Recaps

After Evelyn sent Alice a memory of Sylvia invoking Cassandra, Alice connected Sylvia to the mysterious book and the victims, but remained unsure whether Sylvia was a culprit or a puppet. Alice returned to the Golden Dream late and told Edwina she needed Potion Ingredients and money, prompting Edwina to ask what Grade 0 Sealed Artifact Alice had swallowed and why she still needed a Sequence 4 potion.

• Evelyn recalled Sylvia greeting her with “May Cassandra bless you” and sent the memory to Alice.
• After receiving Evelyn’s message the next day, Alice linked Cassandra’s book to Selwyn and the man who had prayed, while questioning Sylvia’s role.
• Alice realized she had missed class and returned to the Golden Dream, where Edwina asked whether she had originally approached her for Main Potion Ingredient information.
• Alice admitted she needed Potion Ingredients and money, then insisted her past deeds were not her doing.
• Edwina agreed to help and asked Alice what Grade 0 Sealed Artifact she had swallowed and why she still needed a Sequence 4 potion.

Alice avoided revealing the secret of the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact she had swallowed, then left Edwina after claiming that Dunn had long harbored feelings for her. Edwina recognized Alice’s story as an excuse and sent for Dunn.

• Alice told Edwina that the God of Knowledge and Wisdom would know about the secret, then admitted it might be forbidden by a God from being spread.
• Edwina invited Alice to return to the Golden Dream, and Alice felt sad about leaving someone who patiently listened to her.
• Alice claimed that Dunn had loved Edwina for a long time and had confessed to her while drunk, urging Edwina to consider him.
• Alice abruptly departed with an excuse, and Edwina told a Sailor to summon Dunn when he returned.

Alice considered ways to find potion ingredients and obtain information, but set aside her more troublesome ideas and asked the Church of the Goddess to lend her a Grade 2 Sealed Artifact. During a stretch of boredom, she wrote the final volume of her fantasy story, then finished reading the manuscripts and asked Adam for his opinion.

• Alice decided to seek a Misfortune Phantom and thought about using a mirror owned by the Church of Steam to locate one, but chose to pray at the cathedral and ask Archbishop Anthony for a Grade 2 Sealed Artifact.
• Archbishop Anthony agreed to arrange the loan with Machine Heart, and Alice left after wondering whether she could collect compensation by repeatedly joining and faking her death as a Nighthawk.
• While bored, Alice wrote the ending of her story, in which the Demon King discovered that her butler had used Geas to incite war between humans and demons.
• Alice finished reviewing the manuscripts and asked Adam what he thought.

Alice met the Sealed Artifact Arrodes beneath St. Samuel Church and began questioning it, then asked who was the most beautiful existence in the world. Arrodes was struck by lightning, leaving Alice and Anthony stunned.

• Alice called out to Adam for help, then decided to send her comic to the magazine publisher after Adam gave no clear response.
• Alice placed a commission with the Tarot Club to search for main potion ingredients and later received word from Archbishop Anthony that the Church and Machine Heart had finished negotiations.
• Alice met Sealed Artifact 2-111, Arrodes, and asked whether her opening question counted as one of its questions.
• Arrodes explained how it received its serial number, then asked Alice what 2-333 meant.
• Alice explained the number's old internet meaning, and Arrodes confirmed her answer before seemingly playing dead.
• Alice asked Arrodes who was the most beautiful existence in the world, and a bolt of lightning struck the mirror.

Alice questioned Arrodes about an ocean-blue book called Cassandra and learned it was acting as a Soothsayer. After Alice correctly identified an Amon avatar as the thief of the Church of Storms' donation box, Arrodes praised her with cheering stick figures, leaving Alice excitedly asking whether the mirror could use memes.

• Alice asked Arrodes who held the greatest authority over Beauty, but Arrodes refused to answer the dangerous question.
• Alice asked about the ocean-blue book called Cassandra, and Arrodes showed Sylvia Maloney holding it before explaining that the book was acting as a Soothsayer.
• Alice asked how Arrodes saw her nod despite having no eyes, and Arrodes answered with a flattering remark about her eyes.
• Arrodes asked who stole the Church of Storms' donation box, and Alice answered that an Amon avatar had taken it.
• Arrodes praised Alice's answer with cheering stick figures, and Alice asked whether the mirror could use memes.

Alice asked Arrodes how to obtain Misfortune Phantom spiritual dust and learned of several possible contacts, then discussed changing her Honorific Name and Arrodes’s request to return to Mr. Fool. The mirror gave her a rune to summon it in Backlund, and Alice asked whether it spied on Mr. Fool while he bathed.

• Alice asked Arrodes how she could obtain Misfortune Phantom spiritual dust, and the mirror showed her several people, organizations, and addresses that might help.
• Alice remembered that Amon had found her through her Honorific Name and decided she needed to change it before Will Auceptin was born.
• Arrodes asked Alice to take it to Mr. Fool, and Alice told it she would relay the request.
• Arrodes showed Alice a rune that would summon it in Backlund, and Alice asked if it peeped at Mr. Fool while he bathed.

Alice left after questioning Arrodes and began considering whom to approach for a trade. She asked Reinette Tinekerr to hunt a Misfortune Phantom and offered to provide charms that could temporarily restore Reinette's power if Reinette supplied the materials and performed the ritual.

• Alice asked Arrodes whether she preferred ice cream with crushed nuts or jam, and answered that she wanted both.
• Alice returned home and weighed the Church, Leonard, and Reinette Tinekerr as possible trade partners while ruling out several others.
• Alice summoned Reinette Tinekerr and asked about the trouble with her four independently speaking heads.
• Alice described the Misfortune Phantom and asked Reinette Tinekerr what payment she would require to hunt it.
• Reinette Tinekerr requested a way to temporarily restore her power, and Alice offered to provide charms if Reinette prepared the materials and ritual.

Alice named Reinette Tinekerr’s restorative talisman “Talk About It Tomorrow” and learned how a Misfortune Phantom could be defeated. After Alice’s awkward conversation with Reinette, the latter appeared to Klein and complained that his “daughter’s” family education had a serious problem.

• Reinette Tinekerr accepted Alice’s blame-shifting and asked about the ritual, so Alice sent her to ask Gehrman Sparrow.
• Alice named the talisman “Talk About It Tomorrow” and asked Reinette about Misfortune Phantoms.
• Reinette explained that Misfortune Phantoms could become indecisive when faced with similar habitats and that their bodies were unstable.
• Alice joked that the phantom had died from decision paralysis, then asked Reinette to put a spare head on her neck; Reinette vanished after Alice apologized.
• Reinette appeared to Klein while he was scrubbing toilets and said his daughter’s family education had a serious problem.
• Klein coughed, denied having a daughter, and said he would have beaten Alice if she were his daughter.

Alice explained her dealings with Reinette Tinekerr and Arrodes to Klein, then wondered whether she could claim compensation for her death. Her question reminded Klein of the family he could never safely acknowledge, but he found comfort in believing his compensation had not been wasted.

• Reinette Tinekerr demanded a gold coin from Klein for Alice’s unpaid visit, and Alice later questioned whether Klein meant her words or her failure to pay when he accused her of going too far.
• Above the Gray Fog, Alice told Klein that she was seeking Sequence 4 Potion Ingredients and shared Arrodes’s symbol for summoning it in Backlund.
• Alice told Klein that Arrodes had named Reinette Tinekerr as a clue to the Misfortune Phantom, and that Reinette had agreed to help kill one in return for a talisman.
• Alice asked who had collected her compensation after she died and whether she could claim it herself.
• Klein remembered that he could never acknowledge Benson and Melissa without endangering them, then said his compensation had at least not been wasted.

Klein helped Alice consider a new honorific name before Will Auceptin was born, while worrying about her past attempts to answer prayers. Alice described her fate-related abilities but kept her prophecy ability secret, leaving Klein to begin composing a name from what she had told him.

• Alice asked Klein to help her come up with a new honorific name before Will Auceptin was born.
• Klein criticized Alice for trying to leave the whole task to him and asked whether she had recently answered anyone's prayer.
• Alice explained that she had asked a frightened petitioner what help he needed, then stopped watching when he ran to a church.
• Klein praised Alice for asking what people wanted and asked her to identify deeds or abilities that could inform her honorific name.
• Alice said she had described how ice cream was made and explained her understanding of a Misfortune Mage's ability to manipulate probabilities, but concealed her prophecy ability.
• Klein considered Alice's explanation and remembered Admiral Emlyn's pants falling down in front of his younger brother.

Klein confronted Alice about using her Misfortune Mage powers to make his embarrassing mishaps certain, then warned her to consider whether she could handle the consequences of her pranks. Alice reflected on the miraculous survival of the St. Folsen’s passengers and crew and suspected that Adam’s goodwill might have influenced events, but chose not to investigate.

• Klein realized Alice had manipulated the probability of his embarrassing experiences while playing Admiral Emlyn, and Alice admitted she had set the probability to one hundred percent.
• Klein considered giving Alice a new Honored Name because she could not reclaim the Sequence 1 Beyonder Characteristic from Will Auceptin.
• Klein warned Alice that even guaranteed probabilities could not prevent accidents and urged her to think through the trouble her actions might cause.
• Alice recalled that the St. Folsen’s crew and passengers had survived, and that coincidences had spread news of her prophecy and brought her secret praise from their families.
• Alice suspected Adam’s goodwill might have shaped the events but decided not to divine about him or investigate.

Klein warned Alice to think about the consequences of her actions, but her spacing out and teasing about Arrodes watching him bathe led to a playful exchange. The chapter ended with Alice calling Klein her biological mother with no blood relation and explaining that mothers usually cared for children.

• Klein told Alice to consider whether she could clean up the mess before making decisions.
• Alice drifted off again, and Klein startled her by sneaking up and slapping her shoulder.
• Alice threatened to ask Arrodes for a live broadcast of Klein bathing, and Klein rapped her on the head and told her to eat ice cream.
• Alice asked what it felt like to be a man, prompting Klein to cover her mouth and warn her about inappropriate topics.
• Alice called Klein her biological mother with no blood relation, and said mothers were usually the ones who took care of children.

Alice watched a memory within the Misfortune Phantom and saw a girl endure her father’s abuse, lose her mother, and later witness her father sell her. The scene ended with Alice recognizing the girl as a child holding an Ocean Blue Covered Book.

• Klein chased Alice away, then began drafting an honorific name for her as the Creator of Happiness and Miracles.
• Alice met Reinette Tinekerr, finished her ice cream, and asked whether she had found the Misfortune Phantom.
• Alice caught the phantom’s glittering dust with her spirituality and saw a mother and daughter suffer under the drunken father’s abuse.
• Alice watched the mother die and the daughter bury her, then saw the father accept money from someone while the grown girl watched.
• Alice recognized the girl as a child holding an Ocean Blue Covered Book.

Alice witnessed the traumatic memory held in a Misfortune Phantom’s spiritual dust and ordered Reinette Tinekerr to prepare the ritual. Later, Reinette asked Klein how to make Alice’s “Talk About It Tomorrow” charm, and realized he was improvising the ritual as he explained it.

• Alice saw a girl flee her father, who attacked her with a cleaver before their house collapsed and injured her eye.
• Alice learned from Reinette Tinekerr that spiritual dust could reveal the tragedy that most strongly attracted a Misfortune Phantom, then told her to prepare the ritual.
• Reinette Tinekerr delivered materials to Alice and later told Klein how Alice had ignored her while eating ice cream.
• Reinette Tinekerr asked Klein about the ritual and materials for the “Talk About It Tomorrow” charm.
• Klein gradually invented and revised a ritual procedure, leading Reinette Tinekerr to suspect that Alice had made it up.

Alice reflected on Sylvia’s apparent past and wondered whether the Soothsayer acting method was connected to being a protagonist. The next morning, she recognized Winifred Grigori as the woman who had once bought her book and invited her over.

• After Reinette Tinekerr vanished, Klein realized she had noticed his improvised ritual and decided to speak sharply to Alice later.
• Alice identified the girl with the book as probably Sylvia and wondered whether Cassandra’s role as a Soothsayer was connected to a protagonist.
• Alice imagined writing bizarre rules in a Holy Bible, asked Adam about writing one, and apologized to the Goddess after her words were concealed.
• The next morning, Alice opened a letter from Winifred Grigori and recalled that Winifred had bought her book and invited her to meet.

Alice read Winifred Grigori’s letter about a mysterious guest and unusually neat copies of Roselle’s Notes, then decided to visit her. Before meeting Winifred, Alice secretly watched Klein clean toilets and rewound the scene, restoring his energy but undoing his work.

• Alice read Winifred’s letter about a guest who claimed the key to lifting the Veil of Fate lay in three pages of Roselle’s Notes.
• Alice realized that her neat copies might reveal she knew the script and decided to visit Winifred Grigori.
• Alice used the letter to locate Winifred’s manor, then postponed the visit and went to see Klein.
• Alice watched Klein finish cleaning a toilet and rewound the scene, restoring his energy while erasing his work.
• Klein shouted Alice’s name after discovering that the cleaning he had completed was gone.

Alice found Sylvia with the Ocean Blue Covered Book and read a message from a being who seemed to know her from a forgotten time. Sylvia and “Cassandra” disappeared before Alice could stop them, leaving Alice wondering about a prophecy in which she had apparently died.

• Alice revealed that she had found an opportunity for Klein to act in his Fate, then described a corpse and its surroundings to him.
• Alice searched the manor for “Cassandra” and found Sylvia drinking tea with the Ocean Blue Covered Book.
• Silver runes appeared on the book's pages, saying that its writer had seen Alice awaken again and had feared she died in her own Prophecy.
• Alice realized the writer knew her, but Sylvia and “Cassandra” disappeared before she could speak or keep the book.
• Alice concluded that “Cassandra” had led the two of them and wanted to greet her, then wondered what prophecy had foretold her death.

Alice discovered that Winfred’s people had been watching Sylvia, then left a strange message for Cassandra while imagining the Tarot Club as the cast of a harem novel. She shared the absurd theory with Klein, who ended the conversation by worrying about what the Key of Light’s previous owner had put in her mind.

• Alice realized that Winfred’s agents had been searching the room for Sylvia and decided against punishing Winfred directly.
• Alice considered making the room cursed, then wrote Cassandra’s Honorific Name beside a drawn eye and offered to help find more “protagonists.”
• Alice concluded that Klein was the lead of a story combining harem, romance, boys’ love, and all-character fanfiction tropes, and told him her theory.
• Klein challenged Alice’s theory and asked what she had read at school; Alice suggested the Key of Light’s previous owner might be responsible.
• Klein fell silent with concern for Alice, so she teased him by asking whether Amon was his female lead, prompting him to snap at her.

Klein teased Alice about identifying his destiny, and she eventually declared it was money. Their joking conversation turned to whether Alice had ever fought an Angel, prompting her to recall that Ince Zangwill had killed her once.

• Alice tried to comfort Klein by claiming she could tell him who his destiny was.
• When Klein asked who his destiny was, Alice successively named ice cream, sweet iced tea and Dixie pie, gold pounds, and finally money.
• Klein touched Alice's forehead, and she suspected he was checking whether she had a fever.
• Alice explained that harming an Angel would likely require authority and admitted she had barely fought anyone.
• Alice hesitantly recalled that Ince Zangwill had killed her once, and Klein reacted with disbelief that she had forgotten.

Alice considered Cassandra’s failed prophecy and struggled to write a reply to Winifred Grigori that sounded appropriately profound. Klein helped her realize she did not need to pretend to be an Angel because she truly was one.

• Alice told Klein she could kill Ince Zangwill once, and Klein pointed out that this would leave Ince dead for good.
• After leaving the Gray Fog, Alice remembered Winifred’s letter but set aside her plan to explain what Winifred had discovered.
• Alice wondered whether Cassandra had died after failing the ritual to advance from Soothsayer to Snake of Mercury.
• Alice tried to draft a profound-sounding reply to Winifred but found she could only write vague, mystical phrases.
• Klein told Alice to write what she wanted, and Alice realized she did not need to imitate a God because she was already an Angel.

Alice sent Winifred a cryptic reply, then spent Saturday planning a comic to distract herself from thinking about Amon. She drafted a romance about Amon and Leonard under fictional names and titled it before promising herself she would destroy the draft.

• Alice replied to Winifred with a warning about curiosity and an old witch named Cassandra.
• Alice considered what she wanted in a pope and thought of Amon, then decided to draw a comic to keep her mind occupied.
• Alice chose Amon and Leonard as the models for a substitute-lover story, giving them the nicknames Crow and Poet.
• Alice designed Leonard as a girl and Amon as a humanoid crow, then titled the comic “Poems Under the Shadow of Crows: Interwoven Melody of Love and Lies.”

Alice used Arrodes to learn about the Marauder Angel parasitizing Leonard and asked whether the Zoroast Family had consisted of one person like Amon’s family. She decided she wanted to free Arrodes for herself, but the mirror had to leave when the Machinery Hivemind summoned it.

• Alice summoned Arrodes through her mirror and asked who was parasitizing Leonard.
• Arrodes identified the Angel as a member of the Zoroast Family, and Alice asked whether the family had consisted of one person and their avatars like Amon’s.
• Arrodes said the Zoroast Family had more than one member and asked whether Alice had relayed its request to her great master.
• Alice told Arrodes she would find a way to redeem it, then said it should wait for Mr. Fool to come for it.
• The Machinery Hivemind summoned Arrodes, and it left while promising to await Alice’s next summons.

Alice watched Machine Heart members use Arrodes to investigate the paper bearing an honorific name, but Arrodes’s answers pointed to Alice and the Ocean Blue Covered Book. The mirror’s connection abruptly failed after the book challenged them to recite the name, leaving Alice alarmed by its resemblance to the earlier vision of “Cassandra.”

• Alice saw Deacon Iconther Bernard ask Arrodes who had left the paper, and Arrodes showed the Wheel of Fortune Tarot Card before asking Bernard about the man he had tried to please.
• Bernard answered that other people had always been beside the man, then asked where the paper’s writer was; Arrodes replied, “They are right here.”
• The Machine Heart member who wished to remain anonymous asked Arrodes a question and admitted that he would rather his wife have intimate contact with another man than experience it himself.
• Winfred Grigori asked who the honorific name belonged to, and Arrodes showed the Ocean Blue Covered Book, whose page invited them to try reciting it.
• Alice realized Arrodes’s image had vanished after the book’s silver eye appeared, recalling that the mirror’s earlier vision of “Cassandra” had also cut off after an eye appeared.

At the Tarot Club, Alger presented two pages of Roselle's Diary that Alice had secretly written, exposing her continuation of it to Klein. Alice admitted she wrote them, accepted Klein's warning to stop, and suggested Alger pray to her and try his luck at the casino to recover his loss.

• Alger told the Tarot Club that he had collected two pages of Roselle's Diary, and Klein ordered Alice to read them.
• Alice read entries praising the taste of an Iron-Blooded Knight and a Faceless, then cursed when she realized Klein had discovered she continued the diary.
• Alice admitted to Alger that she had written the pages, while the other Tarot Club members realized why Klein was displeased.
• Alger accepted responsibility for mistaking the copied diary, and Alice insisted he bear the loss because he had bought it.
• Klein told Alice to let this be the last time, and Alice suggested Alger pray to her and try the casino after he returned.

At the Tarot Club, Alice asked for information about Cassandra and other Sealed Artifacts from the Soothsayer pathway, but the members had little to offer. She ended by proposing an unusual doctrine for the Holy Bible, prompting the World to tease her about a past experience.

• Alice asked the Tarot Club whether anyone knew Cassandra or had information about Sealed Artifacts from a Soothsayer.
• Cattleya described the Eye of the Prophet, a bloodshot eyeball that showed possible futures, including one that guaranteed the viewer's death.
• Audrey asked what happened if the Eye showed only one future, and Cattleya said it would be the viewer's death.
• Alice admitted she knew little about Cassandra beyond what Klein knew, adding that Cassandra might be alive and knew her.
• Alice considered whether a Soothsayer's Acting Method worked better when fewer people knew about it, then stopped trying to figure out her sudden insight.
• Alice suggested making rules about empty trash cans, beds, and tables into Holy Bible doctrine, and the World teased her about wanting to repeat a past experience.