Recaps

Huo Lin used magic to protect Hayate, disguise herself, and begin earning money through her writing while secretly investigating strange magical events. After capturing two Clow Cards, she and Hayate were confronted by Sakura Kinomoto and Kero, who recognized Huo Lin as the one who had captured a card.

• Huo Lin suppressed the Book of the Night Sky, studied its Belkan magic, and disguised herself as a boy so she could return to school and earn money from her novel.
• Huo Lin sold Baron of the Night to Editor Nohara, received payment for its serialization, and accepted mithril and magic crystals from Uncle Graham to build a Device.
• Huo Lin captured The Mist card at a hot spring, then completed her first Device, Changing Stage, and gave Hayate a way to change clothes magically.
• Huo Lin developed Absolute Domain, a shield spell powered by her limitless mana, while the Time-Space Administration Bureau investigated her under her Yusaku Kudo identity.
• Huo Lin investigated Michiko's missing panda with Hayate and captured The Jump card after suppressing the magical Pink Rabbit at Twin Bells.
• Hayate activated The Jump card as Sakura Kinomoto and Kero arrived, and Kero identified Huo Lin as the card captor and saw through her disguise.

Huo Lin studied the Book of the Night Sky’s curse while helping Sakura with a Clow Card and preparing for the school festival. When Iris attacked to claim the book, its curse erupted into Eternal Curse Night, which Huo Lin destroyed, leaving Iris’s cracked core behind.

• Huo Lin helped Sakura recapture The Mist, then met Eriol and asked him to devise a countercurse for the Book of the Night Sky.
• Huo Lin helped Sakura and Tomoyo retrieve a Clow Card from the painting “Smile” while Phantom Thief Jeanne tried to seal it.
• Eriol explained that ending the book’s curse required destroying its core and replacing it, and Huo Lin agreed to make the book her own Device to protect Hayate.
• Huo Lin gave Hayate a winged wristband Device and discovered that Hayate had enough magical power to qualify as a C-Rank Mage.
• Huo Lin met Li Syaoran, who had come from Hong Kong to capture the Clow Cards, while the Time-Space Administration Bureau prepared a mission to destroy the book’s core.
• Iris sent unmanned construction vehicles after Huo Lin and demanded the Book of the Night Sky, then took Hayate hostage to force Huo Lin to surrender it.
• Iris released Hayate and touched the book, triggering its curse, which crushed her artificial body and unleashed Eternal Curse Night.
• Huo Lin froze Eternal Curse Night and compressed it into a singularity, then picked up Iris’s cracked blue Ruins Board as Tiriye identified it as Iris’s physical core.