Chapter Summaries

Klein suspected Amon had entered Angel's Dream City, then met Angel Granger and learned about a prophecy of the apocalypse and mysterious potion-like drinks she had consumed. After walking her home, Klein investigated the man spreading the prophecy and discovered that he looked exactly like Old Neil.

• Klein questioned Adam about Amon's possible entry into the dream, and Adam said Amon would not attack while they worked to awaken Angel Granger and prevent the Original Creator's revival.
• Klein learned from the Goddess that Amon's intrusion was known, then encountered Angel Granger outside the church and offered to walk her home.
• Angel told Klein that a man had been warning her the apocalypse would come in sixteen years and that she had drunk a prize-draw beverage labeled Assassin, with Apocalypse as the last drink in its series.
• Klein reassured Angel and promised to investigate the man and the supermarket, then learned where to find both.
• Klein went to the alley and used a Historical Void Image of himself to approach the prophecy preacher, whose face he recognized as Old Neil.

Klein investigated the apocalypse prophecies and the potion scheme in Dream City, concluding that the Original Creator was using Angel’s dream to prepare to replace her. He planned a daytime meeting with Angel while arranging for someone else to distract Cheek.

• Klein met an uncanny version of Old Neil, who preached that the Oldest One would awaken and said the apocalypse required an Error, its light, and the true Chosen One.
• Klein broke into the supermarket and found that its drink prizes represented potions from twenty-two pathways, though only the Demoness pathway’s potion seemed real.
• Klein reviewed the security footage and identified the motionless woman behind the counter as Saint Viève, then shared his evidence and findings with the group chat.
• Klein proposed that the Original Creator was exploiting the dream’s symbols and potions to restore Angel’s strength until a Sequence 7 Witch mirror person could be replaced.
• Klein told Reminder Doomsday Little Helper to impersonate Angel and draw Cheek away the next day while he contacted the real Angel during daylight.

Klein used a false identity to guide Angel away from Cheek, investigate the supernatural drinks, and help Angel recover fragments of her memories. After Angel agreed to trust him, Klein was suddenly expelled from the Dream City.

• Angel Gray impersonated Angel Granger and led Cheek into Tingen University while Klein waited for the real Angel at the gates.
• Klein persuaded Angel to skip class and walk with him, where she described dreams of past battles and apocalyptic scenes and asked whether the world would end.
• Gray learned that Cheek felt drawn to Angel during the day but feared her at night, and she messaged the group about Angel's possible struggle with the Oldest One.
• At the supermarket, Klein found the Instigator potion restocked and showed Angel that Viève would not let ordinary customers claim prizes.
• Klein warned Angel not to drink more potions, and Angel agreed that she trusted him before he called himself Sherlock and was expelled from the Dream City.

Klein was expelled from the dream after stopping Angel from advancing through potions, and he learned he could not return for 24 hours. As the other Dreamwalkers debated how to protect Angel, the dream’s Sherlock Moriarty returned her to school, where she found an Instigator drink and the taxi driver revealed himself to be wearing a monocle.

• Klein concluded that interfering with Angel’s potion advancement had triggered the dream’s owner to expel him, and the Evernight Goddess confirmed that he could not reenter until the following day.
• Gray observed Cheek’s fear of Angel at night and learned from the other Dreamwalkers that Sherlock Moriarty was now an ordinary dream persona who had taken Angel back to school.
• The Dreamwalkers suspected that the Original Creator wanted Angel to keep advancing so her Mirror Person could appear and take control of her body.
• Angel noticed Moriarty’s cold change in attitude after he stopped her from drinking more potions and wondered whether he had only approached her to complete a mission.
• Angel found an Instigator drink in the taxi, and the driver turned to reveal a monocle in his right eye.

Angel learned from a monocled taxi driver that her drink was a potion and that “Witch” followed “Instigator,” then drank the potion despite Sherlock Moriarty’s apparent denial of knowing her. Outside the dream, Klein learned that Angel had advanced and considered how to respond, while the Dreamwalkers proposed buying the supermarket that sold the potions.

• Angel met a monocled taxi driver who showed her a “Marauder” potion, described the potions as protection against an approaching apocalypse, and warned her about Sherlock Moriarty.
• The driver gave Angel his business card and told her that “Witch” was the next sequence after “Instigator.”
• Angel offered Sherlock Moriarty the “Instigator” drink, but he denied buying it, leaving her heartbroken; she then drank the potion in the university shrubbery.
• Klein arranged for Alger to become pope of the Church of the Sea God and reviewed plans involving Audrey, Cattleya, and Fors before returning to the Dream City.
• Klein discovered that Angel had become an “Instigator” and suspected Amon might have given her the potion, but reconsidered whether her advancement could help awaken her.
• Klein asked the Dreamwalkers how to proceed, and one suggested buying the supermarket that sold the potions.

Klein tried to stop Angel from obtaining the Witch potion, while Roselle arranged to close the supermarket for renovations. As night fell, Cheek revealed a dream in which Angel burned her to death, and Angel’s expression turned cold and merciless.

• Klein asked Adam whether interfering with Angel’s potion supply would disrupt the dream, and Adam said closing the supermarket might delay her advancement.
• Roselle announced that the Intis Group had bought the supermarket and would close it for a month starting the next day.
• Klein waited outside the school and followed Angel and Cheek after Angel rejected his attempt to speak with her.
• Klein asked why Cheek avoided Angel at night, and Cheek described a recurring dream in which Angel burned her alive with black flames.
• At sunset, Angel’s panicked expression vanished into shadow, and she stared at Cheek with cold, merciless eyes.

Klein confirmed that Angel’s day and night selves were mirror-person consciousnesses sharing one body, then watched as Angel obtained and drank the Witch potion. The statue beneath the Church of Light suddenly began to glow.

• Cheek fled after sensing nighttime Angel, and Klein apologized to Angel before confirming that she remembered Zhou Mingrui only as a dreamlike figure.
• Klein concluded that Angel Granger and Angel Gray were distinct, mutually integrated consciousnesses, while Amon drove Angel to the closed supermarket and gave her a Master Key.
• Angel used the key to enter the supermarket and found the Witch potion among the bottles.
• Angel drank the Witch potion, while a statue in the secret chamber beneath the Church of Light erupted with multicolored light.

Angel Granger drank the Witch potion, causing the Mirror World and Dream City to approach collapse as the Original Creator’s feminine aspect attempted to merge with her mirror person. The mirror person was male, foiling the attempt, and Klein welcomed Angel back as the dream began to break apart.

• Angel Granger’s advancement caused changes in the Mirror World, and Klein realized the true dream was nearing its end.
• Klein decided not to interrupt Angel’s advancement, trusting Amanises and Grisha’s plan.
• The Original Creator’s feminine aspect reached Angel’s newly formed mirror person but found that he was male, making the attempted merger a failure.
• The feminine aspect’s power faded, and Angel’s statue-like form remained in the depths of the Mirror World.
• Cheek began to resemble Angel as the stars and moon went out and darkness dragged the city into the Mirror World.
• Klein exchanged places with his marionette, saw Angel awaken, and embraced her as Dream City began to collapse.

As the Dream City collapsed, Angel explained to Klein that she had used the dream to resist the Original Creator’s feminine aspect and understood that she was a mirror person. Klein reassured her that he loved her regardless, but his question about the male mirror person left her suddenly rigid.

• The Dream City crumbled into the Mirror World, and Angel told Klein that the other dreamwalkers had left and the dream would soon end.
• Angel explained that the Original Creator’s feminine aspect was a newborn consciousness created through Tudor and Cheek, and that she had designed the dream to trap it by tempting it to occupy her mirror person.
• Angel revealed that she had arranged the prize counter and potions to create a chance for her dream self to become a Witch, while the Original Creator’s feminine aspect had kicked Klein out to make that happen.
• Angel told Klein that she knew she was a mirror person and was not disappointed, and Klein assured her that he loved her regardless of her identity.
• As the dream vanished, Klein asked Angel who the male mirror person had been, and Angel went rigid in his arms.

Angel confessed to Klein that she had been a man before transmigrating, and he reaffirmed his love for her. In the dream, Angel confronted her original self, Gray, and chose to fight for control of their body so she could stay with Klein; after the dream, Klein sensed Angel’s rising status as she returned to Sefirah Castle.

• Angel told Klein about her former life as a man and how her feelings for him had developed, and Klein said he loved her regardless of her identity.
• Angel left Klein to handle a final problem in the Mirror World, where she met Gray and discussed their shared body and the Original Creator’s imprint.
• Angel declared that she wanted to remain with Klein and challenged Gray to fight for control of their body, but Gray said Klein’s choice would determine who was the real Angel.
• Gray agreed to remain in the City of Calamity and began sharing her memories and knowledge of a dark future with Angel.
• Klein returned to Sefirah Castle and saw the Chariot star dim while the Empress star brightened, then overcame the castle’s resistance to bring Angel’s figure to the table beside him.

Angel returned to Sefirah Castle as a Demoness of Apocalypse who had accommodated the Demoness Uniqueness, and she and Klein discussed the dangers surrounding their paths and the coming battles. After Klein shared his plan to become the Fool and face Amon, Angel demonstrated her new powers in a private room, and the two ended up wrestling on the bed.

• Angel returned to Sefirah Castle and told Klein she had become a King of Angels by accommodating the Demoness Uniqueness.
• Angel explained that Gray remained in the City of Calamity and could help her resist the Original Creator, while the Primordial Demoness Cheek's consciousness still lingered in her characteristics.
• Angel warned that accommodating the Conqueror characteristics could awaken dangers linked to Blood Emperor Tudor and the Original Creator's masculine aspect.
• Klein told Angel that he planned to find Zarathus, accommodate his Mystic Seer characteristic, and then become the Fool before confronting Amon.
• Angel described her new powers, including bringing destruction and turning nearby men into women, before Klein changed their surroundings to his former guest room on Minsk Street.
• Angel lunged at Klein and pinned him to the bed.

Angel returned to the Dream City as a Demoness of Apocalypse, asserted control over the Demoness Sect, and warned its members that the apocalypse was approaching. After reflecting on her new authorities, she left to deal with urgent matters and planned to visit Fors first.

• Angel returned from the Mirror World to Saint Angelica Church, where Anne welcomed her as a newly ascended King of Angel.
• Angel told the assembled demonesses that Cheek had fallen, she had fulfilled every Sequence 1 ritual condition, and the apocalypse might arrive before 1368.
• Angel declared that the Demoness Sect had no reason to continue and offered its members a chance to submit, prompting Eugina to agree to notify its headquarters.
• Angel explained privately that she intended to use the remaining demonesses to prepare for the apocalypse and described her new authorities of chaos, Mirror World, and female.
• Angel left the church to handle urgent matters involving Roselle and the God of Steam, but decided to visit Fors first.

Angel took one Key of Stars as payment before the Abrahams began Bethel Abraham’s resurrection ritual, then separated the two intertwined Bethels. She trapped the corrupted Bethel in the abandoned Special Mirror World, where he failed to escape her spatial prison.

• Dorian gave Angel one Key of Stars, and she stored it in the Mirror World before allowing the ritual to begin.
• As the ritual formed Bethel’s figure, one of the two overlapping selves called on the Abraham descendants to help him fight his other self.
• Angel recognized the clearer figure as the false Bethel and pulled him into the abandoned Special Mirror World, leaving the translucent Bethel behind to apologize to Fors.
• The false Bethel offered to serve the Fool and help defeat Amon, but Angel rejected his plea and summoned Salinger's Blood Banner.
• Bethel attacked with recorded abilities and tried to flee, but Angel had sealed the Special Mirror World off from reality and the other Mirror Worlds.

Angel fought and destroyed the newborn Bethel personality inside the Special Mirror World, then helped Bethel Abraham return to reality with the Key of Stars. Bethel recovered his body and asked Angel to discuss the reward for her and Mr. Fool.

• Angel suppressed Bethel’s blinking with the Key of Stars and used the Mirror World to trap and burn his avatars and original body.
• Angel told the dying Bethel that she had accepted a Key of Stars in exchange for helping eliminate his newborn personality.
• Bethel Abraham reappeared above the Abraham Family altar, having accommodated the Key of Stars and regained his physical body.
• Bethel explained that his connection to a pulsar protected him while he accommodated the Key of Stars.
• Bethel said the injury from eliminating his other personality was insignificant and invited Angel to discuss the reward for her and Mr. Fool.

Angel and Bethel discussed the Abraham Family’s future, Fors’s advancement, and the coming apocalypse after Bethel’s resurrection. Bethel pledged his family to the Fool’s faction and warned that another powerful Outer Deity may have reached their star region.

• Angel declined payment and credited Fors for helping the Abraham Family, prompting Bethel to apologize to Fors for the full moon’s ravings.
• Bethel offered Fors the Wanderer potion formula, Beyonder characteristic, and ritual in return for her continued ties to the Abrahams, but said becoming a Planeswalker would require a true god’s protection.
• Bethel said the Abraham Family would continue believing in the Fool and that he would find the hidden Zarathus after stabilizing his condition.
• Bethel privately told Angel that Amon was close to becoming a dual-pathway true god, while the Fool was not yet a true god.
• Bethel revealed that the Uncertain Mist had been badly wounded and driven away for sixty years, but warned that another powerful Outer Deity may have arrived in the star region.

Angel questioned Bethel about the Great Old Ones outside the barrier and learned how their origins, authorities, and symbols shaped the threat to Earth. Bethel’s account left Angel and Klein aware that the invading Outer Deities possessed powers capable of overwhelming the world’s defenders.

• Angel learned from Bethel that the Goddess of fate was the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s eldest daughter and that many Great Old Ones were born from the Original Creator and the Mother Goddess.
• Bethel explained that many Great Old Ones had stayed away from Earth because of their interests and limitations, and described how his cosmic travels had led to his corruption by the Mother Goddess of Depravity.
• Angel asked Bethel about the Outer Deities’ authorities and symbols, and he explained how the Son of Chaos had been split into the Uncertain Mist and the Genie.
• Bethel described the Mother Tree of Desire and the Mother Goddess of Depravity, including the latter’s status as a pillar tied to reality, reproduction, and the original sin of chaos.
• Bethel outlined the powers of the Goddess of fate, the High-Dimensional Overseer, the Inextinguishable Ravings, the Primordial Hunger, the Monarch of Decay, the Circle of Inevitability, and the Supernova Dominator.
• Angel and Klein realized how difficult the Great Old Ones would be to oppose, especially if the Supernova Dominator destroyed Earth when the barrier fell.

Angel returned from meeting Bethel Abraham and went to Backlund to inform the Evernight Goddess about the Outer Deities, but first she reunited with Audrey at the charity fund office. The chapter ended with Angel asking why Audrey had bought her former home, and Audrey revealing she had paid 3,500 pounds for it.

• Bethel Abraham returned to the Abraham stronghold, rejected the family's claim that he was still their pride, and invited them to continue following Mr. Fool.
• Angel left the Abraham base and decided to share Bethel's revelations about the Outer Deities with the Evernight Goddess.
• Angel visited her former residence at 8 Burningham Road and found her servants still maintaining the house for Christine.
• Angel went to the Loen Charity Student Aid Fund office, where Susie briefly transformed into Audrey and nearly licked her.
• Angel revealed herself to Audrey, isolated them in the Mirror World, and asked whether Audrey had renewed the lease or bought the house.
• Audrey said she had bought the house for Angel for 3,500 pounds.

Angel met with Audrey to discuss the house bought for her and the profits from her businesses, then prayed to the Evernight Goddess. The Goddess warned that a new Outer Deity had arrived and revealed that the universe had a hidden fourth pillar.

• Audrey told Angel that her house on Burningham Road cost 3,500 pounds and that her businesses were projected to earn over 300,000 pounds in profit that year.
• Audrey informed Angel that Saint Triss Church had opened in West Borough, and Angel asked about her progress with the Manipulator potion and Susie's advancement.
• Saint Anthony Stevenson met Angel at Saint Samuel Cathedral and explained that the churches now kept angels stationed in Backlund to guard against threats.
• Angel prayed in a quiet room and met the Evernight Goddess in a dream, where they discussed the Goddess of fate and the nine Great Old Ones.
• The Evernight Goddess reassured Angel that there was still time and revealed that the universe had a hidden fourth pillar.

The Evernight Goddess explained the fourth pillar’s apocalyptic symbolism and how the threat of its formation could deter the Outer Deities from attacking Earth. Angel asked whether efforts to contact the Underworld Daoist and accommodate the River of Eternal Darkness had succeeded.

• Angel realized that a fourth pillar would require the symbolism of the end of all things, alongside destruction and the River of Eternal Darkness.
• The Evernight Goddess explained that forming the fourth pillar would either cause it to split apart or drag the universe into destruction and oblivion.
• The Evernight Goddess revealed that the Ancient Sun God had planned to kill God Almighty within himself and take his place, while using the fourth pillar’s emergence as a public pretext.
• Angel and the Evernight Goddess discussed how fear of the fourth pillar could make some Outer Deities hesitate to attack Earth.
• Angel asked whether the Evernight Goddess’s efforts to contact the Underworld Daoist and accommodate the River of Eternal Darkness, and the other gods’ efforts, had produced results.

Angel learned from the Evernight Goddess which Gods might become Great Old Ones and how the weakening barrier threatened them. The Goddess sent Angel to confront Blood Emperor Tudor, and Angel received news that the Demoness Sect had chosen to submit to her.

• The Evernight Goddess explained that the Western Continent's sealed sefirah prevented even well-prepared Gods from advancing to Great Old Ones, and described the God of Steam and Black Emperor's prospects.
• Angel asked about Farbauti and Lilith, and the Goddess revealed that both had survived the old era and that Lilith was increasingly vulnerable to the Mother Goddess of Depravity.
• The Evernight Goddess said the Gods' priority was helping Klein defeat Amon, while Angel resolved to seek the Hidden Sage to further her own advancement.
• The Evernight Goddess told Angel to enter the seal in the Nation of the Evernight and deal with Blood Emperor Tudor, who still possessed a Conqueror characteristic.
• After Angel returned to reality, Eugina prayed to tell her that the Demoness Sect had decided to submit to her.