Recaps

The Tarot Club approved the Empress’s proposal to create Minor Arcana teams, with Mr. Fool limiting each member to three recruits who would need assessment and his authorization. After the gathering, Angel investigated Tia’s encounter with the Gnostic Society and prepared to travel to Backlund, while Leonard asked Pales whether he would join the Fool’s organization.

• Leonard and Emlyn supported the Empress’s proposal, and Audrey judged that she could recruit Susie as her Minor Arcana.
• The Tarot Club members backed the proposal, and Mr. Fool approved it with a limit of three recruits per member and an assessment requirement before they could seek his help.
• After the meeting, Klein considered which Minor Arcana card to give Danitz and whether to introduce Sharron to the Fool after her advancement.
• Angel questioned Sailor Chief William about Tia’s encounter with the Gnostic Society, concluded Tia likely did not know of any hidden arrangements, and ordered him to watch her.
• Angel entrusted Helene with a blood-linked Magic Mirror and traveled through the Mirror World toward Backlund.
• Leonard told Pales Zoroaster that the kingdom’s leaders might start a localized war within six months, then asked whether Pales would join the Fool’s organization.

Leonard tried to recruit Pallez into the Fool’s Minor Arcana but was warned against expanding the group, then investigated a Witch’s murders in the East Borough. Aboard the Future, Cattleya asked Frank whether he would accept a blessing from a mysterious existence, while his mushroom experiments left Sharff desperate to escape.

• Leonard told Pallez about the Tarot Club’s Minor Arcana plan, but Pallez refused recruitment and warned him not to approach other candidates.
• Leonard reviewed the East Borough murder clues and connected the suspected Witch’s possible plan to the public spectacle around the Capim Case and Angel’s past actions.
• Cattleya visited Frank’s mushroom laboratory aboard the Future and saw Sharff exhausted and being offered a mushroom to eat.
• Cattleya asked Frank if he would accept a blessing and become a believer, and Frank agreed immediately if it would help his experiments.
• Sharff tried to flee, but the giant mushroom’s fungal threads dragged him back, leaving Cattleya to reconsider recruiting Frank into the Fool’s Minor Arcana.

Angel and Klein tested each other’s tricks while discussing their Tarot Club plans and their progress toward advancing. After Angel resumed her voyage aboard the Red Haired Woman, the crew caught a mermaid whose tail was splitting into legs.

• Angel presented the Minor Arcana cards for Shermane and Helene and described her plans for them to build influence and command a fleet.
• Klein demonstrated how he and his marionettes could swap identities, but Angel tricked him with mirror substitutes and revealed she had guessed his real position.
• Angel explained that her mirror substitutes could imitate a person’s appearance and touch, while the real Angel could hide in the Mirror World.
• Angel told Klein that the Red Haired Woman had left Midway Island and was sailing west toward the Fog Sea in search of the Fountain of Youth.
• Angel used Helene’s Magic Mirror to find the Red Haired Woman and discovered the crew gathered around a caught mermaid whose tail was beginning to split into legs.

Angel discovered that the Siren caught in the Red Haired Woman’s net belonged to a group raised by the Church of the Evernight Goddess, and she investigated the mermaid’s past. In the Siren’s dream, Angel witnessed an unknown underwater creature dragging away members of her kin.

• The sailors hauled in a Siren with their trawl net, and Helene ordered William to place her in a barrel of seawater while the crew celebrated with extra liquor.
• Angel used the Magic Mirror to divine the Siren’s origins and saw her praying with a group at Cathedral of Serenity on Dainos Island before they left for the open sea.
• Angel entered the sleeping Siren’s dream and watched her feast on raw fish before reliving a stormy encounter with her kin.
• A thick cloud of blood spread through the water, and an enormous force dragged a young Siren beneath the surface.
• Angel saw a second Siren lurking underwater seize a red-haired Siren and pull her down as the others fled.

Angel explored the Siren’s nightmare, learning that red-eyed members of her tribe had attacked her and driven her away. The Siren woke aboard the Red Haired Woman, revealed her song and ability to speak some Loenese, and ended the chapter introducing herself as YuYu.

• Angel watched the dream-Siren flee her red-eyed kin before leaving the collapsing nightmare and returning to the deck.
• Helene told Angel that the crew felt reassured by the ship’s Beyonders and Angel’s reputation.
• The awakened Siren sang to enthrall the crew, but Angel stopped her with Black Flame and offered her food.
• Angel showed the Siren her Evernight emblem, and the Siren agreed to speak Loenese after eating.
• Angel considered releasing the Siren, returning her to the Church, or keeping her aboard as a crew member.
• Angel asked the Siren her name, and she answered, “YuYu.”

Shermane killed Malcolm publicly to complete digesting her Witch potion, but a red-gloved man caught her as she tried to escape. Meanwhile, the Red Haired Woman reached a dense sea fog near the suspected Fountain of Youth.

• Shermane displayed the bound Malcolm outside an attic and burned him with Cursed Black Flame before killing him with an Ice Spike as witnesses watched.
• Shermane finished digesting her Witch potion, escaped the scene, and tried to disappear into the sewers.
• A dream trap sent Shermane back inside Malcolm's house, where a gale exposed her and a handsome man in red gloves confronted her.
• Angel checked the Red Haired Woman's position on a chart while YuYu's navigation brought the ship near the Fountain of Youth ahead of schedule.
• Helene told Angel that a thick bank of sea fog lay ahead and that the ship might have found the Fountain of Youth.

Angel found the fog-covered waters where the Fountain of Youth was believed to lie and cautiously prepared to explore them the next day. Meanwhile, Leonard captured a Witch in a sewer, but she exploded before he could take her into custody.

• Angel ordered Helene to stop the Red Haired Woman five nautical miles from the fog and sent YuYu across its boundary to scout, but the Siren found only silent, empty waters.
• Angel decided to keep the ship outside the fog overnight and explore the next day, hoping to find a withered branch from the Fountain of Youth for her Sequence 3 potion.
• Leonard used the Word of the Sea and his sleep-inducing ability to corner a Witch by a sewer entrance after she used Mirror Substitution to evade his first attack.
• Leonard reached for the unconscious Witch, sensed heat beneath her cloak, and barely protected himself with a ball of water as she exploded in flames.

Leonard pursued the exhausted Shermane through the sewers, but a triggered negative effect from his cane gave Triss time to rescue her. Aboard the Red Haired Woman, Angel and the crew celebrated on the eve of reaching the real Fountain of Youth.

• Leonard tracked Shermane through the sewers, while she tried to escape using Mirror Substitution and deception.
• Leonard caught up with Shermane, but his cane struck him after its negative effect triggered, and Triss appeared to help Shermane escape.
• Patrol officers secured Iron Carbon Street, where Malcolm's corpse remained pinned beneath the watching gaze of a hooded man.
• Ariel ate grilled fish and sang with the sailors aboard the Red Haired Woman as Helene asked William to teach her human habits and Loenese.
• Angel watched the crew's celebration, thought about seeing the real Fountain of Youth the next day, and joined them to eat grilled fish.

Angel learned that the mist-shrouded sea held the Fountain of Youth and that reaching it required the right time, place, and a demoness’s techniques. She led the Red Haired Woman into the mist, then discovered an island underwater as she began exploring the seabed.

• Wensa delivered a joint letter from Trissy and Shermane, who reported that Shermane had finished digesting her potion and planned to advance to Pleasure before targeting Viscount Stratford.
• Angel recognized that Leonard Mitchell had nearly caught Shermane and planned to warn him about her identity at the next Tarot Club gathering.
• Angel ordered the Red Haired Woman to enter the mist, and she used the Rose Necklace to drive the ship through the windless waters.
• Once the ship was deep in the mist, Angel gave the necklace to Helene and jumped into the sea to search the seabed.
• Angel saw the outline of an island shrouded in mist beneath the water.

Angel discovered how to enter the Special Mirror World containing the Fountain of Youth and brought the Red Haired Woman through to an island. In Backlund, Trissy told Shermane that Angel was away and recalled her past connection to Angel and the Red Glove.

• Angel realized that the windless sea concealed a Special Mirror World and deduced that sunlight and a Demoness's mirror technique were needed to enter it.
• Angel froze and smoothed the sea around the Red Haired Woman, creating an ice mirror that drew the ship into the Special Mirror World.
• The Red Haired Woman emerged in a clear, sunlit sea surrounded by fog, and Helene spotted an enormous island nearby.
• In a café, Trissy told Shermane that Angel was seeking the Fountain of Youth and warned her that the Red Glove might have seen her face.
• Trissy said Angel knew the Red Glove from their time as Nighthawks in Tingen and admitted that she had once stabbed Angel's man.

Angel explored the island in the Special Mirror World where the Fountain of Youth was rumored to be, while warning Helene and the sailors about Mirror People. After entering the island alone and finding she could not contact the Fool or the Evernight Goddess, she was ambushed in the woods by a shadow that transformed into an armored knight.

• Angel decided Helene and the sailors should remain aboard the Red Haired Woman while she explored the island alone.
• Angel warned Helene that Mirror People could imitate people they knew and instructed the sailors to attack any familiar face other than hers.
• Angel entered the Special Mirror World, reached the island, and failed to receive a response when she prayed to the Fool and the Evernight Goddess.
• Angel traveled inland across the island and noticed a light-devouring shadow approaching through the woods.
• Angel drew Angelica's Edge and charged the shadow, which transformed into a black-armored knight and pleaded for her to stop.

Angel pretended to be a Demoness seeking the Fountain of Youth and accompanied the Black Knight across the island, trading news with him. At the Fountain, he saw through her disguise and attacked, binding her shadow as he prepared to strike.

• Angel recognized the armored guard as a Black Knight of the Secrets Suppliant Pathway and claimed that the Gray Witch had sent her to advance.
• The Black Knight agreed to lead Angel to the Fountain of Youth and warned her to leave immediately after advancing.
• As they walked, Angel shared news from the outside world, while the Black Knight asked about recent events and avoided explaining why he remained on the island.
• Angel and the Black Knight reached the Fountain of Youth, a small pool surrounded by withered grass and dead trees.
• The Black Knight attacked Angel without warning; she cut through his Greatsword and hurled Black Flame at him.
• The Black Knight explained that Angel had exposed herself by getting Judith’s title wrong and acting wary, then bound her with her own shadow as he swung his new Greatsword at her.

Angel fought a Black Knight and discovered that he was one of several marionettes controlled by a Trick Sorcerer working with the Demoness Sect. After escaping the Trick Sorcerer’s control and a lethal attack, she counterattacked the Black Knight and Demoness of Despair with destructive flames.

• Angel burned through the Black Knight’s shadow and armor, then wounded him with black flames and Angelica’s Edge.
• The Black Knight shattered into fragments, but Angel’s diseases failed to find him, and a Demoness of Despair appeared in his place.
• The Demoness summoned the Black Knight and a blond young man, and Angel recognized them as marionettes controlled by a Trick Sorcerer.
• The marionettes offered to let Angel leave, but the hidden Trick Sorcerer seized control of her Spirit Body Threads.
• The Black Knight struck down a substitute, while the marionettes located Angel in the Mirror World and attacked her.
• Angel deflected Spirit Flesh Blade and unleashed blue-violet flames that pierced the Black Knight and burned through the Demoness’s robe.

Angel fought the Black Knight, the Demoness of Despair, and the Winner while the hidden Trick Sorcerer manipulated them from the Fountain of Youth. After discovering the Trick Sorcerer could not leave the island's central area, Angel escaped and planned to return with a strategy to defeat her.

• Angel used Angelica's Edge against the Black Knight and the Demoness of Despair, but their Paper Figurine and Mirror Substitutions prevented her from killing them.
• The Demoness of Despair cursed Angel, while the hidden Trick Sorcerer tried to control her Spirit Body Threads and the Winner's misfortune attacks failed to affect her.
• The Trick Sorcerer sent a released soul to forbid entry to the Mirror World, revealing a fourth demigod guarding the Fountain of Youth.
• Angel used Staff Substitution to escape the Black Knight and grievously wounded the Imperative Mage, breaking the prohibition and restoring her access to the Mirror World.
• Angel escaped beyond the marionettes' thousand-meter range and concluded that the Trick Sorcerer could not leave the island's center.
• Angel left the beach, resolved to plan a return and defeat the Trick Sorcerer, and put Angelica's Edge away to resist its negative effect.

Angel returned to the island and used the Trick Sorcerer’s dependence on the Fountain of Youth to defeat her marionettes and expose her true body. Angel killed the Trick Sorcerer, but the chapter left her own fate uncertain after her neck suddenly broke and her head fell into the spring.

• Angel ordered the Red Haired Woman to sail away from the island, then returned alone wearing the Parasite glove to confront the Trick Sorcerer.
• Angel fought the Black Knight and the Demoness of Despair, summoned the Reaper Legion, and located the Trick Sorcerer hidden beneath the boulder in the Fountain of Youth.
• Angel used the Parasite glove to seize the Imperative Mage’s Deprivation ability, stripped the Demoness of Despair of disease control, and infected the Trick Sorcerer with a deadly disease.
• The Trick Sorcerer swapped the Demoness of Despair with the Winner to avoid Angel’s Betrayal charm, but Angel used Klein’s Luck Stealer charm to make the marionettes’ betrayal take effect.
• Angel’s attacks severed the marionettes’ connection to the Trick Sorcerer, forcing the disease-stricken woman to emerge from the Fountain of Youth; Angel then pierced her heart with Angelica’s Edge.
• The Trick Sorcerer’s head fell into the Fountain of Youth after her neck broke, while Angel stood over her with her own fate unresolved.

Angel killed the Trick Sorcerer Sophia at the Fountain of Youth and questioned her spirit, learning that Sophia had been pursuing the Scholar of Yore ritual for over a century. Sophia disappeared before revealing where she had left her belongings, and Angel secured her Beyonder characteristic before realizing her sword was missing.

• Angel discovered that the Fountain of Youth’s life-preserving effects ended outside the water, then confirmed she could not carry its water away.
• Angel summoned Sophia’s spirit and learned she was a Secret Order Trick Sorcerer who had stayed in the fountain to complete the Scholar of Yore promotion ritual.
• Sophia explained that the ritual required three hundred years of separation from reality and that Zarathus would provide her with a finished potion.
• Sophia said Demonesses who advanced at the fountain warned of dangers linked to their Mirror Persons, and that three Demonesses had advanced there since 1175.
• Sophia revealed that her belongings were at Derrenburg before her spirit vanished, and Angel collected her Beyonder characteristic from the corpse.
• Angel looked toward Sophia’s abandoned marionettes, then noticed that her sword, Angelica’s Edge, was missing.

Angel recovered Angelica’s Edge after the Parasite glove’s side effect caused it to vanish, then finished off the remaining enemies from the battle. After the Black Knight mutated and died, he disappeared and left behind Angel’s missing Rose Necklace, whose altered state filled her with excitement.

• Angel retrieved Angelica’s Edge from the Trick Sorcerer’s corpse, burned her remains, and collected the Beyonder characteristics of the Winner and the Demoness of Despair.
• Angel found the Black Knight’s corpse mutating into a shadow that imposed Prohibitions and sang with an Ocean Songster’s ability.
• Angel attacked the Black Knight with Black Flame and curses, then used Angelica’s Edge and Ice Mirrors to destroy his red scales and finish him off.
• The Black Knight’s remains collapsed and vanished, leaving behind a Ruby Necklace that Angel recognized as her missing Rose Necklace.
• Angel examined the Rose Necklace with her spirituality and realized she had hit the jackpot.

Angel examined the upgraded Rose Necklace, released the Reaper’s soul, and returned from the Mirror World with a Reaper characteristic for Helene’s advancement. Back in Backlund, she appeared before Klein, who asked whether she had obtained a dead branch from the Fountain of Youth.

• Angel discovered that the Rose Necklace had fused with the Black Knight’s characteristic, gaining stronger abilities and souls including an Imperative Mage, a Reaper, and a Scarlet Scholar.
• Angel released the Reaper’s soul, accepted its thanks, and collected the Reaper characteristic it left behind.
• Angel returned to the Red Haired Woman, told Helene to prepare for Sequence 5 advancement, and led the ship out of the Mirror World.
• Angel emerged from a mirror in Klein’s bedroom in Backlund, and Klein asked whether she had obtained a dead branch from the trees beside the Fountain of Youth.

Angel prepared and drank the Unaging potion while Klein wrestled with doubts about whether his life had been shaped by fate and worried about her advancement. The potion showed Angel memories of her life before the Fifth Epoch and revealed Adam and the Evernight Goddess beside her body in the past.

• Angel told Klein about killing Sophia, a Trick Sorcerer pursuing the Scholar of Yore advancement, and described the ritual that required three hundred years outside reality.
• Klein wondered whether his choices and identity had been arranged in advance, while Angel comforted him and promised to face the long ritual together.
• Angel prepared the Unaging potion and asked Klein to turn her into a marionette if she began losing control during advancement.
• Angel drank the potion, resisted its initial signs of loss of control, and saw memories of her birth, death, and long existence in the City of Calamity.
• Angel witnessed a memory of Adam and the Evernight Goddess standing beside her body in a dark basement.

Angel overcame the memory trial and advanced to Sequence 3, becoming a Demoness of Unaging, before encountering her mirror self in the City of Calamity. Back in the Dantès residence, Klein watched her body shatter like a mirror.

• Adam left Angel's altered memories in the Mother of the Sky's care after warning that Sefirah Castle would overlook the alteration only once.
• Angel used the memory of being Angel Gray as an anchor, accepted memories from different periods of her life, and completed her advancement to Sequence 3.
• Angel found she could retain her spirituality and use her Beyonder abilities in the City of Calamity, then met a mirror self who called herself Angel Granger.
• Klein checked Angel's condition as she advanced, but her body suddenly shattered into glittering mirror fragments before his eyes.

Angel met her Mirror Person in the City of Calamity and learned how the Sefirah affected Demonesses and Hunters. Her Mirror Person gave her the power of Sequence 3 and left her with a mysterious mark that represented the Hunter.

• Angel cautiously questioned her Mirror Person, who explained that the City of Calamity influenced the Demoness and Hunter pathways in places contaminated by its power.
• The Mirror Person said she had appeared in place of Angel’s usual Mirror Person and that Unaging Demonesses normally faced a choice between confrontation and reconciliation.
• Angel learned that Adam had sealed the Mirror Person’s memories and that she would reveal them if Angel advanced to Sequence 2.
• The Mirror Person embraced Angel, confirmed she had helped her through the potion ritual, and passed on the power belonging to a Demoness along with a special gift.
• After the Mirror Person vanished, Angel found a deep-red mark representing the Hunter on her chest.

After advancing to Sequence 3, Angel returned from the City of Calamity and explained her new abilities to Klein. She revealed that the Mirror Person had given her a boon—or curse—that also made her equivalent to a Sequence 4 Iron-Blooded Knight.

• Angel escaped the City of Calamity through its Mirror World projection and returned to the bedroom at No. 160 Böklund Street.
• Angel noticed her transformed appearance and practiced changing her expressions and bearing before Klein saw her.
• Angel told Klein that she could resurrect through the Mirror World and described her enhanced mirror magic, petrification, diseases, curses, invisible threads, frost, and Black Flame.
• Angel showed Klein a blood-red mark on her chest and said the City of Calamity's boon made her equivalent to a Sequence 4 Iron-Blooded Knight.
• Angel demonstrated flames that shifted from black through orange-yellow, white, and azure-blue to purple.

Angel explained how her boon combined Demoness and Hunter abilities, demonstrating its strength to Klein. After teasing him with different aspects of herself and escaping through a mirror substitute, Angel surprised him by embracing him from behind.

• Angel explained that her Sequence 3 boon granted her Sequence 4 Hunter abilities and let her combine them with Demoness powers.
• Angel demonstrated how her petrification could travel through spirit body threads from Enyouni to Klein, then released them from its effects.
• Angel showed Klein how her boon enhanced Angelica's Edge and let her strengthen her tinplate puppets.
• Klein considered whether switching pathways might help him advance, then changed the subject to Cynthia's powers from the Mother Tree of Desire.
• Angel teased Klein by displaying contrasting personas, escaped his embrace with a mirror substitute, and then embraced him from behind.

After advancing to Sequence 3 Unaging, Angel rested and examined her new abilities, potion digestion, and honorific name. She planned her next moves in Backlund, including supporting Klein’s ritual, investigating the Great Smog, and helping her Minor Arcana members advance.

• Angel returned home after a day of fighting, slept through the night, and examined her condition after advancing to Unaging.
• Angel found she could partly control the snakes in her hair and use her new connection to the Mirror World to sense and answer certain prayers.
• Angel concluded that premature acting had digested about half her potion and considered using her past resurrections to digest the rest.
• Angel considered helping Klein complete his Scholar of Yore ritual and noted the dangers an Unaging Demoness might face at the Fountain of Youth.
• Angel reviewed plans to visit Archbishop Anthony Stevenson, contact Anne about the Ghost Empire, and pursue leads on the Great Smog.
• Angel planned to help Helene capture Tracy and debated whether Shermane could avoid using herself as bait to obtain information from Viscount Stratford.

At the Tarot Club, Klein learned from Roselle’s diary that one of the Black Emperor’s mausoleums might be fake, while Angel asked Leonard to stop pursuing Shermane in exchange for making him an advanced charm. Angel then revealed she had become an Unaging Demoness and offered several Beyonder characteristics for sale.

• Leonard decided to heed the Old Man’s warning and consider dropping his investigation into the Witch who escaped him.
• Klein read Roselle’s diary entry about a hidden extra mausoleum and considered that two Black Emperor mausoleums might still exist.
• Angel told Leonard that Shermane was her Minor Arcana, the Empress of Pentacles, and asked him to stop pursuing her and cover up the case within the Church.
• Leonard agreed to stop investigating Shermane in exchange for an advanced charm made with a Worm of Time.
• Angel offered a Winner, a Demoness of Despair, and a sequence 4 Trick Sorcerer characteristic for sale at the Tarot Club.
• Angel confirmed to Audrey and the other Tarot Club members that she had advanced to sequence 3 and become an Unaging Demoness.