Chapter Summaries

Alice returned to Tingen to visit the graves of Klein Moretti and Alice Kingsley, after asking Klein to help sell a Beyonder Characteristic and repaying her overdue rent. At Raphael Cemetery, the gravedigger found Alice Kingsley’s grave and realized its photograph looked exactly like the living Alice.

• Alice asked Klein to help sell the equipment dropped by the Demigod who had tried to kill him, and he agreed before sending her money.
• Alice left her overdue rent with Brooks and the other policemen, then traveled by ship and carriage from Backlund to Tingen.
• Alice bought bouquets of Narcissus and Seviya Chrysanthemums from Lady Daly and went to Raphael Cemetery.
• Alice asked the gravedigger to find the graves of Klein Moretti and Alice Kingsley, then followed him to the two graves.
• The gravedigger found Alice Kingsley’s tombstone and froze when he saw that its photograph matched the living Alice.

Alice visited her own grave in Tingen and tried to reunite with her former captain, Dunn, but her resurrection made the Nighthawks wary until she proved her identity as the Goddess’s Blessed. The chapter ended with Dunn addressing her as “Your Excellency,” leaving Alice in tears as she asked to complete her team entry mission.

• Alice visited the graves of herself and Klein Moretti, frightened the gravedigger, and told him he could leave.
• The gravedigger and the flower shop owner separately reported their encounters to Bishop Dunn at the Church of the Night.
• Alice went to the church hoping to see Dunn, where she encountered him leading the Nighthawks and the two witnesses.
• Dunn treated Alice as a possible threat, and she explained that she had returned only to look in on them.
• Alice declared herself the Goddess’s Blessed and recited the Goddess’s Honorific Name, proving who she was.
• Dunn respectfully called Alice “Your Excellency,” and Alice cried as she asked to do her team entry mission.

Alice accepted that her old life as Alice Kingsley had ended and watched Dunn contact Madam Daly before wandering through Tingen City. At the Underground Market, she found Ademisaul and offered him a dangerous chance to change his fate.

• Alice spoke to Dunn, told him she had grown stronger, and concealed herself as he returned to the Church of the Night.
• Alice watched Dunn send a telegram and prepare a ritual to contact Madam Daly, then stayed in Tingen City while waiting for Klein's reply.
• Alice wandered through Tingen City, bought food and drink, and decided to look for Ademisaul at the Underground Market.
• Alice questioned a stall owner about Ademisaul, was sent in the wrong direction, and then heard Ademisaul exclaim that he could no longer see anything.
• Alice told Ademisaul he could accept a chance to become a Lucky One, Calamity Star, or Winner—or refuse and remain safely as he was, and asked whether he would accept.

Alice gave Ademisaul the Monster potion formula, then realized helping people caught in misfortune could digest her Misfortune Mage potion. After the Evernight Goddess rejected Alice’s request to become her mother, Alice wondered whether the Goddess kept her distance because she trusted Alice too much.

• Ademisaul accepted Alice’s offer and received the Monster potion formula, while Alice noticed feedback from her potion digestion.
• Alice followed an amulet seller into a secluded corner, refused to bless her, and vanished from the underground market.
• While eating, Alice reasoned that a Misfortune Mage could digest the potion by changing the fate of people caught in misfortune.
• Klein contacted Alice to check on her, and she later teased him by saying, “Mr. Fool, I held you when you were little.”
• Alice returned to Backlund and prayed for the Evernight Goddess to become her mother, but the Goddess answered, “Do you have no other choice?”
• Alice considered whether the Evernight Goddess’s refusal reflected a desire to keep her at a distance, as Klein’s trust in her seemed unusually strong.

Alice learned that Dunn and Daly seemed destined to marry, then discussed how she should be described in the Church of Evernight’s Holy Bible with Archbishop Anthony. She left with no official authority, resolved to pursue her advancement, but postponed her plans and sought Mr. Fool’s help finding a home-cleaning service.

• Alice secretly watched Dunn meet Daly at the church and foresaw them exchanging wedding vows and rings.
• Alice decided to save the news about Dunn and Daly for her next meeting with Klein.
• Alice asked Archbishop Anthony whether the Holy Bible could call her a Saint or an Angel, and he refused to include her claim that Evernight was her Blessed.
• Anthony reconsidered the Tingen incident and wondered whether Alice had once been an Angel of the Fate Pathway and whether the other supposedly dead Beyonder had survived.
• Alice resolved to act as a Misfortune Mage, search for Chaoswalker potion ingredients, and remember Cassandra and Selwyn Magritte, but she went to sleep instead.
• On Friday, Alice abandoned her plan to clean her room herself and called upon Mr. Fool to ask about home-cleaning services.

Alice told Klein that Captain Dunn had believed she was the Goddess’s Blessed, then revealed that she had prophesied Dunn and Madam Daly were getting married. After receiving the Wheel of Fortune card, Alice studied its Soothsayer description and began to suspect that the Cards of Blasphemy concealed something seriously wrong.

• Alice asked Klein for help finding a cleaner, and Klein said he would arrive in Backlund the next day and told her where to look.
• Alice told Klein that Captain Dunn had recognized her as the Goddess’s Blessed and had called her “Your Excellency.”
• Alice revealed that she had prophesied Captain Dunn and Madam Daly were getting married, shocking Klein.
• After hiring someone to clean her room, Alice worried about money and considered selling the Beyonder Characteristic from a Rose School demigod’s Puppet.
• Alice received the Wheel of Fortune card and read its Sequence 2 Soothsayer description, suspecting the Cards of Blasphemy had a hidden flaw or origin.

Alice tucked away the Wheel of Fortune card and joined the Tarot Club meeting, where Cattleya asked why Roselle went mad and the World offered mystical items for sale. Alice disputed ownership of Sennior’s necklace and offered to lower its price if Cattleya helped turn a Sequence Four Puppet characteristic into a mystical item.

• Alice decided to keep the Wheel of Fortune card for now and went above the gray fog when Monday arrived.
• Cattleya submitted three pages of Roselle’s diary and asked why Emperor Roselle went mad in his later years; Klein said an unknown influence had turned Roselle’s attention toward Sequence 0.
• The World offered the Scale of Fortune for sale, and Alice renamed it Bitcoin because it was like borrowing from Fate.
• Cattleya asked about the necklace’s original owner, and the World said Sennior was dead.
• Alice argued that Sennior’s necklace should belong to her, then offered to reduce its price if Cattleya helped turn a Sequence Four Rose School Puppet characteristic into a mystical item.

World sold the Scale of Fortune to Cattleya and offered several other items during the Tarot Club meeting, while the members arranged their own trades. Alice then questioned Sun Derrick about staying in Afternoon Town and warned that the Chief had retained his memories during the loop.

• Cattleya negotiated with World and bought the Scale of Fortune for eleven thousand pounds, while Sharron and her companion were suggested as potential buyers for its Puppet Beyonder Characteristic.
• World failed to sell the Biological Toxin Bottle, sold the Book of Secrets to Audrey, and offered an Interrogator Beyonder Characteristic for twelve hundred pounds.
• Alger asked Cattleya to find an Aubanis Sea Monster outside the Church of Storms, and she agreed to look for a lead.
• Emlyn offered to trade the ingredients he had obtained for Derrick's requested resources, and Derrick accepted and gave him a list of monsters and supplies.
• Alice asked Derrick whether the Chief had exposed him, then said the Chief had retained his memories during the loop.

At the Tarot Club, Alice revealed that she would likely become a Saint of the Church of Evernight, while the others struggled to make sense of her unusual status. After the gathering, she read three pages of Emperor Roselle’s diary and wondered whether his fate had left him alive on the moon, giving birth.

• Derrick said the Chief had reacted to his Notary Potion Formula with only a brief approval, and Alger reassured him that the Chief was pleased with his growth.
• Alice told the Tarot Club she would probably become a Saint of the Church of Evernight, and described the administrative work Saints usually handled.
• Alice said the Goddess had not assigned her a district or given her a salary, leading Alger and the others to suspect she was a figurehead.
• After the Tarot Club ended, Alice stayed with Klein and read Roselle’s diary entries about Bornova, Zaratul, and a Mystical Item he made for Bernadette.
• Alice read Roselle’s entry about the Red Moon and asked Klein whether Roselle had gone there, speculating that he might still be alive and giving birth.

Klein and Alice examined a contaminated diary entry in which Roselle feared that the world would be destroyed and resolved to become Sequence 0. Their discussion of the Gray Fog’s mysterious door and Mr. Door ended with Alice connecting him to Amon.

• Alice realized Bernadette had selected a diary page contaminated by Roselle’s emotions, and Klein confirmed it was written during Roselle’s madness.
• Alice and Klein concluded Roselle’s reference to others sharing his experience likely meant transmigration, then wondered whether the door atop the Gray Fog’s stairs led to a public dormitory.
• Alice connected Roselle’s vision of destruction to the Apocalypse and asked what a Soothsayer would have to see to gaze into despair.
• Alice compared Mr. Door’s loneliness and willingness to answer questions to a friendly King of Angels she knew, then identified him as Amon.

Alice and Klein discussed Anderson’s whereabouts and whether Alice could recruit believers for the Fool, then Alice used divination to find Anderson at St. Samuel Cathedral in Backlund. She returned Anderson’s Monocle and lifted his Doom, ending by teasing him with the name “Dolly Amon.”

• Alice asked Klein where Anderson had gone, and Klein admitted he did not know.
• Alice asked which Tarot card she should give Leonard if he questioned her, and Klein chose the Star card.
• Alice suggested turning the Fool’s potential believers into mindless devotees, but Klein rejected that kind of faith.
• Anderson traveled to Backlund and entered St. Samuel Cathedral wearing the Monocle, while Alice foresaw his arrival and went to meet him the next morning.
• Alice waved Anderson over, accepted his apology and the Monocle, and removed the Doom she had left on him.
• Alice put on the Monocle and told Anderson he could call her Amon, then joked that he could call her Dolly Amon.

Alice’s attempt to impersonate Amon in front of Anderson unexpectedly completed her advancement ritual, prompting her to ask Klein what made this occasion different. She and Klein suspected her explicit claim that she was Amon had invoked something connected to Amon’s authority, but His purpose remained unclear.

• Alice took back the Monocle from Anderson, called him “Anderson Amon,” and left him to prove his identity to the Church of Evernight.
• Amon’s avatars around the world echoed, “Welcome to join us, Dolly Amon,” while Alice celebrated with ice cream and named her Monocle “Lucky Star.”
• Klein agreed to meet Alice privately, and she visited him with ice cream to ask him to deduce what had changed about her latest impersonation of Amon.
• Alice realized that this time she had explicitly said she was Amon, unlike earlier occasions when others had merely inferred it from her disguise and behavior.
• Klein and Alice considered whether her words had triggered something tied to Amon’s Error authority, then speculated about what Amon might want from her.

Alice and Klein discussed why Amon might be interested in her, and Alice suspected He wanted to steal her Deification Ritual. She connected her fate to the will of the Key of Light, while Klein questioned her uncanny deductions; the conversation ended with him preparing to get her more ice cream.

• Alice concluded that Amon might seek her because her Deification Ritual could help Him become a god, and she speculated that He might steal it.
• Alice told Klein she believed she could take later Beyonder Characteristics without losing control, but might become the owner of the will within them.
• Alice privately considered whether the Key of Light had chosen her as a vessel for resurrection, though she could not explain those thoughts to Klein.
• Klein told Alice her conclusions seemed to arrive before their reasoning and warned her not to become a detective; they wondered whether an author was planting answers in her mind.
• Alice asked for more ice cream, and Klein instinctively agreed before realizing that leaving at that moment could fuel rumors about Dwayne Dantès and Alice.

Klein dealt with Alice’s mischief over ice cream while Edwina opened sealed artifact 0-34 and summoned Alice for help. Alice learned that the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom had sent the quill as a gift, then struggled to memorize the ritual needed to open its box.

• Klein hid Alice from Richardson, who noticed something unusual, and later Alice made Klein’s eaten ice cream reappear before reversing the trick.
• Edwina opened a sealed box aboard the Golden Dream, discovered the crimson quill 0-34, and stopped herself from touching it after sensing its danger.
• Edwina prayed to Alice, who traced the prayer to the box and appeared in the captain’s cabin.
• Edwina asked Alice to help seal 0-34, explained its ability to draw inevitable future calamities, and said the God of Knowledge and Wisdom had sent it as a gift.
• Alice asked how to open the box, then complained that Edwina’s supposedly simple instructions required too many incantations and gestures to memorize.

Alice used the Quill Pen Sealed Artifact “0-34” to draw a scene of her death, then discovered that the burned painting restored itself once before she destroyed it completely. She went to Archbishop Anthony to ask about the Church’s relationship with the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, after meeting Red Gloves captain Soest.

• Alice opened the box containing “0-34,” endured its freezing chill, and let the Quill Pen draw a painting of a white Great Serpent and a blonde girl in a tower scene she recognized from a shared dream.
• Alice realized that the dream had never shown her returning from death and suspected that someone had forced the idea into her mind, so she sealed “0-34” and burned the painting.
• The ashes of Alice’s painting reassembled into the image once, but she burned it again over a wastebasket and put away the Sealed Artifact.
• Alice visited Archbishop Anthony, where she waited as Soest, a Red Gloves captain, reported on returning Sealed Artifacts used in a Devil case.
• Anthony introduced Soest to Alice as a newly advanced Saint, and Alice greeted him before asking Anthony whether the Church had a good relationship with the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom.

Alice asked Archbishop Anthony for information about the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact 0-34 and for opportunities to act as a Misfortune Mage. Anthony proposed that she join the Church as clergy, and Alice began planning how to prepare while considering what the Church’s scriptures might reveal.

• Alice gave Anthony the box containing 0-34 and asked him to obtain its information from the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom; he agreed and explained that high-level Sealed Artifact records were protected by authorization.
• Alice asked Anthony to help her find opportunities to act as a Misfortune Mage, and she explained that acting could involve controlling misfortune or helping others dispel it.
• Alice reflected that fortune and misfortune depended on each other and that controlling probability did not mean controlling misfortune.
• Anthony said he could not place Alice in a Nighthawks or Red Gloves team as an ordinary member, then suggested she become clergy in the Church of Evernight.
• Alice agreed to consider becoming an ordinary clergyman and asked for training and a copy of the Church’s scriptures.

Alice obtained a Holy Bible from Archbishop Anthony and unexpectedly encountered Leonard, who was shaken by her return and her status as a Saint. After Leonard and the voice of the Old Man suspected that Alice’s Fate had been concealed, Alice returned home and watched the Holy Bible vanish after wondering whether the Goddess had been a transmigrator.

• Archbishop Anthony agreed to give Alice a copy of the Holy Bible, and Alice left his office without hiding her presence.
• Alice encountered Leonard and Soest, who introduced her as the Saint who had died in the Tingen City incident; Leonard formally greeted her, and Alice left with a Holy Bible.
• Leonard questioned the Old Man about Alice, and the Old Man said that nothing was wrong with her while warning that this was the greatest problem and that her Fate might be hidden.
• Leonard suspected someone had concealed Alice’s Fate, and he praised the Goddess after considering who might be responsible.
• Alice read poems in the Holy Bible at home and wondered whether the Goddess had been a transmigrator.
• The Holy Bible vanished from Alice’s table, and she tentatively called out to the Goddess.

Alice worried about being watched, sought a secure place for the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact “0-34,” and considered what she could tell Klein about the Goddess. Leonard began to suspect Alice might be connected to Klein’s apparent death and arranged to speak with her, while Alice left the Church carrying the artifact after discussing its storage with Archbishop Anthony.

• Alice tested whether Adam was watching her, then decided she could not safely store “0-34” in Klein’s Sefirah Castle and asked the Goddess if she could tell Klein that she was a transmigrator.
• Leonard reconsidered the events in Tingen and wondered whether Alice, like Klein, had survived after being presumed dead; Soest suggested he ask Alice for help returning there.
• Alice returned to the cathedral, gave Leonard her address, and then asked Archbishop Anthony to arrange storage for “0-34” behind Chanis Gate.
• Archbishop Anthony explained that a Sequence 4 Unshadowed could purify and extract lower-sequence characteristics, and suggested Alice bring such a person to the Church or recruit them as an informant or believer.
• Alice left the office carrying “0-34” and noticed Leonard was no longer in the hall.

Alice reunited with Leonard and revealed that she was Briel Rose, while hinting that she had become a being beyond ordinary mortals. She made Leonard draw The Star and directed him to contact the Fool, then went home and gleefully prayed that Klein’s secret had been exposed.

• Alice found Leonard waiting at her door and greeted him after realizing how distant she had become from mortals.
• Alice hinted to Leonard that she might become a True God whose name could bring doom, then made him draw The Star and called him Mr. Star.
• Alice told Leonard to recite the Fool’s honorific name with any questions and claimed that Evernight and the Fool were both her Blessed.
• Alice admitted that she had been Briel Rose and asked whether Leonard wanted to see if the Protagonist of the Era had crawled out of his grave.
• After returning home, Alice prayed to Mr. Fool that his secret had been exposed and lamented the cost of giving away tarot cards.

Leonard learned that Alice might be a powerful divine figure or a Great Being’s Blessed, while Alice told Klein she had met the Goddess, a fellow Transmigrator. Remembering the prophecy and Will Auceptin’s coming birth, Alice began assigning Klein tasks but worried that Will might attack him.

• Pallez warned Leonard to keep his distance from Alice and outlined several possibilities for her divine status; Leonard decided to return to Tingen City.
• Alice told Klein that Leonard had drawn her Star card and that she had met the Goddess, who was also a Transmigrator.
• Alice explained that the Goddess’s long divine life meant her brief human life might not define her, then described how she had learned the truth.
• Alice remembered Will Auceptin’s impending birth and considered whether her Honorific Name could help him locate her amid the danger posed by 0-34.
• Alice asked Klein to watch for Will’s birth, then hesitated and asked whether Will might attack him.