Recaps

Angel defeated Father Utravsky’s past self in the depths of his mind, helping the Priest overcome the evil that haunted him. She received the Apothecary formula and chose the Master Key as her reward, but its tendency to make its user get lost immediately stranded her around Harvest Church.

• Angel used her Black Flame dagger to pierce Father Utravsky’s armor and defeat his dream self.
• Angel awoke in Harvest Church and heard Father Utravsky say that his past self had disappeared.
• Father Utravsky gave Angel the Apothecary formula and offered her a choice between a blood-drawing Mystical Item and the Master Key.
• Angel chose the Master Key after learning that it could open ordinary locks and create passages through some obstacles.
• Angel used the Master Key to pass through the church wall, then got lost circling Harvest Church and finally left by carriage.

Angel received thanks and 50 pounds from Mr. O'Neill after his daughter Emily was found, then collected a Beyonder ingredient from Baroness Sevillea. At the Occult Salon, she met Fors Wall, and Viscount Glaint asked whether she had found the Apothecary Potion formula.

• Mr. O'Neill thanked Angel for helping find Emily, said his family planned to move to Midseashire, and gave her 50 pounds.
• Angel accepted the Adult Widow Giant Spider's Silk Gland from Baroness Sevillea as a mission reward and agreed to obtain the Apothecary Potion formula.
• Baroness Sevillea told Angel to attend Viscount Glaint's salon the following Tuesday and asked her to copy the formula once she acquired it.
• Angel attended the salon and met Fors Wall in the study before Viscount Glaint and Audrey Hall arrived.
• Viscount Glaint introduced Angel and Fors to each other, then asked Angel whether she had news about the Apothecary Potion formula.

Angel gave Viscount Glaint the Apothecary formula and discussed the missing Spectator and Trickmaster formulas with Audrey and Fors. She accepted Audrey’s invitation to a private viewing of the Roselle exhibition, then regretted it when the tour began with a gilded flush toilet.

• Angel gave Glaint the Apothecary formula and agreed to accept 300 pounds for it.
• Angel told Audrey she had found no Spectator formula, while Glaint explained that Beyonder gatherings had been disrupted by the serial murder case.
• Fors demonstrated her Apprentice ability to pass through a closed door, and Angel offered to help find the Trickmaster formula without revealing that she already had it.
• Angel demonstrated Tarot divination for Fors and declined to divine the formula’s location.
• Audrey invited Angel and Fors to visit the Roselle exhibition after hours; Fors declined, but Angel accepted.
• At the exhibition, Angel regretted attending as the guide praised Roselle’s gilded flush toilet.

Angel visited the Roselle memorial exhibition with Audrey and recognized the original diary Mr. Fool had asked the Tarot Club to find. After becoming isolated from the other visitors, she encountered a mysterious chestnut-haired lady who extinguished her Cursed Flame and asked whether she was an attendant of the night.

• Audrey explored Roselle's exhibits with the nobles and persuaded the security guard to let her examine the original diary written in Chinese.
• Angel noticed Audrey's performance was meant to gain access to the diary and wondered whether the golden retriever was an extraordinary dog.
• Angel stayed behind to memorize the diary, then found the exhibition hall silent and herself unable to reach the other visitors.
• Angel felt the Hidden Holy Emblem on her wrist react and prepared to leave with the Master Key, but a chestnut-haired lady appeared and extinguished her Cursed Flame.
• The lady noticed Angel's Hidden Holy Emblem and asked whether she was an attendant of the night.

Angel met Bernadette at Roselle’s Memorial Exhibition and revealed that the Fool was collecting Roselle’s diaries. After returning to her safe house, Angel used a magic mirror to divine the brass key’s origin and saw an Abraham Family member lose control after drinking a potion.

• Bernadette questioned Angel about the hidden holy emblem and Roselle’s diary, then asked who was collecting the diaries.
• Angel told Bernadette that the Fool was collecting them, and Bernadette warned her that the brass key contained a dangerous curse before identifying herself.
• Angel left the exhibition with the nobles and received 400 pounds from Viscount Glaint for the Apothecary formula.
• Worried Bernadette might track her, Angel stayed at her safe house and speculated that Bernadette was Roselle’s daughter and a high-sequence Beyonder.
• Angel divined the key’s origin and saw a young Abraham Family member lose control and die after drinking a potion, before the vision revealed an ancient brass-colored key.

Angel investigated the Master Key’s origins and read about the latest serial murder, then learned that Mr. O'Neill and his family had died by suicide. She sought information about O'Neill’s missing daughter and received the name and address of Sherlock Moriarty.

• Angel divined that the Master Key had formed from the death of a likely Abraham Family member, then decided to keep using it until she could ask Father Utravsky about it.
• At the Divination Club, Angel read that the serial killer had claimed a twelfth victim, a young fashion designer with a history of streetwalking.
• Angel found an obituary saying Jason O'Neill and his wife had died by suicide and their daughter, Emily O'Neill, was missing; a Magic Mirror vision showed the family jumping into the Tussock River.
• Angel visited Bravehearts Bar to ask about Kaspars, learned he had been driven away, and paid for a detective's contact information.
• Angel received a slip identifying Sherlock Moriarty as a private detective at 15 Minsk Street in Cherwood Borough.

Angel visited private detective Sherlock Moriarty to learn where Jason O'Neill’s daughter Emily had been found, then told him she suspected the O'Neill family’s deaths were not ordinary suicides. The chapter ended with Moriarty recognizing Angel from the Eye of Wisdom gatherings as Dog Mask Lady, while Angel revealed she was an expert diviner.

• Angel went to Sherlock Moriarty’s home on Minsk Street and asked about his client Jason O'Neill and the rescue of Emily.
• Moriarty described how he tracked the kidnappers, negotiated Emily’s release, and later received additional payment from O'Neill, who planned to leave Backlund with his family.
• Angel showed Moriarty the O'Neill family’s obituary and asked whether their reported suicide seemed genuine.
• Moriarty doubted the family had chosen suicide, but questioned why the police had accepted the case as such.
• Angel told Moriarty that her divination confirmed the deaths were suicides, which suggested a Beyonder had concealed the truth, and Moriarty recognized her as Dog Mask Lady.
• Angel showed Moriarty the yellow crystal pendant on her wrist and identified herself as an expert diviner.

Angel and Sherlock Moriarty investigated the gang hideout connected to the O'Neill family's deaths and discovered the gang had recently left on an assignment for a man named Mr. Capim. They found Mr. O'Neill's lighter in the hideout and set out to inspect his home for more clues.

• Moriarty offered to accompany Angel to the gang hideout on Winster Street for a one-penny fee.
• Angel entered the empty hideout and found signs that five or six men had left in a hurry within the past three days.
• Angel used the Magic Mirror to see the gang members leave after receiving a new East Borough assignment from Mr. Capim, but could not divine who Capim was from the name alone.
• Moriarty found Mr. O'Neill's lighter upstairs, suggesting that O'Neill or someone else had brought it to the hideout.
• Moriarty told Angel he knew the O'Neill family's address, and they left to investigate the house.

Angel and Sherlock Moriarty searched Mr. O'Neill's home and suspected that Emily might still be alive and connected to the kidnappings attributed to Capim. Angel secretly used Emily's clothes and bracelet for divination, which showed her imprisoned in a villa basement with other girls, and she left to pursue the lead.

• Angel and Sherlock Moriarty searched the O'Neill residence and found that the family's belongings were still unpacked, despite Mr. O'Neill's claim that they planned to leave Backlund.
• Moriarty reasoned that Emily's body had never been found and identified wealthy Cherwood Borough resident Capim as a suspect in the disappearances of young girls.
• Angel and Moriarty agreed to meet at Moriarty's home the next morning while he asked his sources about Capim.
• Angel returned to the O'Neill home alone at night and used Emily's clothes and bracelet in a Magic Mirror Divination.
• Angel saw Emily alive in the basement of a large villa, held there with several other girls, and left the house fully armed.

Angel investigated Capim's villa and found the kidnapped girls in a guarded basement, while Klein independently prepared to rescue them. The two unexpectedly encountered each other across the street, with Angel mistaking Klein for a possible sentry.

• Angel used the Scarlet Eye to map Capim's villa, identify suspected Beyonders, and locate Emily and other girls in a guarded basement.
• Angel rested between brief uses of the Scarlet Eye, then planned to investigate the villa's suspected Beyonders and question a guard before the captives could be moved.
• Angel sensed a scarlet figure watching the villa from a house across the street and decided to investigate him.
• Klein used the Card of Blasphemy to strengthen his Spirit Body and prepared a plan to rescue the girls and expose Capim.
• Klein returned to his body in the house opposite Capim's villa and found Angel staring at him sternly.

Angel found Sherlock Moriarty conducting Dream Divination near Capim’s villa and learned that four Beyonders guarded the place, with Harras apparently commanding Capim. After Angel tried to send Moriarty away before confronting them, he revealed he knew she intended to act and invited her to join him in a daring plan.

• Angel confronted Sherlock Moriarty and asked whether he had been conducting Dream Divination or a spirit communication ritual.
• Moriarty said his divination had revealed four Beyonders in Capim’s villa: Harras, Berris, Katie, and Parker.
• Moriarty explained that Harras outranked Capim and that influential figures used Capim’s organization to kidnap and abuse girls while keeping him under watch.
• Angel concluded that powerful backers had helped conceal the O’Neill family’s deaths and considered rescuing the girls and seeking help from official Beyonders.
• Angel pretended to give up and suggested they leave, but Moriarty called out her plan to face the Beyonders alone and invited her to help him put on a grand magic show.

Angel and Moriarty launched a surprise attack on Capim’s dining room, killing Parker and battling Harras and Katie. Harras’s prohibition magic and Angel’s Flame Leap shifted the fight, leaving Katie frozen and Angel charging Harras as his special bullet missed her.

• Capim served Harras an elaborate breakfast while hiding his anger over Harras forbidding retaliation against the Zimang Party.
• Angel’s invisible shriek knocked out Capim and the servants, while Katie and Harras recovered and Parker collapsed.
• Angel froze the dining table area, and Moriarty’s armored ghost possessed Parker before Angel shot him dead.
• Harras sealed the dining room with an Imprisonment prohibition, and Katie attacked Angel while Harras tried to stop Moriarty’s ghost.
• Moriarty used Flame Leap to switch places with Angel, freezing Katie as she collided with the ghost.
• Harras fired a special bullet at Angel, but it missed as she stabbed toward him with a black-flamed dagger.

Angel and Moriarty fought Harras and his companions inside Capim’s villa, but Harras’s Mystical Item let him restrain them. Moriarty then detonated explosives planted throughout the villa, engulfing everyone in the dining room.

• Harras was wounded by Angel’s Ice Spike before he imprisoned her, while Katie used a Purification Bullet to drive Moriarty from her body.
• Angel and Moriarty attacked Katie, but Harras’s Madness Ring disrupted Harras’s thoughts before he proclaimed an Order that restrained Angel and Moriarty.
• Harras summoned Berris and ordered him to deal with Angel while he planned to purify Moriarty.
• Moriarty ignited the explosives he had planted in the villa, and the blast engulfed Harras, Berris, Angel, Katie, and himself.

Angel and Moriarty’s assault on Capim Mansion ended in a devastating explosion that killed Capim and freed the kidnapped girls. Angel staged a mysterious scene before disappearing dramatically as official forces arrived.

• Harras and Berris escaped the burning mansion, while Angel stayed behind to prioritize rescuing the girls and cleaning up the scene.
• Moriarty confirmed that the basement had survived the blast and went to release the imprisoned girls.
• Angel arranged Tarot Cards around Capim’s corpse, collected the Beyonder characteristics from Parker and Katie, and prepared her final performance.
• Klein used the Master Key to open every cell, and Emily led the girls out of the mansion and into the crowd outside.
• Emily saw a mysterious woman on the attic roof as an illusory door appeared and figures approached through the air.
• The woman became an armored figure crowned in black and leaped into the burning ruins, vanishing from sight.

Angel and Sherlock escaped after killing Capim, while Celt and Ace Snake investigated the massacre and suspected a secret organization with an Angel behind it. Angel paid Sherlock and left for her East Borough safe house, reflecting on his concealed abilities and the dead man he resembled.

• Celt and Ace Snake examined Capim’s villa, where the corpses were marked with Tarot Cards, and connected the scene to an earlier killing linked to the True Creator.
• Celt and Ace Snake suspected the woman who escaped was part of a secret organization backed by an Angel, but chose to report the incident instead of pursuing her.
• Angel and Sherlock stopped in the sewers near Minsk Street after fleeing more than a kilometer from Capim’s residence.
• Angel paid Sherlock with a copper penny, and he used coin divination to check whether the girls were safe.
• Angel concluded Sherlock was a Sequence 7 Magician who concealed a Mystical Item and wondered whether he had resembled someone who was still alive.

Angel and Moriarty divided the spoils after rescuing Emily and the other girls, then parted on good terms. Back at her safe house, Angel realized that the operation had fully digested her Witch Potion, leaving her ready to advance once she obtained the Demoness of Pleasure Potion.

• Moriarty and Angel agreed that the rescued girls were safe in police custody, while Angel planned to report the two escaped Beyonders to the churches.
• Angel and Moriarty divided the Beyonder spoils, with Moriarty taking Katie's Sequence 7 characteristic and offering to compensate Angel if the damaged whip could not be repaired.
• Moriarty returned Angel's Master Key and asked whether they would work together again; Angel said they might and reminded him that he had her message box.
• Angel returned to her East Borough safe house, stored the characteristic, and set the damaged whip aside to seek an Artisan at the next Eye of Wisdom gathering.
• Angel formed a flawless mirror from frozen tea and recognized that her morning operation with Moriarty had fully digested her Witch Potion, bringing her close to advancing to Sequence 6.

Angel confirmed Emily O'Neill was protected by official Beyonders, reported recent developments to Sevillea, and learned more about the Devil's serial-killing ritual. After arranging an anonymous report about Harras and Berris, she unexpectedly met Sherlock Moriarty outside the cathedral.

• Angel used the Ice Mirror to see Emily O'Neill grieving under the protection of two official Beyonders.
• Angel told Sevillea about recent developments, and Sevillea advised her to maintain her connection with Audrey and Glaint while seeking information about Arbiter Beyonder characteristics.
• Sevillea explained that a Devil needed at least thirteen victims for a Promotion Ritual and discussed the serial killer's pattern.
• Angel paid a vagrant to deliver a report accusing Harras and Berris of aiding kidnappings and suspected murders to Saint Wind Cathedral.
• Sherlock Moriarty appeared outside Angel's hiding place with a report of his own and greeted her.

Angel and Moriarty reported clues about Capim’s crimes and discussed the serial killer’s possible Devil pathway advancement. Their conversation led them into a dark alley, where a massive figure suddenly attacked Moriarty.

• Angel discovered that Moriarty had also prepared a report letter about Harras and Berris, and they left Saint Wind Cathedral to avoid the Mandated Punishers.
• Moriarty told Angel that Emily was under police protection and would likely be placed with a guardian until she inherited her family’s property.
• Moriarty shared clues suggesting the serial killer targeted former streetwalkers and might be an animal being helped by someone; Angel agreed to report the possibility to the authorities.
• Moriarty promised to organize his findings for Angel, and they realized they had wandered into a dark alley, possibly because of Angel’s Master Key.
• A massive figure dropped from above the balconies and attacked Sherlock Moriarty.

Angel and Moriarty fought a Devil Hound that attacked them in a narrow alley. After their coordinated attacks exposed its damaged skull, Angel shot it through the head and killed it.

• Angel warned Moriarty as the black dog ambushed them, and they dodged its attack in the alley.
• Angel identified the creature as a Devil, and it transformed into a giant winged hound that resisted her Black Flames and ice spikes.
• Moriarty used Air Bullets and a Paper Figurine to evade the Devil Hound’s filthy words while Angel attacked its head with Storm Convergence.
• The Devil Hound struck at Angel with a fireball, but she escaped using a Staff Substitution as Moriarty used Slumber Charms to weaken it.
• Angel exposed the Devil Hound’s damaged skull with another shot and killed it with her final Storm Convergence.

Angel and Moriarty killed a Devil Hound responsible for twelve murders after it ambushed them to stop them reporting their clues. They realized Angel’s Anti-Divination had distorted its danger sense, then considered how to handle the corpse and its valuable Beyonder characteristic without exposing their false identities.

• Angel and Moriarty waited until the Devil Hound’s mutations faded, then confirmed it had attacked them alone.
• Moriarty identified the hound as the Sequence 6 Devil behind the serial killings and explained that it had sensed their planned report as a threat.
• Angel and Moriarty concluded that her Anti-Divination had hidden her from the hound, which mistook Moriarty for its only target.
• Moriarty said they could not safely claim the murder reward under their false identities and suggested a trusted person report the death scene.
• The Devil Hound’s Beyonder characteristic formed beside its corpse, and Angel felt faint as she examined it.

Angel and Moriarty traded the Crimson Eye for the Devil Beyonder Characteristic before escaping the alley. In Backlund, Fors read about the Black Emperor’s attack on Capim and realized Xio’s investigation might involve the Tarot Club.

• Angel and Moriarty agreed that Angel would take the Devil Characteristic while Moriarty held the Crimson Eye until she could redeem it with half the sale proceeds.
• Moriarty used the Crimson Eye to detect approaching police officers, and Angel burned away traces of the fight before they left separately.
• Two police officers entered the alley and found the frozen, damaged ground and the corpse of a huge black dog.
• Fors read reports that the serial murder case had been solved and that the Black Emperor had killed Capim and rescued the kidnapped girls.
• Xio told Fors that the Golden Mask had tasked her with investigating Capim’s death and past incidents involving Tarot Cards, prompting Fors to connect the matter to the Tarot Club.

Angel received an invitation to Audrey’s gathering and was told by Sevillea to watch Hibbert Hall for information about the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee. After learning that the Demoness Sect also wanted intelligence on Hibbert, Angel realized that both factions were interested in the committee, while Lola offered the Pleasure formula in exchange for what she uncovered.

• Sevillea gave Angel Audrey’s invitation and instructed her to listen for news about Hibbert Hall and the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee.
• Angel read that the serial murders had been officially solved and that Capim’s death had been reported as the work of a chivalrous thief called Black Emperor.
• Lola told Angel that Capim had trafficked more than a thousand Backlund residents and that the Church of Storms had seized his secret documents.
• Lola revealed that Hibbert Hall was the chief secretary of the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee and asked Angel to gather information for the Demoness Sect.
• Lola offered to exchange Angel’s intelligence about the committee for the Pleasure formula.

Angel attended Eye of Wisdom's gathering, where she learned of a custom weapon available through Ms. Kavi and watched Moriarty trade a Briber formula for Extraordinary Bullets and cash. She then offered the group a mysterious Beyonder Characteristic found on a Devil Dog.

• Angel arrived at Eye of Wisdom's gathering and listened as Darkwill requested a tameable Beyonder Creature for experiments.
• Moriarty suggested raising an animal and feeding it a Potion, but Darkwill dismissed the idea as too expensive.
• The weapons dealer gave Angel Ms. Kavi's address so she could discuss commissioning a custom Beyonder weapon.
• The weapons dealer offered fifty special bullets, and Moriarty exchanged a Briber formula for the bullets and five hundred pounds.
• Angel displayed a transparent Beyonder Characteristic with lava inside, which she had found on a Devil Dog's corpse, and invited the attendees to buy it.

Angel sold the Devil Beyonder Characteristic to Eye of Wisdom for 3,200 pounds, while Moriarty used his share to buy the Sun Brooch. Eye of Wisdom hinted that he knew Angel had killed the Devil Dog, and the chapter ended with Moriarty trying the brooch and feeling its intense heat.

• Angel offered the Devil Beyonder Characteristic at Eye of Wisdom’s gathering, but no one bought it during the main transactions.
• Eye of Wisdom privately offered Angel 3,200 pounds for the Devil Characteristic and asked where she had obtained it.
• Angel described killing a wounded Devil Dog in self-defense, and Eye of Wisdom suggested he knew she had killed the serial murderer.
• Angel gave Moriarty 1,600 pounds in exchange for the Crimson Eye, then Moriarty paid Eye of Wisdom for the Sun Brooch.
• Moriarty put on the Sun Brooch, endured its heat, and then removed it as Eye of Wisdom offered to sell him another Mystical Item.

Angel attended Audrey's Occult Salon at Earl Hall's residence, where MI9's Cons revealed details about the Tarot-card killings linked to the Black Emperor. After spotting Hibbert Hall in a private discussion with Glaint, Angel used the Crimson Eye to survey the villa and discovered two Beyonder bodyguards.

• Angel arrived at Earl Hall's residence and joined Audrey's gathering of young nobles, where they discussed Capim's murder and the Black Emperor.
• Cons Lierson described the battle at Capim's villa and revealed that another Tarot-card killing had taken place after a cult member was killed near East Balam Dock.
• Angel wondered whether someone else had emptied Capim's safe and framed her for the theft, since she had not placed Tarot cards on the cult member killed in the Docklands.
• Angel overheard Glaint speaking with Hibbert Hall and other men about a candidate connected to the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee.
• Angel used the Crimson Eye in the washroom to survey the villa and detected two Beyonder bodyguards protecting Earl Hall's family.