Chapter Summaries

Angel realized that Parrot was probably the Sin Merchant the Rice God was pursuing, but his contract and favors to Parrot conflicted with his agreement with the Hound House. After consulting Laplace, he decided they should warn Parrot before Little Red gave the coordinates to the Rice God, leaving both sides to settle the matter themselves.

• Angel recognized Parrot as a likely match for the Sin Merchant and identified Parrot's shop among Little Red's six scent-marked coordinates.
• Angel told the Hound Butler and Little Red about Parrot, including their contract, the payment Parrot had already made, and Luigi's favor to him.
• Angel had the Rabbit Girl log off to consult Laplace, who joined him shortly afterward.
• Laplace proposed warning Parrot that the Rice God was tracking him, then letting Little Red give the coordinates to the Rice God after Parrot had a chance to act.
• Angel and Laplace agreed that Parrot and the Rice God would have to resolve the pursuit themselves.

Angel accepted Laplace’s plan to take Parrot out of the Mirror Realm and went to contact him, with Laplace accompanying him. They entered the Consciousness Void to reach Parrot quickly.

• Angel realized that fulfilling the contract and escorting Parrot out of the Mirror Realm would leave Rice God to pursue him in the Wizarding World.
• Laplace explained that Greipnir was occupied with the multi-race conference and Luigi was studying Light Swan and Evil Abyss, so Angel decided to contact Parrot himself.
• Angel asked Little Red to stall Rice God and the Earsi Race for fifteen minutes, then logged out of the Text Space.
• Laplace followed Angel, explaining that he might not be able to guide Parrot out alone, and opened a passage to her Silver Forest Space.
• Laplace and Angel used her constellation of lights to enter the Consciousness Void and travel toward Parrot.

Angel and Laplace searched for Parrot after learning that someone disguised as Luigi had taken him away. They followed the Blood of the God traces from Crystal City's stall district toward a possible Ring Fortress destination, beginning with an unfamiliar stall district.

• Angel and Laplace entered the 1.1 plane, where they could observe Crystal City's aerial streets without being seen by its inhabitants.
• At Pirus's shop, Angel learned that someone resembling Luigi had called Parrot away about an hour earlier and that Parrot had packed his belongings.
• Laplace concluded that an impostor had deceived Parrot, and she and Angel decided to find him.
• Laplace revealed six coordinates marked by the Blood of the God traces, and Angel and Laplace ruled out the three in the stall district.
• Angel and Laplace inferred that the remaining coordinates formed a possible route toward an unknown Ring Fortress and chose to investigate them in order.
• Angel and Laplace arrived at the first remaining coordinate, another stall district, and considered that Parrot might have stopped there.

Angel and Laplace investigated the market district to trace Parrot and identify the person impersonating Luigi. A clerk’s Spiritual Eye revealed that the impostor was a gloomy energy lifeform, but Laplace could not yet determine its identity, so they headed toward Bloodstone Casino for more clues.

• Laplace searched the area where Parrot had been seen and confirmed he was no longer there.
• Clerks at Dandelion Restaurant recalled Parrot passing by about an hour and a half earlier, apparently with someone beside him.
• A God-Eyed Race clerk at Wetland Specialty Market confirmed that Parrot’s companion matched Luigi’s appearance and that the pair had spent about fifteen minutes in Bloodstone Casino.
• The clerk explained that his Spiritual Eye had shown Parrot’s strong, blood-red physical presence and the impostor’s dim, chaotic spiritual light despite its lack of a physical body.
• Laplace said the impostor might be one of a limited number of gloomy energy lifeforms able to imitate appearances and auras, but she needed more evidence.

Angel and Laplace investigated the Bloodstone Casino and learned that Parrot worked there as an appraiser of Demonic Blood Ore. Baby-Tooth Papa confirmed Parrot had visited with Luigi, but could not say what they discussed, leaving Angel with little information about their conversation.

• Angel learned that gamblers at the Bloodstone Casino chose bloodstones by sight because probing them with spiritual power risked damage from the Empty Mirror Sea's aura.
• Laplace questioned Baby-Tooth Papa about Parrot and Luigi, and the Ancient Tooth Fairy verified Laplace's identity with his team-leading elder before agreeing to cooperate.
• Baby-Tooth Papa said Parrot was a human bloodline wizard who had appraised bloodstones for the casino for about half a month and had previously worked at Pipi Castle.
• Baby-Tooth Papa confirmed that Parrot had just visited with Luigi and appraised a batch of bloodstones.
• Angel asked what Parrot and Luigi had discussed, but Baby-Tooth Papa only recalled that Parrot did most of the talking.

Angel and Laplace investigated Parrot’s trail and concluded that he had grown suspicious of the fake Luigi and fought him in a Crystal Corridor. They found Parrot’s blood and concealed its aura before heading to the final coordinate, where they expected to find him.

• Baby-Tooth Papa told Angel and Laplace that Parrot had repeatedly questioned his companion and asked whether he wanted to buy sheet music, leading them to suspect Parrot was testing the fake Luigi.
• Angel and Laplace found no clues at the Bloodstone Casino and reasoned that someone had likely breached Parrot’s mental defenses after he was left alone.
• At the second coordinate, Angel and Laplace found blood and signs of a struggle in a Crystal Corridor, and concluded that Parrot had fought the fake Luigi and lost.
• Angel proposed that Parrot had deliberately left blood as a clue for Rice God, while Laplace noted that he might instead have been unable to control it after being injured or restrained.
• Laplace concealed the aura from Parrot’s blood, and she and Angel set off toward the final coordinate where Parrot was likely to be.

Parrot was captured by a Mirror Ghost impersonating Luigi and questioned about the Blood of the God and the Disc of the Twin Gods. The Mirror Ghost revealed that Luigi had not betrayed him, then asked when Parrot had realized the impersonation; Parrot had not yet answered.

• The fake Luigi imprisoned Parrot in a glass sphere and demanded the password for the Blood of the God.
• Parrot refused to reveal the password and promised to enter it when the bloodline was needed, but the fake Luigi said someone else would do it.
• The fake Luigi asked about the Disc of the Twin Gods, and Parrot disclosed where it was after learning that Linny had revealed information about it.
• Parrot asked why the fake Luigi had impersonated Luigi, and the Mirror Ghost explained that it had inferred the contract's purpose from clues and Parrot's reaction.
• The Mirror Ghost told Parrot that Luigi had not betrayed him and asked when Parrot had discovered the imposture.

Parrot explained how he uncovered Mirror Ghosts’ impersonation of Luigi and revealed that his bloodstains were meant to lead the Blood Hunters to him. Trapped in the glass ball and expecting little hope of rescue, he was stunned when Angel and Lady Laplace appeared inside it and proved they had followed his trail.

• Parrot told Mirror Ghosts that Luigi’s lack of interest in the harp player at the Dandelion Restaurant first made him suspicious, and that Mirror Ghosts’ reaction to the sheet music test confirmed he was an impostor.
• Mirror Ghosts admitted his imitation had failed on details, left Parrot suspended in the crystal ball, and went to prepare a ritual for the Blood Sovereign.
• Parrot admitted he had no real backup plan beyond leaving bloodstains saturated with his aura and pheromones to attract the Blood Hunters.
• Parrot reasoned that the Blood Hunters might reach him before Mirror Ghosts found the Disc of the Twin Gods, which he had hidden in a special space.
• Points of light formed inside the glass ball, and Angel and Lady Laplace appeared before Parrot.
• Laplace sent Parrot memories and contract information proving that she and Angel had followed his trail to rescue him.

Angel and Laplace found Parrot imprisoned by a Mirror Ghost disguised as Luigi, then brought his consciousness into the Consciousness Void to speak without being overheard. Parrot identified the Mirror Ghost as a Light-Shadow Demon and began explaining how it had tricked him.

• Parrot questioned why Angel and Laplace had tracked him down, but the Mirror Ghost appeared and questioned him about talking to himself.
• Parrot pretended to be speaking with someone about killing the Mirror Ghost, leading it to assume he was stalling and leave him alone.
• Angel and Laplace explained that the Mirror Ghost could not see or hear them, though the blood web monitored Parrot, and Laplace pulled Parrot's consciousness into the Consciousness Void with his consent.
• Parrot confirmed that fake Luigi was a Light-Shadow Demon Mirror Ghost capable of creating illusions and disguising itself as other people.
• Angel told Parrot that Rice God had asked All Things House to track him because of the Blood Hunters, and explained that this was why they had come looking for him.
• Angel asked how the Mirror Ghost had learned about Luigi, and Parrot admitted that it had happened because he had not been careful enough.

Parrot explained how a mission to investigate a mysterious phenomenon in a lost Beast God’s Divine Domain led his caravan into a deadly mirror-related disaster. After the survivors entered a mirror surface to confront the killer, they discovered it led to the Dark Mirror Domain.

• Laplace recognized that the Light-Shadow Demon had unusually maintained its reason and learned from Parrot that a calamity creature called Blood Calamity, or the Blood Sovereign, had helped it awaken.
• Parrot revealed that he had become Blood Calamity’s enemy and began recounting events from more than thirty years earlier, when he worked for a Void Merchant Caravan.
• The Order Guild commissioned Parrot’s hundred-person squad to investigate a suspected mysterious phenomenon inside a lost Beast God’s Divine Domain on the Druna Plane.
• The squad found that people were dying as mummified corpses whenever they were within range of a mirror surface, and their captain concluded that a hidden presence was killing them through reflections.
• When the captain led the squad into a mirror surface to confront the killer, Parrot and the others found themselves in the Dark Mirror Domain.

Parrot told Angel how the Blood Calamity had hunted him since the captain’s sacrifice and explained his plan to fuse two divine bloodlines using the Disc of the Twin Gods. Laplace clarified that the Blood Sovereign was a conceptual Mirror Ghost known as a calamity, leaving Angel with a clearer understanding of his enemy.

• Parrot recounted how the Blood Sovereign had controlled Mirror Ghosts in the Dark Mirror Domain and later pursued the survivors after the captain destroyed one of its disasters.
• Parrot explained that the Blood Sovereign wanted the Divine Beast’s Pure-Blood Pointed Fruit and his life, so he sought a stronger bloodline in the Savage World.
• Parrot revealed that he had obtained divine blood from Wadjet and Sekhmet and planned to use Hecate’s Breath to create the Disc of the Twin Gods.
• Parrot said Linny had revealed his plans to the Light-Shadow Demon, making the Blood Sovereign even more determined to obtain the Disc.
• Laplace explained that calamities were rare conceptual Mirror Ghosts, and Parrot confirmed that the Blood Sovereign was a powerful Blood Calamity.

Parrot explained that the Light-Shadow Demon planned to use the Blood of the God in a ritual to summon Blood Calamity’s True Knowledge-level power. Laplace offered to resolve Blood Calamity and the Light-Shadow Demon in exchange for three conditions, and Parrot asked how she intended to do it.

• Parrot explained that Blood Calamity could project its power through a medium and that the Light-Shadow Demon planned to use the Blood of the God in a ritual to amplify it.
• Parrot urged Angel and Laplace to avoid Blood Calamity, but Laplace said she could deal with it and presented three possible solutions.
• Laplace offered to resolve Blood Calamity and the Light-Shadow Demon if Parrot gave her the Disc of the Twin Gods and collected spiritual factors from the sites of Blood Calamity’s disasters.
• Laplace left the third condition undecided and promised it would not be harder than the second condition.
• Parrot asked Laplace how she planned to defeat Blood Calamity and the Light-Shadow Demon.

Laplace arranged for several of her clones from Silver Forest Space to help Parrot and explained to Angel why she wanted the Blood Calamity’s rule fragments. She planned to use them to form a Rule Diagram, which could protect places with special rules and might help her understand laws and advance toward legend.

• Laplace told Parrot that helpers would arrive, then sent him back through a mirror to his body inside the glass sphere and told him to wait.
• Parrot saw a silver-lit mirror above the Blood Calamity’s net and realized Laplace and Angel were still watching over him from the Consciousness Void.
• Laplace contacted several clones in Silver Forest Space, who agreed to follow her river of consciousness to the Consciousness Void.
• Angel asked why Laplace had chosen to save Parrot, and Laplace said the Disc of the Twin Gods could help her Divine Blood Clone study methods of using faith.
• Laplace explained that the Blood Calamity’s spirituality particles were rule fragments that could be assembled into a Rule Diagram, which could create local rules and might help her understand laws.

The Light-Shadow Demon summoned Blood Calamity and wove a colored-light vessel for it, offering it the Blood of the God and information about Parrot’s divine blood. When Blood Calamity’s energy transmission was disrupted, it and the Light-Shadow Demon exposed two identical heterochromatic-eyed girls near the void pipe.

• The Light-Shadow Demon performed a blood-array summoning ritual and began weaving a vessel to contain Blood Calamity’s power.
• Blood Calamity took the Blood of the God and learned that Parrot had extracted the Beast God’s blood, stabilized it with Hecate’s Breath, and combined it with Sekhmet’s blood in the Disc of the Twin Gods.
• The Light-Shadow Demon finished the vessel but discovered that less than half of Blood Calamity’s projected power had entered it.
• Blood Calamity sensed that an unknown force was intercepting its energy, then attacked the void pipe and exposed a nearly transparent, heterochromatic-eyed girl.
• A second, white-haired heterochromatic-eyed girl appeared and blocked Blood Calamity’s attack while the first girl vanished into the darkness.

Laplace’s avatars overwhelmed Blood Calamity and the Light-Shadow Demon, rescuing Parrot and preparing to question their captives. Parrot was told to return to his physical body and leave before Rice God arrived, while he asked Laplace if they could leave the Mirror Realm together.

• Laplace summoned more than a dozen colored avatars, who defeated Blood Calamity and the Light-Shadow Demon while the Phantom Avatar obstructed Blood Calamity’s power conduit.
• The Ning Tai avatar restrained the captives and said she would question them for information and spiritual factors.
• The Ning Tai avatar assessed Angel and Parrot’s aptitude for cultivating Ning Tai, finding Parrot more compatible than Angel.
• Laplace told Parrot to return to his physical body and leave before Rice God arrived.
• Parrot asked Laplace whether they could leave the Mirror Realm together, saying he wanted to leave as soon as possible.

Parrot regained his body and recovered his storage pouch, whose emblem led Laplace and Ning Tai's avatar to identify it as the Star Sea Train. Parrot suspected his dead captain had once been connected to the train, but the captain's storage pouch was left behind in the Mirror Ghost Domain.

• Laplace asked Ning Tai's avatar for a Ning Tai Mirror for Parrot, but Ning Tai's avatar said he first had to return to his body.
• Ning Tai's avatar destroyed Blood Calamity's blood-ball backup plan before helping Parrot return to his body and break free of the glass sphere.
• Parrot retrieved his storage pouch and explained that its emblem belonged to the Eighteenth Merchant Team, whose members had been killed by Blood Calamity.
• Ning Tai's avatar and Laplace identified the emblem as the Star Sea Train, a miraculous creation controlled by the Conductor.
• Parrot wondered whether his captain had come from the Star Sea Train, but said the captain's storage pouch had been left behind in the Mirror Ghost Domain.

The Ning Tai avatar explained the Ning Tai Mirror’s powers and offered Parrot the Mirror Pact, which would let him travel between the Day Mirror Domain and the material world in exchange for handing Laplace the Disc of the Twin Gods and gathering spiritual factors. Parrot signed the pact and prepared to leave, but asked where the mirror passage would take him.

• The Ning Tai avatar told Parrot that Blood Calamity had likely taken the captain’s storage pouch and encouraged him to pursue Blood Calamity with Laplace’s help.
• The Ning Tai avatar explained that the Ning Tai Mirror could locate weak spatial points and Aggregation Energy-rich coordinates, open a passage to the material world, and form a pact with Parrot.
• The Ning Tai avatar told Parrot the pact had no time limit but required him to replenish its Aggregation Energy by returning to the Day Mirror Domain, and that Laplace controlled the passages and his arrival coordinates.
• Parrot agreed to the Mirror Pact and dripped his blood onto the Ning Tai Mirror, which entered his sea of consciousness and became available for him to summon.
• Parrot realized Laplace could open passages between the Mirror Realm and the material world alone, suggesting she had concealed her true strength and identity.
• The Ning Tai avatar urged Parrot to leave before the Rice God found him, and Parrot asked where he would arrive in the material world.

Parrot learned that the Ning Tai Mirror would return him near the Guman Kingdom, arranged to bring distinctive goods and alchemy materials for Angel, and received the Blood of the God before leaving. Laplace and Angel returned to the Consciousness Void and arranged for the Scarlet Lantern Demon Queen to help them communicate with Blood Calamity about the Calamity Puppet.

• Ning Tai's avatar told Parrot that his return coordinates were near the Guman Kingdom, and Angel warned him that its politics were dangerous.
• Angel asked Parrot to bring distinctive goods and special alchemy materials on future visits, and Parrot agreed to seek materials in the Magnificent Plane.
• A phantom avatar gave Parrot the Blood of the God, and Parrot left to clean up the bloodstains in the crystal passageway and find a route to the Southern Region.
• Laplace told Angel that they would leave the questioning of Blood Calamity to their avatars and return to the Consciousness Void.
• Laplace learned that the Scarlet Lantern Demon Queen had agreed to help communicate with Blood Calamity because its disasters had killed many Scarlet Lantern Banshees.

Angel returned to the Silver Forest Space and learned about Blood Calamity’s nearly flawless rule ability, which drained the blood of enemies with lower bloodline ranks. The chapter left him aware that energy bodies and energy lifeforms were Blood Calamity’s true weakness.

• Angel returned from the Consciousness Void and joined Laplace and the Divine Blood Clone for tea at the dancing long table.
• Angel drank a cup of electric water infused with an Elemental Dragon’s aura, despite the Divine Blood Clone calling it Elemental Dragon bathwater.
• Laplace told Angel that Gleipnir was mediating between Blood Calamity and the other side, and that Blood Calamity’s attitude had softened.
• Laplace explained that Blood Calamity judged the bloodline ranks of enemies it saw or that appeared in mirrors, draining the blood of those with lower ranks.
• Laplace described Blood Calamity’s limitations: it affected only one person at a time, could be avoided by evading its sight and reflections, and could not affect energy bodies or energy lifeforms.

Angel, Laplace, and the Divine Blood Clone analyzed Blood Calamity’s weaknesses and considered how Parrot might fight it. Meanwhile, Ning Tai’s clone persuaded Blood Calamity to answer limited questions about unusual disasters in the Dark Mirror Domain, leaving the group with their first clues about the emerging threat.

• Angel learned that Blood Calamity’s rule-based ability could not affect energy bodies or energy lifeforms, but that this only removed its main advantage rather than guaranteeing victory.
• The Divine Blood Clone argued that Parrot could prepare to counter Blood Calamity, and Angel considered options including the Soul-Dimensional Path and Soul Armaments.
• Laplace noted that Blood Calamity could resurrect from disasters it had created and that this powerful ability likely had unknown restrictions.
• The Scarlet Lantern Demon Queen persuaded Blood Calamity to listen to Ning Tai’s clone, who promised to release the Light-Shadow Demon in exchange for its cooperation.
• Blood Calamity agreed to answer questions it chose to address, and Ning Tai’s clone learned that unusual disasters had recently appeared throughout the Dark Mirror Domain.