Recaps

Su Bai explained that the supposedly dangerous Shard was scrap metal he had sold while earning money for flour, and Su Xiaoxiao realized she had mistaken his trip for a sinister conspiracy. He invited her and Xia Ning to help buy discounted meals, and Xia Ning accepted after he offered to walk her under his umbrella.

• Su Bai caught Su Xiaoxiao before she fell into the Air-Raid Shelter pit, while Xia Ning hid the little duck.
• Su Xiaoxiao accused Su Bai of keeping military contraband and helping a dangerous woman, but Su Bai showed her a recycling receipt and claimed the Shard was worthless scrap.
• Su Bai explained that he had walked through the rain to save money and earn enough for flour, leaving Su Xiaoxiao ashamed of her suspicions.
• Su Bai gave Su Xiaoxiao soda crackers and invited both girls to help collect discounted boxed meals and rice balls.
• Xia Ning tried to leave on her E-Scooter, but Su Bai warned her about riding with a low battery and held his umbrella over her.
• Xia Ning accepted Su Bai's invitation and stayed with him and Su Xiaoxiao.

As two Blood Curse Species Monsters breached the western district, Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning resolved to confront them despite Su Bai urging them to flee. The chapter ended with the girls standing ready to fight while Su Bai maintained his cover as an ordinary, frightened civilian.

• Su Bai, Su Xiaoxiao, and Xia Ning ate discounted food at a convenience store while Su Bai scolded his sister about expenses and homework.
• A power surge and explosion shook the store as two Blood Curse Species Monsters appeared in the rain and advanced toward a civilian shelter.
• Su Xiaoxiao's Magic Power Radar detected the Monsters, while Xia Ning and Su Xiaoxiao silently agreed to face them.
• Su Bai read the Monster Hunting Bureau's evacuation alert and tried to lead the girls toward an underground shelter.
• Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning refused to leave, telling Su Bai to go while they prepared to confront the approaching Monsters.

Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning tried to make Su Bai flee while they faced two powerful Blood Curse Species monsters. After Su Bai appeared to retreat into the alley, he revealed that he was calm and intended to transform and defeat the monsters himself.

• Su Bai tried to drag Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning away from the convenience store, but Su Xiaoxiao anchored herself with magic and refused to leave.
• Su Xiaoxiao put an emergency helmet on Su Bai, and Xia Ning used water magic to push him toward the back exit.
• Two peak E-class Blood Curse Species monsters smashed through the street outside and overwhelmed the girls with their power.
• Su Xiaoxiao stood between the monsters and the shattered window while Xia Ning urged Su Bai to escape.
• Su Bai stumbled into the alley, then removed the helmet and admitted he planned to transform and defeat the monsters himself.

Su Bai secretly rescued Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning from two Blood Curse Species as Ziwei, then returned to collect them on his scooter. He revealed that Chen Shu had given him part of a top-secret Monster Hunting Bureau dossier and urged the girls to read it to learn what the Bureau feared.

• Su Bai transformed into Ziwei and killed the two Blood Curse Species, taking their undamaged Abyssal Cores.
• Su Bai picked up Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning and claimed he had hidden in a public restroom during the attack.
• Su Xiaoxiao questioned how Su Bai had found them, and Su Bai admitted he had watched them fight from a nearby water tower with Chen Shu.
• Xia Ning warned that Chen Shu's planted contraband and the Fan Support Club would draw an investigation.
• Su Bai gave Xia Ning the charred half of a top-secret Monster Hunting Bureau dossier that Chen Shu had taken from the Logistics Office's incinerator.

After learning that the authorities classified Ziwei and those awakened by her as special-grade contamination sources, Su Xiaoxiao felt powerless and feared she could not protect anyone. Her determination triggered an uncontrolled awakening, and she emerged from it with a successfully fused Star Core and the strength of a true Magical Girl.

• Xia Ning and Su Xiaoxiao read a classified dossier declaring Ziwei and people derived from her to be special-grade contamination sources slated for eradication.
• Su Bai brought Xia Ning and Su Xiaoxiao home and told them to shower and warm up.
• In the bathroom, Su Xiaoxiao recalled her helplessness against the monster and resolved that she would no longer stand by while others protected her.
• Su Xiaoxiao's magic power went berserk, forced her transformation, and compressed into a tiny point of light as Xia Ning tried to reach her.
• Su Bai's companion spirit Kabi identified the collapsing magic as a high-pressure fusion forming a mentalist primal core, and Su Bai calmly waited.
• Su Xiaoxiao emerged with a rotating Star Core, having become a true Magical Girl and gained the power to develop her own armor and weapon.

Su Xiaoxiao formed a golden Star Core and manifested a tiny lace parasol instead of the powerful weapon she expected. After Xia Ning attacked it, the parasol reflected her water arrows with greater force, revealing its ability and earning the name Absolute Refraction.

• Su Bai took Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning to the grounds behind Cloud Summit Palace so Su Xiaoxiao could test her new power away from the city.
• Su Xiaoxiao used her Star Core to summon a palm-sized golden lace parasol, disappointing her and amusing Xia Ning.
• Su Xiaoxiao challenged Xia Ning to attack her parasol, and Xia Ning launched three high-pressure water arrows.
• The parasol absorbed the arrows' kinetic energy and reflected them back, slicing through an ornamental tree.
• Su Xiaoxiao recognized the parasol's power and named it Absolute Refraction.

After Su Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning tested their abilities, Xia Ning stayed awake, troubled by her fear and poor performance in battle. Su Bai reframed her role as a part-time Magical Girl and reminded her that she had already done enough, leaving her calmer as he asked whether anything else was bothering her.

• Su Bai and Su Xiaoxiao returned to Xingfuli Apartment around three in the morning, and Su Xiaoxiao immediately fell asleep.
• Unable to sleep, Xia Ning joined Su Bai on the balcony and admitted she felt useless compared with Lady Ziwei and Su Xiaoxiao.
• Su Bai challenged Xia Ning’s belief that she had to be a heroic savior, criticizing the Monster Hunting Bureau for putting teenagers at risk without properly compensating them.
• Su Bai told Xia Ning that holding off the monsters for three seconds had already helped civilians escape and exceeded her quota.
• Xia Ning felt her fear and self-doubt ease, and Su Bai asked whether anything else was weighing on her mind.

Xia Ning confessed that she feared the Monster Hunting Bureau’s pursuit and dreaded becoming a liability to Lady Ziwei and the Star Team. Su Bai challenged her self-blame and began to explain the logic of being an employee, leaving her fear unresolved.

• Xia Ning told Su Bai that she feared the Bureau’s Special-grade Eradication Protocol would bring disaster upon Lady Ziwei.
• Xia Ning admitted she had joined as Mint for attention and transformation, and now feared paying the price for her power.
• Su Bai argued that the Bureau’s official authority did not make its threat more legitimate than a Monster’s attack.
• Su Bai reminded Xia Ning that Ziwei had kept her Mint Wand and protected her during the convenience-store battle.
• Xia Ning shouted that she feared her weakness could endanger Ziwei and destroy the Star Team.
• Su Bai scoffed and told Xia Ning she still did not understand the basic logic of being an employee.

Su Bai comforted Xia Ning after she confessed her fear, jealousy, and doubts about being a Magical Girl. He reassured her that Ziwei would handle the worst threats and urged her to fulfill her ten-year contract, then led her back inside as dawn broke.

• Su Bai defended Xia Ning from blaming herself for the failed project and claimed he had once met Ziwei while working at a scrap yard.
• Xia Ning broke down and admitted she had been afraid during the fight, had wished the monsters would attack someone else, and envied Xiaoxiao and Azure Gale.
• Su Bai told Xia Ning that Ziwei was responsible for handling the special-grade purge and that she only needed to worry about showing up for work.
• Xia Ning worried that her slow Magic Power growth would leave her useless for her entire ten-year term.
• Su Bai told Xia Ning to stick out her part-time contract for ten years, then took her back into the living room as the rain stopped and dawn arrived.

Kabi scouted for potential Magical Girl candidates and found Bai Jingxuan, an orphan with a disabled leg and unusually pure wishforce. Kabi recognized her as an ideal candidate and asked whether living with her painful condition was difficult.

• Su Bai sent Kabi to scout Xinghai City for new contract candidates before dawn.
• Kabi found Bai Jingxuan sitting alone at the Xinghai City Third Children's Welfare Institute, where she lived with a damaged leg and limited hearing.
• Kabi fell into Bai Jingxuan's art book, introduced itself, and boasted about the power and exploits of its Magical Girl.
• Bai Jingxuan questioned Kabi's claims about robbing the treasury, then smiled for the first time in months.
• Kabi sensed pure wishforce in Bai Jingxuan and asked whether her painful, disabled life was difficult.

Kabi offered Bai Jingxuan the chance to become a Magical Girl and promised the Will of the World could restore her damaged leg. Su Bai brought her food and secretly discovered that her Source Core was perfectly pure, making her useful for cleansing lethal radiation.

• Kabi urged Bai Jingxuan to become a Magical Girl, claiming the Will of the World could forge her a perfect pair of wings despite her disability.
• Kabi hid when Su Bai approached Bai Jingxuan with a warm discounted meal from a convenience store.
• Bai Jingxuan accepted the meal after Su Bai explained his reason for bringing it.
• Su Bai secretly probed Bai Jingxuan and found her Source Core had one hundred percent purity.
• Su Bai realized Bai Jingxuan could help cleanse the radiation from the Deep Space Marrow Core in the Cloud Summit Palace vault.

Su Bai left Bai Jingxuan after bringing her a meal, intending to wait until she was desperate before offering her power, but discovered that a strong magical barrier had sealed the Welfare Home. He identified the likely attackers as members of the Golden Scale Society and went back toward the main building as Bai Jingxuan spotted armed men inside.

• Su Bai brought Bai Jingxuan a warm meal, then left while planning to win her fanatical loyalty when she faced despair.
• Kabi struck an invisible barrier at the Welfare Home's side gate, and Su Bai sensed its dark magic and judged its strength to be around two thousand.
• Su Bai checked the Underground Demon Hunting Bounty App and identified a wanted Golden Scale Society Enforcer and three lackeys, with a total bounty of 2.3 million.
• Su Bai turned back toward the Welfare Home's main building while Bai Jingxuan saw black-coated men carrying prohibited Abyssal Energy Gun Firearms through the activity room window.

Su Bai watched as Scarface and his black-market gang invaded the Welfare Home to abduct disabled children, while he secretly planned to use the crisis to influence Bai Jingxuan. The gang demanded that the caregivers reveal where the girl with the crippled right leg was hiding.

• Scarface and his armed men broke into the director's office, killed Old Zhou, and threatened the caregivers and volunteers.
• Scarface announced that the gang intended to sell the disabled children for live-subject tests, while Su Bai quietly assessed him and waited for Bai Jingxuan to despair.
• The elderly director refused to hand over the children, and Scarface aimed his Abyssal-Energy Rifle at him.
• Bai Jingxuan hid outside the office, overheard the gang's plans, and feared being taken because of her numb right leg.
• Scarface remembered the buyer's request for a Source Core girl with a crippled right leg and demanded that the head caregiver reveal her location.

Su Bai secretly disarmed and captured Scarface’s henchmen while gathering evidence, then transformed into Ziwei to subdue Scarface and secure the hostages. Ziwei found Bai Jingxuan safe in the storeroom, where the girl asked how she could help.

• Su Bai jammed Scarface’s gun, recorded his statements, and guided him to search the registration room while the caregivers moved the children to safety.
• Su Bai lured Three and Four into a corridor, disarmed them, and locked them in a storeroom.
• Su Bai learned through Kabi that Bai Jingxuan refused to leave without helping the others, and he accepted her information about the children who needed assistance.
• Su Bai captured the remaining henchmen, then transformed into Ziwei and disarmed Scarface.
• Ziwei secured the weapons and evidence, led the hostages to a safe assembly point, and found Bai Jingxuan in the storeroom.

Ziwei let Bai Jingxuan help organize the Welfare Home residents and carefully explained that joining the Magical Girls did not require her to promise everything. The chapter left Bai Jingxuan in tears as Ziwei asked her to name one thing she truly wanted to do for herself.

• Ziwei asked Bai Jingxuan to make a placement checklist identifying children needing priority care and rooms needing inspection.
• Bai Jingxuan completed the list and asked Ziwei how she could become one of the Magical Girls.
• Ziwei and Kabi explained that Bai Jingxuan could refuse to join and that they could not guarantee her injuries would disappear permanently.
• Ziwei promised to keep helping Bai Jingxuan even if she refused, then assigned Mint to assist with placing the residents and told Starshine to attend class as usual.
• Bai Jingxuan tried to stand to prove she was not a burden, but Ziwei told her she had already helped and did not need to use her disabled leg as proof.
• Ziwei handed Bai Jingxuan a tissue and asked her to name something she truly wanted to do for herself.

Bai Jingxuan awakened as the Magical Girl Clear Bell, gaining the ability to stand and help evacuate the children at the Welfare Home. After she completed the headcount, Ziwei went to deal with Scarface and ordered him to call his supplier.

• Bai Jingxuan gathered her wishforce and, after a failed first attempt, transformed into Clear Bell, whose paralyzed leg could support her.
• Ziwei gave Clear Bell the children's list and assigned her to lead the shelter roll call while Ziwei guarded the area.
• Clear Bell stumbled when her shoe caught her skirt, but Ziwei caught her and advised her to shorten her stride.
• Clear Bell called the names on the list and found the children hiding in storage cabinets, confirming that everyone had reached the safe area.
• Ziwei went to the Welfare Home's main gate, kicked Scarface's communications terminal in front of him, and ordered him to call his supplier.

Ziwei and Su Bai secured the welfare home after capturing the armed thugs, while Mint distributed supplies and began helping Clear Bell learn to control her unstable magic power. The chapter left Clear Bell starting practical training under Mint’s guidance, with her potential to purify the Deep Space Marrow Core still unready for field missions.

• Ziwei recorded the black-market buyer’s call, learned Scarface’s claimed delivery location, and arranged for the welfare home’s director to report the attack to the Monster Hunting Bureau.
• Mint arrived with emergency supplies, and Clear Bell accidentally tore a bag while trying to help carry them.
• Ziwei tested Clear Bell’s magic output and learned from Kabi that it was uncontaminated primal Wishforce, though Clear Bell lacked the control needed for purification missions.
• Ziwei had Mint demonstrate controlled magic output, then asked Clear Bell to copy her timing while Mint coached her breathing and technique.
• Mint pulled out chairs and helped Clear Bell settle in at the rest area.

Ziwei arranged Clear Bell and Mint’s next training session while Su Bai planned the team’s expenses and prepared to sell recovered weapons. In the basement storeroom, Mint rescued Clear Bell when a shelf toppled as she carried supplies.

• Ziwei gave Clear Bell and Mint food, then scheduled their next magic-control training session and warned them not to overexert themselves.
• Su Bai texted Su Xiaoxiao that he was heading home, while Ziwei assigned Mint to teach Clear Bell how to register Team supplies.
• Clear Bell carefully filled out the supply forms as Mint explained the classification rules and Xia Ning continued guiding her.
• Ziwei collected the gangsters’ damaged Abyssal-Energy Rifles and decided to sell them through Black Crow rather than turn them over to the authorities.
• Clear Bell lifted two heavy boxes, caught her skirt on a rusty shelf, and began to fall as the shelf toppled toward her.
• Mint braced the shelf and pulled Clear Bell to safety.

Mint helped Clear Bell settle her nerves by assigning her bookkeeping, but Golden Scale Society operatives broke into the Welfare Home storeroom and targeted Clear Bell as a source-core recipient. Mint held off their gunfire, and Clear Bell’s attempt to protect her produced only a weak bell soundwave as the squad leader advanced.

• Mint stopped Clear Bell from lifting boxes and asked her to mark medical procurement orders in the old ledgers.
• Three Golden Scale Society death operatives entered through the ventilation duct and identified Clear Bell as a surviving recipient of a pure source core.
• The squad leader ordered the operatives to kill them and erase evidence after calling the residents defective raw material.
• Mint blocked a barrage of armor-piercing rounds with a wind blade barrier, but the attack wounded her and drained much of her magic power.
• Clear Bell rushed to protect Mint and released a faint bell soundwave that failed to affect the squad leader.

Ziwei broke into the basement storeroom and incapacitated the suicide squad soldiers before they could kill Clear Bell and Mint, then sent Mint to secure the prisoners and went to meet the Monster Hunting Bureau. Later, Su Xiaoxiao noticed that Xia Ning had been missing for two periods and the fan club’s funding transactions had stopped, so she took out a modified walkie-talkie.

• The suicide squad captain attacked Clear Bell and Mint, crushed their notebook, and prepared to shoot Clear Bell.
• Ziwei smashed through the storeroom wall with her Great Scythe and knocked all three Second Order suicide soldiers unconscious.
• Ziwei checked that Mint and Clear Bell could move, ordered Mint to tie up the soldiers, and told Clear Bell to finish checking the medical bills.
• Ziwei carried the notebook away and went out to meet the Monster Hunting Bureau, which was expected in five minutes.
• Su Xiaoxiao found the fan club’s funding page stuck on an old transaction and noticed Xia Ning had been gone for two periods.
• Su Xiaoxiao retrieved a modified walkie-talkie from her schoolbag.

Su Xiaoxiao tracked a dangerous Star Ring reaction to the Third Children's Welfare Home and raced there after suspecting Xia Ning and her brother were in danger. She reached Lixing District but was stopped by an invisible barrier just short of the home.

• Su Xiaoxiao noticed that Xia Ning had vanished from her tracker and Su Bai had stopped messaging, then used a military Star Ring Shard to detect a signal to the west.
• Su Xiaoxiao slipped out of class and used Absolute Refraction to locate a Tier-two military Star Ring reaction in the underground drainage channel of the Third Welfare Home.
• Su Xiaoxiao decided Lady Ziwei's warning to stay put was meant to keep her away from danger and escaped school over the back wall.
• Su Xiaoxiao rode a shared bicycle to Lixing District, where an invisible barrier stopped her and crumpled the front wheel.

Su Xiaoxiao broke through the authorities’ interference barrier and approached the underground storeroom, where Ziwei and the Star Team had defeated a suicide squad. The captive revealed that the team’s seven-million tip was meant to fund their deaths, and Ziwei prepared to sever his Star Ring Nerve.

• Su Xiaoxiao found the barrier blocking her path and failed to reach Su Bai because the communications network had been cut off.
• Su Xiaoxiao fitted her Star Ring Shard into her golden parasol and used it to open a gap in the barrier.
• Su Xiaoxiao slipped through and approached the storeroom as Ziwei held the wounded suicide squad leader against a wall.
• Mint challenged the captive over the squad’s Armor-Piercing Crystal Bullets, which were reserved for the Elite Armored Battalion.
• The captive claimed the Star Team were disposable experimental material and revealed that a seven-million tip was intended to pay for their funerals.
• Su Bai recognized the payment as the tip from Benefactor C, and Ziwei prepared to cut the captive’s Star Ring Nerve.

A suicide squad leader injected himself with a parasitic gland and transformed into a berserk remnant beast inside the Welfare Home. As the monster threatened the orphans and the building, Su Bai closed in and slashed through its neck.

• The suicide squad leader revealed an Abyssal Sea Tier parasitic gland, and Kabi warned Su Bai that it could cause irreversible mutation.
• The leader injected the gland into his chest, transforming into a towering remnant beast that threatened Mint, Clear Bell, and the orphans.
• Mint’s attacks failed to damage the beast, while its corrosive barrage and attack on a load-bearing pillar put everyone in danger.
• Ziwei used gravity to pin the beast, and Su Bai rushed in and cut through its neck with the Great Scythe.
• The monster broke through the basement floor, and its head separated from its body as dark fluid sprayed from its neck.

Ziwei killed a C-Rank Mutated Abyssal beast and extracted its core before discovering that the witness outside was Su Xiaoxiao. Kabi explained that Xiaoxiao had forced her Magic Power into a Military Star Ring Shard, leaving her unconscious from a backlash.

• Ziwei cut open the beast’s corpse and placed its C-Rank Mutated Abyssal Core in a lead-sealed pouch.
• Ziwei heard someone above the basement and went to investigate while Mint and Clear Bell headed for the entrance.
• Ziwei found Su Xiaoxiao unconscious outside and recognized her despite being disguised.
• Kabi scanned Su Xiaoxiao and reported that she had suffered a Magic Power backlash after forcing her one-star Germination Magic Power into a Military Star Ring Shard.

Ziwei rescued the unconscious Su Xiaoxiao and escaped the Monster Hunting Bureau while handing over evidence and demanding payment for the criminals she had captured. Liang Bing tried to stop Ziwei from leaving with the cloaked girl, but Ziwei vanished with her through a magic jump.

• Ziwei removed the Military Star Ring Shard from Su Xiaoxiao's hand, wrapped her in a magic-isolating cloak, and carried her away as the Monster Hunting Bureau arrived.
• Liang Bing led Enforcers into the Welfare Home and found Ziwei waiting with Su Xiaoxiao, the Great Scythe, and evidence against the Golden Scale Society fighters.
• Ziwei reported ten captured criminals and demanded seven hundred thousand Federal Coins for the handover and emergency deployment allowance.
• Liang Bing demanded that the cloaked bundle undergo radiation screening, but Ziwei refused and activated Short-Range Optical Fold-Jump Magic.
• Liang Bing's blade passed through Ziwei's fading image as Ziwei and Su Xiaoxiao disappeared in purple-and-gold motes.