Recaps

Aiki's group continued through Tokyo, where Seitenshi watched their growing numbers and questioned their power. After the Holy Light Clerics rescued a dazed Tina from a group of thugs, Elsa invited her to join them, and Tina discovered that the group was made up of Cursed Children like her.

• Seitenshi questioned the Head of the Guards about Aiki's group and noticed that their numbers had increased again.
• Aiki's group reached a park, where Holy Light Clerics stopped several men from beating a lost girl.
• Elsa cleaned Tina's face, gave her holy light candy, and learned that Tina had never met her family.
• Elsa invited Tina to join her and promised to help her find happiness and a home.
• Tina accepted Elsa's hand and discovered that the Holy Light Clerics were all Cursed Children like her.

Tina joined the Holy Light Clerics’ group of Cursed Children as they left Tokyo to establish a home outside the Monoliths. Kayo revealed that the Clerics had protected the children through Tokyo’s protests, and she urged Tina to stay with them despite Tina’s dangerous mission and high Initiator ranking.

• The children welcomed Tina, who explained that she was nocturnal and took caffeine tablets to stay awake.
• Irene and Kayo told Tina that the group was leaving Tokyo because people there wanted to drive the children out or kill them.
• Kayo showed Tina the Clerics’ magic and protective Light Curtain, then recognized Tina as an Initiator.
• Tina concealed her mission and revealed that her Initiator ranking was 98, prompting Kayo to reassure her that the Clerics could protect her.
• Kayo explained that the Clerics had brought the children through Tokyo’s protests without the Self-Defense Force intervening, and invited Tina to come with them.

Kayo comforted Tina, and the Holy Light Clerics led the children beyond the Giant Stone Monolith toward their new home in the western plains. Protected by a heavily armed formation, they raced through the wilderness as the children marveled at their strength and enjoyed their newfound freedom.

• Kayo told Tina they were alike and urged her not to act against her heart, and Tina thanked her and embraced her.
• The Holy Light Clerics led the children past the Self-Defense Force and beyond the Giant Stone Monolith toward a plain in the west.
• The clerics formed a mobile carriage with Holy Light Wolves, Shields of Courage, and armored weapons, then used spells to coordinate and accelerate their movement.
• The formation charged through the wilderness, destroying Gastrea that attacked and leaving Tina and the other children amazed by their protectors' power.
• Hibana and Irene invited Tina and Kayo to play, and the girls floated together and sang Elsa's song, "Little Worms Fly."

Aiki’s team defeated a group of flying Gastrea while protecting the children on their journey. Afterward, Tina rejected her master’s assassination mission and chose to leave him behind, with Kayo supporting her.

• Aiki ordered the Holy Light Clerics to defend their position when several Aerial-Type IV Gastrea approached, and the team killed the attackers with coordinated fire and holy attacks.
• Tina reflected that the team was far stronger than she had expected, while Kayo woke and spoke with her after the battle.
• Tina received a call from her master, who demanded to know whether she had assassinated Seitenshi.
• Tina told her master that Seitenshi was alive and that she was fleeing Tokyo to find her own happiness.
• Tina’s master threatened her, but Tina challenged him to come find her before ending the call and laughing with Kayo.

The Holy Light Clerics established a protected base city on a coastal plain, and Elsa explained Holy Fruit attunement to the children. After gaining abilities, Tina, Kayo, Hibana, and Irene demonstrated their powers, ending with Irene and Hibana wrestling over a peach.

• The Holy Light Clerics reached the coastal plain, opened their subspace, and deployed robots to build a protective magic array.
• The clerics and robots established a Barrier and began constructing the base city over the following days.
• Elsa explained the side effects of Holy Fruit attunement, and the children eagerly agreed to receive the fruits.
• Tina showed Kayo her Illusion-Illusion Fruit, while Kayo described her Water-Control Fruit.
• Hibana revealed her Void Fruit, and Irene used her Wood-Wood Fruit to grow a peach tree.
• Hibana stole Irene's peach, and the two girls wrestled as Tina and Kayo watched.

Aldebaran’s Gastrea attack corroded Tokyo’s fifth Giant Stone Monolith, throwing the city into panic as Seitenshi struggled to organize a defense. She appointed Rentaro to command the Tokyo Auxiliary Guard Force, while Kikunojo Tendo urged her to forcibly reclaim the cursed children; Seitenshi instead considered the strength of the Holy Light Office’s fortified city.

• A Gastrea swarm attacked the fifth Giant Stone Monolith, and Aldebaran’s saliva corroded its varanium while the creatures killed the guards.
• A news report warned that the monolith could collapse within four days, and Tokyo’s citizens blamed Seitenshi as panic spread.
• Seitenshi announced a lottery for underground shelter places, prompting demonstrations and an exodus of wealthy citizens.
• Seitenshi appointed Rentaro commander of the Tokyo Auxiliary Guard Force, but he found that most civil officers had no Initiators.
• Kikunojo Tendo urged Seitenshi to use the Self-Defense Force to bring the cursed children back, while Seitenshi pointed out that the Holy Light Office had built a fortified city beyond Tokyo.

Seitenshi decided that Tokyo needed Captain Aiki and the Holy Light Office back, so she asked Rentaro to negotiate their return. Rentaro flew out with his teammates, while Seitenshi hoped their leadership would help the Cursed Children defend Tokyo and improve how citizens treated them.

• Kikunojo Tendo objected to the Holy Light Office's growing independence, but Seitenshi rebuked him and ordered negotiations to bring them back.
• Seitenshi confided in Rentaro about her goals for the people of the Land of Sakura and asked whether she could trust him.
• Rentaro promised to help, and Seitenshi asked him to invite Captain Aiki and his people back to defend Tokyo alongside the Cursed Children.
• Seitenshi arranged an Osprey helicopter to take Rentaro and his teammates to the Holy Light Office, warning them to prepare for airborne Gastrea.
• On the helicopter, Rentaro told Shoma, Katagiri, Enju, Rumi Okubo, and Midori Fuse about the mission and the Holy Light Office's strength.

Rentaro and his companions reached Academy City, where the Holy Light Clerics were building an advanced refuge and school for children. Rentaro met Aiki, who told him that he no longer handled the group's affairs and referred him to their Regiment Commander.

• Enju spotted Academy City by the sea, and Rentaro's group landed after receiving a warning to stay out of its airspace.
• Holy Light Clerics escorted Rentaro and his companions into the city, where they saw its advanced defenses and robots constructing buildings.
• A Holy Light Cleric explained that Academy City would shelter and educate children from around the world, and threatened divine punishment against countries that tried to stop them.
• Enju went with a Holy Light Cleric to visit her friend Irene while Rentaro, Shoma, and the others waited outside a building.
• Aiki greeted Rentaro and explained that he had taken up teaching and that Rentaro would need to speak with the Regiment Commander about government business.

Rentaro Satomi asked Naruto Uzumaki to send the Cursed Children to help defend Tokyo in exchange for the Gastrea Protection Act, but Naruto refused. He left Rentaro with two conditions for the Holy Church’s help and made clear that those who rejected them would face consequences.

• Aiki led Rentaro and his companions to meet Regiment Commander Naruto Uzumaki at the Holy Light Office’s command center.
• Rentaro explained Lady Seitenshi’s offer to have the Cursed Children defend Tokyo in return for improved treatment under the Gastrea Protection Act, but Naruto rejected it.
• Naruto argued that the children owed Tokyo’s citizens no protection while they continued to mistreat them, and demanded that the citizens kneel and apologize before the Holy Church intervened.
• Shoma accused Naruto of abandoning the many children in Tokyo who faced danger, and Naruto replied that adults had to accept responsibility for their own choices.
• Naruto demanded that infected children attend Academy City, that the Holy Church protect children from future mistreatment, and that it be allowed to punish Civil Security Officers who abused them.
• Naruto’s overwhelming pressure forced Rentaro and his companions to their knees, leaving them terrified.

Aiki rejected Rentaro’s appeal to soften the Holy Church’s demands on Tokyo, insisting the children deserved justice and warning that the Church would take them away if they were harmed. At the school, Enju showed Rentaro that she and her friends had received Holy Fruits, gaining new abilities and protection from the Gastrea Virus.

• Aiki told Rentaro that Tokyo had to apologize sincerely and accept the Church’s conditions, or the children would not save its people.
• Aiki warned Rentaro that the Church would forcibly remove the children if many were killed or wounded, then left for the school.
• Rentaro and Shoma decided to collect Enju and the others and report what had happened to Seitenshi.
• Enju showed Rentaro her white watch and demonstrated her Wind Magic by creating a miniature hurricane that tore up the ground.
• Enju explained that Elsa had led her, Midori Fuse, and Bao Liumei to attune to Holy Fruits, and that she had received the Wind-Walking Fruit from the Great Father God of Holy Light.
• Midori Fuse and Bao Liumei also emerged with Holy Fruits, which meant they no longer had to fear the Gastrea Virus eating away at them.

Enju, Midori Fuse, and Bao Liumei revealed that the Holy Fruit had given them new abilities and cured their Gastrea Virus infections, while its watches monitored and protected them. Rentaro tried to remove Enju’s watch, prompting the girls to run toward Academy City and leaving the team divided.

• Enju, Midori Fuse, and Bao Liumei demonstrated their new powers and explained their fruit abilities.
• Enju told Rentaro and the other men that the girls’ Gastrea Virus infections had been cured, and the girls wept with relief.
• Enju explained that the girls’ watches measured their abilities, could summon help, and were required for their Academy City lessons.
• Rentaro tried to take Enju’s watch, but Enju used her power to break free and ran toward Academy City.
• Bao Liumei told Rentaro that the watches also suppressed the girls’ powers, then followed Enju as Midori Fuse followed them.
• Tamaki Katagiri accepted that Bao Liumei might leave the team and considered joining her if Tokyo fell.

After Rentaro failed to secure the Cursed Children’s help, Seitenshi rallied Tokyo to defend itself while public hatred of the girls grew. Magical Girls began answering abused Initiators’ pleas, and Irene and Hina rescued one girl from her violent handler.

• Rentaro left Enju behind and returned to Tokyo with Tamaki Katagiri, then reported his mission’s failure to Seitenshi.
• Seitenshi encouraged Rentaro to keep fighting, then resolved that she had been too tolerant.
• Tokyo’s citizens rejected the Cursed Children’s conditions, prepared to defend the city, and turned their hostility toward the girls and their civil security officers.
• A rumor spread among Cursed Children that a golden-haired Magical Girl would take unhappy girls to paradise, and many Initiators disappeared after accepting the offer.
• A girl named Nia prayed for rescue while Lord Honda abused her, and Hina stabbed him with a kodachi.
• Irene stopped Hina’s attack, soothed the terrified Nia, and let her fall asleep.

Hibana, Irene, and Tina rescued a sleeping girl after killing Civil Security Officers who had mistreated Cursed Children, while Tokyo faced the disappearance of Initiators and the collapse of its Giant Stone Monolith. Rentaro and Idō Chōsei rallied the demoralized Civil Security Officers to fight as the Gastrea threat drew near.

• Hibana, Irene, and Tina left the bloody scene with a rescued girl and returned home through a black hole.
• Tina thanked Lord God for letting her bring happiness to the girls through her dreams.
• Rentaro and Shoma investigated the murders of Civil Security Officers and the mass disappearance of Cursed Children, and Shoma suspected the missing Initiators were involved.
• The Giant Stone Monolith collapsed on the fourth day of its corrosion, and Rentaro blamed the powerful wind.
• Idō Chōsei's speech failed to motivate the Civil Security Officers, who argued over the missing Initiators and Tokyo's mistreatment of Cursed Children.
• Rentaro urged the officers to fight for their families, and Idō Chōsei led them in a reluctant chant of support.

The Gastrea overwhelmed the Self-Defense Force and the Civil Security Officers, breaking through Tokyo’s defenses and plunging the city into chaos. Naruto watched the destruction from the Holy Church’s command center and refused to deploy the Holy Light Clerics, insisting that Tokyo’s people first apologize to the Cursed Children.

• The Gastrea horde, led by a massive turtlelike creature, broke through the Self-Defense Force’s defenses and overran the Second Line of Defense.
• Kisara saved Rentaro from a mantislike Gastrea and urged him to retreat; Rentaro called for Shoma and fled toward Tokyo.
• Seitenshi and the ministers watched the defenses go dark as Gastrea flooded Tokyo, where panicked citizens were slaughtered.
• Naruto told the Holy Light Cleric Captains not to intervene, saying Tokyo’s people could still receive help if they knelt and apologized to the Cursed Children.

After Tokyo’s destruction, the citizens demanded answers while Seitenshi and her ministers decided to accept the Cursed Children’s terms. Rentaro defended the government and its defenders before the grieving crowd, leaving a woman to regret her treatment of the children.

• The Holy Light Clerics accepted Shoma’s argument that children who had mistreated Cursed Children could still be guided toward a better path.
• Tokyo’s survivors gathered beneath Tokyo Tower and demanded to know why Seitenshi and the government had failed to protect them.
• Seitenshi’s ministers agreed to accept the Cursed Children’s terms, and Rentaro said the Holy Light Office could see Tokyo through satellite surveillance.
• Seitenshi apologized to the citizens, but a woman demanded to know where the Self-Defense Force and Civil Security Officers had been.
• Rentaro said the forces had fought and blamed Tokyo’s losses partly on the lack of Initiators and opposition to the Gastrea Protection Act.
• The woman regretted having followed others’ prejudice against the Cursed Children.

As Tokyo’s citizens begged the Cursed Children to return, Naruto ordered the Holy Church to show the children the video and let them decide to appear as saviors. The children learned that Tokyo had admitted its wrongdoing, thanked their teachers, and were prepared to face the city as night fell and its people waited for help.

• A Tokyo woman and other citizens knelt and begged the Cursed Children to return and save their families.
• Naruto ordered Aiki and the Holy Light Clerics to send the video to the children and support them as they went to save Tokyo.
• Elsa showed the assembled children the citizens’ pleas, and Enju, Irene, Kayo, and the others realized Tokyo was asking them for help.
• The children thanked Elsa and the other teachers for protecting and educating them.
• Elsa urged the children to appear before Tokyo as saviors, while the city’s citizens waited through the night for them to arrive.

Monsters attacked Tokyo, and Seitenshi and Rentaro faced the city’s imminent collapse as a riot broke out outside the government building. The Celestial Pearl Girls arrived, stopped the Gastrea with their new powers, and Rentaro revealed that Captain Aiki’s team belonged to a much larger, formidable organization.

• Tokyo citizens fled toward the government building as the Gastrea approached, and Seitenshi pleaded with Rentaro for help from Captain Aiki and the others.
• The crowd charged the guards, who opened fire, while the citizens outside gave up hope as the monsters drew near.
• Vines surrounded the government building, impaled and drained the first Gastrea, and formed a glowing flower that revealed the Celestial Pearl Girls.
• Irene rallied the girls, and they unleashed their abilities to slaughter the advancing Gastrea while the citizens and Seitenshi watched in shock.
• Rentaro told Seitenshi that Holy Fruit had cured the Cursed Children’s infections and granted them powers, then warned her that Captain Aiki’s team served a powerful organization led by a terrifying Regiment Commander.

Naruto’s forces defeated Aldebaran and protected the girls, while Rentaro reconciled with Enju after apologizing for his selfishness. After the battle, Naruto ordered the Holy Light Clerics Legion to protect infected children and establish centers and an academy in Tokyo.

• Rentaro recognized Alcyone’s long-range threat and rushed to reach Enju as it fired a barrage of Light Spears at the girls.
• A golden Light Curtain shielded the girls, and Rentaro apologized to Enju; she ran to him and told him she had missed him.
• Naruto told the girls to leave the battle to the adults, then killed Aldebaran with a Crescent Moon Slash.
• Naruto ordered the Holy Light Clerics Legion to coordinate with Tokyo’s government and send newly infected children to Academy City for protection.
• Naruto declared Tokyo’s citizens godforsaken and ordered the creation of a Holy Light Academy for children who had lost their parents.

Seitenshi met with Captain Aiki after the Holy Church helped save Tokyo, and Aiki demanded that Tokyo follow the Church’s orders. When Kikunojo Tendo resisted and called in the guards, Aiki ordered the Holy Light Clerics to kill anyone who fought back.

• Seitenshi and Tokyo’s officials waited for the Holy Church’s representatives, and Captain Aiki arrived with thirty Holy Light Clerics.
• Seitenshi thanked Aiki for saving Tokyo, and he said the Church would support her rule if she implemented its demands.
• Kikunojo Tendo rejected Aiki’s claim that Tokyo had to submit to the Holy Church, and Aiki ordered two clerics to teach him a lesson.
• Aiki declared Kikunojo Tendo no longer chief minister and asked Seitenshi to confirm it, but she pleaded with him not to use force.
• Kikunojo Tendo summoned armed guards, and Aiki ordered the Holy Light Clerics to leave no resisters alive.

Aiki and the Holy Light Clerics began a violent purge of officials and citizens who had opposed or harmed the Cursed Children, starting with Kikunojo Tendo and Tokyo’s ministers. The campaign spread across the Land of Sakura, leaving governments submissive to the Holy Church and the population fearful of being branded Blasphemers.

• Aiki ordered the Holy Light Clerics to kill the officials gathered with Kikunojo Tendo, then led Seitenshi out of the conference room as the executions began.
• The Holy Light Clerics killed Kikunojo Tendo and the other gathered officials, and Kikunojo died calling out to Kezako.
• The Holy Church launched aerial attacks on cities across the Land of Sakura and sent another legion of Holy Light Clerics to enforce its decrees.
• The Holy Church gathered Cursed Children and sent them to the expanded Academy City while its clerics announced the Child Protection Act.
• Citizens who protested at the children’s centers were killed, and the newly formed governments reversed their treatment of the Cursed Children and submitted to the Holy Church.

Rentaro and Seitenshi arrived at Academy City for the election of its first Student Council President, whose leadership could shape the city’s relations with the regions. They watched Enju prepare for the contest as Seitenshi reflected on the peace and changing fortunes of the Cursed Children.

• Rentaro helped Seitenshi out of their car, and they admired Academy City’s joyful students and cherry blossoms.
• Seitenshi wondered whether Enju could join the Student Council, and Rentaro named Aisha Irene, Tina Sprout, and Kayo Senju as the leading candidates for president.
• Rentaro explained that the elected president’s stance could affect whether Academy City kept Mages stationed in the regions.
• Seitenshi and Rentaro discussed reports that the Holy Church had launched ten Aerial Motherships, raising concern about its growing influence.
• At the plaza, Rentaro spotted Enju in the front row and encouraged her before the election.
• Seitenshi and Rentaro reflected on the two years of peace and the end of hatred toward the Plundered Generation.

Hibana, Kayo Senju, Tina, and Aisha Irene competed in Academy City's first student council election, each presenting her strengths and plans. Irene won and vowed to devote her life to creating a world where children would not cry.

• Hibana gave a speech promising to strengthen study supervision and help every girl become a powerful mage, drawing loud cheers from her devoted supporters.
• Kayo Senju delivered a speech focused on student service, cooperation, and fostering a positive campus culture, earning strong applause.
• Tina spoke to the girls, who praised her gentle nature and the happy dreams she created.
• Irene took the stage to overwhelming cheers, and Hibana's supporters joined the crowd in celebrating her.
• Irene won the election, then thanked the Holy Church and vowed to create a world where children would not cry.

The Holy Church used its Holy Light Clerics to force nations to accept the Cursed Child Shelter Act, while Naruto stopped a nuclear retaliation with a divine golden hand. The leaders of the world then agreed to submit to the Holy Church, and the Clerics prepared to return to Academy City with the rescued children.

• The Holy Church sent ten legions to the capitals of nations that rejected the Cursed Child Shelter Act, and the Holy Light Clerics forced President Oli of the Eagle Empire to authorize it.
• President Oli ordered nuclear weapons launched against the Clerics after they withdrew from his office.
• Naruto gathered with the Holy Light Clerics over the West Pacific Ocean as they prepared to return to Academy City with Cursed Children from around the world.
• Naruto used a golden book to summon a vast hand that caught and harmlessly crushed the incoming nuclear warheads.
• The nations' leaders watched the display and contacted Tokyo's Seitenshi to submit to the Holy Church and accept its conditions.

Li Ming sent the Holy Church to explore the world where another holy light existed, and Pope Ria led its strongest forces through a black hole passage. Ria discovered that this world's holy light shared their power's source but valued individual morality, and the expedition arrived in a vast forest inhabited by unusual creatures and beautiful, pointed-eared people.

• Li Ming decided to investigate the origins of holy light and ordered Ria to begin sending the Church's surplus forces to other worlds.
• Ria summoned the legion commanders and mobilized the Holy Church across four worlds for its expansion.
• Ria entrusted their world to Meli, then left with the Church's elite forces, including Marshal Axel and Rich.
• After entering the new world, Ria sensed its destructive aura and familiar holy light, then learned its teachings emphasized individual virtues.
• Ria's forces emerged in a vast forest with enormous creatures and a moonlit city of pointed-eared inhabitants.

The Windrunner sisters investigated a vast military incursion into Quel'Thalas's forests and mistook the Holy Light Clerics for a possible threat to the elves. Hexia introduced himself as a follower of the Holy Light and sought friendly contact, leaving the sisters wary but willing to hear his explanation.

• Ria and Axel surveyed the strange world as the Holy Light Clerics established a bridgehead and launched rockets into space.
• Sylvanas persuaded Vereesa and Alleria to investigate the strange lights in the sky despite their patrol duties.
• The Windrunner sisters watched the Holy Light Clerics subdue beasts and deploy powerful weapons and machines, then decided to report the newcomers to the Sun King.
• The Holy Light Clerics surrounded the sisters, and Hexia approached after his soldiers opened a path.
• Hexia revealed his face, identified himself as a follower of the Holy Light, and claimed they had arrived in Quel'Thalas by accident.