Recaps

Love hosted a successful meet-and-greet for Our City’s magical girls, while Lin Guo and the investigation team watched for trouble. The event ended without incident, and the exhausted staff finally stood down.

• Love adjusted the weather and helped prepare the Central Plaza meet-and-greet, where a huge crowd gathered.
• Lin Guo repeatedly checked security, while the investigation team monitored entrances, drones, and medical staff.
• Love arrived on a magical orca, greeted the audience, and scattered enchanted petals that refreshed ordinary people and marked those with evil intentions.
• Love introduced the Knight and the six members of Thousand Blades, teasing Thousand Blades backstage as fans cheered them on.
• Love guided Thousand Blades through the meet-and-greet, and the event concluded without trouble as the audience left with signatures and photos.
• Lin Guo collapsed in relief, and Old Wei declared that the staff could call it a day.

After the Hengyuan Group matter ended, Headquarters ordered Shen Yin, Love, Thousand Blades, and Knight to transfer for new assignments or training. The remaining Magical Girls planned a farewell meal together before the four departed.

• Love’s enchanted flower petals became a sensation, and her middle-aged fanbase grew overnight.
• After the Branch’s investigation team received time off, the Magical Girls settled into quieter routines while Ranger and Masked Heroine took over daily patrols.
• Old Wei announced that Shen Yin, Love, Thousand Blades, and Knight would leave for Headquarters, while Masked Heroine, Ranger, and Celestial Star would remain in Our City.
• The group reacted sadly to the coming separation, and Love encouraged Ranger to work hard until they met again.
• Masked Heroine proposed a farewell party, and the Magical Girls decided to prepare barbecue, hot pot, and other food themselves.

The girls and the Activity Room staff prepared a farewell party on the Branch Rooftop, livestreaming their ability-powered cooking and sharing food. The party ended with Lin Guo collapsing after she ate Ranger’s extra-spicy prank skewer.

• Celestial Star and Ranger planned a large menu, and Shen Yin and Masked Heroine carried the supplies up to the Rooftop.
• Love livestreamed the preparations while Shen Yin and Masked Heroine pounded beef, and Thousand Blades used her Silver Blades to slice pork belly.
• The farewell party began, and Love gave Thousand Blades the first barbecue skewer after enchanting it with Magic Power.
• Lin Guo arrived hungry, ate Ranger’s Ultimate Extra-Spicy Demon King Beef Skewer, and collapsed.

Li Qi, Yang Cheng, and Chen Qianqian left Our City with Shen Yin for Magical Girl Association Headquarters in the Northern Capital. After Messenger introduced Headquarters’ facilities and arrangements, the group arrived and welcomed Shen Yin back and the newcomers to their new home.

• Li Qi said goodbye to her mother while Ranger, Celestial Star, and Masked Heroine farewelled the departing group.
• Messenger greeted the four travelers and escorted them aboard the Association’s White Feather private plane.
• During the flight, Messenger explained Headquarters’ history, accommodations, training facilities, and nationwide support duties.
• Messenger told the group that Love’s Dawn Rank granted her access to the core Villa district and let Li Qi use Love’s reservation privilege for the simulation pods, while warning that Thousand Blades could not use them.
• The plane arrived over the Northern Capital, where Messenger welcomed Shen Yin back and Yang Cheng reassured a nervous Chen Qianqian.

Love, Knight, and Thousand Blades arrived at Headquarters and underwent tests that revealed the power of their abilities. The chapter ended as Love prepared to unleash a miniature sun while the Magical Girls rushed to reinforce the testing ground’s defenses.

• Shen Yin brought Love, Knight, and Thousand Blades from White Feather to Headquarters, where a crowd welcomed Love and greeted the others.
• The three newcomers declined to rest and went straight to the testing grounds, with Shen Yin joining to watch.
• Knight tested her taunting ability, redirected every hostile puppet toward herself, and protected her ally throughout the test.
• Thousand Blades cut through a reinforced target and left a wound its regeneration system could not repair, prompting Group Leader Bai to stop the test.
• Love entered the testing ground to demonstrate her power, and her teammates took cover behind Knight as she formed a miniature sun.
• The watching Magical Girls recognized Love’s attack as a hydrogen bomb and began reinforcing a barrier around the testing ground.

Love’s test of her power produced a Hydrogen Bomb that nearly destroyed the test field, but she erased the blast before it could finish expanding. Truth restored the field, ended further testing, and the chapter left Love learning that Truth had inherited her abilities from the First Generation during the First Holy War.

• Love’s Hydrogen Bomb overwhelmed the test field, forcing Knight, Thousand Blades, and the surrounding Magical Girls to brace the defenses.
• Love deleted the expanding explosion, then explained to Group Leader Bai that she had erased her attack to prevent the field’s destruction.
• Dawn Rank Magical Girls arrived, and Truth questioned Love about her ability to delete attacks before restoring the test field with her own power.
• Truth reprimanded Group Leader Bai for approving the test without carefully reading Love’s file and placed Love, Knight, and Thousand Blades under the committee’s direct responsibility.
• Group Leader Bai told Love that Truth had been the First Generation’s disciple and had received her abilities as a successor during the First Holy War.

After the testing-ground incident was covered up, Love, Thousand Blades, Knight, and Shen Yin moved into their luxurious villa at Headquarters. They explored the residence and settled into their rooms, looking forward to their new life there.

• Truth restored the testing grounds, and Group Leader Bai was punished while Love was let off because she had not known what the grounds were like.
• Love, Thousand Blades, Knight, and Shen Yin flew to the residential district, attracting attention because news of Love's test had spread through Headquarters.
• The Butler and six Maids welcomed them to the villa and offered to show them around.
• The group toured the villa's reception area, swimming pool, gym, game room, private theater, beverage bar, and terrace.
• Love took the master bedroom, Knight chose the eastern secondary bedroom, and Thousand Blades chose the western one beside Love's.
• The group returned to the living room as the private chef began preparing lunch, and Love looked forward to their new life.

Love hosted a housewarming party at the Villa and invited every Dawn Rank Magical Girl at Headquarters. As the party preparations began, Chen Qianqian called home and her friends in Our City, then Love returned with news that all the invitees had agreed to come that night.

• Shen Yin sampled wine at the Villa, and Love tried a martini before inviting her to the housewarming party that night.
• Love explained to Thousand Blades that the Villa's staff were professionals doing paid work, then left to invite the Dawn Rank Magical Girls at Headquarters.
• Thousand Blades, back as Chen Qianqian, called her mother Su Wan and reassured her that the group had arrived safely despite Love blowing up the testing grounds.
• Chen Qianqian video-called Masked Heroine, Celestial Star, and Ranger, showed them around the Villa, and inspired Ranger to aim for a higher rank so she could live in a big house.
• Love returned to the Villa and told Knight and Thousand Blades that every Dawn Rank at Headquarters had agreed to attend the party.

Love hosted a party at the villa for Shen Yin and several Dawn Rank Magical Girls, where Knight and Thousand Blades met their seniors and learned about their histories and abilities. As the gathering ended, a happy, tipsy Love leaned on Thousand Blades, and the two went inside together.

• Love welcomed Shen Yin and four other Magical Girls to a party on the villa terrace, where Knight and Thousand Blades sat beside her.
• Azure Thunder introduced herself and recalled how Shen Yin had charged into a crowd of smugglers during a mission, allowing Azure Thunder to finish them off.
• Songstress described how her singing boosted allies, while Love teased Thousand Blades about her feelings and Songstress's younger sister Flowing Cloud shared an embarrassing story about sneaking alcohol.
• Mountain Guardian explained her guardian ability and her history protecting cities, but told Love she had never met the First Generation Magical Girl herself.
• The party grew livelier as Azure Thunder and Shen Yin competed at drinking, Flowing Cloud talked with Love, and Thousand Blades listened to the seniors' stories.
• After the guests left, Thousand Blades steadied a tipsy Love and helped her into the house as Love playfully leaned against her.

After the party, Love got clingy and flirtatious with Thousand Blades while drunk, keeping them on the sofa long past midnight. Thousand Blades finally brought Love upstairs, where Love coaxed her into agreeing to bathe together.

• The butler saw Love clinging to Thousand Blades on the sofa and quietly sent the maids away while dimming the lights.
• Love stayed wrapped around Thousand Blades, teasing her and asking if she had enjoyed the party.
• Love told Thousand Blades that having her there was the best part of moving to the new place, leaving Thousand Blades flustered.
• Thousand Blades eventually dragged Love up to the third floor and insisted she wash up before sleeping.
• Love suggested they bathe together, and Thousand Blades agreed while claiming she was only worried Love could not manage alone.

While bathing together, Yang Cheng teased Qianqian with bubbles and splashes, and Qianqian eventually pulled her close to retaliate. The bathroom light stayed on late, leaving Butler to wonder whether to bring them breakfast in the morning.

• Qianqian washed Yang Cheng's hair and noticed how much longer it had grown.
• Yang Cheng made a bubble orca with Magic Power, while Qianqian's attempt to control water ended in a splash.
• Yang Cheng kissed Qianqian while she washed her own hair, then joined her in the bathtub.
• Yang Cheng splashed Qianqian, who grabbed her and pulled her close to get even.
• Butler checked the Villa's electricity usage and wondered whether to bring breakfast in the morning.

Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian learned they had three days off before the committee issued their arrangements, so they decided to explore Headquarters. After meeting Flowing Cloud and Songstress, Love and Thousand Blades followed Songstress's suggestion and headed to the Academy District.

• Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian received the committee's message granting them three days to spend as they wished before their arrangements were finalized.
• Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian ate breakfast and decided to go out and explore Headquarters.
• Love and Thousand Blades met Flowing Cloud, who was on her way to the Medical Department, and Songstress, who had appeared to stop her.
• Songstress recommended that Love and Thousand Blades visit the Academy, and they agreed to go there.
• Love and Thousand Blades followed the Magic Power Network's waypoints toward the Academy and saw the lively Apprentice Magical Girls in the Academy District.

Love and Thousand Blades visited the Academy during a combat lesson and were asked to advise the Apprentice Magical Girls. They shared their instinctive approaches to magic control and accuracy, then left before noon.

• Love and Thousand Blades watched Apprentice Magical Girls practice firing magic bullets at moving targets.
• An apprentice spotted Love and Thousand Blades, and the excited students crowded around them for autographs and attention.
• The lecturer asked Love and Thousand Blades to speak to the apprentices, and they agreed.
• Love demonstrated shaping magic power into a small bird, then struggled to explain how to control magic precisely.
• Thousand Blades advised an apprentice to anticipate a target’s movements and understand the attack’s trajectory.
• Love and Thousand Blades answered more questions and said goodbye to the apprentices near noon.

Love and Thousand Blades left the Academy and visited Knight at the Training Ground, where they watched her dominate a five-on-five match. Knight invited them to train, but they declined, and Love suggested they go to the cafeteria for lunch.

• Love questioned Thousand Blades about whether she had made up her teaching advice, but a Magical Girl traffic cop interrupted them to warn them about distracted flying.
• Thousand Blades remembered Knight was at the Training Ground, and she and Love went to find her.
• Love and Thousand Blades watched Knight use her taunt and shield to disrupt the opposing team and lead her teammates to victory.
• Knight invited Love and Thousand Blades to join a five-on-five match, but Love and Thousand Blades declined because of their overwhelming strength and dangerous abilities.
• Love suggested that Knight, Thousand Blades, and she go to the cafeteria for lunch.

Truth hid Love, Thousand Blades, and Knight’s records, then visited a secret courtyard beneath Headquarters to speak with Yang Qianyu and her master’s wife. Her master’s wife said the world depended on a loop that had to be completed, but reassured Truth that they had a way forward and urged patience as they waited for someone to return.

• Truth restricted access to Love, Thousand Blades, and Knight’s files with seven confidentiality locks, removing them from every search index.
• Truth passed through hidden barriers beneath the Back Hill and reached a concealed courtyard.
• Truth met Yang Qianyu, who said Yang Qianyan had gone north to avoid Love.
• Truth asked her master’s wife whether anything could be done, and the silver-haired woman said the world depended on a loop that had to be completed.
• Truth’s master’s wife urged her to be patient, saying they had a way to resolve the situation and that she wanted the absent woman to return.

Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian spent two days sightseeing in the Northern Capital, where Mr. Deskmate spotted them and wildly misinterpreted their closeness. The committee then assigned Love to coordinate Magical Girl affairs in the city, kept Thousand Blades by her side, and ordered Knight to begin intensive training at Headquarters.

• Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian sampled the Northern Capital’s food, visited the Observation Tower, and took a selfie together.
• Yang Cheng and Chen Qianqian went shopping and encountered Mr. Deskmate, who imagined Yang Chen had become a woman and was leaving with Chen Qianqian; security detained him after his watch fell and he started crying.
• The messenger announced that Mountain Guardian and Azure Thunder would take long-term security assignments in other regions, and Mountain Guardian sent Knight a message offering her training notes.
• The messenger appointed Love chief coordinator of the Northern Capital’s Magical Girls and confirmed that Thousand Blades would remain her partner.
• The messenger assigned Knight to an intensive training program at Headquarters, and Love wondered whether she could approve her own time off.

Knight received Mountain Guardian’s collected notes and began reading them, while Love and Thousand Blades learned that their duties in Northern Capital would be mostly on-call. As they flew back to the villa, Love wondered whether Headquarters wanted to keep them there, though she sensed no malice.

• Knight visited Mountain Guardian’s villa, where the Butler gave her a box of Mountain Guardian’s handwritten notes.
• Knight opened the first notebook and became absorbed in Mountain Guardian’s insights.
• Love and Thousand Blades visited the Dispatch Center and learned they were the only Magical Girls permanently stationed in Northern Capital.
• The Supervisor explained that they could keep their schedules free but had to remain reachable for emergencies.
• Love told Thousand Blades that Headquarters seemed to want them to stay, though she sensed no ill intent.

Love and Thousand Blades began their first official patrol in the Northern Capital, where they handled minor incidents and enjoyed a peaceful day. After Love shared a rooftop photo with their friends, an unseen figure watched her and recorded that she had been happy.

• Love worried that her strength might not make her a good person to oversee the Northern Capital, while Thousand Blades reassured her.
• Love and Thousand Blades greeted the public and met two Firefly Rank Magical Girls during their patrol.
• The pair rescued an old woman's cat, settled a neighbors' dispute, and stopped a bag snatcher.
• Love and Thousand Blades shared steamed buns on a rooftop and sent their friends a photo that made Ranger jealous.
• A hidden figure watched Love disappear and wrote in a notebook that she had been very happy that day.

After an exhausting first day of specialized training at Headquarters, Knight returned to the villa barely able to move, and Love helped ease her fatigue. Knight learned the training was already improving her Magic Circuits, but she worried about surviving the next day’s sessions.

• Love and Thousand Blades returned from patrol and found Knight sprawled on the sofa, drained from training.
• Love eased Knight’s fatigue with her Magic Power, and Knight explained that she had trained from morning until evening without being injured.
• Knight recounted how instructors tested her limits and pushed her through hours of endurance, pressure-resistance, physical-strength, and Magic Power training.
• Love confirmed that Knight’s Magic Circuits had widened slightly, while Thousand Blades declined to ask about her own training for fear it would be just as brutal.
• Love helped Knight to dinner, where Knight managed to feed herself and worried about the next day’s training.

Xiao Zhou struggled to support his sick grandmother while his employer withheld his pay, and a mysterious young woman infected him with dark energy. He remained alone in the alley as his shadow transformed, promising to prove himself right to his Teacher.

• Xiao Zhou returned home late after his boss made him work overtime and took his bonus.
• Xiao Zhou ate buns with his grandmother, who told him that two Magical Girls had helped Big Orange.
• Xiao Zhou worried over his grandmother's medicine costs and lamented how his hard work had left him with nothing.
• A young woman in a Gothic dress appeared and urged Xiao Zhou to take back what he deserved.
• The young woman infused Xiao Zhou with dark red energy, and his eyes and shadow began to change.
• The young woman told Xiao Zhou to give everything back to those who had wronged him, while he muttered that he would prove his Teacher right.

Love and Thousand Blades investigated a series of unexplained disappearances at Hongyuan Trading, beginning with Zhou Ping, and Love discovered that someone was concealing Negative Energy across the Northern Capital. Love concluded that the hidden threat was targeting her, and she told Thousand Blades to report the discovery and continue investigating.

• The Supervisor summoned Love and Thousand Blades to investigate thirteen Hongyuan Trading employees who had vanished without a trace.
• Love questioned whether the disappearances could have happened without her sensing the malice behind them.
• Love and Thousand Blades visited Zhou Ping's grandmother, who begged them to find him and bring him home.
• Love promised Zhou Ping's grandmother they would find him, then detected a faint trace of Negative Energy near her house.
• Love searched the city and found no other Negative Energy, realizing someone had gathered and hidden it on a massive scale.
• Love concluded someone was targeting her and told Thousand Blades to report the discovery and keep investigating.

Love and Thousand Blades investigated the disappearance of Hongyuan Trading employees and uncovered evidence that the company trapped and exploited its workers. They suspected the first missing employees had retaliated, but concluded an unknown accomplice had enabled them.

• Love and Thousand Blades questioned missing employees' families and found no clear motive, while learning the workers had been overworked.
• Love and Thousand Blades noticed the managers' families dodging questions about the company and obtained a formal search warrant from Headquarters.
• Love and Thousand Blades found secret contracts and account books showing Hongyuan Trading lured workers in with false promises, trapped them with fees, and deducted their pay.
• Love and Thousand Blades found Zhou Ping's name among the exploited workers and saw that many others had been marked as resigned.
• Love theorized that workers who had vanished first had retaliated against the company, while Thousand Blades pointed out ordinary people could not make so many people disappear.
• Love and Thousand Blades concluded that someone hidden had armed the workers and flew toward Hongyuan Trading.

Love and Thousand Blades confronted Hongyuan Trade Tower over the missing employees and found signs that the company was destroying evidence. Love’s fury unleashed a magic power storm until Songstress calmed her, and Love then demanded that Director Wang bring out the company’s boss and everything in the building.

• Hongyuan Trade Tower’s executives ordered employees to destroy paper and digital records and planned to misdirect Love and Thousand Blades.
• Director Wang welcomed Love and Thousand Blades, blamed a competitor, and showed them a staged work area.
• Love noticed the smell of burned documents and exposed the company’s cover-up, then unleashed a magic power storm that overwhelmed the building.
• The Association detected Love’s surge and sent Songstress, who soothed Love with music until the storm subsided.
• Love apologized to Songstress and calmly ordered Director Wang to bring the boss and everything in the building.

Love restored the company’s destroyed records and exposed its executives’ crimes, leading Public Security Officers to arrest them. She left the executives in their custody as bait, hoping the person behind the disappearances would come after them.

• Mr. Qian denied wrongdoing and accused Love of abusing her authority, but Love reminded him that she was a Dawn Rank Magical Girl.
• Songstress reported that the company had burned paper records and destroyed its hard drives, and Love used her time magic to restore the documents and data.
• Mr. Qian admitted that the company had driven Zhou Ping and other workers to their deaths, and Thousand Blades threatened him with a Silver Blade.
• Love called the Public Security Officers, who arrested Mr. Qian and the other executives after she showed them the restored evidence.
• Love told the captain she had left the suspects with the bureau to lure whoever was responsible for the disappearances, and Songstress warned her about using people as bait.

After Hongyuan Trading’s executives were arrested, Love waited for the suspected kidnapper while explaining her anger at how the company had crushed its workers. The Gothic Girl persuaded Zhou Ping that prison would not be enough, and he approached the Public Security Bureau, where Love and Thousand Blades saw dark Negative Energy erupt from him.

• News reports exposed Hongyuan Trading’s alleged contract fraud, and Love and Thousand Blades waited on the Public Security Bureau roof for the suspected kidnapper.
• Love told Thousand Blades that she was angry because Hongyuan Trading had trampled the workers’ desperate efforts to survive and Zhou Ping’s grandmother’s hope.
• Zhou Ping read that Boss Qian and the other executives had been arrested and feared they would soon escape serious punishment.
• The Gothic Girl urged Zhou Ping to remember his grandmother and the missing former workers, then encouraged him to use his power to take justice into his own hands.
• Zhou Ping walked openly toward the Public Security Bureau, and an officer alerted Love that he had arrived alone.
• Love and Thousand Blades saw Zhou Ping look up at them as dark Negative Energy surged from his body into the sky.