Recaps

Alice investigated mysteries aboard the Golden Dream, encountered a woman carrying an ocean-blue book, and began uncovering how Cassandra’s name was being used to manipulate people’s Fate. The arc ended with Alice explaining the swindle to Selwyn and leaving him in the alley.

• Edwina introduced Alice to Death’s Key and her collection, where Alice examined artifacts, read the unfinished Groselle’s Travels, and shared fragments of her memories of the world before the First Epoch.
• Alice stayed aboard the Golden Dream, learned about Edwina’s abilities, and confessed she had tried to eat a book for its knowledge.
• At a Bayam Beyonder gathering, Alice became fascinated by a masked woman’s ocean-blue book and sold her a clue to the Cryptologist potion formula, then secretly followed her and recognized her words as a Prophecy.
• Alice learned that Mr. Fool’s birthday was approaching, prepared him a diary gift, and received a warning from her reclaimed Uniqueness that she recognized as a message from her past self.
• Alice answered a young man’s prayer and found a paper bearing her honorific name, but her attempt to trace its origins was blocked by the sound of turning pages.
• Alice asked Edwina about Misfortune Phantoms and Crow-Shadow Serpents, learning the information she needed for her potion’s Main Ingredient.
• Alice joined Klein’s effort to find a mermaid and arranged to meet a Beyonder researching Hybridization Technology, then encountered Selwyn, who mistook her for Cassandra.
• Selwyn told Alice that a Soothsayer had charged him 1,000 pounds to change his Fate and led him into gambling and potion-buying, and Alice identified the book-carrying woman as a swindler using Cassandra’s name and vanished.

Alice sought a Misfortune Phantom and traced clues about Cassandra through Sylvia, an ocean-blue book, and Winifred Grigori. She also changed her plans for her honorific name, involved Klein in her investigations, and learned more about Sealed Artifacts linked to Soothsayers before the story left Cassandra’s identity and fate unresolved.

• Alice asked Arrodes about Cassandra, and the mirror showed Sylvia Maloney holding the ocean-blue book before identifying it as a Soothsayer.
• Alice enlisted Reinette Tinekerr to hunt a Misfortune Phantom, then saw the tragedy of a girl she recognized as a child who had carried the book.
• Alice found silver writing in the book saying its writer had seen her awaken again and feared she had died in her own Prophecy, but Sylvia and the book vanished before Alice could question them.
• Alice told Klein her theory about his fate and admitted she had forgotten that Ince Zangwill had killed her once, then replied to Winifred Grigori with a warning about Cassandra.
• Alice summoned Arrodes and learned that a Zoroast Family Angel was parasitizing Leonard, while the mirror later showed Winifred the ocean-blue book after she asked whose honorific name she had seen.
• Alice admitted to the Tarot Club that she had written the supposed pages of Roselle’s Diary, then asked the members what they knew about Cassandra and Soothsayer Sealed Artifacts.
• Cattleya described the Eye of the Prophet and its visions of possible futures, including one that guaranteed the viewer’s death, while Alice considered Cassandra’s knowledge of her and the Soothsayer’s Acting Method.

Alice handled prayers in Mr. Fool’s place, confronted Sylvia in Amon’s mausoleum, and joined Klein aboard the Future as it investigated a mysterious deep-sea well. The well’s call seemed connected to the Western Continent, while Audrey was redirected to Alice for help divining a notebook’s origins.

• Alice took over prayers for Mr. Fool, helped Alger win exactly thirty pounds, and offered a troubled man a chance to seek Fate’s help with a ritual.
• Amon transported Alice to his mausoleum, where she questioned Sylvia about Cassandra and learned how Sylvia had become a Swindler.
• Alice put Sylvia’s body in the coffin, later published a story under the name Rita Skeeter, and joined Klein on an excursion through Nas.
• Alice and Klein met Cattleya aboard the Future and encountered Frank Lee and Heath Doyle as the ship headed east along the dangerous Whaling Route.
• Alice sailed with Cattleya and Klein toward the Deep Sea Giant Well, where Nina found submerged steel structures and described an eerie call from the well.
• Alice sensed a call from the Western Continent and warned that Nina might have melted if she had remained in the well, so Klein advised against entering it.
• Audrey sought Mr. Fool’s help with Magic Mirror Divination, but Klein directed her to Miss Fortune, and Alice eagerly agreed to assist.

Alice sailed with Klein and Cattleya through the Sea of Ruins, where she encountered Heath Doyle’s dream, Anderson Hood’s misfortune, and dangers tied to the Giant King's Court. The arc ended with Alice rescuing Leomaster in the Black Monastery as he opened a fissure that drew twilight toward the Giant King's Court.

• Alice used Magic Mirror Divination to find Lindrila’s tomb, then joined Klein and Cattleya aboard the Future as they entered the Sea of Ruins.
• Alice and her companions encountered the ruins’ hazards, and Heath Doyle revealed that he was seeking a Key that could unlock all treasures.
• Anderson Hood joined the Future after telling Alice and Klein how a mural of Ouroboros had brought him Doom and left his companions dead.
• A Guardian’s glowing armor wrapped itself around Alice, and she trapped its light in her room and named it Apollo.
• Frank Lee’s experiments spread mutated creatures and milk across the Future before a sea monster attacked and a silver-white river drove it away.
• Alice entered the Dream’s library, where she found Roselle’s Diary and the Wheel of Fortune Card of Blasphemy, and met Bernadette, who later guided her and Klein through the Black Monastery.
• After Frank Lee found human fingers in a fish, Heath Doyle identified them as belonging to a Rose Bishop and made them spell “Help!”
• Alice rescued Leomaster from the Black Armored Knight, and Leomaster opened a fissure between the mountain peaks that drew twilight toward the Giant King's Court.