Recaps

Angel learned that Tizamo Town held a hidden dream tied to the approaching Dream Festival and prepared to investigate its mysteries. At the Tarot Club, Fors agreed to write about Yarnam City, realizing that the World might be nearing a promotion to Sequence 1.

• Pena told Angel that a hidden team from the Numinous Episcopate had investigated Tizamo Town and found a replicated, empty dream where residents sometimes wandered in their sleep.
• Pena reported that Lucas had seen another version of himself during a Dream Invasion, while Angel suspected that Tizamo's residents' suppressed emotions and dream behavior were connected to the town's mysteries.
• Angel decided to consult her allies about dreams and wait for the Dream Festival, which was two days away.
• At the Tarot Club, Fors asked Angel and the World about Yarnam City, and Angel said its dangers had been resolved but were beyond Fors's capabilities.
• The World asked Fors to publish her experiences of Yarnam City and offered her the chance to record stronger abilities in return.
• Fors agreed to include Yarnam City in her Gehrman Sparrow series and realized the World might be preparing to become a Sequence 1 Archangel.

At the Tarot Club, Angel investigated how a vast dream world could persist and learned from Audrey about Eden, a collective dream linked to Adam. After the meeting, Angel entered Tizamo’s dream and heard the Dream Festival begin.

• Angel asked the Tarot Club members how a dream world spanning Tizamo could remain stable, and Audrey described Eden, a collective dream created by Adam.
• Audrey sought clues about a Mind Dragon in East Chester County, but no one could offer help immediately.
• Cattleya asked Mr. Fool to protect the Tarot Club’s existence when she returned to Moses Ascetic Order headquarters, and Mr. Fool granted her request while warning her about the corrupted Hidden Sage.
• On December 15, Angel went to sleep in Tizamo and entered the dream, where gunshots, cries, and roars announced the start of the annual Dream Festival.

Angel entered Tizamo Town’s Dream Festival and found its waking residents overcome by uncontrolled negative emotions, with violence spreading through the streets. She sought out Pena for answers, rescued her from Zaka, and was attacked by Pena as the chapter ended.

• Angel explored the chaos in Tizamo Town, where awake residents fought, threatened others, and set a plantation on fire while most of the town remained asleep.
• Angel knocked out three men who tried to assault her, then visited Saint Sienne Church and found its priest behaving strangely in the dream.
• Angel concluded that the Dream Festival’s violence would likely end at dawn, though the spreading disturbance could awaken more residents and cause deaths.
• Angel used Mirror Divination to find Pena, who was being assaulted by Zaka, and struck him unconscious with a rod of ice.
• Pena recognized Angel, demanded to know why she had not arrived sooner, and lunged at her.

Angel subdued the dream-controlled residents of Tizamo Town and rescued Amandina from a violent manor scene before entering the primeval forest. The Hidden Holy Emblem grew colder as she approached her objective, while she kept a catastrophic way to end the dream in reserve.

• Angel put Pena to sleep, left Zaka on the floor, and abandoned her plan to explore with the Numinous Episcopate team because the dream had taken control of them.
• Angel entered a burning manor, extinguished the flames, and put the attackers and those exchanging gunfire inside the house to sleep.
• Angel comforted Amandina, learned she was Sir Pettit's daughter, and gave her an Ice Mirror and instructions to hide.
• Angel entered the misty primeval forest, where the Hidden Holy Emblem reacted more strongly as she neared her objective.
• Angel considered destroying the dream with a catastrophe if necessary, knowing that doing so would kill its residents.

Angel found a hidden tomb in the Dream Festival and uncovered an Abomination sealed inside, realizing it held the final Sequence 1 characteristic of the Chained pathway. After the Abomination spoke to her, it introduced itself as Naboredisley, also known as Farbauti.

• Angel found a huge black rock in a clearing that existed only in the dream and saw visions of robed worshippers, a stone door, and the Underworld Daoist.
• Angel identified the robed tribespeople as mid-sequence Beyonders guarding a tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness and forced them to kneel with her War Bishop authority.
• Angel used the Hidden Holy Emblem to open the rock, revealing a branchlike arm and an Abomination whose presence bound her body and thoughts.
• Angel recognized the Abomination as a Sequence 1 being and prepared to attack it with the Sword of Glory and Salinger's Blood Banner.
• The Abomination opened its ice-blue eyes, asked Angel to wait, and introduced itself as Naboredisley, or Farbauti.

Angel spoke with the Abomination Farbauti in the Dream Festival and learned how he separated and sealed his Abomination avatar to resist the Mother Tree of Desire’s corruption. Farbauti hinted that he and Angel shared a trait and revealed that he was also speaking to someone else, prompting Angel to realize who he meant.

• Angel recognized the Abomination as the Devil Monarch Farbauti and cautiously introduced herself as a passing Demoness.
• Angel inferred that Farbauti had accommodated a Sequence 1 characteristic of the Chained pathway and that the sealed Abomination was his avatar, not a vessel for resurrection.
• Farbauti explained that he had separated Naboredisley with help from Salinger and the Underworld Daoist to resist the Mother Tree of Desire’s corruption.
• Angel wondered why Farbauti had revealed himself, and he said that they shared certain traits and that he was speaking to someone else as well.
• Angel looked toward the crimson moon and tentatively began to say the word Klein had once stammered.

Angel met Farbauti’s avatar in the Black Ancient Tomb, learned more about the ritual and the Great Old Ones influencing him, and received a transformed Hidden Holy Emblem. After the tomb keepers died, Angel began establishing rules for Tizamo Town’s Dream Festival, where Amandina heard the new laws announced.

• Angel warned Farbauti that the Dream Festival’s deaths had drawn the Numinous Episcopate’s attention, and Farbauti explained how the ritual kept his avatar asleep.
• Farbauti revealed that an omniscient and omnipotent being had influenced him, then corrected Angel that the City of Calamity—not the Knowledge Moor—had been influenced by that being.
• The Underworld Daoist transformed Angel’s Hidden Holy Emblem, suppressing the Blood Emperor’s aura, and Farbauti tossed her a mysterious heart before the tomb sealed.
• Angel found the tomb keepers dead after their extreme emotions were released and decided to use the remaining Dream Festival to help Tizamo Town.
• Amandina heard the new consul announce Angel Granger’s laws for the Dream Festival, and the violence outside her window stopped.

After the Dream Festival ended, Angel checked on its effects in Tizamo and learned that the deaths in the dream carried over into reality. The chapter ended with Amandina waking beside a strange Ice Mirror as a meteor struck near the town.

• Angel woke with the Hidden Holy Emblem and Reinette's withered heart, then told Pena, Zaka, and Lucas that their mission was over and ordered them to contact the Empress and leave.
• Angel found that the Black Ancient Tomb was absent from reality, though a faint aura remained at its site, and she turned back the tainted soil to protect passersby.
• A meteor struck near the primitive tribe, killing the tomb guardians from the dream, and Angel realized the Dream Festival's power had made their deaths occur in reality.
• Amandina woke after the explosion clutching an Ice Mirror, and Madam Simona and Sir Pettit came to take her to the manor's bunker.
• Amandina sensed she had forgotten something and saw mist swirling across the Ice Mirror's darkening surface.

Angel and Klein considered whether Farbauti and Lilith were fellow transmigrators, then discussed their plans for Angel’s next steps and Klein’s delayed promotion. The chapter ended with an unidentified old man arriving in Yarnam City and entering the Fool’s cathedral.

• Angel told Klein that Farbauti had answered her in English, suggesting he was a transmigrator, and they considered whether the ancient gods had once helped one another as an alliance.
• Angel and Klein wondered whether Lilith was also a transmigrator, but decided they lacked evidence and that asking the Goddess was unlikely to help.
• Angel reviewed her possible advancement options and the benefits of her contact with the Underworld Daoist after the Dream Festival.
• Klein said Yarnam City had formed a corresponding region in the Spirit World and that he was delaying his Sequence 1 promotion to lure Zarathus into attacking.
• An old man in black robes arrived by train in Yarnam City, looked at the Fool’s cathedral, and entered it.

Angel secured Sia Palenque Eggers’s agreement to place the Numinous Episcopate under the Evernight Goddess and took the Pale Crown, then responded to Klein’s call as Zarathus arrived to negotiate. Zarathus offered to surrender his Mystic Seer characteristic when Klein needed it and warned that Amon and his brother had likely allied with the Great Old Ones.

• Zarathus entered the Fool’s church and announced that he had come to negotiate.
• Angel explained the Dream Festival’s sealed Abomination characteristic to Sia, and Sia asked her to place a new Golden Mask in the dream next year.
• Sia accepted the Evernight Goddess’s terms for protecting the Eggers Family and handed Angel the Pale Crown.
• Angel briefly fell under the Pale Crown’s influence, then removed it and sent Sia away before hiding the crown in the Mirror World.
• Klein prepared for Zarathus’s arrival and asked what terms he wanted to discuss.
• Zarathus proposed reconciliation, offering his Mystic Seer characteristic when Klein needed it and warning that Amon and his brother had likely sided with the Great Old Ones.

Klein and Angel heard Zarathus explain that Adam and Amon were negotiating with the Outer Deities under the Uncertain Mist’s witness. Zarathus offered to surrender his Mystic Seer characteristic to Klein, then left the Church of the Fool with a warning that every Amon avatar was effectively Amon himself.

• Zarathus told Klein that Adam and Amon sought Outer Deity assistance because the True Creator was pursuing them and Amon needed a ritual to become a god.
• Zarathus explained that the Uncertain Mist witnessed the negotiations and said he refused the deal because he distrusted Amon.
• Zarathus offered Klein his Mystic Seer characteristic in exchange for returning it after Klein became the Lord of Mysteries.
• Klein suggested Zarathus act as a spy, and Zarathus left after warning that Amon’s avatars had no independent will.
• Klein and Angel realized the warning implicated Amon’s avatar in Dream City, who had served as its consul and was assisting Anne.

Angel and Klein weighed Zarathus’s warning about Amon and Adam, while Angel strengthened her alliance with Reinette and relayed the information to the Evernight Goddess. The Goddess told her to leave the matter alone and keep the Pale Crown; Angel then prepared to challenge Cheek by luring her with a female witch advancing to Unaging.

• Klein and Angel suspected Zarathus was trying to sow discord through his claims about Amon and Adam, and they agreed to delay considering his defection until Klein advanced to Sequence 1.
• Angel asked Anne to discreetly watch Gerdruff Amon and urged Klein to guard Yanan while preparing his Mystic Seer promotion ritual.
• Reinette Tinekerr arrived at Angel’s hotel, recognized her recovered heart, and swallowed it after Angel returned it to her.
• Angel informed the Evernight Goddess about Zarathus’s claims and the Pale Crown; the Goddess told her to leave Adam and Amon alone and keep the Pale Crown.
• Angel resolved to challenge Cheek with help from Klein, allied angels, and gods, planning to lure the Primordial Demoness out with a female witch advancing to Unaging.

Angel reviewed her plan to challenge Primordial Demoness Cheek and consulted Will Auceptin about Amon, Adam, and the dangers surrounding the City of Calamity. Will ruled out the brothers safely siding with the Outer Deities, but Angel's question about God Almighty's possible resurrection in the sefirah remained unanswered.

• Angel concluded that her best route to defeat Cheek was to use her Mirror Person and a Yesterday Once More charm to wield the power of the City of Calamity, with Ilian Sauron as bait to draw Cheek out.
• Angel visited Will Auceptin in his garden and asked whether Mr. Door would complete his apotheosis ritual if he returned.
• Will said that Amon and Adam were unlikely to have sided with the Outer Deities because those beings would first eliminate the possibilities of resurrection for the Celestial Worthy and God Almighty.
• Angel asked Will whether God Almighty had left a means of resurrection in the City of Calamity that could influence Beyonders of the Demoness and Red Priest pathways.

Angel learned that Adam may have used Alistar Tudor and her to investigate the City of Calamity and that God Almighty’s power may have awakened within Tudor and Cheek. She discussed the Key of Light with Will Auceptin, then entered the depths of Molora through a gate opened by Archbishop Hella Berg, where a terrifying presence stirred among the corpses.

• Will Auceptin suggested Adam had secretly supported Tudor, later helped bring about his downfall, and may have arranged Angel’s rapid advancement to test the City of Calamity.
• Angel reasoned that God Almighty’s consciousness and power might have awakened within Tudor and Cheek, and considered the danger Cheek’s access to Chaos Sea powers posed.
• Angel told Will about her visits to the sealed Western Continent and asked what he thought of the Key of Light; Will said he was still waiting for a lucky opportunity to accommodate its Uniqueness.
• Angel traveled to Azshara and met Archbishop Hella Berg, who led her to a starlit gate and revealed that the City of Exile and its surrounding mountains were inside his stomach.
• Angel stepped through the gate into a cavern of corpses and blood, where invisible flames erupted and a terrifying aura descended.

Angel subdued Salinger's Blood Banner, the Red Priest’s Uniqueness, by combining the powers of the City of Calamity and the River of Eternal Darkness. She left the artifact sealed in Molora and returned to Hella Berg, ending the chapter by asking how he would face sacrificing most of his life.

• Salinger's Blood Banner awakened and tried to force Angel and the steel soldier puppets into submission, but Angel resisted its power and immobilized the approaching army with her plague.
• Angel seized the flagpole and used the Hidden Holy Emblem and the Underworld Daoist’s power to counter the River of Eternal Darkness’s corruption, unleashing a destructive vortex that forced 0-01 to surrender.
• Angel regained control of 0-01, resealed it in Corpse Mountain, and decided to leave it in the Church of Knowledge’s keeping until she could safely accommodate it.
• Angel returned through the Astral Gate and discussed the clash of Sefirah powers with Hella Berg, who gave her a charm for entering Molora’s Underground Mausoleum.
• Angel asked Hella Berg how he would respond if he had to give up everything, or most of his current life.

Angel learned that Herabergen was willing to relinquish his claim to the White Tower pathway and let another god pursue the Chaos Sea, provided he could survive. In Yarnam, travel writer Monica recounted the city’s unusual attractions and the return of a stolen church mural before heading to cover a group wedding.

• Angel asked Hella Berg about her role in connecting the sealed Western Continent with the outside world, and Herabergen said he would give up his divine position if doing so let him stay alive.
• Angel told Herabergen that the Dark Angel had identified the White Angel as the first to act at the Betrayal Banquet, raising questions about whether the Sun would accept a compromise.
• Monica described her stay in Yarnam, including its mild climate, inexpensive food, a notorious pirate captured by Gehrman Sparrow, and a mural stolen from the Fool’s church.
• Monica paid the magician Merlin Hermes to grant her wish, and the missing mural of the Calamity Angel returned to its frame that evening.
• Monica mailed her travelogue, then went to the Fool’s church to observe Yarnam’s upcoming group wedding.

Monica attended Yarnam City’s mass wedding and helped novelist Alesu shape his sprawling adventure story, while angels, old acquaintances, and other guests gathered in the Prayer Hall. Klein and Angel prepared to begin the ceremony, and the couples appeared in a burst of flames after the entrance stayed empty.

• Monica met Alesu at the wedding and suggested dividing his complicated novel into a seven-book series, which he eagerly accepted as its framework.
• Bernadette and Anne discussed the city’s residents, while Amon attended and another angel entered the hall.
• Azik arrived for the wedding and spoke with Arianna about leaving his dream behind to attend a long-awaited ceremony.
• Leonard recognized Azik, learned that the Death Consul remembered his Tingen colleagues from a dream, and nervously hinted to Shermane that they should consider marriage.
• Klein introduced himself as Merlin Hermes and announced the wedding, but when no one appeared at the entrance, figures materialized on the red carpet in flashes of fire.

Four couples took part in a group wedding in Yanan, while Monica watched without realizing that Klein and Angel were using marionettes to stage a wedding between themselves. After the ceremony, Angel noticed Klein’s marionette control threads converging on his real body and entered the Mirror World to meet him.

• Monica watched Sherlock and Irene, Klein and Angel, Dawn and Christine, and Gehrman Sparrow and Angelica arrive for the group wedding.
• The archbishop married Klein and Angel, and all four couples kissed as Merlin released colorful streamers over the guests.
• Merlin asked Gehrman to tell his love story, and Klein’s marionette amused the guests with a tale about Sonia blood wine.
• Angel revealed that Klein and the other grooms were marionettes controlled by him, while she controlled the brides, making their group wedding a ceremony between the two of them.
• Angel saw the marionettes’ Spirit Body Threads converge on Klein’s real body, left a Mirror Substitution behind, and entered the Mirror World.

Klein drank the Sequence 1 Mystic Seer potion and fought to preserve his identity as his body dissolved into the Spirit World. He reclaimed his self, completed his advancement, and became the true master of Sefirah Castle.

• Klein prepared the potion from the Mystic Seer characteristic once belonging to Antigonus and nine Spirit World specialties while his allies stood ready across Yarnam City.
• Klein drank the potion, and his body disintegrated into information that flowed into the Spirit World, leaving his consciousness close to being overwhelmed.
• The lives and emotions of Yarnam City's residents drew Klein toward the city's Spirit World projection as he struggled to separate his essential self from his many identities.
• Angel took control of the masterless marionettes so the wedding could continue while Klein recovered his fundamental identity.
• Klein re-formed with a complete Mystic Seer characteristic, and Sefirah Castle appeared as a mark on his brow.
• Antigonus, Pallez, Zarathus, Amon, and Bethel sensed that Sefirah Castle had gained a true master.

After advancing to Sequence 1, Klein explored his newfound control over Sefirah Castle, located several of his rivals, and stabilized against the mental imprints within his characteristic. He returned to the wedding in Yarnam City, where his simultaneous kisses left Angel sensing something was wrong.

• Klein used his new connection to Sefirah Castle to glimpse Amon, Mr. "Door," Zarathus, Antigonus, and Pallez, but chose not to pursue them.
• Klein returned to Sefirah Castle in his physical body and reflected on his progress toward mastering it and becoming a Sequence 0 Fool.
• Klein resisted the mental imprints within his Sequence 1 characteristic with help from his anchors and the imprints of its former owners.
• Klein assessed his new Sequence 1 abilities and realized he had surpassed Angel in both sequence and command of Sefirah power.
• Klein returned to the wedding and kissed Angel through his appearances as Klein, Sherlock, Gehrman, Dwayne, and Merlin, making Angel sense something was wrong.

After the wedding, Azik shared news about the Phoenix Ancestor Gregrace with Arianna, while the guests discussed Amon, the Fool’s awakening, and the marionette wedding. Once the cathedral emptied, Klein and Angel held a private wedding ceremony that became an intimate encounter beneath a prototype of the Fool’s divine kingdom.

• Monica left the Prayer Hall as Azik told Arianna that Gregrace’s body had entered a strange sleep connected to new life and a power beyond the barrier.
• Azik greeted Bernadette and Anne, who planned to investigate the sister marionettes in Yarnam City and keep watch on Amon.
• Leonard asked Pallez whether he could stop being parasitized, while Shermane realized the wedding’s brides and grooms were all Angel and Klein in different identities.
• Antigonus left after discussing the dangers of using Tudor’s Conqueror characteristic with Glaide Sauron.
• Merlin sent the wedding marionettes home, and Klein and Angel exchanged their vows alone at the altar.
• Klein raised a prototype of his divine kingdom over the cathedral and used Grafting to connect Angel’s senses to several other marionettes.

Klein and Angel discussed their plans to confront the Primordial Demoness, while Angel recruited Helene to use her advancement to Unaging as bait despite the danger. Angel then met Alicia Tamara in Trier and learned that a protected Mirror Person named Moran Avini might hold important secrets.

• Klein told Angel he had advanced to Mystic Seer, and they discussed what support they needed before acting against the Primordial Demoness.
• Angel explained her plan to contact the Chaos Demoness through the Mirror People in Trier and said she still needed to confirm Helene's wishes and the True Creator's help.
• Angel offered Helene the chance to advance to Unaging as bait for the Primordial Demoness, and Helene agreed to take the risk.
• Tracy embraced Helene and spoke about her sister, while Helene accepted the danger of the plan.
• Angel met Alicia Tamara in Trier, learned that Mirror People were protecting Minister Moran Avini, and asked where he was.

Derrick learned that the True Creator had been asked to join a battle against the Primordial Demoness and replied, “I understand.” Meanwhile, Angel monitored Trier from the Mirror World as Yalixiya and Alicia Tamara abducted Minister Moran Avini.

• Derrick met Lovia, who told him that Angelica Zaki had asked the True Creator to consider helping kill the Primordial Demoness.
• Lovia prayed to the True Creator on Angel’s behalf and received the clear reply, “I understand.”
• Angel watched Moran Avini through the Mirror World while Yalixiya entered his study and fought him.
• Yalixiya overpowered Moran, but he escaped into a mirror and tried to flee through the Mirror World.
• Angel pulled Moran into the Mirror World, and Alicia Tamara followed before leaving through a Mirror Tunnel.
• The Purifiers discovered Moran was missing after the study’s sealing power vanished and requested help from the nearest church of the Eternal Blazing Sun.

Angel captured Moran Avini in the Mirror World and uncovered how deeply Mirror People had infiltrated the Avini Family and Trier. After Moran revealed a looming “vortex,” his head exploded, and Angel glimpsed a mysterious woman fleeing through the Mirror Tunnels.

• Angel brought Moran Avini into the Mirror World, where Diste arrived but quickly fled without confronting her.
• Under Angel’s Charm, Moran revealed that he had posed as Moran Avini since 1315 and that more than a third of the Avini Family were Mirror People.
• Moran explained how he could contact the Mirror People’s leader through an antique silver mirror and named his deputy, Griffith, as its future custodian.
• Moran told Angel that Nast Solomon had approached him for the School of Truth and spoken of an enormous “vortex” that would sweep everyone into it.
• Moran’s head exploded before Angel could stop the change, and Angel saw an indistinct woman in a black dress disappear through the Mirror Tunnels.

Angel pursued Roselle's Mirror Person and learned about the divided Primordial Demoness, the Mirror People's goal of entering reality, and their potential fusion with their originals. Their discovery of an unexpected Primordial Demoness Card of Blasphemy led Angel to suspect the Hidden Sage had created it.

• Angel chased the black-dressed woman into the War Fog around the City of Calamity and discovered she was Empress Roselle, Roselle Gustav's Mirror Person.
• Empress Roselle explained that Mirror People born beneath Trier could not leave unless they replaced their originals, and that she wanted to make the Mirror World into a reality of its own.
• Empress Roselle revealed that a second Primordial Demoness existed in the deepest Mirror World, sometimes issued conflicting commands, and sought to fuse with female Demoness Mirror People.
• Angel learned that Empress Roselle shared Roselle's feelings for Bernadette, Anne, and Bornova but kept her distance because her emotions were more extreme and irrational.
• Empress Roselle produced a genuine Sequence 0 Primordial Demoness Card of Blasphemy, while denying that she had made it.
• Angel realized that the card's creation required the Knowledge Emperor's power and power beyond the gods, and suspected the Hidden Sage was responsible.