Recaps

Su Xiaoxiao insisted that her brother Su Bai try her Magical Girl transformation guide, which he dismissed as another of her fantasies. After accepting a monster-hunting bounty, Su Bai secretly tried the transformation himself and became a purple-gold-armored Magical Girl.

• Su Xiaoxiao declared that the Will of the World had chosen her to become a Magical Girl, but Su Bai reminded her of her previous fabricated identities and refused to take her seriously.
• Su Xiaoxiao showed Su Bai her transformation guide and made him perform poses and recite incantations before he sent her away to do her homework.
• Su Xiaoxiao left to find her best friend after realizing the guide said only girls could become Magical Girls.
• Su Bai received an emergency bounty for an F-rank monster and accepted the mission to earn an Abyssal Core worth 50,000 Federal Coins.
• After reading the guide, Su Bai tried his own transformation incantation and unexpectedly transformed into a purple-gold-armored Magical Girl wielding a huge scythe.

Su Bai transformed into a powerful, female-bodied Magical Girl and struggled to process the change before an emergency alert offered a doubled bounty for a dangerous Monster. He overcame his embarrassment and set out to help, arriving at the factory just as the Monster Hunting Bureau agents faced certain death.

• Su Bai discovered that the transformation had changed his body, given him magical powers, and left him unable to find a way to transform back.
• Su Bai tried to avoid waking Su Xiaoxiao while suppressing his magic, then received an alert about a Tier 2 Blood Curse Species at an abandoned factory.
• Su Bai decided to hunt the Monster after seeing the 100,000 Federal Coin bounty and a notice about his student-loan payment.
• At the West District abandoned factory, the Blood Curse Species overwhelmed the wounded Monster Hunting Bureau squad as a purple-gold meteor descended toward the battlefield.

Su Bai, disguised as Magical Girl Ziwei, rescued a Monster Hunting Bureau squad from an F-rank Blood Curse Species Monster and saved a trapped schoolgirl. After collecting the Monster’s Abyssal Core, he flew away, leaving the girl inspired by Ziwei.

• Magical Girl Ziwei appeared in the battlefield as the Monster Hunting Bureau agents mistook her for an illusion.
• The Blood Curse Species Monster’s attack collapsed a building onto a Xinghai City Girls' High School student and threatened her and Ziwei.
• Su Bai used Ziwei’s scythe to cut through the Monster’s tentacle and skull, killing it in one strike.
• Su Bai threw the concrete wall off the trapped schoolgirl and retrieved the Monster’s F-rank Tier 2 Abyssal Core.
• When the schoolgirl asked her name, Su Bai identified himself as Magical Girl Ziwei and flew away, leaving her and the agents stunned.

Magical Girl Ziwei struggled to end her transformation after a mission was locked and her flight drew attention online. Her magic ran out as hunger overwhelmed her, and she reverted to Su Bai on an unfamiliar rooftop three kilometers from home.

• Ziwei learned that an unidentified Demon Hunter had locked the West District Abandoned Factory mission, suspending her settlement and costing her the hoped-for hundred thousand yuan.
• Ziwei saw that her glowing flight had become a trending topic and tried unsuccessfully to undo her transformation with several commands and by throwing her scythe.
• Ziwei realized that transforming was consuming her body's calories, and her hunger rapidly drained her strength and magic.
• Ziwei's Magical Armor, scythe, and hair vanished as her magic failed, and she fell onto a rooftop and returned to Su Bai.
• Su Bai checked that his body had returned to normal, then discovered he was three kilometers from home and too weak from hunger to walk easily.

After surviving a battle with his new transformation power, Su Bai walked home, hid the Abyssal Core, and considered the power’s risks and costs. Reading Su Xiaoxiao’s note in her transformation guide left him wondering whether the Will of the World had chosen Hajimei instead of him.

• Su Bai discovered that the Abyssal Core had survived his transformation and decided it could sell for fifty thousand yuan.
• Su Bai returned home, saw the news report about the West District Abandoned Factory, and ate the noodles Su Xiaoxiao had left for him.
• Su Bai hid the Abyssal Core and resolved to prepare for the transformation’s enormous calorie cost, bright effects, and unknown limits.
• Su Bai reread the transformation guide and found Su Xiaoxiao’s note wishing a superhero could protect Hajige from Monsters.
• Su Bai wondered whether the Will of the World had chosen Hajimei all along.

Su Bai sold a Blood Curse Species Abyssal Core through Lin Guoguo, used his share to repay his student loan, and returned to find Su Xiaoxiao excitedly discussing the mysterious fighter who had appeared in the West District. The chapter left Su Bai facing his sister’s account of the previous night’s incident.

• Su Bai ate the little food left at home and noticed that Su Xiaoxiao had neatly washed and placed his muddy slippers by the door.
• Su Bai sent Lin Guoguo to sell the Abyssal Core to Black Crow, instructing her to secure at least forty-five thousand and offering her an errand fee.
• Lin Guoguo negotiated with Black Crow and sold the core for forty-five thousand, while Black Crow warned her that the Monster Hunting Bureau was investigating a major West District incident.
• Su Bai and Lin Guoguo split the money, and Su Bai used his share to repay his student loan before returning to delivery work.
• Su Xiaoxiao excitedly told Su Bai that a mysterious person had defeated the Monster Hunting Bureau’s elites and slain a Monster in the West District.

Su Bai hid his identity as the Magical Girl Lady Ziwei while his sister Su Xiaoxiao became convinced that she had been summoned by the Will of the World. The chapter ended with Su Xiaoxiao claiming that her Transformation Guide had brought Lady Ziwei into the world.

• Su Bai cooked noodles while Su Xiaoxiao showed him a blurry image of Lady Ziwei and insisted that the figure was a Magical Girl.
• Su Xiaoxiao declared that she would start Xinghai City's first Magical Girl fan club and cheer for Lady Ziwei if she appeared again.
• Su Xiaoxiao recruited three hundred and seventy members to the Lady Ziwei Fan Club and began posting theories about Lady Ziwei's powers.
• Su Xiaoxiao interpreted Lady Ziwei's landing and scythe as signs of tactical skill and a mission to reap sinful souls, while Su Bai privately recalled the truth behind them.
• Su Xiaoxiao told Su Bai that Lady Ziwei appeared the day after she wrote her Transformation Guide and concluded that her prayers had summoned her.

Su Bai hid his identity as Ziwei while Su Xiaoxiao celebrated the mysterious magical girl and searched for evidence of her. After a crash came from Su Xiaoxiao’s room, Su Bai sensed a familiar presence rising behind him.

• Su Xiaoxiao told Su Bai that her drawings and prayers had summoned a powerful figure, but he dismissed her and sent her to do her homework.
• Su Xiaoxiao questioned Su Bai about being out during the West District incident, and he claimed he had taken a detour after authorities sealed the area.
• Su Bai read the Monster Hunting Bureau’s search notice for Ziwei and considered reporting himself for the reward before rejecting the idea.
• Su Bai found Su Xiaoxiao passionately defending Lady Ziwei online and overheard her telling Xia Ning that Ziwei was real.
• After a crash sounded from Su Xiaoxiao’s room, Su Bai woke and sensed a familiar presence rising behind him.

Su Bai met Kabi, a guardian spirit who explained that a resonance between Su Bai’s wish for money and power and a Transformation Guide had made him a Magical Boy. After checking on Su Xiaoxiao, Su Bai discovered he could use magic without transforming, leaving Kabi baffled and Su Bai uncertain about his new role.

• Kabi emerged from Su Bai’s wardrobe and announced that Su Bai had been chosen as a Magical Girl, but Su Bai struck him and demanded an explanation.
• Kabi realized Su Bai was a man and explained that the resonance between Su Bai’s desperate wish for money and power and the fervor in a Transformation Guide had made him a Magical Boy.
• Kabi confirmed that he was bound to Su Bai, and Su Bai agreed to keep him after learning that he did not need food.
• Su Bai found Su Xiaoxiao safe in her room, swept up a broken glass, and saw that her admiration for Lady Ziwei had eased her fear of the world.
• Su Bai later produced a faint purple-gold glow at his fingertips without transforming, and Kabi admitted he had no explanation for the unprecedented ability.

Su Bai learned that his unstable magic power made transformation potentially fatal, but he transformed into Magical Girl Ziwei to save civilians from an E-rank Monster threatening Su Xiaoxiao’s neighborhood. After killing the Monster and collecting its core, Ziwei flew away as Su Xiaoxiao declared that she wanted to become a Magical Girl too.

• Kabi warned Su Bai that his chaotic magic power could explode if he transformed or if he let its excess build up, and said he also needed battle magic to survive.
• Su Bai received an alert about an E-rank Black-Armored Rhinoceros attacking Xinghai City's commercial street, where Su Xiaoxiao was visiting.
• Su Bai rushed to the ruined street and saw the Monster about to crush a mother and daughter hiding behind a car.
• Su Bai transformed into Magical Girl Ziwei from a rooftop and killed the Black-Armored Rhinoceros with one scythe strike.
• Ziwei retrieved the Monster’s Abyssal Core as the crowd cheered, while Su Xiaoxiao recognized her and vowed to become a Magical Girl too.

Su Bai continued hiding his identity as Ziwei while the Monster Hunting Bureau recruited Magical Girls, and his morning commute was interrupted by a Monster attack. Mint defeated the Monster and left, while Su Bai recognized her as his little sister’s best friend.

• Su Bai read about the Monster Hunting Bureau’s recruitment announcement as Su Xiaoxiao lamented that she had not been chosen as a Magical Girl.
• Su Bai took the light rail to Tianqiong University, reflecting on the ordinary lives he fought to protect as Ziwei.
• A Mutant Deepwater Leech attacked the train in the underwater tunnel, and Kabi warned Su Bai that the passengers were in danger.
• Mint appeared through the train roof, pinned the Monster with a beam of light, and destroyed it with Wind Waltz.
• Su Bai watched Mint leave and remarked to Kabi that his little sister’s airheaded best friend would later come home to mooch food.

Su Bai discovered that Mint had turned the Mutant Leech’s valuable Abyssal Core over to the Star Magical Girls’ Public Fund Pool, then slipped past the Monster Hunting Bureau’s search for Mint. Back home, he learned that Xia Ning and Su Xiaoxiao were dreaming of joining the Star Organization, while Kabi promised their growing popularity could bring Su Bai a fortune if he kept leading it.

• Su Bai learned from Kabi that Mint had donated the Mutant Leech’s Abyssal Core to the organization’s Public Fund Pool, costing him a potential hundred thousand Federal Coins.
• At the transit hub, Su Bai watched the Monster Hunting Bureau search suspected girls and humiliate schoolgirls with plastic wands, then passed the checkpoint by showing his male ID.
• Su Bai learned that the Monster attack had canceled his practical combat class and returned home to find Xia Ning doing homework with Su Xiaoxiao.
• Su Bai overheard Xia Ning tell Su Xiaoxiao that she had heard the Call of the Wind, and the two girls discussed joining the Star Magical Girl Organization.
• Kabi told Su Bai that the organization’s rising popularity could bring in Abyssal Cores for him to spend, and Su Bai weighed the money against managing and deceiving its young recruits.
• Su Bai overheard Xia Ning and Su Xiaoxiao plan a Magical Girl fan club and listened as they imagined inviting Mint to be its honorary president.

Su Bai tried to cool public excitement about the Star Magical Girls with a skeptical forum post, but their devoted fans overwhelmed him. Kabi then detected a massive Rift opening above Xinghai City as blood-red clouds swallowed the sky.

• Su Bai saw the authorities issue red alerts against the Star Magical Girls and worried the Bureau might outlaw the organization.
• Su Bai received a million Starcoins from a donor signing as C, who thanked Lady Ziwei for saving their life.
• Su Bai used his new forum account, White Dragon Blue-Eyes King, to post a skeptical critique of the Star Organization.
• Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning led the fans in attacking Su Bai's post, leaving him unable to steer the discussion.
• Kabi warned Su Bai that an enormous dimensional Rift was opening above Xinghai City, and blood-red clouds spread across the sky.

Su Bai learned that two near-D-rank Lord-Class Monsters were about to descend over Xinghai City and summoned Mint and Cherry to help contain them. Meanwhile, the Monster Hunting Bureau tried to uncover the Magical Girls’ transformation method by testing confiscated toy wands, but Scarface Captain’s attempt produced no magic.

• Kabi warned Su Bai that two ninth-stage E-rank Lord-Class Monsters were fighting above Xinghai City and could devastate the district.
• Su Bai focused on the value of the Monsters’ Abyssal Cores, then summoned Mint, Xia Ning, and Cherry, Lin Guoguo, for a double Lord kill.
• Kabi explained that multiple orthodox Magical Girls could form a Starlight Barrier to confine the battle’s destruction.
• Su Bai issued the mission in the Star Magical Girls—Tianhai Daily Squad group chat and threatened late arrivals with losing half their public commission.
• The Monster Hunting Bureau director received an investigation report on the Star Organization and ordered agents to test confiscated pink toy wands for a way to resist the catastrophe.
• Scarface Captain tried a toy wand and recited a transformation phrase, but it only flashed cheap lights and produced no magical effect.

As Xinghai City faced the arrival of two powerful Monsters, Su Bai sent Xia Ning and Lin Guoguo to establish the Starlight Barrier while planning to claim the Monsters’ remains and other rewards. The girls departed for their assigned positions, leaving Su Bai and Kabi atop the Ferris wheel preparing for the fight.

• The Monster Hunting Bureau issued a public alert describing the blood-red sky as an Abyssal-Origin Weather Belt, though Scarface Captain knew the city's elite forces had been reassigned and its defenses were weak.
• Su Bai left home to make high-paying delivery runs despite Su Xiaoxiao's warnings, while she remained behind to finish her homework.
• Atop the Xinghai Ferris Wheel, Ziwei gave Personal Communication Beacons to Lin Guoguo and Xia Ning and assigned them to anchor the Starlight Barrier from opposite sides of the city.
• Lin Guoguo and Xia Ning set off for the Abandoned Water Tower Complex and the Jiang'an District TV Tower, respectively.
• Kabi praised Ziwei's money-minded plans as she checked for open banks and prepared to claim the rewards from defeating the two D-rank Monsters.

Magical Girl Ziwei prepared to face two ninth-rank Lords emerging from a Rift above Xinghai City, while the Monster Hunting Bureau's defenses failed against their power. As the Bone Colossus Owl aimed a killing bolt at the wounded Scarface Captain, Ziwei waited for the moment to act.

• Ziwei told Xia Ning and Lin Guoguo to hold their magic power and activate the Starlight Barrier only when she signaled.
• A Rift opened above Xinghai City, and the Bone Colossus Owl and Deep-Space Giant Whale began forcing their way into the city.
• The Lords' magnetic storm destroyed the Monster Hunting Bureau's missiles and disabled three helicopters, sending them crashing toward the ground.
• Scarface Captain and his agents raised the Thunderclap Protective Formation, but the Giant Whale's shockwave shattered it and injured them.
• The Bone Colossus Owl aimed a massive lightning bolt at the wounded Scarface Captain as he braced himself to die rather than surrender.

Ziwei arrived to save the Demon-Hunting Frontline survivors, using a Starlight Barrier set up by Mint and Cherry to contain two Lord-Class monsters. After she split the Bone Colossus Owl’s magnetic storm with one scythe swing, the Deep Space Giant Whale crushed down on the Barrier, and a terrible stench heralded a new development.

• Ziwei ordered Mint and Cherry to activate their anchors, and their Beacons formed a Starlight Barrier around the ruined district.
• Ziwei descended in front of the scar-faced captain and his battered special-ops agents as the Barrier stopped the Bone Colossus Owl’s lightning from reaching the city.
• The Bone Colossus Owl attacked the Barrier with a Deep Space Magnetic Storm, but Ziwei split the storm apart with one physical swing of her scythe.
• The Deep Space Giant Whale emerged from the rift and slammed its immense weight onto the Barrier, straining Mint and Cherry as they sustained it.
• Ziwei prepared to leap up and cut the whale apart, but the scar-faced captain noticed an overwhelming stench coming from the monster.

Ziwei defeated the Bone Colossus Owl and butchered the trapped Deep-Space Giant Whale for its valuable core and spinal fluid. The whale’s remains fused into a towering, venomous flesh monster, which Ziwei faced as Lin Guoguo cried for help.

• The giant whale’s corruption overwhelmed the Xinghai Branch command hall, incapacitating many agents before the director ordered the signal receivers disconnected.
• Ziwei resisted the whale’s mental corruption and crushed the Bone Colossus Owl, taking its D-rank lightning-aspected Abyssal Core.
• Kabi warned Ziwei that the whale’s spinal fluid was valuable and had to be removed without damaging its spinal canal.
• Ziwei precisely carved out the whale’s core and spinal-fluid duct while Monster Hunting Bureau officials watched the dissection on a backup screen.
• The whale’s corrupted remains fused into a venomous flesh giant that began absorbing nearby energy, and Lin Guoguo called for help as Ziwei confronted it.

Ziwei vaporized the mutated flesh threatening the West District, then collected every valuable Abyssal Core and Monster relic before leaving. The city’s survivors and fans hailed her as merciful and awe-inspiring, while viewers noticed she had taken all the loot.

• Su Xiaoxiao defended Ziwei in the fan chat, explaining that she had cut apart the Deep-Space Giant Whale to protect civilians and contain its contamination.
• Ziwei learned that the mutated flesh had entered a second phase and was covering the Abyssal Core fragments she wanted to collect.
• Ziwei used Golden Cemetery to vaporize the mutated flesh and poison-warped air, leaving a smooth pit and the scattered cores and relics intact.
• The Scarface Captain and other survivors praised Ziwei’s magic and believed she had acted to minimize casualties.
• Ziwei gathered every valuable drop into her Storage Magic Device, ordered Mint and Cherry to activate return retrieval, and left the ruins.
• Viewers realized Ziwei had taken all the glowing rare drops from the pit.

Su Bai returned home with the Abyssal Core loot from the West District, while Su Xiaoxiao defended Lady Ziwei online by claiming she had removed dangerous remains. After discovering that Tianhai Savings Bank had been attacked and Cherry was trapped inside, Su Bai prepared to respond.

• Su Xiaoxiao told livestream viewers that Lady Ziwei had stored the dangerous Abyssal Core fragments to prevent further psychic contamination, and the public praised Ziwei.
• Su Bai slipped home exhausted, poured dozens of Abyssal Core crystals and two D-rank Lord Cores from his storage Magic Tool, and sprawled across the loot.
• Kabi alerted Su Bai to a new ten-thousand-Starcoin payment, and Su Bai read an anonymous sender's plea to become Ziwei's follower.
• Su Bai estimated his assets at about two million Federal Coins and prepared to rest after storing the crystals.
• The Monster Hunting Bureau issued an emergency alert that an armed group had attacked Tianhai Savings Bank and taken hostages.
• Cherry told the Star Daily Squad that she was trapped at the bank's security checkpoint, and Su Bai rose in anger after learning his vault was being robbed.

Su Bai used Mint’s surveillance feed to discover that the Abyssal Calamity Brotherhood had seized Tianhai Savings Bank, threatened Lin Guoguo and other hostages, and targeted the vault holding his assets. He transformed into Ziwei and arrived just as the gang opened fire, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Su Bai asked Mint to hack the bank’s surveillance and saw the Brotherhood cutting into the special-grade vault while holding civilians hostage.
• Kabi identified the masked leader as a three-star-level threat, and Su Bai spotted Lin Guoguo among the hostages as armed thugs prepared to kill them.
• Ignoring Kabi’s warning that his magic power had not fully recovered, Su Bai transformed into Ziwei and flew toward the bank.
• As the thugs fired at Lin Guoguo, Ziwei smashed through the vault ceiling and deflected the bullets with her scythe.
• Ziwei told Lin Guoguo to step back, and the Brotherhood’s leader ordered his men to fire armor-piercing rounds at her.

Ziwei defeated the attackers at Tianhai Savings Bank, protected the hostages, and took the stolen valuables. Afterward, Su Bai refueled and explained his fascination with the strip of leg between knee socks and skirt hems.

• Ziwei stood unharmed after the gunmen's barrage and turned their ammunition back on them, killing twelve attackers.
• Ziwei crippled the leader and warned him that Tianhai Savings Bank was under her protection, then stored the stolen ore, cash, and bonds.
• Lin Guoguo praised Ziwei, but Ziwei flew away before Lin Guoguo could reach her.
• Su Bai ate several bowls of oden after his transformation and the fight left him drained.
• Su Bai admired high school girls' absolute territory and told Kabi it was a manly romantic ideal, not a mating ritual.

Su Bai heard girls praise Lady Ziwei as a sapphic girl crush, then went to Huimin Supermarket for discounted meals. A Mutated Ice Toad burst from a chilled-food case and lunged at Su Xiaoxiao, leaving her in immediate danger.

• Su Bai reacted with disbelief when girls called Lady Ziwei a girl crush, while Kabi laughed at him.
• Su Bai hurried to Huimin Supermarket to get half-price meals for breakfast and lunch.
• Su Bai spotted Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning discussing Lady Ziwei and Su Xiaoxiao's plans to become a Magical Girl.
• A chilled-food case shattered, releasing a Mutated Ice Toad that fixed its gaze on Su Xiaoxiao.
• Xia Ning screamed as the Frost Toad lunged at Su Xiaoxiao.

Ziwei saved Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning from a Frost Toad in the supermarket, killed it, and took its Abyssal Core. She vanished before the Monster Hunting Bureau patrol arrived, while Su Xiaoxiao still believed her brother had fled.

• Su Bai transformed into Ziwei and severed the Frost Toad’s tongue just before it could reach Su Xiaoxiao.
• Ziwei crushed the toad’s freezing attack, deflected its ice spikes back into it, killed it, and took its Abyssal Core.
• Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning thanked Ziwei, and Ziwei warned Xia Ning not to hide her trump card when lives were at stake.
• Su Xiaoxiao searched for Su Bai, but Ziwei said he had escaped into the storage room before the monster broke through the case.
• Ziwei fled through the ventilation duct as the patrol approached, leaving Su Xiaoxiao behind with the untouched half-price bentos.
• The Monster Hunting Bureau agents found the dead toad and missing core, then concluded that the purple-gold-haired Magical Girl had vanished again.

After defeating a Frost Toad, Su Bai ate the discounted meals he had bought and discussed the monster’s core and his powers with Kabi. Kabi warned that reversing time across a neighborhood would collapse space, and Su Bai asked whether resurrection was possible.

• Su Bai returned home with four discounted teriyaki chicken-leg meals after defeating the Frost Toad, while Su Xiaoxiao scolded him for running off during the attack.
• Kabi praised Su Bai’s efficient fight but told him that Xia Ning had been frightened by the way he retrieved the monster’s core.
• Su Bai examined the Frost Toad’s ice-attributed core and planned to sell it through Guoguo, expecting Black Crow to negotiate over the scarce cores.
• Su Bai asked whether he could conjure Federal Coins, and Kabi explained that manifesting real money required understanding the Federation’s financial system.
• Su Bai asked whether he could reverse time to restore a neighborhood and save its people, so Kabi demonstrated that reconstruction caused matter to crumble and could trigger spatial annihilation folds.
• Kabi warned that reversing time across a neighborhood would collapse local space, and Su Bai asked whether resurrection was possible.