Recaps

Old Wei identified the captured Humanoid Fallen Beast as a Liberation Faction officer and warned the Magical Girls that the faction planned to send a more secretive new group to Our City. Love and Thousand Blades were sent home to rest, but Knight revealed that school would continue despite the destroyed auditorium.

• Old Wei explained that the Humanoid Fallen Beast was an officer who had worked under the captured Harvester and helped plan the concert and Cultural Festival incidents.
• Old Wei warned that the Liberation Faction might have planted a mole in the Association, then reassured the Magical Girls that their families were under protection.
• Old Wei said the Liberation Faction had abandoned its agents in Our City and planned to send a new group, urging the Magical Girls to stay cautious and act decisively against remaining officers.
• The Rock Duo left for their neighboring city, while Knight told Love and Thousand Blades to go home and rest.
• Love learned that school would continue despite the auditorium's destruction, while Knight and Masked Heroine prepared to take the Fallen Beast downstairs and install a Suppressor.

Yang Cheng transferred to Chen Qianqian’s school after joining the Magical Girl Association as Love, and she faced the attention her new identity had drawn. The chapter left her back in class as the teacher prepared to begin the lesson.

• Yang Cheng heard students and fans discussing the previous day’s battle and demanding official Love merchandise from the Magical Girl Association.
• Chen Qianqian teased Yang Cheng about the attention she was receiving, and Yang Cheng admitted she regretted how she had responded to Magical Girl fans in the past.
• Chen Qianqian told her friend that Yang Chen had left to study in his hometown, while Yang Cheng introduced herself as a close friend transferring to the school.
• Yang Cheng introduced herself to the class, and her former deskmate speculated that Yang Chen had gone abroad for an operation before Chen Qianqian’s murderous glare sent him back to his seat.
• Yang Cheng returned to her seat as the teacher asked Jiahao to erase the blackboard and class prepared to start.

A Lolita-dressed girl with clearance visited the dangerous Fallen Beast held by the Association and asked it to tell her what it knew. The prisoner asked for release, and she agreed.

• Old Wei reviewed Love's file and worried that the Association needed to investigate her past and guide her away from an extreme path.
• The girl arrived at Old Wei's office and asked to question the Fallen Beast; Old Wei gave her permission to visit it.
• The girl passed through the Detention Department and stopped outside the prisoner's cell.
• The prisoner rejected her questions, saying her ability would not work on its kind, and asked to be released.
• The girl agreed to release the prisoner.

Old Wei investigated the unexplained deaths of the Harvester and other prisoners at the Association Branch and considered asking Love for help. At school, Yang Cheng watched her classmates mourn Yang Chen as if he had died, while Chen Qianqian panicked when her friend suggested visiting him.

• Old Wei found the Harvester and the other prisoners dead without visible injuries, and he suspected the Liberation Faction had silenced them.
• The Masked Heroine and Celestial Star discussed how a powerful intruder might have entered the Branch, and Old Wei agreed to invite Love to examine the scene.
• Yang Cheng saw her classmates leave flowers and snacks for Yang Chen, despite his supposed transfer, and silently resented their funeral-like display.
• Chen Qianqian's friend suggested organizing a class visit to Yang Chen, making Chen Qianqian panic because Yang Cheng had taken his place.
• Chen Qianqian accepted her friend's apology and felt smug that no one could find Yang Cheng, before the teacher arrived and class began.

After the captured Liberation Faction members were killed inside the Association, Old Wei asked Yang Cheng, Chen Qianqian, and the Magical Girls to investigate. Love found that the victims’ negative magic power had been absorbed, but the discovery offered no clear way to track the killer.

• Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian left class after Old Wei summoned them to the Association, where he explained why some Magical Girls attended a dedicated academy while they went to regular school.
• Old Wei told the group that an intruder had killed the captured Humanoid Fallen Beast, Harvester, and his subordinates inside the Detention Department.
• Old Wei asked Love and the others to search the Detention Department for evidence, especially among the guards, because the killer had bypassed the branch’s security.
• Ranger greeted Lin Guo at the cell door, and Old Wei urged her to focus on the investigation.
• Love sensed faint, small footprints but found no magic traces on the bodies, then realized the victims’ negative magic power had been absorbed.
• Old Wei had Lin Guo record Love’s discovery, though it gave them no immediate way to locate the killer.

Love explained that her strongest abilities required the energy of love, leaving the team without a way to recreate the scene after the prisoner’s death. As Old Wei arranged new patrol groups, a ruthless girl took control of a meeting of the Liberation Faction and ordered a subordinate to his death.

• Love told Ranger that she could not use her special ability in the detention room because there was no energy of love or residual magic power.
• Lin Guo called Ranger from the Northern Capital and said she could not return for at least a week, while Love sensed that something felt off.
• Old Wei assigned the Magical Girls to groups and told Love to stay with them unless circumstances required her to act alone.
• A nervous man arrived late to a meeting, where the girl in charge mocked his lack of ability and commanded him to jump from the window.
• The girl revealed that she had killed the former boss and declared herself the new leader, asking the assembled members who opposed her.

While the Association braced for a powerful enemy, Yang Cheng remained at school and discovered that an impostor with a presence-dampening ability had infiltrated her surroundings. After the enemy escaped, Yang Cheng was left shaken and warned Knight that the foe’s ability was dangerous.

• Old Wei assigned Chen Qianqian and Ben Xiangmeng to patrol together while Yang Cheng stayed at school, and Yang Cheng reluctantly went to class.
• An unseen person spoke with Yang Cheng about Chen Qianqian and Yang Chen, but Yang Cheng’s classmate said no one had been talking to her.
• Chen Qianqian appeared beside Yang Cheng, who realized the person had no light inside and was not the real Chen Qianqian.
• The impostor fled, cut off Yang Cheng’s communication with Old Wei, and forced Yang Cheng to transform into Magical Girl Love to pursue her.
• Love caught up with the impostor but froze after seeing her face, allowing the enemy to vanish and leaving Love shaken.
• Knight contacted Love about the severed communications, and Love told her she had encountered an enemy whose ability was a serious problem.

Love told the Magical Girls that an enemy could disguise herself as people they knew and evade detection, prompting Old Wei to request a Mental Type Magical Girl from headquarters. The enemy, who had used Love’s mother’s face to escape, sat on a rooftop and dismissed the cost of sacrificing her forces in Our City.

• Love explained that the enemy had disguised herself as Chen Qianqian and that the disguise had fooled her until she noticed she could not draw energy from it.
• Masked Heroine warned Ranger and the others not to suspect one another, and Old Wei decided to request Mental Type support from headquarters.
• Love recalled that the enemy had taken her mother’s face, wondered how she knew her protected identity, and vowed not to hold back next time.
• On a rooftop, a girl in a black Lolita dress toyed with Magic Power while several people lay unconscious beside her.
• The girl dismissed her attendant’s concern about losses among their forces in Our City and faded into the night.

Old Wei isolated the Magical Girls with encrypted communicators, protected Knight's and Thousand Blades' families, and planted false information to expose the Branch's infiltrator. That night, someone impersonating Masked Heroine approached Ranger and Celestial Star, but Knight arrived and warned them not to open the door until she verified herself.

• Old Wei ordered Association personnel to stop contacting Magical Girls and locked himself in his office so the real Old Wei could be identified by his voice.
• Old Wei gave the Magical Girls encrypted communicators and instructed them to verify each other before meeting, while Love explained that the enemy could impersonate anyone.
• Old Wei arranged protection for Knight's and Thousand Blades' families and sent different false Energy Crystal transfer details to several departments to trace the informant.
• Ranger nearly opened the dormitory door to someone claiming to be Masked Heroine, but Celestial Star stopped her when the communicator had not sounded.
• Knight contacted Ranger and Celestial Star, told them to treat Masked Heroine outside the door as the enemy, and arrived to verify herself before they opened up.

Love and the other Magical Girls investigated an enemy who was targeting them and planned to bait out the Liberation Faction spy in the Association. The chapter ended with news that a Dawn Rank psychic Magical Girl would arrive in three days, prompting the team to consider how to verify and protect her from an enemy who could impersonate anyone.

• Love arrived at the Association, but she found no trace of the enemy who had attacked Ranger.
• At a channel meeting, Old Wei suggested the enemy was trying to break the Magical Girls' spirits and cause them to fall.
• Old Wei reported that a monitoring post had seen three Liberation Faction members near Warehouse Two and suspected a spy in the Monitoring Department.
• Old Wei decided not to arrest the suspected spy yet, instead planning to use false information and the warehouse robbery to set a trap for the Liberation Faction.
• Old Wei received confirmation that a Dawn Rank psychic Magical Girl would arrive in Our City in three days, and the team resolved to find a way to verify and protect her.

Knight and Thousand Blades captured three Liberation Faction survivors as the Branch prepared for Shen Yin, a Dawn Rank Magical Girl specializing in mental abilities, to arrive. Shen Yin proposed using her journey as bait to ambush the enemy before she reached Our City.

• Knight and Thousand Blades captured three Liberation Faction survivors at Warehouse No. 2 and were told to interrogate them convincingly.
• The conference room contacted Shen Yin over an encrypted line as she flew toward the Branch.
• Shen Yin explained that her mental protection and links could expose infiltrators, secure communications, and strengthen the Association’s coordination and Magic Power.
• Shen Yin proposed leaking information about her rendezvous to draw the enemy into an ambush, insisting the enemy would try to stop her from reaching Our City.
• Masked Heroine pointed out that Shen Yin was making herself bait, and Shen Yin replied that the enemy would be the fish taking the bait.

Shen Yin was ambushed on her way to the rendezvous by a Black-Dress Girl and her controlled civilians, but she broke their mental control and overwhelmed the girl with her unexpected physical training. The Black-Dress Girl called for reinforcements as several dark figures emerged from the shadows.

• Shen Yin flew toward the rendezvous point, unaware that the ambush had already begun.
• A crowd of controlled civilians attacked Shen Yin with black chains and dragged her to the ground.
• Shen Yin freed the civilians with a mental barrier and ordered them to leave.
• The Black-Dress Girl appeared, but Shen Yin struck her with a powerful flying kick and launched a close-range assault.
• The Black-Dress Girl called for help, several dark figures emerged, and Shen Yin's communicator rang.

Shen Yin was captured by Black-Dress Girl, who tried to force her to lure Love into a trap. Shen Yin refused, alerted her companions, and Love arrived to free her.

• Shen Yin fought off the Liberation Faction’s reinforcements until Black-Dress Girl’s chains overwhelmed and captured her.
• At the station, Ranger, Knight, and Celestial Star found Shen Yin missing, and Knight failed to reach her by communicator.
• Black-Dress Girl demanded that Shen Yin lure Love to the hills in exchange for her release.
• Shen Yin pretended to consider the deal, then shouted to warn her companions instead.
• Love’s pink Light Spears broke Black-Dress Girl’s chains, freeing Shen Yin, who struck Black-Dress Girl as Love arrived.

Celestial Star summoned a meteorite that devastated the Liberation Faction's forces and left the Black-Dress Girl alive but badly shaken. The Magical Girls survived the blast, while Celestial Star explained that she had called down the meteorite in advance.

• The Black-Dress Girl surrounded the Magical Girls and threatened Celestial Star and Ranger to prevent Love from attacking.
• Celestial Star counted down as a meteorite approached, and Love led the others in fleeing the battlefield.
• The meteorite struck the hills, wiping out the Liberation Faction's forces and creating a vast crater.
• Ranger asked Celestial Star how she had summoned the meteorite, and Celestial Star explained she had called it down while waiting at the station.
• The Black-Dress Girl staggered out of the dust, covered in soot, and called the Magical Girls insane.

Love and the Magical Girls fought the Black-Dress Girl, who sacrificed her energy and shattered Crystals to create a Fourth Rank monster before escaping. Love stayed to protect her team and unleashed Nuclear Fusion, leaving a mushroom cloud over the battlefield.

• Love ordered the Magical Girls to capture the Black-Dress Girl, but the girl released all her Negative Energy and summoned a monster from the shattered Crystal fragments.
• The monster attacked the team while the Black-Dress Girl dodged Thousand Blades' strike and fled.
• Love chose to stay and fight the Fourth Rank monster because her companions could not hold it off alone.
• Love bombarded the monster with Magic Power while Knight, Thousand Blades, Ranger, and Shen Yin fought it at close range.
• Love used Nuclear Fusion to create a miniature sun, and the team retreated before it detonated into a huge mushroom cloud.

After the battle, Shen Yin confirmed her injuries were minor, while Old Wei reassured Love and Celestial Star that he cared more about their safety than the damage they caused. Shen Yin then screened Branch staff with her psychic link and discovered a Monitoring Department officer whose mind was unnaturally blank.

• A doctor examined Shen Yin and found only a scrape, minor bruising, and mild Magic Power exhaustion, and Shen Yin said she had one more matter to handle.
• Love and Celestial Star waited anxiously outside Old Wei's office and argued over the damage caused by their attacks.
• Old Wei checked that Love and Celestial Star were safe, praised their decisive actions, and told them to rest.
• Shen Yin used psychic links to screen Branch personnel, and she noticed that the third Monitoring Department officer had a completely blank mind.
• Shen Yin exchanged a glance with Knight and let the suspicious officer go.

After the branch’s recent crisis eased, Chen Qianqian took Yang Cheng on their first proper date, where Yang Cheng gave her the confession she felt she still owed. The chapter ended with Chen Zhou and Su Wan spying on the couple and Su Wan worrying that they might be unprepared for intimacy.

• Old Wei granted the magical girls two days off while he and Shen Yin investigated the informants.
• Chen Qianqian told Yang Cheng they had never been on a proper date, and the two set off together.
• Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian held hands, browsed magical-girl merchandise, and spent the day around Commercial Street.
• On the Ferris wheel, Chen Qianqian shared how Yang Cheng’s earlier distance had made her worry, and Yang Cheng apologized.
• At the top of the Ferris wheel, Yang Cheng kissed Chen Qianqian and gave her a proper confession.
• Chen Zhou and Su Wan watched the couple from the street, and Su Wan asked whether Chen Zhou had put a little disc in their room.

Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian returned to the Association and opened their delivered packages, but an unexpected disc led to an embarrassing and intimate encounter. The chapter ended with Thousand Blades pinning Love down and tugging at her Regalia ribbon.

• Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian returned to the Association, where Shen Qingyin teased them about their date before heading back to train.
• Chen Qianqian asked whether Yang Cheng might be transferred to Headquarters, and Yang Cheng said she did not know and urged Chen Qianqian to keep working hard.
• Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian found a stack of delivered packages in their room, and Chen Qianqian admired a Love plush doll.
• Chen Qianqian found an unlabeled disc and played it, then noticed the note from Love's mother telling her to study it carefully.
• Love hugged Chen Qianqian from behind as they watched, and Chen Qianqian transformed into Thousand Blades.
• Thousand Blades pinned Love down and began tugging at her Regalia ribbon as Love pleaded for her to stop.

After a punishing night with Qianqian, Yang Cheng reluctantly joined Knight at the Training Ground to help plan coordinated tactics. Knight explained how she wanted to use Guardian Heart’s taunt to protect her allies while they attacked, and Shen Qingyin volunteered to test the plan with Ranger.

• Yang Cheng woke sore after her battle with Qianqian and found a note saying Qianqian had gone on patrol and left breakfast.
• Knight invited Yang Cheng to the Training Ground to offer advice on coordinated tactics, and Yang Cheng agreed despite her exhaustion.
• At the Branch Training Ground, Yang Cheng and Knight found Shen Qingyin training, Ranger watching, and Celestial Star studying while recovering her Magic Power.
• Knight explained that Guardian Heart could draw enemies’ attacks toward her, but stronger foes left her unable to counterattack, so she wanted to train as a shield for her allies.
• Shen Qingyin transformed into Magical Girl—Shen Yin and volunteered to act as the hypothetical enemy, assigning Ranger to test the tactics despite Ranger’s protest.

Old Wei’s surveillance of the suspected Liberation Faction informant led Chen Qianqian and Ben Xiangmeng to Hengyuan Group. After reviewing the evidence, Old Wei suspected the company was supporting the faction and warned that its leader could manipulate people’s perceptions.

• Old Wei continued watching the suspected informant, who tested whether he was being followed before returning to Our City.
• The informant changed his route and used several tricks to evade surveillance, but Chen Qianqian and Ben Xiangmeng tracked him by using security cameras and waiting outside camera-blind areas.
• The informant entered Hengyuan Group’s downtown tower, while Chen Qianqian and Ben Xiangmeng remained outside.
• Chen Qianqian and Ben Xiangmeng reported the pursuit to Old Wei, who examined Hengyuan Group’s public records.
• Old Wei suspected Hengyuan Group was funding the Liberation Faction and said its leader could easily control ordinary people by altering their perceptions.

Lin Guo returned to the Association with her certification and was assigned to coordinate the Hengyuan Group investigation while Old Wei led the Magical Girls’ special training. As Electric Sound and Beautiful Sound arrived to protect the city, the main force traveled by bus toward a mountain training facility, where Shen Qingyin resolved to devise some special training.

• Lin Guo returned to the Association, proved her identity to Ranger with her certification credentials, and learned that Ranger had mistaken her for an enemy impostor.
• Old Wei assigned Lin Guo to coordinate the Hengyuan Group investigation while he took the Branch’s main fighters to a joint training facility.
• Electric Sound and Beautiful Sound arrived from the neighboring province to defend Our City during the main force’s training.
• The Magical Girls traveled by bus toward West Mountain, and Shen Qingyin began thinking up special training as the bus left the city behind.

The group arrived at the Hot Spring Resort, where Shen Qingyin explained the history of the three First Generation Magical Girls and the trainees’ training program. They relaxed in the hot springs before formal special training was set to begin the next day.

• The group admired the Three Primordial Statues, and Shen Qingyin described how the first three Magical Girls had faced the Fallen Beasts decades earlier.
• Shen Qingyin explained that newly awakened trainees trained at the resort before assessments assigned them to posts, and Old Wei led the group to their rooms.
• The group spent the day exploring the resort, then gathered in the hot springs that night.
• Li Qi recalled avoiding hot springs while her mother was sick and said she felt better now that her mother was recovering.
• Xu Youyou shared a rumor that one of the three statues had been carved without its subject’s likeness, then she and Zhou Xingxing playfully fought.
• Chen Qianqian told Yang Cheng she wanted to become stronger to protect her, and Yang Cheng took her hand as the group looked forward to the next day’s special training.

The group began coordinated-tactics training at a secluded mountaintop clearing after the trainees swarmed the visiting Magical Girls for autographs and attention. Knight presented a formation centered on her defensive abilities, and Love volunteered to spar with Shen Yin as the opposing side.

• The trainees recognized Knight, Shen Yin, Love, and the other visiting Magical Girls, crowding around them for autographs and greetings.
• Old Wei ended the meet-and-greet and led everyone to a secluded clearing at the mountaintop.
• Old Wei explained that the enemy had shifted to group combat and urged the team to improve its coordination.
• Knight outlined a plan that placed Guardian Heart at the center, Thousand Blades as the main attacker, Love and Shen Yin in free-roaming roles, and assigned the others support positions.
• Love volunteered to spar with Shen Yin as the opposing side, reassured Thousand Blades that her blades could not hurt her, and raised a shield before charging into training.

Love led the Magical Girls through Simulated Battle training, overwhelming them at first before their teamwork began to improve over the course of the day. Old Wei was pleased with their progress but noted that Love still needed to develop her combat fundamentals.

• Love and Shen Yin launched a coordinated surprise attack, quickly defeating Thousand Blades and catching Knight off guard in the first Simulated Battle.
• Love explained that defending against surprise attacks was part of training, and the group reviewed how Knight, Celestial Star, and Ranger could improve their tactics.
• Love encouraged Thousand Blades not to hold back against stronger opponents, and the Magical Girls continued through several more rounds of combat practice.
• By dusk, the exhausted trainees had improved their coordination enough to challenge Love, while Shen Yin and Love remained energetic.
• Old Wei reviewed the training data and concluded that the girls were progressing quickly, but Love's reliance on overwhelming power left her combat fundamentals in need of work.

Yang Cheng tried to get revenge on Chen Qianqian for bullying her the previous night, but Chen Qianqian reversed the situation and left Yang Cheng exhausted. The next morning, Shen Yin mistook their night together for extra training.

• Yang Cheng confronted an exhausted Chen Qianqian and said she planned to get revenge for the previous night.
• Yang Cheng kissed Chen Qianqian and teased her, then pulled her toward the bed.
• Chen Qianqian used Yang Cheng's moment of overconfidence to turn the tables and pin her down.
• The next morning, Shen Yin saw Yang Cheng emerge from the room looking exhausted and advised her to balance hard work with rest.