Chapter Summaries

Angel and Moriarty divided the spoils after rescuing Emily and the other girls, then parted on good terms. Back at her safe house, Angel realized that the operation had fully digested her Witch Potion, leaving her ready to advance once she obtained the Demoness of Pleasure Potion.

• Moriarty and Angel agreed that the rescued girls were safe in police custody, while Angel planned to report the two escaped Beyonders to the churches.
• Angel and Moriarty divided the Beyonder spoils, with Moriarty taking Katie's Sequence 7 characteristic and offering to compensate Angel if the damaged whip could not be repaired.
• Moriarty returned Angel's Master Key and asked whether they would work together again; Angel said they might and reminded him that he had her message box.
• Angel returned to her East Borough safe house, stored the characteristic, and set the damaged whip aside to seek an Artisan at the next Eye of Wisdom gathering.
• Angel formed a flawless mirror from frozen tea and recognized that her morning operation with Moriarty had fully digested her Witch Potion, bringing her close to advancing to Sequence 6.

Angel confirmed Emily O'Neill was protected by official Beyonders, reported recent developments to Sevillea, and learned more about the Devil's serial-killing ritual. After arranging an anonymous report about Harras and Berris, she unexpectedly met Sherlock Moriarty outside the cathedral.

• Angel used the Ice Mirror to see Emily O'Neill grieving under the protection of two official Beyonders.
• Angel told Sevillea about recent developments, and Sevillea advised her to maintain her connection with Audrey and Glaint while seeking information about Arbiter Beyonder characteristics.
• Sevillea explained that a Devil needed at least thirteen victims for a Promotion Ritual and discussed the serial killer's pattern.
• Angel paid a vagrant to deliver a report accusing Harras and Berris of aiding kidnappings and suspected murders to Saint Wind Cathedral.
• Sherlock Moriarty appeared outside Angel's hiding place with a report of his own and greeted her.

Angel and Moriarty reported clues about Capim’s crimes and discussed the serial killer’s possible Devil pathway advancement. Their conversation led them into a dark alley, where a massive figure suddenly attacked Moriarty.

• Angel discovered that Moriarty had also prepared a report letter about Harras and Berris, and they left Saint Wind Cathedral to avoid the Mandated Punishers.
• Moriarty told Angel that Emily was under police protection and would likely be placed with a guardian until she inherited her family’s property.
• Moriarty shared clues suggesting the serial killer targeted former streetwalkers and might be an animal being helped by someone; Angel agreed to report the possibility to the authorities.
• Moriarty promised to organize his findings for Angel, and they realized they had wandered into a dark alley, possibly because of Angel’s Master Key.
• A massive figure dropped from above the balconies and attacked Sherlock Moriarty.

Angel and Moriarty fought a Devil Hound that attacked them in a narrow alley. After their coordinated attacks exposed its damaged skull, Angel shot it through the head and killed it.

• Angel warned Moriarty as the black dog ambushed them, and they dodged its attack in the alley.
• Angel identified the creature as a Devil, and it transformed into a giant winged hound that resisted her Black Flames and ice spikes.
• Moriarty used Air Bullets and a Paper Figurine to evade the Devil Hound’s filthy words while Angel attacked its head with Storm Convergence.
• The Devil Hound struck at Angel with a fireball, but she escaped using a Staff Substitution as Moriarty used Slumber Charms to weaken it.
• Angel exposed the Devil Hound’s damaged skull with another shot and killed it with her final Storm Convergence.

Angel and Moriarty killed a Devil Hound responsible for twelve murders after it ambushed them to stop them reporting their clues. They realized Angel’s Anti-Divination had distorted its danger sense, then considered how to handle the corpse and its valuable Beyonder characteristic without exposing their false identities.

• Angel and Moriarty waited until the Devil Hound’s mutations faded, then confirmed it had attacked them alone.
• Moriarty identified the hound as the Sequence 6 Devil behind the serial killings and explained that it had sensed their planned report as a threat.
• Angel and Moriarty concluded that her Anti-Divination had hidden her from the hound, which mistook Moriarty for its only target.
• Moriarty said they could not safely claim the murder reward under their false identities and suggested a trusted person report the death scene.
• The Devil Hound’s Beyonder characteristic formed beside its corpse, and Angel felt faint as she examined it.

Angel and Moriarty traded the Crimson Eye for the Devil Beyonder Characteristic before escaping the alley. In Backlund, Fors read about the Black Emperor’s attack on Capim and realized Xio’s investigation might involve the Tarot Club.

• Angel and Moriarty agreed that Angel would take the Devil Characteristic while Moriarty held the Crimson Eye until she could redeem it with half the sale proceeds.
• Moriarty used the Crimson Eye to detect approaching police officers, and Angel burned away traces of the fight before they left separately.
• Two police officers entered the alley and found the frozen, damaged ground and the corpse of a huge black dog.
• Fors read reports that the serial murder case had been solved and that the Black Emperor had killed Capim and rescued the kidnapped girls.
• Xio told Fors that the Golden Mask had tasked her with investigating Capim’s death and past incidents involving Tarot Cards, prompting Fors to connect the matter to the Tarot Club.

Angel received an invitation to Audrey’s gathering and was told by Sevillea to watch Hibbert Hall for information about the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee. After learning that the Demoness Sect also wanted intelligence on Hibbert, Angel realized that both factions were interested in the committee, while Lola offered the Pleasure formula in exchange for what she uncovered.

• Sevillea gave Angel Audrey’s invitation and instructed her to listen for news about Hibbert Hall and the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee.
• Angel read that the serial murders had been officially solved and that Capim’s death had been reported as the work of a chivalrous thief called Black Emperor.
• Lola told Angel that Capim had trafficked more than a thousand Backlund residents and that the Church of Storms had seized his secret documents.
• Lola revealed that Hibbert Hall was the chief secretary of the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee and asked Angel to gather information for the Demoness Sect.
• Lola offered to exchange Angel’s intelligence about the committee for the Pleasure formula.

Angel attended Eye of Wisdom's gathering, where she learned of a custom weapon available through Ms. Kavi and watched Moriarty trade a Briber formula for Extraordinary Bullets and cash. She then offered the group a mysterious Beyonder Characteristic found on a Devil Dog.

• Angel arrived at Eye of Wisdom's gathering and listened as Darkwill requested a tameable Beyonder Creature for experiments.
• Moriarty suggested raising an animal and feeding it a Potion, but Darkwill dismissed the idea as too expensive.
• The weapons dealer gave Angel Ms. Kavi's address so she could discuss commissioning a custom Beyonder weapon.
• The weapons dealer offered fifty special bullets, and Moriarty exchanged a Briber formula for the bullets and five hundred pounds.
• Angel displayed a transparent Beyonder Characteristic with lava inside, which she had found on a Devil Dog's corpse, and invited the attendees to buy it.

Angel sold the Devil Beyonder Characteristic to Eye of Wisdom for 3,200 pounds, while Moriarty used his share to buy the Sun Brooch. Eye of Wisdom hinted that he knew Angel had killed the Devil Dog, and the chapter ended with Moriarty trying the brooch and feeling its intense heat.

• Angel offered the Devil Beyonder Characteristic at Eye of Wisdom’s gathering, but no one bought it during the main transactions.
• Eye of Wisdom privately offered Angel 3,200 pounds for the Devil Characteristic and asked where she had obtained it.
• Angel described killing a wounded Devil Dog in self-defense, and Eye of Wisdom suggested he knew she had killed the serial murderer.
• Angel gave Moriarty 1,600 pounds in exchange for the Crimson Eye, then Moriarty paid Eye of Wisdom for the Sun Brooch.
• Moriarty put on the Sun Brooch, endured its heat, and then removed it as Eye of Wisdom offered to sell him another Mystical Item.

Angel attended Audrey's Occult Salon at Earl Hall's residence, where MI9's Cons revealed details about the Tarot-card killings linked to the Black Emperor. After spotting Hibbert Hall in a private discussion with Glaint, Angel used the Crimson Eye to survey the villa and discovered two Beyonder bodyguards.

• Angel arrived at Earl Hall's residence and joined Audrey's gathering of young nobles, where they discussed Capim's murder and the Black Emperor.
• Cons Lierson described the battle at Capim's villa and revealed that another Tarot-card killing had taken place after a cult member was killed near East Balam Dock.
• Angel wondered whether someone else had emptied Capim's safe and framed her for the theft, since she had not placed Tarot cards on the cult member killed in the Docklands.
• Angel overheard Glaint speaking with Hibbert Hall and other men about a candidate connected to the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee.
• Angel used the Crimson Eye in the washroom to survey the villa and detected two Beyonder bodyguards protecting Earl Hall's family.

Angel used her Magic Mirror to learn that Hibbert Hall and Glaint were arranging an attack on committee member Mary Gail, then joined Audrey and Glaint at a Beyonder gathering. The gathering began in an abandoned medical college classroom, where a corpse in a glass cylinder addressed the participants.

• Angel used the Crimson Eye to locate two Beyonder guards at the Hall Family villa and divined Hibbert Hall and Glaint discussing a plot against Mary Gail.
• Angel returned to the reception room and considered Cons's theory that the Black Emperor might belong to a Tarot-card organization.
• After the gathering ended, Audrey invited Angel to join her and Glaint at a Beyonder gathering, and Glaint said he needed materials for his Apothecary Potion.
• Angel, Audrey, and Glaint changed carriages several times and traveled to an abandoned building in the North Borough to conceal their identities.
• At the gathering, Glaint recoiled from the preserved corpses while Angel and Audrey took their seats.
• A corpse inside a glass cylinder opened its eyes and announced that the gathering could begin.

Angel accompanied Audrey and Glaint to a Beyonder gathering, where Glaint bought a potion ingredient and Audrey failed to find the Spectator formula. Afterward, Angel questioned Glaint about Hibbert Hall and sensed that a Beyonder was watching them as they rode away.

• Glaint asked Angel to trade for a Venom Crystal of a Crown Jellyfish, and she bought one for him for 240 pounds.
• Audrey requested the Spectator Potion formula, but no one responded, and Angel noticed that several attendees scrutinized her.
• Angel bought 20 grams of Star Crystal before the gathering ended, and she, Audrey, and Glaint left through the changing rooms.
• Glaint celebrated finding one of the Apothecary Potion's main ingredients, while Audrey said she would keep searching for the Spectator formula.
• Angel asked Glaint about Hibbert Hall's role in the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee, then questioned whether Glaint's account matched what she had learned through divination.
• Angel sensed a trace of malice or attention from a Beyonder and suspected that someone was following their carriage.

Angel investigated a suspected stalker after Audrey’s gathering and later discussed the nobles’ plans for the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee with Sevillea. She concluded that the plot against Mary Gail was likely a staged provocation intended to rally public support for the committee and its proposed legislation.

• Angel sensed a faint trace of malice following the carriage, and Audrey arranged to change carriages and leave separately.
• Angel used the Crimson Eye to identify an unremarkable carriage following Audrey, then left without confronting the pursuer.
• Angel told Sevillea that her divination had revealed a plot against Mary Gail, a member of the Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee.
• Sevillea argued that industrial nobles had reason to obstruct the committee because its regulations could hurt their businesses.
• Angel reasoned that Hibbert Hall and other committee members could use early access to standards to prepare their factories and disadvantage competitors.
• Angel and Sevillea concluded that the plot against Mary Gail was meant to generate public outrage and build momentum for the committee’s work.

Angel learned that nobles and the Demoness Sect were watching Backlund’s environmental investigation, then obtained the Sequence 6 Pleasure formula from Lola Swann. She left with a possible way to acquire the scarce ingredients, if she continued investigating the Demoness Sect.

• Sevillea told Angel that Lady Despair had ordered the investigation and promised her half of the Potion’s Main Materials as a reward, while withholding the formula until she earned more merit.
• Angel left Sevillea’s home beneath the full Crimson Moon and reflected that she might soon advance to Sequence 6.
• At the Divination Club, Angel told Lola Swann what she had learned about Hibbert Hall, Earl Hall, and the environmental investigation.
• Lola gave Angel the Sequence 6 Pleasure formula and explained that Succubus ingredients were scarce while Widow Giant Spider ingredients were easier to find.
• Lola offered to help Angel obtain Potion ingredients if Angel continued investigating the Demoness Sect’s interests and plans, and Angel wondered why Lola seemed to hate the sect.

Angel searched for the remaining ingredients for the Demoness of Pleasure Potion, collected Succubus Eyes and hair from Sevillea, and learned that the sect might soon give her the formula. She left with a new assignment to investigate Arbiter pathway characteristics, while privately knowing she had already obtained and verified the formula.

• Angel searched Backlund for potion ingredients, bought Feynapotter Flies, and discovered that a merchant had sold her ordinary ash as Real Mummy Ashes.
• Angel read that Capim had been exposed as a human trafficker and that at least twenty girls remained missing.
• Angel visited Sevillea and received Succubus Eyes and attached hair as materials for the Pleasure potion.
• Sevillea told Angel she had passed the sect's test and might receive the formula with a future order.
• Sevillea asked Angel to watch for Arbiter pathway characteristics, while Angel concealed that she already had the verified formula.

Angel visited Artisan Kavi to commission a powerful Beyonder weapon, but learned that her preferred magazine-fed handgun was impractical with current manufacturing technology. Kavi offered her a completed revolver for 3,500 pounds, leaving Angel to consider the costly purchase.

• Angel traveled to the West Borough to visit Kavi and buy a powerful weapon after setting aside her Beyonder Ingredients at home.
• Angel found Kavi at her renovated clock shop and learned that a contact from the Eye of Wisdom gathering had introduced her.
• Angel asked Kavi to make a magazine-fed handgun, but Kavi explained that revolvers were more reliable with current technology, so Angel agreed to customize a revolver instead.
• Angel requested a powerful weapon that could use special bullets and enhance their effects, and Kavi explained that this required a Mystical Item made with Beyonder Characteristics.
• Kavi offered Angel a completed revolver originally commissioned by an absent customer and priced it at 3,500 pounds.

Angel discussed commissioning a weapon with Artisan Kavi, but decided to wait until she could provide an uncontaminated Beyonder Characteristic. After explosions shook West Baylun Shipyard, she learned where to ask about Mummy Ashes and left before Machinery Hivemind began investigating.

• Kavi refused to make a weapon from Angel's contaminated Rose Bishop Characteristic and offered to craft one from an uncontaminated Characteristic for a fee.
• Angel decided to wait until the Black Emperor search had passed before using the Sheriff Characteristic, and declined to buy Kavi's revolver.
• Explosions sounded near West Baylun Shipyard, and Carlson arrived to summon Kavi to the Mechanical Research Society.
• Angel asked Carlson where to find real Mummy Ashes, and he directed her to a Folk Herbal Medicine Shop on Williams Street.
• Angel watched Machinery Hivemind prepare to investigate the shipyard and took a carriage away from the area.

Angel bought genuine Real Mummy Ashes from Darkwill, completing the materials needed to advance to Demoness of Pleasure. Elsewhere, Tris obtained a rare material in a woman's identity and prepared for something that would happen tomorrow.

• Angel visited the Folk Herbal Medicine Shop and discovered its owner was Darkwill, whom she knew from Eye of Wisdom gatherings.
• Angel bought five grams of genuine Real Mummy Ashes from Darkwill and paid him the remaining hundred pounds owed for the Apothecary formula clue.
• Darkwill told Angel that Father Utravsky had captured a lost Vampire and was trying to reform him at Harvest Church, prompting Angel to wonder whether the Master Key had led him there.
• Angel left with every material she needed and resolved to advance to Demoness of Pleasure.
• A woman thanked a middle-aged man for finding a rare material and, after he left, revealed her identity as Tris and examined the heart-shaped sac inside an iron box.
• Tris said she would soon be free, then remarked that tomorrow was rather sudden.

Angel prepared and drank the Demoness of Pleasure Potion, but a sudden Blood Moon triggered a violent reaction that left her unable to use her abilities. Klein heard prayers from both Miss Magician and Angel and entered the Gray Fog, where he saw Angel's star light up again.

• Angel prepared the Demoness of Pleasure Potion and drank it after divining that her advancement carried some danger.
• Her hair grew rapidly, then a Blood Moon appeared and her body began to boil and split as her spirituality spiraled out of control.
• Angel could not reach her Mystical Items or complete her prayer to the Goddess as pain and her own hair left her trapped on the floor.
• Klein, recovering from exposure to the Biological Toxin Bottle, saw the Crimson Moon become full and prepared to enter the Gray Fog.
• Klein heard prayers from Miss Magician and Angel, entered the Gray Fog, and saw Angel's star light up again.

After Mr. Fool rescued Angel and Magician from losing control during the Blood Moon, Angel returned to the Tarot Club and learned what had happened during her absence. She agreed to resume attending its gatherings.

• Angel nearly lost control while advancing during the Blood Moon, called on Mr. Fool, and awoke in the Gray Fog Palace.
• Mr. Fool introduced Angel to Magician, who explained that he had rescued her from the Blood Moon’s maddening murmur.
• After the Blood Moon ended, Magician left the palace, and Angel apologized for missing the Tarot Club gatherings.
• Mr. Fool told Angel that Klein Moretti had joined the Tarot Club and confirmed that Angel could choose whether to return.
• Angel agreed to continue participating in the Tarot Club.