Recaps

William and Lorien entered Ill Mountain’s sealed city and helped Yi Chen destroy Daria Mico, the Human Body Collector. William recovered a complete storybook but lost his right eye, then planned to stage performances for fear as Yi Chen and Nash prepared to travel to the Original Tomb.

• William learned that Fish Origin was cultivating Octopus Girls to open dream passages, then helped Lorien modify Little Nurse and more than a hundred nurses for the Crimson Cross Society.
• William and Lorien traveled to Middle-Earth with Jessica and Nash, investigated Ill Mountain, and followed the village chief through Lung Water Lake into a sealed city.
• William confronted the Lung Temple master and reached the city center, where he sensed the sealed entity’s Despair Concept and learned that the threat was tied to an urban legend.
• Yi Chen joined William and Nash to face Daria Mico, the Human Body Collector, while William drew her attacks and helped expose her story’s true body.
• Lorien’s Disposable Moon gathered Daria’s projections, and Yi Chen destroyed the story as the dark moon split apart.
• William received a complete Human Body Collector storybook from Daria’s corpse, but lost his right eye and later used Lorien’s moon-crystal monocle to see through the missing eye.
• William proposed that Yi Chen and Nash travel to the Original Tomb while he staged performances to collect fear and restore his eye, as an unlit arena competition began in the City of Lights.

William secured Moonlight Shards and created Yin-Head, drawing contestants into a moonlit performance that led to a scripted murder mystery in the Bellow mansion. Yi Chen investigated Layton’s staged death underground as Danger Value rose and a masked woman appeared in the manor.

• William and Lorien traveled to Lup, where the Duke sold William three Moonlight Shards and required Lorien to create the moon there.
• William recruited Regan for the Moon Making Plan, and they worked with Lorien and Jessica to design an alternative celestial body.
• William launched Yin-Head as the Old World’s temporary moon and trapped participants in a 24-hour performance, while Gryph entered its false reality as a detective.
• Gryph survived the mansion’s horrors, killed William’s murderous double, and returned transformed by the Evil Sun as Little Grape.
• The preliminary selection ended with 188 qualifiers, and William invited contestants to join a dangerous Final Performance where killing could be permitted under special circumstances.
• William assigned the contestants secret roles in a mansion story, using Little Grape’s Evil Sun and his Mad Brain to alter the Human Body Collector tale before the performance began.
• Jennifer and Calvin arrived at the snowbound Bellow mansion, where a power failure and the loosening seal heightened the danger as Jennifer and Nash investigated Layton.
• Yi Chen found Layton dead in his study and concluded the scene had been staged to frame Jennifer, then used a blood-activated switch to enter a secret underground passage.
• The Policeman headed upstairs after Jennifer left the study and encountered a long-haired, masked woman as Danger Value rose.

Yi Chen defeated Yate in the Clown Circus’s first two acts and survived At’s final performance, which ended in a draw. After recovering, he set out with Nash to study death and find a way to kill At, reaching the Monastery of Suffering, where his unusual examination caught a Great Prison Monk’s attention.

• Wilkerson found Dick Drom dead and later accused Jennifer Bello of disappearing after Layton Bello’s death, while Calvin suspected Wilkerson of murder.
• Nanny Ima imprisoned Sebastian, but after Sebastian was found dead, Calvin shot Nanny Ima and Sharon, who revived with tentacles, and elsewhere, Yate revealed himself to Ilya Roman before her performance ended.
• Yi Chen fought Yate through the Clown Circus’s wirewalking and ring-of-fire acts, then accepted Nash’s parasitism and gained a new body suited to the final performance.
• Yi Chen reopened his sealed memories and fought At’s divine form, using the Army of the Dead to escape the tumor-filled tent, and At’s outbreak later subsided, and he declared the final act a draw.
• Yi Chen recovered backstage, learned that At had damaged the storybook, and heard that Duke Garryson wanted to meet him, after meeting the Duke, he killed Nash’s apparently dead parasite, and Nash emerged alive.
• Yi Chen and Nash left the theater to seek the Former Commander at the Monastery of Suffering, refusing Liya Roman’s help and entering with Laisa Hellerde’s ID Card.
• Yi Chen endured the monastery’s painful examination, and the Information Cocoon recorded his S+ potential and unusual lung reading, prompting a Great Prison Monk to consider whether he sought to restore his missing concept.

Yi Chen descended into the Endless Prison, freed the Original Commander, and returned with a new lung and a path toward confronting the Bloodfolk. Meanwhile, William prepared to attack the Skin Factory and secured Ater’s help, while Yi Chen discovered the divine source of the prison’s living chains.

• William’s false moon drew crowds to the theater, while Yi Chen entered the Monastery of Suffering with Nash and accepted Angelica’s offer to repair his Concept Deficiency in exchange for cooperation.
• After Father Gaines and nineteen monks attacked Yi Chen, he killed them in self-defense and received a prison sentence, then escaped with Nash and sought a route to the sealed Endless level.
• Asimov guided Yi Chen through the lower prison, where Yi Chen betrayed him and escaped with a prisoner before confronting Doctor Pound and the Eighteen Sins.
• Yi Chen opened the seal to Endless with his Death Aura, endured the white mist, and reached the deepest chamber, where he freed the Original Commander, who returned as the White Person.
• Yi Chen traveled through the Black Sea and met Balon Casas, who explained how death could bear his thoughts, while Nash learned from Balon and returned Yi Chen’s purple lung for him to transform into a Lung of the Dead.
• The Warden cleared Yi Chen at a retrial and offered him release if he assimilated a dangerous chain, so Yi Chen entered the special plantation and discovered the chains had inherited divinity from a dead god.
• William met the Supreme Lord, learned of the danger posed by a Bloodfolk Marquis, and prepared a performance and an assault on the Skin Factory, while Ater agreed to help him negotiate with the Plague Lord.
• Ater delivered eight captured skins to William, and Leslie Lovecodd crossed the guarded river and opened the Stitched Gate as the Skin Factory welcomed her home.