Recaps

After three days of intense sparring, Love’s team finally managed to wound her, and the exhausted Magical Girls celebrated with a barbecue. Old Wei then read an urgent investigation report connecting Hengyuan Group to an overseas foundation and the Fallen Beast disaster seven years earlier.

• Love used feints against her teammates, but their coordination and Shen Yin’s warning let them trap her and land a silver-blade strike that cut her defensive Magic Power.
• Old Wei declared the training goal achieved, and Shen Yin suggested the battered team take a break.
• The Magical Girls and trainees held a barbecue, where Knight and Love chatted with their fans while Thousand Blades grew jealous of a trainee touching Love’s hand.
• After the party, Old Wei read Lin Guo’s report tracing Hengyuan Group’s hidden ownership and funding to an overseas Cultural Exchange Foundation established seven years earlier.
• Old Wei connected the foundation’s first investment to the year of Our City’s unusual Fallen Beast disaster, when the local Magical Girl died and Masked Heroine awakened.

The team left the resort after completing special training, pleased with their progress and new coordinated tactics centered on Li Qi. During the ride home, Yang Cheng noticed Old Wei was unusually quiet about the Hengyuan Group investigation, and he admitted he had unverified findings he would share later.

• The trainees saw off Lady Knight, Love, and Thousand Blades as the bus departed the resort.
• Xu Youyou celebrated her perfected Absolute Evasion, and Zhou Xingxing teased her about lacking a powerful attack.
• Yang Cheng reflected that the team’s tactics had developed around Li Qi, with Yang Cheng accepting the change.
• Yang Cheng noticed Old Wei was unusually silent and asked whether the Hengyuan Group investigation had produced results.
• Old Wei said he had unverified findings and would explain them once confirmed, then urged everyone to rest after returning.
• Yang Cheng told Chen Qianqian that the findings might be unpleasant but Old Wei could not hide them forever.

The Rock Duo returned to the Association after defeating two first-rank Fallen Beasts and putting on a successful concert. Lin Guo briefed the Magical Girls on the suspicious Universal Cultural Exchange Foundation and revealed that a power comparable to the Eternal Day Rank had erupted in the city seven years earlier.

• Electric Sound and Beautiful Sound told the Association that they had defeated two first-rank Fallen Beasts and organized a successful concert with Lin Guo's help.
• The Rock Duo said goodbye to the Association and flew home.
• Lin Guo arrived at the meeting and presented evidence that the overseas-registered Universal Cultural Exchange Foundation had suspicious funding and links to projects repeatedly disrupted by the Liberation Faction.
• Lin Guo revealed that a power comparable to the Eternal Day Rank had erupted in the city seven years earlier, making Yang Cheng tense up.

Lin Guo revealed that an unmeasurable burst of Magic Power had erupted in Our City seven years earlier, and Old Wei concluded that the Liberation Faction had returned to uncover what happened. Ben Xiangmeng recalled surviving the disaster and becoming a Magical Girl after a fallen heroine entrusted her with a mask.

• Lin Guo said a power comparable to Eternal Day Rank had erupted in Our City seven years earlier, and Shen Qingyin confirmed that Association monitoring systems had detected it.
• Shen Qingyin explained that the Liberation Faction disappeared from Our City after the burst and later returned to investigate its source.
• Old Wei concluded that the Liberation Faction's true objective was to learn what had happened seven years earlier, focusing attention on Ben Xiangmeng and Yang Cheng.
• Ben Xiangmeng recalled being caught in a monster attack at an amusement park, where the Magical Girls defending civilians suffered casualties.
• A dying Magical Girl gave Ben Xiangmeng her masquerade mask and urged her to become a hero.
• At the survivors' funeral, Ben Xiangmeng put on the mask and became a Magical Girl.

After Ben Xiangmeng recounted the disaster they had both survived, Yang Cheng received quiet support from her friends and returned home to face memories of her parents. She suspected the Liberation Faction branch in Our City had caused the tragedy and resolved to uncover the truth.

• Ben Xiangmeng finished telling the group about the disaster, and the others avoided looking toward Yang Cheng, who had lost both her parents in it.
• Xu Youyou redirected the meeting to Hengyuan Group and the Foundation, and Old Wei adjourned the meeting while telling Yang Cheng there was no rush.
• Ben Xiangmeng apologized to Yang Cheng for bringing up the past, but Yang Cheng told her it was not her fault and urged her to strike their enemies hard.
• Chen Qianqian promised to stay by Yang Cheng's side, and Yang Cheng accepted her support.
• Love returned to Yang Cheng's dusty home and looked at an old photograph of her family, suspecting the Liberation Faction branch in Our City had caused the tragedy.

Yang Cheng dreamed of her childhood trip to an amusement park, where a monster killed her parents and her mother's bracelet shone with a mysterious power. She woke beside Chen Qianqian with only a blurred memory of the nightmare and decided they would ask the others about what happened that year.

• Twelve-year-old Yang Cheng visited an amusement park with Mom and Dad, and Mom told her that love was a powerful force taught to her by an amazing person.
• A monster burst from the ground, and Yang Cheng fell while her family tried to escape through the panicked crowd.
• Mom gave Yang Cheng her pink crystal bracelet before tentacles seized Mom and Dad.
• The bracelet glowed and dissolved the tentacles that attacked Yang Cheng, after which she lost consciousness.
• Yang Cheng woke from the nightmare beside Chen Qianqian and said they should ask the others about what happened that year.

Yang Cheng told Old Wei about her parents’ deaths, her unexplained survival, and her mother’s powerful Magical Girl acquaintance, while Ben Xiangmeng visited the fallen Magical Girls’ graves. At the cemetery, Ben Xiangmeng discovered fresh Magic Power on a headstone and was cornered by black-clad strangers seeking details about seven years ago.

• Yang Cheng recounted the amusement park attack and said she could not remember how she survived the tentacles that killed her parents.
• Yang Cheng told Old Wei that her mother treasured a Crystal Flower Bracelet given by an incredibly powerful person she suspected was a Magical Girl, but the bracelet had disappeared.
• Old Wei promised to investigate Yang Cheng’s account and the possible connection to her mother’s acquaintance.
• Ben Xiangmeng visited the Magical Girls’ cemetery, spoke to her predecessors, and showed them the mask she had kept since her awakening.
• Ben Xiangmeng found a fresh trace of Magic Power on a headstone and was surrounded by black-clad figures who wanted to question her about seven years ago.

Masked Heroine fought a group of men in black who exposed her identity and attacked her doubts about whether she was a real hero. Beaten and unable to reach help, she found renewed resolve in an epitaph at her predecessors’ graves.

• Ben Xiangmeng transformed into Masked Heroine after the men in black revealed they knew her identity.
• The leader mocked Masked Heroine as a coward who wore a dead person’s mask and only pretended to be a hero.
• The men in black used gray crystals, coordinated attacks, and mental harassment to overwhelm Masked Heroine.
• Masked Heroine tried to call the Branch for help, but an enemy’s whip knocked her communicator away.
• The leader demanded information and told Masked Heroine to surrender as she struggled to stand among her predecessors’ graves.
• Masked Heroine read an epitaph about facing fear and felt a strange impulse stir within her.

Masked Heroine confronted an ambush at the Cemetery, accepted her fear, and advanced to Lamp-Lighting Rank as she unveiled a new mask. After defeating the attackers, she called for help, and her allies arrived to find her changed.

• Masked Heroine admitted that the attacker’s accusations about her fear and mask were true, then declared that courage made her a hero.
• Masked Heroine removed her silver half-mask, advanced to Lamp-Lighting Rank, and gained a new mask of her own.
• Masked Heroine stopped the leader and four other attackers from escaping, defeating them without killing them.
• Masked Heroine left her old mask by the gravestones, thanked the Magical Girls who came before her, and called Old Wei for help.
• Ranger, Celestial Star, and Knight arrived and saw that Masked Heroine had advanced to Lamp-Lighting Rank.

Lin Guo and Old Wei interrogated five silent men, while Celestial Star analyzed a new crystal that could temporarily give ordinary people superhuman abilities. The discovery suggested the enemy’s production process might be building up enough Negative Energy to create a massive monster.

• Lin Guo reported that none of the five captured men had spoken, and Old Wei concluded they were highly trained fighters.
• Old Wei questioned the apparent leader and inferred that the attackers had been present when Masked Heroine awakened at the cemetery seven years earlier and had released the monster themselves.
• Celestial Star revealed that the translucent gray crystal was an improved Negative Crystal that converted negative magic power into temporary abilities ordinary people could control.
• Celestial Star explained that producing each upgraded crystal required an enormous number of Negative Crystals, prompting Old Wei to ask where the excess energy went.
• Old Wei and Celestial Star realized that mass production could release or store enough Negative Energy to create a gigantic monster, and Love recognized the creature they feared.

Old Wei theorized that the Liberation Faction had returned to Our City to recover the lost Advanced Crystal manufacturing process, and he sent an urgent inquiry and warning to headquarters. Before headquarters replied, Lin Guo uncovered suspicious activity at a Hengyuan Group factory, and Old Wei ordered his team to prepare for a raid if his theory was confirmed.

• Old Wei proposed that the monster from seven years ago had resulted from an industrial accident that destroyed the Liberation Faction's Advanced Crystal production process.
• Old Wei reasoned that the Liberation Faction had returned to Our City to find what they lost, and Shen Yin sent headquarters an emergency inquiry and warning.
• Lin Guo reported suspicious records at Hengyuan Group's factory, including vague processing entries, massive unexplained material losses, and scant waste disposal records.
• Old Wei ordered everyone to prepare for combat and said they would raid Hengyuan Group's factory if headquarters confirmed his theory.

The seven Magical Girls prepared to attack Hengyuan’s factory after Headquarters confirmed Old Wei’s theory. As they set out, the Demon King and Yang Qianyu watched from above and argued about whether to follow them.

• Masked Heroine told the others how embracing her fear and choosing not to hide her true self had awakened her new power.
• The Magical Girls joked together until Old Wei reported Headquarters’ reply and ordered them to attack Hengyuan Precision Materials Processing Plant.
• Ranger eagerly prepared to demonstrate her new abilities, while Knight urged her to stay focused and Love worried that Old Wei’s theory was nearly confirmed.
• Thousand Blades comforted Love, and the seven Magical Girls left the activity room for the operation.
• The Demon King rejected Yang Qianyu’s suggestion to follow the team, then noticed that Yang Qianyu had brought a silver-white tower shield.

Masked Heroine, Ranger, and Celestial Star infiltrated a plant producing Negative Crystals and discovered civilians working and living on the premises. After Masked Heroine reported the danger, Knight ordered the reconnaissance team to capture some workers and let others escape while the rest of the group secured the perimeter.

• Knight sent Masked Heroine, Ranger, and Celestial Star to scout the plant while the others held position.
• Masked Heroine led the team inside, where Celestial Star confirmed that the plant was mass-producing Negative Crystals.
• Masked Heroine disguised herself as an employee and tricked two organization members into leaving the workshop.
• The team found thirty to forty civilians in dormitories and on the night shift, with Negative Energy feeding into the production line.
• Masked Heroine reported the civilians to the group, and Knight ordered her team to capture some workers and let others escape while the others handled the perimeter.

Love, Knight, and the Magical Girls assaulted a Liberation Faction factory, rescued the civilians, and captured two members while six escaped. As Love investigated a hidden energy source beneath the factory, the ground split open and a giant hand emerged.

• Love destroyed the exposed perimeter guards with a barrage of magical lasers, then cleared a path for Knight and the others to enter.
• Masked Heroine, Celestial Star, Ranger, and Thousand Blades followed Knight’s plan to fight the factory’s defenders and protect the civilians.
• Knight told Ranger to let two fleeing men escape because Masked Heroine’s cognitive-interference ability could make them unwitting informants and help lead the team to Hengyuan.
• The team crushed the workshop’s resistance, evacuated thirty-seven civilians, captured two Liberation Faction members, and reported that six had escaped.
• Knight sensed something beneath the factory, and Love confirmed that the site was channeling energy from Negative Crystal production.
• As Love prepared to investigate, the ground split open and a giant hand burst out.

A black-crystal tentacle dragged Love into a deep shaft beneath the workshop, and Thousand Blades jumped in after her. Knight organized a rescue mission and led the others down, leaving Ranger and Celestial Star to secure the surface as the team descended into the unknown.

• A giant black-crystal hand seized Love and pulled her through a hole in the workshop floor despite her attack.
• Thousand Blades leaped into the hole to pursue Love, while Knight warned her that the threat could be at least as strong as a Dawn Rank.
• Shen Yin sensed through their link that Love was alive and Thousand Blades had reached the bottom, but dense negative energy severely disrupted her connection.
• Knight told Old Wei that the creature was no ordinary Fallen Beast and decided to send a team down to rescue Love and Thousand Blades.
• Knight ordered Ranger and Celestial Star to secure the scene, asked Shen Yin to maintain the link, and led the others into the shaft.

Thousand Blades raced through the underground tunnels to reach Love, cutting down Fallen Beasts as she went. Knight, Masked Heroine, and Shen Yin followed, but Shen Yin’s growing weakness and the encircling beasts slowed them down.

• Thousand Blades hurried toward Love’s faint Mental Link, recalling their relationship and fearing she might lose her.
• Thousand Blades carved through waves of Fallen Beasts with her Silver Blades and forced a path deeper into the tunnels.
• Knight, Masked Heroine, and Shen Yin followed the direction of Thousand Blades’s fighting, but Shen Yin struggled against the dense malice underground.
• Fallen Beasts surrounded the three from both ends of the tunnel, and Knight ordered them to protect Shen Yin and conserve their strength.
• Masked Heroine fought through the beasts while Knight worried the team would run out of stamina and Magic Power before reaching Love.

After helping the Association secure the factory grounds, Ranger and Celestial Star met Demon King and Death God, who planned to descend into the cavern and join the others. The chapter ended with the two girls jumping into the hole despite Ranger’s warning.

• Ranger and Celestial Star finished helping the Association control the scene and talked about feeling too weak to join the fight below.
• Demon King and Death God arrived, and Demon King used their information to learn that the others had lost contact underground.
• Demon King and Death God decided to descend into the cavern, while Ranger warned them that it was too dangerous.
• Demon King shoved Ranger aside, then jumped into the hole with Death God following close behind.

Thousand Blades was overwhelmed by Fallen Beasts until the Demon King and Death God appeared and confronted her about abandoning her teammates to reach Love. Thousand Blades admitted she was selfish but refused to give up on the woman she loved, and her magic power surged as the Demon King and Death God vanished into the cavern.

• Thousand Blades neared exhaustion as more Fallen Beasts surrounded her, but an unfamiliar Silver Blade swept through the horde and saved her.
• Thousand Blades met the Demon King and Death God, who appeared beside her after she touched the Silver Blade.
• The Demon King told Thousand Blades to stop advancing and accused her of abandoning her teammates while expecting their help.
• Thousand Blades admitted she was selfish but insisted she could not abandon Love and the people she cared about.
• The Demon King reacted angrily as Thousand Blades's magic power surged, then vanished into the cavern with the Death God.

Love escaped the Fallen Beast’s grip in a vast chamber filled with Negative Crystals and prepared to attack it. Its shoulder eye trapped her in an illusion of her parents, letting the monster strike her, but Love recovered and faced it in anger.

• Love used Phasing to escape the Fallen Beast’s crystal-coated hand after realizing its skin absorbed her Magic Power attacks.
• Love found herself in a huge underground chamber filled with black crystal and Negative Crystals, where the deformed Fallen Beast stood.
• Love gathered Magic Power to form a powerful spear of light, intending to overwhelm the monster’s defenses.
• The eye on the Fallen Beast’s shoulder ensnared Love in an illusion of her parents at an amusement park, interrupting her attack.
• The Fallen Beast struck Love with its enormous arm and sent her crashing into the crystal-covered ground and chamber wall.
• Love recovered, recognized the illusion as a mental attack, and prepared to retaliate.

Love fought a fast-healing monster in a cavern of Negative Crystals but could not overcome its relentless attacks or its gaze. A little girl pinned the monster down, while Demon King and Death God confronted Love and Demon King urged her to look into her eyes.

• Love fired crystals that penetrated and damaged the monster, but Negative Crystal mist healed its wounds.
• The monster relentlessly chased Love with its four arms and powerful leaps, while its shoulder eye forced her to avoid looking at it.
• A little girl in a white dress appeared and used immense pressure to pin the monster to the ground.
• Demon King spoke to Love from behind, and Death God reminded Demon King to calm down as they confronted Love.
• Demon King moved closer to Love and told her to look into her eyes.

Yang Cheng confronted the grief of losing her parents in an illusion and was urged to move forward for the people she loved. In reality, Thousand Blades and the others reached the awakened behemoth and found Love hovering motionless before it.

• Yang Cheng relived a childhood dinner with her parents, but memories of their deaths broke through the illusion.
• Yang Cheng's mother explained that love could give her courage to move forward, while her father urged her not to stay trapped in the past.
• Yang Cheng's parents reminded her that Qianqian and others loved her and that she had someone she wanted to protect.
• Thousand Blades reached Lamp-Lighting Rank and led Knight, Masked Heroine, and Shen Yin out of the tunnel after destroying the last Fallen Beasts.
• The group found the awakened behemoth facing a vacant, tearful Love, while two figures in black and white withdrew into another tunnel.

Love recovered from her grief and awakened to Dawn Rank, then destroyed the Fallen Beast with one punch. She returned to her friends and welcomed Thousand Blades to Lamp-Lighting Rank.

• Knight drew the Fallen Beast away from Love while Masked Heroine and Thousand Blades joined the fight.
• Thousand Blades wounded the monster with Silver Blades, while Shen Yin warned her not to look at its mental-attack eye.
• Love regained focus, remembered her father's words, and awakened to the full power of Dawn Rank.
• Love resisted the monster's mental attack and annihilated it with a punch that blasted through the cavern ceiling.
• Love apologized to Thousand Blades and welcomed her to Lamp-Lighting Rank.

Love and the others defeated the Fallen Beast and continued through an underground passage to a stripped production site beneath an abandoned amusement park. Old Wei learned that the Advanced Crystal equipment and data had been removed, while the identity of the Black-Dress Girl remained unknown.

• Love recovered, accepted her Magic Power Essence more fully, and Thousand Blades advanced in rank after the Fallen Beast was defeated.
• Knight reported the team's safety to Old Wei, then decided they were well enough to continue exploring the passage.
• Celestial Star identified part of the tunnel as an old municipal utility route and said its endpoint had been excavated by hand.
• The five found a vast underground factory that had been professionally stripped of its equipment within the last few years.
• Love surfaced through the damaged dome and recognized the ruins below as the city's abandoned amusement park.
• Old Wei concluded that the Advanced Crystal production site had existed but its equipment and data were gone, and he still could not identify the Black-Dress Girl.

After the Liberation Faction was uprooted from Our City, Knight proposed a public event to reassure citizens and strengthen their ties with the Magical Girls. The team settled on a meet-and-greet, though Thousand Blades remained nervous about facing her fans.

• The Association sealed off Hengyuan Precision Materials Processing Plant, resettled its workers, and transferred the captured Liberation Faction members to Headquarters for investigation.
• Knight proposed that all seven Magical Girls hold a public event as part of the Association's Emotional Guidance Program.
• Ranger suggested an eating livestream and Celestial Star suggested a stage play, but the group rejected both ideas.
• Lin Guo arrived exhausted from handling the Hengyuan case handover and joined the planning discussion.
• Masked Heroine suggested a meet-and-greet with handshakes, autographs, photos, and conversation, and Knight and Ranger supported the idea.
• Love comforted nervous Thousand Blades and offered to accompany her at the event.

Love livestreamed a secret tour of the Magical Girls preparing for the meet-and-greet, revealing their different personalities to a huge audience. After the broadcast, viewers began speculating about Love and Thousand Blades' relationship, while Su Wan joined the online debate.

• Love began the Association's livestream and visited Knight, who was practicing her autograph, then encouraged her to interact with fans.
• Love found Thousand Blades hugging Love merchandise and struggling with anxiety about the event, then reassured her they would make their entrance together.
• Love filmed the Masked Heroine practicing a pose and sharing a nod to fans who remembered her grandmother's advice.
• Love visited Shen Yin during her five-ton workout, then found Celestial Star asleep and Ranger eating desserts while watching performance recordings.
• Love ended the livestream without revealing her meet-and-greet plans, prompting viewers to speculate about her closeness with Thousand Blades.
• Su Wan stayed up arguing online in support of Love and Thousand Blades, while Chen Zhou watched helplessly.