Recaps

After saving Starshine’s brother from the rubble, Ziwei took the newly awakened Magical Girl away from the city and taught her how to fly and stay safe. Starshine joined the Star Magical Girls and asked Ziwei to teach her to protect her brother, unaware that Ziwei was her brother.

• Liang Bing ordered the Bureau helicopter to rescue the injured and forbade anyone from locking on to the new target.
• Ziwei told Starshine that her brother had been rescued, and the two flew away from the city before she could transform back.
• Ziwei taught Starshine to keep her identity secret and retreat rather than risk her life, then accepted her into the Star Magical Girls as the Magical Girl of Light.
• On an abandoned road, Starshine asked Ziwei to teach her to protect her brother and described him as an ordinary, foolish man.
• Kabi suggested that Ziwei reveal she was Starshine’s brother, but Ziwei questioned what would happen afterward.

Ziwei told Starshine that she was her brother, but Starshine laughed it off and received instructions for future missions. After Su Bai reunited with Su Xiaoxiao, he discovered that her fan post had created a collective wish echo centered on her school, so he left campus to intervene.

• Ziwei claimed to Starshine that she was her brother, but Starshine treated it as a joke and agreed to receive future training missions through the organization channel.
• Su Bai returned to Cloud Summit Palace to secure the Abyssal Core and other items, then met Su Xiaoxiao at the hospital after she rushed to check on him.
• The next morning, Su Bai attended a lecture where Mr. Sun discussed the mysterious Second Frequency, while Liang Bing investigated traces around Tianqiong University.
• Kabi told Su Bai that Su Xiaoxiao's widely shared Starshine post had created a collective wish echo centered on Xinghai Girls' School, which could draw a Monster toward the star wish.
• Su Bai obtained leave from class and walked toward the east gate without transforming.

A Vengeful Spirit used the school broadcast to lure students’ wishes and attack Xinghai Girls' School, overwhelming the defenses. Ziwei destroyed the Echo Banshee and contained its collapsing spatial vortex, leaving the school and nearby neighborhoods saved as she vanished into the night sky.

• The school broadcast began repeating a chant that drew students into blankly voicing their wishes, while the Monster Hunting Bureau detected a Class D threat and Liang Bing ordered an evacuation.
• Su Bai heard the voice imitating Teacher Ziwei through the old broadcast line, as resentment gathered over the school and broke through the Bureau’s defenses.
• Su Xiaoxiao’s corrupted transformation incantation drained her magic, and her shield shattered as resentment tentacles reached for her classmates.
• Ziwei arrived from the Old Auditorium, cut the broadcast network with Twilight Elegy, and killed the Echo Banshee with her scythe.
• When the monster’s death triggered a spatial vortex, Ziwei held it back and carried it high into the sky, where it detonated harmlessly above Xinghai City.
• The surviving students and Monster Hunting Bureau operatives cheered for Ziwei and Starshine as two shooting stars disappeared beyond the city.

After the battle, Ziwei avoided a reporter and called herself an ordinary person before disappearing into the rain. Su Bai returned home exhausted and injured, where Su Xiaoxiao cared for him and quietly resolved to look after her brother more.

• Frontline Old Hound spotted Ziwei in the rain and tried to interview her, but she hid her face, warned him to stop taking pictures if he wanted to live, and vanished.
• Su Bai dragged himself home after spending nearly all his magic power and energy in the battle.
• Su Xiaoxiao scolded Su Bai for going out in the storm, dried him off, and made him instant noodles when he collapsed.
• Su Xiaoxiao found Su Bai's bleeding scrape, treated it, and watched a report showing Ziwei alone in the rain.
• That night, Su Xiaoxiao covered the pretending-to-sleep Su Bai with a blanket and said she would look after him more from then on.

The Monster Hunting Bureau debated how to respond to Magical Girl Ziwei, while Su Bai went about his day unaware of their discussion. The Bureau then detected an unknown object falling toward Xinghai City.

• Deputy Director Liu called for the Bureau to classify Magical Girl Ziwei as high-risk and bring her under control by force.
• Liang Bing cited the Echo Banshee battle’s casualties and Ziwei’s actions to argue that she had saved the Bureau’s squad rather than threatened it.
• A Technical Department agent reported that Ziwei’s violet-gold energy could sever and reconstruct matter at a level the Bureau could not observe or replicate.
• Su Bai asked Lin Guoguo to buy discounted Spirit-Breath Stone residue and returned home, where he dismissed Su Xiaoxiao’s claims that Teacher Ziwei had visited her in a dream.
• The head of the Astronomical Observation Department announced that an unknown shooting-star-like object was falling toward Xinghai City.

Su Bai intercepted a radiation-laden Deep Space Marrow Core and recruited Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing to cleanse it while training their magic control. After the assessment, Su Xiaoxiao asked Ziwei how long it would take before she could fight at her side when disaster struck.

• Ziwei intercepted the falling meteorite and brought it to Su Bai's underground vault, where Kabi identified it as a Deep Space Marrow Core whose radiation had to be cleansed with pure Source Magic Power.
• Su Bai summoned Starshine and Azure Gale for their first assessment, and Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing cleared their assigned Monsters and submitted reports.
• Ziwei summoned both girls to the Air-Raid Shelter and told them to compress their magic and use it to remove the core's radioactive ash.
• Su Xiaoxiao completed seventy-two cleansing cycles, while Ye Qingqing completed sixty, before Ziwei ended the assessment.
• Su Xiaoxiao asked Ziwei how much longer it would take before she could stand at her side when disaster struck.

Ziwei explained the Ringless Path and ordered Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing to begin intensive purification training as monster attacks grew more frequent. After seeing their midterm grades, she canceled training and sent them home to do practice problems.

• Ziwei told Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing that the Ringless Path led through the Citybreaker, Sea-Breaker, and Heaven-Breaker realms, and promised to trust them with her back if they condensed coronas of their own.
• Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing excitedly agreed to train beside Ziwei, and Ziwei ordered two weeks of intensive purification training with both girls kept on standby.
• Su Bai remembered that Su Xiaoxiao's exams were near and worried that training would cost her the stipend for outstanding students.
• Ziwei demanded to see the girls' latest midterm grades, and Su Bai saw that Su Xiaoxiao had scored only nine points in math.
• Ziwei canceled purification training and ordered Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing to go home and do practice problems.

Ziwei put Starshine and Azure Gale through a punishing study session, then sent them home with more work and half a month of special training ahead. On her rainy walk home, Ye Qingqing confronted her loneliness as a new Magical Girl and found Ziwei waiting by a crosswalk, still transformed and out for a night stroll.

• Ziwei assigned Starshine and Azure Gale practice papers as brain training, warning them that magical power could fade while education remained useful.
• Azure Gale misread her English passages, while Starshine replaced a physics solution with an explanation about using magic to fly over an inclined plane.
• Ziwei corrected the girls' work for two hours, then ordered them to finish the remaining questions and return the next night.
• Ye Qingqing walked home alone in the rain and reflected on how her new power and comrades had not erased her feeling of being unknown and isolated.
• Ye Qingqing encountered Ziwei, still in Magical Girl form beside a traffic-light pole, and asked whether she had a task for her.
• Ziwei told Ye Qingqing she had no particular reason for being there and had simply felt like wandering outside for the night.

Ziwei followed Ye Qingqing to her luxurious but empty apartment and asked about her family. Ye Qingqing revealed that the powerful Ye Family had erased her from its life, leaving her to live alone as a ghost no one knew existed.

• Ye Qingqing invited Ziwei to her apartment to escape the rain, and Ziwei accepted.
• Su Bai noticed that Ye Qingqing lived in an extraordinarily expensive building and followed her upstairs.
• Ziwei saw that Ye Qingqing's apartment was nearly empty and learned that she lived alone.
• When Ziwei asked about her parents, Ye Qingqing tried to change the subject, but Ziwei made her sit and answer.
• Ye Qingqing explained that her mother had died, her father had another family, and the Ye Family paid for her apartment on the condition that she never appear at family events or reveal her surname.
• Ye Qingqing told Ziwei that no one from the Ye Family would ever visit her because she had always been a ghost no one knew existed.

Ye Qingqing told Ziwei how her wealthy family had neglected her and how she had repeatedly risked her life hoping someone would notice. Ziwei helped her see that she had wanted to be seen, and Ye Qingqing asked whether her teacher would always watch over her.

• Ye Qingqing recounted how her parents ignored her achievements, illness, and runaway attempt despite providing her with money and care from staff.
• Ye Qingqing described wandering dangerous places and hoping her death would make her father realize she had existed, but Patrol Teams and a hunter repeatedly saved her.
• Ye Qingqing explained that Ziwei's unwavering attention during her fight with the Ravens made her feel valued for the first time.
• Ziwei told Ye Qingqing that her defiance showed she wanted someone to see her, not that she wanted to die.
• Ye Qingqing stood before Ziwei and asked whether her teacher would always keep her eyes on her.

Ziwei helped Ye Qingqing recognize that hiding herself had not kept her safe and encouraged her to ask for what she needed. Ye Qingqing accepted Ziwei’s guidance and training, then asked her to stay overnight for a study boot camp.

• Ziwei told Ye Qingqing that she watched over all Magical Girls and explained that making herself invisible had only made her family ignore her.
• Ziwei urged Ye Qingqing to demand attention and ask for what she deserved, and Ye Qingqing asked to meet Starshine.
• Ziwei agreed to pair Ye Qingqing and Starshine on a suitable mission but refused to let Ye Qingqing skip her physics worksheet.
• Ye Qingqing realized that Ziwei’s rules and attention made her feel cared for, and she agreed to train her magic reserves.
• Ye Qingqing asked Ziwei to stay the night and give her a study boot camp in her room.

Su Bai used a Deep Space Marrow Core as a training tool, pushing Ye Qingqing to purify it with her Starwind Magic Power. After three and a half hours, she polished away a large patch and passed the lesson, ending the night exhausted but grateful.

• Ziwei refused to let Ye Qingqing move their training into the bedroom and set up the lesson in the living room.
• Ziwei explained that the Deep Space Marrow Core could temper Ye Qingqing's Star Core as she scrubbed away its radiation-tainted surface.
• Ye Qingqing transformed into Azure Gale and followed Ziwei's instructions to scour the core with Starwind Magic Power.
• Ye Qingqing kept training through the night and pushed herself harder after learning Starshine had done the same exercise.
• At three in the morning, Ye Qingqing polished away a palm-sized patch, and Ziwei declared that she had passed the lesson.
• Ziwei gave Ye Qingqing glucose candy, and Ye Qingqing thanked her as she rested on the cushion.

After staying out all night to finish refining the Deep Space Marrow Core, Su Bai flew home as Ziwei and was caught sneaking into the apartment by Su Xiaoxiao. Su Xiaoxiao excitedly showed her a summoning array, but Ziwei told her its flaws would make all its Wish Power leak away.

• Su Bai finished polishing the Deep Space Marrow Core at Ye Qingqing's apartment, then flew home before Su Xiaoxiao could worry further.
• Su Bai found the balcony door secured by Su Xiaoxiao's homemade Deep Space Repelling Talisman and quietly opened the latch with Purple-Gold Magic Power.
• Su Xiaoxiao switched on the light and discovered Ziwei entering the living room, then dropped to one knee in astonishment.
• Ziwei claimed she had sensed Su Xiaoxiao's unusually strong Believers' Wish Power while patrolling Xinghai City.
• Su Xiaoxiao showed Ziwei her Ziwei Descent Guidance Array and said she had drawn it to summon her.
• Ziwei pointed out crooked lines and a gap in the array, explaining that its Wish Power would leak away, leaving Su Xiaoxiao dismayed.

Su Bai secretly guided Su Xiaoxiao into practicing physics diagrams, then returned to his ordinary student routine while hiding his wealth. After class, Liang Bing waited for him on leave with an unopened file and a can of coffee.

• Ziwei told Su Xiaoxiao to copy free-body diagrams ten times, and Su Xiaoxiao eagerly accepted the task as magical training.
• Su Bai returned home, found Su Xiaoxiao working on her diagrams, and discovered the delivery platform had deducted three late penalties from his pay.
• Su Bai attended magical calculus and received bank interest and a fan-club dividend, but decided he had to keep up his poor-student routine to avoid suspicion.
• Liang Bing waited for Su Bai outside the teaching building, gave him coffee, and said she was on leave.
• Su Bai joked that the coffee should be deducted from the five-thousand subsidy Liang Bing had given him.

Su Bai deflected Liang Bing’s questions about the city’s strange energy readings and refused to join her upcoming safety inspections, though she warned him to tell his sister’s fan group to lie low. Meanwhile, Ye Qingqing discovered that Starshine lived in Su Bai’s apartment and found her struggling with physics problems.

• Liang Bing told Su Bai that a battle’s energy signature matched readings from the first Deep Space Rift, and watched for signs that he already knew.
• Liang Bing invited Su Bai to join next week’s safety inspections, but he declined because of his tutoring, delivery work, and grocery shopping.
• Liang Bing warned Su Bai that the city would inspect fan clubs and other unofficial gatherings, telling him to warn his sister’s friends.
• Ye Qingqing arrived at room 703 with Tempered Core Shards and honey peaches, then realized Starshine and Su Bai lived in the same household.
• Ye Qingqing knocked on the door while transformed Starshine worked through inclined-plane physics problems inside.

Ye Qingqing discovered that Su Xiaoxiao was Starshine, and the two argued over their abilities and Teacher’s favor while training together. When Azure Gale warned that a joint government crackdown on high-purity Spirit-Breath Materials was coming, someone knocked at the door.

• Ye Qingqing found Su Xiaoxiao’s transformation notes, awakened as Azure Gale, and forced Su Xiaoxiao to reveal that she was Starshine.
• Su Xiaoxiao and Azure Gale argued over who had deceived the other and went to the Training Ground to settle their rivalry.
• Azure Gale tried to purify two Core Shards while Starshine worked on physics diagrams, and they argued over whose training and combat role Teacher valued more.
• Azure Gale warned Starshine that the Monster Hunting Bureau Supply Office and other departments were preparing a citywide crackdown on high-purity Spirit-Breath Materials.
• Someone knocked at the reinforced front door, surprising Starshine and Azure Gale.

Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing scrambled to hide evidence of their transformations when Chen Shu arrived, claiming to be conducting safety visits and delivering supplies. After verifying Chen Shu’s Monster Hunting Bureau credentials, they let her inspect the apartment, where she noticed a damaged patch on the coffee table and smiled without explaining why.

• Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing ended their transformations and concealed their Core Shards and magical equipment when someone knocked at the door.
• Chen Shu claimed she was a retired Monster Hunting Bureau agent on a Neighborhood Office visit, but used a subtle vibration to open the locked door and entered with supplies.
• Ye Qingqing examined Chen Shu’s credentials while Su Xiaoxiao checked her letter of introduction and questioned her unauthorized entry.
• Chen Shu recited details about Su Bai and Su Xiaoxiao’s household, convincing the girls that the visit and supplies were legitimate.
• Chen Shu inspected the messy living room, offered to arrange help repairing the air conditioner, and then sniffed the air while studying a chipped patch on the coffee table.

Retired Special Envoy Chen Shu visited Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing, revealed that officials were investigating a gravitational disturbance near the City Center, and exposed the military’s expendable weapons program and its classification of Magical Girls as calamities. Su Xiaoxiao defended Ziwei, and Chen Shu waited for her brother to arrive.

• Chen Shu questioned Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing about a gravitational collapse recorded near the City Center between eleven at night and three in the morning.
• Ye Qingqing challenged Chen Shu over the authorities’ failures to protect civilians, and Chen Shu revealed that she was a retired Special Envoy capable of vaporizing everything within five kilometers.
• Chen Shu showed the girls a broken Artificial Star Ring prototype and explained that its use had killed three entire Vanguard Corps.
• Chen Shu said Headquarters classified Magical Girls as uncontrollable Special-Grade Humanoid Calamities, prompting Su Xiaoxiao to passionately defend Ziwei’s rescues.
• Chen Shu said she had come to see whether anyone still felt Ziwei had been wronged, then noted that Su Xiaoxiao’s brother was arriving.

Su Bai returned home to find Chen Shu visiting, and charged her for the muddy footprints she left behind. In the living room, Chen Shu explained how the Monster Hunting Bureau’s cost-driven procedures could leave civilians trapped behind cordons, while Su Bai concluded Ziwei remained beyond the authorities’ reach and worried about the Fan Support Club’s upcoming investigation.

• Su Bai charged Chen Shu thirty for the footprints, and she paid before settling onto the sofa.
• Ye Qingqing challenged Chen Shu over the Bureau’s cordons, civilian casualties, and its use of students as bait.
• Chen Shu explained that the Bureau calculated costs and might contain monsters until they retreated or became cheaper to fight.
• Su Xiaoxiao defended Ziwei’s rescues, and Chen Shu said the authorities considered justice outside their control a risk like a monster.
• Su Bai reasoned that the authorities could not currently reach Ziwei, then worried about the Fan Support Club’s Omnidirectional Investigation next week.
• Ye Qingqing asked who held real power behind the Bureau’s approval process.

Chen Shu revealed that seven women known as the World-Ending Divine Weapons wield authority beyond the Federation’s ordinary power structure, and that Lady Ziwei had no traceable origin and was classified as a Monster. She then commandeered Su Bai and Su Xiaoxiao’s kitchen, turning their half-price tomatoes and noodles into a glowing blue-purple meal.

• Chen Shu explained her Abyssal Energy burn and described the failed Origin Armament operation, which studied the beings behind the Federation’s power structure.
• Chen Shu told Ye Qingqing and Su Xiaoxiao that seven women, designated Heavenly Judgment, were the Federation’s ultimate weapons and officially decided matters of life and death.
• Chen Shu said Lady Ziwei had no record, measurable reading, or fitting category, so Headquarters listed her under Monsters; Su Bai realized she seemed connected to the same source.
• Chen Shu took over the kitchen, pushed Su Xiaoxiao aside, and used all four tomatoes and Su Bai’s dried noodles to make a meal with concentrated military nutrient solution.
• Chen Shu served the glowing blue-purple noodles, while Su Bai washed the pot and Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing hesitated to eat.

After Chen Shu left a piece of the highly classified Artificial Star Ring, Prototype Type in the sofa, Su Xiaoxiao rushed after her to return it. She found Chen Shu facing off in the rain with Su Bai, who was blocking the entrance, while the Shard remained hidden in Xiaoxiao’s pocket.

• Su Bai left to deliver food in the rain, while Chen Shu and Ye Qingqing later departed from the apartment.
• Su Xiaoxiao found a cracked Shard bearing the Monster Hunting Bureau’s highest-clearance seal hidden behind the sofa cushion.
• Realizing the Shard was military contraband that could implicate Su Bai, Su Xiaoxiao stuffed it into her jacket and ran downstairs to return it to Chen Shu.
• Su Xiaoxiao reached the building entrance and saw Chen Shu standing in the rain as Su Bai blocked her way.

Su Xiaoxiao watched Su Bai leave with Chen Shu and feared the Monster Hunting Bureau had drawn him into a scheme. She called Xia Ning for help, and Xia Ning transformed into Mint to examine the Shard, detecting the smell of blood.

• Su Xiaoxiao saw Su Bai give Chen Shu his umbrella and follow her into the alley after she handed him a soggy slip of paper.
• Su Xiaoxiao worried that Chen Shu had recruited or threatened Su Bai and called Xia Ning to explain what had happened.
• Xia Ning arrived at Happiness Lane, and the two examined the Shard inside a Telephone Booth.
• Xia Ning transformed into Mint and scanned the Shard, then noted that it smelled of blood.

Su Xiaoxiao confronted Xia Ning about hiding her identity as Senior Mint and joined her in tracking Su Bai, whose trip with Chen Shu appeared suspicious. As the two followed a magic-tracking duck, Su Bai walked through the rain with Chen Shu, pretending to be an ordinary delivery worker while concealing his mana.

• Xia Ning identified the contraband Shard as evidence of a deadly Star Ring backsurge and warned Su Xiaoxiao that the authorities' investigation could endanger her brother and Lady Ziwei.
• Su Xiaoxiao pieced together that Su Bai had left his delivery bike behind and followed Chen Shu, rejecting Xia Ning's suggestions that he was running a harmless errand.
• Su Xiaoxiao confronted Xia Ning for concealing that she was Senior Mint, and Xia Ning explained that she had recognized Su Xiaoxiao during her first transformation and feared the danger of revealing herself.
• Xia Ning gave Su Xiaoxiao a magic-tracking duck, and the two followed it while agreeing to avoid fighting and flee if discovered.
• Su Bai walked under his umbrella beside Chen Shu, concealed his mana, and acted like a weary delivery worker as she told him they were going to fence stolen goods.

Su Bai accompanied Chen Shu after she threatened to expose contraband at his home, while secretly disabling the tracking construct Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning used to follow them. As the girls pursued them into an alley, Su Xiaoxiao resolved to respect her brother’s choice unless he made it under coercion.

• Chen Shu used a photo of contraband at Su Bai’s home to compel him to accompany her and help with her real target.
• Su Bai spotted Mint’s water-aligned tracking duck and drenched it, scrambling its runes before Chen Shu noticed it.
• Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning watched the duck’s feed from their scooter and argued about whether Su Xiaoxiao was using the Team as an excuse to follow her brother.
• Xia Ning asked what Su Xiaoxiao would do if Chen Shu recruited Su Bai for a well-paid Monster Hunting Bureau job, and Su Xiaoxiao admitted she did not know whether he could resist.
• Su Xiaoxiao said she might respect Su Bai’s decision but would reject it if he chose under threat, and Xia Ning agreed to keep following Chen Shu and Su Bai.

Su Bai accompanied Chen Shu to sell a military-regulation bracelet at an underground recycling station and learned that a joint inspection would soon make undocumented cores and origin stones dangerous to hold. After secretly slipping away, he found Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning spying on the station and tapped Su Xiaoxiao’s hair clip to confront them.

• Chen Shu negotiated with the old man and sold her prototype bracelet for four thousand.
• Su Bai learned that a joint inspection would target undocumented Abyssal Cores and decided to move his stock through Black Crow before the rules took effect.
• Su Bai used gravity to follow the duck’s lingering magic power and secretly left the recycling station.
• Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning watched the station from the abandoned stands, but the duck’s signal failed when Su Bai disappeared.
• Su Bai appeared behind the girls and asked what they were up to.