Recaps

Alice pondered whether she was truly human while reading Roselle’s diary, then went looking for Allen. After Allen fled home when Velma’s behavior unsettled him, his carriage broke apart, and Alice found him at the scene of the accident.

• Alice remembered that Allen had said she alone remained human in his dream, but set aside her doubts and continued reading Roselle’s diary.
• Alice learned from Roselle’s diary that the Primordial Witch had been named Chick and wondered how he had once played the Joyful Witch.
• Allen returned home and froze when Velma asked whether anything unusual had happened, then fled without his coat or shoes.
• Alice ate dinner in Hillston District while Allen sought her out, fearing that Will Onsetin had noticed his behavior.
• Allen’s carriage fell apart, and Alice joined the crowd, where she urged him to handle the immediate situation first.
• After Allen managed the accident, Alice whispered that Will Onsetin might simply want to see her.

Aaron brought Alice to his home to meet Will Onsetin, whom she found speaking through a full-length mirror while Velma slept. Alice revealed that she remembered Will from the past and ended their conversation by offering to cut him out of Velma's stomach.

• Aaron told Alice that God had only wanted to see her, and Alice persuaded him to let her meet God first.
• Aaron brought Alice home, where she sensed Will Onsetin in a bedroom and ordered Aaron to stay outside.
• Alice found Velma asleep and spoke with Will through the mirror, revealing that she remembered him from before.
• Alice identified Ouroboros as Will's pursuer and discussed their hostile relationship and Will's failure to become a god.
• Alice pulled out a dagger and offered to cut Will out of Velma's stomach so he could be born early.

Alice confronted Will in the mirror while he remained in amniotic fluid, and she persuaded him to reveal the appearance and effects of the Dice of Probability. She told him Aaron had dreamed of two white Great Serpents facing each other and that she was the only one who still looked human, leaving Will questioning whether she was human at all.

• Alice refused to let Will recover peacefully, arguing that Fate wanted them to fight and that she might not defeat him after he was born.
• Alice told Will she had informed Amon that she might be an ingredient for Will’s Sequence 0, prompting Will to accuse her of causing trouble.
• Alice challenged Will’s claim to safety and asked what he knew about the Uniqueness of the Wheel of Fortune.
• Will described the off-white, red-pipped Dice of Probability and explained how its six results affected favorable and unfavorable probabilities.
• Alice told Will about Aaron’s dream of two white Great Serpents facing each other and said she was the only one who still looked human.
• Will scoffed and asked Alice whether she was human.

After Alice confronted Will through the Full-Length Mirror, she returned home and tested whether her Fortune Accessory could respond to her. That night, she witnessed a vision of Backlund’s people dying in poisonous fog and a priest who looked directly at her, provoking her spirituality to scream.

• Will mocked Alice, and the Full-Length Mirror exploded, scattering shards around her and striking her Fortune Accessory.
• Alice left Aaron’s home without explaining what had happened, and Aaron found the broken mirror and cleaned up the shards.
• Alice examined her Fortune Accessory at home, tried speaking to it and making it move, then shut it in a drawer.
• Alice saw a vision of Backlund under black fog, where ordinary people coughed up blood and fell dead.
• A plain priest appeared in the vision, opened his eyes, and looked directly at Alice, causing her spirituality to scream.

After a prophetic dream suggested Adam might be connected to a plague in Backlund’s East District, Alice realized she could experience a “particularly lucky moment” beyond her usual good fortune. She suspected it would coincide with the plague and hesitated to tell Klein, knowing he might try to stop it.

• Alice woke from a dream of a plague in Backlund’s East District and recognized the priest who drew every gaze as possibly Adam.
• Alice received Klein’s message that the Hanged Man had found a buyer for her Fortune Accessory and that her auxiliary ingredients were ready.
• Alice sold the Fortune Accessory, then wondered why she had not exchanged it for the Ritual of Bestowal.
• Alice recalled winning twelve consecutive rounds of Mahjong during the New Year and realized that her usual “sufficiently lucky moment” could become a “particularly lucky moment.”
• Alice suspected the unusually lucky moment was tied to the plague and wondered whether to tell Klein, since he might try to stop it.

Alice told Klein that a terrible plague was about to spread through Backlund and admitted she felt no guilt about the people who would die, leaving Klein to consider how he could reduce the losses. In the City of Silver, Colin Iliad led Derrick and their team out on an expedition.

• Alice worried that she felt no guilt for the ordinary people who had died in the plague.
• Derrick prepared to leave the City of Silver with his team, carrying the Axe of Hurricane, and Colin Iliad ordered them to light their lamps and move out.
• Klein summoned Alice Above the Gray Fog and told her he thought he had become entangled in another coincidence.
• Alice told Klein that Adam had greeted her in a dream and asked what he would do if a catastrophe threatened countless innocent people.
• Klein said he would try to stop the catastrophe or reduce its losses and protect those important to him.
• Alice revealed that a plague would spread through Backlund from the East District and suspected a Demoness was the apparent instigator and Adam the true manipulator.

Alice and Klein dealt with the timing and storage of Alice’s Fate advancement ritual while Klein struggled to find a way to reduce the coming plague’s damage. Klein successfully advanced to Faceless, and Alice suggested his Sequence 4 should be called Circus instead of Circus Master.

• Alice told Klein that Adam’s greeting had disrupted her sense of the ritual’s timing, and Klein sealed the Winner Beyonder Characteristic behind a Spirituality Barrier for her.
• Klein paced through the East District, unable to divine the plague or persuade people to heed a warning, and decided to send a tip-off letter to the Church of Evernight.
• On Friday night, Klein carefully concocted the Faceless potion and used Pendulum Divination to confirm its danger was slight.
• Klein drank the potion and endured his face melting as he fought through the advancement.
• After Klein met Alice Above the Gray Fog and explained his new abilities, Alice said Sequence 4 should be called Circus rather than Circus Master.

Klein reflected on his identity and changed his appearance back to Sherlock Moriarty. Alice talked with Evelyn about celebrating the New Year together and shared how people in her hometown made dumplings, including the tradition of hiding coins inside them.

• Klein asked Alice whether she had fully digested her Calamity Priest potion, and she said she had repeatedly brought calamity and preached.
• Alice joked that Leonard could use a Faceless disguise to fulfill his wish to wear a dress, and Klein sent her down from the Gray Fog.
• Klein changed his appearance to Zhou Mingrui, then returned to looking like Sherlock Moriarty.
• Evelyn invited Alice to spend the New Year with her family, and Alice accepted by suggesting they make food from her hometown.
• Alice explained how to make dumplings and told Evelyn that adults hid coin-filled dumplings for children on New Year's.

Evelyn planned to ask her mother about making jiaozi while the City of Silver’s Exploration Team entered the ruins of a fallen city. At the temple, the team encountered a child who called for help and identified himself as Jack, before the exploration appeared to loop back to its beginning.

• Evelyn decided to ask her mother about jiaozi and said they could recreate it by making filling and wrappers.
• Derrick and the Exploration Team reached the ruined city and headed toward its central temple under Colin Iliad’s leadership.
• The team’s lanterns went out, and Derrick heard a child cry for help before he and the others restored the light.
• Derrick and Joshua found a blond child behind the altar, and Colin asked his name.
• The child said his name was Jack, and the scene returned to Derrick observing the city walls as the exploration began again.

Evelyn reported Briel’s jiaozi instructions to the Greenland family, while Derrick’s Exploration Team encountered supernatural dangers beneath the temple and found a boy named Jack. Jack’s account of seeking the Lord’s Sanctuary turned alarming when he became ravenously hungry and attacked the team’s attention.

• Evelyn told Mrs. Greenland and Mr. Greenland what Briel had said about making jiaozi, including the coin tradition and chopsticks.
• Derrick’s team encountered alluring mushroom-like growths that were actually rotting flesh and hairy scalps, and Joshua destroyed them with fire.
• Derrick woke at the camp, and Colin said the team would set out after fifty lightning strikes.
• Behind the altar, Jack told Colin that he had sailed with his father in search of the Lord’s Sanctuary and had been caught in a huge storm.
• When Colin asked about Jack’s companions, Jack froze, complained of hunger, and opened his mouth unnaturally wide as Derrick raised the Axe of Hurricane.

Derrick discovered that his exploration of the divine palace had repeated five times, each cycle ending when Colin killed Little Jack. At the Tarot gathering, he asked for help understanding the loop, and Alice recognized something familiar when Alger described a repeating space or state.

• Derrick and Colin defeated Little Jack with the Axe of Hurricane and a radiant sword attack, then Colin told Derrick to set out after fifty flashes of lightning.
• While escaping the underground palace, Derrick was nearly crushed by a falling stone slab, but Colin pulled him to safety.
• Evelyn and Alice made a flour-covered mess while trying to make dumplings, then realized they had also dirtied the living room.
• During a rest, Derrick dreamed of Mr. Fool and joined the Tarot gathering, where he remembered that he had completed the exploration five times in a repeating cycle.
• Alger proposed that Derrick was trapped by a powerful Nightmare-like ability or a peculiar repeating space, and Alice interrupted when his description felt familiar.

Alice identified Ouroboros, the Angel of Fate, as a possible source of the repeating time cycle in the temple of the Fallen Creator and explained his connection to her. She advised Derrick to find the medium behind the influence, likely a mural, after he hesitated to summon Amon for help.

• Alger described the temple's repeating time cycle, and Alice recalled an Angel with a river circling beneath his feet.
• Alice named Ouroboros as the Angel of Fate, a King of Angels who could create cycles of Fate, and explained that he was hunting the Fate Angel who was hunting her.
• The Tarot Club members reacted with alarm to Alice's entanglements with powerful Angels, while Klein privately worried about Adam and the True Creator.
• Derrick asked Alice how to deal with the temple, and she suggested summoning Amon through a Ritual of Bestowal.
• Alice advised Derrick to locate the medium causing the influence, which she guessed was probably a mural, and warned that if Ouroboros had personally acted, he should stay put and accept his fate.

The Tarot Club discussed Ouroboros, Jack’s possible connection to the outside world, and Derrick’s exploration of the loop and its mural. The World revealed he had seen similar statues in Fourth Epoch ruins, and Alice immediately asked why he had never told her.

• Alice said Ouroboros was the suspect and showed Derrick his appearance after asking Mr. Fool for help.
• Alger recalled pursuing an Aurora Order Listener whose young child might resemble Jack, then advised Derrick to mention the Sonia Sea, the Loen Kingdom, and port cities to Jack.
• Derrick used Mr. Fool’s power to present scenes from his exploration, and Alger reviewed the details and highlighted key points.
• Alger asked Alice to identify the Evil Gods on the mural, but she instead wondered why one figure wore an octopus on his head and described takoyaki.
• The World said he had seen similar statues during an exploration of Fourth Epoch ruins, and Alice asked why he had not told her.

At the Tarot Club, Alice identified the mural’s figures as distorted images of the Six Gods and discovered that the God of Steam and Machinery was absent. Derrick learned that the mural was called the Redemption Rose, but Alice did not recognize the name, leaving its meaning unresolved.

• Klein manifested the Six Gods and their holy emblems, allowing Alice to identify the gods depicted in the mural.
• Alice asked whether the Lord of Storms really had an octopus sitting on his head, shocking the Tarot Club members.
• Alice pointed out that the God of Steam and Machinery was missing, and Alger explained that the deity had likely appeared in the middle or late Fourth Epoch.
• Alger advised Derrick to investigate the mural without arousing the Chief’s suspicion and warned him not to recite the Lord of Storms’ True Name.
• Alice told Derrick to ask Mr. Fool for her gift to Amon after escaping the City of Silver, and suggested he mention her return gift if he failed to escape in time.
• Klein revealed that the mural was called the Redemption Rose, and Alice admitted she had never heard the name.

At the Tarot Club, Alice reacted strangely to the name “Amanises” and the phrase “Rose Redemption,” while Alger investigated their connection to ancient history. The meeting ended with Alice warning that witches would unleash a plague in Backlund’s East District and suggesting that stopping it could draw the King of Angels’ pursuit.

• Alice heard the name “Amanises,” became briefly overcome with sadness, and said she missed her mother or a place where she felt safe.
• Alger compared the phrase “Rose Redemption” in Ancient Feysac with Derrick’s account of the script found on a mural, and Derrick agreed to investigate its contents.
• Alice explained that High-Sequence individuals could learn languages through supernatural means, then wondered why she had ever needed to take classes.
• The World warned the Tarot Club that a catastrophe was brewing in Backlund, and Alice identified it as a witch-caused plague spreading from the East District.
• Alice asked whether anyone wanted to experience being hunted by the King of Angels as she considered whether the plague could be stopped.

At the Tarot Club, Alice revealed that the King of Angels behind the growing danger led Rose Redemption, while Klein named Prince Edsack Augustus as someone his Blessed in Backlund had noticed. After the meeting, Alice confided in Klein about her missing memories, and his attempt to comfort her with an impression of her high school math teacher unexpectedly cheered her up.

• Alice warned that the King of Angels behind the events led Rose Redemption, then asked Klein to explain what had been noticed in Backlund.
• Klein named Edsack Augustus, and Alice startled the Tarot Club by mentioning a Potion that could turn a man into a woman.
• Klein ended the Tarot Club meeting and kept Alice behind to ask whether she had remembered anything.
• Alice described her fear and confusion over her lost memories and wondered whether her past self had truly been her.
• Klein changed his face to resemble Alice's high school math teacher, making her feel better; Alice decided to have her high school uniform custom-made, and Klein cut their connection before laughing Above the Gray Fog.

Alice read more of Roselle's Diary, copied a provocative passage, and had a custom high school uniform designed in Backlund. She asked Klein what to do with the design, while Klein was interrupted from trying to teach her to make dumplings by Emlyn White's visit.

• Alice read Roselle's notes about the Alchemist ritual and his scandalous encounter with Madame Karen and the Earl of Champagne, then wondered whether other transmigrators existed.
• Alice copied the diary passage about the taste of a Witch and considered selling copies at Beyonder gatherings.
• Klein struggled to recreate dumplings and teach Alice how to make them before Emlyn White knocked on his door.
• Alice described a practical high school uniform to a tailor, who asked whether she would sell the design.
• Alice asked Klein for advice about the uniform design, and he noted that others could easily imitate it.

Alice attended Viscount Glaint’s ball, where she met Susie and later spoke privately with Audrey about Prince Edsack. She left Audrey unsettled by revealing that she had once gossiped with the entities she now called Them, before she died.

• Alice asked Klein about selling her design drawings, and Klein advised her to remove the school emblem, but she refused.
• Alice attended Viscount Glaint’s ball, found Susie, and tried to tempt the dog with chocolate before petting her.
• Glaint spoke with Alice and, remembering Audrey’s warning about her, left after Alice asked whether he was waiting for her to silence him.
• Audrey found Alice eating ice cream beside Susie and led her to a small art studio to talk.
• Alice asked Audrey whether she knew Prince Edsack and told her she had once gossiped with Them before she died.

Audrey questioned Alice about Prince Edsack’s affair and learned that his supposed commoner lover was likely a Witch. Their conversation turned to the Witch Sect’s motives, while Alice was left wondering why ice cream felt so important to her.

• Audrey cautiously asked Alice what she meant by “before death,” and Alice explained that recent encounters with angels had made resurrection seem ordinary to her.
• Alice confirmed that Prince Edsack’s romance was real and suggested his lover was probably a Witch, perhaps even someone originally male.
• Audrey asked why the Witch Sect turned men into Witches, and Alice warned that the answer might be shocking before hesitating to explain.
• Audrey noticed Alice had finished another serving of ice cream, prompting Alice to recall an ice cream cone falling and strange ripples swallowing her.

Alice decided that she liked ice cream regardless of the connection to her past self, then accidentally got caught up in a Beyonder pursuit. Above the Gray Fog, Klein told her that the Witch he had met was Trissy, whose new name was Trissy Chick.

• Alice thanked Audrey for reminding her about her past self and ordered another serving of ice cream.
• Susie told Audrey that Alice had asked whether she could eat chocolate, and Audrey advised her not to try it.
• Trissy tried to seduce Klein in exchange for his help, but he revealed that he had already notified the Machine Heart.
• Alice left the ball, dodged a Mental Storm, and was detained by the Machine Heart before the Nighthawks vouched for her.
• Klein summoned Alice Above the Gray Fog and explained that Trissy was a Witch whose name had been changed to Trissy Chick.
• Alice reacted to Trissy's new name by declaring that the taste of the Primordial Witch was quite good.

Klein questioned Alice about the angels who wanted to kill her, then discussed her plan to visit the East District. Audrey learned that Trissy was a Witch and warned Mr. Fool’s followers indirectly, while Alice prepared to disguise herself for the trip.

• Klein asked Alice to warn him before making alarming remarks, and Alice wondered whether Amon had wanted to play with her rather than kill her.
• Alice told Klein she might have seen Trissy and asked what preparations she needed to visit the East District.
• Audrey received confirmation from Mr. Fool that Trissy was a Joyful Witch called Trissy Chick, then rushed off after realizing she needed to warn her father.
• Klein reflected that he had exposed Prince Edsack’s possible connection to a Witch so that silencing him would become pointless.
• Alice followed Klein’s advice to disguise herself, removed Matilda, and noticed how much she had grown.

Alice prepared a disguise and went alone to the East District, following an unexplained feeling toward an alley. She claimed a spot at the alley entrance from a vagrant and waited there, unsure what Fate was leading her toward.

• Alice reflected on her adjustment to life in Backlund, disguised herself with Klein's guidance, and set out wearing Amon's monocle.
• A self-writing Quill Pen recorded how Trissy Chick escaped the Machine Heart team after meeting Briel Rose, then faltered as it tried to describe Briel's actions.
• Alice entered the East District alone, despite Klein's attempts to stop her, and followed her intuition through its streets.
• Alice returned a stone to a timid boy and felt sadness at the thought that East District residents might soon die.
• Alice found an ominous alley, paid a vagrant one sol for his spot, and settled near the entrance to wait.

Alice completed her advancement ritual just as she encountered Lady Despair, a Demoness Sect demigod, and was attacked. After Alice swallowed the Winner Beyonder Characteristic, a mysterious woman appeared, erased Lady Despair, and vanished, leaving Alice’s fate unclear.

• Alice noticed the mist thickening and revealed Lady Despair, the demigod she had seen in a dream.
• Alice realized her advancement ritual was complete and asked Lady Despair to let her say her last words, but Lady Despair attacked.
• Lady Despair’s first ice spear struck Alice’s abdomen and broke the barrier containing the Winner Beyonder Characteristic.
• Alice swallowed the dust-covered gold coin, which melted into a gel and slid down her throat, before she lost consciousness.
• Lady Despair struck Alice with a second ice spear, but a mysterious woman appeared and made Alice vanish.
• The mysterious woman erased Lady Despair, then disappeared from the alley.

As the abnormal fog began to clear, Klein worried about Alice while Aaron learned of a mysterious woman's past. In a hospital, Huanhuan's parents saw signs that she might be waking from her coma and waited for her to speak.

• Klein tried to divine Alice's condition, but both attempts gave him no answer as the wind began dispersing the fog.
• Aaron questioned the voice in the mirror about the fog, and it described a woman as the world's destroyer and the creator of miracles.
• Derrick and the City of Silver's Exploration Team broke free of the loop and prepared to return, while Derrick worried about Amon and the items for Miss Fate.
• During Huanhuan's birthday celebration, her parents saw her finger move and later learned from the doctor that she might have a chance of waking.
• Half a month later, Huanhuan moved her lips, and her mother leaned close and asked her to repeat what she had said.

After waking from a long coma as Shen Yinghuan, Alice recovered memories of her past and realized she was not entirely the girl whose body she occupied. She discovered she had reached Sequence 5, then awakened from a dream after Amanises asked how much she remembered.

• Shen Yinghuan woke after more than two months unconscious and refused her parents’ suggestion that she recover at home.
• While reading a picture book, Huanhuan found the name Alice Kingsley and recalled people and events from her past.
• Alice recognized that Shen Yinghuan’s memories had blended with hers, but that she was not Shen Yinghuan entirely.
• Alice steadied herself in the River of Rippling Light and caused a small splash, realizing she had become a Sequence 5.
• Alice recognized Amanises in the dream and said she remembered basically nothing before the dream shattered and she awakened.