Recaps

Love cleared the Negative Emotion Crystals beneath the stadium while helping Knight see the support surrounding her. After Knight finished singing, she advanced to Lamp-Lighting Rank and thanked Love in front of the crowd.

• Love raced through the underground passages and destroyed the Negative Emotion Crystals while reassuring Knight through their mind link.
• Knight looked at the crowd, her mother, and her comrades, then understood that they had supported and protected her in their own ways.
• The command room confirmed that all Negative Emotion Crystals in the underground utility network had been cleared.
• After her final song, Knight’s Magic Power surged beyond the Firefly Rank limit and she advanced to Lamp-Lighting Rank.
• Knight thanked Love publicly and declared that she had done it, while Love congratulated her on entering the Lamp-Burning Realm.

After Knight ranked up to the Lamp-Lighting Rank during the concert, Yang Chen returned to Chen Qianqian and promised not to disappear without warning again. At the Branch, Knight revealed Guardian Heart, an ability that draws attacks toward her and weakens them, leaving her comrades safer behind her shield.

• Yang Chen returned from the underground tunnels after Knight’s live rank-up, and Chen Qianqian confronted him about disappearing for twenty-three minutes.
• Chen Qianqian admitted she had feared losing Yang Chen in the crowd, and he promised to stay with her next time.
• The concert attack and Love’s role spread across the internet as the Association publicly thanked Love for helping stop the Liberation Faction.
• Ranger, Celestial Star, Masked Heroine, Old Wei, and the Branch Director congratulated Knight at the city Branch.
• Knight revealed her unique ability, Guardian Heart, which draws attacks toward her, strengthens her defense, and reduces the force of Magic Power attacks.

Chen Qianqian was kidnapped by the Liberation Faction, who lured Yang Chen to an abandoned warehouse and threatened to make him despair. Yang Chen arrived alone, while privately considering using the crisis to say goodbye before his changing body exposed his secret.

• Chen Qianqian worried that Yang Chen was hiding something and left school to seek her parents' advice.
• A group in a gray van abducted Chen Qianqian as she walked home, leaving her phone on the street.
• Yang Chen received a photo of Chen Qianqian bound and unconscious, then rushed out of class to find her.
• The Liberation Faction messaged Yang Chen, claimed they had watched him, and ordered him to come alone before sunset.
• Yang Chen considered using the kidnapping as a chance to say goodbye because his body was changing, then went alone to an abandoned cold-storage warehouse and demanded that they release Chen Qianqian.

The Liberation Faction used Chen Qianqian as bait to lure Yang Chen into a factory and force him to endure attacks from a Fallen Beast. When her desire to protect him awakened her Magic Power, Chen Qianqian transformed into Magical Girl: Thousand Blades, derailing Yang Chen’s plan to fake his death and appear as Love.

• The Liberation Faction held Chen Qianqian captive and revealed that they intended to use her despair to empower a crystal.
• Yang Chen entered the factory to save Chen Qianqian, where the Liberation Faction’s harvester threatened her with a knife and unleashed a Fallen Beast on him.
• Yang Chen let the Fallen Beast repeatedly injure him while protecting his vital organs with Magic Power, intending to fake his death and appear as Love.
• Chen Qianqian’s wish to protect Yang Chen awakened her Magic Power, freed her from her restraints, and summoned ranks of silver blades.
• Chen Qianqian transformed into Magical Girl: Thousand Blades, and Yang Chen realized that his plan had gone off the rails.

After Chen Qianqian awakened as Thousand Blades, she destroyed the Fallen Beast and restrained the Liberation Faction members who had abducted her and Yang Chen. Yang Chen was taken to the hospital, where her parents learned that she was Thousand Blades.

• Thousand Blades unleashed Blade Rain, shredded the Fallen Beast, and pinned the Liberation Faction members in place.
• Yang Chen pretended to pass out after Thousand Blades found him badly wounded and called for help.
• Knight and Celestial Star arrived at the warehouse, recognized Yang Chen, and arranged for him to receive medical care.
• At Central Hospital, Chen Zhou and Su Wan learned that Yang Chen had gone alone to the kidnappers’ meeting and that Thousand Blades had saved him.
• Thousand Blades reverted to Chen Qianqian in front of her parents, and Su Wan fainted as Chen Zhou called for help.

Chen Qianqian’s parents reluctantly accepted her decision to join the magical girls after she explained why she had awakened to protect Yang Chen. Meanwhile, Celestial Star identified Yang Chen as magical girl Love, but could not understand how he had transformed.

• Chen Qianqian told Chen Zhou and Su Wan that she became a magical girl while saving Yang Chen from the Fallen Beast.
• Chen Zhou and Su Wan voiced their fear for Qianqian’s safety, but she insisted she could not stand by while Yang Chen was in danger.
• Chen Zhou pushed the Association’s registration and training letter to Qianqian and ordered her to come back alive every time.
• Celestial Star reviewed concert surveillance and underground combat footage, then spotted Love adjusting a baseball cap after transforming.
• Celestial Star concluded that Love was Yang Chen, also known as the helpful citizen, but wondered how a male could transform into a powerful magical girl.

Celestial Star questioned Chen Qianqian about the Liberation Faction kidnapping, then went to confront Yang Chen about surviving his injuries. She revealed that she knew he was Magical Girl Love and asked him to answer more questions.

• Celestial Star volunteered to question Chen Qianqian about the kidnapping and gathered details about the Liberation Faction’s operation.
• After Chen Qianqian left the hospital, Celestial Star used her Association credentials to enter Yang Chen’s room in the Intensive Care Unit.
• Celestial Star asked Yang Chen routine questions about the kidnappers and the Fallen Beast in the warehouse.
• Celestial Star challenged Yang Chen’s explanation for surviving numerous potentially fatal wounds without damage to vital organs.
• Celestial Star revealed that she knew Yang Chen was Magical Girl Love and asked him to answer more questions.

Celestial Star questioned Yang Chen about hiding his identity and learned that each transformation irreversibly changed his body, leading him to plan his own death so Love could remain. She challenged his belief that his loved ones would reject him, leaving him to reconsider, then recorded his abilities and was stunned to learn he could even stop time.

• Celestial Star questioned Yang Chen about avoiding the Association and hiding the connection between himself and Love.
• Yang Chen explained that transforming steadily feminized his body and that he feared Qianqian and his adoptive family would no longer accept him.
• Celestial Star realized Yang Chen had let the Fallen Beast attack him because he wanted Yang Chen to die while Love survived.
• Celestial Star told Yang Chen that his loved ones' affection would not change and that his planned death would hurt them again, prompting him to say he needed time to think.
• Celestial Star asked Yang Chen to describe his abilities, and he revealed that his power could attack, defend, heal, and even stop time.

Chen Qianqian’s ability tests revealed that she had reached Firefly Rank immediately after awakening, while Thousand Blades could penetrate defenses and inflict wounds that were difficult to heal. After the tests, Celestial Star briefed the team on Love’s confirmed omnipotent-type ability, leaving the others to wonder how powerful Love could become.

• Chen Qianqian released her Magic Power during testing and registered at Firefly Rank despite having awakened only the day before.
• Thousand Blades fired silver blades into a Magic Power shield, penetrating it with attacks that could damage its structure persistently.
• Old Wei concluded that Thousand Blades’ attacks could counter regeneration and threaten Fallen Beasts broadly.
• Celestial Star returned to the branch, where Ranger excitedly described Thousand Blades’ ability to her.
• Celestial Star told the team that Love was an omnipotent type who could sense love and use its power to attack, defend, heal, or even stop time.
• After the meeting, Celestial Star reviewed Thousand Blades’ test report and remarked that her abilities were enviable.

After the Liberation Faction’s defeat, the city faced minor Fallen Beast incidents while Chen Qianqian trained and became known as Magical Girl: Thousand Blades. During Yang Chen’s prolonged hospital stay, Qianqian reassured him that she would stand by him no matter how much he changed, easing his doubts as he asked for a little more time.

• The Liberation Faction lost its city operation, and the remaining Tier 1 Fallen Beast incidents gave Chen Qianqian practice as she became known as Thousand Blades.
• Yang Chen spent half a month in the hospital reflecting on Celestial Star’s words and wondering whether his family would still love him if they knew the truth.
• Chen Qianqian visited Yang Chen after patrol, and he praised her latest televised battle and secretly practiced blade recall.
• Yang Chen asked what she would do if he became someone unrecognizable, and Qianqian told him he would still be himself and she could pull him back.
• Yang Chen accepted Qianqian’s reassurance, laughed with her, and resolved to give himself a little more time.

After being discharged, Yang Chen felt relieved that Chen Qianqian would accept him regardless of his transformation and began planning a dramatic reveal. He enlisted a mysterious account to help stage his entrance, promising to join the Association afterward.

• Yang Chen decided to reveal his identity to Chen Qianqian through a dazzling transformation rather than a tearful confession.
• Chen Qianqian picked up Yang Chen after his discharge and suspected he was plotting something, but he reassured her that he only wanted to go home.
• The Chen Family welcomed Yang Chen with a lavish dinner, and Chen Qianqian was glad the dark cloud over their home had lifted.
• That night, Yang Chen asked the account Data Recording in Progress to help plan an earth-shaking entrance to shock Chen Qianqian.
• Yang Chen promised to join the Association if Data Recording in Progress helped him, and the account reluctantly agreed while refusing responsibility for anything that went wrong.

Celestial Star helped Love plan a dramatic entrance for her confession to Chen Qianqian, but Love wanted it to be both spectacular and completely safe for Chen Qianqian. Love proposed putting herself at risk instead, and Celestial Star warned that the plan could badly hurt Chen Qianqian emotionally.

• Celestial Star met Love on the dormitory rooftop, hoping to test her Magic Power.
• Love explained that she wanted to confess to Chen Qianqian with a dazzling, unforgettable entrance and asked Celestial Star to plan it.
• Celestial Star suggested staging a battle, but Love rejected the idea because Chen Qianqian might get hurt.
• After crossing out seventeen plans, Celestial Star concluded that Love wanted a grand spectacle without exposing Chen Qianqian to danger or fear.
• Love proposed making herself the one at risk, but Celestial Star warned that the stunt could cause Chen Qianqian severe distress.

At school, Chen Qianqian blushed as her classmates praised Thousand Blades, while Yang Chen’s increasingly feminine appearance led his classmates to cast him as the lead Magical Girl in a school play. Walking home, Qianqian suspected Yang Chen was changing his appearance to prank her, but he took her hand, and she let go of her suspicions.

• Chen Qianqian listened as her classmates discussed Thousand Blades and awkwardly claimed the Magical Girl was probably ordinary.
• Yang Chen’s classmates asked him to play the lead Magical Girl in their Campus Culture Festival stage play, but he refused.
• Yang Chen’s classmates teased him and Chen Qianqian about their changing appearances and assigned Qianqian another festival role.
• On the way home, Chen Qianqian suspected Yang Chen was growing his hair out to trick her into thinking he was a girl.
• Yang Chen admitted he enjoyed surprising people with his appearance, then took Qianqian’s hand and hurried home with her.

Yang Chen agreed to play Xiao Yuan in the Cultural Festival stage play and planned to use the performance to surprise Chen Qianqian with a real magical-girl transformation. Love also decided the festival could provide the right chance to transform in front of Chen Qianqian, and Celestial Star suggested involving Knight to make the transformation seem like a stage effect.

• Yang Chen changed his mind and agreed to perform in the Cultural Festival play, while Chen Qianqian suspected he meant to use it to tease her.
• Yang Chen took the role of Xiao Yuan and Chen Qianqian took the role of Homura, and the class was stunned by how convincingly Yang Chen looked and acted like a magical girl.
• Love told Celestial Star that she planned to transform during the Cultural Festival play so Chen Qianqian could witness it while the audience assumed it was a stage effect.
• Celestial Star noted that Knight attended their school, and Love remembered Knight was Li Qi and that she had healed Knight's mother.
• Celestial Star proposed having Knight appear as a guest and pretend to lend Love Magic Power, and Love agreed.

Yang Chen confessed to Chen Zhou and Su Wan that he was Magical Girl Love and explained that transforming was gradually making him more like a girl. His guardians accepted him, and he planned to reveal the truth to Qianqian at the Cultural Festival the next day.

• Yang Chen decided to tell Chen Zhou and Su Wan face-to-face before the Cultural Festival rather than surprise them with a spectacle.
• Celestial Star took Qianqian to the Association for a data check, leaving Yang Chen to speak with his guardians.
• Yang Chen transformed into Magical Girl Love and explained his secret and the changes transformation caused.
• Chen Zhou and Su Wan comforted Yang Chen and assured him that he would always be their child, regardless of what he became.
• Su Wan asked whether Yang Chen would still like girls if he became one, then told him he would always have a place at her table.
• Yang Chen told Chen Zhou and Su Wan that he planned to reveal his identity to Qianqian during a real transformation scene at the Cultural Festival, and Su Wan asked to attend.

During the cultural festival, two Third-Order Fallen Beasts attacked the auditorium, and Knight fought to protect the fleeing crowd. Yang Chen transformed into Magical Girl Love in front of Chen Qianqian, revealing his identity to her as he prepared to face the beasts.

• Chen Zhou and Su Wan claimed front-row seats to watch Yang Chen and Class 2 perform at the cultural festival.
• Knight appeared as the special guest and took a seat in the VIP section to watch the performance.
• Two Third-Order Fallen Beasts smashed into the auditorium, and Knight drew their hostility while directing the crowd to evacuate.
• Chen Qianqian prepared to fight as Thousand Blades, but Yang Chen stopped her to protect her identity.
• Yang Chen transformed into Magical Girl Love onstage, and Chen Qianqian recognized him as he faced the two beasts.

Love arrived to heal the Knight, and together they defeated the two Third-Order Fallen Beasts. After witnessing the battle, Chen Qianqian realized Love was Yang Chen and waited for an explanation, leaving Love to face a difficult confrontation with her.

• Love healed the injured Knight, then struck the Jellyfish Fallen Beast while the Knight shielded her from the Bone-Winged Fallen Beast.
• Love bound the Jellyfish Fallen Beast with ribbons of light as the Knight held off the Bone-Winged Fallen Beast.
• Watching from the auditorium, Chen Qianqian recognized Love as Yang Chen and vowed to demand an explanation after the fight.
• The Knight and Love joined their attacks, destroying both Fallen Beasts and purifying their black mist.
• After the Knight and Love celebrated their victory, Love saw Chen Qianqian waiting across the athletic field and called their coming conversation the real battle.

Love confessed to Chen Qianqian that she had been a Magical Girl for a year and that fighting would eventually transform her completely into a girl. Chen Qianqian kissed Love and told her she loved her, while Celestial Star and Knight secretly watched.

• The Association's support convoy arrived at the athletic field, and Celestial Star asked Knight about the situation at the auditorium.
• Chen Qianqian confronted Love in the auditorium ruins, relieved she had survived but furious that she had hidden the truth.
• Love explained that she had become a Magical Girl about a year earlier and that using her powers would gradually change her body until Yang Chen disappeared completely.
• Chen Qianqian scolded Love for keeping her burden to herself, and Love admitted she should have told her everything.
• Love suggested they might only be able to be best friends after she fully changed, but Chen Qianqian kissed her and said she loved her.
• Celestial Star and Knight secretly watched the kiss from the shadows.

After becoming a Magical Girl, Yang Chen returned home as Yang Cheng, unable to undo her transformation or restore her original body. Su Wan welcomed her enthusiastically, and Yang Cheng went to sleep between Su Wan and Chen Qianqian before facing Association testing and a new identity the next day.

• Yang Chen discovered that after transforming back, her breasts remained enlarged, and Old Wei had prepared a new identity for her as Yang Cheng.
• Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian returned home, where Su Wan recognized Yang Cheng and pulled her into an enthusiastic embrace.
• Su Wan insisted that Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian bathe with her, and both girls reluctantly went along.
• Su Wan announced that the three of them would sleep together, and Yang Cheng ended up in bed between Su Wan and Chen Qianqian.
• Chen Qianqian reminded Yang Cheng that she had Association testing and identity paperwork the next day, while Su Wan refused to take her hand off Yang Cheng's leg.

Chen Qianqian helped Yang Cheng get ready and asked what their relationship had become after her impulsive kiss the previous day. Yang Cheng kissed her gently in return, and the two left for the Association after sharing another kiss.

• Chen Qianqian helped Yang Cheng comb her hair and dressed her in an outfit Su Wan had bought and Chen Qianqian had chosen.
• Chen Qianqian asked Yang Cheng what their relationship was now, but Yang Cheng said they had always been family and that their bond had grown closer.
• Yang Cheng teased Chen Qianqian for getting shy, then kissed her gently.
• Chen Qianqian kissed Yang Cheng back and asked how she had become so experienced.
• Chen Qianqian urged Yang Cheng to leave for the Association before they were late.

Yang Cheng fully transformed into Magical Girl Love and joined the Association, where she charmed the staff and met visiting Magical Girls. She then followed Chen Qianqian and Zhou Xingxing to the Testing Center, where the group was ready to begin business.

• Zhou Xingxing recognized Yang Cheng's completed transformation and explained that nearby Magical Girls had come to see the newly prominent Dawn Rank newcomer.
• Magical Girl Electric Sound and Magical Girl Beautiful Sound brawled in the hall while Association staff gathered to greet the visitors.
• Yang Cheng transformed into Magical Girl Love and enthusiastically greeted the Association's staff, winning their affection.
• Chen Qianqian transformed into Thousand Blades and led Love, Zhou Xingxing, Electric Sound, and Beautiful Sound to the Testing Center.
• Old Wei, Knight, and Masked Heroine welcomed Love at the Testing Center, while Ranger remained asleep.

Love underwent a Magic Power test, revealing that she had awakened at Dawn Rank and could draw strength from others’ love. The equipment confirmed her power but could not measure beyond Dawn Rank, and Old Wei ended the tests before taking an urgent call.

• Old Wei asked Love about her rank when she awakened, and Love said she had been Dawn Rank from the start.
• Love released her Magic Power into the testing device, which measured her at Dawn Rank with more power than average.
• Love explained that she had drawn strength from everyone’s love, and Old Wei recognized her ability’s unusual potential.
• Electric Sound invited Love to join her band, and Thousand Blades stepped between them when Electric Sound tried to hug her.
• Love asked Masked Heroine about her ability, and Masked Heroine described her Masked Rider-like traits.
• Old Wei canceled further tests because the equipment could not handle Love’s power, then hurried away after a phone call.

At a Magical Girl tea party, Masked Heroine recounted a desperate battle, while Love and Celestial Star explained how they became Magical Girls. The group agreed to go eat on Commercial Street, while Ranger slept in the dorm room.

• Masked Heroine described how Liberation Faction members stirred panic on a crowded bridge, empowering a Fallen Beast until she defeated it at the cost of serious injuries.
• Love explained that her parents’ love inspired her wish to become a Magical Girl, though she left part of her story untold.
• Celestial Star said an experiment exposed her to Magic Power and that she was searching for a reason to fight despite feeling responsible for her abilities.
• Electric Sound proposed a meal, and Knight agreed to take the group to Commercial Street.
• Ranger rolled over and scratched her waist while sleeping in the dorm room.

Xu Youyou joined the Magical Girls for a meal after being forgotten at the Association, while Yang Cheng openly confirmed that she and Chen Qianqian were together. Meanwhile, a rejected Liberation Faction member used a black crystal to transform himself and prepared to attack Commercial Street.

• Xu Youyou complained to Zhou Xingxing and Li Qi about being left asleep at the Association, then teased Yang Cheng about her motherly reputation.
• Yang Cheng admitted that she and Chen Qianqian were together, and Chen Qianqian blushed and hid in her arms.
• A disheveled Liberation Faction member lamented that the captured Harvester had made him expendable and resolved to take revenge on Commercial Street.
• The man stabbed a black crystal into his chest, absorbed its power, and declared himself invincible.

When Yang Cheng sensed malice near the restaurant, she and seven other Magical Girls transformed and hurried to stop a Fallen Beast’s attack. The eight surrounded the creature in the street while Celestial Star and Ranger evacuated the crowd, leaving the Humanoid Fallen Beast begging to make peace.

• Yang Cheng sensed something filthy nearby, and the Magical Girls left their gathering to investigate.
• Masked Heroine and Knight showed their Association cards to the manager, then the group transformed outside.
• A Humanoid Fallen Beast charged into Commercial Street and prepared to attack the crowd with a torn-up streetlamp.
• Four pink Light Spears pinned the Fallen Beast’s limbs, and eight Magical Girls descended to surround him.
• Celestial Star and Ranger flew off to evacuate the crowd while the others identified the creature as a Third Rank Humanoid Fallen Beast.
• Knight complained about the Liberation Faction interrupting their meal, and the Fallen Beast asked if they could make peace.