Recaps

Shan Que performed onstage with audience members while Molis and Xia Ya watched a hooded Monster approach her. Molis and Xia Ya stopped the Monster, and Shan Que finished the performance unaware that half the stage had been destroyed.

• Shan Que performed a song with a cosplayer, then invited audience members onstage for a group dance.
• The female host, controlled by the hooded man’s gaze, called him onto the stage, where he fixated on Shan Que.
• Shan Que recognized Xia Ya, while Molis and Xia Ya watched the hooded man as the dance began.
• The hooded Monster charged at Shan Que, but Molis and Xia Ya pulled him away and beat him.
• The Monster transformed and attacked, but Molis and Xia Ya struck him down with Explosive Flash and Moonflow Thrust.
• Shan Que finished the dance and turned to Xia Ya, only to find the stage wrecked and ask what had happened.

Zhou Mo learned that Rabi had entered her in the Magical Girl Idol Rising Star Competition and began fighting Monsters to build her popularity. After an awkward encounter with a new girl changing in the Omniscient Wish Society room, Zhou Mo was called a pervert by Bai Yi.

• Zhou Mo discussed the upcoming Rising Star Competition with Rabi, who had already signed her up and ordered her to aim for the Magical Idol Star title.
• The next day, Zhou Mo defeated three Monsters while Rabi quickly uploaded footage of her battles to promote her online.
• Zhou Mo returned to class, relying on Rabi’s Fairy Magic to keep the other Magical Girls from suspecting anything.
• Zhou Mo entered the Omniscient Wish Society room and saw an unfamiliar high-ponytailed girl changing, then apologized when the girl confronted her.
• Bai Yi, Mo Li, An Xia, Zhou Mo, and the new girl sat together, and Bai Yi called Zhou Mo a pervert.

Bai Yi’s club discussed Magical Girls and the upcoming idol contest before Zhou Mo watched Shan Que defeat a monster and receive her first Victory Stage. Zhou Mo sensed the crowd’s emotions being collected and left with a nagging suspicion, then walked with Shan Que and asked to interview her.

• Bai Yi asked the club members to share what they knew about Magical Girls, including Xia Ya’s fondness for bitter melon milk tea and how Magical Girl Aivi was doxxed.
• Zhou Mo received a message from Xia Ya asking her to train, cooked dinner, and went for a walk.
• Zhou Mo watched Shan Que defeat a monster and perform on her first Victory Stage, sensing the crowd’s emotions flow toward her as the stage appeared.
• After the performance, Shan Que thanked Zhou Mo again, introduced herself, and walked with her.
• Zhou Mo mentioned the Omniscient Wish Society and asked Shan Que for an interview, which Shan Que accepted.

Zhou Mo interviewed Shan Que about her Magical Girl career and competition goals, while Molis and Xia Ya trained and discussed preparing for the Nova Tournament. Rabi proposed a rapid form-switching technique, which Molis struggled to use and agreed to practice as a new special training method.

• Zhou Mo questioned Shan Que about her hobbies, motivation, and goals for the Magical Girl Idol Rising Star Competition, then noted that Shan Que underestimated herself.
• Molis and Xia Ya sparred at the abandoned construction site, where Molis drew with Xia Ya in Blue Form before defeating her in Red Form.
• Rabi warned Molis that older Magical Girls had large followings and urged her to aim for a high popularity ranking, while Molis said she might pursue the Magic Star.
• Rabi suggested that Molis rapidly switch between Red Form and Blue Form to catch opponents off guard, and Xia Ya challenged her to test the technique.
• Molis repeatedly switched forms but kept getting caught by Xia Ya whenever she focused on transforming, then concluded that the method took too long and required concentration.
• Rabi named the technique Super Transformation Form and assigned Molis another special training session, prompting Molis to call it a bastard.

Molis recorded a sugary promotional video for the Nova Tournament, then joined Xia Ya in streaming their training and planning to investigate the Abyss Nest. Meanwhile, Bai Yi was overwhelmed by tournament paperwork, and the popularity warm-up began across Cloud City.

• Molis recorded a cute video urging fans to vote for her, then smashed Rabi off a rooftop when it praised her performance.
• A besotted fan voted for Molis as the Nova Tournament warm-up began, prompting Magical Girls across Cloud City to campaign for votes.
• Zhou Mo visited the club and found Bai Yi buried in paperwork for nearly a thousand rookie Magical Girls; Mo Li explained that the tournament data had to be entered and updated.
• Rabi ordered Molis to livestream until morning, so Molis and Xia Ya streamed their training and fought while viewers watched.
• After resting, Xia Ya suggested hunting monsters, and Molis proposed investigating the nearby Abyss Nest; Xia Ya eagerly agreed.

Molis and Xia Ya hunted Monsters in an abandoned industrial district and encountered a Monster who was thrilled to be beaten by Magical Girls. As Molis prepared to finish him, the scar-faced leader of his group arrived with three others and confronted the girls.

• A scar-faced Monster ordered his group to stay hidden until the competition, while the scrawny Monster wandered away after catching a Magical Girl's scent.
• A Bai cat spotted Molis and Xia Ya searching the abandoned district during their livestream.
• The scrawny Monster approached the girls, and Molis and Xia Ya knocked him down and beat him.
• The Monster asked them to kill him with their fists instead of a weapon, prompting Molis to raise her spear.
• The scar-faced Monster arrived with three companions and demanded to know what the girls were doing to his brother.

Molis and Xia Ya fought a scar-faced Shallow Tier Monster and three Surface Tier Monsters in the factory district. Molis faced the scar-faced Monster while Xia Ya fought the others, and Xia Ya ended the chapter after blasting Third Brother out of the fight.

• The scar-faced Monster revealed his Shallow Tier power and ordered the three Surface Tier Monsters to attack Xia Ya.
• Molis took a punch from the scar-faced Monster, got back up, and met his next barrage with her spear.
• Xia Ya held off the three Surface Tier Monsters until one left to wake Fifth Brother, giving her an opening against the remaining two.
• Xia Ya used Explosive Flash at close range, knocking Second Brother into a wall and badly burning Third Brother.
• Xia Ya stood up, aimed her staff at Second Brother, and said that two Monsters were left.

Zhou Mo tested a partial Red Form and combined its power with her spear to defeat the scarred Monster, while Xia Ya finished off the other attackers. After the battle, Molis received a dying Monster’s memory hinting at an undisclosed plan, and the girls realized the skinny Monster had escaped.

• Zhou Mo activated a partial Red Form, overwhelmed the scarred Monster, and discovered that her new Red Lotus Throw combined her powers at a high magic cost.
• Zhou Mo’s flaming spear pierced the scarred Monster and carried him past Xia Ya’s battlefield, distracting the remaining Monsters.
• Xia Ya used the distraction to defeat another Monster, then checked that Molis was unharmed.
• Molis received the scarred Monster’s memory, which said the Abyss Nest had turned him into a Monster and that he had been waiting in the factory district for a plan to unfold.
• Xia Ya and Molis prepared to leave, then noticed that the skinny Monster had disappeared.

After Big Bro's death, the scrawny survivor accepted the black-clad figure's Abyssal Core to gain power for revenge. Zhou Mo spent a quiet day before a new member, Zhao Qiao, arrived at the Omniscient Wish Society.

• The scrawny survivor vowed to take revenge on the Magical Girls but doubted she could defeat them alone.
• The black-clad figure gave the scrawny survivor an Abyssal Core, and she screamed as its power began to transform her.
• Zhou Mo woke after only two hours of sleep, and Rabi told her to watch for developments connected to the Nova Tournament.
• Zhou Mo walked to school with An Xia and spent the day resting without fighting Monsters.
• Zhou Mo visited the Omniscient Wish Society, where Zhao Qiao introduced herself as its new club member.

Zhou Mo met new club member Zhao Qiao, joined a discussion about predicting the Magical Girl New Star Contest’s Popularity Star, and left school with An Xia and Zhao Qiao. Outside, a butler approached her, then abruptly turned back, leaving Zhou Mo puzzled.

• Mo Li welcomed Zhao Qiao to the club, where she met Zhou Mo and An Xia.
• Mo Li proposed that the club create a Popularity Star prediction ranking and handed out profiles of leading magical girls.
• Zhou Mo praised Xia Ya and argued with Mo Li over whether Xia Ya or Norei was the stronger contender, while Bai Yi eventually silenced them with a glare.
• Zhou Mo invited An Xia to walk home, and Zhao Qiao joined them after learning they were going the same way.
• A butler approached Zhou Mo from a luxurious black sedan, then suddenly retreated, leaving her confused.

Zhou Mo grew worried about the monsters’ disappearance and asked Rabi to find her stronger opponents. Rabi also told her that her follower count qualified her to hold a solo performance during the Popularity Warm-Up Tournament, leaving her anxious about meeting fans.

• After ending her stream, Zhou Mo wondered whether the hidden monsters and a mysterious organization were planning an attack on the Nova Tournament, and considered asking a monster about it.
• Zhou Mo overslept after staying up late, got distracted watching a magical girl’s street performance, and arrived at school tired.
• Zhang Wei teased Zhou Mo about staying up to watch streams and admitted that he watched magical girls sleep.
• On the school rooftop, Zhou Mo asked Rabi to find stronger monsters to fight, and Rabi said it was pleased she had taken the initiative.
• Rabi told Zhou Mo that Molis had passed thirty thousand followers, qualifying her to hold a solo performance during the Popularity Warm-Up Tournament.
• Zhou Mo worried about the performance and possible fan events, while Rabi reassured her before leaving.

Molis began preparing for her debut performance, with Rabi taking charge and Xia Ya offering advice and agreeing to appear onstage. Zhou Mo wrestled with the idea of performing, went to school and the club, and found her classmates enjoying an unexpectedly luxurious tea service.

• Molis admitted she knew nothing about planning a performance, so Rabi promised to arrange the venue, music, staff, and promotion, while Xia Ya explained the basics and offered her debut song.
• Rabi invited Xia Ya to appear near the end of Molis's show, and Xia Ya gladly accepted.
• Back in her room, Zhou Mo worried about the performance until Rabi motivated her with its commercial potential and told her to start her livestream.
• Zhou Mo watched Magical Girls perform on the street, ran into An Xia, and hurried to class, where she slept through another period.
• After school, Zhou Mo entered the clubroom and found Bai Yi, Mo Li, and An Xia enjoying tea and pastries while Zhao Qiao served them.

Zhou Mo learned that Rabi had lost access to its company resources and received a monster location to investigate. Rabi then approached Zola for help preparing a performance, but Zola refused after Rabi rejected its plan to take control of the Magical Girl involved.

• At the Omniscient Wish Society, Zhou Mo and Mo Li held a vote on which Magical Girl would win the Star of Popularity prediction, and President Bai Yi used her authority to choose Molis.
• At home, Rabi told Zhou Mo that it had lost access to its company venues, producers, and promotional channels, but still had outside connections.
• Rabi sent Zhou Mo the location of a Shallow Tier monster in Wanfu New Village in District 11's South City, and Zhou Mo decided to search the area that night.
• Rabi met Zola on a rooftop and asked for help preparing a performance using company resources.
• Zola proposed temporarily transferring the Magical Girl to its name, but Rabi refused, and Zola withdrew its offer.

Rabi arranged for Molis to meet composer Mr. Qin and a lyricist to create an original song for her. Zhou Mo followed Rabi to Mr. Qin’s studio, where she met the neatly dressed composer after mistaking his landlord for him.

• After Zola left, Rabi called Old Qin and Little Chen to arrange a song for its comeback, with Little Chen writing the lyrics.
• Zhou Mo returned home, transformed into Molis, and livestreamed herself eating late-night snacks.
• The next day, Rabi told Zhou Mo that it had found people to make her original song and arranged for her to meet them at three o’clock.
• Zhou Mo traveled to Edge District, District 12, and mistakenly asked the studio’s landlord whether he was Mr. Qin.
• Zhou Mo reached Mr. Qin’s Studio, met the composer, and heard him and Rabi greet each other as old acquaintances.

Molis met producer Qin Xiansheng and lyricist Chen Cheng, whose conversation and singing session helped Qin decide on a direction for her song. Later, Molis streamed late-night food, and Zhou Mo’s deskmate invited her to Molis’s upcoming first performance, but Zhou Mo refused.

• Molis met Chen Cheng, who was excited to meet her, and producer Qin Xiansheng at Qin’s music studio.
• Qin chatted with Molis to learn what musical style suited her, then asked her to sing in his recording studio.
• Chen Cheng praised Molis’s singing, and Qin said he had several rough ideas for her song before Molis and Rabi left.
• That night, Molis streamed herself eating late-night snacks while Zhou Mo watched the chat react.
• At school, Zhou Mo’s deskmate suggested they attend Molis’s first performance together, but Zhou Mo said she would not go.

After Molis’s performance teaser boosted her popularity, Zhou Mo followed Rabi’s suggestion to search for monsters during the day. In South City Snack Street, Molis found a disguised Abyss Nest monster and attacked him, beginning their fight.

• Zhou Mo and Rabi discussed her rising popularity and whether searching for monsters at night was why she had found none.
• Zhou Mo decided to search during the day and went alone to South City Snack Street as Molis.
• Molis sensed a faint monster aura, followed it into an alley, and confronted a black-clad man.
• The man revealed himself as a third-layer Abyss-level monster called Shallow Tier.
• Molis attacked without warning, cut the monster’s cheek, and pressed the fight as he prepared to retaliate.

After defeating a Monster, Molis learned that the Abyss Nest planned to attack the Nova Tournament, and Rabi grew concerned about her ability to hear Monsters’ final words. Later, Zhou Mo visited the clubroom and found Bai Yi demanding time to play a newly released game.

• Molis spoke with the dead Monster and learned that the Abyss Nest planned a surprise attack on the Nova Tournament, though it knew no further details.
• Rabi dismissed Molis’s claim that she had questioned the dead Monster, then learned she could hear Monsters’ final words and reacted with quiet sadness.
• Molis told Rabi the tournament venue would be attacked, and Rabi questioned how she knew before calling her a medium.
• Zhou Mo returned to school and found Bai Yi asking to rest while Mo Li, An Xia, and Zhao Qiao tried to comfort her.
• An Xia explained that Bai Yi had entered the closed beta for Magic Ring, and Mo Li offered to play Bai Yi’s account, but Bai Yi rejected the offer.

Zhou Mo learned about the game Magic Ring and continued preparing with Molis and Xia Ya for Molis’s upcoming performance. Meanwhile, a corrupted Guno lured an exhausted man into an alley and revealed her featureless face.

• Zhou Mo watched Magic Ring’s promotional video, became eager to play, and asked Rabi for beta access, but Rabi refused because of a nondisclosure agreement.
• Xia Ya intensified Molis’s stage training and explained that she could not perform again until her performance cooldown ended.
• After Molis announced her performance, other popular magical girls announced performances, while Rabi arranged several original songs and told Zhou Mo to learn them.
• On a late-night livestream, corrupted Guno approached an exhausted middle-aged man while pretending to be a crying girl with nowhere to go.
• Guno persuaded the man to offer her a place to stay, then revealed her featureless face and frightened him.

Guno the Witch pranked a lonely middle-aged man, persuaded him to take her home, and spent several days earning his trust before driving him into despair and turning him into a Monster. After earning more than five hundred thousand on Harvest Day, she noticed announcements for the Rising-Star Warm-Up Competition.

• Guno the Witch revealed her prank to the middle-aged man, then claimed she had run away from home and had nowhere to stay.
• The middle-aged man took Guno the Witch to his apartment, where she tried to persuade him to share the bed but ended up on the sofa.
• Over several days, Guno the Witch welcomed the middle-aged man home and prepared meals, gradually easing his resentment from working overtime.
• Guno the Witch attacked the middle-aged man with a chainsaw, savoring his despair before using an Abyssal Core to revive and transform him into a Monster.
• Guno the Witch checked her Harvest Day earnings, which exceeded five hundred thousand, and saw Magical Girl announcements for the Rising-Star Warm-Up Competition.

Zhou Mo learned about her upcoming Molis show’s limited ticket revenue and fan bonus events, then heard that a witch had repeatedly attacked Magical Girl performances. Rabi dodged Zhou Mo’s questions about why Monsters only appeared in Cloud City, and Zhou Mo decided to hold her show anyway.

• Rabi told Zhou Mo that her venue held at most eight hundred people, tickets cost eighty-eight, and the company would take most of the revenue.
• Rabi explained that bonus tickets could include fan chats, photos, handshakes, hugs, or kabedon, and assured Zhou Mo she could refuse excessive requests.
• Zhou Mo read that a witch had attacked the RGB Trio’s live show, leaving dozens of audience members injured, and learned that the same witch had disrupted several performances.
• Rabi explained that witches were difficult to track and that one had retaliated against Douyin after her account was banned.
• Zhou Mo asked why Monsters only appeared in Cloud City, but Rabi evaded the question and asked whether she would still perform.
• Zhou Mo declared that she would hold her show.

Molis held her debut performance in District 11 despite the threat of the Witch, and her fans filled the venue. Just as Xia Ya joined her onstage, the twin-tailed Witch crashed through the ceiling and announced that she wanted to join the fun.

• Molis worried that her fans might be endangered, but Xia Ya promised to protect them with a barrier, and Molis resolved to defeat the Witch if she attacked.
• Fans gathered at the venue for Molis's debut, and she opened the show with an energetic song before greeting the crowd.
• When an audience member asked whether she would protect them from the Witch, Molis promised that the Witch would never leave.
• After several songs, Molis introduced Xia Ya as a guest, and Xia Ya came onto the stage.
• The twin-tailed Witch blew a hole through the ceiling and asked to join the performance.

Molis and Xia Ya fought Witch Guno after she attacked a crowded event, and Norei arrived as reinforcements. The three Magical Girls split up to face Guno and her summoned Monsters, but Guno revealed a giant chainsaw to counter Norei.

• Molis shielded Zhou Mo's deskmate from falling debris while Xia Ya raised a barrier around the venue.
• Guno charged at the crowd, but Molis intercepted her before she could hit anyone.
• Molis summoned Norei, and the three Magical Girls prepared to fight Guno together.
• Guno summoned three Monsters, so Norei faced Guno while Molis and Xia Ya engaged the Monsters.
• Norei thrust her gunblade at Guno, but black fog blocked the attack and revealed Guno's giant chainsaw.

Molis unleashed her Crimson Lotus Form to defeat the two Monsters, but their chaotic murmurs overwhelmed her with despair before she could help Norei. Norei remained trapped in a losing fight against Guno.

• Molis struggled to fend off two Shallow Tier Monsters while Norei was badly injured by Guno’s chainsaw attacks.
• Molis transformed into her Crimson Lotus Form and caught one Monster’s fist before punching the other through a wall.
• Molis drove an elbow into the middle-aged Monster and blasted it through the ceiling with a pillar of flame.
• As Molis prepared to aid Norei, the Monsters’ jumbled voices flooded her mind and filled her with despair.

Molis recovered from the emotions left by the Monster and stopped Guno from cutting down Xia Ya. After learning how Guno had cruelly killed the Monster's former human self, Molis confronted the witch.

• Molis collapsed under a surge of chaotic emotions while Xia Ya defended her from Guno's attacks.
• Guno admitted that she had killed Magical Girls and described how she enjoyed torturing them for her livestream.
• Guno grabbed Xia Ya and raised her chainsaw to strike, but Molis stopped her by gripping her wrist.
• Molis recovered and understood the Monster's lonely past and despair before turning her anger on Guno.
• Molis asked Guno what she took life for.

Molis gained a surge of power and fought the Witch while Xia Ya and Har healed Norei. After Molis struck the Witch with her Red Form, Xia Ya and Norei unleashed their Liberation Skills, and Molis hurled her spear into the light engulfing the Witch.

• Molis told Xia Ya to help Norei, then fought the Witch with her spear as their weapons clashed.
• Har healed Norei while Xia Ya worried over Molis; Norei woke and agreed to use her Liberation Skill.
• Following Rabi's instruction, Molis feinted with her spear, changed into Red Form, and punched the Witch in the face.
• Xia Ya and Norei fired their Liberation Skills together, engulfing the Witch in a pillar of light.
• Molis recalled the Moonlight Spear, empowered it with crimson light, and hurled it toward the Witch.