Chapter Summaries

Alice considered Will Auceptin’s intentions, discussed where to keep a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, and observed church work before receiving new books from Archbishop Anthony. Meanwhile, Klein endured an intense course of social studies and etiquette, and the chapter ended as Cattleya reported that she had found one page of Roselle’s Diary.

• Alice reasoned that Will Auceptin likely would have harmed Klein already if he had targeted him, and asked whether she could leave a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact with him.
• Alice decided to ask Audrey about meeting at the next Tarot Club, then watched church clergy for three mornings to consider a job as a Misfortune Mage.
• Archbishop Anthony summoned Alice and exchanged the box containing 0-34 for a stack of newly revised Holy Bibles.
• Walter expanded Klein’s lessons to include history, politics, philosophy, music, and sports, while Alice admitted she had never learned aristocratic etiquette.
• Klein agreed to invite Alice to a banquet, and the Tarot Club meeting began with Cattleya reporting that she had collected one page of Roselle’s Diary.

At the Tarot Club meeting, Klein revealed that the figure in Roselle’s diary was Mr. Door, the source of Fors’s Full Moon Ravings. Alice arranged a counseling session with Audrey and sought help finding a Sun Pathway Sequence 4 characteristic, while Cattleya asked Fors for information about Mr. Door.

• Cattleya asked who besides Roselle was mentioned in the diary, and Alice jokingly claimed it was Mr. Fool.
• Klein identified the person as Mr. Door after Fors connected him to the Full Moon Ravings.
• Alice arranged to meet Audrey for paid counseling the next day and asked the club to find an Unshadowed or suitable Extraordinary Item.
• Alice explained that the item could help separate Beyonder Characteristics, then warned Emlyn that testing it by eating it could make him lose control.
• Cattleya offered to pay Fors for more information about Mr. Door, and Fors reconsidered keeping the information private.

At the Tarot Club, Fors shared what she knew about Mr. Door, while Alice experienced a terrifying vision tied to his cries for help. Alice warned Cattleya that Mr. Door was a King of Angels trapped in a dark storm and that summoning him could bring a dangerous presence back to Earth.

• Fors offered to tell Cattleya what she knew about Mr. Door, and Mr. Fool allowed her to continue after Alice objected to the information being sold.
• Fors explained that a Spirit World travel item had caused her to hear painful full-moon ravings from Mr. Door, who might be asking for help.
• As Fors described the ravings, Alice saw the crimson moon as a vast eye beginning to open, then was pulled back from the vision by the grayish-white mist.
• Alice warned Cattleya that her intuition suggested danger and explained that Mr. Door's apparent plea could lead someone to summon a threat from the moon.
• Alice told Cattleya that Mr. Door was a friendly King of Angels trapped in a pitch-black storm who hoped someone would bring him out.

Alice warned the Tarot Club that Mr. Door’s pleas might not be his own and that the Cosmos was dangerous to observe, then discussed Roselle’s possible resurrection with Klein. She left with Klein promising to send her the instructions for summoning a messenger.

• Alice described Mr. Door’s friendliness, prompting Cattleya to connect it to Amon and question whether Mr. Door was deceiving people.
• Alice revealed that she had seen the source trapping Mr. Door and warned that the full moon timing did not fit a genuine plea for help.
• Alice cautioned the Tarot Club not to look at the Cosmos before becoming an Angel, and Klein stopped the members from investigating further.
• Alice explained to Derrick that fallen stars became meteorites, and Alger described their dangers before Klein ended the gathering.
• Klein showed Alice Roselle’s diary and suggested that Roselle had switched to a non-adjacent pathway, possibly becoming the Black Emperor before using death to expel excess characteristics.
• Alice asked whether Roselle could return from his coffin and how to summon a messenger, and Klein agreed to send her the relevant instructions.

Alice summoned Reinette Tinekerr as a messenger, mistook her for an Angel working to pay for medical treatment, and apologized until Reinette left to complain to Klein. Alice tried summoning again and received a Seven-Colored Crow, which cheerfully warned her that she was going to die.

• Alice summoned Reinette Tinekerr and mistakenly believed she delivered letters to earn money for treating her neck.
• Reinette left Alice and appeared before Klein to ask how he had described her, then told him to teach his daughter properly.
• Alice decided Klein should apologize for her and began a second summoning after praying for a suitable messenger.
• A Seven-Colored Crow appeared before Alice and cheerfully told her she was going to die.

Alice contracted with a seven-colored crow she named Caw-Caw, then visited Klein and learned he planned to sell his bicycle company shares. Klein agreed to trade them for Alice’s Puppet Beyonder Characteristic after Sharron raised the money, just before visitors arrived at his home.

• Alice asked the seven-colored crow to be her messenger, signed a contract with it, and named it Caw-Caw.
• Alice tried to divine why Caw-Caw had come to her, but repeated visions of blinding light made her stop.
• Alice secretly visited Klein during a philosophy lesson and left him the message, “Metaphysics? If you can't handle it, drop out.”
• Klein discussed inviting Alice to his banquet, heard Walter explain the difficulties female servants faced, and instructed him to investigate buying Backlund Bicycle Company shares.
• Alice asked Klein to give her the bicycle company shares in exchange for the Puppet’s Beyonder Characteristic, and Klein agreed to wait until Sharron raised the money.
• Richardson told Klein that Mori Macht, Lady Liana, and Bishop Elektra had arrived, and Klein realized he had been holding his book upside down.

Klein hosted Councilman Mori Macht, Liana, and Bishop Electra while Alice joined the visit and claimed Electra was her boss. The guests invited Klein to a Moon Mass, and the visit ended with them discussing his supposed adventures in West Balam.

• Richardson explained that the neighbors could visit Klein during his announced afternoon hours, and said Electra had come after meeting Mori Macht.
• Alice appeared in the living room without using the door, joined the guests, and Electra introduced her as his boss's child.
• Electra invited Klein and Alice to a Moon Mass for the deceased, and Alice joked about attending as one of the dead.
• Klein and the Macht couple chatted about Desi Bay, and Klein offered to host a banquet while Alice introduced herself as Alice Kingsley.
• Klein recounted adventures in West Balam, and Alice asked whether Electra and Mori Macht were checking his stories for truth.

Alice mistook Councilman Mori Macht and his wife for rats wearing monocles, then reported that Will Auceptin had reincarnated inside Velma and asked the Church to handle the danger. After Will sensed danger and Velma was told she might give birth prematurely, Alice sought work in a confessional at St. Samuel's Church.

• Alice saw Councilman Mori Macht and Liana as rats wearing monocles and asked Bishop Electra to visit their home.
• Alice told Bishop Electra that Will Auceptin was growing inside Velma and gave him Doctor Allen's address, asking the Church to intervene.
• Velma suffered a brief abdominal pain, and Allen learned that Will had sensed danger and that Velma might give birth prematurely.
• Alice returned to St. Samuel's Church and asked Archbishop Anthony for work in a confessional.
• Archbishop Anthony tested Alice's response to a confession about theft, and Alice said God would forgive the thief before adding that her task was to send him to meet God.

Alice received Bernadette’s plea for help with a dangerous Soothsayer Sealed Artifact and traveled to her through a magical passage. After seeing its vision of the Great Serpent, Alice took the artifact to place behind Chanis Gate, then left it covered on her coffee table as she resisted the urge to eat it.

• Anthony suggested Alice clean the cathedral as a low-stakes task, but a letter from Bernadette arrived before they could continue.
• Bernadette’s letter explained that her Eye of the Prophet showed her a single future of her death and left her feeling watched.
• A rabbit folded from the letter led Alice through a passage to Bernadette, where Alice found the bloodshot eyeball covered on a dinner plate.
• Alice looked into the Eye of the Prophet and saw herself climbing the High Tower before the Great Serpent swallowed her.
• Alice brought the artifact to Anthony and asked him to report that she might place more Soothsayer Sealed Artifacts behind Chanis Gate.
• Alice set the covered plate on her coffee table, arranged a knife and fork beside it, and fled without eating the eyeball.

Alice considered her advancement to Sequence 3 and struggled to understand how to obtain the Chaos Walker auxiliary ingredient, “All Fragments of a Broken Prophecy.” After asking Bernadette whether Beyonder flesh could serve as an ingredient and receiving a warning not to eat people, she remembered her Honorific Name and read Mr. Fool’s reply about the taste of human flesh.

• Alice reconsidered her advancement, the possibility of taking a Chaos Walker characteristic from Will Onsetin’s subordinates, and whether Sealed Artifacts could help her digest her potion.
• Alice examined the Chaos Walker auxiliary ingredient and ritual but could not work out how to collect fragments of a broken prophecy.
• Alice wondered whether Beyonder flesh could be used as a potion ingredient, bit her own arm, and considered asking Klein, Anthony, Ouroboros, Amon, Adam, or Bernadette.
• Alice asked Bernadette, who confirmed that a Beyonder’s corpse could function as a lower-quality potion and filled her reply with warnings against eating people.
• Alice remembered her Honorific Name and received Mr. Fool’s reply that human flesh tasted sour and was not worth trying.

Alice asked Klein whether scrubbing toilets could help her digest her potion, then planned to act as a fortune teller. She attended the Moon Mass at St. Samuel's Church, where Klein donated generously and arranged to steal a notebook while Alice left the church.

• Alice asked Klein if volunteering to scrub toilets could help her act, and Klein suggested she use her fortune-teller appearance to set up a stall.
• Alice decided to advertise her fortune-telling with Pinyin and later commissioned a stick with embroidered words on white cloth.
• Alice attended the Moon Mass at St. Samuel's Church, sat beside Dwayne Dantès and Richardson, and secretly slept through part of the service.
• During the hymn, Alice saw the congregation and Klein become sorrowful, then watched Klein donate a large stack of banknotes.
• Alice chose not to donate, urged Klein to give Richardson a raise, and left while Klein arranged to read scripture with Bishop Electra as a pretext to steal a notebook.

Velma went into premature labor and briefly experienced a terrifying separation from her body before waking beside Aaron. Meanwhile, Alice considered contacting Ouroboros, heard Klein arrange a bounty for Lady Vahana’s stolen goods, and went to investigate Councilman Macht and Madam Liana at 39 Backlund Street.

• Velma’s labor began unexpectedly, and Aaron rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she delivered the baby smoothly before losing consciousness.
• Velma sensed herself drifting outside her body, saw blood-red eyes, and then awoke beside Aaron drenched in sweat.
• Alice regretted not getting Ouroboros’s contact information and decided to visit Councilman Mori Macht and Madam Liana.
• Klein offered a 200-pound reward to help Lady Vahana recover her husband’s stolen goods, and Alice envied his generosity.
• Alice asked Klein for the Macht couple’s address, declined his offer of tutoring, and arrived at 39 Backlund Street to search the house with her spirituality.

Alice visited Hazel Macht in her study, where a playful attempt to interact with Hazel’s mystical necklace caused a dangerous reaction that Alice reversed. After questioning Hazel about her teacher and Amon, Alice left Hazel with a vague warning that she would face a terrible High-Sequence conflict within the next month or two.

• Alice revealed herself to Hazel Macht and introduced herself as Miss Fortune.
• Hazel used her necklace against Alice, and Alice’s attempt to lend it a piece of misfortune caused Hazel’s body to sprout flesh buds before Alice rewound events to prevent the injury.
• Alice learned that Hazel was a Sequence 9 Marauder and questioned her about a monocle-wearing rat and her teacher, whom Alice suspected might be Amon.
• Hazel challenged Alice to find her teacher herself, angering Alice, who placed a trace of misfortune on Hazel and warned her about an upcoming High-Sequence conflict.
• Alice removed the barrier from Hazel’s study and disappeared, leaving Hazel to pick up her book and read.

Alice followed Hazel and discovered that the girl’s teacher was a weakened Marauder Demigod hiding in a rat’s body. When Hazel set out at night to search for treasure, Alice followed her into the sewers, where she crashed into Hazel and asked her to close the manhole cover.

• Alice marked Hazel and followed her to a room where a rat revealed itself as Hazel’s teacher, a Marauder Demigod.
• Hazel described her encounter with Miss Fortune, and the rat identified Alice as a newly advanced Saint of the Church of Evernight.
• The rat told Hazel she could skip the night’s treasure hunt if she was afraid, but Hazel insisted on going.
• After dinner, Hazel sneaked out at night and climbed through a manhole into the sewers, with Alice following her.
• Alice slipped down the sewer pipe and crashed into Hazel, then asked her to climb back up and close the manhole cover.

Alice questioned Hazel about a treasure and learned that Hazel could sense valuable things, then left her alive and returned home. Aaron told Alice about Velma’s dream of Will’s premature birth and spilled umbilical cord blood, leaving Alice intrigued by the possibility that the blood was valuable Mythical Creature Blood.

• Alice asked Hazel about the treasure, guessed that Hazel could locate valuable things, and considered whether to involve the Church, Amon, or the Angel on Leonard.
• Alice decided to leave Hazel’s problems to Klein, warned her about the Monocle, and disappeared from the sewer.
• Alice returned home and found Aaron waiting at her door after Velma had a nightmare.
• Aaron described Velma’s dream of Will being born prematurely and umbilical cord blood splattering everywhere.
• Alice suspected Will had sent Aaron to tell her about the dream and wondered whether she could obtain the blood, while Aaron realized she was anticipating the dream’s outcome.

Alice offered Aaron a chance to escape Will Auceptin’s interference by finding Ouroboros, then attended a ball where Hazel’s teacher intended to meet her. At the ball, Alice used Restart to undo drinking her wine as Klein proposed a toast to Backlund’s improving air.

• Alice told Aaron to find Ouroboros and explain that his wife was carrying an angel of the Fate pathway, and she promised to shield him from Will Auceptin’s interference.
• Alice learned that the rat demigod wanted to meet her, and Hazel arranged an invitation for Alice to the ball at Councilman Mori Macht’s home.
• Alice arrived at the ball in her illusory robe and learned from Hazel that her teacher wanted to meet her.
• Winifred Grigori warned Alice not to drink her wine, but Alice drained it before Councilman Mori Macht began his toast.
• Alice used Restart to return the wine to her glass as Klein praised Backlund’s improving air.

At the banquet, Alice avoided dancing by eating and then followed Hazel to her room to meet Hazel’s teacher, a mouse demigod. Klein danced with Hazel and told her stories about sea treasures, while Winifred Grigori stayed with Alice and later asked Klein whether he knew her.

• Alice asked Winfred whether the banquet served alcohol to minors, then learned that nobles arranged dance partners in advance.
• Klein invited Hazel Macht to dance, entertained her with stories about the Death's Key and the Four Kings, and she chose to get food afterward.
• Alice ate several servings of food and ice cream while Winfred questioned her, then asked Hazel to take her to Hazel's teacher.
• Hazel led Alice to her room, where Alice offered ice cream to the mouse demigod and noticed it withdraw its probing hand.
• Winifred Grigori invited Klein to dance; after he declined, she asked whether he knew Alice.

At the ball, Alice questioned Flora Jacob, a weakened Marauder pathway Demigod inhabiting a rat, about her treasure and warned her that a prophecy of her wearing a Monocle could point to Amon. Flora agreed to leave Backlund and offered to serve Alice, who remained unimpressed by her proposed payment.

• Winfred reacted coldly when Klein joked that Alice might be jealous of him stealing her friend, then left him to eat.
• Alice introduced herself to Flora Jacob and learned Flora was a descendant of the Jacob family searching Backlund for an ancestral treasure.
• Flora admitted she did not know the treasure's location, and Alice decided to report her situation to the Church unless she left the area.
• Alice explained that Amon's habit of wearing a right-eye Monocle made Flora's prophecy dangerous, and Flora agreed to leave while Hazel continued searching for the treasure.
• Flora offered to serve Alice, who considered helping her recover and find a new body, then warned her that the rat's habits could eventually make her become like a real rat.
• Alice asked what Flora would offer as thanks, and Flora insisted she wanted to repay her but had nothing Alice would value.

At a ball, Alice discovered Flora Jacob, a weakened Marauder demigod hiding in a mouse, and worried that Flora could lead Amon to Klein. Alice also confronted Winfred over friendship, then met Klein and warned him to stay away from Hazel.

• Alice threatened to give Flora to Amon or the Zoroaster Family's ancestor, then learned Flora planned to have Hazel take her to an estate outside Backlund.
• Alice saw Winfred follow her into the garden, where Winfred said she would be friends with Alice despite Alice's claim that no one befriended something they could easily crush.
• Alice refused Winfred's offer of friendship and returned to the ballroom, leaving with the crowd near the end of the ball.
• After the ball, Alice went to Klein's bedroom and warned him to stay away from Hazel.
• Alice told Klein that Hazel was a Sequence 9 Marauder searching Backlund's sewers for a Jacob family treasure, while Flora Jacob was a weakened demigod hiding in a mouse and could attract Amon's attention.

Alice kept watch on Flora and Hazel instead of reporting or killing Flora, then attended the Tarot Club, where Cattleya asked about Emperor Roselle’s secret organization and sought help contacting an Abraham Family descendant. Alice offered Cattleya mythical-creature blood from an enemy who was about to be born, then asked the club about a “Broken Prophecy” or “Fragment of Prophecy.”

• Alice told Klein to stay away from Hazel, then revealed that she had watched Flora and Hazel, along with Councilman Macht and his wife, rather than report or kill Flora.
• At the Tarot Club, Cattleya asked whether Emperor Roselle had joined an ancient, secretive organization, and Klein confirmed that he had.
• Cattleya offered Fors 1,000 pounds to contact a direct descendant of the Abraham Family about Mr. Door, and Fors agreed to pass on the message.
• Alger told Audrey he had a lead on Mystic Wind Chime Tree Fruit that might take at least two weeks to obtain.
• Cattleya asked Alice for mythical-creature blood, and Alice said she might provide blood from an enemy who would soon be born.
• Alice asked the Tarot Club whether anyone knew about a “Broken Prophecy” or “Fragment of Prophecy.”