Recaps

Huo Lin met Sakura Kinomoto and returned The Mist, while Hayate borrowed the Jump Card to study its magic. That night, Huo Lin mastered Barrier magic and tested it, but Hayate had already fallen asleep.

• Huo Lin revealed her disguise to Sakura and introduced herself and Hayate after Sakura recognized their earlier meeting in Shinjuku.
• Sakura explained that the Clow Cards had escaped from her basement and that she was trying to stop them from causing trouble.
• Huo Lin returned The Mist to Sakura, and Sakura recaptured it after it escaped as mist, then wrote her name on the card.
• Sakura agreed that Hayate could borrow the Jump Card for a few days, and she and Huo Lin arranged to meet at the Shinjuku mall the following Saturday.
• Huo Lin mastered Barrier magic before midnight and created a space where Hayate could practice, but Hayate had fallen asleep.

Huo Lin, Hayate, Sakura, and Tomoyo spent the afternoon together, testing Huo Lin’s magical disguise Devices and visiting Tomoyo’s mansion. Sakura explained that she had become a magical girl after scattering the Clow Cards, leaving Huo Lin wondering whether the Cards were the source of Sakura’s magic.

• Huo Lin returned Sakura’s Jump Card, and Tomoyo tried Huo Lin’s voice-changing bow tie but could not use it without magical power.
• Sakura used the bow tie to imitate Toya Kinomoto’s voice, and Toya caught her before she could hide what she was doing.
• Toya thanked Huo Lin for looking after Sakura and corrected Huo Lin’s masculine first-person pronoun before returning to work at the theater.
• Tomoyo invited the group to her mansion, where Sakura tested Huo Lin’s disguise hair clip and copied Huo Lin’s and Tomoyo’s faces.
• After Kero ate Huo Lin’s dessert, Sakura told Huo Lin that she had scattered the Clow Cards three months earlier and gained magic by capturing them.

Huo Lin demonstrated her wardrobe-changing Device, and Tomoyo offered to make outfits for her and Hayate. After Huo Lin made a second Changing Stage for Sakura, Tomoyo finished its first outfit, and Huo Lin tried it on before handing the Device to Sakura.

• Sakura decided not to keep searching for Clow Cards because she believed capturing them was part of their owner's inheritance ritual.
• Huo Lin demonstrated her Changing Stage by changing into a tracksuit, then explained that she also had a school uniform stored in it.
• Tomoyo showed Huo Lin and Hayate her collection of outfits made for Sakura and offered to sew twenty outfits for them in exchange for a Changing Stage for Sakura.
• Tomoyo measured Huo Lin and Hayate, and Huo Lin made Sakura a second Changing Stage over the next three days.
• Tomoyo finished a red-and-white shrine-maiden-inspired outfit, and Huo Lin used the Changing Stage to put it on.
• Huo Lin handed the new Changing Stage to Sakura and invited her to try it.

Sakura used the Changing Stage to transform into Tomoyo’s outfits and chose to handle the scattered Clow Cards herself, while asking Huo Lin for help if she faced a serious threat. Later, Huo Lin met Eriol Hiiragizawa, a British transfer student whose immense magical power and true identity astonished her.

• Sakura transformed into an elaborate outfit with the Changing Stage, and Tomoyo enthusiastically filmed her costume changes.
• Sakura declined Huo Lin’s offer to help capture the Clow Cards unless she encountered one she could not handle, and they exchanged phone numbers.
• Sugisaki told the Literature Club that a British transfer student wanted to join, so Huo Lin arranged an interview.
• Eriol Hiiragizawa appeared at the interview, and Huo Lin recognized him as a mage with extraordinary magical power.
• Clow Reed saw through Eriol Hiiragizawa’s disguise and realized she was a nine-year-old girl with power on par with his own at his peak.

Eriol agreed to devise a countercurse for the Book of the Night Sky in exchange for Huo Lin watching over the Clow Trial and protecting Sakura. He began studying the book beside Huo Lin at school, where Sugisaki’s annoyance at their closeness became apparent.

• Huo Lin showed Eriol the Book of the Night Sky and asked him to lift its Eternal Curse Night curse.
• Eriol agreed to design a countercurse within about a month, but told Huo Lin she would have to carry out the sealing herself.
• Eriol asked Huo Lin to watch over the Clow Trial and protect Sakura, and Huo Lin accepted.
• Huo Lin kept the book with her while Eriol studied it beside her at school.
• Sugisaki challenged Eriol for sitting beside Huo Lin, but Eriol pointed out that he was older than Sugisaki.

Huo Lin joined Sakura and Tomoyo at a museum after Phantom Thief Jeanne announced she would steal a painting containing a Clow Card. As police officers were inexplicably displaced from the painting’s corridor, Huo Lin and the others prepared to intervene.

• Tomoyo told Huo Lin that Phantom Thief Jeanne had sent the museum an advance notice for the painting hiding a Clow Card.
• Huo Lin agreed to meet Sakura and Tomoyo at the museum so Sakura would not face the police or the phantom thief alone.
• Tomoyo dressed Sakura in a black stealth outfit and filmed the operation, while Huo Lin changed into one of Tomoyo’s earlier costumes.
• Inspector Todai-ji and Officer Haruta discovered that the officers guarding the painting had been moved into the courtyard.
• A soundless disturbance moved Todai-ji and Haruta into the courtyard too, leaving the painting’s corridor deserted.

Sakura, Huo Lin, and Tomoyo witnessed Phantom Thief Jeanne attempt to seal a painting, but the Sealing Needle revealed it was not a demon. The painting’s power displaced Jeanne into the garden, where Miyako’s police ambush surrounded her.

• Sakura, Huo Lin, and Tomoyo entered the art museum and spotted Kurumi Kusakabe transforming into Phantom Thief Jeanne.
• Jeanne evaded the officers, reached the painting titled “Smile,” and tried to seal it with the Sealing Needle.
• Fin told Jeanne the painting was not inhabited by a demon, and the woman in the painting moved and sent Jeanne to the garden.
• Miyako activated the searchlights and revealed that she had surrounded Jeanne in the garden.

Huo Lin used The Mist to help Jeanne escape the police and gave Sakura a chance to capture the Clow Card without making a sound. Sakura sealed the card from a distance with The Shadow, and the police discovered that the painting had changed into its true image.

• Huo Lin lent Sakura The Mist and used it to disorient the police surrounding Jeanne.
• Huo Lin pulled Jeanne out of the fog and took her to the rooftop, where Jeanne learned that Huo Lin could fly.
• Sakura used The Shadow to reach through the glass and seal the Clow Card attached to the painting.
• Sakura escaped with the captured card using The Fly while Huo Lin dispelled The Mist.
• Inspector Todouji showed Miyako that the painting now depicted a smiling girl, with the title “Smile” beneath it.

Miyako Todouji argued with her father about why the police were not prioritizing Phantom Thief Jeanne, while Jeanne met Huo Lin, Sakura, and Tomoyo after they helped her escape. Huo Lin examined Jeanne’s power and unexpectedly recreated the Libertor Ball, leaving Jeanne astonished.

• Miyako Todouji resented her father for accepting that the museum would not pursue Jeanne, but Inspector Todouji explained that preventing harm mattered more than earning recognition.
• Kurumi Kusakabe remained transformed as Phantom Thief Jeanne while Sakura, Tomoyo, and Huo Lin questioned her about her powers.
• Huo Lin explained that magic could be studied scientifically and asked Jeanne to demonstrate her power again.
• Jeanne summoned the Libertor Ball and let Huo Lin study its unfamiliar holy-aspect power for five minutes.
• Huo Lin produced an almost identical sphere, and Jeanne recognized it as the Libertor Ball.

Huo Lin agreed to study Kurumi Kusakabe’s power and make her a ribbon weapon, then turned to preparations for the School Festival and briefly worried Sugisaki by suggesting she might transfer schools. She reassured him she had only been joking, leaving Sugisaki relieved about the Literature Club’s future.

• Huo Lin told Kurumi that her power seemed like Mental Magic and offered to make her a weapon after studying it; Kurumi suggested a rhythmic-gymnastics ribbon.
• Huo Lin arranged to meet Kurumi at Takashimaya Department Store in Shinjuku two weeks later to give her the weapon.
• At the Literature Club meeting, Amano proposed a festival event, and Eriol suggested starting a Book Club while Huo Lin dozed.
• Huo Lin considered transferring schools because her male records and female body were causing problems, then joked that Sugisaki would take over the Literature Club.
• Sugisaki panicked when Amano and Eriol mentioned they would graduate or might leave, but Huo Lin admitted she had been joking and reassured him.

The Literature Club settled on running a sushi restaurant at the School Festival, with Huo Lin cooking and Sugisaki and Eriol gathering fish. After the others left, Huo Lin and Eriol discussed Eternal Curse Night, and Eriol explained that defeating it permanently would require replacing and destroying the Book of the Night Sky’s core.

• Sugisaki, Huo Lin, Amano Touko, and Eriol discussed School Festival ideas before Huo Lin chose a sushi restaurant for the Literature Club.
• Huo Lin assigned Sugisaki to buy fresh fish before dawn, and Eriol volunteered to accompany him to the Seafood Market.
• Huo Lin told Sugisaki to leave while she and Eriol stayed behind to study the Book of the Night Sky.
• Eriol said Eternal Curse Night would repair itself within three minutes if broken.
• Eriol explained that permanently ending the curse would require separating the Book of the Night Sky’s core, creating a replacement, and destroying the original.

Huo Lin and Eriol discussed how to destroy and replace the Book of the Night Sky’s core, leaving Huo Lin to consult Hayate about becoming its new master. Later, Huo Lin brought dinner to Hayate’s School Festival preparations and learned the Cooking Club planned to hold a Book Club instead of a restaurant.

• Eriol explained that destroying Eternal Curse Night’s core would require a planet-destroying cannon, and that a new core had to be entered manually within three minutes.
• Eriol told Huo Lin she could become the Book of the Night Sky’s new master by entering the replacement core, and Huo Lin agreed to discuss it with Hayate.
• Huo Lin returned home, found Hayate still at school preparing for the School Festival, and packed dinner to bring her.
• Huo Lin shared food with Hayate and the Cooking Club members, then learned they had chosen to hold a Book Club because most of them could not cook.
• The Cooking Club president asked what Huo Lin’s Literature Club planned, and Huo Lin said they were opening a restaurant.

Huo Lin agreed to attend Hayate’s Book Club event at the School Festival as Yusaku Kudo, while explaining that she would take possession of the Book of the Night Sky after severing its bond with Hayate. The twins prepared signed posters for the event, and Hayate offered the Cooking Club’s help with Huo Lin’s Literature Club restaurant.

• Hayate asked Huo Lin to attend the Cooking Club’s Book Club meeting as Yusaku Kudo, and Huo Lin agreed to come during the one-hour lunch break at the School Festival.
• Huo Lin told Hayate she could eliminate the Book of the Night Sky’s danger but would need to sever its bond with Hayate and make it her own Device; Hayate readily agreed.
• After Hayate finished bathing, Huo Lin showed her posters of Yusaku Kudo and Keigo Higashino that she had received from the publishers and authors.
• Huo Lin signed Yusaku Kudo posters for Hayate and the Cooking Club, adding personal messages to each.
• Hayate offered to have the Cooking Club help with the Literature Club’s restaurant, and Huo Lin accepted if they had the energy.

Huo Lin tested the custom Flight Magic Device she had made for Hayate inside a five-kilometer Barrier that kept ordinary people out and prevented damage from affecting the outside world. Hayate flew to school and learned that she had enough magical power to sustain flight, possibly at least C-Rank.

• Huo Lin gave Hayate a wristband Device that generated wings and invited her to test it.
• Huo Lin raised a Barrier around the neighborhood, and Hayate discovered she could fly with ease.
• Huo Lin explained the Barrier’s five-kilometer range and said they would appear wherever they were when it was removed.
• Hayate flew with Huo Lin to their school and learned the Device relied on the wearer’s magical power.
• Huo Lin concluded that Hayate had substantial magical power, at least enough to qualify as a C-Rank Mage.

Huo Lin and Hayate encountered Li Syaoran after he entered their Barrier, mistaking it for a Clow Card’s magic. Syaoran claimed the Clow Cards belonged to his family as relics of their ancestor, Clow Reed, leaving Huo Lin questioning his story.

• Huo Lin sensed an unfamiliar magic user entering the Barrier and told Hayate to stand back.
• Li Syaoran arrived on the rooftop with a Compass, expecting to find a Clow Card, and demanded to know who Huo Lin and Hayate were.
• Huo Lin immobilized Syaoran and asked why he had entered the Barrier; he explained that it covered his home and that he had come from Hong Kong to capture the Clow Cards.
• Syaoran said the Clow Cards were magical relics left by his ancestor, Clow Reed, and Huo Lin was surprised that he knew Clow Reed’s name.

Li Syaoran arrived in Tokyo and was overwhelmed by Huo Lin’s magical power, while Eriol and Huo Lin discussed contacting the Time-Space Administration Bureau about the dangerous Book of the Night Sky. Amano Touko continued to suspect Huo Lin was disguising herself, but chose not to reveal her secret.

• Li Syaoran returned to his room after Huo Lin’s Barrier trapped and overpowered him, then learned he would attend Tomoeda Elementary School rather than Huo Lin’s school.
• Huo Lin asked Eriol whether he had been reincarnated, and Eriol explained that he had lived multiple lives and considered Sakura his daughter in this one.
• Eriol stressed the danger posed by the Book of the Night Sky and said they should ask the Time-Space Administration Bureau to send a cruiser capable of destroying a planet.
• Huo Lin asked Eriol to contact the Bureau on her behalf because she did not have its contact information.
• Amano Touko asked about cookware for the school restaurant, then teased Huo Lin and Eriol about dating while privately deciding to keep Huo Lin’s disguise secret.

Sugisaki, Eriol, Huo Lin, and Amano prepared the Literature Club’s sushi stall for the School Festival. Huo Lin used mental magic to let Amano taste a rice ball for the first time, but Amano declined to eat more.

• Sugisaki and Eriol brought the fish they had collected from the market to the Literature Club, where Sugisaki collapsed from carrying the bags.
• Huo Lin prepared tempura for Sugisaki and Eriol while explaining that sushi and sashimi would only be served in the mornings.
• Amano arrived in a dress to work as a waitress, and Huo Lin offered her a rice ball.
• Amano smelled and tasted the rice ball, discovering that it had flavor for the first time.
• Eriol recognized Huo Lin’s mental magic in the rice ball, and Amano declined Huo Lin’s offer to make more food.

Huo Lin’s Literature Club sold out its sushi and sashimi early, while Hayate’s Cooking Club drew a crowd with signed posters and the arrival of Mr. Kudo. The visit brought far more attention than Hayate could manage, leaving a long line outside the classroom.

• Huo Lin’s Literature Club sold out its sashimi, sushi, and popular tempura before noon, then closed for the day.
• Huo Lin told Sugisaki and Eriol to use the Literature Club’s cart to bring ingredients home and prepare for the next day.
• Mizutani Shizuku refused to sell the signed posters to Mitani and the Mystery Research Club, explaining that they belonged to Yagami.
• Mitani asked Hayate whether Mr. Kudo would visit, and Hayate expressed doubt that he could come.
• Yusaku Kudo arrived in disguise at the Cooking Club’s classroom, drawing a crowd and a long line that overwhelmed Hayate’s club.

Chrono accepted a mission to meet Clow Reed and prepare to destroy the Book of Darkness with the Rainbow Light Cannon, while also investigating a magical explosion in Tokyo. Later, Huo Lin reassured Hayate that she did not regret becoming a Magical Girl and said she had found a way to resolve the Book of the Night Sky's curse.

• Admiral Lindy told Chrono that Clow Reed had requested the Rainbow Light Cannon to destroy the Book of Darkness's core, and assigned Chrono to coordinate the mission.
• Chrono accepted the assignment and learned that the Bureau had also detected unidentified magic at an abandoned-car dump in Edogawa Ward.
• Huo Lin and Hayate went to an eel restaurant after the school festival, where Hayate worried that Huo Lin had changed her life for her sake.
• Huo Lin told Hayate she preferred having magic to living as an ordinary person and said she had nearly found a way to lift the Book of the Night Sky's curse.
• Huo Lin ordered eel rice, and Hayate chose white radish curry rice instead.

Hayate and Huo Lin shared a meal, and Huo Lin reassured Hayate by showing her how a Barrier could protect them. After the Barrier incident, Chrono investigated a second theft of abandoned vehicles and suspected an intruder from another dimension.

• Hayate reflected on how much Huo Lin had supported her and said she would give Huo Lin the Book of the Night Sky if she could use it.
• Huo Lin put up a Barrier around the restaurant to show Hayate that it could protect them from nonmagical dangers.
• Huo Lin dispelled her Barrier but discovered that someone else had enclosed the area in another Barrier; the second Barrier soon disappeared without incident.
• Randy and Alec at the Time-Space Administration Bureau learned that another junkyard had been attacked and that abandoned vehicles had vanished.
• Chrono arrived in Shinjuku and heard that box trucks, construction vehicles, and a baling press had been stolen in a second incident.
• Chrono's team concluded that magic users were responsible and suspected an intruder had arrived from another dimension, but Chrono could not guess why they wanted the vehicles.

Tiriye and Iris prepared to seize the Book of Darkness to find the Eternal Crystal, which they believed could save Tiriye’s father and planet. Iris’s construction vehicles confronted Huo Lin Yagami, and she asked to borrow the book, leaving Huo Lin facing a choice under threat of force.

• Tiriye asked Iris whether the modified construction vehicles could serve as mobile shells, and Iris confirmed they were ready.
• Iris identified Huo Lin Yagami as the disguised girl carrying the Book of Darkness and told Tiriye to hold off Nanoha Takamachi and Fate Testarossa if they intervened.
• Huo Lin and Hayate were walking home when a fleet of unmanned construction vehicles advanced on them.
• Huo Lin raised a barrier to silence the police sirens and sent Hayate into the restaurant for safety.
• The vehicles surrounded Huo Lin as Iris appeared in the air and asked to borrow the Book of Darkness.

Tiriye overwhelmed Chrono, Nanoha, and Fate while demanding the Book of Darkness to save her father and planet. Chrono explained that the Bureau did not possess it and that it belonged to a great Mage from the Age of the Gods.

• Chrono arrived in Shinjuku after construction vehicles went on a rampage, while Nanoha learned of the incident and transformed with Raising Heart.
• Tiriye defeated Chrono’s ten-Mage squad, and Chrono confronted her as she fled on a modified motorcycle.
• Nanoha stopped Tiriye’s motorcycle with binding magic, and Tiriye recognized Nanoha and Fate from Iris’s files.
• Tiriye said she wanted the Book of Darkness to save her father and planet, but Chrono refused because the Bureau did not have it.
• Tiriye activated System Reversal: Accelerated Drive and defeated Chrono, Nanoha, and Fate in seconds.
• Chrono told Tiriye that the Book of Darkness was held by a great Mage from the Age of the Gods, leaving her shocked.

Huo Lin Yagami confronted Iris over the Book of Darkness and revealed overwhelming magical power by destroying Iris’s construction robots. She kept hold of the book and demanded to know why Iris wanted it, leaving Iris insisting she needed it to save people and a dying planet.

• Chrono and Admiral Lindy mistook Huo Lin Yagami for the Archmage of the Age of the Gods, while Tiriye realized Chrono meant Clow Reed and warned Iris about the danger.
• Iris attacked Huo Lin with armed construction robots and Gatling guns, but Huo Lin stopped the bullets by bending space.
• Huo Lin unleashed a barrage of Sword of Light spells and destroyed the robots in seconds.
• Iris asked who Huo Lin was, and Huo Lin identified herself as a fifth grader while holding the Book of Darkness.
• Iris said she wanted the book to save people and a dying planet, but Huo Lin accused her of lying and said the Book of the Night Sky could only bring destruction.

Iris seized Hayate to force Huo Lin to hand over the Book of the Night Sky, but touching the unsealed book unleashed its curse and created a dimensional rift. Clow Reed and Eriol arrived as monsters spread through the barrier, warning that the disaster was nearing its limit.

• Iris took Hayate hostage and demanded the Book of the Night Sky, so Huo Lin agreed to give it to her if she released Hayate.
• Iris let Hayate go, and Huo Lin tossed the book away before carrying Hayate into the sky.
• Iris touched the book, triggering its curse, which crushed her artificial body and formed a huge crater.
• The Time-Space Administration Bureau detected a dimensional rift in Shinjuku, and Admiral Lindy identified the Book of Darkness as its likely cause.
• Clow Reed and Eriol discussed the curse as Eternal Curse Night spawned monsters that threatened to break through the barrier.

The Book of Darkness erupted into Eternal Curse Night, but Huo Lin contained the monstrous curse and revealed herself as a Grand Mage from the Age of the Gods. She found Iris’s cracked Ruins Board and Tiriye recognized it as Iris’s physical core.

• Tiriye abandoned her plan to stop the Bureau Mages and rushed toward Iris, but she and Nanoha Takamachi and Fate Testarossa encountered Eternal Curse Night inside a magical barrier.
• Chrono identified the monster as the rampaging Book of Darkness and attacked it with the Roland Holy Sword’s Eternal Ice Coffin, but the curse broke free unharmed.
• Huo Lin froze Eternal Curse Night, compressed it into a singularity, and made the monster disappear, leaving the bronze Book of Darkness in her hand.
• Chrono learned that Huo Lin was a Grand Mage from the Age of the Gods and that Eriol was Clow Reed.
• Huo Lin picked up a cracked blue Ruins Board, and Tiriye recognized it as Iris’s physical core.