Chapter Summaries

Angel found an advertisement for Mr. A’s gathering and prepared to contact the Demoness Sect as the first step of her revenge. Meanwhile, Klein used the Grey Fog to recover part of his memory of a mysterious woman and created a new marionette to join the Tarot Club as the World.

• Angel considered Ms. Lola as a possible source for the Sequence 6 Potion formula while continuing to act as a Witch through divinations.
• Angel read that the Aurora Order had claimed responsibility for the Intis ambassador’s murder and found an advertisement for Mr. A’s gathering the next day.
• Angel resolved to make contacting the Demoness Sect the first step of her revenge against those involved in Ince Zangwill’s schemes.
• Klein confirmed that his bodyguard had left, took Rosago’s All-Black Eye above the gray fog, and recovered the memory of a mysterious woman’s violet eyes.
• Klein divined that the woman had come to Backlund and might live near Backlund Bridge, then turned Rosago’s remains into a marionette.
• Klein welcomed the marionette to the Tarot Club, where it chose the World card.

Angel contacted a Demoness Sect member at Mr. A’s gathering and received an address for a test to rejoin the sect. At the Tarot Club, Mr. World joined and immediately commissioned the members to find a young woman whose description matched Miss Empress.

• Angel met a Demoness Sect member who invited her to take a test on Wednesday and threatened consequences if she refused.
• Angel asked the man whether he knew that advancing to Sequence 7 would turn him into a woman, and he stumbled.
• Mr. Fool introduced Mr. World as a new Tarot Club member, and Audrey received a task to find Lanevus for Xio and Fors.
• Mr. Fool praised Justice for dealing with Beckland, and Audrey agreed to pay the Blessed one five thousand Gold Pounds from the remaining bounty.
• Mr. World commissioned the Tarot Club to find a young female Beyonder from a northern city who lived near the Tussock River in Backlund Bridge Borough, prompting Audrey to suspect he sought Miss Empress.

Angel met Sevillea in West Borough and passed the Demoness Sect’s initial background assessment. Sevillea gave her a task to befriend Audrey Hall through Viscount Glaint’s salon, promising the Pleasure Potion formula and ingredients if she succeeded.

• Angel traveled to Sevillea’s villa in West Borough and introduced herself as Irene Watson, a Sequence 7 Witch.
• Angel recounted her past in Tingen, including her connection to Mrs. Sharon, and answered Sevillea’s questions about Sharon Khoy, Mitis, and Tris.
• Sevillea judged that Angel had not concealed anything and said she would need to complete a task before joining the Demoness Sect.
• Sevillea assigned Angel to approach Audrey Hall through Viscount Glaint’s salon and become her friend without ulterior motives.
• Sevillea promised Angel the Pleasure Potion formula and ingredients if she completed the task, then revealed Audrey’s wealth and her father Earl Hall’s immense fortune.

Angel learned that Sevillea wanted her to befriend Audrey Hall, left a vial of blood as a safeguard, and investigated Sevillea’s identity. After discovering Sevillea was a wealthy Baroness involved in the Demoness Sect, Angel studied noble etiquette before a troubled man arrived seeking help finding his daughter.

• Sevillea told Angel to befriend Audrey Hall, gave her a noble etiquette guide, and required her to leave behind a lock of hair or a vial of blood; Angel chose blood.
• Angel’s Magic Mirror divination failed to reveal Sevillea’s identity, so she decided to buy information from Ian’s contact at Bravehearts Bar.
• Sevillea reported to Lady Despair that Trissy was seeking materials for Pleasure and that she planned to use Angel to approach Earl Hall’s daughter.
• Angel bought intelligence from Kaspars and learned that Sevillea Landon had inherited the fortune of her late husband, Baron Landon.
• Angel studied noble etiquette at the Divination Club, where a middle-aged man arrived and asked her to divine his daughter’s whereabouts.

Angel used Magic Mirror Divination to locate the missing Emily O'Neill and traced her kidnappers’ route toward the East Borough, but could not determine their final destination. While investigating the route on Dalavi Street, she was caught in an explosion and confronted by a giant who mistook her for bounty hunter Xio Derecha and accused her of searching for Lanevus.

• Mr. O'Neill told Angel that his daughter Emily had vanished after school, and Angel used Emily’s old pencil case to divine that she had been kidnapped and was still alive.
• Angel described Emily’s discarded blue shoulder bag to convince Mr. O'Neill, then marked the likely kidnapping route from Cherwood Borough through the East Borough and advised him to hire a detective.
• Mr. O'Neill thanked Angel, paid her five pounds, and said Lola Swann had recommended her; Angel directed him to Bravehearts Bar if the detectives could not help.
• That evening, Angel went to Dalavi Street to conduct another divination, but an apartment building exploded and debris injured nearby pedestrians.
• A huge man emerged from the smoke, called Angel bounty hunter Xio Derecha, and attacked her after mentioning that she had sent someone to search for Lanevus.
• Angel recognized Lanevus’s connection to the Tingen City tragedy, activated her Magician Pocket Watch, and rushed to meet the attacker with frost and Black Flame.

Angel fought a Rose Bishop who had tracked someone connected to Lanevus, then escaped the police by hiding in the sewers with the Bishop’s corpse. The chapter left her leaving the East Borough’s sewer network before the official Beyonders arrived.

• Angel identified the giant attacker as a Rose Bishop and drove him into an apartment after shooting and burning him.
• Angel found evidence that the Rose Bishop had killed someone with a Flesh Bomb and realized Lanevus was in the East Borough.
• The Rose Bishop lured Angel into the apartment and ignited its gas pipes, but Angel escaped the explosion and confronted him outside.
• Angel used the Madness Ring to disrupt the Rose Bishop, then stabbed him through the back of the head and killed him.
• Police arrived and began investigating the supernatural destruction, while Angel hid in the sewers with the Bishop’s burned body.
• After the police left, Angel dragged the Rose Bishop through the sewers and escaped before official Beyonders arrived.

Angel used the Rose Bishop’s corpse to divine the cause of the Dalavi Street explosion and discovered that Lanevus was hiding in the Docklands with the Aurora Order. The divination exposed her to the True Creator’s aura, but she survived, obtained the Rose Bishop’s Beyonder Characteristic, and decided to alert the Nighthawks before Lanevus could move.

• Angel performed a protected divination with the Magic Mirror and saw Xio hire Williams to find Lanevus, followed by a Rose Bishop killing Williams and destroying his home.
• Angel divined the Rose Bishop’s hiding place and saw him speaking with a bronze-skinned man whose face and mocking smile identified him as Lanevus.
• The Magic Mirror shattered as the True Creator’s aura contaminated Angel’s hand, but Angel burned away the contamination and thanked the Goddess for protecting her.
• Angel concluded that Lanevus was hiding near the East Balam Dock and might be deliberately drawing attention while preparing another catastrophe, so she planned to inform the Nighthawks.
• The Rose Bishop’s Beyonder Characteristic emerged as a red eyeball that let Angel sense nearby living bodies and corpses, but her depleted spirituality left her unsure what to do with the corpse.

Angel attended Viscount Glaint’s salon with Sevillea and met Xio Derecha, a bounty hunter searching for Lanevus. Angel told Xio where Lanevus was hiding, then left the conversation as a Golden Retriever watched her with an oddly knowing look.

• Sevillea brought Angel to Viscount Glaint’s literary salon, where Xio Derecha was preparing to leave after hearing of Williams’s death.
• Viscount Glaint introduced Xio to Angel, who recognized her as the bounty hunter whose search for Lanevus had led to the Rose Bishop attacking her.
• Angel told Xio she had seen her at Mr. A’s gathering and wanted to meet other Beyonders in Backlund.
• Angel revealed that Lanevus was hiding in the dockworkers’ dormitories beside East Balam Dock and urged Xio to act before the official Beyonders learned of it.
• Angel nearly stumbled in her high heels, then noticed a Golden Retriever watching her with apparent appreciation and friendliness.

Angel returned from the salon without meeting Audrey, while Xio brought Audrey intelligence that Lanevus was hiding at East Balam Dock. Susie revealed that Xio’s description of the mysterious Lady Sevillea’s niece was false: the woman had light-gold hair and violet eyes.

• Angel told Sevillea that she had spoken with Xio and hoped to meet Audrey through her.
• Xio stayed at Glaint’s residence and told Audrey and Fors that Lanevus was hiding at East Balam Dock, where witnesses had been murdered.
• Xio said that Irene had identified her as a Beyonder and given her Lanevus’s location as a meeting gift.
• Audrey paid Xio for the useful intelligence and compensation for her dead informant, then resolved to report the information to Mr. Fool.
• Susie told Audrey that Xio had lied about Irene’s appearance and that the woman had light-gold hair and violet eyes.

Audrey suspected that Irene was the Tarot Club’s Empress after Susie saw her true appearance, but Susie could not draw it. Angel prepared for a possible confrontation with Lanevus while the Backlund Nighthawks received a report locating him near East Balam Dock.

• Audrey questioned Viscount Glaint and learned that he remembered Irene as a black-haired woman but could not recall her eyes.
• Audrey asked Susie to draw Irene, but Susie reminded her that she was only a dog.
• Angel returned home, prepared charms and weapons, and planned to act as a final safeguard if the Nighthawks failed to stop Lanevus.
• A Nighthawk delivered a report to the Backlund headquarters that Lanevus was hiding near East Balam Dock in the Docklands.

The Nighthawks confirmed reports that Lanevus was hiding in the Docklands with the True Creator’s divinity and prepared to move against him. Angel went to watch the suspected hideout, where she saw an armed airship and Crestet Cesimir arrive with a Red Gloves squad.

• The Nighthawks corroborated reports about Lanevus and Captain reported the intelligence to Crestet Cesimir.
• Angel equipped herself, left the Scarlet Eye behind, and traveled to the Docklands to observe Lanevus’s hideout.
• Angel avoided the bell tower, where Nighthawk lookouts might recognize her, and watched the dockworkers’ Guild Dormitory from a nearby rooftop.
• After midnight, Angel spotted a silent, armed airship hovering over the dormitory.
• Crestet Cesimir arrived beneath the airship with two other Red Gloves, carrying a silver-white metal case.

Angel watched the battle at the Guild Dormitory as the True Creator's aura briefly overwhelmed East Balam Dock, then learned that Lanevus had escaped the Nighthawks and entered the sewers. A mysterious woman cornered him underground, ready to make him answer for his crimes.

• Angel sensed the True Creator's aura erupt from the Guild Dormitory, causing the lights to fail and the airship to descend before the Strange Phenomena abruptly ended.
• Inside the dormitory, Lanevus survived a fatal wound from the Pure White Bone Sword and taunted Crestet Cesimir and the Nighthawks.
• Lanevus escaped Cesimir's dream influence by throwing the Bone Sword toward an unconscious Nighthawk, then fled through a window and entered the sewers.
• Lanevus traveled through the sewers toward the East Borough, but a mysterious woman appeared ahead and confronted him with a flaming dagger.

A mysterious Witch cornered Lanevus in the sewers and killed him before Klein could reach him. Klein found Lanevus’s body, disguised the scene with Tarot Cards, and realized the killer was still alive.

• Lanevus fought the Witch, who used a Paper Figurine Substitute and severed his left arm while demanding that he remember the people he had killed in Tingen City.
• Klein followed his divination toward the sounds of battle and arrived just as the Witch withdrew her arm from Lanevus’s chest and vanished in yellow flames.
• Klein recognized Lanevus’s corpse and laughed in shock at the sight of the man who had escaped the Red Gloves’ pursuit.
• Klein stabbed Lanevus’s chest and scattered Tarot Cards around the corpse to make the wounds resemble those inflicted by the Nighthawks who had died in Tingen City.
• Klein wondered why the Witch had come to Backlund and killed Lanevus before him, then expressed relief that she was still alive.

After Angel killed Lanevus, the Nighthawks investigated his ritual-like death while Audrey realized Miss Empress had carried out the killing. Cesimir connected Lanevus’s wounds to the deaths in Tingen and began investigating Angel’s role as the Nighthawks considered the Aurora Order’s plans.

• Cesimir and the Nighthawks found Lanevus’s body covered in Empress Tarot Cards and suspected his death was a symbolic ritual.
• Angel returned to her East Borough safe house, cleaned herself and her equipment, and resolved to pursue Ince Zangwill after reflecting on her revenge against Lanevus.
• Audrey learned from Glaint that Lanevus had been killed and recognized the Empress cards as Miss Empress’s work, realizing she had helped the investigation.
• Cesimir convened a meeting at Saint Samuel Cathedral, where Daly confronted him for excluding her from the operation against Lanevus.
• The Nighthawks examined Lanevus’s wounds and linked them to the injuries suffered by Dunn, Klein, and Angel, while Cesimir ordered further discussion of the Aurora Order’s threat.

At the Tarot Club, Klein and World exposed Backlund’s poverty to Audrey, inspiring her to act, while Klein read Roselle’s suggestive diary entry. In Backlund, Angel’s divination work and a newspaper report revealed consequences of her recent escape, and Lola visited after Angel challenged her about joining the Demoness Sect.

• Klein told the Tarot Club that Backlund’s industrial poverty could provide fertile ground for an evil god, and World described the suffering of workers and their families.
• Audrey thanked Klein and World, resolved to learn more about conditions in poor districts, and considered using her influence to improve them.
• Klein read Roselle’s diary entry saying that a Demoness tasted quite good.
• Angel told a client that her lover had not yet betrayed her, then read that witnesses had identified her as a suspect in the Dalavi Street explosion.
• Lola visited Angel, criticized her reluctance to deceive clients, and smiled without surprise when Angel challenged her about joining the Demoness Sect.

Angel learned that Lola had referred Mr. O'Neill to her as a test and warned her that bounty hunters and detectives were searching for a tall female Assassin pathway Beyonder from Tingen City. Audrey received two enormous Seven-Colored Lizard Dragons and tasked Susie with identifying Miss Irene, while Angel was told to attend Viscount Glaint's salon in a new dress.

• Angel divined for Lola about Viscount Glaint and learned Lola avoided divination because a powerful enemy might locate her through the Spirit World.
• Lola revealed that she had sent Mr. O'Neill to Angel as a test and warned that bounty hunters and detectives were searching for a woman matching Angel's description.
• Audrey received two Seven-Colored Lizard Dragons from Alfred and promised Susie advancement materials if Susie could remember and draw Miss Irene.
• Angel received Sevillea's instruction to attend Viscount Glaint's salon and wear a new dress, despite its cost and Angel's financial troubles.

Angel attended a music salon at Viscount Glaint’s residence with Sevillea, who agreed to provide her with mission funds. There, Audrey Hall approached Angel and invited her to join a Mysticism Salon.

• Angel wore a new gown to meet Sevillea, then persuaded her to provide one hundred pounds in mission funds.
• Angel and Sevillea arrived at Viscount Glaint’s music salon, where Angel noticed Ms. Lola among the guests and saw that Xio Derecha was absent.
• Viscount Glaint entered with a striking young woman whose beauty made Angel briefly suspect she was a Demoness.
• The young woman introduced herself to Angel as Audrey Hall and invited her to join the Mysticism Salon.

Angel, posing as Irene Watson, joined Audrey and Viscount Glaint’s Occult Salon and demonstrated her divination skills. She learned that Audrey wanted to become a Spectator and that the group was searching for Potion formulas, leaving Glaint asking whether she could help.

• Audrey invited Angel to a private Occult Salon hosted with Viscount Glaint.
• Audrey introduced the small group, including absent members Xio Derecha and Fors Wall, and Angel admitted she was a Sequence 9 Beyonder.
• Angel claimed to be a Seer and used pendulum divination to predict that Audrey’s overseas gifts had arrived safely in Backlund.
• Audrey confirmed the gifts had arrived the previous day, impressing her and Viscount Glaint.
• Audrey revealed her goal of becoming a Spectator, and Glaint asked Angel whether she knew the Potion formulas or any clues about them.

Angel discussed Potion formulas with Audrey and Glaint, earning permission to attend their Beyonder gathering again next week. After they parted, Audrey identified Angel as the Empress from the Tarot Club, while Angel confirmed Audrey was Justice.

• Angel said she lacked the Spectator and Apothecary formulas but offered to seek them at a larger Beyonder gathering, and Audrey and Glaint agreed to cover the costs.
• Angel discussed Fors and Xio with Audrey and Glaint, then offered to help find formulas in exchange for joining their gathering again next week.
• After Angel left, Audrey concluded that Angel was the Empress she had seen through the Gray Fog and wondered about her real appearance and identity.
• Audrey asked Susie to describe Angel, then left with her maid as the salon neared its end.
• Angel watched Audrey leave, confirmed she was Justice of the Tarot Club, and returned to the salon hall.

Angel realized that Audrey Hall was the Tarot Club’s Justice and used her connection with Audrey and Glaint to advance Sevillea’s mission. Sevillea rewarded her with a main ingredient for the Pleasure Potion, and the chapter ended with Angel witnessing a Blood Moon over Backlund.

• Angel deduced that Audrey Hall was Justice after recognizing her build and learning more about her connection to Xio and Glaint.
• Angel told Sevillea about the Occult Salon and Audrey and Glaint’s interest in the Spectator and Apothecary Potions.
• Sevillea agreed to seek the Spectator formula and asked Angel to search for the Apothecary formula, offering to reimburse her expenses.
• Sevillea gave Angel an Adult Widow Giant Spider’s Silk Gland as part of her mission reward and promised the remaining ingredient and formula after further progress.
• Angel collected 100 pounds in mission expenses and saw the Crimson Moon rapidly become a full Blood Moon above Backlund.