Chapter Summaries

Angel left his aura on Rabbit Mountain and learned he needed a suitable mirror to connect it to the Wizarding World. Inside a Nightmare Illusion Cottage, he revealed that the sleeping soul in a Rest Flower was Reeves and asked Laplace where the unconnected vortex led; she thought it might open into the gap between the Mirror Realm and the void.

• Angel marked Rabbit Mountain with his aura, creating a white vortex, and Laplace explained that he needed a stable mirror to establish coordinates in the Wizarding World.
• Angel declined to use Dudu Bi’s mirror and chose to refine an alchemical mirror later, while Laplace warned him not to practice alchemy on Rabbit Mountain and gave him an ice fragment containing her aura.
• Angel created a rabbit-themed Nightmare Illusion Cottage, where Rabbit Girl happily sat beside a rabbit doll playing the piano.
• Angel showed Laplace the Rest Flower containing the sleeping wizard soul, Reeves, and removed its light membrane so Reeves could begin waking.
• Angel asked where the unconnected vortex would lead, and Laplace said it might lead to the gap between the Mirror Realm and the void.

Angel learned that anyone who entered the Mirror Realm’s outermost rift vanished, and that Gleipnir had lost her Time Doppelgänger after divining a missing dragon’s location. He abandoned plans to explore the rift, then Reeves awakened, recognized the bronze mirror, and learned its owner was alive but had likely forgotten the Vansell Family.

• Laplace warned Angel that the Mirror Realm’s outermost rift was dangerous and recounted how Gleipnir’s third divination about a missing Mirror Dragon caused her Time Doppelgänger to collapse.
• Angel reasoned that powerful beings might guard the outskirts of special worlds and decided to postpone exploring the rift.
• The Rest Flower released Reeves, whose mushroom-covered soul introduced himself after Angel asked him to explain his origins briefly.
• Reeves recognized the bronze mirror and suffered a soul stress response, so Angel used Audio Illusion to calm him.
• Reeves asked whether the mirror’s owner was alive, and Angel confirmed he was but said he had probably forgotten the Vansell Family.

Angel revealed that Dudu Bi was Aguro, the missing Vansell wizard whose memories and emotional ties had been erased by the Empty Mirror Sea. Reeves decided to ask Angel to let Aguro’s sister Granny Yitai visit him, and Angel agreed to pass along the message in exchange for Reeves’s help with a plan involving Black Duke Adelia and the Tea Party.

• Angel explained Aguro’s history to Reeves and identified Dudu Bi as Aguro, whose memories had been erased in the Mirror Realm.
• Angel told Reeves that Aguro’s memories could not be recovered, and Reeves took time to consider what to do.
• Reeves emerged from Angel’s calming mist and asked Angel to let Granny Yitai, Aguro’s biological sister, go see him.
• Angel agreed to pass along the message but said he could not take Reeves or Granny Yitai to Hot Gold City, and Reeves accepted.
• Angel asked Reeves to help with matters involving Black Duke Adelia, including stirring up trouble and guiding public opinion at the Tea Party, and Reeves agreed to try.

Angel sealed the Clear Sky Poem Room and began crafting a mirror, using his alchemy as cover while preparing to pull the room into the Dream Wilderness with the Dream Conch. After completing the mirror’s components and magic patterns, he reached the moment to use Mad Hatter's Coronation, just as the Dream Conch would be needed.

• Angel asked Big Treasure to leave and explain that he needed a quiet space for alchemy, then sealed the Clear Sky Poem Room with the Geometric Lock.
• Adanis and the Wise Sovereign noticed the barrier, but Big Treasure and Black Earl explained that Angel was pursuing an alchemical inspiration, easing their suspicions.
• Angel prepared to use the Dream Conch to pull the Clear Sky Poem Room into the Dream Wilderness while concealing its mysterious aura.
• Angel chose to craft a sturdy low-tier half-length mirror, intending to apply Mad Hatter's Coronation and accepting the possibility of dangerous anomalous signs.
• Angel completed the mirror and its concealed magic patterns, then prepared to use Mad Hatter's Coronation as the ideal moment to activate the Dream Conch.

Angel’s alchemy caused mysterious auras to break through the Geometric Lock, alerting those nearby as he completed a mirror bearing a black hat. While Laplace and Black Earl kept others from disturbing him, Angel entered an unfamiliar omen space and began exploring its dark forest.

• Angel completed the mirror’s final magic pattern, and its new mysterious aura broke through the Geometric Lock’s seal.
• Wise Sovereign tried to head toward the Clear Sky Poem Room, but Black Earl, Dox, Wai, and Kael blocked his way to protect Angel’s alchemy.
• Laplace confronted Adanis in the oil painting’s mirror space and persuaded her to stop watching Angel’s alchemy.
• Adanis withdrew, while those in Sage Hall waited as Angel’s consciousness entered the omen space.
• Angel awoke physically weakened in a pitch-black forest, recognized the black hat’s omen, and set off toward an area with sparser trees.

Angel discovered that every step through the eerie forest made him shrink, while ravens watched from the shadows and animal tracks offered a possible route. After finding his spiritual intuition pointing due north, he chose to follow it rather than the tracks and continued toward its distant target as he grew smaller.

• Angel realized that he shrank whenever he moved, and tests showed that running made the shrinking faster while stopping did not halt the ravens’ watch.
• Angel found tiny, widely spaced animal tracks that did not shrink, and he followed them until his spiritual intuition awakened and pointed due north.
• Angel chose to trust his spiritual intuition instead of following the northwest-bound tracks, reasoning that the distant destination might have a strong connection to him.
• As Angel continued north and shrank by about thirty centimeters, he resisted the urge to turn back toward the tracks and pressed on toward his fixed goal.

Angel reached the target location in the Black Tea Forest and found Rabbit Chacha, who gave him a hat that stopped his shrinking. Chacha agreed to answer three questions after Angel claimed they had met in a dream, leaving Angel ready to ask about the strange kingdom and his predicament.

• Angel followed clear human-sized shoe prints through the shrubs and found a small tree, a fairy-tale mailbox, and a rabbit hole.
• Rabbit Chacha emerged from the hole, denied knowing Angel, and mistook his arrival for a plea for a hat.
• Chacha gave Angel a teacup-shaped hat, stopping his shrinking and causing the black ravens to scatter.
• Angel recognized that the forest was in the Teapot Kingdom and wondered why solving the shrinking problem had not revealed an exit.
• Chacha asked how Angel knew its name and why he seemed familiar, and Angel showed it a drawing of the Chacha he knew.
• Angel suggested that they had met in a dream, and Chacha agreed to answer three questions.

Angel questioned Rabbit Chacha about Black Tea Forest and learned its history, including how the White Tea Princess destroyed the Fountain of Youth and Black Tea Earl turned the ruined garden into a shrinking forest. Searching for the source of the Omen, Angel discovered that Black Tea Earl had recently brought back a Half-Body Mirror and decided to ask Julie about it.

• Angel persuaded Rabbit Chacha to tell him about Black Tea Forest, learning that the Teapot Empress had granted its garden and Fountain of Youth to the White Tea Princess.
• Rabbit Chacha explained that the White Tea Princess destroyed the Fountain of Youth to escape Black Tea Earl, who later planted trees over the polluted land and created the shrinking forest.
• Angel used his second question to learn that restoring the Fountain of Youth required water from its source, which was in the Teapot Empress's hands.
• Angel asked Rabbit Chacha about recent strange events and learned that Black Tea Earl had brought back a Half-Body Mirror.
• Angel suspected the mirror was connected to the Omen and asked who could tell him more, so Rabbit Chacha pointed him toward Julie, Black Tea Earl's mount.

Angel and Rabbit Chacha sought Julie’s help to sneak into the Black Tea Earl’s castle and investigate the Mirror, which Angel suspected was behind the anomaly. Julie agreed to take them as far as the stables, but warned that she would not help beyond that when she returned at sunset.

• Angel and Rabbit Chacha hid from a puppet imperial guard whose Eyes of Instant Death could kill anyone with weaker life energy.
• Rabbit Chacha explained that the castle’s defenses made Julie, the Black Tea Earl’s brown-maned horse and a former guide, their best chance to get inside.
• Angel recalled the tale of Louis’s Hat and warned Rabbit Chacha to stay away from Louis, though Chacha had never heard of him.
• Rabbit Chacha found Julie grazing outside the castle, and Julie scrutinized Angel before cautioning Chacha that humans were unreliable.
• Julie agreed to take Angel and Rabbit Chacha to the castle stables, then told them to prepare before she returned when the horizon turned red.

Rabbit Chacha and Angel shrank themselves and infiltrated Black Tea Castle in Julie’s mane, taking advantage of Black Tea Earl’s departure. Once they reached Julie’s stable, Angel asked her about the half-length mirror the Earl had brought back.

• Rabbit Chacha explained that she and Angel needed to shrink in Black Tea Forest and hide in Julie’s mane to enter the castle.
• Angel changed into a teapot hat, shrank to thumb size, and hid with Rabbit Chacha in Julie’s mane.
• Julie waited for the castle gates to open while a puppet Imperial Guard spoke with her, then carried them across the drawbridge as the guards changed shifts.
• Black Tea Earl rode out on his warhorse, and Julie later told Rabbit Chacha that he had gone west.
• Julie dropped Angel and Rabbit Chacha into her stable and said the Earl would likely be away for some time.
• Angel asked Julie whether Black Tea Earl had brought back a half-length mirror.

Angel and Rabbit Chacha set out to find the half-length mirror that brought him to Teapot Kingdom, after Julie confirmed Black Tea Earl had found the same mirror. They leave the stable disguised against detection and reach a rooftop route toward the castle’s side building, where they plan to enter through a chimney.

• Angel explained to Julie that a half-length mirror had brought him to Teapot Kingdom, and Julie confirmed it matched the mirror Black Tea Earl had found that day.
• Julie suggested the mirror might be in the storeroom, study, or treasury, and warned Angel and Rabbit Chacha to avoid making a commotion or leaving traces.
• Rabbit Chacha led Angel through the dark castle grounds and explained that its puppet servants and guards had dangerous senses.
• Rabbit Chacha brought Angel saddlecloth from Julie to mask his scent, and Angel prepared further gear to conceal his footprints, sounds, and breathing.
• Rabbit Chacha guided Angel through a drainage opening and up to a rooftop, then pointed out the side building’s chimney as their way into the castle.

Angel and Rabbit Chacha chose to investigate the storeroom first and snuck toward the main hall by taking a concealed route over the corridor. They observed two strange maids inside and began planning how to pass them without being detected.

• Rabbit Chacha explained the routes to the study, storeroom, and treasure vault, and Angel chose the nearby storeroom as their first destination.
• Rabbit Chacha led Angel up a tree and across the corridor roof to avoid a patrolling maid below.
• They entered the main hall through a hidden opening behind a curtain and sealed it behind them.
• Rabbit Chacha and Angel used a monocle to observe two maids: one stretched her neck into a side room, while the other searched for cockroaches with her head on the floor.
• Angel warned Rabbit Chacha that the foraging maid might mistake them for cockroaches, and Rabbit Chacha began suggesting a way to evade her.

Angel and Rabbit Chacha crossed the main hall by swinging on ceiling tassels, then entered the kitchen to investigate the storeroom before the patrolling maid returned. They hid beneath a cabinet, where Rabbit Chacha warned Angel that the kitchen’s foul-smelling food was poisonous.

• Angel rejected climbing the wall and planned to use the swaying tassels to cross the main hall with Rabbit Chacha.
• Rabbit Chacha reached the drapery safely, and Angel glided the final distance using his saddlecloth as a sail.
• Rabbit Chacha explained that the patrolling maid would likely visit the storeroom next, so Angel and Rabbit Chacha hurried toward the kitchen.
• Angel and Rabbit Chacha entered the kitchen and covered Angel’s nose with the saddlecloth to block the poisonous smell and mask their scent.
• Angel and Rabbit Chacha hid beneath a cabinet and began observing the kitchen.

Angel and Rabbit Chacha sneaked through Black Tea Earl’s kitchen and storeroom while searching for a half-length mirror, learning that the kitchen’s pigs were transformed human livestock. After failing to find the mirror in the storeroom, they reached the fourth-floor study, where an armed puppet forbidden guard blocked the entrance.

• Angel and Rabbit Chacha slipped past the chef and sleeping tea servants, and Rabbit Chacha explained that the pigs were human livestock made with the Livestock-Making Art and disposed of by poisonous carnivorous fungi.
• They searched the storeroom’s inner hall but found no half-length mirror, leaving the study and treasure vault as possibilities.
• Angel and Rabbit Chacha crossed the kitchen and main hall, climbed the stairs while avoiding the patrolling maid, and reached the fourth floor.
• They approached Black Tea Earl’s study to enter through the tea servants’ hole and found a fully armed puppet forbidden guard standing outside the door.

Angel and Rabbit Chacha found a puppet guardsman blocking the study, so Angel rejected Chacha’s risky distraction plan and chose to reach the study by climbing down from the fifth-floor terrace. Before he began the dangerous descent alone, Rabbit Chacha warned him about the Teapot Kingdom and taught him a ritual to summon it if he returned there.

• Angel and Rabbit Chacha spotted a puppet guardsman outside the study, and Angel suspected Black Tea Earl had increased security after a recent burglary.
• Rabbit Chacha proposed luring the guardsman away, but Angel refused because the plan could put Chacha in danger and alert the castle’s puppets.
• Angel suggested climbing down the castle wall and led Rabbit Chacha to the fifth-floor terrace, where he decided to descend alone using his Gliding Wings if necessary.
• Rabbit Chacha warned Angel that the Teapot Kingdom was dangerous and revealed that Green Tea Princess had turned its human friend into human livestock.
• Angel asked how he could find Rabbit Chacha if he returned to the Teapot Kingdom, and Chacha taught him a sacrificial ritual using a hat, teapot, or teacup.
• Angel began climbing down the terrace wall while Rabbit Chacha stayed behind to await the outcome.

Angel glided into Black Tea Earl's study and found the Half-Body Mirror beneath a beating heart in a golden birdcage. He escaped the Omen with the mirror, but its red glow spread across Clear Sky Poem Room, leaving him facing an unexplained danger.

• Angel climbed sideways along the wall, then used his saddlebag to glide on the approaching wind into the study.
• Angel spotted the Half-Body Mirror and a glowing heart under a golden birdcage, but chose the mirror over investigating the heart.
• Angel and the Half-Body Mirror vanished from the study, prompting Black Tea Earl to wonder whether the mirror's disappearance was one of its rules.
• Angel returned to the Wizarding World and confirmed that his body, magic, and memories were intact.
• Angel saw the Half-Body Mirror reflecting red light that, according to Geometric Lock, covered all of Clear Sky Poem Room.

Angel escaped the Omen trial with Rabbit Chacha’s help, causing the Alchemical Omen around the Clear Sky Poem Room to transform into a vast, beating heart of red light. He discovered that the Half-Body Mirror was a Half-Step Mystic item, but could sense only its indestructibility and remained unable to discern Black Hat Coronation’s effect.

• The Wise Sovereign and Adanis watched faint glimmers emerge from the Clear Sky Poem Room and wondered what Angel was crafting.
• Kael told Wai that Angel had likely passed the Omen, though the Wise Sovereign, Adanis, and Black Earl remained wary of the mysterious aura.
• After Angel escaped the Omen with Rabbit Chacha’s help, the phenomenon changed into a blood-red, beating heart that spread through the underground.
• The Wise Sovereign and Black Earl said they had never seen a heart-shaped phenomenon, and the group speculated that Angel had crafted a Half-Step Mystic item.
• Angel realized the phenomenon resembled the heart reflected by the Half-Body Mirror before it vanished, then examined the mirror and sensed only its indestructibility.
• Angel confirmed that the Half-Body Mirror carried a mysterious aura but could not determine the effect of Black Hat Coronation.

Angel discovered that the mirror he refined had formed a portable Heart Space in the Mirror Realm, with enhanced sturdiness and the ability to expand. He and Laplace prepared to test its strength at a nearby mirror-annihilation gathering site.

• Angel returned to the Mirror Realm with Laplace and found a glowing red heart that had formed from his mirror.
• The red light shrank Angel and Laplace as they approached, and Angel opened a vortex entrance in the heart.
• Inside, Angel learned that the Heart Space was empty, sturdy, and expandable, though expanding it reduced its sturdiness.
• Angel showed Laplace that he could carry the heart and control its red light and mysterious aura by drawing its energy back into it.
• Laplace proposed testing the Heart Space at mirror-annihilation gathering sites, and she and Angel arrived at a small one nearby.

Laplace’s tests showed that Angel’s Heart Space remained stable in the Undying Mirror Sea and could attract mirror creatures, leading her to offer to protect it. Angel agreed to test it in the more dangerous Empty Mirror Sea, while Adanis left Wise Sovereign’s hall for Clear Sky Poem Room.

• Laplace reported that Heart Space stayed sturdy at an expansion of six hundred li, held physical objects, and absorbed Aggregation Energy in the Undying Mirror Sea.
• Laplace explained that leasing Heart Space to the Ancient Tooth Fairies and other mirror creatures could bring Angel valuable treasures and help develop Dream Crystal Plain.
• Laplace offered to protect Heart Space, and Angel admitted that he had underestimated its value.
• Angel and Laplace decided to test Heart Space against the Empty Mirror Sea’s destructive waves, and Laplace descended while Angel waited in the corridor.
• Wise Sovereign noted that the heart phenomenon had begun to fade, and Adanis left the oil painting and returned to Clear Sky Poem Room.
• Wai suggested following Adanis, but Dox refused and told the others to manage themselves.

Laplace tested Heart Space in the Empty Mirror Sea and found that its stable, original size could withstand the tides. She took Angel toward Deep Abyss Cave to continue testing, and Angel agreed to accompany her after Laplace guaranteed his safety; from inside Heart Space, he watched the strange, image-filled Empty Mirror Sea.

• Laplace told Angel that Heart Space could withstand the Empty Mirror Sea’s tides at its original size, potentially sheltering mirror creatures from the dangerous waters.
• Laplace led Angel through the Mirror Corridor toward Deep Abyss Cave, explaining that the region lay beyond the mental boundary and that Ancient Tooth Fairies would not disturb their test there.
• Laplace invited Angel to join her in the Empty Mirror Sea, and she made a unilateral contract guaranteeing that he would be safe inside Heart Space.
• Angel agreed to go with Laplace because he trusted her and knew he held Heart Space’s highest authority.
• Angel entered Heart Space, watched Laplace carry it down into the Empty Mirror Sea, and saw waves rapidly refresh countless reflections within its mirror-like expanse.