted inhabitants, and monster-born magical girls.
• Li Xuan cannot teleport directly into the Lost Lands. Li Sijie explains that her barrier magic may temporarily open a passage, so the group must prepare supplies and funds before entering.
• Lilika offers financial support, while Li Xuan decides to move her belongings immediately. Li Sijie tries to remain behind and rest, but Li Xuan insists on taking her with him, suspecting she would exploit the witches if left alone.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan: Becomes increasingly opposed to the Church’s treatment of magical girls, particularly the use of Jiesha as a disposable tool. He shows genuine concern for Jiesha despite her voluntary sacrifice, though his lecherous behavior and obsession with attractive women remain unchanged.
• Li Sijie: Demonstrates exceptional sealing and magical-device expertise by breaking the Church’s seal, dismantling the Container, and preserving Jiesha’s soul. Her past experience with the Lost Lands is revealed, along with her continued flirtatiousness and willingness to encourage Li Xuan’s interests.
• Jiesha: Is revealed to be nearly destroyed by her role as an Oracle Machine Terminal. Her emotions have been almost completely erased, and she dies—or enters a barely preserved state—after dissolving into light.
• Lilika: Her hostility toward Li Sijie fades after being reunited with Alulu. She becomes cooperative, offers practical knowledge about the Church, and volunteers her money to help the group escape.
• Alulu: Shows affection and trust toward Li Xuan, while proving more emotionally resilient than her mother expects. She accepts the possibility of entering a dangerous environment as long as the group protects her.
• Shen Liang: Her sincere belief in sacrificial magical girls contrasts sharply with Li Xuan’s condemnation of the Church’s system.

Significant Themes

• Exploitation disguised as sacrifice: The Church presents Oracle Terminals as heroic sacrifices, but the chapter exposes the cruelty of consuming magical girls until nothing remains.
• Individual value versus institutional purpose: Li Xuan argues that a person should not be destroyed merely to preserve an abstract “flame” or ideology.
• Memory and erased history: The Lost Lands reveal that the world’s repairs after monster attacks include altering humanity’s collective memory, leaving entire regions physically intact but forgotten.
• Freedom versus safety: The group chooses the extremely dangerous Lost Lands because they offer freedom from the Church’s surveillance and persecution.
• Found family and mutual dependence: Lilika and Alulu join Li Xuan’s group, while the characters increasingly rely on one another for protection, resources, and survival.
• Comic relief amid tragedy: Sexual jokes, teasing, and Li Xuan’s fixation on beautiful girls contrast with Jiesha’s death and the grim realities of the Church and Lost Lands.

Character Interactions

• Li Xuan debates Shen Liang over whether Oracle Terminals’ deaths are noble sacrifices or unforgivable waste.
• Li Xuan and Li Sijie work together to infiltrate the sealed chamber and rescue Jiesha. Their cooperation is mixed with flirtation and physical teasing.
• Li Xuan comforts Jiesha before she dissolves, while Li Sijie takes responsibility for preserving her soul.
• Lilika apologizes for earlier disrespect, and Li Sijie responds by jokingly admitting her habit of touching beautiful women.
• Lilika and Li Sijie discuss possible destinations, eventually accepting the Lost Lands despite Lilika’s concerns for Alulu.
• Li Xuan and Li Sijie share playful, absurd banter about the Lost Lands and its female monsters, frustrating Lilika.
• At the end, Li Xuan refuses to leave Li Sijie behind, accusing her of being likely to pursue the witches rather than sleep.

Chapter Summary: “Magical Girl? There’s No Going Back!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After rescuing the witches and defeating Zhenye, Li Xuan returns to Clear Lotus City and discovers that Lilika’s possessions are far more extensive than expected. Her former construction business, shopping mall, household belongings, vehicles, and warehouse goods all need to be moved into the Delusive Badlands.
• Because of the enormous quantity of items, Li Xuan constructs a new warehouse in the Phase Two Project. Lilika’s supplies include merchandise acquired through unpaid mall rent, such as game consoles and other miscellaneous goods.
• Once the move is completed, the witches awaken and gather on the athletic field. Li Xuan introduces Lilika as a newly joined witch, Alulu as her daughter, and Li Sijie as a Sealing Type magical girl and his secretary.
• Li Xuan explains that the group can no longer remain in Clear Lotus City because they have openly opposed the Church. He plans to relocate everyone to the Lost Lands in New Sun Country, where resources are scarce.
• Lilika is appointed to handle purchasing and supplies because of her business experience. She buys enormous quantities of food, medicine, household goods, entertainment, and other necessities. Her use of the Delusive Badlands’ teleportation system allows her to purchase goods cheaply and efficiently.
• Lilika also recommends that Witch Academy establish financial oversight, so Qi Mo is assigned to help manage the accounts.
• Meanwhile, the Flower River City Church is in crisis. Its headquarters has been captured, the Oracle Machine has been taken, and a Grade S magical girl has been defeated.
• Shen Liang proposes concealing the magical girls’ humiliation at the hands of the monsters while reporting the Church’s defeat and the loss of the Oracle Machine. She suggests claiming that Zhenye was tricked while pursuing the monsters and later arrived to rescue the others.
• Shichimiya Mayoi initially rejects the idea of falsifying the report, insisting that inaccurate information could harm the Church’s judgment. However, after learning that Shen Liang wants to preserve her position so she can eventually rescue Lilika, Mayoi agrees to conceal the personal humiliation but insists that her own defeat by the monsters’ helper be reported truthfully.
• Mayoi teleports away with her four subordinates to report to Church headquarters, while Shen Liang vows to rescue Lilika someday.
• Before leaving Clear Lotus City, Li Xuan visits his coffee shop. He gives ownership of the business to the manager, who is shocked but delighted. Li Xuan keeps only the maid outfits and prepares to depart permanently.
• Li Xuan and Li Sijie discuss moving to New Sun Country discreetly. They plan to travel with Black Cat while leaving the other witches in the Delusive Badlands until a passage can be opened for them.

Character Developments

• Li Xuan becomes more responsible as a leader, arranging shelter, relocation, supplies, finances, and the group’s future safety. He also begins relinquishing his former life in Clear Lotus City by giving away the coffee shop.
• Lilika establishes herself as a capable, practical adult and businesswoman. She manages logistics, purchases supplies strategically, and insists on financial supervision to prevent future corruption or misunderstandings.
• Li Sijie continues to present herself as Li Xuan’s modest and subordinate secretary, despite having played a major role in rescuing the witches and defeating Zhenye. Her emotionally ambiguous relationship with Li Xuan remains unresolved.
• Alulu adapts quickly to the new community, forming a friendly bond with Black Cat and embracing the witches around her.
• Shen Liang reveals that beneath her normally righteous exterior, she is determined to preserve her position because she wants the authority and resources needed to rescue Lilika.
• Shichimiya Mayoi demonstrates a strong commitment to truth and Church protocol, but her empathy ultimately leads her to compromise. She protects the dignity of the traumatized magical girls while refusing to hide the reality of her defeat.
• The coffee shop manager transitions from an insecure employee with few career prospects into the owner of a successful business, though she initially suspects Li Xuan of having ulterior motives.

Significant Themes

• Building a new community: Li Xuan’s relocation plans show the witches gradually becoming an organized society rather than merely a group of fugitives.
• Practical preparation and survival: Lilika’s stockpiling of food, medicine, and trade goods emphasizes the uncertainty of life outside Church-controlled areas.
• Truth versus personal dignity: The Church survivors struggle over whether concealing their abuse constitutes lying, ultimately distinguishing between reporting military facts and protecting victims’ privacy.
• Loyalty and redemption: Shen Liang’s desire to save Lilika shows that personal bonds can survive betrayal and ideological conflict.
• Power and responsibility: Li Xuan delegates financial and logistical duties, while Lilika insists that trust must be supported by accountability.
• Departure and transformation: Li Xuan’s decision to give away the coffee shop symbolizes his break from his former life and his commitment to the witches’ future.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Xuan teases Lilika about her enormous possessions and lack of romantic companions, while Lilika rebukes him and emphasizes her responsibility toward Alulu.
• The witches warmly welcome Lilika and Alulu, with Alulu and Black Cat quickly becoming close.
• Li Xuan introduces Li Sijie as a humble secretary, allowing her to downplay her central role in the rescue.
• Shen Liang persuades the four visiting Grade A magical girls to cooperate with her version of the report by appealing to their shared shame and fear of punishment.
• Mayoi challenges Shen Liang’s plan, but changes her position after learning that Shen Liang’s real motive is to gain the power to rescue Lilika.
• The coffee shop manager jokingly assumes Li Xuan has been financially supported by a wealthy woman, unknowingly identifying Lilika’s actual role in his new circumstances.
• Li Xuan and Li Sijie agree on a cautious migration strategy, though Li Sijie remains wary of Black Cat while Li Xuan trusts and relies on her.