Chapter Summaries

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.