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- Akiha, Honoka, and Itsuki arrive at St. Artemis Correctional Facility on the moon, where the Golden Orb Warmer Leopard needs is stored. While Kazane continues monitoring their progress, Akiha and her friends infiltrate St. Artemis. Ul mistakenly releases all the prisoners while disabling the security system, causing a riot that Bougainvillea and Mintao are sent to investigate. While Akiha is caught up in the prison riot, Itsuki and Honoka find that Sakura is being held deep within St. Artemis, after brief fighting with Sakura's robot bodyguard. A video feed showing Takane held prisoner by Aleida and a legion of brainwashed Nervalists prompts Akiha to rush to the rescue, with Honoka and Itsuki on her heels. Leopard arrives to retrieve the sought-after component, but plays right into Nerval's hands as Nerval reveals himself from where he was hiding on the moon.
- Aboard Xanthippe, Akiha wakes up inside her box, with Imo-chan still trying to get her out and Leopard still searching for her. After Akiha's friends return from an unsuccessful search, they decide that Akiha must be in Kirkwood. However, Honoka collapses soon after, and reveals that her lifespan is nearly over. In the meantime, Kazane talks with Leopard, discussing how they can find Leopard's last three parts. When Benkei shows up to challenge Leopard again, Kazane successfully negotiates with Tsutsuji for the pair to retrieve the Proxima Crown for Leopard. The student council approaches Kazane, asking to be allowed to infiltrate Kirkwood, and Kazane links them up with Itsuki, while Honoka goes to talk to Professor Fon on Earth. Back at Kirkwood, Nami, Aleida, and Takane encounter a spybot from the UURE while stamping out the resistance, which attacks Nerval and steals information from him. They manage to destroy the spybot as it tries to escape, but Nami is stabbed by it and falls to the ground.
- Kazane goes over the plan to stop Leopard, assigning Akiha and Honoka to the job of attacking the brain, with the help of the Existence. Kagura asks to be allowed to deal with Nami, because she sees much of herself in Nami. Kagura confronts Nami, and tries to talk Nami out of fighting, but fails and is forced to defeat Nami. As everyone helps with the attack on Leopard, Akiha, Honoka, and the Existence break into Leopard itself as Sakura and the Shishido elders prepare to disable Leopard's power supply and QT-Roses, but Leopard moves and prepares to fire the cannon. He also creates a hyperspace rupture that prevents Akiha from reaching his core.
As Leopard is about to fire the cannon, Xanthippe arrives to prevent the shot, along with Benkei and Nerval. Leopard attacks all three of them as Kazane negotiates an alliance with Nerval. Working together, Benkei blocks the sun from reaching Leopard, depriving Leopard of the power he needs, and then rams into Leopard, knocking off the Crown. Meanwhile, Itsuki has picked up Imo-chan from Nerval and brought her to Akiha. Akiha and Imo-chan have a joyous reunion, and with Fon's information on how to remove the limiter on Akiha's QT-Arms, they are able to penetrate the hyperspace rupture.
Elsewhere, Kagura has exhausted Nami and breaks her staff, leaving Nami collapsed on the ground. Akiha arrives at Leopard's core within the hyperspace rupture, and commands the Existence to attack. However, when the real Leopard appears to retake control, she orders them to stop, but it turns out to be a trick of Dark Leopard. Leopard teleports everyone except Akiha and Imo-chan away, but Akiha successfully brings back the real Leopard by kicking through Dark Leopard. Dark Leopard is transferred into Nerval's human body, and Nerval commands Leopard to fire on Nerval, and Leopard does so, destroying Dark Leopard.
In the aftermath, we see that Nerval has survived, Kagura and Honoka are told that they need immediate medical attention, Akiha is missing but soon found by Leopard, Bou and Min beg Nina to let them stay in the department of mysteries, and Tsutsuji and Benkei set off on their own path, having found Nami floating in space.
- As Nerval and Leopard face off, Aleida flees with Takane, with Akiha and her friends in pursuit in their QT-Arms. Bou and Min, who arrived to investigate the prison riot, are able to nearly capture Itsuki, but all three are frozen when Nerval releases a freezing attack on Leopard. Soon after, Akiha and Itsuki are frozen too. Kazane receives the control doll Morihime from the Shishido ruling council, which she uses to commandeer orbital mirrors to unfreeze Leopard, who is able to use his Soul Shout to defeat Nerval. Unfortunately, another brain colony named Xanthippe unexpectedly shows up and escapes with Nerval, who vows vengeance. After the battle, Kazane tells Akiha that it is her destiny to fight Nerval alongside Leopard.
- Benkei reveals that he and Leopard previously knew each other, then rams Leopard. After a brief fight, Benkei encases Leopard in an airtight box, requiring use of the Leopard Cannon to break out, while at the same time Kazane and the Shishido elders hijack the ICP's remote attack vessels for use against Benkei. However, Benkei absorbs Leopard's Soul Shout and fires back at Leopard, while Tsutsuji activates Nerval's Exclusive Control, taking over the Shishido family's systems. Immediately afterward, Xanthippe phases in with reinforcements and attacks Kirkwood. Furious, Leopard rams Benkei, plunging them both into Earth's atmosphere. Akiha attempts to stop Leopard's fall along with Honoka and Itsuki, but is hindered by Takane, now a Nervalist vassal due to her time in captivity on the Moon.
- This episode takes place in an alternate reality in which the QT force is used for baseball, but has been mostly banned. Akiha is the mysterious masked pitcher while Honoka is her catcher. Itsuki is a former baseball player with QT powers who is recruited to stop the masked pitcher. Itsuki is afraid to use her QT powers, but still manages to stalemate Akiha at their initial encounter due to Akiha nearly collapsing from overuse of Magi-QT. Itsuki seeks out the baseball demon Leopard, and uses the QT powers she learns to win against Akiha, but collapses afterwards. However, it turns out that the chief of the baseball league was behind everything and wants to keep QT users banned, so Akiha unleashes all her power to defeat him.
- Akiha's peaceful breakfast is interrupted when her sister Kazane tries to get Akiha to agree to an arranged marriage. With her younger sister Nami also making derisive remarks, Akiha and her robot servant and friend Imoko flee the house for the spaceport and school. Nami subsequently gives chase only to be stopped in her tracks by both her agoraphobia and lack of a student card. Akiha and Imoko are joined by two of Akiha's classmates who borrow an escape pod for Akiha so she has no need to return home. The escape pod encounters a gravity quake caused by the brain colony Leopard which Akiha and Imoko explore before meeting the eccentric AI face-to-face. Together with ICP officer Itsuki Kannagi who tries to arrest both Akiha and Leopard, they use their QT-Arms to prevent Leopard from crashing into Earth. At the end of the episode, Honoka Kawai shows up on Leopard and calls Akiha "The Girl Who Leapt Through Space".
- Hiding out inside a volcanic asteroid, Tsutsuji and Benkei are ambushed by Leopard, who takes back his mirrors. As everyone investigates Akiha's kidnapping, Leopard wants to chase after Nerval immediately, but the citizens are anxious about power failures. Nina orders Bou and Min to investigate the colony underground with Itsuki's guidance, and they soon find a hot spring. While relaxing in the hot spring, they are attacked by an octopus-like creature, which captures Bou and Min. Itsuki escapes and warns everyone to evacuate, but is captured herself until Kazane, newly arrived, rescues everyone. Akiha and Imoko find themselves inside Xanthippe, and attempt to escape, only to find that the colony contains row upon row of boxes, as elsewhere Nerval shows a factory responsible for creating the boxes to Nami. Xanthippe declares that humans are merely the component parts of brain colonies. Akiha tries to run, but the box humans report her, and she is captured and forced into a box.
- Leopard arrives at the Innsmouth Reef. Though he still wants to retrieve Akiha before anything else, Kazane keeps him searching for the Sword, one of the last three parts he needs. Akiha, meanwhile, is still trapped in the box, but has figured out how to get food and drink and starts to grow accustomed to the box, causing Imo-chan to worry. Elsewhere, Nami wakes up in the Cafe Enigma and finds Nerval making food on an old-fashioned stove, and Aleida soon shows up to help. However, he angers Nami when he tells her that Akiha will soon come to the Cafe, and she storms out. Benkei and Tsutsuji successfully retrieve the Crown from the sun, taking damage from the sun's corona in the process. Imo-chan keeps trying to get Akiha out of the box, and finally succeeds by reminding Akiha of their memories together. They escape, but return to Kirkwood to find it and Xanthippe under missile attack by the UURE. Xanthippe deflects the missiles with Nerval's Exclusive Control, but is unable stop one of the missiles. To save everyone, Imo-chan takes control of their escape pod and rams the missile, causing it to explode.
- Engulfed by the electrical storm, Leopard's colony begins falling towards Jupiter. Sakura's scarf and hat reveals itself as an alien named Yupitan, and suggests using the Benkei colony to provide the additional acceleration needed to escape from Jupiter's gravity well. With help from Tsutsuji and the QT-Arms, the plan is successful, and they come across an abandoned space station. Yupitan tells them it was the old base of the Shishido family when they were fighting Nerval, and they discover that the energy stored there will allow them to hyperjump back to Kirkwood. However, Loepard refuses to hyperjump, so they get Benkei to do it instead. At the refugees, Bou and Min are assigned to help infiltrate Surre Academy, but they see Nami brutally force one of the students into a box and run away, leading the Nervalist forces to the refugees. As Nami leads an assault on them, Leopard and Benkei suddenly appear.
- With Leopard connected to the Proxima Crown that Benkei found, the Shishido elders volunteer to search for the sword. Nerval instructs Xanthippe to destroy Leopard and Aleida to kidnap Akiha, while Takane is told to protect Akiha. Akiha is still in mourning for Imo-chan, and runs away when Itsuki tries to comfort her. She goes to Leopard's core to talk to him, but Leopard's inconsiderate words only make Akiha mad, just as Xanthippe appears. Aleida successfully breaks into Leopard, but Takane prevents her from kidnapping Akiha. Itsuki then rescues Akiha from box people, but they are attacked by the Existence. Bou and Min come across Honoka and Fon in space and bring them to Leopard, where Fon causes QT-roses to grow on Proxima Crown, disabling the Existence and freeing the box people. Finally, Sakura and the Shishido elders return with Leopard's Sword, which finally completes him. Both Honoka and Itsuki swear to protect Akiha, and Akiha makes her decision, activating the Sword with the golden gun and allowing Leopard to use it to disable Xanthippe. At the end of the episode, Imo-chan is revealed to be still alive... but with Nerval.
- After Akiha and Itsuki prevent Honoka from strangling him, Friedrich is revealed to be the creator of all the brain colonies, but tells them he has no means of returning to space. Kirkwood is under the control of the Nervalists, and Aleida continues to persuade Nami to join the Nervalists, while Bou and Min join up with the Kirkwood refugees and are hired by Nina. Back on Earth, Itsuki learns that the structure behind that Terra Abduction incidents is an orbital elevator called the Pied Paper, and later everyone learns that Friedrich is responsible for taking Leopard's components, since he worried that Leopard would betray humanity. The Pied Piper attacks Friedrich's island but is repulsed by his QT roses. Tsutsuji and Benkei try to hijack Sakura's ship, but are stopped. Aleida takes Nami to a place where she says Nami will gain her rightful power, and calls Nami "the girl who leapt through space".
- Nerval explains to Imo-chan that this is Leopard's true appearance, as Imo-chan wonders which side she should be on. The refugees begin evacuating Leopard, as Leopard and Nerval fight. After an exchange of fire, Nerval is heavily damage. Akiha leaves to try to rescue Imo-chan, but Nerval flees, and Akiha and Nami meet near Cafe Enigma. Nami declares that she will kill all her sisters and attacks Akiha while also calling the Existence. Aleida arrives and challenges Nami, but Nami attacks her, bringing down Itsuki and Honoka as well. As Nami prepares to kill the, Akiha uses the golden gun to shoot Nami, causing a huge Anti-QT explosion. The Existence switch to protecting Akiha, and Aleida, now returned to being Kagura, reveals that Akiha is the true Girl who Leaps Through Space.
Akiha returns to Kirkwood, where Kagura explains more about the Girl who Leaps Through Space, and tells Akiha that her destiny is to end the brain colony wars. They decide that their mission now is to destroy Leopard. Nerval explains to Imo-chan that his objectives are simply to achieve perfect order, with enough space to live, where humans will be fulfilled, and that things just went wrong along the way. Nami and Leopard join forces, and Nami appears before the heroes as the spokesman for Leopard. Leopard fires a demonstration shot at the earth, and we see nice Leopard inside Dark Leopard, wondering where he is.
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