Chapter Summaries

After Azik survived the struggle with Artificial Death, he prepared to enter a long sleep, leaving Klein and Angel with gifts and a promise to meet again in his dreams. As Klein and Angel reviewed the night’s events, they realized the mysterious woman who intervened was the Evernight Goddess.

• Azik explained that he had chosen to keep his cherished memories and would sleep until his soul healed, then gave Klein the Copper Whistle so he could send letters.
• Azik strengthened Angel’s Wings of Death to improve its ability to suppress and control undead creatures, then left to find a place to sleep.
• Klein and Angel examined Hell Admiral Ludwell and learned about the power of his mask and the destructive Harris Rapier at his waist.
• Angel and Klein connected the mysterious woman’s intervention and earlier actions to the Evernight Goddess.

Angel and Klein planned an expedition to Calderon City after considering the danger of the Evernight Goddess’s possible divine descent and seeking help from their allies. Anne and Reinette could not join them, so Klein prepared Mystical Items and gave Angel a Card of Blasphemy before they set out.

• Angel and Klein suspected that the Mother of the Sky might have been a vessel for the Evernight Goddess’s divine descent, then changed the subject to their plans for Calderon City.
• Klein said he would delay selling his weapons and wait for more replies before deciding how to prepare for the expedition.
• Anne refused to join them because she was in Leusel Harbor with Bernadette, and Reinette said she could not enter Calderon City.
• Klein chose the Tyrant Card of Blasphemy and prepared Word of the Sea and Creeping Hunger for the expedition.
• Angel arrived at Klein’s residence in Tetnick City, where Klein handed her a sealed box containing the Demoness Card of Blasphemy.

Klein taught Angel how to use a Card of Blasphemy through a Mystic Ritual and explained how she could devise an Honorific Name for herself. Elsewhere, Ince Zangwill consumed a Hunter-pathway Beyonder Characteristic and left the forest, while Angel prepared to attempt the ritual with the Demoness card.

• Klein explained that he planned to use the Tyrant Card of Blasphemy to explore Calderon City and taught Angel the steps for accommodating a card in the Physical World.
• Klein told Angel that a Sequence 4 could devise an Honorific Name for a Closed Loop ritual and suggested she base hers on Angelica Zaki.
• Angel asked Klein for his Honorific Name, and he joked that his might include the great Gehrman Sparrow before leaving.
• In the Ancient Forest outside Tettenic City, Ince Zangwill swallowed the Beyonder Characteristic fused with a Reaper’s eye, then left when he realized he had not absorbed it.
• Angel prepared a Wall of Spirituality and the Mystic Ritual, then wondered what Honorific Name to use.

Angel created a five-line Honorific Name and used a Mystic Ritual with the “Demoness” Card of Blasphemy, transforming her Spirit Body and testing its abilities. Klein, Angel, and his two Marionettes traveled through the Spirit World and reached Calderon, the City of the Dead.

• Angel wrote and recited her Honorific Name, then performed a Mystic Ritual to pray to herself.
• Angel's Spirit Body absorbed the “Demoness” card, gaining a dignified appearance, greater strength, and the ability to carry Mystical Items.
• Angel tested her new Spirit Body, stored several items within it, and used the Iron-Blooded Knight characteristic to produce blue-green flames.
• Klein arrived as a Spirit Body, and he and Angel prepared to travel with his Marionettes Enzo and Ludwell.
• Klein used Creeping Hunger to carry the group through the Spirit World toward Calderon.
• Klein led Angel and the Marionettes into Calderon, where they saw the vast City of the Dead descending into a deep pit.

Angel and Klein tested their abilities in Calderon before Klein sent his Marionettes into the City of the Dead to search for a Spirit World Marauder. While exploring an ancient building, Angel found an unfamiliar inscription bearing a symbol identical to the Tamara Family’s Double Door crest.

• Angel and Klein confirmed that most of their abilities and items worked in Calderon and that Mr. Fool could still answer them.
• Angel concealed herself by sending most of her Spirit Body Threads into the Mirror World, while Klein led Enzo and Ludwell down the stairs into the city.
• Angel discovered that an unseen force blocked her from ascending above the city and that the deeper buildings were better preserved.
• Angel explored a humanlike dwelling and found ancient pictographic writing on its wall.
• Angel recognized a layered-door symbol in the inscription as identical to the Double Door on the Tamara Family crest.

Angel discovered that Death’s lingering power was turning her into an undead, then helped Klein confront the Spirit World Marauder in Calderon. Klein located the creature, but it remained diseased and trapped beneath Angel’s Frost Mist as the fight continued.

• Angel realized Death’s power was transforming her into an undead and spotted undead creatures hiding throughout Calderon.
• Klein’s Marionettes Enzo and Ludwell entered a house, where a giant undead blacksmith stood hammering an empty anvil.
• The Spirit World Marauder seized control of Klein’s Spirit Body Threads, and Angel killed the exposed undead with her disease.
• Klein broke free by using the Word of the Sea to strike himself and Creeping Hunger to chant a prayer, then blasted the Marauder with lightning.
• The Spirit World Marauder jumped across the city to escape Angel’s disease, but Angel extinguished its flame and trapped it beneath Frost Mist.

Klein and Angel defeated a giant wraith and killed the Spirit World Marauder after Angel trapped it with her Black Flame Curse, but Calderon’s dangers made them abandon plans to explore deeper. As a terrifying mist rose from the sinkhole, Ouroboros appeared and blocked their only exit.

• Klein’s hail and lightning drove the Spirit World Marauder into a building, but it escaped his sight until Angel’s Black Flame Curse caught and killed it.
• Enzo and Ludwell killed the giant wraith, while Klein recovered the Spirit World Marauder’s remains and discussed the Marionettist Potion with Angel.
• Klein used Ludwell’s Underworld Gate and saw a dark river and wraiths beyond it, leading him and Angel to avoid Calderon’s depths.
• A tremor sent gray-white mist surging from the sinkhole, and Angel prepared to leave with Klein and the remains.
• Ouroboros appeared at the Spirit World entrance and sealed Calderon’s only exit with silver-white wings.

Angel and Klein escaped Calderon, but Ouroboros used Time Reversal to pull Angel back while pursuing a target of His own. After telling Angel she could leave, He sent her to the world of The Travels of Grosell.

• Klein and Angel woke from their Spirit Body exploration of Calderon and returned to the inn in Tetnick City.
• Angel entered Artificial Sleepwalking again, and Ouroboros reversed time to return her Spirit Body to Calderon while Klein remained outside the city.
• Angel realized Ouroboros's power was likely aimed at Klein and questioned Him to stall for time.
• Ouroboros told Angel that He was not targeting her and denied causing the change in her course through the River of fate.
• Ouroboros told Angel she could leave, then transported her to the world of The Travels of Grosell.

Klein rescued Angel from Ouroboros’s time reversal by drawing her Spirit Body into The Travels of Grosell and then bringing her back through the Grey Mist. After Angel returned safely to her body, Ouroboros examined the remnants of her Charms and left Calderon with her blood.

• Klein recognized that Ouroboros had reversed time and used The Travels of Grosell to draw Angel’s Spirit Body into its Book World.
• Angel left the Book World through its shrinking exit and appeared beside Klein in the Grey Mist, where she told him what had happened in Calderon.
• The Fool confirmed that Ouroboros had left no mark on Angel, and Angel questioned why the Angel of fate had come to Calderon if he could perceive fate.
• Angel returned safely to her body, thanked the Gods, and embraced Klein.
• Ouroboros reversed the Charms into their raw materials, collected Angel’s blood, and vanished as Calderon’s mist surged over the city.

The Nighthawks learned that Ince Zangwill had met with Palenke Tasib near Gura In City, prompting Leonard to warn Klein. Klein and Angel discussed the Numinous Episcopate’s plans and the Evernight Goddess’s possible interest in Death’s Uniqueness, then Klein received an unexpected answer from Artificial Death.

• Soest questioned a captured Numinous Episcopate member, who revealed that Palenke Tasib had left to meet Ince Zangwill.
• Soest ordered Cindy to report the sighting and warned the Red Gloves to watch for the effects of 0-08.
• Leonard sent Klein a letter about Ince Zangwill’s meeting with Tasib, and Daly Simone noticed the messenger’s disappearance.
• Klein and Angel discussed Tasib, Artificial Death, and whether the Evernight Goddess was reaching for Death’s Uniqueness.
• Klein prayed to Artificial Death for information about Tasib, and the deity gave him a clear response.

Klein learned from Roselle’s diary that Blood Emperor Alistar Tudor and the Primordial Demoness Cheek had a daughter, Krismona, who died alongside her father. At the Tarot Club, members arranged a mission to investigate Bansy Harbor and a hunt for a Trickery Monster, while Cattleya asked Angel whether Hell Admiral was dead.

• Klein read Roselle’s diary entries revealing that Alistar Tudor and Cheek had a daughter named Krismona, who died with her father in the Four Emperors War.
• Hermit Cattleya asked whether the diary mentioned the Emperor’s descendant, and Klein revealed that it mentioned a daughter of the Blood Emperor and the Primordial Demoness.
• World Klein commissioned Hanged Man Alger to investigate the ruins of Bansy Harbor for 500 pounds.
• Sun Derrick told World that the City of Silver would send an expedition to hunt Trickery Monsters, and Alger explained that Chief Colin Iliad might be trying to aid Mr. Fool.
• Cattleya said the Artisan Sharff had recovered and asked Angel whether Hell Admiral had died and his ship had sunk.

At the Tarot Club meeting, Angel confirmed that Hell Admiral Ludwell had been defeated and agreed to help Audrey handle the Psychology Alchemists’ next move. Back in Backlund, Angel received a letter from Trissy and questioned Wensa about the Demoness Sect, while an unknown man arrived near Berens Harbor and vanished into the night.

• Cattleya recounted how Angel, Gehrman Sparrow, and a Death Consul had captured Ludwell and destroyed the Black Tulip; Angel said Ludwell was alive but in poor condition.
• Audrey apologized to Angel for nearly exposing her secrets and offered compensation, which Angel accepted as a favor for later.
• Audrey told Angel that Stephen Hampres would visit her psychology salon on Hvin Rambis’s orders, and Angel agreed to work with her.
• Back in her Backlund mansion, Angel received Trissy’s letter through Wensa and asked what the Demoness Sect intended to do about Trissy; Wensa said the Sect was watching and assessing both Trissy and Angel.
• Angel asked Wensa whether it knew that the Primordial Demoness had a daughter, and Wensa reacted with surprise.
• A man carrying a black suitcase appeared on a beach near Berens Harbor, looked southwest, and disappeared into the darkness.

Alger found a new Rose Redemption mural in Bansy Harbor, while Klein connected the evil spirit possessing Ince Zangwill to the Red Angel and the Hunter Pathway. As Leonard and Daly prepared to investigate together, Angel decided to use two Hunter Pathway items as bait for Ince.

• Alger searched Bansy Harbor and found a newly carved image of the Rose Redemption's distorted Lord of Storms in the ruined telegraph office.
• Klein reviewed the clues and realized that the Red Angel, also known as the Angel of War, might explain the evil spirit's strange behavior.
• Leonard asked Daly about evil spirits, then told her that Ince Zangwill was likely possessed by a Hunter Pathway evil spirit, and she agreed to work with him.
• Danitz asked Anderson why he remained in Cookawa City, and Anderson said he felt there might be undiscovered treasure nearby.
• Angel took out the Iron-Blooded Knight characteristic and the Reaper Legion, considering them as bait for Ince.

Angel reflected on the Demoness Sect and her doubts about her past before visiting newborn Will Auceptin to ask about Ouroboros’s encounter with her and Klein. Will explained that Ouroboros had taken Angel’s blood charms and that fate powers had little effect on Klein, but an arriving figure interrupted him.

• Angel read Trissy’s report that Shermane’s approach had made Viscount Stratford pursue her more eagerly, then burned the letter.
• Angel learned from Wensa that a Primordial Demoness’s child had survived into the present and that the Demoness Sect was divided over outsiders like her and Trissy.
• Angel visited Dr. Aaron Ceres’s home and secretly spoke with his newborn son, Will Auceptin, in the nursery.
• Will told Angel that Ouroboros’s Reboot would fail against Klein and that Ouroboros had taken away the charms made from Angel’s blood.
• Will began explaining why fate powers had little effect on Klein, but three figures appeared and one activated a Charm, interrupting him.

Angel visited Will Auceptin and Klein in Backlund, where Klein obtained Will’s blood before returning to the Southern Continent to prepare for the coming battle. Klein sought advice from Arrodes about digesting his potion and learned that Arrodes had seen a Pillar and dominion within him, then quietly opened a small box.

• Angel arrived with ice cream and listened as Klein negotiated with Will Auceptin for the baby’s umbilical cord blood in exchange for a cane-head item.
• Will gave Klein two drops of silver blood, and Angel realized their power could trap people in repeating cycles.
• Angel asked Will about helping in a future battle and about Sealed Artifact '0-08,' but Will began wailing before he could answer.
• Klein returned to Cookawa City, bestowed one drop of Will’s blood on Cattleya, and considered the materials and timing needed to advance to Trick Sorcerer.
• Klein contacted Arrodes, which said his current method was the only way to digest the Marionettist Potion and revealed that it had seen a Pillar and dominion within him.
• Klein ended the conversation and opened a small box, smiling faintly at what was inside.

Angel prepared to support Klein’s hunt for Ince Zangwill while the Nighthawks investigated the renegade Archbishop’s trail. Klein spotted Adam in West Bayam and, realizing the plan was nearing its end, ordered Angel to go to Cookawa City.

• Angel canceled most of her social engagements, prepared Beyonder items, and prayed for the Nighthawks seeking revenge.
• Captain Soest told the Red Gloves that Ince Zangwill was likely possessed by a Hunter Pathway evil spirit and ordered them to gather intelligence without investigating further; Daly asked Leonard to take her along when the time came.
• Danitz finished copying reports in West Bayam while Anderson mentioned an ancient tomb near Cookawa City, unaware that Adam was following them.
• Klein saw Adam beside Danitz and concluded that the Angel of Imagination was pursuing Sealed Artifact 0-08.
• Klein sent Angel the prepared scene and ordered her to leave for Cookawa City, Northern State, West Bayam.

Klein began the plan to lure Ince Zangwill into a confrontation, while Adam and Ouroboros appeared at Resurrection Square and trapped Ince between them. The chapter ended with the battle about to begin inside the Corpse Cathedral.

• Ince Zangwill’s notebook laid out his plan to kill Daly Simone and Leonard Mitchell before hunting Iliya for her Beyonder Characteristic.
• Anderson sensed danger as a black-robed cleric approached him and Danitz in Resurrection Square, and Klein heard Danitz’s prayer from his hotel.
• Klein sent Enzo to alert the Churches of Night and dispatched Reinette Tinekerr with a letter for Leonard Mitchell.
• Klein entered the Grey Fog, saw the Corpse Cathedral appear in Resurrection Square, and used a tornado to clear the area while telling Danitz to flee.
• Adam and Ouroboros confronted Ince Zangwill inside the cathedral, leaving him trapped between the two Kings of Angels.

Ince Zangwill escaped the Corpse Cathedral but was trapped by a divine misfortune curse, allowing Ludwell and the Red Angel evil spirit to fight over him. Sauron Einhorn Medici seized the Quill of Alzuhod and fled through the Spirit World, only to find himself back in Cookawa City facing a mysterious crowned figure.

• Ince Zangwill escaped the Corpse Cathedral through a breach created during the battle between Adam and Ouroboros, then fled into Resurrection Square.
• Ince discovered that a misfortune curse had disrupted the evil spirit within him and left him unable to use Spirit World Shuttle or find nearby Nature Spirits.
• Ince tried to summon Palenke Tasib, but Ludwell arrived first and attempted to pull the evil spirit from Ince's body.
• The Red Angel evil spirit revealed that he meant to take the Quill of Alzuhod, then used a Card of Blasphemy to seize it and escape into the Spirit World.
• After searching for Beyonder Characteristics, Sauron Einhorn Medici emerged back in Cookawa City and encountered a mysterious figure in a black dress and crown.

Ince Zangwill realized the Red Angel had tricked him and lost the Quill of Alzuhod, while Klein, Daly Simone, and Leonard Mitchell moved against him at Resurrection Square. Angel fought the Red Angel evil spirit elsewhere, and the chapter ended as Ince unleashed his Mythical Creature Form and Angel’s Reaper Legion charged.

• Ince Zangwill realized the Red Angel had escaped with the Quill of Alzuhod and faced Ludwell, Daly Simone, and Leonard Mitchell at Resurrection Square.
• Daly used the Lady of the Lake to trap Ince in a dream, while Leonard’s Luck Stealer attack was also interrupted by the dream.
• Klein controlled Ludwell, prayed to the Fool, and prepared a lightning strike against Ince, then noticed another power countering Ince’s Nightmare ability.
• Angel evaded the Red Angel evil spirit’s flames and rejected his offer to exchange the Red Priest card for her Iron-Blooded Knight characteristic.
• Angel summoned her Reaper Legion and invoked deathly power as Ince’s Mythical Creature Form spread across the battlefield, leaving the Red Angel rigid while the Reapers charged.

Klein used the Sea God's Scepter to bombard Ince Zangwill with lightning while Leonard sought help from the Fool, but Ince broke out of the storm's reach. Meanwhile, Angel and the Reapers weakened the Red Angel evil spirit, but it reunited with the Red Priest and recovered the Card of Blasphemy.

• Ince Zangwill fought off Daly Simone, the Underworld Gate, and a Nightwatcher while lightning repeatedly blocked his escape; Pale Hand Palenke Tasib summoned a terrifying Spirit World Creature and then abandoned the battle.
• Ince Zangwill realized Hell Admiral's position served as a beacon for the lightning, shattered the Underworld Gate, and charged through two bolts to escape the square, sacrificing two of his legs.
• Leonard Mitchell called on the Fool after Pales Zoroaster failed to respond, and Klein used Leonard's prayer to locate Ince and unleash a stronger Lightning Storm.
• Angel and the Reapers attacked the Red Angel evil spirit, but it split from the Red Priest, evaded their attacks, and reunited with the Card of Blasphemy in its chest.