This refers to the universe of Magia Record, in which a successful Doppel System is created due to Iroha Tamaki's survival.[1]
At first glance it may seem identical to the original universe, but there are enough differences to consider it as a separate universe, mainly with respect to historical events. Though it is a universe where witches still exist, it also lies within reach of the Law of Cycles, marking it as an anomaly.
Due to the amount of content in Magia Record, the timeline is structured by a list of events and stories in chronological order. For more details on specifics, check out the pages for the individual events listed below. For more information, see Magia Record Timeline.
Other than what's noted here, it can be assumed that the Magia Record Universe is the same as the original universe, and events which are unimportant to this universe will not be mentioned, even if there's an understanding that they likely occurred.
The history of this universe has been affected by retroactive time travel from the present. The narrative's text consistently treats the girls' actions as changing history, with characters like Nemu explicitly warning against causing temporal paradoxes and stating that the universe will 'auto-correct' minor discrepancies. However, the ultimate outcomes of these events still align with known historical records. This dichotomy between the characters' perception of altering history and the resilience of the timeline's major events has led to the theory that the time travel actually formed a stable loop, meaning the girls' interventions were always a part of history. Thus, a definitively separate 'original' timeline is not explicitly confirmed in the main continuity and, as the hypothetical original history isn't seen, the timeline will be treated as if it was meant to be a closed loop, and thus always part of the timeline.
In the absence of contradictory context clues, the release date was used for their placement.
While Yachiyo and Infinite Iroha were caught by 10-43 in the present, Iroha uses her Mirrors powers to send Yachiyo to the past so she could collect the hope of deceased Magical Girls to use against the Witch with her own personal magic of inheriting hope.[2]
A nomad girl makes a contract with Kyubey for a fertile paradise for her family's prosperity. Through decades, and possibly hundreds of years, she would be seen as a patroness figure and have many children.[2]
As the girl is about to succumb to despair, Yachiyo travels back to the Magical Girls of the past as a messenger of the future, starting with this same girl, presumably anywhere around 3000 BCE to the 74th millennium BCE. She turns into the Witch 10-43 after her clan is attacked by a group that split off from her own many decades ago. 10-43 spreads her Familiars and offshoots throughout the planet for thousands of years.[2]
Yachiyo is entrusted hope by one person per year all the way from that girl. She asks them to entrust her hope to her, with the promise that someday that hope will become a miracle that will free the future.[2]
Yachiyo tells them that in the far future, when a curse transcending time and space overtakes the world, she will reach out to Magical Girls and bring them the hope of those who were lost to history. She tells them that when the time comes they will remember her and she will carry their hope into the future. She introduces herself as an emissary of the future who will pave the way to the future for Magical Girls, and calls herself the Historia of the future.[2]
In time, she becomes known as a legend among Magical Girls across the entire globe.[2]
1st Century BCE
This section details the story of Ebony, a member of the Met Clan who was raised to serve the Pharaoh of Egypt. She makes a contract to ensure Cleopatra VII's legacy, using her powers to manipulate politics and public opinion until the end of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
c. 45 BCE: Ebony is born to the Met Clan, a clan dedicated to serving the pharaoh by raising Magical Girl candidates to Kyubey, whom they called the White Beast God.[3]
51 BCE: Cleopatra VII Philopator becomes Pharaoh of Egypt and uses girls from the Met Clan to make contracts for her benefit. The clan used a "Dreaming Drug" to ensure the loyalty of their soldiers and manipulated the girls into serving the throne.[3]
One of these candidates makes a wish for Cleopatra's beauty, but this magic did need to be reapplied, otherwise its effects would wear off.[3]
June, 31 BCE: Ebony makes a contract with Kyubey for Cleopatra to have enough glory to carve her name in history. She becomes Cleopatra's lady-in-waiting, and later discovers her magic is bewitching others with the smoke from her censer. Cleopatra makes use of this power to keep opinions of herself high among citizens.[4]
This account details the events as experienced by members of the Tokime Tribe, who go back to the past to collect the concept of Iroha, which had become scattered across time.
July, 31 BCE: With one of Nemu Hiiragi's Guide Book Uwasa, Shizuka Tokime, Chiharu Hiroe, Sunao Toki, Chika Aoba, Ryoko Natsu and Asahi Miura time travel from present-day Kamihama to Ancient Egypt during Cleopatra VII's reign to investigate her potential connection to Magical Girls and gather Infinite Iroha's concept. In Alexandria, they detect a mysterious aura around Cleopatra and decide to infiltrate her palace, where they're stopped by Ebony. Shizuka convinces her to temporarily cease hostilities and they leave. While gathering information on the Met Clan, the group falls into a trap set by Cleopatra’s forces and a captured soldier reveals that the Met Clan uses a "Dreaming Drug" to manipulate their soldiers. As tensions intensify between Rome and Egypt, they decide to gather information outside of Alexandria as well.[3]
August 1st, 30 BCE: Antonius attempts suicide after receiving false news of Cleopatra's death, delivered by Ebony. Following his death, the Tokime girls exploit the weakened palace security and Nemu identifies Ebony as the key Magical Girl tied to their mission. She immobilizes them using her powers and with assistance from Asahi, who'd been hiding until now, they neutralize Ebony. They explain that the Met Clan recruits young girls to contract with Kyubey, granting them powers to protect Egypt’s rulers. Shizuka shares her own experiences as an exploited Magical Girl and persuades Ebony to break free from her role in the clan. After settling matters with Cleopatra, Ebony goes to the Met Clan Elder to receive freedom. He agrees, but tasks her with delivering a final message to the queen.[3]
August 29th, 30 BCE: As Cleopatra's been imprisoned, the group infiltrates the guarded facility where she's kept. They find her face deteriorating due to the fading effects of magic granted by a past sacrificed girl. An assassin from the Met Clan, disguised as a soldier, kills Cleopatra by shooting darts into her neck. Ebony almost transforms into a Witch but the other girls save her. After Nemu confirms that history remains intact due to the wound resembling a snake bite, they set off to confront the Elder. He reveals he orchestrated Cleopatra’s death to turn Ebony into a witch to use against Rome. When they find out the Elder is under a Witch's influence, he commits suicide and they defeat the Witch, 10-1. With the Soul Dome now filled with Iroha's concept, they bid farewell to Ebony and encourage her to embrace her newfound independence before returning to their own time.[3]
While real-life Cleopatra is recorded to have died around August 10, The Mirage of Alexandria shows her dying on August 29, though this may have been altered from the original events due to the actions of the Tokime Tribe in Puella Historia.
1st Century CE
This section is split into History A, where Pompeii is destroyed and History B, created by Junia. After making a contract with Kyubey in 79 CE, Junia is sent back three years as a Magical Girl and takes the identity of Amaryllis. Using her knowledge of the future and her magical abilities, she works to convince the city of the coming disaster and orchestrate a mass evacuation.
66 AD: Two twin girls are born to a notable house in Pompeii, likely named "Cornelia Minor," or Cornelia the Younger, and "Cornelia Major," or Cornelia the Older.[5]
c. 71 CE: When she was six years old, Cornelia the Younger (personal name unknown) is taken in by her father's friend and takes the surname Junia.[5]
History A
Early 77 CE: A destructive rainstorm interrupts a play starring the popular actor, Master Paris.[5]
The influential families of Pompeii, Cornelia’s, Junia’s, and Marius’, hold a banquet to discuss potential alliances and marriages.[5]
Summer, 77 CE: A chariot race occurs, which Hilarus the Left-Handed wins. Junia and Marius watch the race together.[5]
Summer, 78 CE: After the frequent earthquakes of recent, the city council focuses on rebuilding. Marius announces his marriage to Junia has been approved. It is likely that around this time, Junia meets a Vestal Maiden of Light (the local term for a Magical Girl at the time) and Kyubey, or Master Cubius, who prompts her to become a Magical Girl. Due to her love for Marius, she refuses.[5]
October, 79 CE: Frequent earthquakes and dried water supplies occur, such as the Aqua Augusta.[5]
October 24th, 79 CE: Vesuvius erupts, killing most of the population around Pompeii, including Emperor Vespasian and Plinius in Stabiae without organizing a rescue effort. Pompeii is destroyed, and the Cornelia and Maria families die. Junia makes a contract with Kyubey to be reborn as a different person in the past, and thus creates History B.[5]
History B
76 CE: Junia arrives back three years in time from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. She tests out her power and poses as her new persona, Amaryllis. She tells the other servants that she's Lady Junia's new handmaiden, which the others believe without question, as her power not only allows her to change her appearance, but also makes others not question inconsistencies based on her identity. She befriends Cornelia as Amaryllis and tells her that she is from Greece and that she shares a tutor with Junia.[5]
Early 77 CE: Amaryllis convinces Cornelia to help her by predicting a very destructive rainstorm in the midst of a play starring a popular actor, Master Paris.[5]
This account details the events as experienced by members of the Neo-Magius, who go back to the past to collect the concept of Iroha, which had become scattered across time.
Time Paradox Zone, 79 CE:Himena Aika, Shigure Miyabi, Hagumu Azumi, San Kagura, Miyuri Yukari and Mitsune Miwa travel to Pompeii in 79 CE with one of Nemu's Rumor Books. Nemu tells them about Amaryllis, a Magical Girl who altered history. They then find themselves in a space where time and reality are unstable, and encounter a copy of 10-7. Nemu explains that their interference in an already altered timeline (79 CE) may have caused a time paradox, and that they are in a "Time Paradox Zone," where history is being rewritten. San, Hagumu and Mitsune are caught up in the paradox and separated from the rest of the group. Due to having Nemu's book, Himena is attuned to this time period, so she dreams of Junia and Cornelia’s childhood, where their father announces one will marry Marius.[5]
Early 77 CE: Himena, Shigure, Miyuri and Nemu wake up in Pompeii, two years before the eruption. Cornelia helps them hide and introduces them to Amaryllis, the Magical Girl who has been warning people about the eruption. Nemu explains two histories: History A, where Pompeii is destroyed, and History B, where Amaryllis succeeded and most people evacuated. Amaryllis’ plan involves Cornelia marrying Marius to gain political influence. The group, now posing as Cornelia’s handmaidens, prepares to attend a banquet at Marius’ villa. Amaryllis explains that the banquet is a critical event where the three influential families, Cornelia’s, Junia’s, and Marius’, will discuss future alliances, including potential marriages. the group saves Cornelia from a Witch, who is torn between her feelings for Marius and her sister Junia’s happiness. They later meet Junia, who is kind and thoughtful, before they're taken away by a paradox.[5]
Summer, 77 CE: They reappear later in the year, where Amaryllis reveals to them that Magical Girls in the time period in Ancient Rome were known as Vestal Maidens of Light, which was likely the source of Rome's long-lasting success. Amaryllis and Cornelia are working to spread a prophecy about the impending eruption of Mount Vesuvius through the Cult of Isis, a powerful religious group in Pompeii.[5]
Amaryllis uses her Metamorphosis magic to disguise herself as a member and deliver the prophecy, claiming it comes from divine sources. They plan to use the upcoming chariot race as proof of their prophetic knowledge, predicting Hilarus the Left-Handed will win. The chariot race coincides with Cornelia’s birthday, and Amaryllis has arranged for Cornelia and Marius to watch the race together, while Junia will celebrate separately. The group encounters a Barrier again, this time only a Familiar.[5]
Amaryllis and Cornelia successfully gain the cooperation of the Cult of Isis by proving the accuracy of their prophecy about Hilarus’ victory in the chariot race. The priestess of Isis is convinced by the detailed predictions Amaryllis provides, including future events like the death of Emperor Vespasian and the drying up of the Aqua Augusta. The Cult of Isis agrees to prepare its followers for the impending disaster, so Amaryllis and Cornelia plan to extend their efforts to other temples, including those dedicated to Venus and Apollo. They also prepare to leverage Cornelia’s connections, such as attending a tutelage ceremony for the popular actor Paris, to further spread their message. However, the timeline remains unstable, and they suspect that another time paradox event is imminent. The group from Kamihama are once more transported to another point in time, as had happened before when key conditions were met.[5]
Summer, 78 CE: Amaryllis and Cornelia are interrupted from playing a game by Himena, Miyuri, and Shigure's arrival after the year-long absence. They discuss the current situation in Pompeii, where the rumors of Mount Vesuvius’ impending eruption have caused some residents and influential figures, including Cornelia’s father, to consider relocating. However, the city council remains divided, with many still favoring reconstruction over evacuation. They also consider seeking the help of Admiral Plinius, a renowned scholar and military leader, to advocate for evacuation.[5]
78 CE: Amaryllis plays Ludus with Cornelia and encourages her to watch a particular chariot race with Marius. During a stroll in Pompeii, Miyuri loses her smartphone, which Cornelia recalls seeing earlier in a storage room. Cornelia's father had taken it to a jeweler for appraisal, where Gaius, a relative of Pliny the Elder, showed interest in purchasing it. Concerned about potential historical paradoxes, the group hurries to retrieve it and Cornelia devises a plan to ask her father to cancel the sale. She attends the chariot race with Marius, while the others search for Gaius. After the match, Amaryllis impersonates Gaius to secure the smartphone, while Himena and others prevent the real Gaius from entering. As the plan unfolds, a Labyrinth emerges near the Temple of Venus. Marius unexpectedly arrives on horseback to rescue Cornelia and her father from the supposed ghostly disturbances near the temple. Amaryllis successfully gets the phone while the others detain the real Gaius, who later wakes up confused after the Witch's been defeated. The next day, Cornelia prepares for a picnic with Marius and Junia, and Amaryllis returns to playing Ludus with her.[6]
The group travels to Misenum to meet Plinius. Himena suggests using her Synthesis magic, as she's now learned to use her power to replicate powers without draining them from others, to replicate Amaryllis’ abilities, allowing others to assist in the plan. They successfully intercept Plinius near the coast, where Cornelia and Amaryllis explain the impending eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Despite revealing future events, including the death of Emperor Vespasian and Plinius’ own fate during the eruption, he refuses to support their cause. The group returns to Cornelia’s villa, where Nemu expresses concern that revealing too much, such as Plinius’ death, may have already disrupted the timeline. The next day, a messenger arrives with a surprising request from Consul Titus, the eldest son of Vespasian and the future emperor, who wishes to meet Cornelia in private.[5]
Two days later, Cornelia and Amaryllis meet with Titus, who had been informed of their prophecy and the supposed death of the current emperor by Plinius. He cannot order a mass evacuation without proof, but promises to help evacuate once the eruption begins and to facilitate aid for survivors in Neapolis. After the meeting, Cornelia, Marius, and Junia head to a picnic where Marius announces that his father has approved his engagement to Cornelia. They enjoy a peaceful moment together while Himena, Miyuri, Shigure, and Nemu defeat an offshoot of the original 10-7 Witch and then observe the picnic. Nemu explains that the Witch they first encountered in 77 CE has been actively interfering with history by creating powerful offshoots and to restore the correct timeline of History B, they must defeat the original Witch. That night, Himena has a dream where Amaryllis laments not becoming a Vestal Maiden of Light during the original Pompeii's destruction.[5]
October, 79 CE: Frequent earthquakes and dried water supplies confirm the prophecy. Many residents, influenced by the efforts of Cornelia and Marius' families have already evacuated, but some still remain. The Cult of Isis provides additional ships to aid in the evacuation, and Marius frees charioteers trapped in the barracks, who then help guide people to safety.[5]
October 24th, 79 CE: The eruption of Vesuvius begins and Cornelia, Marius, and their families coordinate the evacuation to the shore, where ships await. However, a large group of residents, possessed by a Witch, move toward danger. Himena, Miyuri, Shigure, and Nemu confront the 10-7 Witch while Amaryllis and Cornelia focus on saving lives. As the situation seems dire, the Roman navy, led by Admiral Plinius, arrives with a massive fleet to assist in the evacuation.[5]
In Stabiae, Plinius ensures his fleet rescues as many as possible and instructs his subordinates to record his death as a brave act. To ensure history remains intact, he dies in the eruption.[5]
With the arrival of San, Hagumu, and Mitsune, Himena, Shigure and Miyuri manage to defeat the Witch. They realize that while they couldn’t save everyone, they succeeded in changing the future and ensuring that many lives were saved. As the eruption of Mount Vesuvius reaches its peak, the remaining residents of Pompeii are evacuated by ship. Cornelia and Marius look forward to rebuilding their lives in Neapolis, when they notice Amaryllis and Junia missing. Amaryllis reflects on her vow to have lived the rest of her life in atonement, dedicating herself to the peace of Rome and honoring the memories of those she couldn’t save. As Junia, she stays in the Pompeii and wears the bracelet given to her by Marius as a reminder of her past and the love she once had. With the timeline restored, the others return to the future in Kamihama.[5]
3rd Century CE
This section centers around Toyo, the secret daughter of Queen Himiko who is then chosen as a candidate to succeed her. As war escalates and her health declines, Toyo makes a contract with Kyubey, which allows her to ascend as the new Queen of Yamatai following her mother's death.
235 CE:Toyo is born to Himiko, the Queen of Yamatai, and to the king of a rival nation, Kuna. She is sent to grow up with her grandparents without knowledge of her parents. [7]
Due to suffering from a disease, likely a form of epilepsy, she experiences seizures and becomes feared by her village as the "child of a Cursed God." Despite admiring Himiko and practicing in Spirit Arts, the villagers believe her power is cursed and that she will bring calamity.[7]
A candidate successor of Himiko's becomes an Magical Girl and reveals her wish to Himiko. After she becomes a Witch, she brings great disaster and causes many deaths.[7]
This account details the events as experienced by Momoko Togame, Rena Minami and Kaede Akino, who go back to the past to collect the concept of Iroha, which had become scattered across time.
c. 247 CE: A messenger confirms Toyo has been chosen as a candidate to succeed Queen Himiko of Yamatai. Excited to meet the queen she admires, Toyo sets out and befriends Rena, Momoko, and Kaede, unaware they are from the future. Their kind treatment deeply moves Toyo, who is used to having a reputation as a cursed child. They are confronted by soldiers from the rival nation of Kuna, who mistake Rena for Toyo because of a book they believe is a gift from the Wei Dynasty. After a brief skirmish, the soldiers retreat with the book, which is actually Nemu, but not before she identifies Toyo as the Magical Girl central to their mission. Rena accidentally reveals they are from the future, but the people of the era interpret the word as them being from a distant, advanced country.[7]
Toyo's group arrives in Yamatai, but Himiko rejects her, accusing Himiko's younger brother of using Toyo as a political pawn. After Rena defends Toyo, the group is forced to leave. Himiko's brother later explains that previous shrine maiden candidates were plagued by a curse, leading to possession and a sacrificial death, however he dismisses the idea that Toyo is cursed, suggesting Himiko's rejection stems from fear, and vows to make Toyo the successor. Feeling lost, Toyo is approached by a Kuna soldier who reveals the truth: Toyo is the child of Himiko and the King of Kuna, not a cursed being. Shocked, Toyo questions why this was hidden from her.[7]
To prove herself, Toyo decides to help a drought-stricken village. Despite initial distrust, she and her friends work to build a canal to prevent future flooding. The villagers, seeing their efforts, gradually accept Toyo and join the work. When Himiko arrives to assess the project, she acknowledges Toyo's efforts and finally accepts her as a successor candidate. However, Toyo collapses from exhaustion and her illness. In a tender moment, Himiko comforts her, revealing herself as Toyo's mother. Toyo expresses her love, and the two share a heartfelt connection before Toyo falls asleep. She later wakes to find herself completely paralyzed, unable to move or call for help. She tries to reach the sunlight to be found, but is unsuccessful.[7]
Toyo is publicly introduced as Himiko's successor candidate to the villages under Toyo. The villagers are initially skeptical, believing her to be the child of a cursed god, but Himiko defends her, claiming Toyo's abilities are a divine blessing. To help bridge the gap between Toyo and Himiko, Momoko, Rena, and Kaede suggest Toyo give her a gift, eventually settling on a dog, as pets are trendy among nobles. Using her Spirit Arts knowledge, Toyo finds a strange dog she names "Slurpy," despite the others doubting its species. Himiko refuses him, deeming the mysterious creature too dangerous. However, Toyo grows attached and, despite the villagers' fear, pleads with Himiko to let her keep it, promising full responsibility. With support from her friends, Himiko reluctantly agrees.[8]
The two quickly become close and though Slurpy's behavior is chaotic, he does end up somewhat helping Toyo in her duties. Toyo soon overworks herself, and as her health deteriorates, she struggles to move or perform daily tasks. Despite seeing Slurpy's helpfulness, Himiko decides that Slurpy must be sent away, believing that dogs carry a curse that could harm Toyo. Toyo reluctantly agrees to part with Slurpy, believing it's for his own good as he would be happier with a stronger owner. Toyo and Slurpy share one last playful run together, though Toyo's condition makes it difficult for her to keep up, after which the two part ways.[8]
Crops and livestock across Yamatai mysteriously wither, leading villagers to believe it’s a curse. Himiko’s younger brother reveals that Kuna has been pressuring Yamatai to make Toyo the successor to avoid war. Himiko uncovers her brother’s plot to manipulate Toyo and use her as a political pawn, but she refuses to comply, deciding instead to resume war with Kuna despite the risks. Toyo’s health deteriorates, and she experiences episodes of paralysis. Himiko, realizing she cannot protect Toyo from her illness or the political turmoil, pleads with Rena and Kaede to take Toyo to the future, where she might be cured, with the complete understanding of what the word means through context clues. Himiko declares war on Kuna, aiming to protect Yamatai and Toyo from Kuna’s schemes.[7]
As the war begins, Yamatai struggles against Kuna and Himiko has come into possession of Nemu's book through the villages' trades. Momoko confronts Himiko, and urges her to explain her actions to Toyo, who remains unaware of the war's true reasons. She then reveals to Momoko that she is also gravely ill, coughing up blood and losing her vision.[7]
Meanwhile, despite her failing health, Toyo is determined to protect her village and the canal they built and Rena and Kaede arrive with a palanquin they built to help her move, supporting her decision to go to the village. When they arrive, they find the village under attack by Kuna soldiers. They deliver Toyo to Himiko, and Rena fights the soldiers while Kaede evacuates the villagers. Kyubey then approaches Toyo, offering her a contract to become a Magical Girl. Despite Himiko's warnings about the same fate that befell the previous shrine maiden, Toyo wishes to become a great leader like her mother. She transforms, gaining the strength to surpass her disease.[7]
She joins the fight and helps Rena, Kaede, and Momoko defeat the witch responsible for the attack. In the aftermath, Himiko passes away, leaving Toyo as her successor. Though grieving, Toyo vows to carry on her mother's legacy and lead Yamatai to prosperity, assuring her people she will continue to fight for their future. With her power of summoning and what she's learned, she's certain she will be able to live up to her mother's legacy and prosper. With their mission to collect Iroha's concept complete, Momoko, Rena, and Kaede bid farewell to Toyo and leave the time period.[7]
During one of the following nights, a servant of Himiko leads Toyo to a water supply, which Himiko had rigged with her knowledge of Spirit Arts to cause a display of fireflies. Toyo breaks down in tears, expressing her longing for her mother and her determination to live up to her legacy.[7]
A long time afterwards, during summer, Toyo hears a familiar bark and runs to see Slurpy again. Without using her power of summoning, the two reunite together again.[8]
11th Century CE
This section details Olga and Gunhild, two sisters who form a warrior band which brings the end of the Viking Era.
Olga and her younger sister, Gunhild are born as daughters of Arne, a renowned warrior chief. One day, their settlement is attacked, and their father and family are killed. Olga and Gunhild are captured and enslaved, brought to Isvik as thralls. To escape their harsh conditions, they share stories, particularly Norse myths and legends.[9]
Olga and Gunhild support each other through their hardships while working. Olga often shares stories of Norse gods and dreams of a better future, even creating a world called "Olganheim" in her imagination. They endure daily mistreatment, particularly from a warrior who harbors a grudge against their father, but Olga dreams of sailing the world as a great trader, finding rare treasures, and sharing adventures with Gunhild. An opportunity arises, and her sister suggests escaping, but Olga refuses due to fearing the consequences if they are caught.[10]
They notice the village is unusually quiet as the men are away pillaging. Suddenly, they spot a wolf entering the village and Olga tries to protect Gunhild by pushing her into a shed while distracting the wolf herself. Gunhild, remembering a lesson from their father’s friend, suggests using loud noises to scare the wolf away. Together, they successfully drive the wolf off and Gunhild scolds Olga for risking her life by staying outside to distract the wolf. Olga apologizes and promises to consult Gunhild before doing anything dangerous in the future. She then praises Gunhild for her quick thinking and resourcefulness.[10]
A while after they scared the wolf, they hear a noise outside and suspect it might have returned. They investigate the noise and spot a stranger sneaking around the village. Gunhild suggests he might be a thief or a scout for an enemy group. When he notices them, Olga suggests using the same tactic they used on the wolf, and together, they scream and attract the attention of the village warriors, who chase the intruder away.[10]
One night, Olga claims to have seen a Fylgja, a spirit in the form of a white beast. Gunhild initially dismisses it but later encounters Kyubey, who offers her the chance to become a magical girl in exchange for a wish. Gunhild, though suspicious of Kyubey's intentions, wishes to form a warrior band with Olga as its leader.[11]
This account details the events as experienced by members of Promised Blood, who go back to the past to collect the concept of Iroha, which had become scattered across time.
Olga and Gunhild meet Yuna Kureha, Juri Oba, Ao Kasane, and Hikaru Kirari who traveled from the present and claim to be merchants. Isvik is suddenly attacked by raiders, and an elderly warrior, Ebbe, recognizes Olga and Gunhild as the daughters of Arne, whom he once owed his life to. He reveals that he had vowed to repay Arne and now Ebbe declares his loyalty to the sisters and offers his warrior band, the Warriors of the Bear Claw, to serve under their command. The two become the leaders of the warrior band, renaming it the "Warriors of the Sisterhood." The warriors successfully ambush and defeat Isvik's returning warriors, securing control of the settlement. They rename it "Ithvollr" and begin to rebuild and expand their influence.[9]
Olga sees the Fylgja, a guardian spirit in the form of a white beast, again and chases after it, hoping for guidance. However, she is attacked by one of her own warriors, who resents her leadership. Fleeing the attack, Olga finds herself in a Labyrinth, which she believes to be Helheim, the land of the dead in Norse mythology. Just as she is about to be overwhelmed by Familiars, Gunhild rescues her. Gunhild reveals to Olga that she became a Magical Girl after encountering Kyubey, the mysterious creature Olga mistook for a Fylgja. Gunhild explains that she made a contract with Kyubey, wishing to form a warrior band led by Olga to help achieve her sister's dreams. She admits that she didn’t want Olga to become a Magical Girl because of the dangerous and endless cycle of fighting Witches and consuming Grief Seeds to survive. Olga insists on becoming a Magical Girl to share the burden, however, Gunhild vehemently opposes this, even killing Kyubey to prevent Olga from making a contract. Gunhild compares the life of a Magical Girl to the eternal battles in Valhalla, and that her sacrifices will earn her a place there after death.[9]
Promised Blood debate whether to intervene, and Nemu explains that the Viking era, including warrior bands like Olga and Gunhild’s, will soon come to an end with the Battle of Stamford Bridge. They resolve to continue watching without interfering, despite their feelings about the sisters.[9]
Olga and Gunhild, along with their warrior band, prepare to join King Harald's campaign to conquer England.[9]
September 20th, 1066: The sisters and their warriors participate in the Battle of Fulford, where Harald's army wins the battle, and Gunhild's abilities earn her praise from Harald himself. Olga is attacked by a Witch and narrowly escapes with the help of Yuna and her companions, who intervene discreetly to protect her without revealing their identities. Harald's army continues to advance, and the sisters prepare for the next phase of the campaign.[9]
September 25th, 1066: Harald's army is caught off guard by King Harold II's forces at Stamford Bridge. Gunhild, using her Magical Girl powers, sustains severe injuries but continues to fight, shocking Harald and his men with her unnatural resilience. Harald, terrified by Gunhild's seemingly cursed abilities, accuses her of being the source of their misfortune and orders his men to kill her. Gunhild, enraged by Harald's betrayal, turns on him, but her Soul Gem darkens quickly and she transforms into a Witch.
Olga is devastated, but Yuna's team intervene, pulling Olga away from the chaos. They explain that Gunhild has become a Witch, and Olga is left to grapple with the outcome of her sister's sacrifices. Olga makes a contract with Kyubey, wishing for the power to send Gunhild to Valhalla. She transforms into a Magical Girl and eventually defeats Gunhild's Witch. Promised Blood reflects on the events, realizing that Olga was the Magical Girl Iroha had been observing. Nemu reveals that she purposefully withheld some information to prevent interference in the sisters' fate. Having completed their mission, prepares to return to their own time, confident that Olga will persevere and calling her "Olga the Dreamer."[9]
13th Century CE
This section details the story of Heruka and Dolma, two girls training to become guardian deities known as Rakshasi at a remote nunnery in Tibet. To ensure Dolma's safety, Heruka takes the role of a vengeful Rakshasi against the Mongol Empire.
As children, Heruka and Dolma are caught in a landslide. Heruka manages to save Dolma and the people in her village view her as a savior Rakshasi because of it.[12]
Heruka and Dolma flee their hometown after a Mongolian attack and eventually meet the Lama, who brought them to a nunnery. The Lama believed Heruka was capable of performing miracles and intended to train her to become a Rakshasi, a guardian deity. However, Heruka felt defeated after witnessing the destruction of her hometown and being unable to save it. Despite her reluctance, she decided to stay at the nunnery to ensure Dolma’s safety, even though she had no desire to become a Rakshasi. The Lama introduced them to other junior nuns training to become Rakshasi, and Heruka resigned herself to skeptically following the nunnery’s customs.[12]
After some time at the nunnery, Dolma surprised Heruka by declaring her intention to become a Rakshasi. While Dolma excelled in her training and gained admiration, Heruka herself struggled and felt disconnected from the hatred that motivated the others and fell behind in her studies. Heruka confessed to the Lama that she did not hate the Mongolian army and simply wished for a happy, peaceful life, however, she realized her one constant desire was to protect Dolma. Fearing the burden and dark path this role would place on her friend, Heruka resolved to become the Rakshasi herself to spare Dolma, even if it meant sacrificing her own peaceful ideals.[13]
Dolma grows impatient with the Lama’s delay in holding the ritual with Lord Jātaka, leading to a rebellion and to the junior nuns taking over the nunnery as their very own "Shambhala." When the northern nunnery is destroyed, the survivors seek refuge, and the Lama decides to evacuate, canceling the ritual and further angering Dolma. As Mongolian soldiers approach, Heruka plans to surrender to minimize casualties, but Dolma charges into battle. Heruka intervenes with a smoke bomb, forcing the Mongols to retreat, but despite the victory, Heruka knows the Mongols will return, and the Lama and other adults leave the nunnery.[13]
This account details the events as experienced by members of the Folklore of Zero, who go back to the past to collect the concept of Iroha, which had become scattered across time.
c. 1240 CE:Lavi Himuro, Alexandra Kurusu, and Urara Yume arrive in 13th-century Tibet on a mission to find the "Rakshasi," a figure prophesied to end the war between Tibet and Mongolia. They discover a nunnery that is secretly training young girls to become Rakshasi and the nunnery's leader, Dolma, reveals they have even exiled the village adults who tried to stop the ritual. The team decides to split up.[12]
Lavi infiltrates the nunnery and learns the "Rakshasi" is a Magical Girl, chosen through a contract with a mysterious entity the nuns call "Lord Jātaka," who is in fact Kyubey. Lavi and Nemu deduce that a junior nun named Heruka is the true historical Rakshasi and decide not to interfere with her fate.[12]
Meanwhile, Alexandra and Urara pose as performers to get close to the Mongol army. They are captured by the Mongol leader, Dolo'adai, who plans to exploit their unusual abilities.[12]
At the nunnery, a captured Mongol soldier reveals a critical piece of information during an interrogation by Heruka, who erself speaks Mongolian. He reveals that the Mongols believe they were attacked first by the Rakshasi, which justified their invasion.[12]
Lavi and Heruka manage to reunite with Alexandra and Urara. The group pieces together that historical records are wrong and that the nunnery's role has been erased, with a Witch likely manipulating the events. To correct history, Alexandra and Urara agree to remain as spies with the Mongols, while Lavi and Heruka return to the nunnery to prepare for the coming attack.[12]
The Mongols discover a hidden entrance to the town. Alexandra and Urara learn of the plan for a surprise attack and send a warning. Heruka deduces the attack will be a night raid, not a dawn assault, and prepares a counter-ambush. Although initially successful, the nunnery's defenders are outmaneuvered by a Mongol feint, and the town is set on fire.[12]
Lavi stays behind to cover their retreat and, believing her actions led to the destruction, Heruka makes a contract with Kyubey for everyone to forget the Rakshasi ever existed, believing that erasing this symbol of conflict will end the war.[12]
The Mongols, with no memory of a "Rakshasi" to fight, withdraw, leading to a ceasefire. The legend is erased from even the memories of the time-traveling Folklore of Zero.[12]
In the new, peaceful time, Heruka spreads the ashes of her loved ones, symbolizing their return to the earth, and embraces her role as a Rakshasi. After the nunnery is restored, Dolma decides to leave and join the Order of the White Hill to seek support for the nunnery. She and Heruka share a heartfelt farewell, with Heruka giving Dolma a manuscript to help her learn Mongolian.[12]
Heruka, now seen as a savior by her followers, confronts Mongolian soldiers. Despite being shot with arrows, she remains unharmed, which the soldiers interpret as a miracle. Many Mongols abandon their weapons and convert to her faith, believing she is an incarnation of the Buddha as her magic pacifies people's hearts. Heruka’s influence grows, and she continues to spread her teachings, aiming to bring peace and Shambhala to the world. Meanwhile, the Mongolian commander, Dolo'adai, is ordered to destroy Heruka’s followers, but his soldiers are reluctant, fearing divine punishment.[12]
Lavi, Alexandra, and Urara observe Heruka’s growing influence and success in stopping the war. Dolma, now part of the Order of the White Hill, successfully negotiates support for the nunnery from the temple’s head priest. Lavi, Nemu, and Urara are studying a palm-leaf manuscript about Tibet’s history, which mentions the Rakshasi. They discuss the possibility of it being a mythological account of Tibet’s founding, as they've forgotten about the Rakshasi due to Heruka's wish. Meanwhile, Heruka arrives and informs them that the Mongolian Army has attacked their village and others, resuming their invasion. Survivors beg for vengeance against the Mongols and a wounded Mongolian soldier reveals that the general has allied with the Rakshasi, and Heruka comforts him as he dies.[12]
Later, Deki, another girl at the nunnery, informs Heruka that Dolma has been caught in the fighting as a mediator between Heruka and the Order of the White Hill, who seek peace with the Mongols. Returning to her village, she finds it destroyed by the Mongols and the villagers, who revere Heruka, refuse to accept peace with the Mongols. Dolma is also attacked by Mongolian soldiers but escapes and reunites with Heruka.[12]
Heruka meets with former Lamas and nunnery priests, and proposes a decisive battle against the Mongols and enlists their help. Dolma convinces the Temple Head Priest to support the plan, believing in Heruka’s miracle. Meanwhile, the Mongolian general, Dolo'adai, prepares for the final battle and agrees to meet Heruka’s group on Mongolian soil.[12]
Heruka and her group arrive in Mongolia after days of travel. Dolma insists on being the interpreter, but it’s revealed that everyone, including the Temple Head Priest, understands Mongolian. They are led to a location resembling a Tibetan monastery, where General Dolo'adai awaits.[12]
Heruka shocks her followers by claiming to betray them, offering them to the Mongols as a "gift." She insults her companions and declares herself a Rakshasi. Heruka’s followers and the Mongols are horrified, and the Temple Head Priest accuses her of being a fraud. Dolma defends Heruka, but Heruka continues to play the villain, claiming she manipulated everyone for her own gain. She even claims she herself killed Dolma’s family and others in their hometown. The Mongols, convinced of her evil nature, prepare to execute her, Heruka’s own followers also turn against her, and she is taken away.[12]
Heruka’s former Lama testifies against her, but Dolma tries to defend Heruka, who continues to play the villain. She reveals her plan to lure out the Witch, the source of hatred and conflict, by creating a situation filled with hatred. Heruka is condemned as a Rakshasi, and the Mongols prepare to execute her. Heruka confronts the Witch and uses her magic to put everyone to sleep, but Lavi resists and follows her.[12]
Heruka confronts the Witch, realizing her magic is being canceled out by the Witch’s power of hatred. Despite being at a disadvantage in a direct fight, Lavi and the others arrive to help, revealing they resisted Heruka’s magic because they wanted to protect her. Together, they manage to defeat the Witch, but Heruka’s magic weakens, and the people, now awake, turn against her, throwing rocks and calling her a monster. Dolma defends Heruka and the two flee together. Lavi and the others hold off the Mongols, allowing Dolma and Heruka to escape until they reach a flower of blue poppies. After Heruka’s execution, Dolma struggles with grief and anger, but Lavi encourages her to record the truth about Heruka, ensuring her legacy is preserved. Dolma travels to Mongolia, helping to spread a new script while secretly inscribing the truth about Heruka in monuments. She reflects on Heruka’s sacrifice and the blue flowers that symbolize her hope.[12]
c. 1400: Isabeau de Bavière uses an opening through the Endless Mirrors Labyrinth to peer into the future. She sees that a maiden named Jeanne d’Arc will one day thwart her ambitions. She acts to revoke Jeanne’s existence, creating a divergent paradox world where Jeanne never exists. This world is marked by a purple moon.[14]
Starting around this time the "Purple Moon" world begins to erode the original timeline and begins systematically erasing Jeanne d’Arc from the memories of the people and from historical records, threatening to erase her existence entirely.[14]
April, 1429: In the outskirts of Orléans, Corbeau easily overpowers the French forces, growing bored with their feeble resistance. She demonstrates her ability by passing the impurities from her Soul Gem onto a mindless Magical Girl slave, healing her own wounds instantly while pushing the slave to her limit until she transforms into a Witch and slaughters the remaining soldiers. Back at camp, Corbeau complains to her sisters Lapine and Minou about the weakness of both the French and English forces, yearning for a real challenge. Minou suggests that La Pucelle might be the opponent Corbeau seeks, and reveals she has seen a vision of the future where Isabeau is destroyed by this girl. To prevent this, Minou produces a grimoire containing a spell that can trap La Pucelle in an endless dream, allowing Corbeau to invade and torment her until she despairs and becomes a Witch. All they need is a strand of La Pucelle's hair.[15]
April 29th, 1429: In the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, after Darc successfully enters Orléans and falls asleep, Minou casts the dream spell, though she underestimates its power as everyone with a deep affinity for Darc, including commanders Gilles and La Hire and even the crown prince, is also drawn into the dream. Corbeau enters the void between dreams and reality, finding Darc's dream as a beacon of light that attempts to repel her.[15]
The dream spell, amplified by the candles made with Darc’s hair, creates a connection that reaches across time. Iroha and Yachiyo, using the same candles in Kamihama around 400 years later, are drawn into Darc’s nightmare in the past.[16]
Iroha finds herself in a medieval French battlefield where a Magical Girl named Corbeau is fighting soldiers. Yachiyo appears and saves her, and they encounter another Magical Girl named Darc who protects them from Corbeau. They are drawn into a Witch’s barrier, defeat the Witch, and meet iz and Melissa before suddenly waking at home.[16]
After trying the candles again, they return to the dream and Yachiyo realizes Darc is actually Jeanne d'Arc. They learn that in this version of history, Corbeau's interference has caused France to fall into endless night. Liz insists this is their reality, not a dream, before Iroha and Yachiyo fade away.[16]
Returning to the dream, they meet Cube, Darc's Incubator. Cube explains they are in the actual past from their point of view. Corbeau is summoning Witches from other eras and if France loses, the world will face endless night for centuries. They commit to helping Darc.[16]
May, 1429: In the Allied English Forces Camp, Corbeau explains to Lapine that within the dream she can summon Witches and Familiars instead of using her normal abilities, and that she is taking her time tormenting Darc rather than using her ultimate attack. Minou arrives with troubling news that a French spy stole the candles used for the dream spell, meaning the French may have discovered their plan. Corbeau is delighted by this development, finding it more interesting.[15]
Over many battles, they fight alongside Darc's army, liberate towns, and befriend Melissa, Liz, La Hire, and Gilles de Rais. They rescue the Dauphin Charles from imprisonment. Liz hints at secrets involving a church named after Catherine before disappearing into shadows.[16]
Liz fights alongside Darc against a Witch within the dreamworld of France, and after they destroy it together, they find themselves separated from their battalion and lost in unfamiliar woods. They walk through the night until a flash of light transports them to Domrémy as it appeared before Catherine's death, though they quickly realize something is wrong when magic overwhelms them and forces them to relive their most painful memories: Catherine asking for sword lessons, her death protecting Darc, and Darc's subsequent contract with Cube as Liz vowed to become her shadow.[17]
Liz awakens to find Cube watching over her while Darc sleeps, and she deduces they are still trapped inside a Witch's barrier that feeds on her memories, constructing the village around them while forcing her to confront her regrets. The Witch attacks again, showing Liz memories of countless Magical Girls she fought alongside who succumbed to dark fates, and she collapses under the weight of her guilt. Cube helps her reframe these memories, suggesting each girl was a thread that ultimately led her to Darc, the strongest Magical Girl, and that their sacrifices were not in vain. Liz realizes the Witch is one of her former partners who succumbed to grief, and she vows to protect Darc even if it means staining her hands further with sin.[17]
Liz fights and defeats the Witch, and as the Labyrinth dissipates, they find themselves back in the dark woods where Melissa and some soldiers locate them and bring them to camp. Darc explains she experienced only happy memories while trapped, and Cube wonders if she is incapable of feeling regret, but Darc clarifies that she does not regret her sad memories because she knows she will liberate France and will never let go of her vow to Catherine. Liz notes the coincidence that they encountered a Witch from their past, just as Iroha and Yachiyo did, suggesting someone is recreating enemies from their memories, but she finds comfort in knowing she has found the last light of hope in Darc.[17]
One day, Melissa asks Yachiyo and Iroha to escort her on a supply run, needing protection from Demons. Yachiyo agrees, and they set out the next morning. During the journey, Melissa becomes interested in making mont blanc after Iroha describes it, hoping to boost soldier morale. At the fortress, they learn the battalion is on the move, so Yachiyo suggests Iroha and Melissa visit a nearby church while she stays behind.[18]
The next morning, Melissa and Iroha head for the church. That night, villagers under English rule trick them with a fake ghost story to scare them off, which causes Melissa and Iroha to cower as the walls shake from howling. Soon, Melissa's humility convinces them she is with Darc, and they invite her to stay.[18]
The next day, Melissa and Iroha return to the fortress. That evening, Melissa serves mont blanc she prepared with honey and chestnuts from the village. Cube appears and compliments her bravery and cooking skills, suggesting she would make an ideal Magical Girl.[18]
Several days later, things are not going well within the dream, so Minou proposes using Darc's love for her friends to set a trap and eliminate them all at once.[15]
Shortly after, with the French close to recapturing Orléans even within the dream, Corbeau resolves to crush them in the next battle. Despite Lapine's offer to help, Corbeau insists on completing the mission herself. Minou apologizes for miscalculating the future interlopers but asks Corbeau not to sacrifice herself, reminding her they have other paths to victory. Lapine makes Corbeau promise to return so they can take a bath together.[15]
Returning to the dream, they find Liz missing. During the attack on Orléans, Corbeau attacks Darc. Liz arrives late, takes a fatal blow meant for Darc, and fades into shadows. Darc's despair plunges the world into darkness and Corbeau captures her.[16]
Cube realizes this world is Darc's dream. If Darc despairs completely and becomes a Witch, it will trigger a catastrophe affecting the real world. They must rescue her from despair and wake her.[16]
Returning from the future once more, this time with a grimoire detailing how Darc's dream was created, they learn they must ring the Sacred Bell to wake Darc. At Saint Catherine's Church, Pernelle's voice tells them the bell is in Orléans. She reveals Liz is alive but lost in darkness. Liz stole candles from Corbeau to enter the dream but couldn't reveal the grimoire's secrets. Pernelle gives them the Épée de Clovis, which will guide Liz out of darkness if Darc holds it aloft with hope.[16]
The army marches on Tourelles, fights through to the fortress, and frees Darc. As Liz urges Darc toward the cathedral while Iroha and Yachiyo offer to hold off the enemy, Corbeau appears and strikes Iroha from behind. She summons Familiars and prepares to face all four Magical Girls at once, warning them to aim to kill or she will kill them first.[15] Yachiyo gives her the sword. Darc raises it, calling out to Liz, who materializes as the sun returns.[16]
At the Cathedral, Corbeau intercepts them. The Magical Girls battle together while French soldiers hold off familiars. Darc and Iroha ring the bell together. Corbeau fades, promising to settle things at the real Tourelles. Liz and Yachiyo bid farewell as the dream ends.[16]
At the United English Forces Camp, Corbeau awakens to the sound of cathedral bells, her mission a failure as the girls managed to ring the bells and awaken Darc from her nightmare. Minou explains that everyone involved except herself will forget the chaos of the past several days. Corbeau is almost glad, as now she gets to fight Darc and the girl in black all over again. Minou reveals their next plan: eliminating the girls from the future to prevent their interference, this time requiring all three sisters to work together. Concerned about her ability harming her sisters, Corbeau considers using a girl's wish to seal her power and gain a new one more helpful to them. Minou hesitantly agrees so long as it aligns with their mother's will, though internally she doubts they should do it only for themselves. She suggests they table the discussion for tomorrow and instead enjoy the bath together she has already arranged. Refreshed after their soak, Corbeau and Lapine thank Minou for keeping their promise.[15]
Though Darc is freed from the nightmare, Minou does not abandon her plan. She uses a different ritual, one meant to erase the “girls from the future” entirely. This magic, given to her by Isabeau, pulls Ui into the 15th century instead of Iroha. The sisters hope this will break the chain of events that allowed Iroha to intervene.[19]
Elisa Celjska arrives in France with her battalion, only to be immediately ambushed by soldier-like familiars. After defeating them, she is surrounded by Corbeau, Lapine, and Minou who welcome her to the land of perpetual night. Elisa accuses them of turning France into a Witch's wonderland, but Minou points out she crossed the border with armed forces. Corbeau attacks, and while Elisa fends her off and directs her soldiers to handle the familiars, Lapine jumps in and injures her. The Roman soldiers offer to help, but Elisa insists their duty was only to get her into French territory and sends them ahead while she faces the sisters alone.[19]
Meanwhile, Ui Tamaki wakes up in what appears to be a hospital, disturbed by a nightmare about Elisa. Her phone screen glows strangely, and when she shows it to her friends Touka and Nemu, they transform into Lapine and Minou, revealing the hospital was an illusion. Ui tries to run but finds herself in a dark void without her Soul Gem, unable to transform. Her phone glows and she transforms anyway, but the sisters attack relentlessly until Elisa suddenly rescues her. They retreat to recover, and Elisa explains all of France is plunged into darkness where Witches roam freely. Cube and Pernelle contact them telepathically, revealing Ui has traveled back in time to the 15th century and that France is about to be swallowed by a Time Paradox. The only thing that can stop it is the Blank Prophecy that Ui carries on her phone. Ui checks her photos and discovers her sister Iroha is disappearing from them, confirming the future is being erased.[19]
Elisa takes Ui to repair a temporal distortion at a church outside Orléans. Minou ambushes them with controlled Magical Girls, but Elisa fights them off and warns Ui to stay back. They enter the church and find a large bubble, which is a Fragment of True History. Ui photographs it with her phone, and the world flashes as Elisa recovers a lost memory of observing Darc at the Battle of Tourelles. Pernelle explains that recording fragments confirms true history and restores memories. They decide to visit other distortions to collect more fragments and undo the paradox. Their next stop is meeting Jeanne d'Arc, nicknamed Darc by Cube, at the French army camp outside Orléans. After introductions, Elisa challenges Darc to a duel to test her abilities, but Liz Hawkwood steps in instead. Their skirmish ends in a draw, and RLiz admits she was only testing Elisa's intentions. Elisa accepts that if someone as capable as Liz believes in Darc, she is worthy of assistance.[19]
Minou receives orders from Isabeau and teleports to her sisters, informing them they will attack soon. Meanwhile, the French army receives word that the Castle of Loches was attacked by a monster and La Hire may be slain. Darc, Liz, Elisa, and Ui rush through a gate to Loches and are thrust into a Witch's barrier. They find Melissa fighting the Witch alone and join forces to defeat it. Inside the castle, they discover another fragment. Ui photographs it, and everyone relives a true memory of Elisa sparring with Darc while Melissa and Liz cheered from the sidelines. When the memory ends, La Hire walks up alive and well, his death erased by the restoration of history. Melissa hugs her father, crying with joy. The group returns to their Orléans camp to rest for the night.[19]
At Tourelles Fortress, the English sisters prepare to attack. Liz senses magic and warns the others. Darc leads the French forces to confront them. Elisa and Darc unleash their magia on Lapine, seemingly defeating her, but she transforms into a Witch. Lapine the Witch flashes her eyes and cape, stripping weapons from Liz, Melissa, and the soldiers. Elisa and Darc's weapons are immune thanks to Pernelle's magical metallurgy. Darc sends Liz to evacuate the soldiers while she and Elisa face Lapine, but they hesitate, waiting for each other to attack first. Lapine takes advantage and nullifies their transformations. Minou and Corbeau watch, laughing, as Liz transforms again to face them both alone. While Liz and Melissa occupy Corbeau, Minou sneaks toward Ui. Darc notices and runs to defend Ui, leaving Elisa to fight Lapine alone. Lapine destroys the fortress, and Liz orders an evacuation. Ui, frustrated at her helplessness, watches as words appear on her phone: "(Enter Command)" with buttons for "<- Return" and "Continue ->". She presses one, and time rewinds to earlier that evening at the Orléans camp.[19]
Everyone within the labyrinth remembers what happened, and Ui's phone is heavily corrupted by magic use. Liz cleanses it with a Grief Seed, and Cube explains Ui's power rewound time but consumed so much magic she nearly became a Witch. The fortress is restored, but they realize the English sisters remember too and are not rushing to attack again. La Hire offers to keep watch so the girls can rest until morning. Unable to sleep, Melissa teaches Ui a charm for sweet dreams using red and blue candles, and Ui falls asleep immediately. Darc overhears Ui mention her sister and looks sad, thinking of her own younger sister. Elisa, also unable to sleep, walks around camp and bumps into Melissa. They discuss Melissa's wish—she wished for Darc and her father to be healed when Darc was mortally wounded protecting them. Elisa is surprised someone would throw their life on the line without hesitation. Liz joins them, unable to sleep after her defeat, and they talk through the night.[19]
The next morning, Cube awakens them with news of another massive temporal distortion in Darc's hometown of Domrémy. The Magical Girls head through a gate inside the Royal Fortress of Chinon to reach it. Lapine is already there with enslaved Magical Girls, eager to fight Ui. Liz and Melissa offer to distract her while Elisa takes Ui to the fragment. They make short work of the Witches guarding it, and Ui photographs it. Everyone relives true memories of Liz's past—her wish to create a true hero, her journey with Cube searching for one, and how she met Darc. They return to find Lapine giving Liz and Darc a hard time, her magic strengthened by the enslaved girls. Corbeau appears and orders Lapine to retreat, apologizing for the intrusion but promising to fight again. Pernelle contacts them about another fragment in Domrémy village. They find it, and Ui photographs it, reliving memories of Cube and Liz first meeting Darc, Darc's sister Catherine dying, and Darc cutting her hair short and wishing for power to bring light to all of France. Elisa realizes their fates are all connected—Liz's wish led her to Darc, Melissa's wish saved Darc, and Darc bringing light back to France created the future where Ui was born. She shares her own painful past of being cast out with her mother and wishing for everyone to acknowledge her existence so her mother could be forgiven. Darc and the others assure her her reasons are no less noble. Ui checks her phone and finds the photo of her and Iroha partially restored, proof the real future is returning. They return to camp, and Ui takes a commemorative photo with everyone.[19]
Gilles brings news of a great miasma forming around the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Orléans. They investigate and find another fragment. Ui photographs it, and they relive memories of Iroha and Yachiyo learning the sweet dreams charm from Mitama, being transported to the past, meeting Darc, and fighting alongside her to wake her from a cursed dream. Darc is saddened to realize she forgot Iroha and Yachiyo after all. Cube concludes the Time Paradox started when the English sisters cursed Darc's dreams to make her a Witch. Iroha and Yachiyo came from the future to save her, but someone undid that day, pushing the future toward ruin. The sisters then summoned Ui instead of Iroha to break the chain of events. Ui realizes she might be the one to teach Mitama the charm Melissa taught her. Removing her would cut that chain entirely. They theorize the sisters kept Ui alive because of the Blank Prophecy and her time-rewinding ability. With renewed hope, they learn that many fallen soldiers have been resurrected as history is restored. The army prepares to march to Reims for the coronation of Prince Charles.[19]
Along the way to Reims, they encounter and record more fragments, each restoring more soldiers and memories. They easily recapture Beaugency, but Liz senses it may be too smooth. Minou teleports before them, warning them about a crucial fragment at the Battle of Patay. She promises her sisters will smite them with all their might before disappearing. Cube confirms a fragment of colossal importance at Patay. The French army arrives to face the English forces. Minou explains her plan: her benefactor sensed a ripple in time from the future and commanded her to have a vision. She attempted to curse Darc's dreams, but Iroha and Yachiyo interfered. So she cast magic to erase her biggest obstacle—Ui's sister—but pulled Ui instead. Ui realizes if she never existed, Iroha never becomes a Magical Girl and never goes to the past to save Darc. Corbeau and Lapine attack Ui, but Darc protects her. Elisa and Liz engage the sisters while Melissa, Darc, and Ui head for the fragment, aided by La Hire and his men engaging the enslaved Magical Girls and familiars. Elisa clears the field with her magia, and they race toward the fragment. Ui photographs it just as the skies clear and everyone relives true memories of the Battle of Patay.[19]
In the memory, they see the English sisters facing Darc's army. Lapine runs ahead but is taken down by Liz, Elisa, and Melissa. Lapine transforms into a Witch, pulling all weapons toward her except Elisa and Darc's. Corbeau attacks Liz in rage. Lapine the Witch nullifies Darc and Elisa's transformations, but they work together—Elisa blocks Lapine's attacks while Darc goes for the final blow. Suddenly, Darc, Elisa, and Ui find themselves in a black void with Minou. Minou explains this space is created by the Blank Prophecy, quarantining anyone not part of that moment in history. She pulled them out before the memory finished and uses magic on Ui's phone. Back in the real battle, Darc and Elisa have vanished. Corbeau unleashes "La Danse Macabre," raining black feathers that infect everyone with bubonic plague. Liz and Melissa try to fight but allies and enemies alike collapse in agony. In the void, Elisa yells for Ui to wake up. Ui stirs, and they struggle with Minou for the phone. Ui gets it back, and the screen reads "enter command." Elisa reminds her she can rewind time by imbuing the phone with magic. Ui holds up her phone, begging it to work, and light flashes.[19]
Darc and Elisa find themselves back on the battlefield at Patay. Soldiers cry in agony from Corbeau's plague, but Darc's body glows with light from within. She says she never hated the English sisters for standing in her way—all she wanted was her country saved. But now she can never forgive them for trying to bring ruin to everything. A large magic circle appears in the sky, raining white feathers that heal everyone, enemy and ally alike. English soldiers call her a true saint. Darc summons a sword of light and slashes Corbeau, sending her crashing into nearby woods. Minou teleports to Corbeau, who thanks her joyfully, but Minou reveals she is upset Corbeau used up too many maidens on herself. Corbeau begs her to understand she did it to protect her sisters. Minou says that's too bad because she doesn't hold a single drop of love for her, then crushes Corbeau's Soul Gem. Back at camp, the French celebrate their victory. Cube congratulates Darc on regaining the most vital fragments—once they reach Reims, they can finally undo the time paradox. Ui finds red and blue candles and a book that Minou dropped, recognizing them as what Corbeau used to terrorize Darc's dreams. The army prepares to move out.[19]
Lapine wakes up, and Minou tells her Corbeau died heroically battling Darc, her death recorded in the Blank Prophecy and thus irreversible. Lapine swears revenge. The group approaches Reims and senses incredibly powerful magic—stronger than Corbeau's. Lapine stands outside the gates alone, furious over her sister's death. She attacks, stronger than ever. Darc refuses to fight at first, knowing Lapine will become a Witch again. Melissa blocks an attack while Elisa tells Ui to find the fragment alone. The group coordinates their attacks, knocking Lapin out, but she struggles to stand, muttering vengeance. Darc delivers the final blow with La Lumière. Minou teleports there, kneeling over her sister, and tells Darc she is no match for her all-encompassing might before gathering Lapine and leaving. Ui finds the final fragment in the cathedral and photographs it, reliving the coronation of King Charles VII. History is rectified.[19]
After the ceremony, they celebrate at a banquet. Ui and Elisa get dessert while trying to keep Darc from drinking wine. She accidentally drinks some anyway and becomes a rampant hugger, embracing Elisa and Ui tightly. Later that night, a voice calls out for Ui. She follows it into the woods, with Darc and Elisa following. They find Minou, who teleports them to the cathedral where Lapine waits. Minou forces Ui to access her phone's command prompt and press "Continue." A video plays showing Darc's eventual fate—her capture, trial, and burning at the stake. Ui is devastated. Minou reveals the Blank Prophecy is a recording device from the future; this is what lies ahead in proper history. Ui now has the choice to keep this future or turn back time again. New buttons appear: "<- Return to Start" and "Confirm History ->". If she returns to start, everyone forgets everything and they try again from the beginning. Minou asks if they realize this isn't the first time they've tried. She forces Ui to navigate the phone, and a vision shows Elisa and Liz discussing Darc's ultimate price. Ui cries, determined not to let Darc die. She rewinds everything back to the beginning.[19]
Minou confirms they have done this journey multiple times. Her real plan was to trap Ui's soul in the Blank Prophecy. When she received magic to pull Ui from the future, she placed a curse and Ui's Soul Gem inside her phone. Every time Ui cycles through hope and despair, her soul grows weaker until she is erased from reality. If Ui never existed, Iroha never contracts, never goes to the past, and the sisters win. Ui's soul fills with impurities as she faces her impossible choice. Minou hands her the phone, wanting her to despair. Elisa realizes they have no real choice—their only shot at victory is pre-ordained fate. Ui prepares to turn back time again to save Darc, but Darc stops her. She tells Elisa how much she admired her for fighting for a future she chose herself. She thanks Ui for everything her and her sister taught her. So long as there is hope in the future, there will be a light to guide us. Darc voluntarily accepts her fate, grabs Ui's hand, and guides it toward "Confirm." Minou tries to stop her but is repelled by Darc's magic. Ui begs her to stop as Darc presses her finger to the screen. The command is accepted. Light flashes. Darc bids Ui goodbye, asking her to have a wonderful future.[19]
Ui awakens in a white void—the Blank Prophecy where her Soul Gem is trapped. Cube explains correct history has been put into place. Darc and the others will re-enact history as it was without ever having met Ui. Once Ui steps out, her Soul Gem will be restored. Ui asks if there's nothing she can do for Darc. Cube confirms she did burn at the stake—they could not change her fate. He advises her to accept Darc's choice and take that step forward. Ui recalls Darc's final words and promises to have a wonderful future as she steps out. Minou, back in Isabeau's quarters, stomps and curses, realizing she can never defeat Darc.[19]
After Liz's sacrifice and Darc's capture at Compiegne on May 23rd, 1430, Minou traps her mind within the realm of Purgatory she created. This causes Ui to be summoned from the future once more.[20]
Ui awakens in a gray dimension called Purgatory, where she meets a mysterious girl with no memories, along with Liz and Sakurako. With Pernelle and Cube's help, they learn they must collect prayer petals to escape. The mysterious girl is revealed to be a younger version of Darc, representing her broken spirit. They are joined by Elisa, Melissa, and Pernelle, all with fragmented memories of the Battle of Compiègne where Darc was captured.[20]
The group discovers they were summoned by Pernelle's magic to rescue Darc's heart, which is trapped in Purgatory. They learn Purgatory is a dream-like barrier designed to trap Darc's mind. To escape, they need two keys, one gold and one silver, guarded by Corbeau and Lapine, both already dead and unaware of their true state. The group defeats them and obtains the keys.[20]
They reach the Gates of Heaven, where Minou reveals she has been manipulating the events the entire time. She summons the witch Isabeau, whose power comes from her daughter Lapine's wish. Isabeau's witch has encased France in her Labyrinth and threatens to overtake the future. Only Sakurako's attacks as a Rumor affect the witch, forcing the group to retreat.[20]
Through Cube, they learn Ui's existence is protected by the Blank Prophecy, and Sakurako's role is to reunite Ui with Iroha and Yachiyo, who hold the final petals needed. Pernelle summons them using Ui's device. Iroha and Yachiyo offer their prayers, restoring Darc's true form and memories.[20]
Minou traps them in a witch's labyrinth, but Ui devises a strategy and Darc opens the Gates of Heaven with the two keys, allowing the group to escape Purgatory. After Liz says goodbye to Sakurako, existing only as a soul gem sustained by her wish to protect Darc, she fades away after fulfilling her purpose. Ui, Iroha, Yachiyo and Sakurako all return to the future.[20]
History progresses as normal. The French army attacks Rouen to rescue Darc from Isabeau's forces. Pernelle, Elisa, and Melissa infiltrate the prison where Darc is on trial. Inspired by their words, Darc resolves to fight again.[20]
They confront Isabeau, who is immune to magical girl attacks due to Minou's wish. Isabeau reveals her true witch form, which has engulfed France and made witches visible to humans. As Darc's Soul Sem corrupts, Liz's spirit appears and empowers her beyond normal limits. Darc defeats Isabeau, but her soul gem becomes something akin to a grief seed.[20]
Unable to return to normal, Darc surrenders to Minou to prevent becoming a catastrophic witch, ensuring her allies' safety.[20]
In 1431, Darc is executed. Her sacrifice prevents her transformation into a witch.[20]
After Isabeau's death, Nicholas Flamel had at that point created two Philosopher's Stones. He decides to give one of them to "someone in need," that person being Minou. She then spends six centuries in the created If-world that becomes the Holy Maiden Academy, where "what if" versions of Darc and her team come to be.[21]
One day, this "what if" version of Darc meets with the "what if" versions of her friends Melissa, Liz, and Elisa, who have been friends since Elisa joined them last year. Their conflict with the masked student council, led by Lapine, Corbeau, and Minou, has been ongoing for a year. Later that day, the girls discover students are brainwashed after drinking from a magical teapot. They learn from Ms. Specs, the "what if" version of Pernelle, that "If Factors" are reality-distorting objects born from desires. When they cannot stop the teapot from drowning the world in endless tea, Minou snaps her fingers and resets everything.[21]
The characters wake unbothered by the apocalypse. Melissa discovers If-pedia, a website containing all information about their world. They investigate a labyrinth that appears at the school and find Acting Chancellor Charles unconscious beside Isabeau's broken vase. The labyrinth manipulates their weaknesses, wasting their time with long expositions and slow cafe service. Melissa realizes she has a stone that makes her grape juice taste amazing, given to her father by a kind man. Darc discovers If-pedia itself is an If Factor, and the council has been editing it to change reality. After escaping the labyrinth and deleting its event page, the council confesses Lapine accidentally broke the vase. When they try to edit If-pedia to fix it, they realize Isabeau was listening and panic-delete the home directory, ending the world again.[21]
After another reset, it is revealed that between the many other If Factors she's collected, Minou's managed to get the Ui's phone of the Blank Prophecy, as well as Lil' Kyubey from the real world. The Quartet confronts Ms. Specs and she reveals the entire world is an If Factor born from Minou's wish. Six hundred years ago, Isabeau tried to conquer France. Minou, the sole survivor besides Isabeau's mindless body, spent centuries dreaming of bringing her mother back. Using the Philosopher's Stone created by Ms. Specs and Nicholas Flamel, her dreams manifested into the Holy Maiden Academy world. Minou now plans to use Lil' Kyubey, who fell asleep on Ui's phone, as a catalyst. She will record Isabeau's witch form and send the video to the real world, hoping a magical girl candidate will see it and feel something strong enough to make a wish that brings Isabeau into existence again.[21]
The Quartet splits to stop Minou's ritual. Melissa and Elisa head to the clock tower while Darc, Liz, and Ms. Specs confront Minou. Corbeau intercepts them, confessing she remembers her past life and will stand with Minou. During the battle, the second Philosopher's Stone goes missing. Minou completes the ritual, and Isabeau's witch form erupts across the academy. The Quartet makes a desperate final stand but loses. Minou orders the bells rung to send Lil' Kyubey home, but Melissa's accidental texts crashed the recording app. Nothing was recorded and Lil' Kyubey vanishes back into the real world anyway.[21]
Minou stands alone in her blighted world, her six centuries of planning destroyed. She uses the Philosopher's Stone to reset everything to how it was six hundred years ago, finding herself alone in an empty castle. She resolves to try again, no matter how long it takes. Corbeau and Lapine crash into the scene, explaining they found the second Philosopher's Stone in Melissa's dropped thermos and wished to save Minou. Corbeau also remembers everything and forgives Minou for killing her in the past. Despite Minou's warnings, they vow to stand with her and try again together.[21]
What becomes of Minou, Corbeau and Lapine in this universe is unknown. It is possible that their efforts caused the Endless Mirrors Labyrinth to connect to Isabeau in 1400, however it is unconfirmed.
Pernelle and Nicholas have a daughter whom they name Torte, in respect to Darc's memory. As she grows up, Torte also gains an appearance reminiscent of Darc's.[14]
In the 15th century, Pernelle and Nicholas Flamel create the Ark of Feelings, a space where memories of people connected to Jeanne d’Arc are stored as books. Its purpose is to preserve Darc’s existence from being erased by the world with the purple moon.[14]
Torte contacts with Kagome in the future through a pencil charm of her plushie Aru and through the Ark of Feelings. As Kagome is discharged from the hospital, Torte urges her to research Jeanne d'Arc, desiring to know how she's remembered in the future. Upon finding that nobody remembers Jeanne in the present day except Iroha, Yachiyo and Ui, Kagome is pulled into the Ark of Feelings.[14]
Torte explains the Ark is a place where memories of people connected to Jeanne are stored as books. Kagome's book was the first Torte entered because people in the future still remembered Jeanne's name. Torte reveals her real name is Jeanne Flamel. Her mother is Pernelle Flamel. She wants to become a Magical Girl and learn about her namesake before making a contract.[14]
Torte and Kagome jump into the second book. They meet soldiers who have forgotten Jeanne. When Torte makes eye contact with them, their memories return. They recall fighting alongside her. Pernelle and Nicholas Flamel arrive, having followed Torte. Pernelle is a Magical Girl and alchemist. Nicholas is an ageless alchemist. They explain they created the Ark to preserve Jeanne's memories from disappearing. Nicholas theorizes the world is being eroded by another world where Jeanne was never born. This world has a purple moon, first sighted around 1400.[14]
They jump into the third book. It belongs to Gilles de Rais. He mistakes Torte for Jeanne resurrected. Melissa and Elisa also arrive, having themselves entered the book to investigate. Gilles remembers Jeanne but refuses to make eye contact with Torte. When forced to confront reality, he breaks down, remembering his sins after Jeanne's death. Elisa explains he abducted over 100 boys for dark rituals and will soon be executed. Cube reveals the world split around 1400 when Isabeau de Bavière peered into the future and saw Jeanne would thwart her plans. Isabeau then acted to prevent Jeanne's birth, creating the world of the purple moon.[14]
Following that, they jump into Kagome's book again to check the future. Her world is destroyed, humanity has perished, and the purple moon is there too. Cube explains that without Jeanne, Isabeau's ambitions led to civilization's collapse. Nicholas theorizes that Kagome's recording with the magic pen anchors Jeanne's existence and prevents the erasure of the past. Torte's ability to restore memories through eye contact is also key.[14]
They jump into the fourth book, belonging to La Hire. He is leading a rebellion against King Charles VII. Melissa confronts her father. They fight. When La Hire wakes, Torte makes eye contact. He remembers Jeanne sacrificing herself for him. Suddenly, Isabeau attacks them in a strange, distorted space. She's also in her youthful Magical Girl form from before becoming a Witch. As they struggle to understand where they are, Kagome recalls a vision she saw earlier of Endless Mirrors. She realizes this distortion is a time paradox created by an offshoot Mirror Witch, a Mirror Labyrinth acting as a tunnel connecting the past and the future. She explains that if the past changes and worlds split, history gets altered. This is the first time the group learns of the Mirror's existence and its role in causing the paradox. They eventually manage to force Isabeau to retreat, though she promises to meet again. Cube explains the distortion is a time paradox caused by the two worlds conflicting.[14]
They enter the fifth book, which belongs to King Charles VII. He is afraid and does not remember Jeanne. Elisa has Torte make eye contact with him. He remembers Jeanne guiding him to his coronation and his guilt for abandoning her. Charles promises that if he reclaims Rouen, he will restore Jeanne's honor through a new trial. He reveals his son, Dauphin Louis, is leading a rebellion driven by something unnatural.[14]
They prepare to enter the sixth and final book, but Melissa hesitates, questioning whether restoring the world means subjecting Jeanne to her tragic fate again. Torte declares she will take responsibility. She has decided to inherit Jeanne's feelings and make them reality. They discuss their plan: after collecting all memories and recording them, they must reach the "Terminal of the Endless Mirrors" and destroy the mirror itself. Cube confirms that breaking it will annihilate the purple moon timeline where Jeanne was never born. They jump into the final book, a a distorted space where time is breaking. Isabeau attacks again, but Melissa and Elisa hold her off while Torte and Kagome enter the last book's entrance. Inside, they find Dauphin Louis. He has lost his memories and is dreaming of the past. Torte makes eye contact. He remembers meeting Jeanne as a child at Roche Castle after the liberation of Orleans. Jeanne promised to see his father crowned king.[14]
Torte interviews Jeanne d'Arc and Liz, who appear in the dream. Melissa and Elisa reunite with their past selves and with Jeanne. After Kagome finishes recording, nothing changes. Something is still missing. Torte reveals she knows the reason. Her meeting with Kagome and receiving special powers are the result of what she will ask Cube for. Torte makes her contract. Her wish is that the feelings of La Pucelle are never lost and are rightfully passed down in this world. She becomes a Magical Girl and a new pen appears. She realizes this pen was created by her wish to ensure Jeanne's story survives. Understanding now the full nature of the time loop, she knows she must deliver this pen to Kagome's past self before she ever entered the Ark. She can uses the Mirror's connection across time and thus delivers the pen to Kagome's past self through a dream. With the loop closed, she finally faces the mirror itself, the source of the paradox. She destroys it, shattering the connection between timelines. As the mirror breaks, the purple moon world begins to fade, and the original timeline stabilizes. The order of cause and effect is reversed. Torte delivers the pen to Kagome's past self through a dream. Then she destroys the mirror, ending the time paradox.[14]
16th Century CE
This section details the story of Tsuyu Mizuna and Chizuru, two Magical Girls from rival clans in 16th century Japan. After uncovering a conspiracy and becoming allies, they're torn apart by the escalating conflict between their fathers.
c. 1540: When Lord Sumiya plans to cut down the sacred tree of the Mizuna Clan, Tsuyu becomes enraged and she and her father, Masatsuna, spread rumors of divine punishment to deter Sumiya. Kyubey offers Tsuyu a contract to become a Magical Girl, or a Battle Shamaness, granting her powers to protect the tree. She accepts, intervenes when Sumiya’s men attempt to cut the tree, and convinces Sumiya to abandon his plans. Tsuyu reveals her transformation to her father and Gen'un, who eventually accept her new role.[22]
When Kosho craftsmen are attacked and their goods stolen by the Kumai Clan, Chizuru investigates Suitoku Temple, where the weapons are rumored to be stored. She is ambushed, poisoned, and captured by Gen’un, who accuses her of theft. Kyubey offers her a contract to become a Magical Girl, and she wishes for the strength to defeat Gen’un. With her new powers, she overwhelms him, escapes, and reunites with San'emon. They compensate the craftsmen with gold stolen from the Kumai Clan, ensuring their survival during the famine.[23]
This account details the events as experienced by Tsuruno Yui and Sana Futaba, who go back to the past to collect the concept of Iroha, which had become scattered across time.
Tsuruno and Sana travel through a mirror to the Warring States period, where they encounter Tsuyu Mizuna, a Magical Girl, or Battle Shamaness, defending a sacred tree from rebellious peasants. The peasants, suffering from a famine, blame the nobility and demand debt relief. Tsuyu calms them by promising to persuade her father, Masatsuna Mizuna, to enact a debt moratorium. After learning of Tsuruno and Sana's mission, Tsuyu allows them to stay. Sana then uses her invisibility to perform "miracles," convincing Masatsuna to let Tsuruno serve as Tsuyu's guardian. They learn the famine is caused by the Taito Gang, a group of bandits manipulating Witches, or Demons, and Tsuyu insists that defeating them is the only solution. While settling into the Mizuna household, they observe a magpie, a key figure in the historical records of Tsuyu and her rival, Chizuru.[24]
Tsuyu, Tsuruno, and Sana investigate strange voices on the beach and they encounter Chizuru, the daughter of the Taito Gang’s leader. Tsuyu accuses Chizuru of manipulating Demons, which Chizuru denies, and they're interrupted by a mysterious voice from a seashell which speaks of unity, unsettling them both before Chizuru leaves.[24]
Later, Tsuyu's father returns from a succession ceremony and, despairing of the new lord's inaction, decides to forgive the Mizuna Clan's debts. This move will strain his own finances but relieve the people.[24]
When the neighboring Sango Clan begins violently collecting taxes, Tsuyu's group intervenes but is dismissed. Later, Tsuruno and Sana accidentally release Tsuyu's magpie, and in her fury, she banishes them and they take refuge at Suitoku Temple. Tsuyu prepares to attack the Taito Gang to recover stolen goods, while Tsuruno and Sana realize the magpie's escape has disrupted the timeline, as it was meant to bring Tsuyu and Chizuru together. They decide to orchestrate this meeting themselves during the upcoming battle. During the fight, Tsuruno and Sana find both Tsuyu and Chizuru severely wounded. They save them with grief seeds, and Chizuru gives Tsuyu a letter bearing the Mizuna Clan’s seal, proving their clans were once allies. Tsuyu begins to question her beliefs, realizing the Taito Gang may not be the villains she thought.[24]
Sumiya fears his defeat by the Taito Gang has humiliated him and ruined his father's legacy, but Kumai claims he has already taken action to restore Sumiya's dignity. Tsuruno and Nemu confirm that, despite setbacks, history remains on track.[24]
Masatsuna and San'emon Banshu discuss an ancient oath between their factions, and agree to send messengers but avoid a public alliance due to the political risks. After Chizuru returns safely, the group discusses the famine and the Taito Gang's resilience. During this time, Tsuyu and Chizuru grow closer, with Tsuyu even helping Chizuru with personal care.[24]
The Kosho Clan, fearing Taito's retaliation, begins an aggressive tax collection. When Tsuyu, Tsuruno, and Sana intervene, they discover the soldiers are under a Witch's control, so Tsuyu manages the chaos while Tsuruno and Sana defeat the 10-1 Witch. Later, Tsuyu and Chizuru intercept San'emon Banshu to warn him of Suitoku's ambush plans and he agrees to halt trade with Kosho's craftsmen temporarily. Tsuyu stays behind to handle Gen'un while Chizuru retreats, and when Gen'un arrives, Tsuyu lies about sensing a Demon to cover her actions.[24]
Struggling with conflicting loyalties between her childhood guardian, Gen'un, and her deep connection with Chizuru, Tsuyu realizes Gen'un's ambitions are cold and calculating, but she ultimately sides with Chizuru and Taito. To confirm her resolve, she challenges Chizuru to a fight and realizes her trust in Chizuru is stronger.[24]
As Suitoku finalizes a three-pronged attack on Taito, Chizuru considers assassinating Gen'un but admits it's nearly impossible. With the attack set to begin soon, she makes one last attempt to infiltrate Suitoku and stop him. Gen'un paralyzes Chizuru and then buries her alive under the Mizuna sacred tree. Guided by a magpie, Tsuyu finds her and cuts down the tree herself to rescue her. Chizuru reveals that Gen'un and Kumai orchestrated the famine and manipulated Sumiya to discredit him, planning to kill him in the coming battle's chaos to seize power. Sana then arrives and informs them that Tsuruno has been captured by San'emon Banshu in Taito Village. Tsuyu asks Sana to use her invisibility to escort Chizuru back to Taito to warn them of the attack, while Tsuyu sends messengers to all clans, except Sumiya and Kumai, in order to expose the conspiracy.[24]
On the north front, Tsuyu and Masatsuna lead Mizuna's forces and remain wary when Suitoku's monks arrive claiming to help.[24]
On the south front, Lord Sango, facing heavy resistance from Taito, decides to trust Mizuna's warnings and prepares to confront Kumai and Gen'un after Suitoku's monks arrive.[24]
On the west front, Sumiya, Kumai, and Gen'un advance, but are confronted by San'emon and Chizuru, who expose the plot to kill Sumiya.[24]
Informed by Tsuyu's letters, the other clans turn against the conspirators. Gen'un surrenders and Kumai is captured. Later, Tsuyu and Chizuru prepare to watch a Kōwakamai performance at Mizuna Shrine and, having completed their mission to recover Iroha's concept, Tsuruno and Sana bid them farewell.[24]
While Tsuyu and Chizuru discuss the ongoing famine, Tsuyu opposes conflict and suggests expanding trade. A dispute over water rights between Mizuna and foreign farmers escalates and Tsuyu is able to identify a forged document. She volunteers for an iron-branded oath to settle the dispute, using her powers to protect herself and be proven as telling the truth. Her success proves her claim, the foreign farmer admits the forgery and Tsuyu reveals her father had already negotiated a water-sharing agreement, resolving the conflict. Chizuru questions the necessity of the oath, but Tsuyu explains it serves as a deterrent, as her Battle Shammaness powers protect her regardless.[22]
The two attend a dance performance at Mizuna Shrine, but Chizuru disappears. Tsuyu learns of a mass suicide attempt by a performance troupe under a Demon’s influence. She battles the Witch, or Demon, and finds Chizuru, who had been fighting it alone. Chizuru admits she felt neglected and wanted Tsuyu to protect her, so they reconcile, with Tsuyu promising to be more attentive and Chizuru to communicate better.[22]
Chizuru and Tsuyu are asked to watch a baby while the mother prepares medicine. While playing with the baby, he is suddenly kidnapped. They track the kidnapper, a former Taito Gang member, return the baby to his mother and capture the kidnapper.[23]
Chizuru is warned to limit Tsuyu’s involvement in Taito Gang affairs. She also overhears her father discussing a potential marriage arrangement with the Mizuna Clan, which shocks her. Tsuyu confides her own struggles with her father’s expectations for marriage, and Chizuru confronts her father, only to learn he was joking about the arrangement and both agree to focus on their duties and enjoy their freedom.[23]
Lord Mizuna's distrust of the easterners leads him to propose a deceptive treaty, with the intent to disband the eastern clan by scattering its members under the guise of granting them land. San'emon Banshu sees the treaty as a ploy and secretly allies with a foreign power to overthrow the Mizuna Clan. A staged assassination attempt on Lord Mizuna escalates tensions and both sides prepare for war. Tsuyu and Chizuru oppose their fathers’ plans, and during a battle, they pretend to fight while secretly plotting to use their combined power to force a ceasefire. They clash swords with overwhelming force, creating a shockwave to scatter soldiers and halt the fighting. San'emon Banshu hires a foreign army to invade Mizuna territory during peace talks, and assassinates Masatsune Mizuna using a hidden firearm. Tsuyu, devastated by her father’s death, confronts Chizuru on the battlefield and a hidden sniper shoots Tsuyu mid-battle. Chizuru, unable to stop her attack, accidentally strikes Tsuyu. Tsuyu, convinced she has been betrayed, becomes a Witch and eventually settles under Mizuna Castle alongside Chizuru's Witch.[25] The intertwined curses of the two Witches would eventually fuel the Witch 10-43, which would continue growing throughout the centuries.[2]
The Recent Past
While pregnant with Shi, her mother makes a contract with Kyubey to protect her unborn daughter from an unknown Witch that was in the hospital. She wished for her daughter to be someone who understands the pain and suffering of others. She dies trying to protect her daughter and her wish leads to Shi having the involuntary ability to know and feel the pain, agony, and troubles of other people, experiencing them as her own in her dreams. Eventually, Shi would get found by an organization that would take advantage of her power.[26]
Yachiyo Nanami wishes to survive as her modeling unit's leader and becomes a Magical Girl. Mifuyu Azusa makes a contract with Kyubey to be free, at least in her dreams. The two meet at 12 after contracting as Magical Girls and they form a team together. They cope with their lives as Magical Girls by writing letters to preserve their dreams.[28]
5 Years Ago
In a chemical experiment to make herself taller, Hinano Miyako's experiment goes wrong and explodes. She is approached by Kyubey and makes a contract with him to save her life.[Citation needed]
4 Years Ago
Tasuke Satomi visits Kirimine Village to research about Magical Girls, but isn't allow there by the Mikoshiba.[Citation needed]
Lavi Himuro becomes a Magical Girl to restore the soil on her family's farm.[Citation needed]
3 Years Ago
The Blue Seas Family, a mutual aid organization once implicated in off-the-books dealings in Kamihama, is accused of murder. Meiyui Chun becomes a Magical Girl to protect them and fabricate evidence clearing their names.[Citation needed]
Yumi Yuuki most likely becomes a Magical Girl around this time and wishes for Ikumi Makino to meet someone who will allow her to become an idol.[Citation needed]
Juri Oba becomes a Magical Girl to get "a patient, stout heart".[Citation needed]
Kush Irina moves overseas, meeting and befriending an older girl named Aneka, due to her making a contract with Kyubey to "have a replacement for her little sister". Shortly after, Kush becomes a Magical Girl too, wishing for the morning to never come, which, due to her relatively normal potential, results in her always falling asleep during the day instead of the night. Eventually, Aneka turns into a Witch and Kush kills her.[Citation needed]
Nayuta Satomi becomes a Magical Girl to have her mom be as gentle as her dad is.[Citation needed]
Momoko Togame makes a contract to gain the courage to express her feelings to her crush, but fails due to another girl confessing before her.[Citation needed]
2 Years Ago
Livia realizes that her magic attracts evil to those she helps. After her teacher dies in an accident in front of her due to her magic, Livia changes and starts helping Kyubey in order to sabotage him. She also learns the existence of other magical girls with her condition and decides to look for these girls and teach them to survive like she does.[Citation needed]
Nayuta and Tasuke start to research Magical Girls together.[Citation needed]
Shizuka Tokime becomes a Magical Girl to prevent the release of a joint statement at the Trilateral Economic Summit. This wish was designated by Mikoshiba as part of a deal between her and the Japanese elites.[Citation needed]
Kanagi Izumi becomes a Magical Girl to learn the reason why everyone hates Daito. [Citation needed]
It's implied that Kanagi's friends, Nabiki Soyoho and Sumiha Takane also became magical girls around the same time as Kanagi.[Citation needed]
Yachiyo and Mifuyu become the leaders of the West.[Citation needed]
Kanae, a former delinquent, meets a younger girl in her school named Sumire Yoake, and they become friends. Later, Kanae becomes a Magical Girl to save Sumire from a gang.[29]
Due to Kanae's wish, Sumire forgets the event and Kanae, in order to protect her, starts to avoid Sumire.[29]
Kanagi meets Yachiyo and Mifuyu after a fight with Kanae, while she was chasing the man that almost hurt Sumire. Kanae is nursed back to health by Yachiyo and her grandmother, who help her change her lifestyle. Kanae joins Yachiyo and Mifuyu in the villa and Kanagi sends her a Grief Seed as an apology, which she accepts. [30]
Tensions between the West and the East starts when many magical girls from both sides start to hun witches in the others territories. Some of this girls were two rookie magical girls from the east, Nabiki Soyogo and Sumiha Takane were exposed by the veteran of the East, Juerii Hoshi.[Citation needed]
Kanagi decides to become the leader of the East after Juerii declines to take responsibility when confronted by Yachiyo and Mifuyu, blaming Nabiki and Sumiha.[Citation needed]
Kanagi becomes friends with Nabiki and Sumiha shortly after, and together the three girls decide to take the leadership of the East to stop the conflict between Kamihama Magical Girls and unite all the East, helping, negotiating and supporting other east magical girls.[Citation needed]
Juerii starts to run amok and intimidates other magical girls into attacking the West and Center Kamihama to interfiere with Kanagi, Nabiki and Sumiha's plans.[Citation needed]
A few weeks later, Nabiki writes a letter to Kanagi, reveling she wanted to chase our or take down Juerii and didn't expected to survive the match.[Citation needed]
The next night, Kanagi learns the truth of the system of magical girls:
Kanagi and Sumiha discover a fight is taking place between Nabiki and Juerii and both rush to stop the fight.[Citation needed]
Sumiha arribes first and tries to protect Nabiki from Juerii, resulting in Sumiha's death when her soul gem shatters from Juerii's attack. Kanagi arribes to find out what happen, and shortly after learning the truth of magical girl's soul gem containing their soul.[Citation needed]
Nabiki and Juerii's start to fall on despair due to Sumiha's death. Nabiki turns into a witch and Juerii let's herself be killed and eaten by Nabiki's witch, who is shortly killed by Kanagi.[Citation needed]
Kanagi recovers Nabiki's corpse and both she and Sumiha are officially considered to have "mysteriously died", while Juerii was considered to be missing. After this event Kanagi managed to unite the East, promising her friends to take care of all the East Magical girls like they wanted.[Citation needed]
Yachiyo’s grandmother is hospitalized.[Citation needed]
A few days later, Momoko meets Yachiyo and Mifuyu after both save her from a Witch. Yachiyo and Mifuyu invite Momoko to join them and Kanae, but Momoko declines.[31]
According to Momoko, at this point on time she hasn't been a magical girl for a long time, maybe just a few months or even weeks.[31]
Jun Kazari helps Mikura and Temari find a lost book and uncovers a map leading to Ashita's. There, she overhears the owner having financial issues, which is when Kyubey appears and offers her a contract. Jun wishes to protect Ashita's, which results in the owner discovering her late husband's hidden treasure, a pot of gold coins which allows her to purchase the building.[32]
Mitsune Miwa, a shut-in, meets Jun and, after a series of Witch encounters over a few days, the two become friends. Jun encourages her not to rely on magic and has to move away a few days afterwards.[33]
While fighting alongside Yachiyo and Mifuyu, Kanae dies in order to defeat Oshiti, revealing the truth about Soul Gems to them.[34]
Fuka Higure, a girl from Toyozuru City, walks from her city until ariving to East Kamihama, where she meets and befriends Mel Anna. Mel who started to do divinations after being saved from an accident by a prediction, says that Fuka will "meet her destiny".[29]
Sumire's family moves from Kamihama City to Toyozuru City.[31]
Sumire meets and befriends Fuka, following Mel's prediction and lucky item. Later that day both are attacked by a Witch and both are approached by Kyubey. Fuka becomes a Magical Girl in order to protect Sumire, asking her not to make a contract until she was a genuine wish.[29]
Later, Sumire learns the truth of Kanae's death from Kyubey and blames herself for this, learning the existence from both Yachiyo and Mifuyu.[29]
Sumire and Fuka learn the truth of Magical Girls turning into Witches, and that Fuka's magic can be used to temporarily revert this. Sumire then decides to put Fuka's magic on test on different Magical Girls from Toyuzuru City that learn the truth, but as many of this girls were rookies like Fuka, Sumire decides to try to do this on Yachiyo and Mifuyu as she thinks them being veterans will take better the truth.[29]
Tasuke interviews Yachiyo and Mifuyu.[Citation needed]
Sumire approaches Yachiyo and Mifuyu to lure them into Toyuzuru City, lying them about a the missing girls of their city and "Near Witches" created by Fuka's magic.[31][29]
Momoko joins Yachiyo and Mifuyu's team, after they ask her to join them and Sumire to investigate Toyozuru City.[31]
Because Sumire befriends Yachiyo, Mifuyu and Momoko, she starts to feel guilty over using them, decides to save magical girls without involving them and cuts ties with them.[35]
As a child, Hanna Sarasa had a difficult homelife, with her drunkard father beating her and her mother pretending she didn't see it. Her father was eventually stabbed to death in an argument with someone, and her mother was later hit by a car and also killed while celebrating her freedom.[36]
Hanna ends up alone in an orphanage, where she faces bullies at school with no one to confide in, instead only writing her negative feelings in a notebook and fantasizing about revenge.[36]
Mikoto Sena lives in an abusive household with a violent, financially irresponsible father. At school, she pretends to be cheerful while her home life deteriorates. She avoids going home and declines social invitations she cannot afford.[37]
One day, Mikoto's mother gives her a crumpled one thousand yen note as allowance, her cheek visibly swollen from abuse. Mikoto suggests she gets a job to help her parents, but her mother refuses. Frustrated, Mikoto decides her father must disappear. She takes the money to buy a knife from a hundred yen store but hesitates after recalling a rare happy memory of her father at a festival. She flees without purchasing it.[37]
Later, near a train station, Mikoto considers running away but cannot decide whether to abandon her mother. Kyubey appears and offers to grant her wish. Mikoto contracts, wishing for her father to go away. Her wish is granted: her father leaves to live with another woman.[37]
Hanna is eventually approached by Kyubey, and she wishes her bullies out of existence, erasing them from everything but her own memories and becoming a Magical Girl.[36]
After her father's departure, Mikoto's mother begins neglecting the household, withholding money for food and frequently going out. Their financial situation worsens.[37]
Mikoto discovers her magic allows her to command others and, desperate for a normal family, she uses it on a neighbor, making the woman believe Mikoto is her daughter. The neighbor and her husband welcome Mikoto, though they treat her as their actual adult daughter rather than Mikoto herself.[37]
Mikoto throws herself into Magical Girl duties, fighting Familiars obsessively. One day she enters a Labyrinth and sees Hanna struggling against a Familiar. She uses her command magic and saves her, introducing herself afterwards. Mikoto attempts to befriend her, initiating conversations, though Hanna remains guarded and finds Mikoto's persistent efforts amusing rather than genuine. Despite their differences, they decide to team up.[37]
Hanna discovers her innate magic is copying the powers of other magical girls, though she could only use one at a time. Mikoto's mind control magic became her favorite due to its convenience, which made Mikoto proud and Hanna happy, allowing both of them to bond.[36]
With Hanna's help, Mikoto discovers her suggestion magic works on herself. She uses it to believe she has a loving family and happy school life, temporarily easing her pain. When Hanna offers to meet her parents, Mikoto, still under her own spell, agrees enthusiastically. After the suggestion wears off, she panics and decides to bring Hanna to the enchanted elderly couple's home instead.[37]
Mikoto confirms the couple remains under her spell and tells them a friend is visiting. At their home, Mikoto and Hanna help prepare dinner and the couple act as loving parents. While cooking, Hanna notices Mikoto looks sad despite claiming to be happy and offers to listen. Mikoto admits feeling unfulfilled and invisible, expressing a desire to be found and not abandoned.[37]
After dinner, Hanna gives Mikoto an exchange diary for sharing Witch information, mentioning Mikoto can also write her thoughts. Mikoto buys them matching pens but struggles with what to write, realizing her habit of lying has obscured her true self.[37]
Mikoto and Hanna continue hunting Witches and Familiars near Mikoto's apartment complex. Mikoto becomes obsessive, driven by fear that her Soul Gem will become too tainted and that Hanna will abandon her if she becomes useless.[37]
One day, while fighting a Witch on the rooftop of the Daito Apartment Complex where Mikoto lived, Hanna and Mikoto encounter Kanagi Izumi and work together to defeat the Witch. Kanagi invites the two of them to fight together in the future, as well as the other Magical Girls in Daito and while Mikoto is friendly to Kanagi, Hanna is more withdrawn. Inwardly, Mikoto is afraid of Kanagi's mind-reading magic and fears exposure, while Hanna fears losing Mikoto.[36][37]
Hanna later confronts Kanagi and urges her to not get involved with Mikoto and to forget about them. though she initially refuses, Hanna transforms and uses her copied Suggestion magic to erase her memory. Delighted by this, Hanna realized she and Mikoto could use their abilities to disappear from the world whenever they wanted, living like ghosts.[36] Unbeknownst to her, Mikoto had approached Kanagi with the same purpose as Hanna and sees her wiping Kanagi's memories, though she doesn't know why. Mikoto ultimately interprets this as protection and intensifies her Witch hunting going forward despite Hanna's concerns.[37]
Hanna writes a deeply personal exchange diary entry revealing her past of bullying, her parents' deaths, and her time in an orphanage. She describes meeting Mikoto as the first light in her dark life and offers support. Touched, Mikoto writes an honest reply confessing all her lies but tears it up and instead sends a false reply claiming she is fine.[37]
While hunting, as there'd been a drought of Witches, Hanna confronts Mikoto about her pretending to not be exhausted and suggests they run away together. Mikoto refuses, claiming she has things to protect, and resolves to change her situation before truly facing Hanna.[37]
Immediately after this resolution, Mikoto collapses on an apartment complex rooftop. Her Soul Gem, overwhelmed by corruption, transforms into a Grief Seed and she becomes a Witch as Hanna screams out her name. In her final moments, Mikoto experiences agonizing pain and hears Mitama's wish in her head, which she deeply resonates with. She regrets running from her real parents and classmates, never confiding in Hanna, and erasing her father. As she transforms, she sees the sunset behind Hanna and feels gratitude that Hanna is with her until the end.[37]
During this same time as Mikoto despairs, Mitama makes her own wish, affecting Mikoto and her Witch.[Citation needed]
After escaping Mikoto's Witch, Kyubey approaches Hanna and explains that Witches come from Magical Girls. Suffering a complete mental breakdown, Hanna bashes her head open on the ground and realizes happiness was never going to be hers. Declaring she would rebel against the incubators, she uses her magic to bind Mikoto's witch to the Daito Apartment Complex, telling it to spread despair and promising to visit.[36]
Unbeknownst to even Mikoto, Mitama's wish during the exact moment Mikoto became a Witch allowed Mikoto to gain the power of Transplant magic, thus transplanting her persona into Hanna and maintaining her sense of self as a parasite within Hanna's mind.[38]
Some time later, Hanna uses her copied Magic to stop a Witch from moving and tells it her entire story. Hanna thanks it for spending time with her and decides to mind control it to cause mayhem, rather than killing it for a Grief Seed.[36]
Asuka Tatsuki becomes a Magical Girl to have her cousin become a police officer.[Citation needed]
Mitama Yakumo becomes a Magical Girl after a huge backlash of bullying.[Citation needed]
On the same day that Mitama makes her wish, Mikoto becomes the Mirror Witch in front of Hanna. Due to her new transplant magic, before turning into a Witch Mikoto transplants her consciousness into Hanna's mind, but doesn't initially awaken. Hanna is devastated from the truth about Witches. She decides to rebel against the Magical Girl system, controlling Witches and spreading ruin in Kamihama.[36]
Likely during this time, Yumeno Yusa, or Yu, attempts a lover's suicide with her best friend Kei Seto by jumping off a cliff while strangling each other. Kei dies but Yu herself manages to live. Yu goes back to school, though depressed by Kei's death, while Kei's spirit gets tangled with that of a Witch.[Citation needed] Yu's approached by Kyubey and makes the wish to become so crazy, she forgets who she is.[Citation needed]
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Sunao becomes a magical girl and starts working as an assassin for the Mikoshiba due to threats from her to kill her parents.[Citation needed]
Rena becomes a magical girl and becomes friends with Momoko.[Citation needed]
Kaede becomes a magical girl and becomes friends with Momoko and Rena.[Citation needed]
Tsuruno becomes a magical girl and gains infamy for dueling magical girls until she’s beaten by Yachiyo and joins her team. Yachiyo also meets Rena and Kaede.[Citation needed]
Yachiyo, Mifuyu and Momoko, along side Tsuruno, Rena and Kaede, return to Toyozuru City to investigate Sumire's "disappearance" along side the disappearance of one of Rena's favorite Idol bands in Toyuzuru, meeting there a Magical Girl named Fuka.[35]
Mel becomes a Magical Girl and meets Kanagi.[Citation needed]
Mikazuki Villa return again to Toyuzuru City after Yachiyo concludes that Fuka and Sumire are working together. Mel meets Fuka again and feels that she isn't a bad person, and after learning the truth of magical girls tunring into Witches and almost falling in despair, Sumire makes a contract with Kyubey to save them, erasing herself from their memories and the events that happened in Toyuzuru City.[29]
Tsukasa and Tsukuyo become magical girls.[Citation needed]
Karin becomes a magical girl on Halloween.[Citation needed]
Kanagi serves as peacekeeper of the East Side while Yachiyo serves as peacekeeper of the West Side, with her partner Mifuyu helping maintain their system of sharing witches and respecting Central Ward as neutral territory. When a severe witch shortage leads magical girls from both sides to encroach on Central, conflicts erupt. After Momoko is attacked in a Barrier by someone claiming to be from the opposite side, Yachiyo and Mifuyu meet with Kanagi to negotiate. Kanagi reveals her own girls have been attacked similarly, and both incidents occurred in the same barrier. Using her mindreading powers, Kanagi confirms they are telling the truth.[39]
As tensions escalate with more attacks on both sides, Yachiyo and Mifuyu investigate the barrier themselves and discover it belongs to the Mirror Witch, which separates them and weakens Mifuyu's magic. They retreat, realizing something larger is at play.[39]
A few days later, stories of East and West fighting in Central spread. Yachiyo beats up girls from Sankyou and Sakae when they try to push past her.[39]
A day later, the stalemate continues as Westsiders want to incorporate Central into their territory, which Yachiyo warns would create greater conflict.[39]
The situation worsens with more fights and casualties. Mifuyu meets Hinano in Central, who berates her for allowing the chaos and agrees to help calm Central's girls only if Mifuyu takes real action. When Mel is accused of an attack she could not have committed, Mifuyu realizes someone is deliberately pitting both sides against each other. She spreads the word hoping to stop the fighting.[39]
At their next meeting, Kanagi confirms all attacked girls were in the same witch's barrier. They deduce the Mirror Witch is responsible and decide to return together.[39]
They find the barrier has grown, fed by the conflicts. Inside, they are separated and confronted by mirror duplicates. Mifuyu defeats her duplicate, which taunts her about losing her powers. She rescues Kanagi from a duplicate Yachiyo. After confirming identities using Kanagi's powers, they find the others and defeat more duplicates before withdrawing, exhausted.[39]
Outside, they realize they cannot simply prohibit entry to Central. Kanagi and Mifuyu devise a plan: they will require anyone who wants to negotiate with Central to first defeat the Mirror Witch, while guaranteeing Central's safety and establishing punishments for pact-breakers. As they part, Mifuyu asks Kanagi to help Yachiyo if she is no longer around. Kanagi promises.[39]
The Witch would eventually be lured to an abandoned building on the Eastside using Mirrors, with a supervisor keeping others away.[39]
After a while, Fuka turns into the Witch Raspberry. Sumire is unable to defeat her and the witch escapes into the West, heading to Kamihama City.[29]
Mikazuki Villa goes to an Amusment Park shortly after Mel's death.[Citation needed]
Sumire hunts down the Witch Raspberry in Kamihama and manages to kill her. After this, she starts to go to Kamihama to check on Yachiyo, Mifuyu and Momoko, as her parents start to work on Satomi Medical Center, although they don't remember her. On one of her visits, Sumire meets Iroha Tamaki.[Citation needed]
After this meeting is implied that Sumire decides to stop going to Kamihama City and remains on Toyuzuru City.[Citation needed]
Yachiyo dissolves Mikazuki Villa. Tsuruno starts to work alone in Sankyo Ward, Momoko makes a new team with Rena and Kaede and Mifuyu disappears.[34]
Due to Hanna's Witches, Nanaka Tokiwa's father, the head of a traditional flower arranging school falls ill. Due to his illness, the head students take over, turn their back on tradition and shut out the Tokiwa family. On his deathbed, he implores Nanaka with taking back the school.[40]
After his death, Kyubey appears to her. Nanaka wishes for the power to exact her family's revenge by her own hand. She gains the power to identify who her enemies are. This ability makes her realize the target of her revenge is not a student but a Witch. This witch behaves like a locust swarm, causing calamities in one area before migrating. The Locust Witch also controls the current head of her father's school via a Witch's Kiss, as well a being responsible for several issues in Kamihama.[40]
Alina Gray wins a Modern Art award for a self‑portrait. Students at her school spread a rumor that she could not think of anything to make, snapped all the wood in the prep room, and only got the idea to paint herself when she was about to break the canvas. She had a junior take a photo, then drew herself and coated the image in sand. Alina overhears this while at school. In the clubroom, she takes the strawberry milk from Karin, who says it is mean, but Alina says it is meaner to gossip. Karin reminds Alina that she was happy to win and was the one who took the photo, but Alina dismisses her and leaves, thinking she creates art simply to create.[41]
Alina is called to the teacher's room to meet a judge, but she refuses and runs away. A teacher scolds her, but Alina remains obstinate and eventually flees. Karin later finds her at a restaurant and gives her a letter from the judge. The letter says her work is beautiful and arcane enough to drive viewers insane, but it has no external theme and is like a powerful drug. It warns her to stop creating if she does not want to change the world, because her brilliance will probably run out by age fifteen. Alina does not understand the letter, but it affects her deeply.[41]
Alina visits an art gallery exhibiting her works. She reviews a poster of her past works, which explains that her parents ran an art gallery, and after her dog and grandparents died at age eight, she became fascinated with the boundary between life and death. She created her first artwork at eleven and later drew a picture using charcoal from carbonized corpses. She admits she does not know why she creates art. In the clubroom, she destroys a painting she worked on all week, saying it is not exciting or emotional enough. Karin tries to show her manga, but Alina asks what theme Karin has in mind, and Karin says she draws to make readers feel better. Alina realizes Karin has something she lacks.[41]
Alina decides her brilliance will fade at fifteen, so she plans a final artwork: destroying herself. Kyubey appears and offers her a contract, but she refuses to solve her problems with a wish, saying it would not be herself anymore. She wishes for "an area where nobody can disturb me," then jumps off a roof with a video camera recording. She lands in a field of flowers, but she survives.[41]
While unconscious, Alina realizes she always had a theme: her own beauty. She wakes up in the hospital and finds Karin crying. Alina admits she does not feel alive, but Karin grabs her hands and says she is alive. Karin gives her a copy of her manga and leaves.[41]
Touka Satomi and Nemu Hiiragi visit Alina in the hospital. They were the ones who found her. Alina thanks them. Touka asks if she is the famous Alina Gray, and Nemu says her artwork "Psychedelic Adolescent Hymn" had many young visitors. Nemu gives her a flyer about her art. Alina realizes it is a picture of her destroying her artwork. Touka and Nemu ask for her thanks and want to talk with her. Alina is confused but agrees.[41]
Afterward, Kyubey appears and says Touka and Nemu have the same potential she does. He explains that becoming a Magical Girl saved her life. Alina admits her final artwork failed, but she found her theme, and she will not stop creating. She transforms and enters a Witch's barrier, laughing as she fights. She declares that her next art will be made from Witches, and she will show everyone her beauty until they become drunk on it.[41]
At some point during this time, Touka Satomi reads a book written by her uncle titled “Magical Girls: Their Hope and Despair.” Her uncle asks readers to keep an open mind to all possibilities. He describes how civilization exists thanks to Magical Girls. This iss Touka’s first exposure to the world of Magical Girls. Touka loves the book, though her father disapproves. She wonders if the book had anything to do with her uncle’s disappearance. She reads about a creature called “Kyubey” and assumes the name is a code or acronym. She decides to search the internet for information.[42]
The next day, Touka is at the hospital. She learns that Ui is soon to be discharged as she had mysteriously recovered from her illness. Nemu is surprised at how quickly Ui recovered, and Touka is glad Ui is better, but sad to see her friend go. She would rather Ui be alive and well than close to death, as she was when she lost consciousness and her brain activity almost ceased. Touka says she would not mind becoming a Magical Girl if it were for Ui’s sake and hopes Ui will still visit them. Ui promises to visit when she returns for follow‑up tests. She swears she will not visit any of the places on their map until both Touka and Nemu are well enough to join her.[42]
Later that night, Touka awakens in a bizarre world: a Witch’s barrier. She calls out for Nemu and Ui, who were also pulled in. Ui points to a familiar nearby and Touka begins to hyperventilate. The familiar approaches, but they're saved by Iroha, in her Magical Girl form. Kyubey calls to Iroha, telling her the direction the Witch is heading. Iroha is more concerned about her sister and her friends and Touka recognizes the creature before her as Kyubey.[42]
Some time later, Touka is safe at home and Kyubey appears before her. Touka asks if she qualifies to be a Magical Girl. Kyubey asks what she would like to wish for. Touka has several questions first. She attempts to hack into the hivemind that all Kyubeys share. Before she can tap into the network, Kyubey teleports out of the room and severs the connection. Kyubey warns that if he had not severed the connection, all of her computers would have been fried. Kyubey offers to answer any questions. They talk long into the night.[42]
The next morning, Touka returns to the hospital and finds Nemu and Ui talking about Iroha. Iroha has not stopped fighting monsters since the barrier incident. Ui is worried it may be taking a toll on her sister. Nemu is not sure how they can help without knowing what is going on. Touka confidently declares that Iroha must be a Magical Girl. Nemu thinks Touka is joking, but she is serious. She relays everything she learned from Kyubey.[42]
Touka then explains her plan to save Iroha from her fate of turning into a Witch. The pros of being a Magical Girl are a healthy body with increased stamina. The con is that you must battle Witches until one day you become a Witch. If they can remove that fate, there will be no downsides to becoming a Magical Girl. This would also benefit mankind. If they can eliminate the need for Grief Seeds, no girl would have to become a Witch.[42]
Touka does not believe Kyubey would allow a wish to erase the fate of all Magical Girls. Instead, they will each wish to steal one of Kyubey’s powers. Ui will wish for the power to harvest impurities and pass them to Touka. Touka will wish for the power to convert impurities into magic that all Magical Girls can use. She will pass this magic to Nemu, who will wish for the power to manifest that magic into an automatic purification system. In theory, the three of them will create a system that gathers energy automatically and delivers it to outer space to combat entropy, just like Kyubey does. Ui understands the plan and agrees.[42]
The next late afternoon, in front of the hospital, Kyubey meets Touka, Nemu, and Ui. He asks for their wishes. They make their wishes for the different powers Kyubey possesses, where Ui wishes for his ability to absorb impurities, Touka for his power to transform energy, and Nemu for his ability to manifest. Kyubey warns they may not have enough karmic energy and that even he does not know what will happen. They agree to make the wishes for all their dreams. As their wishes are granted, Kyubey’s ear rings fall off. He shrinks into a small Kyubey, Lil' Kyubey.[42]
The girls stare at the shrunken Kyubey and Touka begins to commence their plan. Ui’s face contorts in pain and she screams. Her ability to harvest impurities automatically overwhelms her with the massive amounts of despair she is absorbing. If they do not hurry, Ui will become a Witch before they can act.[42]
Touka attempts to convert the impurities into magic, yet the amount of despair is too much and Touka cannot keep up without burning through all her magic. Nemu attempts to manifest some magic, but the despair is far too much for either of them. Alina appears, bothered by the large amounts of impurities gathering there. She transforms and uses her magic to create a forcefield around the hospital. This cuts off the impurities Ui keeps absorbing.[42]
However, Ui’s Soul Gem has already absorbed a disturbing amount of despair and it is at risk of becoming a Witch at any moment. Nemu decides to risk everything by manifesting one of her stories. Without their human personality and emotions, a Witch cannot be created, thus Nemu plans to take Ui’s soul out of her body. Touka points out that without a vessel, Ui’s soul will dissipate and Nemu spies the small empty Kyubey. Since Incubators have no emotion or personality of their own, she decides to house Ui’s soul there. She does not know what might happen, but this is the only plan that may work until they can figure out what to do and return Ui’s soul to her body. Nemu manifests one of her stories as an Uwasa and the process is completed.[42]
Ui's existence is wiped from everyone's memory, and so are all traces of her existence due to this process. Ui's body turns retains her unique magic to collect impurities and it turns into a Witch-like form.[42]
Once the transfer is complete, Alina finds she cannot remember why she came to the hospital roof. She recalls she came to check on Touka and Nemu, but she cannot remember the reason. She remembers jumping from the roof of the hospital and how Touka and Nemu were the ones to find her. She was checked into the same hospital as them. She told them about the many places in Kamihama. She saved them when a Witch attacked. She then discovered a Half‑Witch in the hospital lobby that was absorbing energy. She saved Touka and Nemu from it afterwards.[42]
They talked and came up with a plan to use the Half‑Witch to achieve their goals. Alina wanted to use Witches as material for her best artwork yet. Touka wanted to become healthy and make a deal with Kyubey to learn about the universe. Nemu also wished to become healthy and use the world as her parchment. With the automatic purification system in place, they could sustain the universe while also isolating their world from Kyubey and make all of their dreams a reality.[42]
The girls now believe they have successfully captured the Half‑Witch and contracted at just the right time. They turn to Alina and offer her some of their magic so she can extend the hospital’s forcefield to encompass all of Kamihama and keep Kyubey out.[42]
Some time later, inside Hanna, Mikoto experiences their shared memories and feels the warmth of their friendship, which softens the hatred consuming her from when she became a Witch. When Mikoto appears before Hanna as a sort of apparition only she could see, Hanna reveals she had always sensed Mikoto's presence and was overjoyed to see her again, though neither could touch the other. After they come to understand their situation, Hanna suggests they destroy the city together, seeking revenge against the system that betrayed them. Mikoto agrees, and they begin using enthralled Witches to sow chaos and make Magical Girls fight each other. They move constantly to avoid attachment, targeting families and schools while collecting Grief Seeds to sustain themselves.[38]
Nanaka meets with Meiyui, Akira, and Kako, asking for their help fighting the Locust Witch they all have a connection to. To explain, Nanaka tells them how she became a Magical Girl and what her magic allowed her to surmise. She explains the Witch is also behind incidents in Kamihama where people were forced to sell their land, which connects to Meiyui, as well as causing Kako's bookstore to burn down, and even Akira met Nanaka while fighting one of the Witch's Familiars.[40]
Akira and Kako quickly agree to help. Meiyui also agrees but says she cannot follow Nanaka's orders as a member of the Blue Seas family. Nanaka is fine with this, claiming the details are unimportant. Her plan is to investigate suspicious areas until they find the Witch's Barrier and then destroy it together.[40]
Soon, Nanaka's team are able to track down and defeat the Witch. Meiyui is impressed by how Nanaka reacted to her actions rather than giving orders, thus she also accepts Nanaka as her leader. However, Nanaka explains it is not over, as the Witch they defeated was only a copy created from a fully grown Familiar.[40]
Afterward, Nanaka speaks with Kyubey about a secret. In the past, she found a Soul Gem while chasing a familiar. She then found the seemingly dead body of a girl. She placed the Soul Gem in the girl's hands, and the girl started breathing again. Kyubey explains that Soul Gems are the extracted souls of magical girls.[40]
Kyubey asks if Nanaka will tell the other magical girls the secret. Nanaka says she is waiting for the right moment. Then she thinks about her true revenge target: Kyubey. Her power makes it clear he is her enemy. She is waiting for the right time to turn against him.[40]
Days later, Nanaka's team is still unable to find the original Locust Witch. Akira says she met a magical girl mercenary and as the girls plan their next move, Nanaka muses about how she is gathering the determination of magical girls, waiting for the right moment.[40]
While passing through a cemetery, Mikoto sees her mother crying before a tombstone with her name on it. She confesses to Hanna that she lied about her family and school. Hanna admits she suspected the truth from their exchange diary. To make Mikoto happy, they vandalize Mikoto's school together, also writing her honest feelings on a blackboard before escaping through a window, feeling truly free for the first time.[38]
Hanna uses Mikoto's pen from their diary and vows to prepare what Mikoto truly wanted.[37]
The Azalea sisters flee through the rain after being cornered by other Magical Girls, escaping using Ayame's magic but remaining on the run, accused of attacking their own kind.[43]
Days pass as the sisters hide in an abandoned house. Konoha explains she has been investigating the original incidents with Yachiyo, meeting regularly at a shrine to exchange information, though their investigation has stalled.[43]
The day before the confrontation, Nanaka's team visits Mitama. Nanaka theorizes a Magical Girl capable of controlling Witches is behind the incidents. Mitama recalls a girl with suggestion magic named Mikoto Sena and directs them to Kanagi, who had met her.[43]
Late that night, Kanagi meets Nanaka in a park. Kanagi confirms Mikoto's existence but reveals Mikoto and her family disappeared. She asks to investigate Mikoto herself.[43]
Around the same time, Reira learns from her mother about a strange girl asking questions at her apartment complex. Reira, Seika, and Mito investigate and discover the girl is Kanagi.[43]
The next day, the trio confronts Kanagi. Using Mito's power, they enter Kanagi's memories and learn about Mikoto's friend, Hanna Sarasa, who can copy a girl's unique magic.[43]
That same day, Ayame secretly meets Kako at a park. Both girls are manipulated by suggestion magic, causing them to argue. Nanaka intervenes, but Ayame runs off crying. Nanaka realizes an enemy Magical Girl is responsible.[43]
Meanwhile, Hanna's realized that Mikoto's persona consumes magic like fuel and will vanish permanently if she runs out. Her own Soul Gem deteriorates rapidly from sharing her magic, and her Grief Seed collection is nearly empty. Mikoto's hatred grows stronger as she has visions of Magical Girls becoming Witches, coming from her connection to her Witch, and she struggles to control herself. When she confesses she is on borrowed time, they have their first fight, and Mikoto disappears from shame.[38]
She soon returns to find Hanna's Soul Gem nearly black, with no Grief Seeds left and no power to hunt Witches. Hanna reflects on her life, admitting she no longer believes in her old wish to erase people she hated. She tells Mikoto that evil must be defeated or there will be nothing worth saving. Mikoto asks to die together, but Hanna refuses, saying she is happy.[38]
Back at the hideout, Konoha and Hazuki don't remember Ayame leaving. Ayame accuses them of tricking her. Konoha realizes they are being manipulated.[43]
Tsuruno bursts in, followed by Yachiyo, Nanaka's team, and the Mito trio. Reira reveals Hanna Sarasa as the culprit. As she speaks the name, Hanna reveals herself, admits everything, freezes everyone with her magic, and flees.[43] Hanna had deliberately made herself easy to find because she wants to be defeated, believing it will prove there are still good things in the world.[38]
The group splits up to search. The Konoha sisters find Hanna in an abandoned building. She admits she framed them because it was fun. Yachiyo and Tsuruno join the fight, but Hanna escapes again.[43]
The Mito trio waits on a rooftop. Hanna arrives and hints that Mikoto defeated a Witch but lost in the end. She prepares to kill Mito, but Akira blocks the attack. Nanaka's team arrives and fights Hanna.[43]
Nanaka appears and attacks, having used her team until then to wear Hanna down. Hanna reveals she knew Nanaka before she became a Magical Girl and deliberately ruined her life. Nanaka breaks free and attacks Hanna. During the battle, Nanaka targets Hanna's Soul Gem but hesitates to deliver the final blow.[43] Frustrated, Hanna grabs her own Soul Gem back from Nanaka as Mikoto pleads with her not to do what she intends. In the last moment, Hanna uses her magic to force Mikoto's persona into another Magical Girl nearby, then shatters her own Soul Gem while Mikoto screams.[38]
Mikoto falls into darkness until warm light surrounds her, and Hanna appears one last time. She explains her plan did not fail, telling Mikoto to look at the city that night. Hanna will bear their sins alone, but Mikoto has to live.[38]
Hanna'd copied Mikoto's Transplant magic and sends her to inhabit a Magical Girl on top of an observation deck. This girl ends up being Alina. Through Alina's eyes, Mikoto watches as building lights turn off and on one by one, forming a message visible from above: HAPPY BIRTHDAY. She realizes Hanna spent all their time together preparing this gift, marking every location so the city she hates will celebrate her existence. Though her hatred remains, Mikoto decides she will live, forever remembering this scene seared into her eyes as she whispers goodbye to Hanna.[38]
Later, the survivors gather at Mitama's. Nanaka tells most that Hanna used suggestion magic on herself. Only those who already knew learn the truth about her destroying her own Soul Gem. Nanaka and Yachiyo explain to Konoha that Soul Gems contain a Magical Girl's soul. Konoha cries, lamenting she caused her sisters to contract.[43]
Sometime later, life returns to normal. Asuka apologizes to Hazuki, who accepts. On a rooftop, Nanaka and Konoha discuss Hanna's final words about incoming danger they would all be facing. Konoha reflects that despite everything, Hanna brought them together. Nanaka fears similar darkness could emerge again.[43]
Alexandra becomes a Magical Girl.[Citation needed]
Hikaru and Yuna become Magical Girls almost at the same time.[Citation needed]
Yozuru and Sudachi become Magical Girls almost at the same time.[Citation needed]
Juri forms Ryuugasaki gang.[Citation needed]
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Kuroe becomes a magical girl and starts dating her boyfriend, leaving aside witches in her territory.[Citation needed]
In the Mitakihara suburbs, Mami Tomoe fights a Witch and Kyoko Sakura arrives and assists in the battle. They note the strange decline in Witch populations in their respective territories of Mitakihara and Kazamino and Kyoko states she will share any information she finds.[44]
Over the next several days, Mami investigates cities outside Mitakihara and Kazamino and she finds the Witch populations have declined in those areas as well. Kyubey confirms this is a widespread trend reported by other Magical Girls, though it has not verified every city.[44]
Several days later, Mami travels to Kamihama City and she immediately finds a powerful Witch, confirming that the city is an exception to the decline. She also detects strange, non-Witch magical traces throughout the city, but due to the late hour, Mami ends her investigation for the day but resolves to uncover the secrets of Kamihama.[44]
Iroha Tamaki lives a disconnected life in Takarazaki City, where she feels like an outsider among her classmates and only feels at ease with her family. However, a persistent feeling that her family is incomplete gnaws at her. She takes a train to Kamihama City to investigate the recurring dreams of a girl in a hospital and the strange emptiness she feels at home.[45]
My Diary With You
A few days before Ren's birthday, Rika notices the date on her student card while inviting her to a movie and decides to surprise her with a present.[46]
The next day, Rika and Ren visit a stationary shop, where Rika learns Ren draws in her diary with colored pencils.[46]
Later, at Emiri's consultation stand, Rika gets the idea to commission a decorated pencil case from Kanoko after seeing Emiri's phone case. Kanoko agrees to help, and her father allows them to use his factory's equipment.[46]
That weekend, Kanoko finalizes the material choice and makes Rika practice engraving on scrap metal daily until her skills improve.[46]
Ren and Rika team up to fight a Witch. Afterward, Ren comforts a victim, and Rika calls her kind. Ren reflects that she can live now because she met Rika.[46]
Later that day, Ren buys a cherry pink pencil, which is Rika's favorite color, continuing her tradition of buying a pencil each time she saves someone, hoping to become someone who can stand beside Rika.[46]
The following days, Kanoko deems Rika ready to work on the real gift. Ren sends Rika an invitation to a picture book exhibition, but Rika declines, needing time to finish.[46]
At Emiri's consultation stand, Ren defends Rika during a conversation with Akira. When Rika arrives, she calls them close friends and asks about Ren's drawings but respects that they're in Ren's diary.[46]
That evening, Ren's father gives her two tickets to a picture book exhibition. Thinking of Rika, she keeps both and emails an invitation. Rika replies she already has plans, shocking Ren.[46]
Ren later sees an advertisement for a teddy bear exhibition and invites Rika for the following Sunday. Rika must decline again due to gift work and supplementary lessons, leaving Ren devastated.[46]
The following Sunday, Ren walks through Kamihama, imagining being at the exhibition with Rika. She overhears Rika nearby, thanking Kanoko and Emiri for their help. When Emiri notices her, Rika stumbles over her words, and Ren runs off, saying it's fine.[46]
Later that day, Rika sends an apologetic email. Ren wants to respond but cannot, overwhelmed by envy and shame.[46]
The next day, Ren's mother asks if something is wrong, but Ren says nothing. In her room, she tries to write in her diary but cannot, sobbing as she realizes things cannot go back to the way they were.[46]
Later, Rika tells Akira that Ren has stopped responding. Kanoko and Akira advise her to talk to Ren directly. Rika heads to Ren's school, remembering her favorite place is the audiovisual room.[46]
At the audiovisual room, Ren receives a phone call from Rika. Rika explains she was making Ren a birthday present: twelve colored pencils in an engraved case with a Lily of the Valley motif, flowers which mean "Genuine" and "Pure."[46]
Rika asks Ren to open the door and gives her the present, wishing her a happy birthday. Ren cries, calling it the prettiest thing she has ever seen. As they walk home, Ren apologizes for the misunderstanding. Rika says she chose Lily of the Valley because it is perfect for Ren. Ren promises herself that one day, when she reaches the final page of her diary, she will tell Rika everything about it.[46]
Sometime later, Rika fights a witch alongside Hinano. Afterward, Hinano notes Rika's fighting style has changed—less reckless, more focused on helping others. Rika realizes she no longer fights to relieve stress but to help everyone, and decides she cannot change the past but can change the future.[46]
The next day, as Rika goes to see Ren, she reflects that she has changed because of Ren. In her mind, she tells Ren that no matter how long it takes, she will always be waiting for her.[46]
And So, The Azaleas Bloom
Years ago, Konoha, Hazuki, and Ayame live at Tsuzuji's House orphanage run by a kind Director. Hazuki arrived after her parents died in a car accident. Konoha arrived after her parents died. Ayame was found abandoned in an alley.[47]
One day, Konoha overhears the Vice-Director arguing with the Director about demolishing Tsuzuji's House. Konoha tells Hazuki. They decide not to tell Ayame yet and plan to speak to the Director.[47]
The girls speak to the Director. She explains a government program will integrate Tsuzuji into a larger system, meaning demolition and the children will be separated. She promises to fight it. Konoha and Hazuki research online and find rumors of political corruption. They later learn the Vice-Director colluded with the government and was behind the demolition. They discover this after the Director collapses.[47]
Shortly after, the Director dies and the girls mourn. Hazuki and Konoha tell Ayame about the demolition. They try to fight it, but it moves forward anyway.[47]
The night before they are supposed to leave, Hazuki and Ayame find Konoha talking to Kyubey. Kyubey offers to grant any wish in exchange for becoming magical girls. Ayame immediately wants to save Tsuzuji. Konoha is skeptical and suggests only one contract. Hazuki refuses to let her do it alone. All three decide to contract together.[47]
Konoha proposes they plan their three wishes: first, for Tsuzuji's House to continue existing indefinitely; second, to erase the main cause that tried to demolish it; third, to erase themselves from the memories of everyone involved with Tsuzuji so they can leave without causing trouble. Ayame wants to revive the Director but reluctantly agrees to the plan.[47]
Ayame wishes for Tsuzuji to continue existing. Konoha wishes to erase the main cause of its demolition. As a result, the politicians are punished and the Vice-Director leaves. Hazuki makes the third wish, erasing their memories from everyone at Tsuzuji.[47]
After becoming magical girls, the trio leaves and travels to different cities, hunting witches. Konoha has savings and invests in stocks. Hazuki handles cooking and cleaning. Ayame collects random things in her treasure box.[47]
Sometime later, they return to Kamihama City after hearing there are more witches there. They move into a new house Hazuki found. They pick a school that will help them avoid meeting children from Tsuzuji.[47]
One day, Konoha sees a vision: Nanaka saying they could have worked together, and Hazuki saying Ayame is going to die. She snaps back. Hazuki says she was spacing out. Konoha buys Ayame ice cream and tells Hazuki about the vision, asking her to keep it a secret.[47]
The trio meets Nanaka, Akira, Kako, and Meiyui in magical girl form. Nanaka asks them to join forces. The trio discusses telepathically. Konoha says they cannot trust anyone else. Hazuki wants more information. Ayame is suspicious.[47]
The next day, Ayame runs into Kako, who wants to talk and become friends. Despite Konoha's warnings, Ayame agrees.[47]
Hazuki runs into Ayame on her way to buy dinner. Ayame admits she was going to meet Kako. Hazuki is happy for her and tells her to keep it a secret from Konoha for now.[47]
Ayame brings Hazuki to meet Kako and Felicia. They get along. Ayame wonders if wanting to play with them is a bad thing.[47]
Rumors spread that magical girls are collapsing after fights. The suspects are believed to be magical girls using their powers to cause it. Another rumor claims Hazuki and Ayame's team is responsible.[47]
The following day, Kako and Felicia warn Ayame and Hazuki about the rumors. Kako says Nanaka believes they are being set up.[47]
The trio meets Yachiyo. She explains Momoko was attacked and briefly lost consciousness. Someone is blaming the trio. Yachiyo says she was present and their magical signatures do not match, so she knows they are innocent. She apologizes and leaves.[47]
The next day, Konoha suggests leaving Kamihama. Hazuki argues they should stay and clear their names. Ayame agrees with Hazuki. Konoha reluctantly agrees to stay longer.[47]
Several days pass and Hazuki investigates. She contacts Momoko and asks for help finding the real culprit. Momoko agrees after seeing Hazuki's sincerity.[47]
One evening, Konoha and Ayame go to buy bentos. At the store, Rena and Kaede confront them. Rena wants to fight to see the truth. Konoha fights Rena. Yachiyo arrives and tells them to stop. Suddenly Ayame collapses.[47]
Konoha accuses Rena of attacking her. Rena insists she did not. Konoha turns on everyone, screaming someone here attacked Ayame. She sees visions and becomes convinced they must crush all other magical girls. She transforms and prepares to attack.[47]
Ayame steps in front of her, saying this is wrong. Konoha tries to move past but is blocked by Yachiyo.[47]
Hazuki and Momoko arrive. Hazuki reveals she has been working with Momoko to find the culprit. Konoha is hurt. Hazuki says they need to trust others. Konoha cries, admitting she is scared of losing anyone else important.[47]
Ayame reveals she made friends with Kako. Hazuki admits she suggested keeping it a secret. Konoha flashes back to the Director telling them to support each other.[47]
Kako arrives. She properly introduces herself to Konoha and says Ayame is her precious friend. Konoha thanks her and asks her to look after Ayame.[47]
Hazuki and Momoko try to find the origin of the rumor, but the trail goes cold. Yachiyo and Konoha agree the attacker was not present when Ayame collapsed, so they vow to expose the culprit.[47]
After the incident, the teams develop a friendly rivalry, competing over witch hunts. Konoha tells the Director they may have found their new Tsuzuji's House.[47]
Kyubey speaks to the culprit, Hanna Sarasa, who attacked only Momoko and Ayame, spread the rumors, and hypnotized Konoha. She claims she did it on a whim and Kyubey notes that if witches are disasters, she is, for now, chaos.[47]
Reaching a Happier Height
Masara visits Mitama for a Soul Gem adjustment and notices her staring at a flyer for a hiking rally event. When Masara explains that Kokoro keeps talking about mountain climbing because it's tied to her last happy memory with her family, she leaves the flyer behind. Mitama reads that first prize is five kilograms of rice and decides right then to make sure they win it.[48]
The next day, Kokoro vents to Masara about how witch hunting always gets in the way of her climbing. When Masara asks why she loves it so much, Kokoro explains that it's her favorite memory, the last thing she ever did with her family before everything changed.[48]
Later that day, Kokoro stops by Mitama's shop for an adjustment. Mitama casually brings up the hiking rally and Kokoro is easily convinced to participate. Momoko pays for her own adjustment while they're talking, and when Mitama asks about hiking preparation, Momoko suggests bringing water.[48]
The following day, Mitama drags both Masara and Kokoro to the mall without giving any explanation. While they're distracted looking around, she buys supplies on her own: amazake, salt, chocolate, and supplements. She finds them picking out a bento box together and adds bear repellent to her cart.[48]
The night before the rally, Kokoro and Masara visit Mitama to review their preparations. Mitama has made an extensive list that includes lip balm and selfie sticks. When Mitama brings up the event itself, Kokoro initially tries to decline because of homework. Mitama suggests Masara could help her study, and Masara reluctantly says she wouldn't mind if Kokoro went. Kokoro finally agrees, and Mitama reveals that first prize is rice. Kokoro offers to make lunch for both of them.[48]
After they leave, Mitama prepares what she calls a special energy drink. Momoko takes one sip and immediately collapses. Mitama fills bottles with the mixture anyway.[48]
The morning of the event, Kokoro calls Mitama wondering where she is. Mitama reveals she never actually planned to participate and wanted them to win the rice for her all along.[48]
Masara and Kokoro begin the rally together, solving questions at each checkpoint. When Kokoro suggests they stop for lunch, they find a spot to eat. Masara compliments her cooking and Kokoro admits she's been cooking for herself ever since her mother left. They discover Mitama's energy drink stuffed in their bags and sip it, which ends up slowing them down considerably.[48]
After clearing ten questions, they discover they're in the lead. They search for the twelfth checkpoint without success. Masara deduces it should be to the right, but her Soul Gem reacts to a Witch on the left. They defeat the Witch and lose time, but afterward they spot the checkpoint hidden in an unexpected place.[48]
They reach the summit with an hour still left on the clock. Kokoro tears up, overwhelmed by the memory of climbing with her family. Masara apologizes for being there instead of them, but Kokoro clarifies they're tears of joy. She tells Masara she's glad she wanted to come with her.[48]
After Kokoro finishes crying, Masara offers her a handkerchief. The word tears gives Masara the answer to the final question. They turn in their answers and win the rice.[48]
After the event ends, Kokoro hauls the heavy rice into Mitama's shop. Mitama stresses again that she never intended to go, but Kokoro and Masara point out she pushed them into shopping for supplies. Mitama offers to make them lunch and Masara declines. Mitama tells Kokoro she should thank Masara, explaining that Masara was interested in the rally specifically because hiking was Kokoro's number one memory. Kokoro thanks her sincerely. She asks if they can go again sometime. Masara says her sneakers are worn out. Kokoro suggests they buy new ones together.[48]
The following day, Masara returns to Mitama for another adjustment. She describes how the lunch that day seemed especially delicious and asks if Mitama understands what that means. Mitama says that feeling is difficult to put into words, but that it felt special to her.[48]
Another Daze
This event and the accompanying Side Stories follow the main team of Kazumi Magica. Regarding Kazumi, this event takes place before Kazumi meets the rest of the Pleiades, while in Magia Record, it takes place sometime after the founding of the Doppel System.
Kaoru, Umika, and Kazumi chase a Witch to Kamihama City and a surge of magic gets Kazumi separated from them. Kaoru trusts Umika but worries about Kazumi. Before she can plan, her Soul Gem reacts to a nearby Witch and she enters the Barrier and finds Natsuki Utsuho fighting Familiars alone, so they team up and defeat the Witch together. They then introduce themselves and Natsuki offers to guide Kaoru through the city. Natsuki recognizes Kaoru as the soccer player who crushed her school's team and they become friends. As they search, Natsuki explains Witches have increased dramatically in Kamihama recently and mentions a cheer club member was Witch-kissed and attacked, leading her to intensify her Witch hunts despite lacking strength to fight alone.[49]
Meanwhile, Umika also defeats a Witch and encounters Kako Natsume, who realizes she's a Magical Girl too and invites her to Natsume Books to discuss the search over tea. Kako also realizes Umika is the author Umika Misaki. Umika asks Kako to contact her fellow Magical Girls for information about Kazumi and Kaoru. Kako admits her teammates asked her to investigate Umika due to rumors about outsider Magical Girls attacking others. She leads Umika to meet Akira Shinobu, who initially confronts Umika but accepts her after witnessing her dedication to fighting Witches and learning she was taught by Akira's father. They seek out Meiyui Chun for information from the Blue Seas Family network, encountering her fighting a Witch and assisting her. Meiyui trusts Umika after their conversation and shares information from Nanaka, who reports sightings of an unfamiliar yellow Magical Girl sprinting through four locations in the city.[50]
Natsuki admires Kaoru's strength, but Kaoru insists their teamwork made the difference and explains she never wished for soccer skill, valuing hard work instead. Their Soul Gems react to another Witch and Natsuki offers to fight alone so Kaoru can search, but Kaoru refuses to leave her friend. They head toward the magic together. Inside the Labyrinth, they face a different Witch that attacks Kaoru from above, however Natsuki creates a defensive barrier to protect Kaoru, who uses the opening to defeat the Witch.[49]
Kako theorizes Kaoru is following the Witch's route and that tracking Witch appearances will lead to her. The group deduces the next Witch will appear in Chuo Ward. There they sense a Witch being defeated, which Umika senses as being done Kaoru's magic signature.[50] Umika and Kaoru reunite and agree to search for Kazumi together. Before leaving, Kaoru asks Natsuki for one last cheer to get her fired up and Umika also promises to send signed copies of her next book to her new Kamihama friends.[49][50]
Kazumi sleeps on a park bench in Kamihama when Tsuruno wakes her. Kazumi only remembers her name and is hungry, so Tsuruno feeds her at Banbanzai. Soon afterwards, Kazumi's hair coil tingles, sensing evil, so she follows it and encounters Himika and Kanoko gathering mushrooms. A Witch's Labyrinth appears and quickly vanishes. They explain Magical Girls to Kazumi and at Himika's home, Kazumi remembers making beef stroganoff for two girls. Kanoko recognizes the novelist Umika Misaki from a saying of Kazumi's and cries after eating a Sobbing Shroom.[51]
Following Kanoko's advice, Kazumi visits Emiri's consultation office, where Emiri suggests searching her belongings. Kazumi finds a flyer for an Asunaro cafe and Emiri deduces she is from Asunaro. Suddenly, Sasara arrives seeking help for Asuka who disappeared inside a Witch's Labyrinth. Kazumi insists on helping and Sasara allows her to come but tells her to wait outside.[51]
At the Labyrinth, Kazumi transforms and destroys the Witch, freeing Asuka. From this, she remembers that she, Umika and Kaoru fell for the same Witch's trap. Asuka and Sasara suggest she find Yachiyo through Mitama to help and Emiri lends Kazumi a spare phone as well.[51] As she's hungry again, she stops at Walnut's, where she apologizes to Manaka Kurumi after eating a meal she cannot pay for. Manaka appreciates her honesty and, after insisting, Kazumi washes dishes and buses tables, noticing the restaurant's warm atmosphere and Manaka's hard work.[52]
Hinano Miyako enters, seeking Manaka's help to cure her writer's block through food and Kazumi offers to cook for her, remembering how Umika would cure writer's block. Manaka cooks alongside Kazumi and they serve a wiener, noodle salad, and cake to Hinano, who devours it and is struck by inspiration. Manaka urges Kazumi to find her friends and Hinano overhears and recognizes Kaoru's name, writing directions to a park where she saw her. Kazumi rushes to the park following Hinano's directions but still cannot find anyone.[52] She goes back to search for Mitama's place but cannot find it either and keeps returning to the same street. Her hair coil tingles. She is then found by Yachiyo inside the Uwasa and taken to Mitama's.[51]
Elsewhere, Umika and Kaoru are pursued by a shadowy doppelganger of Kazumi, and after asking for help from the local Magical Girls, Tsuruno leads them to Emiri's office. As Emiri is out, Ria offers to help and they seek Yachiyo, who does not answer. The doppelganger catches up and Ria fights it herself, while Yachiyo calls Tsuruno back and advises them to meet at Mitama's. Emiri also returns and uses her illusion magic to help them escape to Mitama's, where they find Kazumi sleeping. There, Yachiyo explains Rumors and the doppelganger road: if the doppelganger meets the original, the original will be replaced. She also reveals she escaped the road and found the real Kazumi, bringing her to Mitama's.[51]
The doppelganger Kazumi arrives outside. Yachiyo explains there are now two Kazumis and the fake must be destroyed. The Rumor scattered its mind in eight directions; they must capture the eight fakes in one place to reassemble Kazumi's psyche.[51]
The girls fight the doppelganger and Ria holds it off while the others retreat inside. Inside, Kazumi wakes in a cloud world and hears Umika and Kaoru's voices calling her as Mitama had linked their Soul Gems to reach her. The smell of food from her new friends guides her back and Kazumi awakens. Tsuruno brings fried rice and Himika brings mushroom hotpot, however Yachiyo explains the Rumor is not gone, so Mitama links their Soul Gems to gather the scattered parts. Together, they defeat the doppelganger permanently.[51]
Later, as Kazumi, Umika, and Kaoru prepare to return to Asunaro, they stop at a supermarket for ingredients. Kazumi thinks that she will think of this adventure whenever she makes fried rice or mushroom soup.[51]
During Satomi Usagi's rampage against the Kazumi Series, a few of them manage to survive.[53]
Clone 4, which was noted to be the most similar to the original Michiru Kazusa, manages to save and sneak off with Clones 2, 6, 7 and 10. She nurses them back to health by feeding them part of her body, which clones are able to do.[53]
Afterwards, Clone 10 makes a contract with Kyubey to "Make Number 4 into the real 'Michiru Kazusa'... Make her into a real, human Michiru." This causes number 4 to become a real human version of Michiru before she became a Magical Girl.[53]
Clone 2 then wishes for Niko Kanna's ability to reform and rebuild, which she then uses on the other clones to give them their appearances and identities. It is unclear if any of the other clones' wishes were involved, as the personalities of the original Pleiades were always at odds with those of the clones, and they would eventually succumb and turn back into their clone selves once time had passed, and they'd accumulated enough impurities. They plan to have Michiru re-enact the life of the real Michiru, by saving the clones of Umika and Kaoru, but this time with the intent of having a happy ending.[53]
Through this, Clone 2 takes the appearance and identity of Niko Kanna.[53]
The events featuring the characters of Suzune Magica take place at some point after Mifuyu joins the Magius. The events do have spaces of time between them, however as the amount of time is impossible to discern in regards to other events, they're all listed in this section.
In Hohzuki, a classmate shows Chisato a social media post about one of her father's books, "The Adventures of Dumpling Boy," found in Kamihama City. Something about seeing the book triggers a deep curiosity she cannot let go, and she resolves to travel to Kamihama to find it. Arisa offers to come.[54]
In another city, Suzune Amano finishes killing all the Magical Girls where she lived and enrolls at Akanegazaki Middle School in Hozuki City, her next target. Kyubey finds her and tells her about Kamihama, a city no Incubator can enter where many Magical Girls are gathering. Suzune comes to investigate and eliminate any she meets, believing this will end the cycle of Magical Girls becoming Witches.[54]
Suzune arrives in Kamihama after learning from Kyubey that magical girls are being drawn to a city the Incubators cannot enter. She believes magical girls are eggs who hatch into witches and has vowed to kill them before they can transform, a mission born from personal tragedy: Tsubaki, a magical girl she cared for, became a witch, and Suzune was forced to kill her. While walking through the city, she stops to look at a Camellia flower, which are called "Tsubaki" in Japanese, and thinks of the girl who gave her fire magic. A magical girl named Kaede approaches and strikes up a conversation about the flowers, but their talk is interrupted by Momoko and Rena. After they leave, Suzune senses a witch barrier and finds a group of cloaked magical girls who allow her to fight the witch with them. Suzune destroys it effortlessly, and when they refuse to give their names, she attacks them.[55]
Mifuyu intervenes and blocks the attack, quickly deducing from Suzune's aim for Soul Gems that she kills magical girls before they turn into witches. Mifuyu reveals she is part of the Wings of Magius, a group trying to save magical girls from their fate, but Suzune dismisses this and attacks again. Alina Gray arrives and traps Mifuyu in a barrier to protect her, then fights Suzune herself. Suzune uses Tsubaki's fire magic to launch a surprise attack, but Mifuyu warns Alina from inside the barrier and she dodges. Realizing she has used too much magic and cannot continue, Suzune agrees with Mifuyu that the best she can do is take one of them down, then vanishes.[55]
Later, Suzune reflects that Kamihama has powerful foes and decides to be more careful on her next hunt. Sensing a new barrier, she asks Tsubaki to watch over her and notes that even in Kamihama, the cycle continues.[55]
Several days later, past midnight, Kokoro enters a Witch's barrier and finishes off a Familiar, only to be surrounded by countless more, but Suzune appears and destroys them all. Kokoro thanks her, and she introduces herself as Suzune, and after Kokoro gives her name, Suzune strikes at her Soul Gem. Masara thwarts her attack, as she was there following Kokoro in the Labyrinth while remaining invisible, and telepathically warns Kokoro to attack and run, while Masara strikes at Suzune from behind, allowing Kokoro to flee. Kokoro thanks Masara for rescuing her and they discuss the unknown attacker.[54]
Around the afternoon, Arisa and Chisato arrive in Kamihama. Chisato lectures Arisa about her attitude toward some high school students on the train, reminding her they represent their school as disciplinary committee members. They then notice Momoko scolding Rena for bumping into someone, and Arisa recognizes herself in Rena's defensiveness. Chisato compares the trio to her own friendship with Arisa, and Arisa admits Chisato saved her despite being annoyed at being made to think about the past.[56]
Chisato takes Arisa to a Sayuki Fumino live show, where Arisa cries during a song she likes. During a quiz event, Arisa and Rena become the final two contestants and tie, winning prizes. Chisato and Kaede suggest the two are becoming friends, but both deny it. Afterward, Arisa and Chisato go to look at picture books, their original reason for visiting Kamihama. Chisato says Arisa has changed, and Arisa insists they will stay together before immediately lashing out at someone again.[56]
Arisa buys them crêpes, though Chisato reminds her they came to find a picture book. Chisato explains she loved a particular picture book from before things went bad with her father, but she cannot remember its title, only its cover. While searching for Natsume Books, Chisato asks an older woman for directions, and the woman calls over Akira Shinobu, who happens to be in the area. She offers to take them to Natsume Books, and when they arrive, they meet Kako, the bookseller's daughter. Chisato asks for "The Adventures of Dumpling Boy," and Kako offers to check her files. While waiting, Arisa finds a book about a kindly Witch driven away by villagers who mistakenly blamed her. They search the entire store but do not find the book Chisato seeks.[54]
Suzune hides inside a Witch's barrier, waiting for another Magical Girl to appear. The Familiars force her to kill them all, and Akira approaches her as the barrier dissipates. She offers to help Suzune, who pretends to be injured, and Suzune accepts when she realizes she needs intel. Akira takes Suzune to Emiri's Consultation Services and Suzune finds herself genuinely enjoying conversation with Akira. Nanaka soon appears, and Suzune recognizes the fake smile on Nanaka as the same kind she uses herself. She quickly questions Suzune about how they met, where she is from, and why she is in Kamihama. After Suzune leaves, Nanaka tells Akira she sensed something bad might happen and knows Suzune is their enemy. Suzune herself decides to lay a trap near a Witch to confirm Nanaka is a Magical Girl.[54]
Chisato and Arisa finish their search, and Kako confirms the book is not in her files. Kako offers to help them search elsewhere, and Chisato accepts after Arisa urges her. Kako offers to call another bookstore her father knows. Outside, Chisato accuses Arisa of being inconsiderate for accepting Kako's help without thought. They argue, and Arisa returns to the bookstore while Chisato searches alone. Arisa thinks about her argument with Chisato and returns to Natsume Books. Kako has good news but notices Arisa's expression, and Arisa breaks down and tells Kako everything about her fight with Chisato. Chisato also returns looking dejected, and Kako tells her how serious Arisa is about the search, so they apologize to each other.[54]
Meanwhile, Suzune's trap lures Kokoro and then Nanaka appears, transformed, which confirms Suzune's suspicions. Akira is also hiding, and Suzune learns she too is a Magical Girl. Outnumbered, Suzune uses Heat Shimmer to disappear and Nanaka confirms to the others that Suzune is the enemy, and Kokoro and Masara introduce themselves as well. Elsewhere, Suzune realizes Nanaka's intuition or magic makes her a serious threat, having now failed to kill Kokoro twice.[54]
Kako explains her father's friend owns a secondhand shop nearby and offers to go with them to search. The three girls arrive and begin searching through piles of picture books, eventually finding "The Adventures of Dumpling Boy." Chisato buys the book. They return to Natsume Books to read it, and Chisato finishes with an odd look. The story is about a dumpling boy who meets other dumplings, fuses into a skewer, and gets eaten.[54]
Meiyui meets up with Nanaka and Akira and is introduced to Kokoro and Masara. Nanaka deduces Suzune uses Witches to lure and kill Magical Girls and proposes a plan, though Akira still wants to try talking to Suzune. Later, Suzune returns to Emiri's stand, where Akira is waiting. Suzune admits she would have attacked Nanaka if alone. Akira asks why she targets them, and Suzune says it is nothing personal. They agree to settle things in the alley where they first met, and they fight. Soon, Akira falls, Suzune stabs Nanaka, takes out Kokoro, and strikes down Masara. After Suzune leaves, Meiyui reveals herself, and the girls stand up unharmed, as Meiyui's magic had distorted what Suzune perceived. They staged their deaths to make Suzune believe she succeeded to see what her goal was, and they plan to spread an online post to pressure Suzune into leaving Kamihama.[54]
Meanwhile, Chisato points to the publication details, where her own name appears. She created the dumpling boy character as a child, and her father turned her scribbles into the book. She realizes her wish may have erased this part of her father and cries, but Arisa tells her to hold onto the good memories.[54]
Exhausted and low on magic, Suzune is photographed by two men who say she matches a post on a local forum. She demands they delete it, but feeling watched, she suspects Nanaka is setting her up and resolves to leave Kamihama. Arisa and Chisato walk home and discuss returning to Hozuki City. Suzune overhears and decides to let things cool down in Kamihama first, vowing never to forget Nanaka.[54]
Afterwards, Nanaka asks Meiyui to spread a rumor warning other Magical Girls about Suzune. Meiyui agrees, and Nanaka suggests something unnerving, like she rips out throats. Soon, the rumor spreads online, warps, and eventually becomes the urban legend of the "Ripper Girl" in Hozuki City.[54]
During one of the following days at school, Arisa notices Chisato worrying and presses her to explain. Chisato reveals she agreed to read a picture book to children, but the organizers want her to read from a book of her own creation, and she has no idea what to write. Arisa recruits Matsuri Hinata and Haruka Kanade to help. After school, Haruka proposes they each come up with a storyline and regroup in three days.[57]
Three days later, the girls share their ideas. Haruka's prince story has confusing foreign names, Matsuri's headless rabbit tale is too morbid, and Arisa's monster-slaying sorceress is too violent for children. Chisato has only a vague concept and asks for more time.[57]
A few days later, Chisato presents a completed story combining elements from all their ideas: four girls from different villages receive magic from a white rabbit spirit and unite to defeat a demon king. They refine it together, draw the art, and title it "The Four Girls and the White Rabbit." When Chisato reads it to the children, they enjoy it.[57]
Back at school, Arisa praises Chisato's presentation, but the process reminded Chisato of her father. He was once a respected picture book author whose popularity declined. After her mother died, he turned his resentment toward her. Kyubey appeared, and Chisato wished for a kind, perfect father. As a result, he stopped writing entirely, and she has borne the guilt of taking his dream. Arisa reminds her that the past and present are separate, and with her friends beside her, Chisato begins to believe things will be okay.[57]
The rumor of the Ripper has spread to Hohzuki, prompting Chisato and her friends to investigate its source in Kamihama, while Suzune travels there alone, unaware her classmate Matsuri is among the group.[58]
The group splits up to cover more ground, learning from children at the library that this Memory Ripper differs from the Coat Ripper they know—it changes forms, announces itself with a bell, and demands a name from everyone it meets. Arisa and Matsuri encounter it directly, and though Arisa gives a false name while Matsuri answers honestly, both are attacked. Natsuki finds Suzune but she flees when others arrive. Kanoko discovers the unconscious Matsuri and Arisa, and when Arisa wakes, she has forgotten her wish and reverted to her meek personality. The groups reunite and realize the severity of what they face.[58]
As they coordinate, Aimi calls with intel, but before they can meet properly, the girls are picked off one by one by Memory Ripper, each absorption costing someone their memories. Arisa barely escapes with two children after Ripper pursues her using the forms of her absorbed friends. The remaining girls analyze what they know and deduce that refusing to give Ripper their names causes it to absorb them instead. Using this knowledge and Natsuki's help, they systematically recover everyone, though Suzune remains trapped because Matsuri's scrambled memories mean no one knows her name. Matsuri lets Ripper cut her again, recovering her memories of meeting Suzune and freeing her. Only Ripper's original form remains, that of a random girl. Haruka recalls the rumor's details and deduces its true name is Suzunone.[58]
Suzunone thanks her and disappears. The barrier crumbles, but a mysterious voice interrupts, asking why they always bother her. Outside, everything has been rewritten: Arisa and Matsuri are back to normal, their memories replaced with those of encountering a Witch, and Suzune is nowhere to be found. The girls feel something is amiss but quickly dismiss it and go sightseeing.[58]
The girls decide to split up to pursue everyone's different interests before meeting at the taiyaki shop in the afternoon. Haruka ends up being shown around the Kamihama Museum of Contemporary Art by Natsuki and Aimi, but on the way they encounter two sisters who had a fight after their amusement park plans were postponed due to an art exhibition. When the younger sister angrily wishes her older sibling would disappear, the older sister receives a witch's kiss and vanishes into a barrier.[59]
Haruka, Natsuki, and Aimi pursue them, and while fighting the witch together, Haruka is haunted by memories of her own wish. She recalls wishing for Kyubey to erase her older sister Kanata from existence out of jealousy, only to wake up the next day as the sole person who remembers her. Haruka carries this guilt constantly, believing she must atone by becoming like her sister.[59]
After defeating the witch and reuniting the sisters, who apologize to each other, Haruka reflects on her actions as the group finally gathers for taiyaki. Though Matsuri asks if something is wrong, Haruka insists she is fine while privately acknowledging she will carry the burn of her wish forever, the only one who remembers her sister's smile.[59]
Meanwhile, as she's walking through Kamihama, Matsuri becomes fascinated by Kanoko's unique fungal hair scrunchies, and Kanoko invites her to see more designs at her home.[60]
On the way to Kanoko's house, they encounter Manaka Kurumi, who needs one of Kanoko's designs to win a bet with her senpai Ria Ami about whether Ria could pull off Kanoko's unconventional style. Matsuri offers Kanoko's scrunchies as a solution, and Manaka gratefully gives her ghost mushrooms in return. Kanoko is delighted by the mushrooms, and Matsuri notices the scrunchies have transformed into real ones.[60]
At Kanoko's home, Matsuri marvels at her extensive collection of creative designs. When Matsuri expresses interest in learning metalworking, Kanoko proposes making metal accessories for her in exchange for the mushrooms. Matsuri agrees, and at the family workshop, she struggles to choose a concept until inspiration strikes: she wants taiyaki-shaped earrings as lucky charms to guide her to the perfect taiyaki experience in Kamihama.[60]
Matsuri and Kanoko search for taiyaki shops but haven't found anything transcendent. They meet Ikumi Makino, a maid cafe worker who borrows Matsuri's earrings for an animal-themed performance. Afterward, Matsuri receives a dog-themed headband as thanks and asks Ikumi for a taiyaki recommendation. At the recommended shop, they encounter Ayaka Mariko, a magical girl comedian desperate for the headband to salvage her act at a contest without electricity. Matsuri gives it to her in exchange for an air circulator and dummy. Ayaka mentions hearing about legendary taiyaki but doesn't know where.[60]
After finally trying taiyaki that falls short of perfection, they run into Hinano Miyako and Emiri Kisaki. Hinano desperately needs an air circulator for a science class, so Matsuri gives her the one from Ayaka, receiving homemade detergent in return. Matsuri reveals she was born blind and wished to see, wanting independence and to experience the world. Moved, Kanoko decides to take her to Mitama Yakumo, the Adjuster, hoping she might have information about great taiyaki.[60]
At Mitama's, they find her cooking taiyaki. After Matsuri offers the detergent, Mitama accepts and promises unlimited taiyaki, but accidentally burns it. However, she gives them a poster with a ticket for free taiyaki at a unique cliffside location. At the "Taiyaki Shop Under the Cliff," they meet Himika Mao, who explains customers fish for bags of taiyaki in a small lake. Matsuri enthusiastically tries her luck. The others eventually join them, and everyone enjoys taiyaki while watching the sunset.[60]
Though Kanoko apologizes for not finding the perfect taiyaki, Matsuri disagrees—the sunset view made it perfect. She reflects on her first sunset after gaining her sight and her dream to keep experiencing new places and meeting people. She thanks Kanoko, knowing this day will remain a precious memory.[60]
That night, Kagari drags an unconscious Suzune out of Kamihama. She meets Kyubey and berates him for involving Suzune and nearly ruining her plan, calling Matsuri a nuisance. Kyubey notes she accomplished this with her ability to rewrite memories. Exhausted from affecting so many people, Kagari says she will return Suzune to Hohzuki after ensuring she has forgotten everything and asks Kyubey to remain quiet about her plan.[58]
Kagari arrives in Kamihama, sensing strange magic similar to what had overtaken Suzune and Matsuri previously. She is approached by the reorn Rumor of the Ripper Girl, now the Rumor of the May Bells of Happiness, smelling the overwhelming scent of flowers and hearing a voice offer her a gift of happiness. Upon Kagari's plea for Tsubaki, the reborn Rumor from the Ripper Girl mixes its magic with Kagari's and creates a world specifically matching her wishes. Those Kagari invites, as well as several people nearby, have their minds pulled into the dream, their memories rewritten in accordance, while their unconscious bodies remain in the real world. The most important person for this world, Tsubaki, has her own consciousness pulled from a point in the past before her death, collapsing in the middle of the street. The newly created world within the Labyrinth shifts to daily life, showing how Kagari, her twin sister Matsuri, their childhood friend Suzune, and their caretaker Tsubaki moved to Kamihama after their mother died. At school they befriend Aimi, Kokoro, and Masara.[61]
Tsubaki and her three adopted daughters, Suzune, Matsuri, and Kagari, move to Kamihama City. The three girls leave for their first day of school at Kamihama University Affiliated School while Tsubaki stays behind to unpack. Later, Suzune returns home alone as Matsuri and Kagari stayed to check out club activities. Suzune reveals she did not visit any clubs and intends to get permission to work a part-time job, not wanting to burden Tsubaki.[62]
Tsubaki shares a story from her past. She lost her parents to a Witch and was taken in by a distant relative, Yoriko Yanagi, who ran a kendo dojo. Under Yoriko's strict guidance, Tsubaki learned kendo and proper manners. She also met her first Magical Girl companion and rival, Ichika, at the dojo. Suzune asks about Yoriko but Tsubaki reveals that Yoriko is deceased, as she had followed Tsubaki into a Witch's Labyrinth and was killed. Tsubaki failed to protect her because she was too focused on the Witch that murdered her parents. Tsubaki shows Suzune a bell charm that is Yoriko's keepsake, which Ichika recovered from the Labyrinth. Tsubaki tells Suzune she wants her to join a club and offers to practice kendo with her once she receives her shinai. Suzune agrees.[62]
Matsuri brings Kokoro, a Magical Girl from Kamihama, to Tsubaki's home. Kokoro had rescued Matsuri from a Witch on the first day of school. Matsuri explains that Kamihama's Witches are much stronger than those in Hozuki. Tsubaki begins teaching kendo to Suzune, Matsuri, and Kokoro at a park, as Kagari wasn't interested and stayed home. Matsuri struggles against Suzune, who easily reads her movements.[62]
Tsubaki reflects on Ichika, her rival and fellow Magical Girl. She shares with Kokoro that she and Ichika did not start out with respect for one another but eventually became close friends who motivated each other. Tsubaki expresses her hope that Suzune, Matsuri, and Kagari will build a similar bond.[62]
Suddenly, they detect a Witch and the group stops practice to investigate. They find a woman under a Witch's Kiss near the Labyrinth. The woman expresses her despair, believing she is not fit to be a mother and that her adoptive daughter is better off without her. The woman falls unconscious and Tsubaki asks Kokoro to look after her.[62]
Tsubaki, Suzune, and Matsuri enter the Labyrinth, soon joined by Kagari who sensed a Witch and came to investigate. They find a child inside, the woman's adoptive daughter. The child is also under a Witch's Kiss and believes she cannot go home because she said terrible things to her adoptive mother. Tsubaki reassures the child that it is not too late to make amends.[62]
The Witch attacks. Suzune is knocked back, and Tsubaki takes a heavy blow protecting the child. The Witch attacks relentlessly. Matsuri and Kagari coordinate to intercept an attack, showing they have learned to read the Witch's movements while Kagari uses her magic to mask Matsuri's presence. This also allows Suzune to land a counterattack.[62]
Tsubaki realizes she was about to repeat her past mistake of becoming too focused on the enemy and neglecting her surroundings. She calms herself and asks the others to protect the child so she can concentrate on the Witch. Tsubaki succeeds in defeating the Witch. The child is unharmed and decides to go home and apologize to her adoptive mother, even deciding to call her "mom".[62]
Afterward, Kokoro receives a message that Masara and Aimi are coming to join them. The group returns to their practice spot to continue kendo, this time also having Kagari join along.[62]
Later, Tsubaki finishes unpacking and she hangs a photograph of herself with Yoriko and Ichika. She speaks to them, saying she is living well as the guardian of Suzune, Matsuri, and Kagari. She hopes she can protect and guide the children as Yoriko did for her. She calls Yoriko her mother and says she will show Suzune and the others the photograph when they return. Tsubaki also notes she must call Ichika to tell her the move is complete.[62]
After school the group defeats a Witch together using Tsubaki and Suzune's combined magic, then discovers May bells blooming out of season by the school gate. Kagari feels something is off despite their peaceful life.[61]
Tsubaki, Matsuri, and Aimi go shopping. Aimi hears someone call her name and smells the same floral scent, which Tsubaki cannot detect. They follow it into a Witch's Labyrinth, defeat the Witch, and find more May bells. When Aimi and Matsuri touch the flowers they wither, but Tsubaki still sees them in bloom. Aimi briefly glimpses her friend Natsuki before forgetting. Tsubaki hears a child's voice and decides they must investigate.[61]
The group discusses the flowers and realizes their perceptions are being blocked. After more investigation and touching flowers, they witness revelations: Aimi disappears when she tries to tell Tsubaki the truth about her death, Suzune and Masara see that Tsubaki died years ago, and Kokoro witnesses young Kagari making a contract with Kyubey to wish for revenge on Suzune for killing Tsubaki. The illusion begins unraveling as Suzune and Kagari fight to keep Tsubaki from learning the truth.[61]
Meanwhile in reality, Natsuki explains to Nanaka and Akira how she contacted them after finding Aimi catatonic at the school thirty minutes ago. Aimi wakes and explains she was trapped in the illusion. Nanaka theorizes Tsubaki's consciousness was brought from the past through powerful magic, maintained by someone who wants the real Tsubaki. She warns those in the illusion may vanish if they stay too long.[61]
Matsuri learns the full truth and finally remembers Tsubaki's last words to her before her death to never give up. She decides to help save everyone even if it means losing Tsubaki again. Tsubaki reaches the school roof and faces Suzune and Kagari, who beg her to stay. Tsubaki refuses, saying she believes they can achieve real happiness without her. With Matsuri's encouragement, Tsubaki tells them she loves them and believes in them. Kagari breaks down asking why Tsubaki didn't say this earlier, and Tsubaki says goodbye as the illusion collapses. Tsubaki awakens in her own time with no memory of what happened, but she feels warm inside. As a young Suzune is concerned, Tsubaki hugs her warmly.[61]
Everyone awakens on the school grounds in reality and Kagari quickly rewrites everyone's memories and disappears. Matsuri and Suzune feel warmth but cannot fully remember what happened. Matsuri returns to Hozuki City where her friends welcome her home. Kagari, alone, reveals her memories have fully returned and she was acting. She resents that Matsuri got in her way and that Tsubaki's words came too late, vowing to make Suzune suffer as she originally wished.[61]
What becomes of this version Kagari after this point is unknown, however the events of Arc 2 hint at these versions of Suzune, Matsuri and Haruka still being alive years later.
Present Day
/Arc 1 details the events taking place during Arc 1 and before the start of Arc 2.
/Arc 2 details the events taking place during Arc 2 and what happens after.
Other
Timelines/Miscellaneous details timelines and universes related to that of the Magia Record. Most of them are from the Endless Mirrors Labyrinth of Winchester, which connects to countless other universes, as well as different points in time.
