Recaps

Alice explained that Amon's avatar had become a soulless shell after losing its connection to the main body, then discussed a Paper Crane connected to Will Auceptin with Klein. The chapter left Alice considering giving the Paper Crane to Amon and returning to the area where the ice cream stall had once stood.

• Alice told Klein that Amon's avatar had lost its soul and connection to the main body, and claimed the empty body as hers.
• Klein gave Alice a Paper Crane and explained that Doctor Aaron had received it from Will Auceptin after dreaming of Will being pursued by a Silver-White Great Serpent.
• Alice concluded that Will Auceptin had gone to be reborn in a uterus and warned Klein that the Paper Crane could let Will find or watch him.
• Alice suggested she might give the Paper Crane to Amon the next time they met, prompting Klein to suspect Amon enjoyed playing with her.
• The next day, Alice visited the former ice cream stall's location, found it gone, and joined the customers at similar stalls.

At the Tarot Club, Alice revealed that she had taken a monocle from an Amon avatar and planned to send a gift to the Angel of Time. She also told Derrick to stop searching for Charlie King and offered a dangerous Fortune Accessory for sale to settle a 200-pound debt.

• Alice greeted the Tarot Club wearing a monocle, then said she had peeled it off an Amon avatar's corpse.
• Alger exchanged three pages of Roselle's Diary for a private explanation of the card beside Mr. Fool.
• Alice said Amon's avatar had stolen something it should not have and asked Derrick to hold a bestowal-requesting ritual near the City of Silver.
• Alice told Derrick that he no longer needed to search for Charlie King because Charlie was already dead.
• Alice offered the Fortune Accessory for 200 pounds and explained that its luck-enhancing effect could eventually turn the owner's wealth, Beyonder Characteristic, or life into a price to pay.

During the Tarot Club meeting, Derrick recounted an unsettling encounter with a Rampager in the City of Silver, while Alice recalled a fragment of her past involving Will Auceptin and Ouroboros. The conversation left Alice closer to understanding her history but still missing key answers.

• Alice asked Derrick what happened after he returned to the City of Silver, and he described the former captain appearing behind him and saying, “Hehe, I've been found∽”
• Alger questioned how the City of Silver had kept the dangerous Rampager contained, and Alice said Amon was “Number One Below True Gods.”
• When Alice tried to explain why Amon was called the Angel of Time, a memory surfaced of someone asking her to help him escape Ouroboros, who had set his sights on him.
• Alice inferred that the speaker might have been Will Auceptin and that they had known each other, but she told Alger to wait for an answer about Amon.
• Fors asked how Derrick had survived, and Alger deduced that the City of Silver’s leaders had allowed people to approach the Rampager to observe him; Derrick confirmed that the Chief had arrived and used a Mystical Item to deal with him.

At the Tarot Club, Derrick explained that an Amon avatar had appeared in his room and lost control after Mr. Fool summoned him to a gathering. Alice warned the members about Amon and suggested a dangerous way to fight Him before Derrick recounted what happened after his Chief rescued him.

• Derrick told the Tarot Club that an Amon avatar had appeared in his room with its head split open and mouths covering the cracks in its body.
• Derrick said the Chief had concluded Amon reacted to Mr. Fool pulling him into the gathering, rather than to his Sun pathway.
• Alice showed the members Amon's appearance and advised them to draw His interest if He had no reason to kill them, or kill themselves if He did.
• Alice suggested Alger might invoke Lord of Storms's True Name to bring down lightning on himself and Amon, shocking the Tarot Club members.
• Klein asked whether a gentler God's True Name could be used, and Alice apologized after nearly implying that Mr. Fool's name might turn someone into an idiot.
• Derrick said his Chief had explained that the attacker was only an Amon avatar, told him why he had arranged for Derrick to live next door, and sent him home after checking him.

Derrick recounted how Mr. Fool helped purify Amon’s avatar, prompting the Tarot Club to worry that Derrick’s Chief had noticed his unusual behavior. The gathering ended with Mr. Fool identifying the dead worm Derrick had coughed up as a ritual ingredient.

• Alice questioned Derrick about being sent home alone after his frightening encounter, and Alger steered him back to recounting what happened.
• Derrick said he had prayed to Mr. Fool, leading Alice to warn that his Chief might have been monitoring him; Alger said the Chief would likely suspect Amon’s influence but not the Tarot Club.
• Alice revealed that Amon had possessed her too, startling the others when she appeared to adjust her Monocle like Amon.
• Derrick explained that Mr. Fool had taught him a ritual and sent an Angel to purify Amon’s avatar, surprising Alice and the other members.
• Derrick manifested a translucent worm with twelve rings; Alger identified it as the likely vessel Amon used to create avatars and said it was also called the Worm of Time.
• Mr. Fool said the dead worm was the main ingredient for certain rituals.

At the Tarot Club, Derrick reported that the returning Exploration Team had changed, and Alger advised him on how to expose the members’ abnormalities using an item tainted by the True Creator. Audrey then described the Hero Bandit Black Emperor’s raid on Capim, while Mr. Fool revealed that his Blessed had acquired two Extraordinary characteristics and wanted to sell them.

• Derrick told the Tarot Club that members of Elder Lovia’s Exploration Team had returned from the Fallen Creator’s temple with altered personalities, and Alger warned they might be contaminated or converted.
• Alger advised Derrick to alert the Council of Six and proposed using an item containing the True Creator’s Mental Pollution to reveal the team’s abnormalities.
• The World offered to lend Derrick the item in exchange for materials and a method related to removing Mental Pollution, and Alger explained how to use it.
• Audrey recounted how the Hero Bandit Black Emperor killed Capim, rescued the imprisoned young girls, and took valuables from his safe.
• Mr. Fool said his Blessed had obtained Sheriff and Interrogator Residual Traits and wanted to sell them.

At the Tarot Club, Audrey explained Extraordinary Residual Traits, and Klein taught the members about dates. Afterward, Alice prepared a teasing gift for Amon, which Klein received and read above the Gray Fog, leaving him worried about what Amon might do.

• Fors asked what an Extraordinary's Residual Trait was, and Alice offered to pay for an answer with two chapters of Spirit World Observations.
• Audrey explained that Beyonder traits were conserved within similar Pathways and could be used as Potion ingredients, except for dangerous traits left by Rampagers.
• Klein taught the Tarot Club members the section about dates while Alger considered trying to make Alice happy to learn more from her.
• Alice prepared a Message in a Bottle for Amon using the empty bottle that had held the Provoker Potion, and planned to send the avatar along with it.
• Klein received Alice's gift above the Gray Fog, read her teasing letter, and wondered whether Amon would like it or might try to kill her.

Alice answered Bernadette’s questions about Amon, resumed her paper-message exchange with Evelyn, and reflected on the identity she chose as Alice Kingsley. Later, she read Miss Magician’s Spirit World Observations and learned about the living, seven-colored lights in the Spirit World.

• Alice found Bernadette’s letters asking whether Hero Bandit “Black Emperor” was one of her people and warning that a dangerous presence had been near her, then sent a cryptic reply that mentioned the King of Angel.
• Alice summoned Bernadette’s messenger, felt the room turn cold as the envelope vanished, and decided not to attempt summoning her own messenger despite her curiosity.
• Alice resumed her hand-drawn QQ exchange with Evelyn and reflected that she cherished being Alice Kingsley, even as she recognized her own capacity to enjoy cruelty.
• Alice scolded her Fortune Accessory and ordered it not to cause trouble before she sold it.
• Alice read Miss Magician’s Spirit World Observations and learned that the Spirit World’s seven colored rays were living beings.

Alice read about Yellow Light Venitan’s prophecy of an apocalypse within two hundred years and wondered whether the Spirit World knew about the lost history before the First Epoch. Derrick stayed cautious under surveillance, while Amon noticed someone wearing his monocle and later Alice considered changing her Fortune Accessory to earrings.

• Alice learned from the Abraham Family traveler’s notebook that Venitan predicted a world-ending apocalypse within two hundred years, and she realized it was less than fifty years away.
• Derrick avoided holding a ritual, followed the Hanged Man’s advice, and encountered Elder Lovia while descending a staircase.
• Amon noticed that someone familiar had put on his monocle, gave up interfering, and played a card against another Amon.
• Alice slept in, read the newspaper over breakfast, and considered whether she could drink her potion once she had the ingredients.
• Alice straightened her Fortune Accessory in the mirror, then remarked that earrings suited her better.

Alice reflected on her careless treatment of the poor after speaking with a coachman, then followed Klein’s message to Green Cemetery. There, her dream divination revealed a severely decomposed child’s corpse buried beneath a birch tree, and she retched upon waking.

• Alice prayed at St. Samuel Church and wondered whether anyone would recognize Amon’s monocle.
• Alice asked a coachman what he would do if his carriage ran out of control, then realized how little she understood about the hardships of the poor.
• Alice recalled how she had dragged an ice cream vendor and a coachman into her conflict with Will Auceptin.
• Klein sent Alice the message “West Borough, Green Cemetery,” and she went to investigate the birch forest.
• Alice followed the directions of fallen branches and used Dream Divination beneath a birch tree.
• Alice saw a severely decomposed child’s corpse buried in the soil and began retching when she awoke.

Alice, Klein, and Doctor Aaron uncovered Will Auceptin’s buried corpse, and Aaron explained how his dream had led them to it. After the police questioned them, a Nighthawk asked Alice, who followed the Fate pathway, to help them.

• Alice told Klein and Doctor Aaron that Will Auceptin’s corpse lay beneath the tree and sent Aaron to fetch shovels.
• Klein and a Gravedigger dug up the corpse, and the Gravedigger fled while Aaron was horrified to see Will Auceptin.
• Klein, Aaron, and Alice prayed to the Evernight Goddess before the police questioned them.
• Klein described himself as a private detective, while Aaron recounted his dream and Alice said she had received a revelation from Fate.
• A blue-eyed Nighthawk questioned Alice and invited her to help, and she fell into deep thought.

Alice deflected the blue-eyed man's questions about her identity and the Devil Dog, then warned Doctor Aaron that his unborn child would bring catastrophe. Worried, Aaron hired Klein to investigate Alice and returned home to question his wife about her ice cream craving.

• The blue-eyed man offered Alice cooperation and informant fees, but she refused to explain how she had stayed awake in the Dream or why the Devil Dog fled.
• Alice hinted at her knowledge of the Nighthawks and warned the blue-eyed man that she could kill him, then left the interrogation room without answering his questions.
• Alice told Doctor Aaron that his unborn child would bring catastrophe, and Aaron asked Klein to investigate her for fifty pounds.
• Aaron returned home and questioned his wife about her half-eaten ice cream after she said the child had suddenly wanted some.

At Mr. A’s gathering, Fors learned that the Aurora Order was searching for believers in the Fool and realized the Honorific Name might have come from Viscount Glaint’s home. Klein heard Fors’s prayer and discussed the threat with Alice, who suggested the True Creator’s interest was hardly surprising.

• Mr. A asked the gathering to find people who believed in the Fool and warned members not to recite or write the Fool’s Honorific Name in certain languages.
• Fors recognized the Honorific Name and suspected that Viscount Glaint’s book had exposed it, while Glaint remained unaware of their concern.
• Klein heard Fors’s prayer, worried that the Aurora Order had discovered him, and told her not to worry.
• Klein relayed the news to Alice, who joked about the True Creator sending a Saint to kill him and said the True Creator’s search made sense after the divine child and Lanevus.

Klein and Alice discussed Mr. A’s search for Fool believers, Aaron’s commission to investigate Alice, and her complicated relationship with Will Auceptin. The next morning, Alice noticed Bernadette’s letter but set it aside, leaving its contents unread.

• Klein realized the True Creator had likely learned of the Fool through Little Sun’s recent ritual and discussed why Mr. A was seeking Fool believers with Alice.
• Alice wondered whether someone had previously searched for Fool believers at the gathering and Klein reminded her to warn Bernadette.
• Klein told Alice that Doctor Aaron had hired him for fifty pounds to investigate her, and Alice questioned what their friendship was worth.
• Alice considered giving Will Auceptin’s monocle to Aaron but abandoned the idea after Klein objected.
• Alice returned home, forgot about Bernadette’s situation, and set her letter aside while reading the newspaper at breakfast.

Alice visited St. Samuel Church and saw Leonard, while an unseen gaze watched her; later, she discovered Amon’s Provoker Potion might become an unusable Extraordinary Item and answered Bernadette’s question about the Fool and the True Creator. The chapter ended with Alice sending her reply by Bernadette’s unusual messenger, while Pallez reacted to Amon’s presence at the church.

• Alice saw Leonard enter St. Samuel Church and worried that their meeting might expose her or entangle him in her dangerous Fate.
• Alice noticed an unknown gaze watching her in the church, but it vanished along with Leonard before she could identify it.
• Alice realized Amon’s Provoker Potion could be absorbed by its bottle and become an unusable Extraordinary Item, then drew a chibi portrait of Amon on the bottle.
• Alice read Bernadette’s question about the Fool’s relationship with the True Creator and replied that the True Creator placed great importance on Mr. Fool.
• Alice summoned Bernadette’s messenger, watched the letter disappear without seeing the messenger, and wished she had one like it.
• Pallez wondered how Amon dared to come to a church to pray.

Doctor Aaron’s nightmares about Briel Rose and the fate of his family led him to visit Alice and ask about Will Auceptin. Alice wondered whether Will had guided Aaron to her, then invited him in and served him bitter coffee.

• Aaron received intelligence about Briel Rose and dreamed that she foretold catastrophe for his family, then saw his wife dead beside a golden-haired girl with a bloodied scalpel.
• Aaron recognized the girl in his nightmare as Briel Rose and went to visit Alice, asking her about Will Auceptin.
• Alice asked who had sent Aaron, and he insisted he had come on his own.
• Alice invited Aaron inside, opened a Spirituality Barrier, and served him coffee without sugar.

Aaron told Alice about his dream of two white serpents and Velma lying in a pool of blood, and recognized Alice as the girl who had warned him about the child. Alice asked him to choose between Will Auceptin and her, then offered to answer his questions.

• Aaron asked Alice whether true mysticism existed and described his dream of a dark spire, two white serpents, and Velma in a pool of blood.
• Alice suspected the serpents were the Snake of Mercury and Ouroboros, and connected the dream’s hidden corner to the Goddess’s Authority of Concealment.
• Aaron described the young girl in his dream, and Alice revealed herself as the golden-haired girl he had seen.
• Alice said her earlier warning about the child was probably now a threat and asked Aaron to choose between Will Auceptin and her.
• Aaron argued that Will had taken his child’s identity, and Alice invited him to ask whatever he wanted to know.

Aaron visited Alice to learn about Will Auceptin and discovered that gods and Beyonders were real, and that Will was a Sequence 1 rival of Alice. Alice warned Aaron to keep Will from noticing anything unusual and sent him away, leaving Aaron committed to his choice to seek her help rather than approach Ouroboros.

• Aaron asked Alice whether the child was Will Auceptin, and she confirmed it.
• Alice explained that gods existed, described Beyonders and their Sequences, and revealed that Will Auceptin was a Sequence 1 of her pathway.
• Alice warned Aaron that the bad luck he had experienced came from accidentally brushing against Doom and described how Doom could kill someone through seemingly harmless misfortune.
• Alice told Aaron not to let Will Auceptin notice anything unusual and said she would not be the one to die if a fight began.
• Aaron left Alice’s home, having chosen her over Will Auceptin and deciding he could not seek out Ouroboros.

Klein told Alice about the Twilight Hermit Order and its suspected role in Duke Negan’s assassination, while Alice connected the organization’s aim to awaken the true Creator with Amon’s revelations about Adam and the Writer pathway. The chapter left Alice questioning whether the world’s history had been shaped by someone writing stories into reality.

• Alice told Klein that Aaron had dreamed of Will Auceptin and that he had changed his commission to find people with abnormal luck.
• Klein warned Alice to keep Aaron from exposing himself to Will, while Alice hinted at a dangerous idea she could not carry out until Will was nearly born.
• Klein described the tomb he and Sharron had found, but Alice refused to visit because she might encounter Amon there.
• Klein told Alice about the Twilight Hermit Order and the events surrounding Duke Negan’s assassination.
• Alice recalled that Amon had described Adam as a Sequence 1 Writer who could make written stories come true, and connected this to the Twilight Hermit Order’s goal and the world’s history.

Klein and Alice discussed Adam, the Twilight Hermit Order, and the possibility of a world war, while Audrey learned that Duke Negan had been assassinated. The chapter ended with the Fool confirming that his Blessed was investigating the group behind the attack.

• Alice warned Klein not to mention Adam or the Twilight Hermit Order in the real world and admitted she had asked Amon whether Adam was a woman.
• Klein asked Alice what the era’s tide might be, and she guessed that a world war would follow the Industrial Revolution.
• Audrey sent Susie to eavesdrop and learned that Duke Negan had been killed by a Sequence 5 Devil, whom the Hero Bandit Black Emperor had silenced.
• Audrey prayed to the Fool and asked whether his Blessed had been at the scene.
• The Fool confirmed that his Blessed was investigating the organization that had ordered the Desire Apostle.

Audrey learned that a mysterious organization was planning an operation against Duke Negan and resolved to advance her Sequence to protect her family. At the Tarot Club meeting, she offered the reward for her Roselle’s Diary pages to Mr. Fool in thanks for Miss Fate’s warning, prompting Alice to object.

• Mr. Fool warned Audrey not to speak the name of an organization whose members learned whatever was spoken about it.
• Audrey reflected on Duke Negan’s assassination and resolved to advance quickly so she could protect her parents and brothers.
• Alice spent a peaceful weekend and examined the unruly Chibi Amon created by her Extraordinary Item.
• At the Tarot Club meeting, Audrey offered the reward for her three new pages of Roselle’s Diary to Mr. Fool as thanks for Miss Fate’s warning.
• Alice objected to Audrey giving her reward to Mr. Fool, and Audrey explained that she had thought it was an appropriate way to thank Miss Fate.

At a Tarot Club meeting, the members discussed transactions and sought materials for their advancement. Alice asked about the Writer Sequence and revealed that Amon had told her Writers could make their stories real, leaving Audrey curious about the Magic Paintbrush she mentioned.

• Alger told the World that the Werewolf Beyonder Characteristic had sold for 1,200 pounds and offered to obtain five strands of Deep Sea Naga hair for 500 pounds.
• Alger asked Alice whether he could conceal the Fortune Accessory's full negative effects when selling it, and Alice agreed as long as he found a buyer.
• Derrick reported that his patrols had been uneventful and said he would complete the ritual soon, while Audrey requested Mirror Dragon materials and an Elder Tree fruit.
• Alice asked whether anyone knew a Sequence 1 called Writer, then joked that the Fool's Sequence 4 was Circus Master.
• The World corrected Alice and asked her to explain Writer's abilities, so she said Amon had told her Writers could make their stories real.
• Audrey asked Alice what the Magic Paintbrush was and whether it was an Extraordinary Item.

At the Tarot Club, Alice connected a magical paintbrush fairy tale to an ancient civilization and warned Audrey about the Spectator pathway and a secret organization. She revealed that the organization sought to awaken the true Creator and might be steering history toward a World War, but left its name and further details undisclosed.

• Alice described a fairy tale about a magical paintbrush, and Fors asked her to tell it in detail.
• Alice warned that a Demigod searching Backlund for stories related to Mr. Fool might target anyone who knew the tale.
• Derrick said City of Silver records described Angeweid, the Dragon of Imagination, as making imagined things and declared futures real.
• Alice cautioned Audrey that Dragons belonged to the Spectator pathway and that the organization's leader seemed to be a Writer who could influence lower-sequence Beyonders.
• Alice told the group that an ancient secret organization sought the true Creator's awakening and secretly shaped history, possibly toward a World War.
• Alger questioned why the organization needed a World War, but Alice declined to explain further.

Fors asked how to deal with excess Beyonder Characteristics, and the Tarot Club discussed inheritance as an impractical alternative to acting. Derrick reported another mission to the Half-Ruined Temple of the Fallen Creator, leaving Alger to warn him about its dangers.

• Fors asked the Tarot Club how to get rid of excess Beyonder Characteristics, and Alice suggested having children while Alger explained how Characteristics could be inherited.
• Alice joked that a child of hers might be a naturally born “Monster,” shocking Audrey, Alger, and the silent World.
• Derrick told the Tarot Club that he would explore the Half-Ruined Temple of the Fallen Creator again under the Chief’s leadership.
• Alger said the mission could serve as the final test of whether Derrick was free from Amon’s influence.
• Mr. Fool warned Derrick about “Flesh and blood. Murmurs,” and Alger advised him not to look at, listen to, eat, or touch anything he should not.

At the Tarot Club, Alice and the others discussed the danger of war and the political fallout from Duke Negan’s death. Later, Alice read Roselle’s diary, which raised questions about Amon, the Hidden Sage, and Florent’s transformation.

• Alger advised Derrick to follow the Chief’s instructions inside the temple and avoid making decisions on his own.
• Audrey reported that Duke Negan’s death had divided the Upper House and stalled several bills, while government examinations and the air pollution investigation continued.
• Alice considered whether the Goddess should be represented by The Star and wondered about the Moon pathway and the Primordial Moon.
• Alice read Roselle’s account of the five great noble families of the Tudor Dynasty and joked that Amon seemed as numerous as cockroaches.
• Alice read Roselle’s description of Florent as a spiritual Stitched Monster after noticing how drastically he had changed.