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## Wishing Four-leaf Clover

*Balala the Fairies: Magic Star Fate Castle, Episode 9*

许愿四叶草
*Xǔyuàn Sìyècǎo*

"**Wishing Four-leaf Clover**" (许愿四叶草 *Xǔyuàn Sìyècǎo*) is the ninth episode of Balala the Fairies: Magic Star Fate Castle.

## Summary

*Yan Keke finds a four-leaf clover that makes her wishes come true.*

## Plot

Letong and Keke plays badminton against two of their female classmates. Letong places a bet that the losing side must treat the others to ice cream. However, Keke misses hitting the shuttlecock soon after. Later, Keke practices singing with some classmates in the auditorium with Yinyue playing accompaniment on the piano. However, her terrible singing chases her classmate away and shatters a nearby glass. In class, she receives her test back to find that she received a bad grade. She returns to her desk, lamenting that she can’t seem to do anything right.

At Fesna’s throne, Pipi chases Fuke, asking him to return his slice of cake. The chase ends when Fuke outmaneuvers and sits on Pipi. However, a butterfly lands on Pipi, entering his body and he glows purple. With uncharacteristic great strength, he tosses Fuke off and begin tossing Fuke around. Fesna appears on her throne, laughing. She recalls the Dark Heart butterfly and it leaves Pipi’s body. Fesna explains that it grants power if one wishes for it, but corrodes one’s heart in exchange. Believing that not even the Fairies can resist the lust for power, Fesna laughs.

As Keke slumps over her desk, wondering what she should do about her lousy test scores, Yinyue and Letong comes to revise their schoolwork with her. Yinyue points out a question that may come up on a future test and leaves Keke to try it as she berates Letong for noisily eating her potato chips. However, Keke has no idea how to tackle the question. Yinyue tells her to solve the other questions first, but Keke laments that she doesn’t know how to solve any of the questions. Letong offers Keke her potato chips, saying that she’ll know what to do on a full stomach. This leads to an argument with Yinyue who wants Keke to solve the questions first. Upset at having caused the fight, Keke runs out of the class. Her cries of feeling useless are overheard by Fuke and Pipi who are hiding under a box.

Keke sadly wishes that she could become smarter. She overhears two students talking, saying a four-clover can grant any wish. Keke brightens up upon hearing this. She heads over to the greenhouse to begin her search. Behind her, Fuke and Pipi release the Dark Heart Butterfly which lands in an empty pot of soil, becoming a purple four-leaf clover. Keke turns around and finds it. She happily adorns it on one of her twintails and makes her first wish – to become clever and formidable.

At the sports field, she finds her classmates playing badminton and asks to join in. They let her join but on the terms that whoever loses treats the winner to ice-cream. They begin playing, and in the midst of the game, Keke wishes upon the four-leaf clover for strength. With the magic boosting her, Keke manages to reach and hit the shuttlecock too fast for her classmates to react, a feat that shocks everyone. Keke celebrates her win, but her classmate tells her that it’s only the first point. Keke says that she can win as long as she has her four-leaf clover. The game continues, and the shuttlecock nearly hits her classmate who runs out the way. Behind them, Letong appears with a bag of chips. Without looking, she smacks the shuttlecock back, which hits Keke in the head. Their classmates praise Letong for her incredible feat. Keke frowns at this, the purple four-leaf clover in her hair briefly glowing.

In class, Mr. Lu Ze asks the class for a volunteer to draw the life cycle of a plant. With no one volunteering, he asks Yinyue to illustrate the answer on the blackboard. He asks for a second volunteer. Keke wishes on the Four-leaf clover to become smarter. As the four-leaf clover glows, Keke volunteers, surprising both Letong and Mr. Lu Ze. Keke finishes answering the question first, earning her praise for answering correctly and her improvement. Yinyue finishes as well, and is praised for the details and artistic sense of her drawings, which causes Keke to frown. Keke silently wishes to be better than Letong and Yinyue.

Keke decides to test her abilities after class, and she does so by snatching her classmate’s badminton racket and knocking her away. She proceed to launch several shuttlecocks at Letong. A surprised Letong could only try to dodge, but eventually trips and falls to the ground. Keke happily declares her victory and tosses the racket away. In class, Yinyue answers another question by Mr. Lu Ze, only to be pushed out of the way by Keke. Keke proceeds to draw a devilish figure of herself on the blackboard before leaving, much to Yinyue and Mr. Lu Ze’s surprise.

In the greenhouse, Keke is in a good mood because she can defeat Letong and Yinyue with the help of the four-leaf clover. She overhears Buding, Milu and Lubi discussing the number of Star Pieces their fairy partners have. Milu defends Keke by saying that she’s pretty good even if she has one less Star Piece than the others. After Buding and Lubi leave, Keke decides she has to find more four-leaf clovers, so she can wish for all the Star Pieces. Milu is happy to see Keke, but Keke ignores him to look for four-leaf clovers. After learning that Keke is looking for four-leaf clovers, Milu decides to help. He finally finds a purple one after much searching and is about to pluck it when he was blocked by Miao Xiaoye. After a brief struggle, Milu finally presents the purple four-leaf clover to Keke. Before Keke could receive it, it was snatched away by Fuke. After a brief game of catch with Fuke and Pipi, Keke finally catches it, but falls into an open Transfer Gate, revealing it to have been a ruse. Milu follows her into the Gate.

They land in a Flower Bell Plane of the Star Fate Wonderland. Fuke and Pipi leave to report to Fesna. Keke and Milu try to proceed carefully but are attacked by a cactus that is able to shoot its needles as projectiles and they are forced to hide. Milu laments that this cactus has a nasty temper, but Keke realizes that the cactus was just protecting the flower buds on top of it, and they just have to let the flowers bloom. Keke casts a spell that does just that. The pollen from the flowers land on Keke’s palm, becoming a Star Piece.

Fesna appears alongside Fuke and Pipi and demands the Star Piece. Keke transforms into fairy form and refuses to give it to Fesna, since she found it on her own. Fesna laughs at this, revealing that the Four-leaf clover helping her had been a Dark Heart Butterfly all along. Fesna threatens to collect the Dark Heart Butterfly’s powers back if Keke doesn’t hand over the Star Pieces. However, fearing that she would return to being a “useless Yan Keke” when Fesna takes away the Dark Heart Butterfly, Keke unleashes the power of the Dark Heart Butterfly on her twintails, knocking Fesna back and growing a pair of purple butterfly wings similar to Fesna’s own. Fesna realizes that Keke has let her heart be completely consumed by the Dark Heart Butterfly’s power. However, she decides that she could use her to deal with the other fairies. She retreats with her usual catchphrase: “Just you wait for Queen Fesna’s elegant return!”. Upon hearing this, Keke decides that since she scared Fesna off, she’s Queen Keke from now on. Fuke and Pipi could only watch in terror.

Back at school, Letong wonders where Keke went. She notices Buding and Lubi calling her from the outside. Meanwhile, Fuke and Pipi has been forced to serve “Queen Keke”, who is now wearing a pair of purple sunglasses. Fuke begs for Fesna to save them.

Letong, Yinyue, Buding and Lubi arrive in the Star Fate Wonderland, having received Milu’s call for help. They find Keke immediately and Keke welcomes them to her palace. She demands Fuke and Pipi serve her friends refreshments. The scared pair rush to do so, but is stopped by Letong, who asks Keke what she is doing. Yinyue tries to drag Keke back to class, but Keke refuses. Fuke and Pipi explain that her heart has been consumed by Fesna’s Dark Heart Butterfly in exchange for power. Letong and Yinyue, determined to restore Keke to her former self, transform into their fairy forms.

Letong and Yinyue try to grab hold of Keke and make her throw the Dark Heart Butterfly away, but Keke refuses to do so, unleashing the dark energy and flying up into the air. She launches a projectile at them, and the other fairies are forced to dodge. Keke is pleased at the prospect that no one is able to stand against her. However, Fesna appears and takes the original Dark Heart Butterfly back. Keke’s butterfly wings vanish and she falls to the ground. Letong and Yinyue tries to run over but Fesna casts a binding spell to bind the other fairies. Fesna offers to return the Dark Heart butterfly and let her friends go if Keke hands over the Star Pieces. When Keke hesitates, Fesna, Fuke and Pipi goads her own, telling Keke that without it, she would return to being a dumb, weak and incapable, useless fairy.

On the verge of tears, Keke agrees with Fesna, and decides to hand over the Star Piece she found. However, Letong refutes Fesna, shouting that Keke isn’t useless and that she can find the Star Pieces with her own merits, without the Dark Heart Butterfly’s power. She tells Keke not to listen to Fesna’s nonsense. Yinyue encourages Keke, saying that Keke had been protecting them warmheartedly all this while, and should believe in herself. Angered, Fesna tightens the bonds on Letong and Yinyue, demanding the Star Piece once again. However, Keke changes her mind, saying that she’ll never give Fesna the Star Piece. Fesna retorts that she would turn her friends to ash. Keke runs between them, blocking Fesna, determined to protect her friends with her own power. The remaining purple four-leaf clover in Keke’s hair glows, transforming into a Star Piece.

Keke augments her Star Pieces on her wands. Fesna attempts to cast her Shadow Butterflies, but Keke casts an attack spell that pierces through it, landing a direct hit on Fesna. Fesna is forced to return to Butterfly form and retreat. Fuke and Pipi rush after her. The bindings around Letong and Yinyue break. Keke apologizes to her friends and they forgive her. Yinyue gifts her a floating ball of flowers she finds, thanking Keke for protecting them. Keke accepts it and it turns into a third star piece.

In class, Keke receives her test results back again. Mr. Lu Ze reveals that Keke has improved a lot and everyone clapped. Keke returns to her desk and thinks to herself that even if she is not good in many things, if she is with her friends, she can slowly improve bit by bit.

## Characters

*In order of appearance:*

* Xia Letong
* Yan Keke
* Bai Yinyue
* Mr. Lu Ze
* Fuke
* Pipi
* Fesna
* Buding
* Milu
* Lubi
* Miao Xiaoye

## Trivia

* Star Piece Count: 13
	+ Xia Letong: 5
	+ Yan Keke: 5
	+ Bai Yinyue: 3

## Errors

* When Buding is boasting about the number of Star Pieces that Letong has collected, she claims that Letong has collected 4. However, at this point in time, Letong has actually collected 5 Star Pieces (1 in Episode 2, 1 in Episode 5 and 3 in Episode 8).