Chapter Summaries

Angel learned that a serial killer had committed an eleventh murder in Backlund, and Lola warned her that the culprit was likely a Mid Sequence Beyonder pursuing a ritual. At Mr. Eye of Wisdom’s gathering, attendance was low because authorities were searching for the killer, and a man who had recently become a Beyonder watched Angel with curiosity.

• Angel read that the real eleventh murder had occurred and suspected the case was frightening away clients from the Divination Club.
• Lola told Angel that the victims’ organs had been removed and that the killer likely used Anti-Divination measures and was pursuing a purpose such as an advancement ritual.
• Angel asked Lola about the Demoness Sect and Baroness Sevillea Landon, and Lola said she had withdrawn from Glaint because the Sect had targeted him.
• Angel attended Mr. Eye of Wisdom’s Friday gathering with special bullets and a copied Barbarian formula, finding only six or seven members present.
• Eye of Wisdom explained that authorities, including MI9, were searching for the serial killer, while a newly made Beyonder watched Angel from a corner.

At a Beyonder gathering, Angel sought the Apothecary Potion formula from Darkwill, who offered her a lead in Backlund instead. The chapter ended with Angel paying for directions to Harvest Church and Darkwill buying the Elven Spring material he needed.

• Wild Dog asked the gathering for help rescuing a friend imprisoned by the Mandated Punishers, but Eye of Wisdom warned that breaking into the church would be suicidal.
• Angel offered Darkwill two hundred pounds for the Apothecary Potion formula, but he said his oath allowed him to tell it only to his students.
• Darkwill offered Angel a lead to the formula in Backlund, and she bargained to pay half upfront and the rest if the lead proved useful.
• A black-haired, bearded man offered Darkwill Marrow Crystal of the Elven Spring for three hundred and eighty pounds, and Darkwill agreed to buy it.
• Angel paid Darkwill one hundred pounds and received directions to find Bishop Utravsky at Harvest Church on Rose Street in the south borough of Backlund Bridge.

Angel sold the Barbarian potion formula and her Extraordinary Bullets at the gathering, while Klein used divination above the Gray Fog to identify the woman who owned the items. He recognized Angel in the dream and was left staring at the empty space among the crimson stars.

• Angel bought Star Crystal and Healing Potions, then sold the Barbarian formula to the lady who had sought it before.
• Eye of Wisdom used his ring to verify the formula, and Angel received 550 pounds for it.
• Angel sold all 40 Extraordinary Bullets to the black-haired man and Wild Dog, who intended to use them in an attempt to rescue his imprisoned friend.
• Klein returned to 15 Minsk Street, brought his bullets and banknotes above the Gray Fog, and divined their owner.
• Klein saw Angel disguise herself by changing her hair and eye color, and realized he had finally found her.

Angel visited Harvest Church in the South District to meet Father Utravsky and seek the Apothecary formula. He revealed that her task was to enter his mind and kill his violent former self using a Mystical Item.

• Angel counted her savings, planned her visit to Harvest Church, and made Star Crystal bullets to prepare for the task.
• Angel deposited most of her money in an anonymous account and met Father Utravsky after arriving at Harvest Church.
• Father Utravsky told Angel about his violent past as a pirate and his conversion to the Earth Mother’s faith.
• Father Utravsky explained that his former self remained within him and could eventually take control, causing him to lose control and become a monster.
• Father Utravsky showed Angel a candle-like Mystical Item that could materialize the depths of a target’s mind, where she could fight and kill his former self.

Angel entered Father Utravsky’s dream with the Mental Terror Candle to confront his evil self, relying on the Hidden Holy Emblem to keep her lucid. After exposing the dream’s false opening, she fought the armored Dawn Paladin but found her time running short and charged him directly.

• Father Utravsky explained that his evil self was a Sequence 6 Dawn Paladin and described the dangers of the dream and the candle’s five-minute limit.
• Angel prepared her weapons and Mystical Items, lit the Mental Terror Candle, and entered the dream protected by the Hidden Holy Emblem.
• Angel saw a fabricated scene in which Father Utravsky had been killed, recognized the deception, and drew her dagger and revolver.
• Angel fired at the evil priest’s armor, broke sections of it, and attacked with Black Flame, but his armor began repairing itself as he relentlessly pursued her.
• Angel realized the candle’s time was running out, discarded her empty revolver, and charged the armored priest with her dagger wreathed in Black Flame.

Angel defeated Father Utravsky’s past self in the depths of his mind, helping the Priest overcome the evil that haunted him. She received the Apothecary formula and chose the Master Key as her reward, but its tendency to make its user get lost immediately stranded her around Harvest Church.

• Angel used her Black Flame dagger to pierce Father Utravsky’s armor and defeat his dream self.
• Angel awoke in Harvest Church and heard Father Utravsky say that his past self had disappeared.
• Father Utravsky gave Angel the Apothecary formula and offered her a choice between a blood-drawing Mystical Item and the Master Key.
• Angel chose the Master Key after learning that it could open ordinary locks and create passages through some obstacles.
• Angel used the Master Key to pass through the church wall, then got lost circling Harvest Church and finally left by carriage.

Angel received thanks and 50 pounds from Mr. O'Neill after his daughter Emily was found, then collected a Beyonder ingredient from Baroness Sevillea. At the Occult Salon, she met Fors Wall, and Viscount Glaint asked whether she had found the Apothecary Potion formula.

• Mr. O'Neill thanked Angel for helping find Emily, said his family planned to move to Midseashire, and gave her 50 pounds.
• Angel accepted the Adult Widow Giant Spider's Silk Gland from Baroness Sevillea as a mission reward and agreed to obtain the Apothecary Potion formula.
• Baroness Sevillea told Angel to attend Viscount Glaint's salon the following Tuesday and asked her to copy the formula once she acquired it.
• Angel attended the salon and met Fors Wall in the study before Viscount Glaint and Audrey Hall arrived.
• Viscount Glaint introduced Angel and Fors to each other, then asked Angel whether she had news about the Apothecary Potion formula.

Angel gave Viscount Glaint the Apothecary formula and discussed the missing Spectator and Trickmaster formulas with Audrey and Fors. She accepted Audrey’s invitation to a private viewing of the Roselle exhibition, then regretted it when the tour began with a gilded flush toilet.

• Angel gave Glaint the Apothecary formula and agreed to accept 300 pounds for it.
• Angel told Audrey she had found no Spectator formula, while Glaint explained that Beyonder gatherings had been disrupted by the serial murder case.
• Fors demonstrated her Apprentice ability to pass through a closed door, and Angel offered to help find the Trickmaster formula without revealing that she already had it.
• Angel demonstrated Tarot divination for Fors and declined to divine the formula’s location.
• Audrey invited Angel and Fors to visit the Roselle exhibition after hours; Fors declined, but Angel accepted.
• At the exhibition, Angel regretted attending as the guide praised Roselle’s gilded flush toilet.

Angel visited the Roselle memorial exhibition with Audrey and recognized the original diary Mr. Fool had asked the Tarot Club to find. After becoming isolated from the other visitors, she encountered a mysterious chestnut-haired lady who extinguished her Cursed Flame and asked whether she was an attendant of the night.

• Audrey explored Roselle's exhibits with the nobles and persuaded the security guard to let her examine the original diary written in Chinese.
• Angel noticed Audrey's performance was meant to gain access to the diary and wondered whether the golden retriever was an extraordinary dog.
• Angel stayed behind to memorize the diary, then found the exhibition hall silent and herself unable to reach the other visitors.
• Angel felt the Hidden Holy Emblem on her wrist react and prepared to leave with the Master Key, but a chestnut-haired lady appeared and extinguished her Cursed Flame.
• The lady noticed Angel's Hidden Holy Emblem and asked whether she was an attendant of the night.

Angel met Bernadette at Roselle’s Memorial Exhibition and revealed that the Fool was collecting Roselle’s diaries. After returning to her safe house, Angel used a magic mirror to divine the brass key’s origin and saw an Abraham Family member lose control after drinking a potion.

• Bernadette questioned Angel about the hidden holy emblem and Roselle’s diary, then asked who was collecting the diaries.
• Angel told Bernadette that the Fool was collecting them, and Bernadette warned her that the brass key contained a dangerous curse before identifying herself.
• Angel left the exhibition with the nobles and received 400 pounds from Viscount Glaint for the Apothecary formula.
• Worried Bernadette might track her, Angel stayed at her safe house and speculated that Bernadette was Roselle’s daughter and a high-sequence Beyonder.
• Angel divined the key’s origin and saw a young Abraham Family member lose control and die after drinking a potion, before the vision revealed an ancient brass-colored key.

Angel investigated the Master Key’s origins and read about the latest serial murder, then learned that Mr. O'Neill and his family had died by suicide. She sought information about O'Neill’s missing daughter and received the name and address of Sherlock Moriarty.

• Angel divined that the Master Key had formed from the death of a likely Abraham Family member, then decided to keep using it until she could ask Father Utravsky about it.
• At the Divination Club, Angel read that the serial killer had claimed a twelfth victim, a young fashion designer with a history of streetwalking.
• Angel found an obituary saying Jason O'Neill and his wife had died by suicide and their daughter, Emily O'Neill, was missing; a Magic Mirror vision showed the family jumping into the Tussock River.
• Angel visited Bravehearts Bar to ask about Kaspars, learned he had been driven away, and paid for a detective's contact information.
• Angel received a slip identifying Sherlock Moriarty as a private detective at 15 Minsk Street in Cherwood Borough.

Angel visited private detective Sherlock Moriarty to learn where Jason O'Neill’s daughter Emily had been found, then told him she suspected the O'Neill family’s deaths were not ordinary suicides. The chapter ended with Moriarty recognizing Angel from the Eye of Wisdom gatherings as Dog Mask Lady, while Angel revealed she was an expert diviner.

• Angel went to Sherlock Moriarty’s home on Minsk Street and asked about his client Jason O'Neill and the rescue of Emily.
• Moriarty described how he tracked the kidnappers, negotiated Emily’s release, and later received additional payment from O'Neill, who planned to leave Backlund with his family.
• Angel showed Moriarty the O'Neill family’s obituary and asked whether their reported suicide seemed genuine.
• Moriarty doubted the family had chosen suicide, but questioned why the police had accepted the case as such.
• Angel told Moriarty that her divination confirmed the deaths were suicides, which suggested a Beyonder had concealed the truth, and Moriarty recognized her as Dog Mask Lady.
• Angel showed Moriarty the yellow crystal pendant on her wrist and identified herself as an expert diviner.

Angel and Sherlock Moriarty investigated the gang hideout connected to the O'Neill family's deaths and discovered the gang had recently left on an assignment for a man named Mr. Capim. They found Mr. O'Neill's lighter in the hideout and set out to inspect his home for more clues.

• Moriarty offered to accompany Angel to the gang hideout on Winster Street for a one-penny fee.
• Angel entered the empty hideout and found signs that five or six men had left in a hurry within the past three days.
• Angel used the Magic Mirror to see the gang members leave after receiving a new East Borough assignment from Mr. Capim, but could not divine who Capim was from the name alone.
• Moriarty found Mr. O'Neill's lighter upstairs, suggesting that O'Neill or someone else had brought it to the hideout.
• Moriarty told Angel he knew the O'Neill family's address, and they left to investigate the house.

Angel and Sherlock Moriarty searched Mr. O'Neill's home and suspected that Emily might still be alive and connected to the kidnappings attributed to Capim. Angel secretly used Emily's clothes and bracelet for divination, which showed her imprisoned in a villa basement with other girls, and she left to pursue the lead.

• Angel and Sherlock Moriarty searched the O'Neill residence and found that the family's belongings were still unpacked, despite Mr. O'Neill's claim that they planned to leave Backlund.
• Moriarty reasoned that Emily's body had never been found and identified wealthy Cherwood Borough resident Capim as a suspect in the disappearances of young girls.
• Angel and Moriarty agreed to meet at Moriarty's home the next morning while he asked his sources about Capim.
• Angel returned to the O'Neill home alone at night and used Emily's clothes and bracelet in a Magic Mirror Divination.
• Angel saw Emily alive in the basement of a large villa, held there with several other girls, and left the house fully armed.

Angel investigated Capim's villa and found the kidnapped girls in a guarded basement, while Klein independently prepared to rescue them. The two unexpectedly encountered each other across the street, with Angel mistaking Klein for a possible sentry.

• Angel used the Scarlet Eye to map Capim's villa, identify suspected Beyonders, and locate Emily and other girls in a guarded basement.
• Angel rested between brief uses of the Scarlet Eye, then planned to investigate the villa's suspected Beyonders and question a guard before the captives could be moved.
• Angel sensed a scarlet figure watching the villa from a house across the street and decided to investigate him.
• Klein used the Card of Blasphemy to strengthen his Spirit Body and prepared a plan to rescue the girls and expose Capim.
• Klein returned to his body in the house opposite Capim's villa and found Angel staring at him sternly.

Angel found Sherlock Moriarty conducting Dream Divination near Capim’s villa and learned that four Beyonders guarded the place, with Harras apparently commanding Capim. After Angel tried to send Moriarty away before confronting them, he revealed he knew she intended to act and invited her to join him in a daring plan.

• Angel confronted Sherlock Moriarty and asked whether he had been conducting Dream Divination or a spirit communication ritual.
• Moriarty said his divination had revealed four Beyonders in Capim’s villa: Harras, Berris, Katie, and Parker.
• Moriarty explained that Harras outranked Capim and that influential figures used Capim’s organization to kidnap and abuse girls while keeping him under watch.
• Angel concluded that powerful backers had helped conceal the O’Neill family’s deaths and considered rescuing the girls and seeking help from official Beyonders.
• Angel pretended to give up and suggested they leave, but Moriarty called out her plan to face the Beyonders alone and invited her to help him put on a grand magic show.

Angel and Moriarty launched a surprise attack on Capim’s dining room, killing Parker and battling Harras and Katie. Harras’s prohibition magic and Angel’s Flame Leap shifted the fight, leaving Katie frozen and Angel charging Harras as his special bullet missed her.

• Capim served Harras an elaborate breakfast while hiding his anger over Harras forbidding retaliation against the Zimang Party.
• Angel’s invisible shriek knocked out Capim and the servants, while Katie and Harras recovered and Parker collapsed.
• Angel froze the dining table area, and Moriarty’s armored ghost possessed Parker before Angel shot him dead.
• Harras sealed the dining room with an Imprisonment prohibition, and Katie attacked Angel while Harras tried to stop Moriarty’s ghost.
• Moriarty used Flame Leap to switch places with Angel, freezing Katie as she collided with the ghost.
• Harras fired a special bullet at Angel, but it missed as she stabbed toward him with a black-flamed dagger.

Angel and Moriarty fought Harras and his companions inside Capim’s villa, but Harras’s Mystical Item let him restrain them. Moriarty then detonated explosives planted throughout the villa, engulfing everyone in the dining room.

• Harras was wounded by Angel’s Ice Spike before he imprisoned her, while Katie used a Purification Bullet to drive Moriarty from her body.
• Angel and Moriarty attacked Katie, but Harras’s Madness Ring disrupted Harras’s thoughts before he proclaimed an Order that restrained Angel and Moriarty.
• Harras summoned Berris and ordered him to deal with Angel while he planned to purify Moriarty.
• Moriarty ignited the explosives he had planted in the villa, and the blast engulfed Harras, Berris, Angel, Katie, and himself.

Angel and Moriarty’s assault on Capim Mansion ended in a devastating explosion that killed Capim and freed the kidnapped girls. Angel staged a mysterious scene before disappearing dramatically as official forces arrived.

• Harras and Berris escaped the burning mansion, while Angel stayed behind to prioritize rescuing the girls and cleaning up the scene.
• Moriarty confirmed that the basement had survived the blast and went to release the imprisoned girls.
• Angel arranged Tarot Cards around Capim’s corpse, collected the Beyonder characteristics from Parker and Katie, and prepared her final performance.
• Klein used the Master Key to open every cell, and Emily led the girls out of the mansion and into the crowd outside.
• Emily saw a mysterious woman on the attic roof as an illusory door appeared and figures approached through the air.
• The woman became an armored figure crowned in black and leaped into the burning ruins, vanishing from sight.

Angel and Sherlock escaped after killing Capim, while Celt and Ace Snake investigated the massacre and suspected a secret organization with an Angel behind it. Angel paid Sherlock and left for her East Borough safe house, reflecting on his concealed abilities and the dead man he resembled.

• Celt and Ace Snake examined Capim’s villa, where the corpses were marked with Tarot Cards, and connected the scene to an earlier killing linked to the True Creator.
• Celt and Ace Snake suspected the woman who escaped was part of a secret organization backed by an Angel, but chose to report the incident instead of pursuing her.
• Angel and Sherlock stopped in the sewers near Minsk Street after fleeing more than a kilometer from Capim’s residence.
• Angel paid Sherlock with a copper penny, and he used coin divination to check whether the girls were safe.
• Angel concluded Sherlock was a Sequence 7 Magician who concealed a Mystical Item and wondered whether he had resembled someone who was still alive.