Recaps

Alice and Klein discussed Anderson’s whereabouts and whether Alice could recruit believers for the Fool, then Alice used divination to find Anderson at St. Samuel Cathedral in Backlund. She returned Anderson’s Monocle and lifted his Doom, ending by teasing him with the name “Dolly Amon.”

• Alice asked Klein where Anderson had gone, and Klein admitted he did not know.
• Alice asked which Tarot card she should give Leonard if he questioned her, and Klein chose the Star card.
• Alice suggested turning the Fool’s potential believers into mindless devotees, but Klein rejected that kind of faith.
• Anderson traveled to Backlund and entered St. Samuel Cathedral wearing the Monocle, while Alice foresaw his arrival and went to meet him the next morning.
• Alice waved Anderson over, accepted his apology and the Monocle, and removed the Doom she had left on him.
• Alice put on the Monocle and told Anderson he could call her Amon, then joked that he could call her Dolly Amon.

Alice’s attempt to impersonate Amon in front of Anderson unexpectedly completed her advancement ritual, prompting her to ask Klein what made this occasion different. She and Klein suspected her explicit claim that she was Amon had invoked something connected to Amon’s authority, but His purpose remained unclear.

• Alice took back the Monocle from Anderson, called him “Anderson Amon,” and left him to prove his identity to the Church of Evernight.
• Amon’s avatars around the world echoed, “Welcome to join us, Dolly Amon,” while Alice celebrated with ice cream and named her Monocle “Lucky Star.”
• Klein agreed to meet Alice privately, and she visited him with ice cream to ask him to deduce what had changed about her latest impersonation of Amon.
• Alice realized that this time she had explicitly said she was Amon, unlike earlier occasions when others had merely inferred it from her disguise and behavior.
• Klein and Alice considered whether her words had triggered something tied to Amon’s Error authority, then speculated about what Amon might want from her.

Alice and Klein discussed why Amon might be interested in her, and Alice suspected He wanted to steal her Deification Ritual. She connected her fate to the will of the Key of Light, while Klein questioned her uncanny deductions; the conversation ended with him preparing to get her more ice cream.

• Alice concluded that Amon might seek her because her Deification Ritual could help Him become a god, and she speculated that He might steal it.
• Alice told Klein she believed she could take later Beyonder Characteristics without losing control, but might become the owner of the will within them.
• Alice privately considered whether the Key of Light had chosen her as a vessel for resurrection, though she could not explain those thoughts to Klein.
• Klein told Alice her conclusions seemed to arrive before their reasoning and warned her not to become a detective; they wondered whether an author was planting answers in her mind.
• Alice asked for more ice cream, and Klein instinctively agreed before realizing that leaving at that moment could fuel rumors about Dwayne Dantès and Alice.

Klein dealt with Alice’s mischief over ice cream while Edwina opened sealed artifact 0-34 and summoned Alice for help. Alice learned that the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom had sent the quill as a gift, then struggled to memorize the ritual needed to open its box.

• Klein hid Alice from Richardson, who noticed something unusual, and later Alice made Klein’s eaten ice cream reappear before reversing the trick.
• Edwina opened a sealed box aboard the Golden Dream, discovered the crimson quill 0-34, and stopped herself from touching it after sensing its danger.
• Edwina prayed to Alice, who traced the prayer to the box and appeared in the captain’s cabin.
• Edwina asked Alice to help seal 0-34, explained its ability to draw inevitable future calamities, and said the God of Knowledge and Wisdom had sent it as a gift.
• Alice asked how to open the box, then complained that Edwina’s supposedly simple instructions required too many incantations and gestures to memorize.

Alice used the Quill Pen Sealed Artifact “0-34” to draw a scene of her death, then discovered that the burned painting restored itself once before she destroyed it completely. She went to Archbishop Anthony to ask about the Church’s relationship with the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, after meeting Red Gloves captain Soest.

• Alice opened the box containing “0-34,” endured its freezing chill, and let the Quill Pen draw a painting of a white Great Serpent and a blonde girl in a tower scene she recognized from a shared dream.
• Alice realized that the dream had never shown her returning from death and suspected that someone had forced the idea into her mind, so she sealed “0-34” and burned the painting.
• The ashes of Alice’s painting reassembled into the image once, but she burned it again over a wastebasket and put away the Sealed Artifact.
• Alice visited Archbishop Anthony, where she waited as Soest, a Red Gloves captain, reported on returning Sealed Artifacts used in a Devil case.
• Anthony introduced Soest to Alice as a newly advanced Saint, and Alice greeted him before asking Anthony whether the Church had a good relationship with the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom.

Alice asked Archbishop Anthony for information about the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact 0-34 and for opportunities to act as a Misfortune Mage. Anthony proposed that she join the Church as clergy, and Alice began planning how to prepare while considering what the Church’s scriptures might reveal.

• Alice gave Anthony the box containing 0-34 and asked him to obtain its information from the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom; he agreed and explained that high-level Sealed Artifact records were protected by authorization.
• Alice asked Anthony to help her find opportunities to act as a Misfortune Mage, and she explained that acting could involve controlling misfortune or helping others dispel it.
• Alice reflected that fortune and misfortune depended on each other and that controlling probability did not mean controlling misfortune.
• Anthony said he could not place Alice in a Nighthawks or Red Gloves team as an ordinary member, then suggested she become clergy in the Church of Evernight.
• Alice agreed to consider becoming an ordinary clergyman and asked for training and a copy of the Church’s scriptures.

Alice obtained a Holy Bible from Archbishop Anthony and unexpectedly encountered Leonard, who was shaken by her return and her status as a Saint. After Leonard and the voice of the Old Man suspected that Alice’s Fate had been concealed, Alice returned home and watched the Holy Bible vanish after wondering whether the Goddess had been a transmigrator.

• Archbishop Anthony agreed to give Alice a copy of the Holy Bible, and Alice left his office without hiding her presence.
• Alice encountered Leonard and Soest, who introduced her as the Saint who had died in the Tingen City incident; Leonard formally greeted her, and Alice left with a Holy Bible.
• Leonard questioned the Old Man about Alice, and the Old Man said that nothing was wrong with her while warning that this was the greatest problem and that her Fate might be hidden.
• Leonard suspected someone had concealed Alice’s Fate, and he praised the Goddess after considering who might be responsible.
• Alice read poems in the Holy Bible at home and wondered whether the Goddess had been a transmigrator.
• The Holy Bible vanished from Alice’s table, and she tentatively called out to the Goddess.

Alice worried about being watched, sought a secure place for the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact “0-34,” and considered what she could tell Klein about the Goddess. Leonard began to suspect Alice might be connected to Klein’s apparent death and arranged to speak with her, while Alice left the Church carrying the artifact after discussing its storage with Archbishop Anthony.

• Alice tested whether Adam was watching her, then decided she could not safely store “0-34” in Klein’s Sefirah Castle and asked the Goddess if she could tell Klein that she was a transmigrator.
• Leonard reconsidered the events in Tingen and wondered whether Alice, like Klein, had survived after being presumed dead; Soest suggested he ask Alice for help returning there.
• Alice returned to the cathedral, gave Leonard her address, and then asked Archbishop Anthony to arrange storage for “0-34” behind Chanis Gate.
• Archbishop Anthony explained that a Sequence 4 Unshadowed could purify and extract lower-sequence characteristics, and suggested Alice bring such a person to the Church or recruit them as an informant or believer.
• Alice left the office carrying “0-34” and noticed Leonard was no longer in the hall.

Alice reunited with Leonard and revealed that she was Briel Rose, while hinting that she had become a being beyond ordinary mortals. She made Leonard draw The Star and directed him to contact the Fool, then went home and gleefully prayed that Klein’s secret had been exposed.

• Alice found Leonard waiting at her door and greeted him after realizing how distant she had become from mortals.
• Alice hinted to Leonard that she might become a True God whose name could bring doom, then made him draw The Star and called him Mr. Star.
• Alice told Leonard to recite the Fool’s honorific name with any questions and claimed that Evernight and the Fool were both her Blessed.
• Alice admitted that she had been Briel Rose and asked whether Leonard wanted to see if the Protagonist of the Era had crawled out of his grave.
• After returning home, Alice prayed to Mr. Fool that his secret had been exposed and lamented the cost of giving away tarot cards.

Leonard learned that Alice might be a powerful divine figure or a Great Being’s Blessed, while Alice told Klein she had met the Goddess, a fellow Transmigrator. Remembering the prophecy and Will Auceptin’s coming birth, Alice began assigning Klein tasks but worried that Will might attack him.

• Pallez warned Leonard to keep his distance from Alice and outlined several possibilities for her divine status; Leonard decided to return to Tingen City.
• Alice told Klein that Leonard had drawn her Star card and that she had met the Goddess, who was also a Transmigrator.
• Alice explained that the Goddess’s long divine life meant her brief human life might not define her, then described how she had learned the truth.
• Alice remembered Will Auceptin’s impending birth and considered whether her Honorific Name could help him locate her amid the danger posed by 0-34.
• Alice asked Klein to watch for Will’s birth, then hesitated and asked whether Will might attack him.

Alice considered Will Auceptin’s intentions, discussed where to keep a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, and observed church work before receiving new books from Archbishop Anthony. Meanwhile, Klein endured an intense course of social studies and etiquette, and the chapter ended as Cattleya reported that she had found one page of Roselle’s Diary.

• Alice reasoned that Will Auceptin likely would have harmed Klein already if he had targeted him, and asked whether she could leave a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact with him.
• Alice decided to ask Audrey about meeting at the next Tarot Club, then watched church clergy for three mornings to consider a job as a Misfortune Mage.
• Archbishop Anthony summoned Alice and exchanged the box containing 0-34 for a stack of newly revised Holy Bibles.
• Walter expanded Klein’s lessons to include history, politics, philosophy, music, and sports, while Alice admitted she had never learned aristocratic etiquette.
• Klein agreed to invite Alice to a banquet, and the Tarot Club meeting began with Cattleya reporting that she had collected one page of Roselle’s Diary.

At the Tarot Club meeting, Klein revealed that the figure in Roselle’s diary was Mr. Door, the source of Fors’s Full Moon Ravings. Alice arranged a counseling session with Audrey and sought help finding a Sun Pathway Sequence 4 characteristic, while Cattleya asked Fors for information about Mr. Door.

• Cattleya asked who besides Roselle was mentioned in the diary, and Alice jokingly claimed it was Mr. Fool.
• Klein identified the person as Mr. Door after Fors connected him to the Full Moon Ravings.
• Alice arranged to meet Audrey for paid counseling the next day and asked the club to find an Unshadowed or suitable Extraordinary Item.
• Alice explained that the item could help separate Beyonder Characteristics, then warned Emlyn that testing it by eating it could make him lose control.
• Cattleya offered to pay Fors for more information about Mr. Door, and Fors reconsidered keeping the information private.

At the Tarot Club, Fors shared what she knew about Mr. Door, while Alice experienced a terrifying vision tied to his cries for help. Alice warned Cattleya that Mr. Door was a King of Angels trapped in a dark storm and that summoning him could bring a dangerous presence back to Earth.

• Fors offered to tell Cattleya what she knew about Mr. Door, and Mr. Fool allowed her to continue after Alice objected to the information being sold.
• Fors explained that a Spirit World travel item had caused her to hear painful full-moon ravings from Mr. Door, who might be asking for help.
• As Fors described the ravings, Alice saw the crimson moon as a vast eye beginning to open, then was pulled back from the vision by the grayish-white mist.
• Alice warned Cattleya that her intuition suggested danger and explained that Mr. Door's apparent plea could lead someone to summon a threat from the moon.
• Alice told Cattleya that Mr. Door was a friendly King of Angels trapped in a pitch-black storm who hoped someone would bring him out.

Alice warned the Tarot Club that Mr. Door’s pleas might not be his own and that the Cosmos was dangerous to observe, then discussed Roselle’s possible resurrection with Klein. She left with Klein promising to send her the instructions for summoning a messenger.

• Alice described Mr. Door’s friendliness, prompting Cattleya to connect it to Amon and question whether Mr. Door was deceiving people.
• Alice revealed that she had seen the source trapping Mr. Door and warned that the full moon timing did not fit a genuine plea for help.
• Alice cautioned the Tarot Club not to look at the Cosmos before becoming an Angel, and Klein stopped the members from investigating further.
• Alice explained to Derrick that fallen stars became meteorites, and Alger described their dangers before Klein ended the gathering.
• Klein showed Alice Roselle’s diary and suggested that Roselle had switched to a non-adjacent pathway, possibly becoming the Black Emperor before using death to expel excess characteristics.
• Alice asked whether Roselle could return from his coffin and how to summon a messenger, and Klein agreed to send her the relevant instructions.

Alice summoned Reinette Tinekerr as a messenger, mistook her for an Angel working to pay for medical treatment, and apologized until Reinette left to complain to Klein. Alice tried summoning again and received a Seven-Colored Crow, which cheerfully warned her that she was going to die.

• Alice summoned Reinette Tinekerr and mistakenly believed she delivered letters to earn money for treating her neck.
• Reinette left Alice and appeared before Klein to ask how he had described her, then told him to teach his daughter properly.
• Alice decided Klein should apologize for her and began a second summoning after praying for a suitable messenger.
• A Seven-Colored Crow appeared before Alice and cheerfully told her she was going to die.

Alice contracted with a seven-colored crow she named Caw-Caw, then visited Klein and learned he planned to sell his bicycle company shares. Klein agreed to trade them for Alice’s Puppet Beyonder Characteristic after Sharron raised the money, just before visitors arrived at his home.

• Alice asked the seven-colored crow to be her messenger, signed a contract with it, and named it Caw-Caw.
• Alice tried to divine why Caw-Caw had come to her, but repeated visions of blinding light made her stop.
• Alice secretly visited Klein during a philosophy lesson and left him the message, “Metaphysics? If you can't handle it, drop out.”
• Klein discussed inviting Alice to his banquet, heard Walter explain the difficulties female servants faced, and instructed him to investigate buying Backlund Bicycle Company shares.
• Alice asked Klein to give her the bicycle company shares in exchange for the Puppet’s Beyonder Characteristic, and Klein agreed to wait until Sharron raised the money.
• Richardson told Klein that Mori Macht, Lady Liana, and Bishop Elektra had arrived, and Klein realized he had been holding his book upside down.

Klein hosted Councilman Mori Macht, Liana, and Bishop Electra while Alice joined the visit and claimed Electra was her boss. The guests invited Klein to a Moon Mass, and the visit ended with them discussing his supposed adventures in West Balam.

• Richardson explained that the neighbors could visit Klein during his announced afternoon hours, and said Electra had come after meeting Mori Macht.
• Alice appeared in the living room without using the door, joined the guests, and Electra introduced her as his boss's child.
• Electra invited Klein and Alice to a Moon Mass for the deceased, and Alice joked about attending as one of the dead.
• Klein and the Macht couple chatted about Desi Bay, and Klein offered to host a banquet while Alice introduced herself as Alice Kingsley.
• Klein recounted adventures in West Balam, and Alice asked whether Electra and Mori Macht were checking his stories for truth.

Alice mistook Councilman Mori Macht and his wife for rats wearing monocles, then reported that Will Auceptin had reincarnated inside Velma and asked the Church to handle the danger. After Will sensed danger and Velma was told she might give birth prematurely, Alice sought work in a confessional at St. Samuel's Church.

• Alice saw Councilman Mori Macht and Liana as rats wearing monocles and asked Bishop Electra to visit their home.
• Alice told Bishop Electra that Will Auceptin was growing inside Velma and gave him Doctor Allen's address, asking the Church to intervene.
• Velma suffered a brief abdominal pain, and Allen learned that Will had sensed danger and that Velma might give birth prematurely.
• Alice returned to St. Samuel's Church and asked Archbishop Anthony for work in a confessional.
• Archbishop Anthony tested Alice's response to a confession about theft, and Alice said God would forgive the thief before adding that her task was to send him to meet God.

Alice received Bernadette’s plea for help with a dangerous Soothsayer Sealed Artifact and traveled to her through a magical passage. After seeing its vision of the Great Serpent, Alice took the artifact to place behind Chanis Gate, then left it covered on her coffee table as she resisted the urge to eat it.

• Anthony suggested Alice clean the cathedral as a low-stakes task, but a letter from Bernadette arrived before they could continue.
• Bernadette’s letter explained that her Eye of the Prophet showed her a single future of her death and left her feeling watched.
• A rabbit folded from the letter led Alice through a passage to Bernadette, where Alice found the bloodshot eyeball covered on a dinner plate.
• Alice looked into the Eye of the Prophet and saw herself climbing the High Tower before the Great Serpent swallowed her.
• Alice brought the artifact to Anthony and asked him to report that she might place more Soothsayer Sealed Artifacts behind Chanis Gate.
• Alice set the covered plate on her coffee table, arranged a knife and fork beside it, and fled without eating the eyeball.

Alice considered her advancement to Sequence 3 and struggled to understand how to obtain the Chaos Walker auxiliary ingredient, “All Fragments of a Broken Prophecy.” After asking Bernadette whether Beyonder flesh could serve as an ingredient and receiving a warning not to eat people, she remembered her Honorific Name and read Mr. Fool’s reply about the taste of human flesh.

• Alice reconsidered her advancement, the possibility of taking a Chaos Walker characteristic from Will Onsetin’s subordinates, and whether Sealed Artifacts could help her digest her potion.
• Alice examined the Chaos Walker auxiliary ingredient and ritual but could not work out how to collect fragments of a broken prophecy.
• Alice wondered whether Beyonder flesh could be used as a potion ingredient, bit her own arm, and considered asking Klein, Anthony, Ouroboros, Amon, Adam, or Bernadette.
• Alice asked Bernadette, who confirmed that a Beyonder’s corpse could function as a lower-quality potion and filled her reply with warnings against eating people.
• Alice remembered her Honorific Name and received Mr. Fool’s reply that human flesh tasted sour and was not worth trying.

Alice asked Klein whether scrubbing toilets could help her digest her potion, then planned to act as a fortune teller. She attended the Moon Mass at St. Samuel's Church, where Klein donated generously and arranged to steal a notebook while Alice left the church.

• Alice asked Klein if volunteering to scrub toilets could help her act, and Klein suggested she use her fortune-teller appearance to set up a stall.
• Alice decided to advertise her fortune-telling with Pinyin and later commissioned a stick with embroidered words on white cloth.
• Alice attended the Moon Mass at St. Samuel's Church, sat beside Dwayne Dantès and Richardson, and secretly slept through part of the service.
• During the hymn, Alice saw the congregation and Klein become sorrowful, then watched Klein donate a large stack of banknotes.
• Alice chose not to donate, urged Klein to give Richardson a raise, and left while Klein arranged to read scripture with Bishop Electra as a pretext to steal a notebook.

Velma went into premature labor and briefly experienced a terrifying separation from her body before waking beside Aaron. Meanwhile, Alice considered contacting Ouroboros, heard Klein arrange a bounty for Lady Vahana’s stolen goods, and went to investigate Councilman Macht and Madam Liana at 39 Backlund Street.

• Velma’s labor began unexpectedly, and Aaron rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she delivered the baby smoothly before losing consciousness.
• Velma sensed herself drifting outside her body, saw blood-red eyes, and then awoke beside Aaron drenched in sweat.
• Alice regretted not getting Ouroboros’s contact information and decided to visit Councilman Mori Macht and Madam Liana.
• Klein offered a 200-pound reward to help Lady Vahana recover her husband’s stolen goods, and Alice envied his generosity.
• Alice asked Klein for the Macht couple’s address, declined his offer of tutoring, and arrived at 39 Backlund Street to search the house with her spirituality.

Alice visited Hazel Macht in her study, where a playful attempt to interact with Hazel’s mystical necklace caused a dangerous reaction that Alice reversed. After questioning Hazel about her teacher and Amon, Alice left Hazel with a vague warning that she would face a terrible High-Sequence conflict within the next month or two.

• Alice revealed herself to Hazel Macht and introduced herself as Miss Fortune.
• Hazel used her necklace against Alice, and Alice’s attempt to lend it a piece of misfortune caused Hazel’s body to sprout flesh buds before Alice rewound events to prevent the injury.
• Alice learned that Hazel was a Sequence 9 Marauder and questioned her about a monocle-wearing rat and her teacher, whom Alice suspected might be Amon.
• Hazel challenged Alice to find her teacher herself, angering Alice, who placed a trace of misfortune on Hazel and warned her about an upcoming High-Sequence conflict.
• Alice removed the barrier from Hazel’s study and disappeared, leaving Hazel to pick up her book and read.

Alice followed Hazel and discovered that the girl’s teacher was a weakened Marauder Demigod hiding in a rat’s body. When Hazel set out at night to search for treasure, Alice followed her into the sewers, where she crashed into Hazel and asked her to close the manhole cover.

• Alice marked Hazel and followed her to a room where a rat revealed itself as Hazel’s teacher, a Marauder Demigod.
• Hazel described her encounter with Miss Fortune, and the rat identified Alice as a newly advanced Saint of the Church of Evernight.
• The rat told Hazel she could skip the night’s treasure hunt if she was afraid, but Hazel insisted on going.
• After dinner, Hazel sneaked out at night and climbed through a manhole into the sewers, with Alice following her.
• Alice slipped down the sewer pipe and crashed into Hazel, then asked her to climb back up and close the manhole cover.

Alice questioned Hazel about a treasure and learned that Hazel could sense valuable things, then left her alive and returned home. Aaron told Alice about Velma’s dream of Will’s premature birth and spilled umbilical cord blood, leaving Alice intrigued by the possibility that the blood was valuable Mythical Creature Blood.

• Alice asked Hazel about the treasure, guessed that Hazel could locate valuable things, and considered whether to involve the Church, Amon, or the Angel on Leonard.
• Alice decided to leave Hazel’s problems to Klein, warned her about the Monocle, and disappeared from the sewer.
• Alice returned home and found Aaron waiting at her door after Velma had a nightmare.
• Aaron described Velma’s dream of Will being born prematurely and umbilical cord blood splattering everywhere.
• Alice suspected Will had sent Aaron to tell her about the dream and wondered whether she could obtain the blood, while Aaron realized she was anticipating the dream’s outcome.