Recaps

Shade and Megan found the Door of Wishes Granted by the river and rescued John’s missing brother from it, while Shade killed Bully Hansen for murdering and eating the boy. They returned to Green Lake Inn for the family banquet, with Shade worried that Doctor Schneider might encounter the Mirror Society brothers.

• Shade and Megan found an old door by the river and identified it as the Door of Wishes Granted, an artifact that trapped people inside their deepest desires.
• Shade threw coins through the door, revealing Bully Hansen trapped in a room filled with riches, and Hansen rushed out when the scene changed.
• Shade learned that Hansen had strangled the frail boy whose corpse he had eaten, then killed Hansen with his chain and sent the boy’s soul toward the Underworld.
• Megan marveled that Shade could open a passage to True Death, and Shade said he would explain how he gained the power later.
• Shade and Megan returned to their cruise ship, and Shade worried that Doctor Schneider might encounter the Mirror Society brothers before the family banquet.
• Shade and Megan arrived at Green Lake Inn at six o’clock, half an hour before the gathering was scheduled to begin.

Shade and the Edwardz descendants gathered at Green Lake, exchanged information about their family and the thirteen keys, and learned that their ancestor’s Chosen One ritual required him to “Create Space.” They pledged to work together against his plans, while the Mirror Society agreed not to act alone at Green Lake or explore the island independently.

• Shade and Megan hosted a family dinner with the Follen and Edwardz brothers, and the relatives toasted their reunion and Aunt Maria.
• Shade shared Mr. Nicholas Green’s information, revealing that Old Mr. Green had become a Corpse Ghoul and that the Edwardz parents had become Cultists; the family also confirmed the whereabouts of eight keys.
• The Follen brothers reported that the Church had found ancient ruins on the island, while the Edwards brothers revealed that the entire Edwardz family might be the Space Chosen Ones and that their ritual required them to “Create Space.”
• Wood Edwardz said the Invisible Man believed their ancestor was occupied with the ritual and would invite the descendants back once he succeeded.
• The sixth-generation descendants pledged to oppose their ancestor together, the Follen brothers agreed to inform the Church, and the Mirror Society agreed not to plot at Green Lake or explore the island alone.

At a banquet hosted by Megan, Shade and the Edwardz descendants discussed their family’s past and plans to resist their Ancestor. A spatial distortion sent a train crashing into Green Lake City, and Shade went out to investigate, where Doctor Bill Schneider encountered the Edwardz Brothers.

• Durut Giles arrived at the banquet with Lust Edwardz’s soul, and the Edwardz and Follen Brothers greeted her as an honored elder.
• The guests recounted how their grandfathers had left Green Lake and agreed to honor their parents’ wishes by letting them rest in peace.
• At 7:56:23, the Ring Arcanists sensed a large spatial distortion, and Megan used wine to show a train appearing and crashing into a street in central Green Lake City.
• The Follen Brothers and the Edwardz Brothers left the gathering, expecting The Church to investigate and the area to be placed under lockdown.
• Shade went downstairs to inspect the crash and saw Doctor Bill Schneider come face-to-face with the one-eyed Edwardz Brothers.

Doctor Schneider found the location needed for the Dream Entry Ritual, and Shade assembled his allies to prepare for a Saturday-night search for Maze Demon-Yaru at Green Lake. As the group began the ritual preparations on a concealed cruise ship, Audrey warned Shade that something was wrong with Doctor Schneider.

• Doctor Schneider told Shade he had found the ritual location and proposed holding the Dream Entry Ritual at Green Lake the next night.
• Shade introduced Doctor Schneider to Megan and Mr. Green, and the group agreed to prepare for the ritual while Shade canceled his date with Leisha.
• Shade saw Priest Augustus off on a journey to Green Lake, then informed Luvia that the operation would take place there.
• Shade left Tobesk with Doctor Schneider, the Green Siblings, Megan, and Audrey, and they concealed their cruise ship on Estuary Lake.
• Doctor Schneider took Mr. Green into the cabin to prepare his mental state while the others arranged the ritual, and Audrey told Shade that something was wrong with the doctor.

Shade and Doctor Schneider began the dream operation to reach the door on Green Lake’s Central Island, entering Soren Green’s dream with him. They left the inn aboard a boat bound for the island, with Shade responsible for combat and Soren instructed to stay with them.

• Audrey questioned Shade about Doctor Schneider’s unusual knowledge of demons, and Shade told her to trust the doctor and keep his identity secret.
• Sylvia, Margaret, Tifa, and other witches joined Shade and Audrey’s team aboard the cruise ship, where they prepared the ritual and defenses for the operation.
• Soren drank a Sleeping Magic Potion and entered a specially prepared coffin with Shade and the doctor; the witches lowered all three coffins into Green Lake and activated the rituals.
• Shade and Doctor Schneider entered Soren’s dream at the Green Lake Inn, confirmed their powers and relics worked there, and used the doctor’s mental suggestion to awaken Soren.
• The doctor reminded Soren to stay with them and Shade to handle combat; then he shifted the dream scene, placing the three of them in a boat sailing through the rain toward the island’s fog.

Shade, Doctor Schneider, and Soren Green explored the island in Soren’s dream and uncovered a hidden chamber beneath Edwards Mansion’s well, where murals recorded horrific immortality experiments. They reached the basement door believed to conceal their target, but Doctor Schneider’s watch had become useless as they prepared to proceed.

• Doctor Schneider confirmed that the dream connected to reality as the group reached the island, and Shade led them through the ominous town toward Edwards Mansion.
• Soren Green identified himself at the mansion’s gate, allowing it to open, while Doctor Schneider’s watch showed that the dream had been mixed with something else.
• Shade noticed the well and, after Soren asked to draw water, opened the way into a secret chamber beneath it.
• Shade found murals depicting experiments on a humanoid figure and recognized one object as an Infant Fruit derived from the Agelessness Tree.
• The group returned aboveground and entered Edwards Old House, then reached the basement’s black iron door as Doctor Schneider’s watch began trembling wildly.

Shade fought Demon Man Pride Edwards in the crimson-mist dream and learned that the Primordial Fire had scorched his arm. He then confronted Gluttony Edwards, whose memories revealed her murder of her brother’s wife and her transformation through Demon and Dragon power.

• Shade opened the basement door and faced Maze Demon - Yaru as crimson mist spread across the dream island.
• Shade defeated Pride Edwards with the Night Watchman and the Chaotic Time Blade, then recognized the First Fire’s mark on his burned arm.
• Shade left Edwards Old House and saw visions of the Edwards siblings growing up, Gluttony’s relationship with a woman, and the birth of little Maria.
• Shade watched Gluttony stab her brother’s wife and push her into the well before she approached him carrying a Black Dragon.
• Shade and Gluttony sensed the Dragon power in each other as they faced one another in the mist.

Shade fought Gluttony Edwards in a prepared Dream and learned that she claimed Alphonse as her son and Megan’s grandmother as her granddaughter. After Shade dragged Gluttony into reality, she emerged from Green Lake and was met in the air by Miss Sylvia and Megan.

• Gluttony Edwards revealed that Alphonse had been created from her blood and her brother’s, and claimed Megan was her granddaughter.
• Shade battled Gluttony across the Dream, shattered her black greatsword with Primordial Fire, and wounded her soul with the Moonbeam Greatsword.
• Gluttony fled the Dream, but returned behind Shade with a dagger as the Doctor signaled him.
• Shade seized Gluttony and pulled her from the Dream into reality, causing one of the coffins beneath Green Lake to explode.
• Gluttony flew out of Green Lake and collided with Miss Sylvia and Megan, whose attacks engulfed her in midair.

Shade and the Witches battled Gluttony Edwards, who escaped the Great Sin Chains by transforming into a powerful black Dragon. Laplace Klein Howard appeared and invited Shade to meet him, then vanished; Shade joined the fight aboard the flying cruise ship and unleashed a Dragon Roar alongside its cannon attack.

• Shade and the Witches trapped Gluttony Edwards with the Great Sin Chains and other restraints, but a mysterious hand freed her Destiny Ring.
• Gluttony Edwards transformed into a black Dragon and fought Megan, Audrey, and the other Witches above Green Lake.
• Laplace Klein Howard contacted Shade through a spatial opening, questioned his beliefs about the Murmuring Chapters, and invited him to the Edwards family's banquet.
• Laplace promised not to obstruct Shade on his next visit to the island if Shade defeated Gluttony, then closed the spatial opening.
• Shade joined Tifa and Margaret aboard the airborne cruise ship as Jill Holly aimed its charged cannon at the Dragon.
• Shade unleashed a Dragon Roar as the cruise ship fired its cannon, striking Gluttony Edwards with both attacks.

Vanessa Benanis and Siris joined the battle at Green Lake, and Vanessa’s performance empowered a stone giant to badly wound the Demon Black Dragon. Doctor Bill Schneider then trapped the Dragon inside a cube, while Shade went to meet him and Megan’s party began rescuing Mr. Soren Green.

• The fused Edwards and Demon Black Dragon recovered their strength and prepared to attack Megan and the black-haired Great Witch, but a stone giant emerged from Green Lake.
• Vanessa Benanis and Siris performed the dragon slayer’s hymn, and Vanessa used the Mystic Lock · Ode to Glory Golden Stage to strike the Dragon with the giant’s sword.
• The badly wounded Dragon remained ready to fight, but a black cube rose from the lake and Doctor Bill Schneider appeared with the remains of Maze Demon-Yaru.
• Doctor Bill Schneider enclosed the Dragon in black fragments and shrank the prison to a cube in his palm.
• Shade left the cruise ship to meet Doctor Bill Schneider, while Megan and Audrey arranged for the others to pull Mr. Soren Green from the lake.

Shade and the Doctor returned the Edwards siblings to Sloth Edwardz in exchange for a clue about the second Space Chosen One. In Green Lake City, Iluna met If and began the second game by choosing to leave for Huntington.

• Vanessa, Megan, Audrey, and Sylvia clasped hands and agreed to keep Shade's affairs secret.
• The Doctor gave Shade the cube containing Glatoni Edwards and Pride Edwards, explaining that he had sealed the Demon empowering them.
• Sloth Edwardz collected the cube and revealed that the second Space Chosen candidate was connected to Lust Edwardz and the man she had chosen.
• Iluna arrived in Green Lake City, separated from her companions, and asked If to begin the second game.
• If presented Iluna with five choices, but she chose to conceal her face and buy a train ticket to Huntington, Kassenric United Kingdom.

Iluna used the If game to search Huntington’s lakes for clues about the Goddess in the Lake and encountered Angelina Cavendish. After reaching the First Cherub, she asked the Intellect Angel for guidance on saving the person who could have changed the tragedies of her future.

• Iluna spent weeks searching the lakes around Huntington, finally hearing a rumor about a barefoot red-haired girl walking on a lake.
• Iluna called out Leisha Cavendish’s name, but the girl was Angelina Cavendish, who agreed to help after Iluna explained her mission.
• Angelina guided Iluna to the First Cherub, where Iluna overheard fragments of Angelina’s conversation with the Angel before Angelina left.
• Iluna introduced herself to the Intellect Angel and asked for guidance on saving the crucial person missing from the game’s past, or on dealing with the Unknown Level Relic, If.

Iluna learned that saving Shade required seeking further help, then played through a disastrous account of the Green Lake Incident and gained an insight into the Silver Moon. Meanwhile, Shade returned to the boat after Sloth Edwardz escaped, and his companions agreed that learning about the Chosen One of Space mattered more than capturing the Edwards Family members.

• Iluna refused the Angel’s offers of power and knowledge and insisted on learning how to save Shade; the Angel told her to seek the aid of Time and Space, the Guardians of the Apocalypse, or the Fire Guardians.
• If recounted how Iluna barely defeated Angelina Cavendish before returning to Green Lake, where Laplace Klein Edwardz defeated her and the Green Lake Incident ended in failure.
• Iluna noticed a silver-haired woman in the Silver Moon and gained an insight that could lead to the Miracle—Silver Moon.
• Doctor Schneider left with the Wish Demon and told Shade to meet him later so they could refine the Demon remains and decide what to do with the imprisoned souls.
• Shade returned to the boat and told Miss Benanis, Miss Sylvia, and Megan about Sloth Edwardz; they agreed that gathering information about a Chosen One was more important than capturing the temporarily weakened Edwards Family members.

Shade and the Doctor celebrated defeating the labyrinth demon Yalu, while Shade learned the truth about Megan’s family and dealt with the souls imprisoned by the demon. The chapter ended with Shade watching the freed souls approach the Underworld Moon in True Death.

• Shade told Megan and Audrey that Luvia would visit Monday and revealed that their ancestor had created Megan’s father through Human Transmutation using Pride Edwards’s and Gluttony’s blood.
• The Doctor celebrated the demon-hunting operation with Shade, described his new Blasphemy-Labyrinth ability, and gave Shade demon remains and relics, including a cube imprisoning souls.
• Shade returned home, opened a rift to True Death, and cast the soul-filled cube into its waters.
• Shade watched the freed souls walk toward the half-submerged Underworld Moon as they whispered their thanks.

Shade and Luvia discussed the preparations for the coming battle on Central Island, while the Witches and the Church gathered forces and investigated the growing spatial anomalies around Green Lake. The chapter left Shade’s allies preparing a base and a major divination as the conflict with Laplace Howard drew closer.

• Shade visited Luvia for breakfast, and they discussed the demon’s defeat, their allies, and the clues they needed before planning the final battle.
• Shade took Little Mia to the Green Lake Inn, where the Doctor left to gather materials and collect war aura.
• Miss Galina, Audrey, Miss Benanis, and Miss Sylvia chose to make the inn the Witches’ base for the Green Lake Region incident and discussed the arrival of more Witches.
• Iluna arrived and told Shade and the Witches that the Church was monitoring spatial anomalies, guarding both shores of Green Lake, and preparing a large-scale divination with the Seer Association.
• Iluna added that the Five Gods Church was investigating the keys, Green Lake Town’s descendants, and the illegal Ring Arcanist organization, while also seeking a way to reach Another Island.

Iluna briefed Shade and the Witches on the negotiations, The Tyranny Club, and The Truth Society before they divided their preparations for the coming battle. As Iluna left, she told Shade that Church fragments about the Space Chosen One repeatedly mentioned a butterfly.

• Iluna explained that the Peace Church had urged both Kings to suspend negotiations, while The Church suspected The Tyranny Club was driven by three forces seeking war.
• Iluna said she would soon return to the island with a Thirteenth Ring member, while Shade planned to disrupt Laplace Howard's corpse-revival ability and investigate The Truth Society.
• Iluna revealed that Miss Pawo had become The Truth Society's President after research she led made a decisive breakthrough.
• Iluna suggested the Primal Rift might reach its peak without absorbing every member of the Edwards Family, and Miss Galina and the Witches praised her reasoning.
• Shade and Iluna agreed that Luvia would arrive Monday, and Iluna told him that Church fragments about the Space Chosen One repeatedly mentioned a butterfly.

Iluna asked Shade about the Old Gods, time and space, and a dangerous storytelling relic, then realized the opening of her game matched reality and kissed him in excitement. Shade sought advice on a birthday gift for her, while the Witches planned defenses for Green Lake Inn and Doctor reported surviving a spatial trap and a descending relic.

• Iluna asked Shade about the butterfly symbols, the World Tree, and ways to contact the Guardians of Time and Space, then described a story relic whose adventures turned dangerous after they began.
• Shade suggested that Iluna's story scenes might begin as reality did, and Iluna realized the matching openings proved her theory; she kissed him and left, embarrassed.
• Shade asked Helena Green what to give Iluna for her birthday, and she suggested a meaningful gift such as a Golden Apple.
• The Witches drafted a plan to reinforce Green Lake Inn and discussed the dangers of creating a stable space gate between Glass City and Green Lake City.
• Shade accepted Margaret's invitation to attend a Golden Dawn Opera Troupe performance with Audrey, then spent the day in Green Lake City.
• Doctor told Shade he had escaped a looping alley by reshaping space with the Labyrinth and narrowly avoided a relic descending over it.

Shade visited Margaret in Mikella Blast Furnace City as tensions between Delarion and Kasonlik escalated, and they spent the evening discussing her apprenticeship and the negotiations. Margaret decided to withdraw from the negotiations and focus on helping her teachers, then became intimate with Shade in their private opera box.

• Shade saw that the camps on both sides of the Crossroads passage had expanded and learned from Captain Rades that Delarion soldiers had been ordered to increase vigilance and carry firearms.
• Shade met Margaret at the Glass Bottle Theater, where she told him Sylvia had gone to investigate a Space Folding phenomenon and Audrey would arrive late.
• Margaret described her struggles as a Witch Apprentice and her research into making dolls with memory threads, while Shade comforted her.
• Margaret told Shade she planned to withdraw from the Green Lake Negotiations and concentrate on helping Benanis and Lathers instead.
• Margaret kissed Shade and asked whether he and Sylvia had been intimate before, then invited him to try it with her.

Shade and Margaret were interrupted by news of a shooting and an assassination threat at the Opera House. After Shade defeated the attackers in an ambush, three Great Witches arrived in the alley.

• Margaret and Shade shared a private moment in the Opera House box until royal attendants reported that gunmen had entered the building.
• Margaret left the Opera House with her maids while Shade disguised himself as a silver cat and hid under an illusion.
• The carriage carrying Margaret turned into an alley, where a coachman and dozens of gunmen ambushed it.
• Shade emerged unharmed, caught a bullet, and destroyed the twelve attackers with his chain and Pink Crystal.
• Shade asked Margaret how they would explain the attack, and Miss Sylvia, Miss Benanis, and Megan appeared through a vortex.

Shade and Miss Sylvia traced an attack on Princess Margaret Anjou to a Tyranny Club hideout through a temporary spatial door. The Church captured the surviving attackers, while Sylvia took a prisoner for the Witch Council and the city remained engulfed in violence.

• Miss Benanis staged an alley scene to make Margaret appear to be a victim, then sent Shade and Sylvia to investigate while Audrey went elsewhere.
• Shade and Sylvia used their combined spatial perception to find a temporary spatial door in a clock shop and followed it to a secret manor.
• Shade and Sylvia fought the Tyranny Club members at the manor, incapacitating several arcanists and capturing a sixth-ring woman before Church agents arrived.
• Shade told the Church that the Tyranny Club had targeted Margaret, Duke Simier, and Prince Samuel, and suspected an Edwardz had created the spatial door.
• Sylvia took the captured woman through a golden-black vortex with Shade, while black smoke rose over the city.

Shade read reports on Princess Margaret’s assassination and the worsening Green Lake negotiations before reuniting with Luvia, who had arrived to serve as a Diviner for the Seer Association. In the inn’s basement, Luvia’s Thaumaturgy helped Audrey manifest two extra arms, and a phantom of long-haired Luvia briefly appeared beside her.

• Shade read newspaper reports blaming Delin Orr Restorationists and illegal cultists for Princess Margaret’s assassination, while suspecting that citizens would implicate Military Intelligence Section Six.
• Luvia arrived at the Green Lake Inn and told Shade that Diviners had been assigned to a church camp so they could join operations as needed.
• Shade introduced Luvia to Doctor Schneider and then took her to the basement to meet Megan Edwardz and Audrey Edwards.
• Luvia clasped Audrey’s hand, and Audrey’s shadow writhed as two new arms grew from her back, allowing her to manifest more of her sister’s body.
• Luvia explained that she had sensed her Thaumaturgy, Fated Trajectory, would work on the sisters, and a long-haired phantom of Luvia briefly overlapped with her before vanishing.

Luvia helped Audrey complete her Spirit Runes, opening the path to the Twelfth Ring, then joined Shade and Iluna to use relic coins for divination about the Edwards Family’s Fusion. The divination confirmed Laplace Klein Howard was essential and that no more than four family members could be absent.

• Audrey received a butterfly pendant from Luvia and gained the Red Butterflies Spirit Rune, allowing her to pursue the Twelfth Ring.
• Luvia reassured Shade that she would handle matters at home while he dealt with other responsibilities.
• Iluna brought three Mechanical Blessing coins and explained their dangerous effects, including the chance of machinery exploding and coin throwers becoming Mechanical Life.
• Luvia used two Fanatic's Soul Coins to divine the Edwards Family’s Fusion and learned that Laplace Klein Howard had to be included.
• Luvia also learned that at most four of the Edwards Family’s twenty-one members could be absent from the Fusion.

Luvia divined the locations of the remaining keys and revealed that the Edwards Apotheosis Art was a larger ritual involving the Chosen Ones, the Blood-colored Gate, and Laplace Klein Howard’s plan. The group resolved to gather all thirteen keys and confront Howard before the ritual began, but Luvia’s final divination warned that at least five threats stronger than the Thirteenth Ring stood beside him.

• Luvia divined that three of the five remaining keys had formed and were held by The Tyranny Club, the Dragon Devouring Order, and The Truth Society, while clues to the other two lay with the Boatman’s soul and a mayor’s descendant in Glass City.
• Luvia learned that the Space Chosen One Ritual was only part of the Edwards Apotheosis Art, which also involved the Edwards Family’s Fusion, the thirteen keys, and Howard’s pursuit of another goal.
• Luvia explained that gathering all thirteen keys could let the group reach Another Island and confront Laplace Klein Howard before his ritual began, while the ritual would otherwise draw all Edwardzes to the Blood-colored Gate.
• Shade, Iluna, and Luvia rested and chatted before Luvia performed a final divination about the dangers they would face.
• Luvia suffered pain and began bleeding after seeing that at least five beings stronger than the Thirteenth Ring stood beside Laplace Klein Howard.

Shade learned that Laplace Klein Howard possessed several powerful threats, including the Poems Card, while he and his allies prepared for the Battle of Green Lake. When Leisha failed to arrive for their date, Shade discovered that she had gone missing from Yodel Palace and hurried to seek help.

• Luvia described five forces beyond the Thirteenth Ring connected to Laplace Klein Howard, including the Door in a Bottle, Soul Story Book, a suspected Envy Edwards, and the Poems Card.
• Shade identified the one-third skull as a threat he would remove from Laplace Klein Howard before the battle, and the group discussed sharing their findings with The Church.
• Iluna mentioned a dream about Angelina Cavendish and the Goddess in the Lake's Lake of Cherub, but Shade said he would keep an eye on Angelina and focus on the crisis at Green Lake.
• Shade visited Margaret in Glass City, informed the Witches of the new intelligence, then returned home to await Leisha's carriage for their Opera House date.
• When Leisha did not arrive at seven, Shade went to Yodel Palace and found unusual guard movements and a search for clues in her bedroom, where her maid was being questioned about Leisha's disappearance.
• Shade left the palace and hurried toward 221 Quill Street in the University District.

Shade discovered that Dorothy had vanished along with Leisha and sought help from Grace and Helen to locate the red butterfly pendants. Their search pointed toward Green Lake Inn, where Dorothy arrived with Doctor Schneider, leaving Shade reunited with her.

• Shade found Dorothy's apartment empty, fabricated an explanation for her absence to the landlady, and took Mia to Green Lake Inn.
• Shade summoned Grace and Helen with the Butterfly Summoning Flute and asked them to locate the red butterfly pendants.
• Shade and the twins used Enhanced Space Perception to detect one pendant approaching Green Lake Inn and another on a boat, where Luvia concealed its power.
• Shade went downstairs with Mia, Grace, and Helen, and Doctor Schneider arrived with Dorothy.
• Shade embraced Dorothy as she entered the inn, while Doctor Schneider and the twins watched.