Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Witch |
| Original Name | 魔女 |
| Classification | Darkness-aligned magical entity; most Witches are fallen Magical Girls who embraced darkness. 10 |
| Affiliation | Witches' Society (often served by or associated with) 10 |
| Status | Active |
| First Appearance | Mentioned in Chapter 1; the current Abyss Witch appears in Chapter 3. 1 3 |
Power Progression
The Black Stockings Witch's battle at Jiangyang City High School provides the clearest documented example of a Witch's staged escalation.
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stage Three | 31 | Her hair enlarged into tentacles and a layered black gown, lifting her body into the air while intensifying her Dead Zone aura and regeneration. |
| Stage Four | 32 | Her hair defenses were breached to expose a black gemstone core. A fourth-stage Witch can create a domain, though the Black Stockings Witch retained a concealed final attack after her apparent defeat. 32 39 |
Origins and History
Most Witches are Magical Girls who abandon their duty to protect the light and accept darkness. Their corruption grants them extraordinary power, intelligence, and the ability to spread darkness to others. 10
Witches once threatened to enslave humanity. Magical Girls gradually suppressed them, but large-scale Witch disasters remain part of recent history; one calamity involved ten Witches turning an entire city into a Dead Zone within fifteen minutes, while the Witch City-Destroying Incident caused nearly a million deaths. 11 31 32
Jiangyang City is comparatively stable because four overwhelmingly powerful Witches—Abyss Witch, Crying Witch, Ghost-Faced Witch, and White Witch—prevent weaker young Witches from developing in the city. 11
Appearance
Witches can pass as human before revealing their true forms. Their transformed bodies are often grotesque and inhuman, with dark magic visibly altering their skin, clothing, eyes, and surroundings. 27 29
- Human disguises may allow a Witch to infiltrate ordinary society without transforming. 26
- True forms can feature blackened eyes, red markings, pallid skin, writhing hair, decaying clothing, and nonhuman bodies. 27 29
- A Witch's presence may drain color from nearby objects and create an instinctively recognizable aura of death. 27 30
- Appearance varies drastically: the White Witch has become an almost bodiless mass of pure magical energy, while the Black Stockings Witch transformed into a hair-based monster. 29 66 69
Abilities & Traits
Dark Magic and Corruption
Witches wield darkness rather than the ordinary elemental or support attributes associated with Magical Girls. Their magic is detectable by specialized wristbands designed to react to dark magical fluctuations. 25 26
- Dark magic can contaminate a Magical Girl's Magic Core and turn her into a Witch. 10 25
- Witches can infect or control ordinary humans. 10
- Unlike Magical Girls, Witches can use magic without transforming. 26
- Individual Witches may identify Magical Girls by their magical “scent.” 27
Transformations and Domains
Witches can repeatedly transform during battle, growing stronger and more inhuman as their defenses and magical output escalate. 31 32
- A Witch's outer body may regenerate rapidly, requiring sustained attacks to expose its core. 31
- A fourth-stage Witch can create a domain, although a domain rapidly consumes its creator's magic power and generally cannot persist for more than an hour. 39
- An apparent defeat may be deceptive; the Black Stockings Witch retained enough strength to ambush Huang Xing after her core was struck. 32
- The Black Stockings Witch later condensed herself into a hair serpent and cocooned Fu You in dark energy. 33
Dead Zones
Witches can create Dead Zones: regions that wither life, degrade matter, and accelerate aging. 30
- Living beings within a Dead Zone rapidly decay; prolonged exposure can cause irreversible bodily failure and death. 30
- The Black Stockings Witch spread a Dead Zone across the school campus through her hair and movement. 30 31
- Magical Girls are immune to the invasive effects of Dead Zones. 30
- Dead Zones may remain after the Witch who created them is destroyed. 34
Documented Individual Manifestations
| Witch | Known abilities |
|---|---|
| Abyss Witch | Generates a five-hundred-meter darkness field that suppresses light and causes suffocation; can summon black spheres as weapons. 5 |
| Black Stockings Witch | Converts into and controls regenerating hair, drains Magical Girls' magic through restraints, replaces targets by merging with them, and spreads a Dead Zone. 27 30 39 |
| White Witch | Exists as a largely intangible pure-energy body; regenerates after physical attacks, produces tentacles and dangerous white smoke, and cannot be conventionally restrained. 66 69 |
Weaknesses and Defeat
- Most documented Witch battles focus on stripping away an outer defense layer to expose and destroy the Witch's core. 31 32
- The Black Stockings Witch's black gemstone core was vulnerable once her hair armor was breached. 32
- A Witch's domain rapidly drains its magical power. 39
- A defeated Witch's remains can leave behind Black Crystal chunks, valuable resources used by the Magical Girl Logistics Department. 34
- Black Crystal is described as the crystallized remains of Witches and Fierce Beasts. 71
Witches' Society
The Witches' Society is the collective name for human organizations that serve Witches. Some members are controlled by Witches, while others cooperate voluntarily to study Witch bodies and power. 10
- The Society assists Witches in destruction, corruption, and attacks on civilians. 10
- Witches' Societies are not unified; Inksea City's Society was suspected of planning to annex the Jiangyang City Society. 39
- Personal loyalty can outweigh factional allegiance. Black Card remains loyal to Fu You because he spared her life, despite Fu You no longer identifying as a Witch. 39
- Witches do not follow a universal moral code; their behavior is often driven by individual obsessions, appetites, and desires. 27
Known Witches
| Witch | Notes |
|---|---|
| Abyss Witch | One of Jiangyang City's four dominant Witches. Fu You was the original Abyss Witch before abandoning the identity two years earlier; a new Abyss Witch later inherited the title and regards him as her senior. 4 11 |
| Crying Witch | One of the four powerful Witches who dominate Jiangyang City's younger Witch population. 11 |
| Ghost-Faced Witch | One of the four powerful Witches who dominate Jiangyang City's younger Witch population. 11 |
| White Witch / Bai Bai | One of Jiangyang City's four dominant Witches. Formerly a fallen Magical Girl, Bai Bai has become nearly pure magic and retains only fragments of her former humanity. 11 69 |
| Dark Witch / Jiang Ke'an | Fu You's former intended final opponent, who defeated and corrupted him into a Witch. 6 |
| Black Stockings Witch / White Dove | A Witch from Inksea City who was formerly the Magical Girl White Dove. She could transform into hair, merge with targets, and replace their existence. 39 |
Relationships
- Magical Girls — Natural enemies of Witches; Magical Girls are responsible for confronting Witch-level threats and are uniquely immune to Dead Zones. 10 26 30
- Witches' Society — Human servants, researchers, and collaborators who support Witch activity for control, survival, or knowledge of magic. 10
- Fu You — Formerly the original Abyss Witch; retains connections to Witch society despite working as a professional Magical Girl. 4 39
- Bai Bai / White Witch — Protected and concealed by Fu You, who recognizes that she never truly wished to harm others despite the danger of her existence. 68 69 71