Recaps

Angel consulted Amon about revising her honorific name after the Evernight Goddess relinquished the Crimson Moon authority, and learned that five seemingly distant pathways might be connected. She finalized a new honorific name and heard that several cults had recently infiltrated Partis, the Dream City.

• Angel explained the divine battle and the Evernight Goddess’s revised honorific name to Gerdruff Amon, who confirmed that he lacked the original Amon’s knowledge of it.
• Amon told Angel that Beyonders might switch among the Demoness, Red Priest, Darkness, Death, and Twilight pathways, prompting her to reconsider a series of strange coincidences in her life.
• With Amon’s advice, Angel drafted a new honorific name: “Emissary of Calamity and Eternal Night, Queen of the Five Seas and Islands, Arbiter of Disease and Strife, Source of Mirror Power.”
• Amon reported that cultists had infiltrated Partis over the past two weeks, identifying the Rose School’s Indulgence Faction, the Gourmet School, the All Things End Society, and Sinner.

Angel questioned a Sinner cultist imprisoned by Amon and learned that he had received boons from the Circle of Inevitability through an unfamiliar pathway. After the Outer Deity noticed him, the cultist exploded, while Amon caught a speck of silvery-black light.

• Amon led Angel to the underground cells where he had imprisoned members of several Outer Deity cults.
• Angel questioned a Sinner, who explained that an Intis merchant named Voisin Sanson had recruited him and taught him a ritual to contact Inevitability.
• The Sinner revealed that boons had made him a Dancer and then a Sequence 8 Mendicant Monk, granting him unusual endurance and luck-related ritual abilities.
• Angel asked which great existence the Sinner worshipped, and he named the Circle of Inevitability.
• The Circle of Inevitability's gaze reached the cell despite the Hand of Order's defenses, and the Sinner exploded as Amon caught a speck of silvery-black light.

Angel learned that Amon had stolen boon power from the Circle of Inevitability and was studying the Outer Deities’ infiltration, while the immigrants from the City of Silver rapidly built a new settlement. The chapter ended with Archbishop Anthony summoning Angel to his office as “Your Highness.”

• Amon told Angel he had stolen a boon from the Circle of Inevitability and gathered information about three Outer Deities, then planned experiments on captured followers using a Parasite glove.
• Angel visited the immigrants’ settlement and saw them rapidly constructing the New City of Silver around a recreation of the Twin Towers.
• Derrick Berg asked when more residents would arrive, and Angel explained that a fleet and a miracle from Mr. Fool would bring them.
• Angel prayed at Saint Samuel Cathedral about Outer Deity followers infiltrating the city and offered to join a crackdown.
• Archbishop Anthony addressed Angel as “Your Highness” and summoned her to his office.

Angel attended the Evernight Church’s Meeting Before God, where the Church ordered a broad campaign against newly emerged evil sects and assigned her to lead an operation against the Rose School on the Southern Continent. Elsewhere, Alger received matching orders from Mr. Fool to cooperate with the Churches’ campaigns, and the chapter ended with Dunn inviting Angel and Klein to his wedding with Daly.

• Anthony brought Angel into the Meeting Before God, where Pope Saint Dabomachie introduced her as the Goddess’s blessed and the Calamity Angel.
• Dabomachie announced the Goddess’s revelation ordering dioceses to eradicate specified evil sects, and Angel briefed the meeting on the Sinner organization.
• Dabomachie assigned Angel to lead an upcoming operation against the Rose School on the Southern Continent.
• Alger received orders from Pope Gade II to destroy Rose School strongholds, then was instructed by Mr. Fool to cooperate with the Churches’ anti-cult operations.
• After Angel awoke from the dream meeting, Dunn invited her and Klein to his wedding with Daly that Saturday.

Angel accepted Dunn and Daly’s wedding invitation and learned that the Demoness Sect had ordered its leaders to halt operations and hide or return to headquarters. She considered opposing the Primordial Demoness, and Wensa brought her a black bone statue connected to another being willing to perish with Cheek.

• Dunn told Angel that he and Daly planned to marry in Tingen soon because they feared another tragedy if they waited, and Angel agreed to attend with Klein.
• Angel summoned Wensa and asked why Clarice had abandoned Trier and whether the Demoness Sect was preparing a major operation.
• Wensa said the Primordial Demoness had ordered the sect’s leaders to stop all operations and hide or return to headquarters, which was concealed in a special Mirror World.
• Angel asked whether the being behind Wensa and Katarina would help her oppose the Primordial Demoness, and Wensa said she would be willing to perish together with Cheek.
• Wensa produced a black bone statue of the Primordial Demoness, unlike the white statues Angel had seen among Demoness Sect members.

Angel received a black statue of the Primordial Demoness and questioned Wensa about advancing to Conqueror. Meanwhile, Dunn and Daly married in Tingen, and Klein and Angel left the ceremony together before discussing what their own wedding might be like.

• Angel asked Wensa about the black statue and learned she should recite the Primordial Demoness's honorific name only when she was truly ready.
• Wensa told Angel that advancing to Conqueror was exactly what the Primordial Demoness wanted to hear, then escaped into the Spirit World.
• Seeka watched Dunn and Daly's wedding in Tingen alongside the former Nighthawks and guests from Backlund.
• Dunn and Daly exchanged vows, while Klein and Angel watched in disguise before leaving the church.
• Leonard noticed the pair departing, and Shermane asked him what he imagined their wedding would be like.
• Angel asked Klein the same question, and his list of possible identities left her overwhelmed by indecision.

Angel and Klein discussed holding weddings for the identities they had shared, while Klein described his progress toward creating Marionette Town and struggled against the Celestial Worthy’s mental imprint. After restoring Angel’s former home on Daffodil Street, they went inside together; meanwhile, Anne and Bernadette tracked a moving red mark into an uncharted region of the Fog Sea.

• Angel agreed with Klein’s proposal to hold weddings for all their shared identities, and Klein began listing roles they could play in Marionette Town.
• Klein told Angel he was rebuilding homes in Constant City to gather wishes and that his Miracle Invoker potion was nearly digested, then struggled briefly against the Celestial Worthy’s imprint.
• Angel steadied Klein, and they reflected on how they had become each other’s strongest anchors.
• Klein used a miracle to restore the interior of Angel’s former home at 6 Daffodil Street, and Angel led him inside.
• In the Fog Sea, Anne and Bernadette watched a compass as a blood-red mark moved ahead of their ships toward an uncharted forbidden region.

Bernadette and Anne followed The Black Emperor into the Fog Sea while Angel reviewed outdated intelligence on the Rose School and Numinous Episcopate in Vertec City. As Angel weighed her enemies and possible allies, an unannounced envoy arrived with a face she recognized from the Nation of the Evernight.

• Bernadette and Anne tracked The Black Emperor through the storm toward a small island.
• Angel traveled through the Mirror World to Vertec City and examined the local Nighthawks’ records on the Rose School and Numinous Episcopate.
• Angel judged the Rose School her main target but struggled to see how she could locate its hidden members, while she considered the Numinous Episcopate a potential ally.
• Angel learned that the Royalist Faction was led by the angel Sia Palenque Eggers, whom she suspected might be Death’s descendant and a possible Sequence 1.
• A hooded special envoy arrived at the Church of the Evernight Goddess, and Angel recognized his face from the Nation of the Evernight.

Angel met Antigonus, who said the Evernight Goddess had sent him to help her fight the Rose School, and learned that the Mother Tree of Desire had corrupted the Chained God Tolzna. Angel then recruited Reinette Tinekerr to join the campaign, and Reinette agreed.

• Angel confronted Antigonus in a church, and he explained that Arianna had sent him to assist with her mission on the Southern Continent.
• Antigonus admitted he recognized Angel as one of the people who stole his Beyonder characteristic, but said he had pledged his allegiance to the Evernight Goddess and came with goodwill.
• Antigonus explained the history of the Rose School and revealed that the Mother Tree of Desire had corrupted Tolzna, leaving him unable to act freely.
• Angel asked Antigonus to search the Ancient Forest for Rose School bases and Saints while she contacted allies.
• Angel summoned Reinette Tinekerr and offered to help her take revenge on the Indulgence Faction and recover her body.
• Reinette nodded, accepting Angel's proposal.

Klein worked above the Gray Fog while managing prayers from Fors, Angel, and Bernadette. He uncovered the danger behind Mr. Door’s pleas for rescue and summoned Angel to discuss Bernadette’s discovery near a mysterious island, where Roselle’s final mausoleum might be hidden.

• Klein split off avatars to study professional books for his planned marionette town and watched Fors advance to Secrets Sorcerer.
• Klein stabilized Fors’s advancement, then learned that Mr. Door had spoken with her and offered ways to free him.
• Klein used the Master Key and Scarlet Lunar Corona to determine that the lucid Bethel Abraham cried out against rescue, while the mad Mr. Door begged for it.
• Klein concluded that Mr. Door’s pleas were attempts by an Outer Deity to enter the Physical World and told Fors to warn the Abraham Family against rescuing him.
• Klein heard Angel’s report that Antigonus had been released and that the Church of Evernight planned to strike the Rose School, then warned her to remain cautious.
• Bernadette asked Klein for protection near a mysterious island while tracking Nast, and Klein summoned Angel to discuss whether Roselle’s final mausoleum lay there.

Angel and Klein watched Bernadette and Anne investigate the island where Roselle’s hidden mausoleum might lie. When the island’s creatures revived under the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s power, Angel prepared to descend and confront the threat.

• Klein asked Angel to descend as the Fool’s angel if Bernadette and Anne needed help on the island.
• Bernadette and Anne landed on the island and entered its primeval forest after Nast, while their ghost ships guarded the coast.
• Klein used Sefirah Castle’s power to watch Bernadette’s progress, but a distortion obscured most of the island.
• Bizarre creatures attacked Bernadette and Anne, and Anne divided the battlefield to isolate two of them.
• A strange wind revived the slain creatures and broke Anne’s battlefield, sending the horde charging again.
• Angel recognized the power of rebirth as belonging to the Mother Goddess of Depravity and prepared to descend onto the island.

Angel joined Anne and Bernadette in the battle against the Great Mother’s corruption and the Newborn Tide, which repeatedly revived the island’s creatures. She destroyed the black stone pillar sustaining the tide, ending the catastrophe and revealing the crimson aura drifting toward Roselle Gustav’s Black Emperor mausoleum.

• Klein used a Paper Doll Angel to bring Angel’s Historical Void Projection to Bernadette and Anne, allowing Angel to exchange places with it from the Southern Continent.
• The Newborn Tide revived the island’s creatures and corrupted Bernadette, but Anne resisted its effects while Bernadette used Pale Death to hold back the attackers.
• A hidden force distorted Anne’s prohibition and Bernadette’s death gaze, but Angel arrived, recruited both women, and disrupted the enemy’s control of the battlefield.
• Angel used her blood banner and authority to throw the creatures into chaos, then unleashed meteors, earthquakes, and a tsunami across the island.
• Angel found the Newborn Tide’s connections to a black stone pillar and destroyed the revived creatures through plague and petrification, transmitting the damage to the pillar and toppling it.
• The Newborn Tide and the island’s disasters stopped, while crimson aura drifted toward the Black Emperor mausoleum Roselle Gustav had built inside a mountain.

Angel destroyed the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s power on the island and learned that Nast had entered Roselle Gustav’s mausoleum while carrying the Outer Deity’s corruption. After Bernadette’s prophecy showed a monstrous figure crawling from the tomb, Angel entered it to investigate.

• Angel captured the crimson aura corrupting the Beyonder Creatures and destroyed it with the City of Calamity’s power.
• Angel concluded that Nast had brought the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s corruption into the mausoleum and asked Bernadette to prophesy what would happen.
• Bernadette’s prophecy showed a huge, flesh-covered creature crawling out of the mausoleum, possibly a corrupted resurrection of Roselle.
• Bernadette warned that the prophecy could represent a catastrophe caused either by their actions or by doing nothing.
• Angel told Anne to search outside for traces of the Great Mother’s power, then passed through the mausoleum doors with Mr. Fool’s help and found the interior empty.

Angel fought Roselle's shadow inside the Black Emperor Mausoleum while Klein guided her from above the Gray Fog. After Angel damaged the mausoleum and Roselle's shadow, the Mother Goddess of Depravity's power began emerging from within him, threatening to manifest as a crimson moon.

• Angel entered the mausoleum, broke free of the Black Emperor's suppression with a projection of 0-01, and was attacked by Roselle's distorted shadow.
• Klein used the Staff of the Stars to slow time in the mausoleum and instructed Angel to destroy it.
• Angel escaped Roselle's attack and used the Sword of Glory and Blade Storm to damage the mausoleum walls, weakening Roselle's shadow.
• Roselle's shadow began regenerating by restoring the mausoleum, so Angel redirected her Blade Storm to tear into him from within.
• Angel exposed the Mother Goddess of Depravity's blood-red radiance inside Roselle's shadow, and it began emerging as a crimson moon.

Angel suppressed the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s power within Roselle, but Roselle continued attacking until Bernadette and Anne entered and reached him. Roselle recognized his daughter and ordered her to seal him and leave.

• Angel used a drop of blood carrying the Mirror Person’s sefirah power to suppress the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s radiance inside Roselle’s shadow.
• Roselle attacked Angel again, forcing her to evade while she avoided weakening his shadow enough for the corruption to return.
• Bernadette and Anne entered the mausoleum, and Anne briefly imprisoned Roselle while Bernadette said the word “Homeland.”
• Roselle stopped and recognized Bernadette as his daughter, then spoke with her and Anne.
• Roselle acknowledged his corruption and ordered Bernadette to seal him and leave the mausoleum.

Bernadette, Angel, and Klein suppressed the corruption in Roselle and sealed him in a stable balance of death, calamity, and chaos. After Bernadette and Anne left, Roselle spoke with Angel until Klein appeared as Zhou Mingrui and answered Roselle’s coded phrase.

• Bernadette used Pale Death and the Feathered Serpent symbol to seal Roselle, while Angel severed the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s influence and Klein added the Fool’s power.
• The combined powers suppressed Roselle’s corruption, restored his human features, and prevented the prophesied catastrophe for the time being.
• Angel sensed a brief vision of the River of Eternal Darkness before the mausoleum fell silent.
• Roselle nodded to Anne, who took Bernadette away through the Spirit World; Bernadette called out to her father from the Dawn’s deck.
• Roselle told Angel, “You shouldn’t have come,” and Angel asked why.
• Klein arrived in the form of Zhou Mingrui and supplied the response to Roselle’s coded phrase: “But I’m already here.”

Klein and Angel spoke with Roselle about his corruption, the apocalypse, and the influence of the sefirahs. After examining Angel’s Cards of Blasphemy, Roselle realized that his Mirror Person might have created the extra Red Priest card.

• Angel told Roselle that Anne had wanted her to destroy the Ghost Ship before learning Bernadette was alive, and Roselle admitted he had wronged Anne.
• Klein and Angel discussed how Roselle’s attempt to become a True God and his contact with Mr. "Door" had been shaped by corruption from the Mother Goddess of Depravity.
• Roselle explained how sefirah corruption had affected figures such as Trunsoest and the Blood Emperor, and warned Angel about the Red Priest pathway.
• Angel showed Roselle two Red Priest Cards of Blasphemy and a Demoness card; Roselle confirmed he had made only one complete set and recognized the cards’ anti-divination properties.
• Roselle concluded that his Mirror Person might have created the second Red Priest card.

Angel and Klein questioned Roselle about his mirror person, the Mirror World, and the Four Emperors War. Roselle revealed that his mirror person had helped prepare a hidden mausoleum and that Cheek had killed her daughter, Krismona, before asking about Klein’s sex before becoming a Witch.

• Roselle told Angel that his deep mirror image was a woman who could not replace him, and that she had helped create the Demoness Card of Blasphemy.
• Roselle revealed that one of his required mausoleums was hidden in the Mirror World, where his mirror person could replace him if his other resurrection failed.
• Roselle speculated that the Chaos Demoness might be a mirror person of Cheek who ruled the Mirror World and wielded the City of Calamity.
• Roselle told Angel and Klein that Cheek had killed her daughter Krismona, possibly because female Demonesses could help the Great Terror descend.
• Roselle teased Angel and Klein by asking whether Klein had been male or female before advancing to Witch.

Angel and Klein learned more about Roselle’s corruption and the dangers facing their efforts to become Great Old Ones before leaving the mausoleum. Bernadette became an angel and learned the truth about her father, while Roselle remained behind to hear Nast’s proposal from the Great Mother.

• Angel explained how she revived in a body that had died after failing to advance to Witch, making her Demoness nature unusual, and Roselle discussed other suspected transmigrators with her and Klein.
• Roselle warned Klein that the Celestial Worthy’s plan might force others to help his revival, advised him to consult the Genie, and urged Angel to follow the path Death had attempted in the Fourth Epoch.
• Roselle asked Angel and Klein to help protect Bernadette and warned them about the Mother card among his Cards of Blasphemy before they left the mausoleum.
• Angel told Bernadette that Roselle had resisted the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s corruption, and Bernadette revealed she had advanced to become a Sage and true angel.
• Nast emerged from concealment in the mausoleum and offered Roselle a transaction from the Great Mother, guaranteed by the Uncertain Mist; Roselle asked to hear the terms.

Angel prepared to enlist Reinette Tinekerr and Sharron in the Orthodox Churches’ campaign against the Rose School, while considering the revelations Emperor Roselle had shared. The chapter ended with a Mandated Punisher team discovering a hall full of hanging cultists.

• Angel recalled Emperor Roselle’s revelations about his Mirror Person, the Great Terror in the Mirror World, and corruption in the Mother card.
• Reinette Tinekerr and Sharron arrived, and Angel welcomed the Temperance Faction’s help against the Rose School.
• Sharron revealed that she had become a Puppet and thanked Angel for providing the Beyonder Characteristic.
• Angel proposed a more aggressive campaign and asked Reinette for intelligence about Abomination Suah.
• A Cataclysmic Interrer entered a rainforest castle and found over a hundred figures hanging from the hall’s ceiling, swaying in the wind.

Angel discussed Antigonus's attacks on Rose School bases and planned a trap with the Temperance Faction to draw out an Indulgence angel. Meanwhile, Emlyn was appointed a senior deacon and learned important Church matters before joining the Tarot Club above the gray fog.

• Angel reprimanded Antigonus for killing Rose School followers in ways that caused other churches to mistake the attacks for Gehrman Sparrow's work, and Antigonus agreed to use her Historical Projection and give her the credit.
• Antigonus reported that he had destroyed five bases but still could not locate the Rose School's angels, so Angel described her plan to lure out an Indulgence angel with Reinette Tinekerr's help.
• Antigonus explained that he retained two Sequence 2 characteristics and could temporarily draw a Sequence 1 version of himself from the Historical Void, while revealing that his Miracle Invoker characteristic had carried the Celestial Worthy's will from birth.
• Archbishop Loreto appointed Emlyn a senior deacon responsible for Sanguine affairs and said the Church had important matters requiring his attention.
• Emlyn joined the Tarot Club above the gray fog, still reeling from what Loreto had told him.

Emlyn asked the Tarot Club whether the Church of the Earth Mother’s safeguards against false revelations meant its Moon and Mother pathways were vulnerable to cosmic corruption, and Angel explained that six pathways originated beyond the world. Two days later, Angel received Bernadette’s Magic Wishing Lamp and summoned its Genie above the gray fog, where it recognized Klein and froze.

• Emlyn told the Tarot Club that the Church of the Earth Mother had appointed him its Sanguine representative and warned him that divine revelations could be demonic temptations.
• Angel explained that only sixteen Beyonder pathways came from the Original Creator, while Moon, Mother, Lawyer, Arbiter, Prisoner, and Criminal came from the cosmos; she added that the Chained God had been corrupted.
• Angel told the gathering that Orthodox Churches were hunting Rose School cultists on the Southern Continent and reassured Emlyn that the Church of the Earth might soon involve steadfast God-Blessed fighters.
• Angel asked Cattleya about Queen Mystic Bernadette’s return and requested to borrow her Magic Wishing Lamp, while suggesting Cattleya ask Bernadette about Sequence 3 Clairvoyant potion materials.
• Two days later, Klein brought Bernadette’s lamp above the gray fog, and Angel rubbed it until the Genie appeared, mocked her for being trapped in the Historical Void, then froze upon seeing Klein.

Klein and Angel questioned the Genie, who mistook Klein for the Celestial Worthy before realizing the truth. The Genie offered a deal and then gave them three pieces of advice before returning to the Magic Wishing Lamp.

• The Genie mistook Klein, who wore the curtain and had accommodated the Fool card, for the Celestial Worthy, and offered to help him accommodate the Mystic Seer characteristics in exchange for freedom.
• Klein stopped impersonating the Celestial Worthy and told the Genie he could take his place, while the Genie offered three wishes and the remaining Miracle Invoker characteristic for his release.
• Angel threatened to take the Genie into the City of Calamity, and he responded with three pieces of advice.
• The Genie warned them to act quickly because the apocalypse could arrive before the barrier shattered, and said the Uncertain Mist was trying to regain his freedom.
• The Genie told Angel that the Red Priest pathway's connection to war and sacrifice might let her break through the Celestial Worthy's seal and access the Sefirah's full power early.
• The Genie returned to the Magic Wishing Lamp, leaving Angel and Klein alone.

Klein and Angel weighed the Genie's warnings about the Outer Deities and considered what the Red Priest pathway might reveal about the sefirot. They ended by independently identifying Medici as the person to consult.

• Klein returned the Magic Wishing Lamp to Bernadette and discussed the Genie’s three suggestions with Angel.
• Klein and Angel reasoned that the Outer Deities might compete with one another, while the Uncertain Mist could use its authority to enforce cooperation between them.
• Klein and Angel examined the Genie’s interpretation of the Red Priest pathway and wondered whether it could help Angel obtain a sefirah before the Western Continent’s barrier was lifted.
• Klein and Angel independently concluded that Medici might know more about the Red Priest pathway.

Klein and Angel discussed seeking answers about the Red Priest and the sefirot while preparing to act quickly against their enemies. As Angel’s plan to draw out the Rose School’s Indulgence Faction began, a cursed-beer attack devastated Vertec City and the aura of the Abomination Suah emerged above it.

• Angel explained that Medici might know the Hunter Pathway’s secrets, and Klein wondered whether Tudor had drawn on a sefirah during the Four Emperors War.
• Angel planned to contact the Pale Empress, while Klein decided to build a Marionette Town near Partis and the New City of Silver.
• Angel learned that Shanks was crossing the Harvest Plain and Star Plateau, then prepared to use Sharron’s attack to lure Rose School reinforcements into a trap.
• Angel watched Sharron approach Shanks, but noticed that Vertec City had fallen into chaos as residents who drank contaminated beer attacked one another and set fires.
• Angel froze the city and turned the frenzied residents into marionettes, while Antigonus appeared at the Church of Night and the Abomination Suah’s aura poured from a vortex in the sky.