Chapter Summaries

Angel learned from Ms. Gosha that the White Porcelain Singer had once worked for a Creator who was a Miracle Sequence, and that Ms. Gosha suspected Angel was one too. Ms. Gosha explained that her original body’s attempt to deduce the Dream Mirror members had yielded no information about Angel, leaving his extraordinary identity unexplained.

• Angel questioned why Ms. Gosha had never received a Trial Wonderland and concluded that her ability came from the White Porcelain Singer rather than the will of the world.
• After Magic Flute and Lady Roseleaf left, Ms. Gosha told Angel how the White Porcelain Singer reunited with her former navigator, who had been capturing lifeforms for a Creator.
• The navigator explained that the Creator hired him to populate a world with incomplete laws of life in exchange for access to its underlying laws, and the White Porcelain Singer later worked for the Creator for decades.
• Ms. Gosha revealed that the Creator was a Miracle Sequence, a title granted to those recognized by a miraculous existence as having the potential to become miraculous lifeforms.
• Ms. Gosha said her original body suspected Angel was a Miracle Sequence because he seemed to be gathering strength and momentum, and because attempts to deduce his identity had produced an unknown result.

Angel learned that the Instrument World was created by the Creator and that Edward’s body remained there, while Ms. Gosha explained ways to retrieve it. Her explanation connected the world’s windows to Secret Grounds and left Angel questioning who truly controlled the mirror he knew.

• Angel told Ms. Gosha that his interest in the Creator came from his friend Edward, who had been trapped in the Instrument World for eight hundred years and escaped through a Spirit-Transference Ritual, leaving his body behind.
• Ms. Gosha believed Angel’s account and explained that the Creator rarely interfered with the Instrument World, though his descendants watched over it.
• Ms. Gosha said Edward’s body could be retrieved by hiring a Seed Gatherer or by gaining control of a window into the Instrument World.
• Angel realized the name of the window matched a real-world Instance and asked Ms. Gosha to explain what windows were.
• Ms. Gosha explained that windows let people view and enter Secret Grounds, but said that someone looking through a window was only a passerby, while the master of the Secret Grounds generally owned it.

Angel learned that claiming a Window could help him recover Edward’s body, and that the Window Dungeon’s objective likely aimed to seize one. As Ms. Gosha revealed how the White Porcelain Singer had witnessed the Instrument World’s creator receive recognition from a miracle, Angel learned the Star Lord’s train station was evidence of that recognition.

• Ms. Gosha explained that Secret Grounds masters could delegate their roles and that Angel might recover Edward’s body by claiming a Window, though taking the Knight Castle would be difficult.
• Ms. Gosha said she knew no locations of unclaimed Secret Grounds, but shared how to find and enter the Heavenly Sound Garden.
• Angel realized the Window Dungeon’s second main objective likely let the Wonderland Authority claim a Window and potentially help Edward regain his body.
• Ms. Gosha described her plan to pursue authority in the Dream Crystal Plain and said the White Porcelain Singer’s people were nearing despair as the Calamity overwhelmed their domain.
• Before Angel left, Ms. Gosha revealed that the White Porcelain Singer had witnessed a miracle recognize the Instrument World’s creator, and identified the Star Lord’s train station as evidence.

Angel learned from Star Worm that building a platform on the Dream Crystal Plain would make him a Sequence Bearer, eligible to compete for a Miracle being’s investment. After Angel logged out, Water Clone told him that Coleman and Ice Woman had obtained new information about Calamity Puppet.

• Angel left Ms. Gosha with illusion constructs that let her move freely, then contacted Laplace and learned she knew nothing about Sequence Bearers.
• Angel visited Star Worm in Modern City, and Star Worm confirmed that agreeing to build the platform would make Angel a Sequence Bearer.
• Star Worm explained that Sequence Bearers could qualify for resources and knowledge from Miracle beings after passing their tests, and described the Instrument World creator’s gift from the Star Lord.
• Angel asked Star Worm about several Miracle beings, learning that Time Thief did not recognize Sequence Bearers and Peach Heart Theater offered gifts to recognized performers.
• Angel logged out intending to share what he had learned about the Window Dungeon, but Water Clone told him Coleman and Ice Woman had new information while Calamity Puppet had not entered the Day Mirror Domain.

Angel learned that Ice Woman, Coleman, and Satan’s consciousnesses had entered a new space and generated a third livestream, separate from the hospital-room feed of their bodies. The new space was the Dream Chocolate Factory, which might be Secret Grounds, and the chapter ended as the replay showed Coleman and Satan meeting Ice Woman in their new Flame Guard bodies.

• Luigi and Water Clone received a message from Laplace’s main body announcing a new signal source from Ice Woman.
• Angel saw the third livestream and learned that Ice Woman, Coleman, and Satan’s consciousnesses had arrived in a new space with new bodies.
• Luigi explained that Ice Woman had found a mirror to resume broadcasting, while Coleman and Satan had become separate Flame Guards.
• Water Clone said Ice Woman, Coleman, and Satan had work identities in the Dream Chocolate Factory, which might be Secret Grounds.
• Angel asked to replay the footage, and the livestream showed Ice Woman signaling through frost marks before Coleman entered the storage room.
• Satan burst in complaining about his Flame Guard body, and Coleman covered his vent to stop him speaking.

Coleman, Satan, and Ice Woman learned that they had become Dream Chocolate Factory employees who faced deadly lightning punishment if they broke rules or missed work. After Satan was repeatedly punished for stepping over the lawn, the three hurried toward workplaces they had guessed from their surroundings, and encountered other employees before arriving.

• Coleman restarted the livestream and explained that he, Satan, and Ice Woman had awakened as factory workers with one hour to report to their assigned workshops or face annihilation-grade lightning punishment.
• The three left the Employee Contracting Office and learned that only the white seashell paths were safe, but Satan was struck twice for stepping onto the lawn and then raising his foot over it.
• Coleman guessed that the Steam Honey Workshop was near Pink Hill, while Ice Woman identified a nearby White Candle House as the Shaping Workshop by sensing cold air there.
• With twenty minutes left, Coleman, Satan, and Ice Woman raced toward their suspected workplaces and passed through Shell Square, where they saw other factory employees emerge from Black Round Wells.

Coleman and Satan learned that the Dream Chocolate Factory punished workers for breaking its rules, while the Old Treant directed Coleman, Ice Woman, and Satan toward their workshops. As the trio split up to reach work before the deadline, Satan revealed that enduring ten lightning punishments had unlocked a new identity: “Rebel.”

• Satan blocked six Little Treants from reaching the Chaos Hourglass, and their delay triggered Scorch Mark lightning punishment.
• The factory’s rules struck Satan with Shatter Grade lightning, destroying his right arm, then punished him again when he insulted the Old Treant.
• The Old Treant explained that the Pink Volcano housed the Steam Honey Workshop and the White Candle House housed the Shaping Workshop, then urged the newcomers to get to work.
• Coleman carried the unconscious Satan toward the fork where he and Ice Woman planned to separate, but Satan woke before she left.
• Satan said he had endured ten lightning punishments and learned that they had unlocked his new identity as “Rebel.”

Angel suspected the Dream Chocolate Factory was a Secret Ground whose rules had granted Satan a hidden Rebel identity after ten lightning punishments. The Ice Woman learned the factory’s punishing work rules, then heard that its employees were sacrificed consciousnesses before she went to find her friends.

• Angel speculated that the factory’s rule system had recognized Satan’s defiance and unlocked the Rebel identity, which reduced lightning punishments and gave him recruitment authority and access to a secret base.
• Satan explained his new Rebel abilities to Coleman and the Ice Woman, who both chose to join the faction before separating to report for work.
• The Ice Woman learned that Frost Workers had a weekly quota and that failing to meet it could mean long shifts and severe lightning punishment, while a monitoring eye watched her work.
• After work, the Ice Woman met two Snow Woman employees outside the Candle House, who explained that employees often worked overtime to meet their quotas.
• One Snow Woman told the Ice Woman that she and her friend had been sacrificed at the factory, and that her friend died after missing work to find her; she refused to reveal who had not been sacrificed.

Ice Woman learned that entering Pink Volcano without permission triggered lightning punishment, while Coleman deduced that the factory’s leaders belonged to the organization that had sacrificed their consciousnesses. Satan emerged from the Steam Honey Workshop missing his left lower leg but excited about a profitable discovery, and he led Coleman toward the volcano’s rear because Ice Woman could not enter.

• Ice Woman left the Snow Women and concluded that the factory’s leadership might be the group exempt from being sacrificed.
• Ice Woman entered Pink Volcano without authorization, was struck by lightning, and retreated after repairing the livestream mirror with frost energy.
• Coleman met Ice Woman outside and reasoned that the people in charge of the factory’s five major areas belonged to the sacrificers’ organization.
• Coleman suggested that the Old Treant was likely in charge of the Dream Brew Cellar and said Satan’s Rebel identity could give them a chance to overthrow the factory’s leadership.
• Coleman and Ice Woman waited for Satan while fireworkers emerged from the volcano and smoked addictive volcanic ash.
• Satan came out missing everything below his left knee, said he had made a killing despite triggering Annihilation Grade lightning punishment, and ordered Coleman to carry him around the volcano to its rear.

Satan led Coleman and the Ice Woman to a secret study in the summit crater, where Coleman discovered the Steam Honey Workshop manager’s diary. Satan revealed that he had pushed the manager into the lava lake and killed her, then the group covered up the broken window before heading to his secret base to talk.

• Satan persuaded Coleman and the Ice Woman to climb to the volcano’s summit and jump down a chimney into a hidden study.
• Coleman read the Steam Honey Workshop Management Diary and learned its writer was the workshop’s manager.
• Satan confirmed the manager owned the study and revealed that he had shoved her into the lava lake, killing her.
• Coleman, Satan, and the Ice Woman repaired the broken window so workers below would not notice the smoke entering the room.
• Satan led Coleman and the Ice Woman back toward the study, where he said they could discuss what happened inside his secret base.

Satan established the Rebels’ secret base inside the Steam Honey Workshop manager’s study, and Ice Woman transmitted the manager’s manuscripts while Coleman furnished the cramped room. Satan then recounted how he had infiltrated the manager’s office and found the manuscripts, ending with footsteps approaching as he prepared to take them.

• Satan revealed a hidden entrance in the study and led Coleman and Ice Woman into the Rebels’ small secret base.
• Coleman brought the manager’s manuscripts inside, and Ice Woman used the Mirror to transmit their contents through the livestream.
• Satan asked Luigi to turn his experiences into an epic, prompting Luigi’s Water Clone to reveal that Luigi had previously wanted to confront Satan over the insult.
• Satan explained that he had learned the manager, Violette, was away and snuck into her office, where Rebel resistance reduced a Shatter Grade lightning strike to Scorch Grade.
• Satan found the manuscripts in the study, but footsteps approached before he could take them.

Satan killed Violette and became the manager of the Steam Honey Workshop, gaining authority and access to the manager’s office. Coleman then questioned whether the other managers would discover Violette’s death, and Satan said the factory’s areas operated independently.

• Violette struck Satan with Scorch Mark lightning punishment and ordered him back to work.
• Satan attacked Violette, knocked her through the Window, and watched her sink into the magma lake; Annihilation Grade lightning punishment cost him his left leg.
• Satan explained to Coleman and Ice Woman that the rules had recognized him as Violette’s replacement and made him the workshop manager.
• Coleman suggested Satan’s Rebel identity had let him attack a manager despite the usual rules forbidding it.
• Satan said the managers of the factory’s five major areas had nearly equal, independent authority and would not learn of Violette’s death unless he revealed it.

Coleman and the others learned that they had about ten days before the Steam Honey Workshop’s missed quotas would draw scrutiny from another manager, giving them time to plan their next move. After the livestream replay ended, Angel reviewed Violette’s manuscripts with Water Clone, who began summarizing their contents.

• Satan explained that the Steam Honey Workshop had to meet its weekly quota to avoid contact with other area managers, and that its short-staffing made this week’s quota difficult to meet.
• Coleman concluded that the group had roughly ten days before the Shaping Workshop’s manager would come to investigate, and planned to use that time to prepare to replace the manager.
• Ice Woman worried that the livestream might not reach the outside world, but Water Clone confirmed that Laplace had already begun selecting people to enter the Instrument World.
• Satan could find no information about the factory director in the manager records, so Coleman told him to organize the information while he and Ice Woman read Violette’s manuscripts.
• After the replay ended, Angel asked Water Clone to introduce the manuscripts, which she had organized into three categories; she began by identifying several as the least useful.

Angel read Violette’s manuscripts and concluded that Dream Energy provided further evidence that the Dream Chocolate Factory was a Secret Grounds. He revealed that Ms. Gosha, a Time Doppelgänger of the legendary White Porcelain Singer, had told him that a Secret Grounds was effectively a Window, leaving Coleman and the others poised to pursue the second main quest as Rebels.

• Angel read The Path of Cold Refining and learned that it recorded Violette’s methods for stillness fusion with ten materials, while Dream Energy described power unique to the Chocolate Factory.
• Angel found evidence that Violette and the managers of the factory’s five regions belonged to the God-Worshipping Sect, and learned details about the managers’ abilities from her diary and letters.
• Angel concluded that Dream Energy could help prove the Chocolate Factory was a Secret Grounds, while the other manuscripts offered little practical value.
• Angel told Water Clone and Luigi that Ms. Gosha had identified a Secret Grounds as a Window and revealed that she was the Time Doppelgänger of White Porcelain Singer, a legendary Seed Gatherer who had presided over the Heavenly Sound Garden.
• Water Clone recognized that Coleman and the other two Rebels could break the factory’s hierarchy and pursue the second main quest by seeking to become masters of the Secret Grounds.

Angel and the Water Clone watched Satan and Coleman investigate the Dream Chocolate Factory, where they uncovered records left by a former workshop manager and learned that the factory had no director. Angel realized the factory might be an ownerless Secret Grounds Window, leaving him with a possible path to help Coleman and the others claim it.

• Angel and the Water Clone reasoned that the challengers' improved fortunes in the factory might be because their consciousnesses had entered bodies unaffected by the World Will's rejection period.
• Coleman read books from the study, including the Employee Handbook, while Satan finished sorting through the manager information.
• Satan explained that employee records listed him and Coleman as exceptional members of the Evil Fire Clan, and Coleman found older records showing that the former workshop had employed about 133 Fireworkers.
• Satan discovered that the rule requiring monthly reports to the factory director had been inactive for nearly half a year, suggesting the factory had no director.
• Angel concluded that the Dream Chocolate Factory was an ownerless Window and recalled a possibility in the Treatise on the Former Factory Rules.

Angel realized the vacant factory director position might be filled through an election, while Coleman uncovered letters suggesting the God-Worshipping Sect had prepared a god-chosen candidate and was waiting for the right time. The group concluded that administrators might be barred from running and that a non-administrator should be considered as a candidate.

• Angel found a passage in Treatise on the Former Factory Rules stating that administrators of the five regions could elect a factory director.
• Angel and the Water Clone debated why the God-Worshipping Sect had not already elected a director and suspected that the election required additional conditions.
• Coleman recognized the election story as the matter mentioned in old letters between Violette and the regional administrators, then left to retrieve the letters.
• Coleman returned with letters that referred to a coming time and a god-chosen one, leading the group to suspect the letters concerned the factory director election.
• Coleman reasoned that the election had not yet begun because its timing was restricted and that the god-chosen one might be the Sect's candidate.
• Coleman warned that administrators might be ineligible to run and recommended choosing a non-administrator as a candidate if they pursued the election.

Coleman, Satan, and Ice Woman planned to expand the Rebels and run for factory director, while Angel and the others considered how to enter the Chocolate Factory to support them. Satan proposed searching Violette’s books for the God-Worshipping ritual and left to investigate.

• Coleman explained why the Rebels could not easily replace administrators or win the factory-director vote, and argued that they needed more members.
• Coleman invited the livestream viewers to join the Rebels, offering them a chance to beat up Satan, and set a five-day wait before recruiting local employees instead.
• Angel and Water Clone discussed the difficulty of reaching the Chocolate Factory, which required finding the God-Worshipping Sect and being sacrificed into the Factory.
• Coleman began explaining how the livestream viewers might get captured and sacrificed, but Satan suggested they learn the ritual from books in Violette’s study.
• Satan left the secret base to search Violette’s books for records of the God-Worshipping ritual.

Coleman explained that the God-Worshipping Sect likely chose offerings for their rarity and elemental affinities, prompting Laplace’s group to debate what counted as rare and consult Ms. Gosha. The discussion confirmed that godly rituals required faith, while Ms. Gosha described the Chocolate Factory’s consciousness-transfer process as a rule imposed by the Secret Grounds’ owner.

• Coleman told the livestream that rare races with strong elemental associations were more likely to attract the God-Worshipping Sect, and he suggested sending entrants aligned with elements beyond fire.
• Laplace’s group debated whether rare meant valuable or seldom seen, and Angel argued that rarity should be judged by how common a race was in the Instrument World.
• Angel asked Ms. Gosha which races were uncommon and sought her advice on the Chaos God Ritual and consciousness transfer.
• Ms. Gosha confirmed that rituals involving gods generally required faith as an anchor and warned that attempting one without faith could cause divine power to destroy the user.
• Ms. Gosha said she had never heard of consciousness uploading but explained that Secret Grounds owners could set rules for visitors, including requiring them to change bodies.

Angel relayed Ms. Gosha’s guidance on scarce races in the Instrument World, and Laplace’s main body selected four compatible Time Doppelgängers. The group identified two candidates as especially rare and considered Na’s Abyssal Awakening before the chapter ended.

• Angel explained that races from special, terrifying, closed, and distant worlds were scarce in the Instrument World, and that Starfallers and Gosen Mirror Domain inhabitants were especially unlikely to be numerous.
• While the Ice Woman’s livestream showed Satan returning empty-handed and Coleman discussing god-related rituals, the Water Clone and Luigi consulted the other Time Doppelgängers.
• The Water Clone presented four candidates selected by Laplace’s main body: Milk Dragon, Wine Cup, Na, and a mud-born Abyssal lifeform.
• The Water Clone explained that Milk Dragon belonged to the rarely encountered Mirror Dragon Clan and Wine Cup was a Telu Person from a distant world.
• Angel questioned whether Panas Succubi were rare, and the Water Clone explained that Na was an exceptionally uncommon awakened succubus.

Angel revealed that Hai, an awakened Panas Succubus, had awakened while using a product he made, and learned why Na and Mud Duke were chosen as unique, mutually beneficial supporters. He sent Milk Dragon, Wine Cup, Na, and Mud Duke to support Coleman’s group in Evening Dream Cloud Harbor, then learned Yota feared for the Crystal-Eyed Race and saw the live feed switch to Wine Cup.

• Angel told the Water Clone and Luigi that Hai had awakened while using a product he made in his shop in Lasudelan.
• The Water Clone and Luigi explained that Mud Duke was unique and met Coleman’s selection criteria, while Na and Mud Duke shared energy through mutualistic symbiosis.
• Coleman searched Violette’s study for useful books while Satan investigated her living quarters, and Angel brought Milk Dragon, Wine Cup, Na, and Mud Duke to the Window Dungeon to support Coleman’s group.
• Angel told Yota that Coleman’s group had been forced into Main Quest 2 and that the four new arrivals had gone to support them; Yota also voiced concern about unrest over Tunita’s absence.
• Angel learned that Laplace already knew the four had gone to help, then logged out and saw Wine Cup operating the live feed.