Recaps

Alice sought help with Amon’s monocle curse, then returned it to him with contraceptives as a gift and became entangled in the theft of a Church of Storms donation box. As she prepared to leave Backlund for Bayam, the Tarot Club confronted her growing powers and her distance from humanity.

• Alice confessed to Saint Anthony that she had stolen Amon’s monocle, and Anthony removed its curse and restored her sense of taste.
• Alice received Amon’s demand for a return gift, then sent him contraceptives and faced him in a dream where he teased her and challenged her control.
• Alice used Amon’s body to steal the Church of Storms donation box, sacrificed his avatar to the Goddess of Evernight, and split the money with the Goddess.
• Alice learned that a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact was in a grocery store, prepared to leave Backlund for Bayam, and warned Evelyn about the dangers that came with unusual people and treasures.
• Cattleya’s Eyes of Mystery Prying revealed unbearable light around Alice, while Alice suspected she was a high-sequence Fate Pathway existence whose luck caused terrible backlash.
• At the Tarot Club, Alice admitted stealing the donation box, and Klein rebuked her before revealing that she had tried to look pitiful.
• Alice suggested that the Sanguine ancestor was Lilith, then Klein warned her to stay away from Amon and realized she already considered herself outside humanity.

Alice sailed to Bayam, recovered a lost part of herself through the Dice of Probability, and learned more about her connection to Fate and the Key of Light. She revealed her new honorific name to the Tarot Club and continued trading knowledge while unsettling its members with her questions.

• Alice visited Winifred Grigori, denied stealing Roselle’s pages, and agreed they might be friends for now.
• Alice sailed to Bayam aboard the St. Folsen, exchanged letters with Bernadette, and warned Cattleya to keep her distance from her affairs.
• Alice met Klein and Dunn in Bayam, then opened Lady Daly’s ring box and touched the six-sided die that vanished into her.
• Alice regained a lost part of herself and recalled Will Auceptin awakening her and promising her ice cream if she helped him advance.
• Amon spoke with Alice about her humanity, her Honorific Name, and his feelings for her before Alice sent him away.
• Alice spoke with the Goddess of the Evernight about her past, the Key of Light, and Klein’s possible future, then prophesied that the St. Folsen would sink but its passengers would survive.
• Alice entered the Tarot Club through the door of light and gave the members her honorific name, asking Cattleya to spread it.
• Alice discussed Derrick’s safety and Amon’s past possession with the Tarot Club, then asked whether a Worm of Time could be eaten.

Alice tried to understand her growing connection to Fate while helping Klein investigate Admiral Emlyn White’s affairs. At the mansion, she discovered that Cynthia had prayed to the Mother Tree of Desire for a child with Klein, leaving the question of who would give birth hanging over them.

• Alice returned to Evelyn and discovered that Sylvia Maloney’s ritual had connected her to the Hidden Sage, then made Evelyn her believer and sent her to the Church of Evernight.
• Alice warned Klein that an unknown entity linked to childbirth and reproduction had targeted them, and Klein agreed not to divine it.
• Klein took a mission involving Admiral Emlyn White, and Alice accompanied him to Emlyn’s banquet, where she introduced herself as Miss Fortune and represented Fate.
• Emlyn explained the plan to replace him with Klein, had Klein sign a contract, and agreed to Alice’s request for more desserts at future banquets.
• Alice warned Klein that people were not objects and asked what he would do if he or Amon had to save the world from the Apocalypse.
• At Emlyn’s house, Alice saw Cynthia transformed in a vision and warned Klein that an evil god wanted to have his child.
• Alice retrieved Cynthia’s necklace and saw that Cynthia had prayed to the Mother Tree of Desire for greater allure, Emlyn’s devotion, and a child.
• Alice told Klein that Cynthia’s words about having a child were hers, then asked who would give birth, alarming Klein.

Klein and Alice uncovered the Mother Tree of Desire’s plot behind Cynthia’s mutation, then collected Klein’s payment and began arranging Alice’s education. Alice met Edwina and the Golden Dream’s crew, where her strange ties to Amon and her plans for school left the story poised for further lessons and trouble.

• Alice stopped a Demigod from escaping Klein’s dream, then taunted Adam until his gaze moved away.
• Klein attended a dinner hosted by Cynthia, whose transformation and desire for a child triggered a dangerous outbreak that Klein contained with the Ninth Law charm.
• Klein purified Cynthia and learned that the Mother Tree of Desire and the Naturism Sect were behind the incident, while Alice identified the danger posed by Cynthia’s necklace.
• Klein questioned Follet Ken about the Fertility Necklace, the Rose School, and the Bound God, then ordered arrests and let Lü'er An avoid immediate punishment.
• Klein told Emlyn what had happened and gave him the shattered necklace, while Alice confessed that she had caused the St. Folsen’s doom but kept its passengers safe.
• Bilt Brando paid Klein and gave him an azure cufflink, and Alice and Klein discussed a messenger ritual and ways for Alice to study.
• Alice met Edwina aboard the Golden Dream, then unsettled the crew with her remarks about Amon, offered Yodson Amon’s monocle, and proposed a strict school system that Edwina compared to a prison.