Chapter Summaries

Alice bought a ring box containing a milky white six-sided die, then touched the die and seemed to become inhabited by an unfamiliar presence. Klein was left frozen in terror as the presence spoke through Alice, while Velma suffered sudden pain at home.

• Alice bought the ring box from Lady Daly for one pound and delayed opening it so she could eat with Klein.
• Alice joked about making Klein pay and considered robbing churches and secret organizations before they eventually split the bill.
• Velma suffered painful episodes at dinner, and Allen worried about the baby in her belly.
• Back at the hotel, Alice opened the box and found the six-sided die from her dream, showing six red pips.
• Alice touched the die, which vanished, and Klein became unable to move as Alice asked what possessing a human body felt like.

After Alice's prank left Klein furious, she realized the Dice of Probability had returned something that once belonged to her and began piecing together her fragmented memories. As she recalled how Will Auceptin had awakened her and persuaded her to help him advance, Amon appeared and asked whether she would thank him.

• Alice revealed that her apparent distress had been a prank, and Klein coldly told her it was not funny before leaving.
• Alice realized the vanished Dice of Probability had returned a lost part of her, though her emotions and memories remained fragmented.
• Alice recalled that Will Auceptin had awakened her, become her friend, and promised she could taste ice cream if she helped him reach Sequence 1.
• Alice remembered believing Will's promise and helping him advance, but could not recall what happened afterward.
• Alice heard prayers, recognized Amon by his familiar clothes, and heard him ask, "Won't you thank me?"

Amon found Alice and explained that her empowered state had hidden complications, while teasing her about treating her like a pet and claiming he liked her. Alice reflected on her distance from humanity and questioned her Honorific Name, and Amon ended by suggesting a connection between it and his own title, “Shadow Roaming Fate.”

• Alice asked whether Amon could have found her if she had not answered, and he replied that he was the Incarnation of Deceit.
• Alice asked how long her current state would last, but Amon refused to explain what was wrong with it.
• Amon told Alice he liked her and admitted he treated her as something more entertaining than a pet.
• Alice said she had never truly considered herself human and doubted that gods and mortals were equal in soul or emotion.
• Amon revealed that he knew Alice’s Honorific Name and suggested she remember his title, “Shadow Roaming Fate.”

After Amon left, Alice considered her feelings about him and Klein, then sensed a distant connection pointing toward the Western Continent. She examined her new status and powers, but discovered that knowledge held in the Uniqueness differed from potion knowledge, leaving her worried about how it might affect her future.

• Alice refused to change her Honorific Name, offered Amon the title of an intimate friend, and sent him away.
• Alice reflected that Amon had listened to her more patiently than Klein and wondered whether Klein would hear her out.
• Alice sensed a faint connection to the Western Continent and considered her status as something like a living Uniqueness.
• Alice assessed her need to learn her new powers and gather Beyonder Characteristics, while doubting she could defeat Will Auceptin or Ouroboros.
• Alice realized that she resented Will Auceptin for disrespecting Fate and found that the Uniqueness's knowledge of the Sequence 7 Lucky One and Sequence 5 Winner differed from potion knowledge.
• Alice worried that the altered knowledge might have contributed to her death at Ince Zangwill's hands and resolved to investigate by drinking the potions.

Alice apologized to Klein for frightening him, then met a projection of the Goddess of the Evernight in a dream and learned more about her past and the fate of the Key of Light. She worried that Klein would undergo a similar transformation as he advanced, and asked whether he could avoid it by separating Castle of Origin.

• Alice prayed to Klein and apologized for joking about putting herself in danger, and Klein replied, "I know."
• Alice waited anxiously for Klein's forgiveness, then drifted into a dream filled with night-scented herbs and deep sleep flowers.
• The Goddess of the Evernight appeared and recalled Alice's earlier claim that she would return as an Incarnation of Fate.
• The Goddess told Alice that she had once described nearly drowning in a river of light and seizing a key before her consciousness dispersed.
• Alice wondered whether she had always been the consciousness that fused with the Key of Light, then asked whether Klein would eventually become like her.
• Alice asked whether Klein could avoid that fate by not advancing, as long as Castle of Origin could be separated.

Alice learned that the Apocalypse might be avoided by choosing Amon as the Lord of Mysteries, and wondered whether she had returned to this world from an earlier life. After dreaming that St. Folsen sank in a sea disaster, she reached the docks and declared that everyone aboard would survive.

• Alice questioned whether she had come from the civilization before the First Epoch and considered whether her return explained the gaps in Huanhuan's memories and her drowning experiences.
• The figure warned Alice that the knowledge carried contamination, and Alice woke near dawn before deciding to go back to sleep.
• Alice dreamed that a giant tentacle destroyed St. Folsen and swept its passengers into the sea.
• Alice used her Chaos Walker ability to travel to an alley near the docks and reflected on the Fate pathway's risks of losing control and emotion.
• At the ticket office, Alice learned St. Folsen had already left harbor and predicted that it would sink, but everyone aboard would be rescued unharmed.

Alice left the docks after giving the St. Folsen passengers a prophecy, then unexpectedly entered the gathering Above the Gray Fog by opening a mysterious door of light. She gave the Tarot Club her honorific name and asked Cattleya to spread it, leaving the others to wonder how to pray to her.

• Alice left the Ticket Office, reflected on the prophecy she had given the St. Folsen passengers, and headed into Bayam.
• Klein tried to summon the Tarot Club but found that Alice’s spirituality touched the door of light; she formed an illusory key unsuccessfully, knocked twice, and opened the door herself.
• Alice arrived late at the Tarot Club, apologized to Mr. Fool, and asked why the gathering had chairs instead of sofas.
• Cattleya asked Alice what payment she wanted, and Alice told her to spread her name.
• Alice gave the Tarot Club her honorific name: “The Forever Pure Child, The Incarnation of Fortune and Miracles, The Origin of Calamity and Chaos.”
• Derrick asked whether Alice would receive his prayers, and Alice told him to try; when Audrey asked about prayer rituals, Alice suggested that she arrange something herself.

Alice asked Cattleya to design a ritual and help develop her faith, while Tarot Club members discussed trades and the City of Silver. The chapter ended with Alice suggesting Derrick had become a useful piece in a dangerous political gamble.

• Alice asked Cattleya to design a ritual, but could offer no doctrines or known deeds to guide her.
• Cattleya requested a lead on a demigod-level Mystical Item, and Alice offered herself before the World warned that her negative effects were not bearable.
• Alger sought the Ocean Songster potion formula, while Cattleya agreed to look for it and asked him for a lead on a suitable Mystical Item.
• Derrick reported that Elder Lovia had been released, and Fors deduced that the chief had freed her after the Exploration Team’s search for an exit depended on the True Creator’s power.
• Alice and Alger argued that Lovia’s release could make Derrick safer, and Alice told him he was now qualified to be a chess piece.

Alger explained how Derrick’s Chief was protecting him while balancing the threat of the True Creator, and Alice warned that the City of Silver could be destroyed. The Tarot Club’s discussion turned to Alice’s relationship with Amon and how Derrick and Alice had been possessed by him, leaving Cattleya asking how those possessions had been resolved.

• Alger explained that Derrick’s exposure of the conspiracy and past possession by Amon made the Chief more likely to protect him while hedging against the True Creator.
• Derrick asked whether the City of Silver could be destroyed, and Alice warned him that the True Creator could devastate a nearby city and that he should be grateful to Mr. Fool.
• Alice apologized after joking about Derrick’s fears, then asked him to call her the great Miss Fortune.
• Cattleya asked whether Alice and Amon were friends, and Alice said they had fun together but that she had once wanted to kill him.
• Cattleya asked about Derrick’s possession by Amon, and Alice revealed that she had been possessed too before Cattleya asked how it was resolved.

At a Tarot gathering, Alice explained how Amon had possessed her and Cattleya described the Kings of Angel and the Error Pathway. The group discussed the uses of a Worm of Time, and Alice decided to ask Amon in a letter whether one could be eaten.

• Cattleya asked Alice how Amon had possessed her, and Alice said he had tried to escape his fate through her.
• Alice explained that Amon was a former King of Angel and said he had once tried to steal her fate.
• Cattleya explained that the eight Kings of Angel surpassed Sequence 1 but fell short of true gods, and that the Marauder Pathway could deceive fate and cheat rules at high sequences.
• Audrey asked about the Worm of Time, and Cattleya said it could be used in rituals or to make high-level charms.
• Alice asked whether a Worm of Time could be eaten and how it might be cooked, leaving Cattleya speechless.
• Klein spoke through the World and suggested Alice ask Amon in a letter, and Alice agreed that writing would be safer than asking him face-to-face.

Klein confronted Alice about her earlier joke and asked how she was doing, while Alice admitted that her search for the truth had become murkier. She offered to help with his Sequence 5 potion ingredients and agreed to visit her teacher, though she also asked Klein for religious texts and doctrines.

• Klein asked Alice to explain why she had joked about him being dead, and Alice insisted that she would never let him die.
• Alice revealed that Leonard knew about a Marauder Angel and offered to travel to Backlund to tell him Klein was alive and had become Gehrman Sparrow.
• Alice told Klein that her search for the truth had become more confusing, but said she could give an Angel-level response during the ritual and help with his Sequence 5 potion ingredients.
• Alice explained that Xiao Song had introduced her to the books Klein had seen, and Klein urged her to visit her teacher.
• Alice agreed to visit her teacher and asked Klein for the holy texts and doctrines the Hermit had mentioned.

Klein questioned Alice about her ability to reach Sefirah Castle and warned her not to cause trouble in Bayam. Alice then decided to sell copies of Roselle’s Diary and invented a fictional entry about Emperor Roselle becoming a woman, preparing to spread it at a Beyonder gathering.

• Klein asked Alice whether she could reach Sefirah Castle without his permission, and Alice explained that she was the Key of Light and might eventually open its doors.
• Klein warned Alice not to cause trouble in Bayam, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Alice reviewed Roselle’s Diary and decided to sell copies at Bayam’s frequent Beyonder gatherings.
• Alice invented a diary entry in which Roselle was cursed into becoming a woman and eventually declared, “The Taste of an Iron-Blooded Knight is Quite Good.”
• Alice made five copies each of the new entry and “The Taste of a Witch is Quite Good,” then prepared to find a Beyonder gathering.

Alice explored Bayam, discovered that Restart could refresh her physical state, and attended a local Beyonders' gathering. After selling pages of Roselle's Diary, she used Restart to erase everyone's trade requests from the blackboard and vanished when someone noticed her.

• Alice bought mint ice cream and ate grilled fish, then used Restart to remove the grease and considered whether it could affect her growth.
• Alice found a Beyonders' gathering in a casino and examined the ingredients and ritual for the Misfortune Mage potion.
• Alice attended the gathering, posted an offer to sell two pages of Roselle's Diary, and received 50 pounds.
• Alice erased everyone's trade requests from the blackboard with Restart and concealed herself after sensing someone watching her.
• Alice returned to her hotel room and wondered whether Klein would be angry about what she had done.

Alice arranged a fixed ritual procedure for answering prayers, wrote Amon a letter asking whether Worms of Time could be cooked and whether his Brother had a good temper, then went to Bayam to leave her name behind by altering a ship notice. She predicted the St. Folsen would sink but ensured everyone aboard would be rescued.

• Alice settled on herbs and hydrosols for her ritual and decided she needed a fixed procedure to answer prayers automatically.
• Alice wrote Amon a teasing letter about his past and asked whether Worms of Time could be eaten as ordinary food.
• Amon read the letter, considered experimenting with cooking Worms of Time, and wondered what Alice meant by asking about his Brother.
• Alice restored the table she had cracked, then left her room in Bayam after recalling Cattleya's advice to leave her name behind.
• Alice arranged Tarot Cards outside the Ticket Office and changed a notice to say the St. Folsen would sink, but everyone aboard would be rescued.

Alice discovered that the dangerous Fortune Accessory she had sold had been given to Evelyn as a birthday present, while Evelyn had also become a Beyonder. When Alice visited her without wearing Matilda, Evelyn failed to recognize her at first but guessed she was Briel.

• Alice returned to Backlund to sleep, then used divination to see Klein scrubbing toilets at the Medical Relief Fund.
• Alice's vision showed a dark-blue-haired man giving Evelyn the Fortune Accessory as a birthday present, and she realized its lethal effects might still be unknown to its owner.
• Alice read Evelyn's letter, which revealed that Evelyn had obtained a Potion Formula and planned to celebrate her birthday with Briel.
• Alice rushed to Evelyn's door and found her wearing the brooch, with a pair of familiar, cold black eyes visible behind her.
• Evelyn did not recognize Alice at first, but eventually guessed that she was Briel.

Alice confronted Evelyn about their friendship and the secrets she had kept, then used a controlled Misfortune Tide to enter Evelyn’s home. Evelyn broke down and begged Alice for help, so Alice knocked her unconscious and contacted Klein to ask where Miss Justice was.

• Alice apologized for hiding things from Evelyn, but Evelyn asked whether Alice had ever truly considered her a friend and questioned if Alice had saved her from the monster.
• Alice told Evelyn she could call her Alice and recalled Song Shu’s smiling face as she died, leaving Alice troubled by what the memory might mean.
• Evelyn said she was not angry and mentioned that Leonard had wanted to find Alice and ask her something.
• Alice used Misfortune Tide on Evelyn and entered the home after noticing Evelyn had been blocking the door.
• Evelyn fell to her knees, tearfully begged Alice for help, and hugged her while crying incoherently.
• Alice knocked Evelyn unconscious and contacted Klein to ask where Miss Justice was.

Alice brought the unconscious Evelyn to Audrey, woke her, and revealed the strained history between them as Evelyn recognized Alice’s status as a Goddess’s Blessed. Alice demanded that Evelyn either believe in her or die, and Evelyn chose belief.

• Alice found a moving blood-red eye in the lock of Evelyn’s bedroom door and avoided entering the room.
• After Audrey prayed, Alice took Evelyn to her and asked Audrey to find out what had happened without interrogating her.
• Alice woke Evelyn, who called her Briel, and Evelyn asked how she should address her.
• Alice told Evelyn and Audrey that Evernight had once been her Blessed, then playfully demonstrated the personality she had hidden from Evelyn.
• Alice told Evelyn to believe in her or die, and Evelyn agreed to become her believer.
• Alice asked Evelyn to recite her honorific name and leave behind her blood.

Alice and Audrey questioned Evelyn, who revealed that a swindler had tricked her into performing a ritual that made her a Beyonder and led to her mother’s death. Alice helped Evelyn begin a ritual to identify the swindler, Sylvia Maloney, and received a portrait of her.

• Alice took Evelyn’s blood and asked how she had become a Beyonder.
• Audrey soothed Evelyn as she explained that a swindler had given her a ritual, which worked but caused her mother to enter the room and die.
• Alice recognized that the ritual had connected Evelyn to the Hidden Sage, and Evelyn feared she had killed her mother.
• Evelyn identified the swindler as Sylvia Maloney and said she felt familiar and trustworthy.
• Alice taught Evelyn a ritual to draw a portrait of Sylvia, then examined the resulting image of a scarred woman with pinned-up black hair.

Alice sent Evelyn to the Church of Evernight, questioned Klein about his recent behavior and a Faceless’s abilities, then considered clues for finding Sylvia. She asked Amon what would happen if she divined the Lord of Storms, and the chapter ended with Amon appearing while looking for ingredients.

• Alice thanked Audrey, put away Sylvia’s portrait, and took Evelyn home before sending her to the Church of Evernight.
• Alice called Klein and asked why he had scrubbed a toilet, then asked whether a Faceless could change sex; Klein explained the limits of his transformations.
• Alice copied five pages of her book and wondered whether Ian could read Ancient Hermes, then asked Amon how to find a suspected swindler.
• Amon advised Alice that a swindler would keep committing crimes, and Alice asked what would happen if she divined the Lord of Storms.
• Amon appeared and said he was nearby looking for ingredients, prompting Alice to ask why he did not use his own Worms of Time.

Alice struggled to choose lunch after realizing that her control over Fate had stripped ordinary choices of their randomness. Remembering Song Shu’s cryptic words about luck being paid back, she postponed thinking about them until after eating.

• Amon invited Alice to the Forsaken Land of the Gods and revealed that he had taken the diary she copied, but Alice refused to go.
• Alice failed to choose lunch, finished an Ice Cream twice, and tried to decide by drawing lots.
• Alice reflected that, since taking the Dice of Probability, she could see Fate arranging seemingly random events and had gained authority over some outcomes.
• Alice remembered Song Shu encouraging her to make one last gacha pull and predicting that she would get the character she wanted.
• After Alice thanked Song Shu for lending her luck, Song Shu said it had to be paid back, and Alice recalled that smile as she gathered the lunch-choice slips.