Recaps

Angel joined the Pirate Conference, where Suah’s attack devastated the gathering before Mr. Fool helped remove the contamination from her spirit. As the Tarot Club dealt with the aftermath, Angel investigated the Abraham and Tamara families and joined Klein in tracking Ince Zangwill, while Audrey confronted her own intrusive investigation of Miss Empress.

• Angel attended Nast’s Pirate Conference, where Bernadette warned her of a plot and the Rose School’s attack unleashed Suah among the gathered pirates.
• Angel and Anne fought Suah as the pirates fled or defended themselves, and Angel escaped his grasp through The Travels of Grosell after a mysterious gray-fog power petrified his hands.
• Mr. Fool removed the Mother Tree of Desire’s contamination from Angel and heard her account of the attack, while Angel later reunited with Klein.
• Angel signed Iris Flower Winery over to Christine Teresa and learned that Hvin Rambis had manipulated Baron Cinderas, while Klein prepared to leave Backlund for the Southern Continent.
• Angel met Dorian Gray Abraham, learned about the Witch and Tamara families, and suspected that Dorian was concealing the Abraham Family’s true condition.
• Klein pursued Ince Zangwill’s trail toward the Southern Continent, and he and Angel agreed to track him themselves because 0-08 could sabotage their plans.
• Susie helped Audrey recognize that Lies had intensified her urge to investigate Miss Empress, and Mr. Fool warned Audrey not to act against another Tarot Club member.

Angel uncovered Hvin Rambis’s manipulation, helped capture a Rose School Wraith, and brought the corrupted Artisan Sharff to Bernadette’s ship. She then joined Klein and Azik in confronting Azik’s past before exploring Calderon City with Klein, where Ouroboros intervened and Ince Zangwill’s plans came back into focus.

• Audrey told Angel that Hvin Rambis and Hampres had likely manipulated her, and Angel resolved to treat them as threats.
• Alger and Angel killed a Rose School Wraith, questioned Sharff, and discovered that the Rose School had recruited him and involved him in a plan requiring an Artisan.
• Angel brought Sharff to Queen Anne's Revenge, where Bernadette confirmed his corruption and Cattleya was told to keep him alive and away from moonlight.
• Klein and Angel joined Azik in taking Ludwell’s Death Ring, and Azik made Ludwell Klein’s Marionette before they destroyed the Black Tulip.
• Azik entered the mausoleum to face the Feathered Serpent, resisted becoming Salinger’s reborn Death, and chose to keep his warm memories and remain as he was.
• Angel accommodated the Demoness Card, then joined Klein and his Marionettes in Calderon City, where they killed a Spirit World Marauder before Ouroboros sealed the exit.
• Ouroboros transported Angel into The Travels of Grosell, and Klein drew her Spirit Body into the Book World so they could escape Calderon safely.
• Soest learned that Palenke Tasib had gone to meet Ince Zangwill, and Klein and Angel discussed Artificial Death before Klein received a clear answer from the deity.

Klein and Angel helped bring down Ince Zangwill and the Red Angel’s evil spirit, and Klein advanced to Trick Sorcerer before proposing to Angel. As the Tarot Club gained new members, Angel pursued answers about the City of Calamity and the Fountain of Youth while the Churches began searching for Ince’s royal-family ruin.

• Klein and Angel joined the hunt for Ince Zangwill, while Angel learned that the Demoness Sect was watching her and that a child of the Primordial Demoness had survived.
• Adam and Ouroboros trapped Ince in the Corpse Cathedral, but Ince escaped as the Red Angel evil spirit seized the Quill of Alzuhod and fled with it.
• Angel and her Reaper Legion fought the Red Angel, and Adam recovered the Quill and Red Priest card after admitting that he had arranged events to exhaust 0-08.
• Klein killed Ince Zangwill, then overcame the Trick Sorcerer Potion’s fragmented identities with memories of Angel and proposed to her, which she accepted.
• Angel explored the City of Calamity in a dream and found Angel Gray’s burned body, then learned from Arrodes that the city was one of nine Sefirot.
• Klein told Angel that his attachments to the people around him had replaced returning to Earth as his ultimate goal, and he demonstrated his new Marionette abilities.
• Leonard and Xio joined the Tarot Club as the Star and Judgment, while Angel sought the Fountain of Youth and arranged for Helene’s crew to help search the Sonia Sea.
• Cesimir told Anthony that Ince’s spirit had revealed a royal-family ruin near Backlund, and the Tarot Club learned that Adam had drawn closer to godhood and taken 0-08.

Angel and Klein’s engagement and investigations were disrupted by Amon’s attacks, while the Church warned them that his avatars were gathering Marauder characteristics and tracking their fates. The Tarot Club learned of the threat, and Leonard began discussing Pallez’s plan to eliminate the avatars as Angel took on the East Borough murder investigation.

• Shermane killed Le Ruisi, took his Barbarian characteristic, and warned a scavenging child away from the scene.
• Angel received the Unaging Demoness characteristic and was assigned to investigate the royal family’s secret dealings with Ince Zangwill, while Klein agreed to relay Nast’s request for Angelica Zaki to join the Ghost Empire expedition.
• Angel and Klein reunited in Backlund, announced their commitment at Councilor Macht’s ball, and Angel investigated Trissy’s worsening condition and Audrey’s meeting with Hvin Rambis.
• Angel followed Hazel toward Elk Manor and was ambushed by Amon, who stole her abilities and position before Angel burned one avatar to ashes and captured a Worm of Time.
• Angel and Klein regrouped, reported their encounters to Arianna, and learned that Amon’s avatars could track them through changes in fate and needed to be eliminated.
• At the Tarot Club, Angel and Klein warned Leonard and the members about Amon’s avatars, while Leonard consulted Pallez and began considering how to counter them.
• The Tarot Club discussed Amon’s threat, Derrick’s advancement ritual, and Leonard’s request for leads on East Borough serial murders, while Angel agreed to investigate through her channels.