Chapter Summaries

Angel questioned the Mirror Person Danio, learned about the Black Saintess Clarice and the Mirror People’s limits, then killed him and planned to expose his group. In Backlund, Klein prepared to infiltrate Saint Samuel Cathedral and steal the Antigonus Family Notebook the next morning.

• Angel used Spirit Channeling to confirm that the Demoness Clarice was the Black Saintess and learned that her divinity prevented her from entering the Physical World.
• Danio told Angel that Mirror People could communicate through limited-use mirror cufflinks and that contaminated areas extended into the deeper Underground Catacombs.
• After Danio’s Spirit Body faded, Angel took his Beyonder Characteristic and watched his corpse collapse into glass shards.
• Angel rejected plans to impersonate Danio or lure out Sheval Dulin, deciding instead to coordinate with Trier’s churches and seek help from Arrodes, Arianna, and Mr. Fool.
• Angel burned away traces of the bedroom and left Honey Badger Street before Danio’s allies could discover his death.
• In Backlund, Klein watched Saint Samuel Cathedral and prepared to enter it disguised as a servant so he could steal the Antigonus Family Notebook the next morning.

Klein prepared to enter Saint Samuel Cathedral’s Chanis Gate to obtain the Antigonus Family Notebook, while Angel used Arrodes’s information to coordinate a hunt for exposed mirror people in Trier. Klein obtained the Trick Sorcerer potion formula without taking the notebook, and Angel left to deliver evidence to the Church of Steam and the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun.

• Klein asked Arrodes to locate the Antigonus Family Notebook and learned it was on the second level behind the Chanis Gate, while the third level held even more dangerous objects.
• Klein completed his preparations to enter the Chanis Gate, and Arrodes told him Angel had asked about his operation and that everything would go smoothly.
• Angel learned from Arrodes that Klein had obtained the Trick Sorcerer potion formula but not the notebook.
• Angel received detailed information on seven possible mirror people and saw evidence that Anthony Stevenson and Horamick Haydn had discussed the matter in Backlund.
• Angel copied the information into two reports, included a black mirror fragment with each, and left to deliver one to the Church of Steam’s Archbishop Cathedral.

Fors visited the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery in Trier and spotted Irene Watson entering a confessional. The Machinery Hivemind prepared a covert operation based on a report letter, while Mirror Person Val realized an official Beyonder had found him.

• Fors recognized Irene Watson at the church and watched her enter a confessional.
• Bishop Emanuel examined a report letter containing identity documents and a black mirror fragment, then ordered Machinery Hivemind squads to prepare for a covert operation.
• Val finished his work at the Foreign Affairs Committee and headed toward the cafeteria as the noon bells rang.
• Val noticed the bells and city had fallen unnaturally silent, then felt a warning from the mirror hidden against his chest.
• Val realized an official Beyonder had found him.

Angel watched the Purifiers arrest Sheval Dumar, bringing the exposed Mirror People investigation to a pause. She considered her next moves in Trier and chose between pursuing the Demoness Sect through Sevillea and investigating the contaminated building at 13 Market Avenue.

• Sheval Dumar tried to escape through a mirror, but Angel forced him back into the office, where the Purifiers arrested him.
• Angel reflected on her method of acting as a Demoness of Despair: drive an enemy into despair and then kill them.
• Angel decided to pursue one of two remaining leads in Trier: Sevillea Landon or the contaminated building at 13 Market Avenue.
• Sevillea Landon closed a window in her villa and turned to face a short, freckled young woman standing behind her.

Leonard and Daly connected Irene Watson’s changing appearance to a suspected Faceless and linked several Tarot-card murders to the Fool, until Sost reported a break-in at Saint Samuel Cathedral’s Chanis Gate. Meanwhile, Angel confronted Sevillea Landon in Trier, where Sevillea recognized her as Irene and realized she had become a Despair Demoness.

• Leonard brought Daly portraits of Irene Watson reconstructed from witnesses in Desi County and Enmat Harbor, and they concluded she had once appeared with long, pale-gold hair and violet eyes.
• Leonard and Daly considered whether Irene had the power of a Faceless or a Spectator, then reviewed his notes linking Tarot-card crime scenes and the Fool to Sherlock Moriarty and Klein Moretti.
• Sost interrupted them to report that someone had broken into Saint Samuel Cathedral’s Chanis Gate, reminding Leonard of the Tingen tragedy and Angel Granger’s death.
• Angel disguised as Irene Watson and confronted Sevillea Landon in her Trier villa, where Sevillea found that the nearby mirrors could no longer connect to her.
• Sevillea welcomed Angel as her niece and realized that Angel had advanced from Witch to Despair Demoness.

Angel visited Sevillea in Trier to question her about the Demoness Sect, mirror people, and the corruption at 13 Market Avenue. Sevillea revealed what she knew under Clarice’s watch, and Clarice ordered her to prepare to advance to Affliction.

• Angel recognized Sevillea’s new husband as a member of the Sauron Family and suspected he was Helene’s debt-ridden father.
• Sevillea told Angel that Panacea had truly died that morning after the Demoness Sect failed to recover her.
• Angel asked about Trier’s mirror people, and Sevillea said the Demoness Sect warned its members away from underground corruption and 13 Market Avenue.
• Sevillea explained that people entering 13 Market Avenue sometimes emerged as someone else, and that the corruption affected demonesses and Hunters in unusual ways.
• Angel left through the Mirror World, and Clarice emerged from the mirror after watching their meeting.
• Clarice asked whether Sevillea had told Angel everything and ordered her to prepare to advance to Affliction; Sevillea addressed Clarice as Mother.

Angel was intercepted in the Mirror World by a Hunter demigod who demanded an explanation about the Mirror People. After he attacked her and struck at the Mirror World itself, she recognized him as Silio Sauron and identified him as an Iron-Blooded Knight.

• Angel left Sevillea’s villa and emerged from the Mirror World in the abandoned building at 13 Market Avenue.
• A Hunter demigod confronted Angel and ordered her to come with him to Bureau 8 over the Mirror People.
• Angel’s black mirror fragment reacted near the Hunter, and he suddenly attacked her with a Flame Spear.
• Angel used Mirror Substitution and froze the Hunter, but he broke free and sent flames into the confined Mirror World.
• Angel recognized the Hunter as Silio Sauron, a Sequence 4 Iron-Blooded Knight suspected of ties to the Iron and Blood Cross Order.

Angel fought Sirio Sauron in the Abandoned Buildings, using the Mirror World and her Parasite ability against the Iron-Blooded Knight. After Sirio summoned ten Tinplate Soldiers to replace the teammates he had sacrificed, they attacked Angel with a coordinated strike.

• Angel analyzed Sirio’s abilities and escaped his flames through the Mirror World, but Sirio pursued her through the Abandoned Buildings.
• Angel trapped Sirio among mirrors that amplified a lethal disease and curse, but Sirio summoned nearby homeless people as teammates and transferred the damage to them, killing them.
• Sirio transformed into a Flame Giant and melted the mirrors, while Angel stole his Flame Transformation ability with her Parasite gloves.
• Sirio summoned the Reaper Legion from ten Tinplate Soldiers, forming a new team that could share damage with him.
• The ten armored soldiers attacked in unison as Sirio hurled his Flame Spear toward Angel’s weakness.

Angel fought Sirio Sauron inside the abandoned building, using a Calamity charm to injure him and his Tinplate Soldiers, but the battle drew the attention of Saint Bonoa. The chapter ended with the angel of the Church of Steam arriving at the battlefield as the unstable seal grew weaker.

• Sirio Sauron’s Tinplate Soldiers combined their strength to launch a Flame Spear that pierced Angel twice, but she escaped into and out of the Mirror World.
• Angel used a Calamity charm and the Parasite glove to pull Sirio close, then struck him and his soldiers with the charm’s destructive force.
• Sirio and the Tinplate Soldiers shared the calamity’s effects, leaving him injured and half the soldiers fallen while the others weakened.
• Angel prepared to press her attack as Sirio recovered behind his soldiers and sensed danger in the smoke.
• Clarice left Sevillea Sauron’s residence through a mirror and warned her daughter to keep a low profile.
• Saint Bonoa detected the battle and weakening seal, traveled to the abandoned building, and stepped into the battlefield.

Angel, Sirio Sauron, and the mysterious silver mirror were transported from 13 Market Avenue to a strange place beyond the Mirror World, where Sirio recognized the ruined city as Trier of the Fourth Epoch. Angel was left facing Sirio and a storm-shrouded giant as the mirror’s power faded.

• Saint Bonoa appeared at 13 Market Avenue, halted the deadly forces there, and questioned Angel about her ties to Evernight.
• Sirio Sauron unleashed the silver mirror’s black-and-red power, but Saint Bonoa’s intervention made Sirio, Angel, and the soldiers vanish from the building.
• Saint Bonoa confirmed that Angel was still alive, while Reinette Tinekerr returned to the Spirit World and Bornova Gustav reflected on Anne Gustav and the weakening seal.
• Angel awoke beside Sirio and his fallen soldiers outside a vast black-and-red city, with a towering figure wandering through storms nearby.
• Sirio recognized the figure as the missing Calamity Giant sought by the Sauron Family and identified the city as Trier of the Fourth Epoch.

Angel deduced that Sirio Sauron’s ambush was intended to draw in Bornova Gustav and use the Church of Steam angel to weaken the seal beneath Trier. The mirror’s misdirected effect transported Angel and Sirio into Fourth Epoch Trier instead, while Bornova investigated the aftermath and reacted to the deaths of the civilians.

• Angel recognized that the giant in the fog might be a Sequence 1 Conqueror and questioned Sirio about his group’s target.
• Sirio revealed that his group intended to bring Bornova Gustav into the Mirror World to weaken the church’s seal and let powerful Mirror People enter reality, but refused to identify their leader.
• Sirio used a small mirror to escape with his armored soldiers as Angel tried to attack him.
• Bornova reconstructed Sirio’s plan and determined that Angel’s mirror had redirected the trap by creating a second coordinate to the same Mirror World.
• Bornova noticed the dead civilians’ bodies stirred his emotions and traced the Triangle Holy Emblem over his chest.

Angel and Sirio's fight was interrupted when the Calamity Giant's roar drove them both toward madness, and they fled as the giant advanced. Angel entered Fourth Epoch Trier's Mirror World to escape, where she found that its passages all led toward the city at the wilderness's center.

• Sirio's attempt to escape through his silver mirror failed, and he blamed Angel's antique mirror for trapping him in Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Angel used the Wings of Death and stolen Flame Transformation against Sirio, but the Calamity Giant's roar interrupted their battle and overwhelmed them both.
• Anne Gustav's Sword and Shield Balance Emblem protected Angel from the roar, while a red light from Sirio's mirror flew toward the giant and helped him recover.
• The Calamity Giant emerged from the expanded storms and approached, so Angel and Sirio ran toward the darkness with Sirio's five armored soldiers following.
• Angel created an ice entrance into the Mirror World, where she saw that every passage pointed toward the central city.

Angel fought Sirio Sauron while the Calamity Giant approached, but Sirio’s own armored soldiers suddenly betrayed and killed him before Angel could use her Betrayal charm. Angel was left staring at the unexpected death as the giant continued closing in.

• Angel used Flaming Jump to catch Sirio and concealed the Sword of Dawn inside a flaming longsword, piercing his chest and forcing him to fall.
• Sirio survived the fall by slowing himself with flames, then revealed an incomplete mythical creature form and summoned his five armored soldiers to face Angel.
• With the Calamity Giant nearing, Angel prepared the Betrayal charm while Sirio cautiously planned to counter her.
• Sirio’s five soldiers attacked him from behind, stabbing him repeatedly until he died before Angel could activate the charm.

Angel killed Sirio Sauron’s Spirit Body through Magic Mirror Divination and learned how to escape Fourth Epoch Trier, as well as the Mirror People’s plan to target Bornova Gustav. With the Calamity Giant approaching and Sirio’s leader’s identity concealed by a protective power, Angel had to choose which silver mirror to use.

• Sirio’s five Tinplate Soldiers killed him, then reverted to their pendant form, and Angel searched his cooling corpse for surviving items.
• Angel used Magic Mirror Divination to question Sirio and learned that leaving Fourth Epoch Trier required using a silver mirror, while two identical mirrors interfered with each other.
• Sirio revealed that the Mirror People intended to lure Bornova Gustav into a Special Mirror World and explained that a sufficiently large disturbance could weaken its seal.
• When Angel asked who the Mirror People’s leader was, a protective power destroyed Sirio’s Spirit Body and the information he was about to reveal.
• Angel collected Sirio’s Beyonder Characteristics and weighed which of the two silver mirrors to use as the Calamity Giant drew nearer.

Angel searched for a way out of the sealed wilderness around Fourth Epoch Trier, but discovered that both the physical world and Mirror World were blocked by the Eternal Blazing Sun’s power. With the Calamity Giant nearby, she weighed the risks of using two silver mirrors and noticed a new rune appearing on the mirror from Backlund.

• Angel fled from the Calamity Giant into a forest of pillars, but the forest’s spatial distortion repeatedly returned her to the wilderness near Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Angel recognized that a powerful seal around the area trapped anyone trying to leave and suspected it was created by a True God.
• Angel entered the Mirror World, saw a vast golden wall sealing it, and identified the power as belonging to the Eternal Blazing Sun.
• Angel resisted an unnatural urge to enter Fourth Epoch Trier and considered using one of her two silver mirrors to escape.
• Angel noticed a new rune resembling the Living Sacrifice Rune beneath the surface of the silver mirror from Backlund.

Angel analyzed the rune on the silver mirror and used it to escape Fourth Epoch Trier, arriving in a dark mirror-copy of Trier. After navigating the Mirror World, she found a passage back to the Physical World and emerged in the Fifth District.

• Angel connected the rune to the powers of the Demoness and Hunter Pathways and decided to use it to escape.
• Angel hurled Sirio Sauron's silver mirror down the road, weakening the connection between the mirrors, then traced the rune in blood on her own mirror.
• The rune transported Angel to a dark copy of Trier, where she recognized the silent, hostile residents as Mirror People.
• Angel entered a Mirror Tunnel leading to an Underground Quarry in the Fifth District and confirmed that the area connected the Mirror World to reality.
• Angel climbed out of the quarry into afternoon sunlight and returned to the Physical World.

Angel learned more about the Mirror People and the corruption beneath Trier before sending a letter to Backlund. In Backlund, Leonard and Daly connected Gehrman Sparrow to Klein Moretti and Angelica Zaki to Angel Granger, then decided to confirm their suspicions in Tingen.

• Angel wrote to Backlund about her discoveries in Trier and said she would return on Thursday.
• Black Cat Wensa explained that Demonesses faced personal Mirror People and that corruption beneath Trier affected certain descendants; she told Angel to focus on her blood power.
• Leonard showed Daly evidence linking Gehrman Sparrow to Sherlock Moriarty and suggested they were the same person.
• Leonard linked Angelica Zaki’s wanted poster to Irene Watson and Angel Granger, and Daly agreed the resemblance warranted investigation.
• Leonard and Daly decided to confirm their suspicions in Tingen.

Angel returned to Backlund with the Reaper Legion and an Iron-Blooded Knight characteristic, then saw Leonard and Daly traveling toward Tingen. In Tingen, they dug up Klein’s and Angel’s graves and found both coffins empty of bodies, though Angel’s coffin held a shard of mirror.

• Angel returned to Backlund carrying the regenerating Reaper Legion and the Iron-Blooded Knight characteristic, which she considered offering to the Tarot Club or Ilian Sauron.
• Angel spotted Leonard and Daly leaving for Tingen and wondered why they had gone there together.
• Leonard and Daly reached Raphael Cemetery and opened Klein’s grave, discovering that his coffin was empty.
• Leonard dug up Angel’s grave, and Daly used spirit channeling to confirm what lay inside.
• Leonard opened Angel’s coffin and found only a shard of mirror.

Leonard and Daly found the graves of Klein and Angel empty, then Daly used Spirit Channeling to investigate Dunn Smith’s grave and wept at what she learned. Angel returned to Backlund, planned her next steps, and entered the Mirror World, while Xio and Shermane continued guarding Dwayne Dantès.

• Leonard and Daly found a mirror shard in Angel’s empty coffin that vanished into shimmering dust, confirming that neither Angel nor Klein was buried there.
• Leonard and Daly went to Dunn Smith’s grave, and Daly questioned the cemetery spirits before tears ran down her face.
• Angel returned to her Backlund manor, heard that Baron Cinderas wanted to visit, and agreed to meet him.
• Angel planned to report to Archbishop Anthony and visit Klein, then entered the Mirror World through her bedroom mirror.
• Xio reassured Shermane that she could sense threats within her jurisdiction as they guarded Dwayne Dantès’s house.

Klein recounted his escape from Chanis Gate and his ordeal in Mist Town to Angel, including the deaths of Panacea and Mr. A and the strange trial awaiting him there. He concealed seeing a Fool card beyond the church door, while his suspicions about fate deepened and Angel ended their conversation by pouncing on him.

• Klein told Angel how the Goddess Church's angel sent him from Chanis Gate into Mist Town, where he encountered Panacea and learned she had survived by eating people trapped there.
• Klein described how Panacea killed Senior and forced him into the church, where he met Zarathus and another Seer Pathway angel; Panacea became a Marionette, and Mr. A died after Creeping Hunger turned him into a mushroom monster.
• Klein escaped Mist Town by drawing the Evernight Goddess's sacred emblem, but he privately remembered seeing a Fool card beyond the church door and wondered whether his life had been predetermined.
• Angel comforted Klein, then grew jealous when he mentioned asking Miss Justice for help and knocked him down after he teased her about treating psychological illnesses.
• Shermane took over from Xio Derecha and wished she were strong enough to use the Magic Mirror to watch over Mr. Dantès.