Recaps

Klein and Angel survived the Mother Tree of Desire’s plot on Oravi Island, then Angel’s investigation into slave trafficking led Adam to reveal that her identity and memories had been Imagination. They reconciled and sailed aboard the Future with Cattleya, reaching the edge of a dangerous sea after encountering Agalito and a vast underwater fissure.

• Klein and Angel defeated Cynthia after isolating the force behind her transformation, and Klein uncovered and killed Flett Ken before ordering a purge of the Naturism Sect.
• Klein told Emilius what had happened, collected his payment, and reunited with Angel before they left Oravi Island for Bayam.
• Angel infiltrated Maduni’s dealings with Connors Victor, then attacked the slave traders at their dock and freed the enslaved girls before Adam revealed that her life and memories as Angel Granger were his Imagination.
• Angel asked the Tarot Club about Adam, while Klein divined about her memories and later reassured her that their shared experiences and his feelings were real.
• Angel and Klein sailed to Nast, where Cattleya welcomed them aboard the Future and took the ship east to search for wild mermaids and investigate underwater ruins.
• Angel and Nina explored a seafloor ruin, but Cattleya postponed returning after finding the collected samples inconclusive.
• Agalito’s Death Announcer passed the Future and overwhelmed its crew with madness, but Cattleya escaped and Angel used Frank’s sedative to calm the sailors.
• Anne’s Queen Anne’s Revenge passed nearby, and the Future reached the beginning of a dangerous sea before a fissure dragged it underwater and a column of water lifted it back to the surface.

Angel and Klein crossed the God War Ruins, survived a dangerous expedition into the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and pursued clues tied to Bernadette, Rose Redemption, and Ouroboros. The arc ended with Klein entering The Travels of Grosell to rescue Edwina, only to find himself alone in a frozen wilderness.

• Leonard used a dreamlike interrogation to help Emily recall a blurred woman on a villa roof, then left Backlund for Conston suspecting a Spectator had affected her memory.
• Angel met Bernadette in a dream library, learned that Anne was alive, and faced a mirror double whose defeat completed her Affliction Potion digestion.
• Frank’s experiment unleashed a corpse bone giant and Ludwell’s attack on the Future, but Angel, Klein, and Anderson defeated their enemies and Klein became a Marionettist.
• Angel traveled with Bernadette and Anne to Sona Island, entered the Forsaken Land of the Gods through a ritual, and killed a Black-Striped Shadow Scorpion before escaping.
• Angel discovered the name Rose Redemption at the altar and reported her findings to Klein, who later warned Cattleya about her dealings with Bernadette at the Tarot Club.
• Angel learned that Edwina had disappeared into The Travels of Grosell, and Klein prepared to enter the book with Angel, Anderson, and Danitz.
• Klein entered the travelogue to rescue Edwina but found himself alone in a boundless frozen wilderness.

Angel and Klein defeated Ulyssan, returned the trapped characters from The Travels of Grosell, and later entered the book to uncover the Tamara family’s history. Their escape from Bayam brought them into a battle with the Rose School, where Angel advanced to Despair and they captured Senior.

• Angel joined Edwina’s party in The Travels of Grosell, and the group defeated Ulyssan with Angel’s Betrayal Charm before returning to reality, where Grosell and his companions rapidly aged and died.
• Angel recovered her charms and took Shatas’s Ocean Songster Characteristic, while Klein acquired the travelogue and the Key of Death as they continued toward Bayam.
• Angel and Klein reentered The Travels of Grosell, where Mobet described the Tamara family’s ties to the Demoness Family and Klein explored the Giant King’s Court.
• After Hilarion warned Angel and Klein that the Mother Tree of Desire was targeting them, they tried to escape Bayam but were captured and attacked by Senior and Zatwin.
• Angel used the travelogue and Betrayal Charm to escape the Flesh and Blood Tree, then reunited with Klein as Sea King Yarn Courtman and Reinette fought the Rose School demigods.
• Angel and Klein fought Senior and Zatwin aboard the Red Haired Woman, and Angel used Zatwin as the target of her Despair advancement ritual, completing her advancement as the Queen Anne’s Revenge drove back the Black Giant Hand.
• Angel and Klein collected Zatwin’s remains and fled aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge, while Yarn Courtman identified Angel as Angelica Zaki and Alger learned she had a provisional bounty of one hundred thousand pounds.
• Angel and Klein returned to the book’s world, pulled the unconscious Senior from a snow-covered pit, and escaped after Klein made him a marionette and concealed him in a gold coin.

Angel and Klein returned to Backlund under new identities as Angel built a household and entered the city’s social circles. While investigating a possible Mirror Person and making uneasy allies, Angel learned the Demoness Sect planned to use Trissy as a vessel, and Azik departed to confront his past.

• Angel and Klein abandoned their old identities, split up to return to Backlund, and Angel began learning to travel through the Mirror World.
• Angel met Wensa, learned more about the Demoness Sect’s role in the Great Smog, and entered the Tarot Club as a demigod, where she revealed she had killed a Rose School demigod.
• Angel settled into a new home, hired Ribak as her butler, and sold Reinette Tinekerr the Marionette Beyonder Characteristic while investigating Saint Samuel Cathedral.
• Angel recognized Wilma Gladys’s unborn child as Will Auceptin and later saw Pierce Turner at a Moon Mass, despite believing he had died on Para Island.
• Angel and Klein suspected one of the two Pierces was a Mirror Person, while Angel connected the mystery to sacrifices on Sona Island and strange events at Bansy Harbor.
• Angel and Klein attended Mori Macht’s ball as Dwayne Dantès, where Angel later tracked down Trissy and agreed to exchange help for the leads she uncovered about Prince Edessak.
• Wensa warned Angel that the Demoness Sect meant to use Trissy as a vessel for the Primordial Demoness, and Azik gave Angel the purified Nightwatcher Characteristic before leaving for the ancient Balam Empire.