Recaps

Klein met Queen Mystic Bernadette in Backlund to ask for help sneaking the Wraith Senior into the Church of Evernight’s Chanis Gate, while Angel and Fors arrived in Trier. The chapter left Angel heading to her contact and Fors carrying the complete edition of her pirate novel to an underground publisher.

• Klein read Angel’s letter about meeting Fors and considered seeking royalties for the novels featuring Gehrman Sparrow and Angelica.
• Klein used Teleportation to reach Queen Mystic Bernadette and learned that Roselle had tried and apparently failed to resolve Trier’s Mirror Person problem.
• Klein asked Bernadette to make the Wraith Senior appear eroded by the Chanis Gate seal so he could enter unnoticed.
• Angel and Fors arrived in Trier, discussed where they would stay, and parted ways in District 13.
• Fors traveled toward an underground publishing house with the complete manuscript of The Great Pirate Angelica series: Ghost Empire.

Angel arrived in Trier under a false identity to investigate the Mirror Person and the corruption beneath the city, then met the Church of Evernight’s informant, Danio Brown. She left with his notebook and a plan to investigate women who had recently married into Trier’s elite.

• Angel checked into the Riverside Hotel and considered how to establish her arms-smuggling cover while investigating the Mirror Person and Trier’s corruption.
• Angel traveled to Honey Badger Street, incapacitated several drunken men with a mild disease, and used the Church of Evernight’s code phrase to meet Danio Brown.
• Angel learned that Danio was a Sequence 9 Hunter working at the District 12 Police Station and reviewed his records on unusual cases, underground gatherings, and the Demoness Sect.
• Angel asked Danio to investigate more than twenty women with unclear backgrounds who had recently married prominent men, suspecting Sevillea Landon might be among them.
• Angel took Danio’s notebook and arranged to return in three days, while Danio watched her leave.

Angel arrived in Trier and used Arrodes to learn that the informant she had met held an important clue, that Mirror People were being investigated by the Church of Steam and Machinery, and that a black mirror shard could detect them. Arrodes also pointed her toward Shayo Town as a place to find the Demoness Sect, while Wensa appeared with a letter and vanished into the Spirit World.

• Angel surveyed the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun as a potential refuge and noticed an abandoned building with a mysterious history that stirred her spirituality.
• Angel summoned Arrodes, which warned her that multiple people were watching the informant and advised her to investigate him and use a concealed black mirror shard to detect Mirror People.
• Arrodes showed Angel a location in Shayo Town where she could find members of the Demoness Sect before the communication ended.
• Angel prepared the black mirror shard with her blood and concealment symbols, then considered searching near churches and important institutions for Mirror People.
• Wensa appeared with a letter, dropped it for Angel, and vanished into the Spirit World when Angel realized she might know Trier well.

Angel met the smuggler Baron Nicola in Trier and arranged to ship sensitive goods to Toscarter Island. After evading a follower, she felt the mirror shard that detected Mirror People vibrate as her carriage sped away.

• Angel read Helene’s letter, learned a smuggler’s location and password, and heard that the Pirate Conference would likely take place in early June.
• Angel visited the Nicola Import and Export Company and negotiated with Baron Nicola to ship goods from Dilis Port to Toscart Port for sixteen thousand Verl D'Or per shipload.
• Angel paid Baron Nicola a two-thousand-Verl-D'Or deposit and considered consulting Sander about moving arms from Loen to Dilis Port.
• Angel noticed someone following her, turned invisible to evade them, and returned to Shady Avenue.
• Angel boarded a carriage, and the mirror shard against her chest began to vibrate.

Angel tracked a Mirror Person to an annex beside Philanthropy Palace, then let a Hunter sent by Baron Nicola follow her to avoid raising suspicion. Meanwhile, Fors attended a Beyonder gathering in Trier and recognized its host’s name as Mr. K.

• Angel used a vibrating mirror shard and the Mirror World to identify a silver-haired man in a carriage as a Mirror Person, then decided to ask Danio Brown to investigate him.
• Angel sensed a Hunter tailing her on Baron Nicola’s orders and chose to let him follow her to her hotel and a Beyonder gathering.
• Fors entered a Friday-night Beyonder gathering with the deputy editor of Spirit Channeling magazine and prepared an escape plan in case of an ambush.
• An attendant explained the gathering’s rules to Fors and recommended that she submit her requests in writing unless she wanted to risk being followed.
• Fors recognized the name Mr. K when the attendant mentioned the gathering’s host.

Fors attended an Aurora Order gathering and noticed Roselle’s notes for sale. Angel visited the Red House Cafe while searching for the Demoness Sect and recognized a black-haired woman there as a High Sequence Demoness.

• Fors resisted the urge to escape Mr. K’s gathering and decided to look over the items for sale.
• Angel traveled to Shayo Town after her apparent surveillance ended and searched for the red-roofed house from Arrodes’s vision.
• Angel found the Red House Cafe and suspected it served as a meeting place for female-loving-female groups that might attract Demonesses.
• A black-haired woman arrived with a short-haired girl, and Angel recognized the woman as a High Sequence Demoness.

Angel encountered Clarice, the Black Saintess and leader of the Demoness Sect in Trier, at a cafe in Shayo Town, then took precautions to avoid being followed. She decided to delay investigating the sect until she could gather more information, but a warning that an angel would descend left her startled.

• Angel recognized Clarice as the Black Saintess after seeing her enter the Red House Cafe with an orange-red-haired girl.
• Angel acted like the other cafe customers, then left town slowly and spent the day behaving like an ordinary traveler to avoid arousing Clarice’s suspicion.
• Angel considered Clarice’s possible role in the Demoness Sect and regretted entering the cafe without first consulting Arrodes or contacting official Beyonders.
• Angel decided to wait for more information and begin her search with Sevillea rather than approach Clarice’s stronghold.
• Angel heard a warning that an angel would descend in five minutes at most.

Angel learned that angels from the Orthodox Churches were stationed in Trier, then collected Danio Brown’s information on suspicious people and asked him to investigate a Foreign Affairs Committee secretary who might be a Mirror Person. After Angel left, Danio secretly contacted someone through his mirror.

• Reinette told Angel that angels were stationed in Trier, and Angel arranged to summon her for help in an emergency.
• Angel spent Sunday exploring Trier, then went to Danio Brown’s home to collect his files on twenty-five suspicious people.
• Angel found Sevillea’s file and gave Danio a portrait of a suspected Mirror Person for further investigation.
• Danio recognized the man as a secretary of the Foreign Affairs Committee and agreed to gather detailed information on him within two days.
• After Angel left, Danio crushed a glass cufflink, sent a note through his mirror, and let a slender hand seize his arm.

Angel exposed Danio Brown as a Mirror Person and interrogated him about the replacement plot. Danio revealed how he was recruited and identified a Mirror Person secretary, but the nature of the Mirror World’s second layer remained unexplained.

• Danio tried to flee and destroy his mirror-opening cufflink, but Angel infected him with a controlled mystical disease and emerged from a mirror.
• Angel showed Danio the vibrating mirror shard and the warning note, then used Corrosion and promises of protection to make him talk.
• Danio revealed that he had replaced the real Danio Brown in February 1347 after underground corruption created his Mirror Person.
• Danio explained that Mirror People could replace their originals by dragging them into the Mirror World and killing them, and said he had helped a team protecting an important person.
• Danio identified the protected secretary as Sheval Dumar, who had been replaced more than ten years earlier.
• Danio described two layers of the Mirror World: a dark reflection of Trier and a version of Trier from the Fourth Epoch.

Angel interrogated Mirror Person Danio, foiled his attempt to escape, and killed him when his disease returned. She used Spirit Channeling to learn about the Mirror People operating in Trier and discovered a connection to the Witch Family.

• Angel demanded that Danio list the Mirror People he knew, and he tried to escape using a cufflink that opened the Mirror World.
• Angel's invisible threads stopped Danio's Mirror Substitution, and he died when his disease violently resurfaced.
• Angel searched Danio and used Magic Mirror Spirit Channeling to question his spirit.
• Danio named Sheval Dumar and four other Mirror People in his group, and revealed that 13 Market Avenue was an active site where victims were corrupted and replaced.
• Danio explained that some Mirror People were born alongside their originals and came from special families, including the Tamara Family and the Witch Family.
• Danio told Angel that the Witch Family woman who had rescued him was named Clarice.

Angel questioned the Mirror Person Danio, learned about the Black Saintess Clarice and the Mirror People’s limits, then killed him and planned to expose his group. In Backlund, Klein prepared to infiltrate Saint Samuel Cathedral and steal the Antigonus Family Notebook the next morning.

• Angel used Spirit Channeling to confirm that the Demoness Clarice was the Black Saintess and learned that her divinity prevented her from entering the Physical World.
• Danio told Angel that Mirror People could communicate through limited-use mirror cufflinks and that contaminated areas extended into the deeper Underground Catacombs.
• After Danio’s Spirit Body faded, Angel took his Beyonder Characteristic and watched his corpse collapse into glass shards.
• Angel rejected plans to impersonate Danio or lure out Sheval Dulin, deciding instead to coordinate with Trier’s churches and seek help from Arrodes, Arianna, and Mr. Fool.
• Angel burned away traces of the bedroom and left Honey Badger Street before Danio’s allies could discover his death.
• In Backlund, Klein watched Saint Samuel Cathedral and prepared to enter it disguised as a servant so he could steal the Antigonus Family Notebook the next morning.

Klein prepared to enter Saint Samuel Cathedral’s Chanis Gate to obtain the Antigonus Family Notebook, while Angel used Arrodes’s information to coordinate a hunt for exposed mirror people in Trier. Klein obtained the Trick Sorcerer potion formula without taking the notebook, and Angel left to deliver evidence to the Church of Steam and the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun.

• Klein asked Arrodes to locate the Antigonus Family Notebook and learned it was on the second level behind the Chanis Gate, while the third level held even more dangerous objects.
• Klein completed his preparations to enter the Chanis Gate, and Arrodes told him Angel had asked about his operation and that everything would go smoothly.
• Angel learned from Arrodes that Klein had obtained the Trick Sorcerer potion formula but not the notebook.
• Angel received detailed information on seven possible mirror people and saw evidence that Anthony Stevenson and Horamick Haydn had discussed the matter in Backlund.
• Angel copied the information into two reports, included a black mirror fragment with each, and left to deliver one to the Church of Steam’s Archbishop Cathedral.

Fors visited the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery in Trier and spotted Irene Watson entering a confessional. The Machinery Hivemind prepared a covert operation based on a report letter, while Mirror Person Val realized an official Beyonder had found him.

• Fors recognized Irene Watson at the church and watched her enter a confessional.
• Bishop Emanuel examined a report letter containing identity documents and a black mirror fragment, then ordered Machinery Hivemind squads to prepare for a covert operation.
• Val finished his work at the Foreign Affairs Committee and headed toward the cafeteria as the noon bells rang.
• Val noticed the bells and city had fallen unnaturally silent, then felt a warning from the mirror hidden against his chest.
• Val realized an official Beyonder had found him.

Angel watched the Purifiers arrest Sheval Dumar, bringing the exposed Mirror People investigation to a pause. She considered her next moves in Trier and chose between pursuing the Demoness Sect through Sevillea and investigating the contaminated building at 13 Market Avenue.

• Sheval Dumar tried to escape through a mirror, but Angel forced him back into the office, where the Purifiers arrested him.
• Angel reflected on her method of acting as a Demoness of Despair: drive an enemy into despair and then kill them.
• Angel decided to pursue one of two remaining leads in Trier: Sevillea Landon or the contaminated building at 13 Market Avenue.
• Sevillea Landon closed a window in her villa and turned to face a short, freckled young woman standing behind her.

Leonard and Daly connected Irene Watson’s changing appearance to a suspected Faceless and linked several Tarot-card murders to the Fool, until Sost reported a break-in at Saint Samuel Cathedral’s Chanis Gate. Meanwhile, Angel confronted Sevillea Landon in Trier, where Sevillea recognized her as Irene and realized she had become a Despair Demoness.

• Leonard brought Daly portraits of Irene Watson reconstructed from witnesses in Desi County and Enmat Harbor, and they concluded she had once appeared with long, pale-gold hair and violet eyes.
• Leonard and Daly considered whether Irene had the power of a Faceless or a Spectator, then reviewed his notes linking Tarot-card crime scenes and the Fool to Sherlock Moriarty and Klein Moretti.
• Sost interrupted them to report that someone had broken into Saint Samuel Cathedral’s Chanis Gate, reminding Leonard of the Tingen tragedy and Angel Granger’s death.
• Angel disguised as Irene Watson and confronted Sevillea Landon in her Trier villa, where Sevillea found that the nearby mirrors could no longer connect to her.
• Sevillea welcomed Angel as her niece and realized that Angel had advanced from Witch to Despair Demoness.

Angel visited Sevillea in Trier to question her about the Demoness Sect, mirror people, and the corruption at 13 Market Avenue. Sevillea revealed what she knew under Clarice’s watch, and Clarice ordered her to prepare to advance to Affliction.

• Angel recognized Sevillea’s new husband as a member of the Sauron Family and suspected he was Helene’s debt-ridden father.
• Sevillea told Angel that Panacea had truly died that morning after the Demoness Sect failed to recover her.
• Angel asked about Trier’s mirror people, and Sevillea said the Demoness Sect warned its members away from underground corruption and 13 Market Avenue.
• Sevillea explained that people entering 13 Market Avenue sometimes emerged as someone else, and that the corruption affected demonesses and Hunters in unusual ways.
• Angel left through the Mirror World, and Clarice emerged from the mirror after watching their meeting.
• Clarice asked whether Sevillea had told Angel everything and ordered her to prepare to advance to Affliction; Sevillea addressed Clarice as Mother.

Angel was intercepted in the Mirror World by a Hunter demigod who demanded an explanation about the Mirror People. After he attacked her and struck at the Mirror World itself, she recognized him as Silio Sauron and identified him as an Iron-Blooded Knight.

• Angel left Sevillea’s villa and emerged from the Mirror World in the abandoned building at 13 Market Avenue.
• A Hunter demigod confronted Angel and ordered her to come with him to Bureau 8 over the Mirror People.
• Angel’s black mirror fragment reacted near the Hunter, and he suddenly attacked her with a Flame Spear.
• Angel used Mirror Substitution and froze the Hunter, but he broke free and sent flames into the confined Mirror World.
• Angel recognized the Hunter as Silio Sauron, a Sequence 4 Iron-Blooded Knight suspected of ties to the Iron and Blood Cross Order.

Angel fought Sirio Sauron in the Abandoned Buildings, using the Mirror World and her Parasite ability against the Iron-Blooded Knight. After Sirio summoned ten Tinplate Soldiers to replace the teammates he had sacrificed, they attacked Angel with a coordinated strike.

• Angel analyzed Sirio’s abilities and escaped his flames through the Mirror World, but Sirio pursued her through the Abandoned Buildings.
• Angel trapped Sirio among mirrors that amplified a lethal disease and curse, but Sirio summoned nearby homeless people as teammates and transferred the damage to them, killing them.
• Sirio transformed into a Flame Giant and melted the mirrors, while Angel stole his Flame Transformation ability with her Parasite gloves.
• Sirio summoned the Reaper Legion from ten Tinplate Soldiers, forming a new team that could share damage with him.
• The ten armored soldiers attacked in unison as Sirio hurled his Flame Spear toward Angel’s weakness.

Angel fought Sirio Sauron inside the abandoned building, using a Calamity charm to injure him and his Tinplate Soldiers, but the battle drew the attention of Saint Bonoa. The chapter ended with the angel of the Church of Steam arriving at the battlefield as the unstable seal grew weaker.

• Sirio Sauron’s Tinplate Soldiers combined their strength to launch a Flame Spear that pierced Angel twice, but she escaped into and out of the Mirror World.
• Angel used a Calamity charm and the Parasite glove to pull Sirio close, then struck him and his soldiers with the charm’s destructive force.
• Sirio and the Tinplate Soldiers shared the calamity’s effects, leaving him injured and half the soldiers fallen while the others weakened.
• Angel prepared to press her attack as Sirio recovered behind his soldiers and sensed danger in the smoke.
• Clarice left Sevillea Sauron’s residence through a mirror and warned her daughter to keep a low profile.
• Saint Bonoa detected the battle and weakening seal, traveled to the abandoned building, and stepped into the battlefield.

Angel, Sirio Sauron, and the mysterious silver mirror were transported from 13 Market Avenue to a strange place beyond the Mirror World, where Sirio recognized the ruined city as Trier of the Fourth Epoch. Angel was left facing Sirio and a storm-shrouded giant as the mirror’s power faded.

• Saint Bonoa appeared at 13 Market Avenue, halted the deadly forces there, and questioned Angel about her ties to Evernight.
• Sirio Sauron unleashed the silver mirror’s black-and-red power, but Saint Bonoa’s intervention made Sirio, Angel, and the soldiers vanish from the building.
• Saint Bonoa confirmed that Angel was still alive, while Reinette Tinekerr returned to the Spirit World and Bornova Gustav reflected on Anne Gustav and the weakening seal.
• Angel awoke beside Sirio and his fallen soldiers outside a vast black-and-red city, with a towering figure wandering through storms nearby.
• Sirio recognized the figure as the missing Calamity Giant sought by the Sauron Family and identified the city as Trier of the Fourth Epoch.

Angel deduced that Sirio Sauron’s ambush was intended to draw in Bornova Gustav and use the Church of Steam angel to weaken the seal beneath Trier. The mirror’s misdirected effect transported Angel and Sirio into Fourth Epoch Trier instead, while Bornova investigated the aftermath and reacted to the deaths of the civilians.

• Angel recognized that the giant in the fog might be a Sequence 1 Conqueror and questioned Sirio about his group’s target.
• Sirio revealed that his group intended to bring Bornova Gustav into the Mirror World to weaken the church’s seal and let powerful Mirror People enter reality, but refused to identify their leader.
• Sirio used a small mirror to escape with his armored soldiers as Angel tried to attack him.
• Bornova reconstructed Sirio’s plan and determined that Angel’s mirror had redirected the trap by creating a second coordinate to the same Mirror World.
• Bornova noticed the dead civilians’ bodies stirred his emotions and traced the Triangle Holy Emblem over his chest.

Angel and Sirio's fight was interrupted when the Calamity Giant's roar drove them both toward madness, and they fled as the giant advanced. Angel entered Fourth Epoch Trier's Mirror World to escape, where she found that its passages all led toward the city at the wilderness's center.

• Sirio's attempt to escape through his silver mirror failed, and he blamed Angel's antique mirror for trapping him in Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Angel used the Wings of Death and stolen Flame Transformation against Sirio, but the Calamity Giant's roar interrupted their battle and overwhelmed them both.
• Anne Gustav's Sword and Shield Balance Emblem protected Angel from the roar, while a red light from Sirio's mirror flew toward the giant and helped him recover.
• The Calamity Giant emerged from the expanded storms and approached, so Angel and Sirio ran toward the darkness with Sirio's five armored soldiers following.
• Angel created an ice entrance into the Mirror World, where she saw that every passage pointed toward the central city.

Angel fought Sirio Sauron while the Calamity Giant approached, but Sirio’s own armored soldiers suddenly betrayed and killed him before Angel could use her Betrayal charm. Angel was left staring at the unexpected death as the giant continued closing in.

• Angel used Flaming Jump to catch Sirio and concealed the Sword of Dawn inside a flaming longsword, piercing his chest and forcing him to fall.
• Sirio survived the fall by slowing himself with flames, then revealed an incomplete mythical creature form and summoned his five armored soldiers to face Angel.
• With the Calamity Giant nearing, Angel prepared the Betrayal charm while Sirio cautiously planned to counter her.
• Sirio’s five soldiers attacked him from behind, stabbing him repeatedly until he died before Angel could activate the charm.

Angel killed Sirio Sauron’s Spirit Body through Magic Mirror Divination and learned how to escape Fourth Epoch Trier, as well as the Mirror People’s plan to target Bornova Gustav. With the Calamity Giant approaching and Sirio’s leader’s identity concealed by a protective power, Angel had to choose which silver mirror to use.

• Sirio’s five Tinplate Soldiers killed him, then reverted to their pendant form, and Angel searched his cooling corpse for surviving items.
• Angel used Magic Mirror Divination to question Sirio and learned that leaving Fourth Epoch Trier required using a silver mirror, while two identical mirrors interfered with each other.
• Sirio revealed that the Mirror People intended to lure Bornova Gustav into a Special Mirror World and explained that a sufficiently large disturbance could weaken its seal.
• When Angel asked who the Mirror People’s leader was, a protective power destroyed Sirio’s Spirit Body and the information he was about to reveal.
• Angel collected Sirio’s Beyonder Characteristics and weighed which of the two silver mirrors to use as the Calamity Giant drew nearer.

Angel searched for a way out of the sealed wilderness around Fourth Epoch Trier, but discovered that both the physical world and Mirror World were blocked by the Eternal Blazing Sun’s power. With the Calamity Giant nearby, she weighed the risks of using two silver mirrors and noticed a new rune appearing on the mirror from Backlund.

• Angel fled from the Calamity Giant into a forest of pillars, but the forest’s spatial distortion repeatedly returned her to the wilderness near Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Angel recognized that a powerful seal around the area trapped anyone trying to leave and suspected it was created by a True God.
• Angel entered the Mirror World, saw a vast golden wall sealing it, and identified the power as belonging to the Eternal Blazing Sun.
• Angel resisted an unnatural urge to enter Fourth Epoch Trier and considered using one of her two silver mirrors to escape.
• Angel noticed a new rune resembling the Living Sacrifice Rune beneath the surface of the silver mirror from Backlund.