Recaps

Alice agreed that Klein would find a pirate to describe the Red Theater to her, then sold five copied diary pages to Ian and learned that someone had traced them back to her. The chapter left Alice heading home to eat and postponing her plans in Bayam until tomorrow.

• Klein suggested Alice disguise herself as a man to visit the Red Theater, but she refused, so he offered to find a pirate who had been there.
• Klein returned to the real world and asked Dunn whether he had visited the Red Theater.
• Alice sent her manuscript to the publisher, then brought five copies of diary pages and a 10-pound banknote to Ian at Bravehearts Bar.
• Ian revealed that someone had bought all five identical pages and later returned to ask where they came from.
• Alice told Ian not to sell identical pages to one person again, questioned why he played cards in the Billiard Room, and left to find dinner.

Alice received a strange same-day afternoon tea invitation from Winifred Grigori and read an uneasy letter from Evelyn while preparing to leave for Bayam. She briefly contacted Amon, who asked who had stolen the Church of Storms' donation box, but Alice avoided answering.

• Alice found an unexpected invitation in her mailbox and read the newspaper while eating breakfast.
• Alice put on a Monocle and tried unsuccessfully to pick a lock with a strand of hair.
• Alice prayed to Amon about her failed attempt, and Amon offered to give her hair while asking who stole the Church of Storms' donation box.
• Alice opened the invitation from Winifred Grigori and decided to attend the afternoon tea at a manor in the suburbs of Empress Borough.
• Alice read Evelyn's letter expressing unease and promising a surprise, then decided not to reply.

Alice met Winifred Grigori, who had bought the five pages of Roselle’s notes, and their conversation exposed Alice’s distance from ordinary human perspectives. Winifred asked whether they were friends, and Alice tentatively agreed before preparing to leave.

• Alice followed the invitation to Winifred’s manor and recognized her as the Beyonder who had once pretended to be robbed in the East District.
• Winifred confronted Alice about selling five identical pages of Roselle’s notes, and Alice claimed a thief had left the pages at her home.
• Alice told Winifred that the thief was a wanted criminal who had stolen the Church of Storms’ Donation Box, then denied being that criminal herself.
• Winifred called Alice arrogant, prompting Alice to realize she had never subconsciously considered herself human.
• Winifred asked whether she and Alice were friends, and Alice said they could perhaps be friends for now.

Alice traveled to Pritz Harbor to board a Church of Storms ship to Bayam, reflecting on Amon and the strange increase and stagnation of her luck. After a coin landed on King's Side, she took it as confirmation and boarded the St. Folsen.

• Alice checked the harbor notices and found no ships leaving for Bayam that day, then considered but rejected summoning Amon aboard the St. Folsen.
• Alice read that several Churches had banned Monocles and considered making Amon a banner before deciding she could not safely summon him.
• Alice boarded the Church of Storms passenger ship St. Folsen at Rose Dock, wondering whether its cannons could protect it from Beyonders.
• Alice sensed that her accumulated luck had stalled after she decided to go to Bayam and felt that the outcome might already be Predetermined.
• Alice looked toward Backlund and Tingen City, asked whether she would have a good ending, and took the coin landing on King's Side as an affirmative answer before boarding.

Alice traveled first class aboard the St. Folsen, endured several days at sea, and arrived at Damir Harbor. After disembarking, she tried the harbor’s famous cured meat and discovered it carried a faint aura from the Spirit World.

• Alice chose a First Class ticket and boarded the St. Folsen in her original appearance, with a veil covering her face.
• Alice spent her time aboard staring at the sea, playing Chess, and recovering after a Fishman jumped from the water and was killed.
• The St. Folsen entered Damir Harbor, where Alice disembarked during its overnight stop.
• Alice learned that Damir Harbor’s cured meat was smoked by natural hot winds near an extinct volcano and ordered a serving.
• Alice used Spirit Vision to inspect the cured meat, then tasted it and began eating a second slice.

Alice ate cured meat at a port restaurant, speculated about the Sunken Laurel, and worried about the food on long sea voyages. She returned to her ship after imagining fish with many different flavors.

• Alice considered making money through gambling and salvaging the Sunken Laurel, but suspected the wreck had a dangerous secret.
• Alice finished the cured meat, wondered whether Amon could steal food from someone's stomach, and left the restaurant.
• Alice realized that ships on the route to Bayam stopped at Damir Harbor and Tiana Harbor to restock provisions.
• Alice imagined fish with flavors like milk, beef, and bread, then returned to the ship.

Alice received a letter from Bernadette asking what kind of god the Fool was, then wondered whether Cattleya had revealed Tarot Club secrets. After suppressing her violent thoughts and reflecting on the different sides of herself, Alice asked the Fool to investigate Cattleya and teach her a lesson.

• Alice found Bernadette's letter at breakfast and later read her question about what kind of god the Fool was.
• Alice replied by asking whether Bernadette had decided to pray to the Fool, and Bernadette's messenger immediately collected the letter.
• Alice recalled Cattleya's intense reaction to Roselle's Diary and suspected she had disclosed Tarot Club secrets to Bernadette.
• Alice suppressed her urge to kill Cattleya and considered how her childish, death-indifferent side related to Shen Yinghuan and herself.
• Alice gave the ship a Misfortune Buff and prayed to the Fool to investigate Cattleya and teach her a lesson.

Alice warned Cattleya that Bernadette would have to pay for any information she wanted, then turned the Tarot Club’s attention to her boredom aboard the ship. The chapter ended with Klein asking whether Alice had been too bored lately, and Alice insisting she would not go to school.

• Klein confirmed that Cattleya had contacted Bernadette after the Tarot Club meeting and sent Cattleya the latter half of Alice’s prayer.
• Cattleya realized that Mr. Fool’s warning meant he might let Alice make trouble for her.
• Alice greeted Cattleya at the Tarot Club and warned her to tell Bernadette that learning anything from Alice would come at a price.
• Alice asked whether a Sequence ability could let someone taste food without getting full, and the Tarot Club members could not answer.
• Klein had the World ask whether Alice had been too bored lately, and Alice denied it before insisting she would not go to school.

Alice reassured Cattleya that someone else would face her before she did, then reflected on her uncertain relationship with humanity. As the Tarot Club members shared their lack of progress, Alice commissioned Derrick to gather information on the Doomsday Wolf, and Derrick reported that he had found the method World wanted.

• Alice told Cattleya that someone else would be ahead of her if Alice wanted to settle accounts, easing Cattleya’s worries.
• Alice told Cattleya she could stay silent about their relationship, then reflected that she could love humans without being human herself.
• Audrey, Fors, and Derrick each apologized for making little progress on their respective tasks.
• Alice asked Derrick to gather information on the Doomsday Wolf as a paid personal commission, and he agreed to consider what payment he wanted.
• Derrick told World that he had obtained the method for separating a Rampager’s Mental Pollution from a Beyonder Characteristic.

At the Tarot Club meeting, Alice and the World traded barbs while the members discussed Amon and Adam, the two Sons of the Creator. Cattleya struggled to understand Alice and the World’s familiarity, then warned herself that the gods could not be wrong about who the World was.

• Derrick offered Alger knowledge as thanks, prompting Alice to call the World “Mr. Clown” and spar with him.
• Cattleya confirmed that Amon was one of the two infants born from the Original Creator, and Audrey learned that the other was Adam.
• Alice warned the Tarot Club that Adam might be nearby if they mentioned him, then explained that she had once asked Amon about Adam’s married life.
• The World teased Alice about provoking Adam, and Alice threatened him in return.
• Cattleya reflected on Alice and the World’s close relationship, then suppressed her suspicions and accepted the World’s identity.

At the Tarot Club, the members discussed Groselle's Travels, possible trades, and the needs of the World and Cattleya. Alice hinted that something important would happen to her next week, then asked whether Earth Mother Beyonders could make fish taste like beef, leaving Cattleya pale.

• Cattleya thanked Alice for her warning, then told the World that an Unshadowed of the Sun Pathway could purify Mental Pollution from a Beyonder Characteristic.
• The World asked Derrick about Groselle's Travels and explained that the Dragon-created book had been linked to the disappearance of its owners; Alice warned that missing people in such stories were often found inside the book.
• Audrey asked about the book, while Alice discussed whether stories might be fiction, real accounts, or truths their creators mistook for inventions.
• Audrey asked the World about a Psychiatrist Beyonder Characteristic, and Cattleya asked Alice whether she could obtain angel's blood; Alice said she would look and asked what Cattleya could offer in return.
• Alice said they could discuss the exchange next week, and the World asked the club to help him find a powerful offensive Mystical Item; Cattleya agreed to watch for one.
• Alice asked whether Earth Mother Beyonders could make fish taste like beef, and Cattleya turned deathly pale.

Cattleya told Alice about a Church of the Earth Mother Beyonder whose attempt to crossbreed cattle and wheat earned him a tribunal, while Alice explained that her concern was the experiment’s possible consequences. The Tarot Club also discussed Bansi Harbor’s destruction and Emlyn’s advancement to Baron, which Alice celebrated with sarcasm.

• Cattleya described how the Church of the Earth Mother condemned a Beyonder who tried to crossbreed a bull, a cow, and wheat, and Alice feared what other creatures his experiments might produce.
• Cattleya suggested Alice’s plans could have uncontrollable consequences, but Alice replied that she was Fate.
• Klein reported that the Church of Storms had acted and that Bansi Harbor would no longer exist for a time; Alger said only high-level church members likely knew the details.
• Emlyn announced that he had become a Baron and asked whether Sanguine needed to use the Acting Method to digest Beyonder Characteristics.
• Alice sarcastically praised Emlyn as an astonishingly young Sanguine, making Fors laugh.

At the Tarot Club, Cattleya explained the Moon pathway while Alice teased Emlyn and privately joked with Klein about the Fool's name. After the meeting, Alice resumed her voyage toward Bayam, though the doom she had picked up had yet to show itself.

• Cattleya confirmed that Emlyn's Sanguine Baron Sequence was Sequence 6, and explained that the Moon pathway included Vampire as Sequence 7.
• Cattleya listed the Moon pathway's Sequences and explained that their abilities reflected different domains of the Moon.
• Alice privately asked Klein whether the Fool could also be called an idiot, prompting him to threaten to beat her up.
• The Tarot Club meeting ended, and Alice continued sailing toward Bayam while the sea remained calm.

Alice arrived in Bayam and reunited with Klein and Dunn, whose confusion about Alice’s identity and relationship with Klein became the target of her teasing. The three continued together, with Alice and Klein trading jokes about who would make a better Provoker.

• Alice disembarked in Bayam and found Klein waiting for her.
• Alice asked Klein whether he had kidnapped Dunn, a pirate who had visited the Red Theater, for her, and Dunn learned that Alice was Klein’s friend.
• Dunn was shocked to discover Alice was a young woman, a Sequence 5, and someone who had killed a Demigod.
• Alice teased Dunn about being secretly in love with Klein and then pressed him to reveal whom he liked.
• Klein intervened and said Alice was more suited to be a Provoker, and Alice replied that he would probably get beaten to death if he drank the Potion.

Alice and Klein went to investigate a grocery store near the Red Theater, where Alice claimed the School of Life had hidden a grade 0 Sealed Artifact: a Uniqueness. After Alice spotted the apothecary from her dream, she asked Klein to disguise himself as him, but when he could not, she sincerely asked whether she looked like the apothecary.

• Alice teased Dunn about being a Provoker and then treated him as a valuable bounty worth 5,500 pounds.
• Klein explained that he had brought Dunn because Dunn had visited the Red Theater and because Klein feared he might hit Alice if she kept talking to him.
• Alice told Klein that the School of Life had placed a Uniqueness in a grocery store near the Red Theater.
• Alice recognized the Fat Apothecary's herb shop from her dream and asked Klein to disguise himself as the apothecary, but Klein said he could not imitate his size.
• Alice asked Klein whether she looked like the apothecary, and Klein agreed that they looked identical.

Alice bought a ring box containing a milky white six-sided die, then touched the die and seemed to become inhabited by an unfamiliar presence. Klein was left frozen in terror as the presence spoke through Alice, while Velma suffered sudden pain at home.

• Alice bought the ring box from Lady Daly for one pound and delayed opening it so she could eat with Klein.
• Alice joked about making Klein pay and considered robbing churches and secret organizations before they eventually split the bill.
• Velma suffered painful episodes at dinner, and Allen worried about the baby in her belly.
• Back at the hotel, Alice opened the box and found the six-sided die from her dream, showing six red pips.
• Alice touched the die, which vanished, and Klein became unable to move as Alice asked what possessing a human body felt like.

After Alice's prank left Klein furious, she realized the Dice of Probability had returned something that once belonged to her and began piecing together her fragmented memories. As she recalled how Will Auceptin had awakened her and persuaded her to help him advance, Amon appeared and asked whether she would thank him.

• Alice revealed that her apparent distress had been a prank, and Klein coldly told her it was not funny before leaving.
• Alice realized the vanished Dice of Probability had returned a lost part of her, though her emotions and memories remained fragmented.
• Alice recalled that Will Auceptin had awakened her, become her friend, and promised she could taste ice cream if she helped him reach Sequence 1.
• Alice remembered believing Will's promise and helping him advance, but could not recall what happened afterward.
• Alice heard prayers, recognized Amon by his familiar clothes, and heard him ask, "Won't you thank me?"

Amon found Alice and explained that her empowered state had hidden complications, while teasing her about treating her like a pet and claiming he liked her. Alice reflected on her distance from humanity and questioned her Honorific Name, and Amon ended by suggesting a connection between it and his own title, “Shadow Roaming Fate.”

• Alice asked whether Amon could have found her if she had not answered, and he replied that he was the Incarnation of Deceit.
• Alice asked how long her current state would last, but Amon refused to explain what was wrong with it.
• Amon told Alice he liked her and admitted he treated her as something more entertaining than a pet.
• Alice said she had never truly considered herself human and doubted that gods and mortals were equal in soul or emotion.
• Amon revealed that he knew Alice’s Honorific Name and suggested she remember his title, “Shadow Roaming Fate.”

After Amon left, Alice considered her feelings about him and Klein, then sensed a distant connection pointing toward the Western Continent. She examined her new status and powers, but discovered that knowledge held in the Uniqueness differed from potion knowledge, leaving her worried about how it might affect her future.

• Alice refused to change her Honorific Name, offered Amon the title of an intimate friend, and sent him away.
• Alice reflected that Amon had listened to her more patiently than Klein and wondered whether Klein would hear her out.
• Alice sensed a faint connection to the Western Continent and considered her status as something like a living Uniqueness.
• Alice assessed her need to learn her new powers and gather Beyonder Characteristics, while doubting she could defeat Will Auceptin or Ouroboros.
• Alice realized that she resented Will Auceptin for disrespecting Fate and found that the Uniqueness's knowledge of the Sequence 7 Lucky One and Sequence 5 Winner differed from potion knowledge.
• Alice worried that the altered knowledge might have contributed to her death at Ince Zangwill's hands and resolved to investigate by drinking the potions.

Alice apologized to Klein for frightening him, then met a projection of the Goddess of the Evernight in a dream and learned more about her past and the fate of the Key of Light. She worried that Klein would undergo a similar transformation as he advanced, and asked whether he could avoid it by separating Castle of Origin.

• Alice prayed to Klein and apologized for joking about putting herself in danger, and Klein replied, "I know."
• Alice waited anxiously for Klein's forgiveness, then drifted into a dream filled with night-scented herbs and deep sleep flowers.
• The Goddess of the Evernight appeared and recalled Alice's earlier claim that she would return as an Incarnation of Fate.
• The Goddess told Alice that she had once described nearly drowning in a river of light and seizing a key before her consciousness dispersed.
• Alice wondered whether she had always been the consciousness that fused with the Key of Light, then asked whether Klein would eventually become like her.
• Alice asked whether Klein could avoid that fate by not advancing, as long as Castle of Origin could be separated.

Alice learned that the Apocalypse might be avoided by choosing Amon as the Lord of Mysteries, and wondered whether she had returned to this world from an earlier life. After dreaming that St. Folsen sank in a sea disaster, she reached the docks and declared that everyone aboard would survive.

• Alice questioned whether she had come from the civilization before the First Epoch and considered whether her return explained the gaps in Huanhuan's memories and her drowning experiences.
• The figure warned Alice that the knowledge carried contamination, and Alice woke near dawn before deciding to go back to sleep.
• Alice dreamed that a giant tentacle destroyed St. Folsen and swept its passengers into the sea.
• Alice used her Chaos Walker ability to travel to an alley near the docks and reflected on the Fate pathway's risks of losing control and emotion.
• At the ticket office, Alice learned St. Folsen had already left harbor and predicted that it would sink, but everyone aboard would be rescued unharmed.

Alice left the docks after giving the St. Folsen passengers a prophecy, then unexpectedly entered the gathering Above the Gray Fog by opening a mysterious door of light. She gave the Tarot Club her honorific name and asked Cattleya to spread it, leaving the others to wonder how to pray to her.

• Alice left the Ticket Office, reflected on the prophecy she had given the St. Folsen passengers, and headed into Bayam.
• Klein tried to summon the Tarot Club but found that Alice’s spirituality touched the door of light; she formed an illusory key unsuccessfully, knocked twice, and opened the door herself.
• Alice arrived late at the Tarot Club, apologized to Mr. Fool, and asked why the gathering had chairs instead of sofas.
• Cattleya asked Alice what payment she wanted, and Alice told her to spread her name.
• Alice gave the Tarot Club her honorific name: “The Forever Pure Child, The Incarnation of Fortune and Miracles, The Origin of Calamity and Chaos.”
• Derrick asked whether Alice would receive his prayers, and Alice told him to try; when Audrey asked about prayer rituals, Alice suggested that she arrange something herself.

Alice asked Cattleya to design a ritual and help develop her faith, while Tarot Club members discussed trades and the City of Silver. The chapter ended with Alice suggesting Derrick had become a useful piece in a dangerous political gamble.

• Alice asked Cattleya to design a ritual, but could offer no doctrines or known deeds to guide her.
• Cattleya requested a lead on a demigod-level Mystical Item, and Alice offered herself before the World warned that her negative effects were not bearable.
• Alger sought the Ocean Songster potion formula, while Cattleya agreed to look for it and asked him for a lead on a suitable Mystical Item.
• Derrick reported that Elder Lovia had been released, and Fors deduced that the chief had freed her after the Exploration Team’s search for an exit depended on the True Creator’s power.
• Alice and Alger argued that Lovia’s release could make Derrick safer, and Alice told him he was now qualified to be a chess piece.

Alger explained how Derrick’s Chief was protecting him while balancing the threat of the True Creator, and Alice warned that the City of Silver could be destroyed. The Tarot Club’s discussion turned to Alice’s relationship with Amon and how Derrick and Alice had been possessed by him, leaving Cattleya asking how those possessions had been resolved.

• Alger explained that Derrick’s exposure of the conspiracy and past possession by Amon made the Chief more likely to protect him while hedging against the True Creator.
• Derrick asked whether the City of Silver could be destroyed, and Alice warned him that the True Creator could devastate a nearby city and that he should be grateful to Mr. Fool.
• Alice apologized after joking about Derrick’s fears, then asked him to call her the great Miss Fortune.
• Cattleya asked whether Alice and Amon were friends, and Alice said they had fun together but that she had once wanted to kill him.
• Cattleya asked about Derrick’s possession by Amon, and Alice revealed that she had been possessed too before Cattleya asked how it was resolved.

At a Tarot gathering, Alice explained how Amon had possessed her and Cattleya described the Kings of Angel and the Error Pathway. The group discussed the uses of a Worm of Time, and Alice decided to ask Amon in a letter whether one could be eaten.

• Cattleya asked Alice how Amon had possessed her, and Alice said he had tried to escape his fate through her.
• Alice explained that Amon was a former King of Angel and said he had once tried to steal her fate.
• Cattleya explained that the eight Kings of Angel surpassed Sequence 1 but fell short of true gods, and that the Marauder Pathway could deceive fate and cheat rules at high sequences.
• Audrey asked about the Worm of Time, and Cattleya said it could be used in rituals or to make high-level charms.
• Alice asked whether a Worm of Time could be eaten and how it might be cooked, leaving Cattleya speechless.
• Klein spoke through the World and suggested Alice ask Amon in a letter, and Alice agreed that writing would be safer than asking him face-to-face.