Recaps

Wine Cup’s group followed Kaia’s search for the God-Worshipping Sect while Mud Duke’s Bloodspawn Mark drew the Bloodletting Sect toward them. Angel then helped the Dream Mirror team enter the Nereid stage, prepare for its challenges, and begin fighting the dragon.

• Wine Cup and her companions met Kaia, who sheltered them underground, revived Wine Cup with his last bottle of alcohol, and warned them about their Bloodspawn aura.
• Kaia and the group mapped suspected God-Worshipping Sect sites, learned about the Purple Chirp eggs that resisted the Nightmoon Mark, and discovered intruders had stolen his teacher’s four-leaf clover.
• Mud Duke’s Bloodspawn Mark formed early and alerted the Bloodletting Sect, so Kaia led the group toward Bloodsucker Town in hopes of drawing the sect toward a God-Worshipping Sect stronghold.
• Angel surveyed the challengers gathering for Sandbox Wonderland, learned about its six stages, and chose the Nereid stage with Rabbit Girl and Gray Porcelain.
• The Rabbit Hole team entered the Keye Mining Area, and Angel discovered that their apparent surroundings were a Dreamscape connected to the real Nereid Box Garden.
• Rabbit Girl accepted the challenge option, and the team collected limited elemental gems while Angel prepared turrets, defensive fields, and magic energy arrays.
• Angel trained Gray Porcelain through increasingly difficult Nereid simulations until Gray Porcelain gained confidence and the team began its final hunt.
• The team awakened Nereid on the platform, and when the dragon prepared Thunderous Punishment, Gray Porcelain directed them toward the elemental field.

Rabbit Hole cleared the true Nereid, earned the top ranking, and welcomed Montedan into Dream Mirror before choosing the Golden Country as its next challenge. As Rabbit Girl entered the stage alone, Angel's attention shifted to the Bloodletting Sect's attack on Wine Cup's group, leaving several teammates missing and Wine Cup in danger.

• Rabbit Hole defeated Nereid by exploiting its elemental backlashes and the Sanctuary Platform's boundary penalty, then earned Montedan's approval and a perfect-clear score.
• Montedan explained his scoring and joined Dream Mirror, while Rabbit Hole took first place and prepared to reveal a teaser of its Nereid clear.
• Srita described the Golden Country's dangerous Golden Phantoms and lingering fear effects, and Dream Mirror chose the stage as its next challenge.
• Angel secretly recorded North One Squad's failed attempt and showed the footage to Rabbit Girl, who demonstrated she could fight berserk Golden Phantoms without injury.
• Rabbit Girl entered the Golden Country alone as Angel stayed behind with the others and spoke with Babaregon about Montedan and the upcoming Nereid video.
• In the Heart Space, Kaia split up Wine Cup's group to evade pursuers, but a clash between ritual nobles sent Wine Cup, Na, and Milk Dragon flying apart.
• Wine Cup escaped through a sewer with a boy, while Angel learned that Kaia and Mud Duke were missing, Na and Milk Dragon might have been captured, and Wine Cup had not awakened.
• A homeless man carried the unconscious Wine Cup to an underground black market and prepared to sell her, leaving the boy behind with a woman in a white coat.

Wine Cup and her companions were sacrificed into the Secret Grounds, where they took jobs at the Chocolate Factory and joined the Rebels’ plans. Meanwhile, Rabbit Girl cleared Golden Country’s Perfect Mode, but the Observer’s scoring left her discouraged before Montedan and Gray Porcelain reassured her.

• Rono sold Wine Cup to the trafficker, who eventually handed her to the God-Worshipping Sect High Priest for sacrifice.
• Na and Milk Dragon were captured, rescued, and then secretly sacrificed by the Silent Priest, while the High Priest also sent Wine Cup, Kaia, and Mud Duke into the Secret Grounds.
• Wine Cup, Na, Milk Dragon, and Mud Duke woke in the Secret Grounds and found one another, but Kaia was missing.
• The group received factory assignments, and Wine Cup became Pinocchio’s assistant as he investigated unease in the Shaping Workshop.
• Wine Cup learned that the factory director election might begin after the next managers’ meeting, while the Rebels agreed they needed a plan within two days.
• Rabbit Girl returned after clearing Golden Country’s Perfect Mode and described battling projected teams before defeating the Singers Squad and reaching the Golden Throne.
• Maggie defended the Singers Team’s high score, and Montedan and Gray Porcelain reassured Rabbit Girl that Rabbit Hole’s goal was becoming the Sandbox Lord.

Rabbit Hole chose the Echo Library and explored its puzzles while uncovering clues about the being called “He.” Angel also helped Kemei navigate Mist Swamp and gave the team maps, while the arc left Rabbit Hole gathering Book Demon proverbs and searching for the Library’s rifts.

• Maggie chose Rabbit Hole and joined Dream Mirror Organization, then the team selected the Echo Library as its next challenge.
• Angel investigated the Angel on Earth and other stages, but Rabbit Hole chose the Echo Library after weighing its risks against Night City Evening Bell.
• Angel found the Mist Swamp entrance, warned Darkman not to enter before it was assessed, and helped Kemei investigate the swamp with maps and concealment advice.
• Gray Porcelain rated Mist Swamp low-to-medium E-rank, while Angel recruited Luigi to seek clues and Darkman gathered a team to enter.
• Rabbit Hole entered the Echo Library, where Angel searched for its three rifts and discovered a hidden space containing a giant cocoon.
• Angel defeated a Book Demon and learned its final aphorism about choosing pen and ink for “His” inspiration, prompting the team to seek more clues about the being.
• Rabbit Girl and Gray Porcelain solved library puzzles while Angel earned a Location Cursor and Guidance Radar from a Book Sprite’s sculpture trial.
• Gabriel defeated another Book Demon, whose final proverb said it carved words to trace the marks “He” left behind.