Chapter Summaries

Alice read Winifred Grigori’s letter about a mysterious guest and unusually neat copies of Roselle’s Notes, then decided to visit her. Before meeting Winifred, Alice secretly watched Klein clean toilets and rewound the scene, restoring his energy but undoing his work.

• Alice read Winifred’s letter about a guest who claimed the key to lifting the Veil of Fate lay in three pages of Roselle’s Notes.
• Alice realized that her neat copies might reveal she knew the script and decided to visit Winifred Grigori.
• Alice used the letter to locate Winifred’s manor, then postponed the visit and went to see Klein.
• Alice watched Klein finish cleaning a toilet and rewound the scene, restoring his energy while erasing his work.
• Klein shouted Alice’s name after discovering that the cleaning he had completed was gone.

Alice found Sylvia with the Ocean Blue Covered Book and read a message from a being who seemed to know her from a forgotten time. Sylvia and “Cassandra” disappeared before Alice could stop them, leaving Alice wondering about a prophecy in which she had apparently died.

• Alice revealed that she had found an opportunity for Klein to act in his Fate, then described a corpse and its surroundings to him.
• Alice searched the manor for “Cassandra” and found Sylvia drinking tea with the Ocean Blue Covered Book.
• Silver runes appeared on the book's pages, saying that its writer had seen Alice awaken again and had feared she died in her own Prophecy.
• Alice realized the writer knew her, but Sylvia and “Cassandra” disappeared before she could speak or keep the book.
• Alice concluded that “Cassandra” had led the two of them and wanted to greet her, then wondered what prophecy had foretold her death.

Alice discovered that Winfred’s people had been watching Sylvia, then left a strange message for Cassandra while imagining the Tarot Club as the cast of a harem novel. She shared the absurd theory with Klein, who ended the conversation by worrying about what the Key of Light’s previous owner had put in her mind.

• Alice realized that Winfred’s agents had been searching the room for Sylvia and decided against punishing Winfred directly.
• Alice considered making the room cursed, then wrote Cassandra’s Honorific Name beside a drawn eye and offered to help find more “protagonists.”
• Alice concluded that Klein was the lead of a story combining harem, romance, boys’ love, and all-character fanfiction tropes, and told him her theory.
• Klein challenged Alice’s theory and asked what she had read at school; Alice suggested the Key of Light’s previous owner might be responsible.
• Klein fell silent with concern for Alice, so she teased him by asking whether Amon was his female lead, prompting him to snap at her.

Klein teased Alice about identifying his destiny, and she eventually declared it was money. Their joking conversation turned to whether Alice had ever fought an Angel, prompting her to recall that Ince Zangwill had killed her once.

• Alice tried to comfort Klein by claiming she could tell him who his destiny was.
• When Klein asked who his destiny was, Alice successively named ice cream, sweet iced tea and Dixie pie, gold pounds, and finally money.
• Klein touched Alice's forehead, and she suspected he was checking whether she had a fever.
• Alice explained that harming an Angel would likely require authority and admitted she had barely fought anyone.
• Alice hesitantly recalled that Ince Zangwill had killed her once, and Klein reacted with disbelief that she had forgotten.

Alice considered Cassandra’s failed prophecy and struggled to write a reply to Winifred Grigori that sounded appropriately profound. Klein helped her realize she did not need to pretend to be an Angel because she truly was one.

• Alice told Klein she could kill Ince Zangwill once, and Klein pointed out that this would leave Ince dead for good.
• After leaving the Gray Fog, Alice remembered Winifred’s letter but set aside her plan to explain what Winifred had discovered.
• Alice wondered whether Cassandra had died after failing the ritual to advance from Soothsayer to Snake of Mercury.
• Alice tried to draft a profound-sounding reply to Winifred but found she could only write vague, mystical phrases.
• Klein told Alice to write what she wanted, and Alice realized she did not need to imitate a God because she was already an Angel.

Alice sent Winifred a cryptic reply, then spent Saturday planning a comic to distract herself from thinking about Amon. She drafted a romance about Amon and Leonard under fictional names and titled it before promising herself she would destroy the draft.

• Alice replied to Winifred with a warning about curiosity and an old witch named Cassandra.
• Alice considered what she wanted in a pope and thought of Amon, then decided to draw a comic to keep her mind occupied.
• Alice chose Amon and Leonard as the models for a substitute-lover story, giving them the nicknames Crow and Poet.
• Alice designed Leonard as a girl and Amon as a humanoid crow, then titled the comic “Poems Under the Shadow of Crows: Interwoven Melody of Love and Lies.”

Alice used Arrodes to learn about the Marauder Angel parasitizing Leonard and asked whether the Zoroast Family had consisted of one person like Amon’s family. She decided she wanted to free Arrodes for herself, but the mirror had to leave when the Machinery Hivemind summoned it.

• Alice summoned Arrodes through her mirror and asked who was parasitizing Leonard.
• Arrodes identified the Angel as a member of the Zoroast Family, and Alice asked whether the family had consisted of one person and their avatars like Amon’s.
• Arrodes said the Zoroast Family had more than one member and asked whether Alice had relayed its request to her great master.
• Alice told Arrodes she would find a way to redeem it, then said it should wait for Mr. Fool to come for it.
• The Machinery Hivemind summoned Arrodes, and it left while promising to await Alice’s next summons.

Alice watched Machine Heart members use Arrodes to investigate the paper bearing an honorific name, but Arrodes’s answers pointed to Alice and the Ocean Blue Covered Book. The mirror’s connection abruptly failed after the book challenged them to recite the name, leaving Alice alarmed by its resemblance to the earlier vision of “Cassandra.”

• Alice saw Deacon Iconther Bernard ask Arrodes who had left the paper, and Arrodes showed the Wheel of Fortune Tarot Card before asking Bernard about the man he had tried to please.
• Bernard answered that other people had always been beside the man, then asked where the paper’s writer was; Arrodes replied, “They are right here.”
• The Machine Heart member who wished to remain anonymous asked Arrodes a question and admitted that he would rather his wife have intimate contact with another man than experience it himself.
• Winfred Grigori asked who the honorific name belonged to, and Arrodes showed the Ocean Blue Covered Book, whose page invited them to try reciting it.
• Alice realized Arrodes’s image had vanished after the book’s silver eye appeared, recalling that the mirror’s earlier vision of “Cassandra” had also cut off after an eye appeared.

At the Tarot Club, Alger presented two pages of Roselle's Diary that Alice had secretly written, exposing her continuation of it to Klein. Alice admitted she wrote them, accepted Klein's warning to stop, and suggested Alger pray to her and try his luck at the casino to recover his loss.

• Alger told the Tarot Club that he had collected two pages of Roselle's Diary, and Klein ordered Alice to read them.
• Alice read entries praising the taste of an Iron-Blooded Knight and a Faceless, then cursed when she realized Klein had discovered she continued the diary.
• Alice admitted to Alger that she had written the pages, while the other Tarot Club members realized why Klein was displeased.
• Alger accepted responsibility for mistaking the copied diary, and Alice insisted he bear the loss because he had bought it.
• Klein told Alice to let this be the last time, and Alice suggested Alger pray to her and try the casino after he returned.

At the Tarot Club, Alice asked for information about Cassandra and other Sealed Artifacts from the Soothsayer pathway, but the members had little to offer. She ended by proposing an unusual doctrine for the Holy Bible, prompting the World to tease her about a past experience.

• Alice asked the Tarot Club whether anyone knew Cassandra or had information about Sealed Artifacts from a Soothsayer.
• Cattleya described the Eye of the Prophet, a bloodshot eyeball that showed possible futures, including one that guaranteed the viewer's death.
• Audrey asked what happened if the Eye showed only one future, and Cattleya said it would be the viewer's death.
• Alice admitted she knew little about Cassandra beyond what Klein knew, adding that Cassandra might be alive and knew her.
• Alice considered whether a Soothsayer's Acting Method worked better when fewer people knew about it, then stopped trying to figure out her sudden insight.
• Alice suggested making rules about empty trash cans, beds, and tables into Holy Bible doctrine, and the World teased her about wanting to repeat a past experience.

At a Tarot Club meeting, Alice’s unusual suggestions and the World’s warning revealed that her rule about a past carried deeper significance. She asked Cattleya how to pass information without attracting the Hidden Sage’s attention, but Cattleya admitted she did not know.

• Alice rejected the World’s suggestion, prompting the Tarot Club members to realize her rule was more than an eccentric whim.
• The members recalled Alice’s strange proposals, including asking Mr. Fool to deliver food to the City of Silver.
• Emlyn asked what past Alice and the World were hinting at, and Alice praised him as the Sanguine’s prophesied savior to distract him.
• Alice asked Cattleya how to communicate without attracting the Hidden Sage’s attention.
• Cattleya said she did not know and admitted that being drawn into the Tarot Club had helped her find traces of Mythical Creature Blood.

At the Tarot Club, Alice claimed she could handle her own problems and explained how members could recognize the two pages of Roselle's Diary she had written. When Audrey asked what Roselle's famous saying meant, Klein offered a cryptic translation to help Alice avoid revealing the truth.

• Alice insisted she did not need Klein's help, and Cattleya encouraged her while Audrey privately questioned the change in her behavior.
• Alger asked how the Tarot Club could identify Alice's pages in Roselle's Diary, and Alice told them to remember the two pages and compare them.
• Fors explained that memorizing the diary's Roselle Script was difficult, so Alice asked whether they could tell if they had already submitted a page.
• Klein reminded Alice that the pages contained a line adapted from one of Roselle's famous sayings, and Alice taught the club the original and two variations.
• Audrey asked what “The Taste of a Witch is Quite Good” meant, and Klein helped Alice by translating it as “All things are false; all things are permitted.”

At the Tarot Club, Alice explained away her trouble translating a Roselle quote, then discussed Derrick’s patrol teams suffering strange bad luck near some ruins. She offered charms while warning Derrick that future help would come at a price, and was startled when he called her merciful.

• Alice claimed she had read the quote but did not know how to translate it into Loenese, ending the others’ questions.
• Derrick told the Tarot Club that patrol teams near some ruins in the City of Silver’s surroundings were struck by dangerous bad luck.
• Alice said she could not reach Derrick and advised him to avoid the ruins until she or Mr. Fool could help.
• Alice offered to provide charms to dispel bad luck, but refused Derrick’s offer of Beyonder materials for this first incident.
• Alice warned Derrick that future help would not be free, and Derrick solemnly thanked her as the merciful Miss Fortune.
• Alice wondered in surprise whether Derrick had really called her merciful.

After the Tarot Club ended, Klein questioned Alice about the Sequence 2 book Cassandra and worried whether she could handle it. Alice teased him by calling him “Mother,” then reassured him that she could seek the Goddess’s help.

• Klein asked Alice why she had not told him about Cassandra, and Alice explained that the book was a cursed Soothsayer at Sequence 2.
• Alice argued that Klein’s Church was making her, his Angel-level Blessed, do child labor, then refused his suggestion that she go to high school.
• Klein wondered whether Cassandra would simply find its way to Alice, and Alice joked that things had already been delivered to her before.
• Alice called Klein “Mother,” making him fall off his chair, then laughed as he complained and threatened to educate her.
• Klein asked whether Alice could handle Cassandra, and Alice said she could call the Goddess Mother instead, though she hoped the Goddess would still acknowledge her.

After returning to the Real World, Alice handled Alger’s prayer and helped him win thirty pounds at a casino. Alger misunderstood her joking name “Princess Yelolian” as a meaningful royal surname, while Alice remained unaware of his guesses and received another prayer from someone she had marked.

• Alice returned to the Real World furious after Klein warned that the Goddess might beat her to death, then discovered she had to handle prayers in Mr. Fool’s place.
• Alger prayed to Alice, praised her help with the diary incident, and conversed with her about acting and the Church of Storms.
• Alice altered Alger’s fate, told him to win thirty pounds at the casino, and warned him not to win too much.
• Alger left the casino with thirty pounds and speculated that Yelolian was a royal surname tied to Alice’s unpleasant memories.
• Alice heard another prayer from someone she had specially marked.

Alice heard a believer explain that repeated failures had stopped him from drinking his Potion, and she offered to help in exchange for a price. She then considered Sylvia’s Potion path and the possible outcome of exploring Amon’s Mausoleum.

• A man prayed to Alice for courage and help drinking a Marauder Potion, explaining that repeated mishaps had prevented him from becoming a Beyonder.
• Alice saw that his likely futures mostly involved losing control and asked whether he was prepared to pay for Fate’s help.
• Alice sent him the Sacrifice Ritual instructions and waited for him to offer a price.
• Alice wondered whether Sylvia had obtained her Swindler Potion through fraud and whether she could acquire the Cryptologist Potion.
• Alice reasoned that exploring Amon’s Mausoleum could make Sylvia a Demigod whether she succeeded or failed.

Alice reflected on Cassandra’s influence and the world’s gods, then imagined a tragic love story between Klein and Ince Zangwill. She gave the unwritten story the title “Weaving the Web of Fate: Elegy of the Red Moon.”

• Alice wondered whether Cassandra had deliberately or unknowingly shaped Sylvia’s fate and concluded that Sylvia had been treated as a toy.
• Alice speculated that gods grew more like fixed puzzle pieces as they advanced in Sequence, and imagined the world as a building-block game.
• Alice remembered Ince Zangwill and began outlining a love story in which he and Klein became entangled through revenge and fell in love.
• Alice imagined Ince sacrificing herself during Klein’s ascension, leaving Mr. Fool to become a lonely god who eventually fell into slumber.
• Alice named her imagined story “Weaving the Web of Fate: Elegy of the Red Moon.”

Klein read Alice’s prank confession about Ince Zangwill, copied it for possible future use, and worried about the rumors Alice might invent. Alice dreamed she found a treasure hoard that turned out to be Worms of Time, then heard a familiar voice ask if they were tasty.

• Alice sacrificed pages to Klein, including Ince Zangwill’s supposed confession of love to Mr. Fool.
• Klein tore up the pages, copied their contents, and considered showing them to the Goddess.
• Klein imagined how Alice might turn his life into an outrageous story, then abandoned the idea.
• Alice was disappointed that Klein had not scolded her and decided to deal with it after waking.
• Alice dreamed she found a treasure hoard, bit into a gold coin, and discovered the treasure was a mass of Worms of Time.
• A familiar voice asked Alice, “Are Worms of Time tasty?”

Alice woke from a dream of countless Worms of Time and found Amon waiting in her room, where He gave her a grand gift by taking her to a tomb chamber. Sitting in a coffin beside a lifelike portrait of Amon, Alice realized she might be playing the role she had once planned for Him, but she did not know where He had gone.

• Alice screamed when she recognized the Worms of Time, then woke in her bedroom and saw a crow that changed into a white crow after her passing thought.
• Amon appeared beside Alice and told her He had counted 345,726 Worms of Time in her dream and prepared the feast because she had wanted to taste them.
• Amon offered Alice a grand gift, took her hand, and transported her to an unfamiliar place.
• Alice found herself sitting in an open coffin inside a new tomb chamber, with a vivid portrait resembling Amon nearby.
• Alice recalled that she had once asked Amon to hide in a coffin and startle Sylvia, and suspected she had been brought to take Amon’s place.

Alice fell asleep in Amon’s coffin and dreamed of searching for treasure before waking to find Amon and Sylvia at the mausoleum. After Amon let her claim Sylvia’s Ocean Blue Covered Book, it escaped Alice’s grasp, and Alice suggested Sylvia had failed to solve a riddle tied to her stolen and fraudulently acquired potions.

• Alice disguised herself as Amon, climbed into his coffin, and fell asleep.
• Alice dreamed of searching a ship for treasure, then awoke when Amon opened the coffin.
• Amon introduced Sylvia to his mausoleum, and Sylvia collapsed in terror as the Ocean Blue Covered Book fell from her hand.
• Alice asked Amon for the book, and he agreed before teasing her as his best friend who had tasted the Worm of Time.
• Alice reached for the book, but it vanished; Amon denied taking it and said he had only added some fun to her life.
• Sylvia accused Alice of making Cassandra abandon her, and Alice taunted Sylvia for getting stuck at Sequence 7 and failing to solve a riddle.