Recaps

Panatiya told Mr. A that the Kaping Case murderer shared his Secrets Supplicant Pathway, and her failed divination hinted at a connection. Meanwhile, Luther asked Klein whether he had investigated the Fool and considered praying to Him as a last resort against the True Creator.

• Panatiya visited Mr. A and mocked his failed prayers after the divine offspring's death.
• Panatiya explained that the Kaping Case had been covered up but the human trafficking chain needed to be rebuilt.
• Panatiya told Mr. A that the Kaping Case murderer was a Secrets Supplicant and demonstrated that her divination failed like her earlier attempt.
• Klein visited Luther with selected Roselle's Diary pages and apologized for his role in the events surrounding Lanevus.
• Luther told Klein he might pray to the Fool and use the Fool's help to take the True Creator down if he was cornered.

Luther told Klein that he might pray to the Fool to resist the True Creator, while Klein privately planned to bring him above the Gray Fog if he did. Audrey arranged for the Psychology Alchemists to treat Luther for 1,500 pounds, leaving the treatment date and place undecided.

• Luther warned Klein that he might pray to the Fool if the True Creator's influence drove him further into madness, and Klein seriously wished him luck.
• Luther asked whether Sealed Artifact 0-08 had influenced the coincidences that led them to Lanevus, and Klein said his divination showed no interference.
• Klein left Luther's home before lunch so he could return in time to preside over the Tarot Club meeting.
• Audrey asked Escalante to arrange treatment for Luther, and accepted the Psychology Alchemists' price of 1,500 pounds.
• Escalante agreed to arrange a date and place for Luther's treatment before beginning Audrey's psychology lesson.

Luther read Roselle's Diary while preparing to meet Audrey and a Psychology Alchemists expert who was supposed to treat his worsening mental illness. As he and Cecilia traveled toward Empress Borough, black snow began to fall over Backlund.

• Luther finished reading Roselle's Diary, including Klein's warnings and annotations about dangerous figures and organizations.
• Luther and his sister prepared to meet Audrey before going to the address where the Psychology Alchemists' expert would arrive at four.
• Cecilia supported Luther through the cold, muddy streets and urged him to believe that the treatment would help him recover.
• Black snow began falling, and Luther hurried with Cecilia to hire a carriage to Empress Borough.

Klein discovered through divination that Luther Rondal’s Fate had been severely distorted and that he was in great danger. As Luther’s memories and thoughts came under attack, he escaped a sabotaged carriage with Cecilia, only for Mr. A to emerge and find him.

• Klein divined that Will Auceptin had not completely died, then discovered that Luther Rondal’s Fate was distorted and he was in serious danger.
• Luther rode through Backlund’s snowfall toward an appointment with a Psychology Alchemists expert and noticed that his memories of being buried alive did not make sense.
• A commanding voice tormented Luther, and he realized the carriage had turned toward East Borough while the coachman ignored his orders.
• Luther burned the coachman, causing the carriage to crash, and escaped with Cecilia as the coachman’s corpse exploded into blood.
• A transparent door formed from the blood, and Mr. A stepped out and said he had found Luther.

Ince Zangwill wrote an account of Mr. A’s search for Luther, but the quill added a warning about Ince’s approaching death and Kafka Anderson’s secrets. Mr. A confronted Luther in the East Borough, where Luther broke free of a Nightmare and claimed to be the True Creator’s favored one, leaving Mr. A enraged.

• Ince Zangwill recorded how Mr. A and Panatiya used Kamaha Lisbon’s information to search the East Borough for a corrupted Beyonder, then watched the quill write that his actions had brought him closer to death.
• Mr. A confronted Luther on the snow-covered streets and accused him of betraying the True Creator and killing the Lord’s offspring.
• Luther sent Cecilia away and ambushed Mr. A with several Beyonder abilities, but discovered that the apparent victory was a Nightmare.
• Luther shattered the dream by speaking in Ancient Hermes Script, and Mr. A realized that Luther could command multiple souls at once.
• Luther taunted Mr. A by claiming the True Creator had ordered him to kill Lanevus and had not minded that he killed the child as well.

Luther fought Mr. A, a Shepherd who had Grazed a Devil, through a clash of Beyonder abilities and Sword of Lava strikes. Luther gained the advantage, but just as Mr. A ended his Devil Transformation, Luther suddenly began coughing.

• Mr. A attacked Luther with wind blades, but Luther escaped with a Paper Figurine Substitute and shot at him with his revolver.
• Luther used Mental Piercing to disrupt Mr. A’s flight, then attacked with the Sword of Lava and discovered that Mr. A had Grazed a Devil as well.
• Luther and Mr. A exchanged taunts about their Lambs’ abilities and began fighting with their Swords of Lava.
• Luther used Flaming Jump to appear behind Mr. A and wound him, then outlasted him by combining his other souls’ abilities with his Devil form.
• Mr. A ended his Devil Transformation after retreating, and Luther suddenly bent over coughing before he could strike.

Luther fought Mr. A while suffering from a disease Mr. A had spread through him, and Mr. A used a recorded Black Knight ability to seemingly kill him. Mr. A then realized Luther's body was dissolving into blood instead of yielding characteristics.

• Mr. A revealed that he had infected Luther with Disease, and Luther struggled to fight through his coughing and sneezing.
• Mr. A restrained Luther's teleportation, but Luther used Death to wound him before Mr. A recorded the Black Knight ability and donned black armor.
• Mr. A's black greatsword cut through Luther's Sword of Lava and struck a Paper Figurine Substitute, but its attack also split Luther's real body in two.
• Mr. A believed Luther was dead and lamented that he could not Graze him, then noticed the body had not yielded characteristics.
• Mr. A saw Luther's corpse dissolving into blood.

Luther and Mr. A fought amid a Blood River until Mr. A invoked the True Creator’s gaze, leaving Luther overwhelmed by madness. A black-haired girl struck Mr. A’s Sacred Emblem, and the chapter ended with Mr. A asking Luther what he called her.

• Luther’s body became a Blood River that attacked Mr. A, but Mr. A escaped its grasp and summoned the True Creator’s gaze by stabbing his Sacred Emblem.
• The True Creator’s gaze forced Luther back into his body and filled his mind with madness, while Ms. M remained clear to him.
• Luther fired at Mr. A’s chest eye, but the bullets were blocked and the eye’s influence overwhelmed him.
• A black-haired girl stabbed Mr. A’s Sacred Emblem and was thrown aside when he retaliated.
• Luther stood between Mr. A and the fallen girl, and Mr. A asked whether Luther called her his sister.

Mr. A revealed that Cecilia was a Flesh Puppet made from Luther’s own flesh, and Ms. M confirmed that Cecilia had died long ago. In a theater vision, Luther watched memories of his sister’s death and his creation of both Cecilia’s puppet and the alternate personality called Ms. M.

• Mr. A used the Dispel incantation, causing Cecilia’s body to collapse into a puddle of flesh and blood.
• Ms. M told Luther that Cecilia had died long ago, and Luther collapsed into a monstrous mass of flesh and shadows.
• Luther awoke in an empty theater and attacked a red-haired woman, who told him she was a personality split from him to help seal away his painful memories.
• The theater filled with people from Luther’s past as a stage performance showed him awakening in a graveyard after death and tearing away part of his spirit to create Ms. M.
• The performance showed Luther shaping his own flesh into a body like Cecilia’s and Ms. M giving it a spirit, after which Luther begged to forget what he had done.

Luther relived the day Cecilia sacrificed herself to save him from losing control, then vowed to destroy the True Creator and the Aurora Order. In Backlund, he defied the True Creator’s attempt to control him and summoned the Fool.

• Luther watched the reenactment of his near loss of control and saw Cecilia sacrifice herself, merge with him, and drive Ms. M and her subordinates from his body.
• Luther learned that Cecilia’s sacrifice had made him a Shepherd and vowed to kill the True Creator, Mr. A, the Aurora Order, and its followers.
• In Backlund, Luther praised the True Creator as Mr. A watched his face emerge from the dispersing flesh.
• As the True Creator’s will began altering his cognition, Luther turned the Shepherd prayer into a declaration of rebellion.
• Luther called upon the Fool for help, and he felt the Fool cast its gaze down upon him.

Luther expelled the True Creator’s influence with the Fool’s three Angels and restored his body. He used Mutated Pain against Mr. A, discovering that it heightened his sensitivity to pain, inflicted that pain on his opponent, and fused the buried Divinity into his body.

• The Fool sent three black-gold Angels into Luther, and together they drove the True Creator’s will from his mind.
• Luther re-formed his body from the Flesh and confronted Mr. A, who accused him of rejecting the Lord’s grace.
• Luther stabbed himself with Mutated Pain, triggering extreme sensitivity and overwhelming pain.
• Mr. A also suffered the Pain Aura’s effects as Luther endured his own agony and buried the bone fully in his body.
• The returned rib stabilized Luther’s Divinity, merged it with his body, and brought his Shepherd Potion characteristic under his control.

Luther defeated Mr. A and escaped before a powerful figure arrived, taking a little black cat with him. A crimson light then brought him above the gray fog, where he recognized the mysterious figure at the bronze table and asked if he was the Fool.

• Mr. A tried to teleport away, but Luther used shared pain to interrupt him and then overwhelmed him with his shadow.
• Luther trapped Mr. A and severed his head, declaring that he would kill his Lord and destroy the Aurora Order.
• Sensing a powerful figure approaching, Luther wrapped Mr. A's body and head in his robe and fled into the Shadow World.
• Luther spotted the black cat he had once promised Cecilia to adopt and risked returning to bring it with him.
• After reaching safety in a dark alley in the East Borough, Luther was transported above the gray fog and asked the mysterious figure if he was the Fool.

Luther met the Fool after being rescued from the Black Knight and asked whether Cecilia could be saved. The Fool offered him a path to grow stronger and invited him to join a Tarot gathering, where Luther drew the card Temperance.

• The Fool brought Luther to his Divine Kingdom after the Phantom Tide blocked the Black Knight's fatal blow and lost contact with him.
• Luther thanked the Fool for saving him and asked whether Cecilia could be brought back to life.
• The Fool said he could not resurrect Cecilia but suggested Luther might save her himself after advancing his level of life.
• Luther resolved to pursue revenge and grow strong enough to save Cecilia, then accepted the Fool's invitation to join his Monday gathering.
• The Fool gave Luther a Tarot card to choose, and Luther drew Temperance.

Klein welcomed Luther Above the Gray Fog, named him Mr. Temperance, and arranged to summon him to future gatherings. Back in the East Borough, Luther healed and fed a stray kitten, then mourned Cecilia as the kitten fell asleep in his arms.

• Klein gave Luther the codename Mr. Temperance and told him he would summon him to a gathering every Monday at three.
• Klein warned Luther that the Phantom Tide would resist his summons and ended the meeting without explaining what the Tide was.
• Luther returned to the East Borough alley and found the injured black kitten he had carried with him.
• Luther healed the kitten's leg with Flesh and Blood Magic, warmed it, and brought it milk.
• Luther remembered that Cecilia was dead and wept while holding the kitten, which curled up and went to sleep.

After Cecilia’s disappearance, Luther left East Borough and questioned M about the illusory sea and its authority. He entered the sea to investigate it, then asked M how to temporarily sever his connection to it.

• Luther returned to the townhouse with a sleeping black kitten and told Emily that he and Cecilia would leave East Borough that day.
• M appeared behind Emily and used her ability to make Emily accept Luther’s explanation.
• Luther spoke with M and learned that she was a personality split from him, while the original Ms. M had been mentally annihilated by the sea.
• Following M’s instructions, Luther summoned the Tide and entered the illusory sea with her.
• M explained that the seawater could resist mental corruption and carried the authority of the Spectator pathway, but she knew little else about it.
• Luther asked M whether he could temporarily sever his connection to the sea, and she asked what he planned to do.

Luther discovered that M could create a temporary personality to attend the Fool’s gathering in his place, and he explored the powers of the sea tied to his consciousness. Back in East Borough, he planned to grow stronger, save Cecilia, and destroy the Aurora Order, then began questioning Mr. A about the Sequence 4 Black Knight potion formula.

• M told Luther he could create a temporary personality, send it to the Fool’s gathering, and merge its memories back into himself.
• Luther drew illusory seawater into his body and awakened abilities linked to the Spectator and Sailor Pathways before returning to reality.
• Luther wondered whether the sea was the True Creator’s Divine Kingdom and planned to test whether a temporary personality could enter it.
• Luther resolved to save Cecilia, advance his Sequence, and take revenge on the True Creator, Ince Zangwill, and their servants.
• Luther planned to digest his Shepherd Potion by gathering a Flock and to obtain the Sequence 4 Black Knight formula from Mr. A.
• Luther summoned M and had her torment Mr. A after he refused to answer about the formula.

Luther learned that the Aurora Order had a Saint in Backlund, though Saint Tenebrous Kisma had recently gone out to sea, and discovered the Order's local members and bases. After leaving his former home, Luther went to the Lyman Gang headquarters to ask Ciel for help.

• M searched Mr. A's memories and found the Aurora Order's Backlund membership list and secret-base addresses, but not its Sequence 4 Potion formula.
• M revealed that Saint Tenebrous Kisma, a Sequence 4 Secrets Suppliant, had recently left Backlund, and that the Aurora Order cooperated with the Demoness Sect.
• Luther put Mr. A's head back into his stomach, then rested through the night with his black cat for comfort.
• Emily discovered the next morning that Anderson and his sister had vanished from their rooms without a trace.
• Luther left 8 Hawes Street with his valuables and went to the Lyman Gang headquarters, where he asked Ciel for help.

Luther hypnotized Ciel into giving him a hidden safe house, then raided an Aurora Order temple while carrying Mr. A’s still-living head. He slaughtered the gathered cultists and left the stronghold with only its two Rose Bishops killed as well.

• Luther hypnotized Ciel and took the key and address to Ciel’s secluded East Borough safe house.
• Aurora Order members discussed Mr. A’s disappearance and agreed to ask the Sanctuary for a new Oracle.
• Luther appeared in the temple holding Mr. A’s head, prompting the Aurora Order members to flee or attack.
• Luther used a Hermes curse and fireballs to kill most of the cultists.
• Luther stopped two Rose Bishops from self-destructing and cut them in half with a blue-flamed greatsword.

Luther killed the Aurora Order members in the temple, taunted Mr. A about the True Creator, and crushed Mr. A’s head against the statue. He then used Grazing to draw Mr. A’s soul from the remains.

• Luther killed the two Rose Bishops with his Sword of Lava and Mental Piercing, then gathered the Beyonder Characteristics of the slain Aurora Order members.
• Luther placed Mr. A’s head and the Characteristics on the altar, taunted him, and described how the Aurora Order had ruined his life.
• Luther vowed to destroy the Aurora Order, the True Creator’s Angels, and the True Creator Himself.
• Luther mocked the True Creator’s statue and smashed Mr. A’s head against its crotch until it was crushed.
• Luther used Grazing on Mr. A’s remains and drew out his blood-robed soul.

Luther extracted and Grazed Mr. A’s soul, discovering he could use one Shepherd to command another and gaining access to Mr. A’s useful Lambs and their abilities. He turned the Aurora Order’s surviving cultists into Flesh Puppets and planned to replace the Backlund members while posing as Mr. A at his Beyonder gathering.

• Luther pulled Mr. A’s soul from his body and forced it into the vacant Lamb position.
• Luther Grazed Mr. A and sensed the souls nested within him, including a Scribe with the Record ability and a Baron of Corruption.
• Luther collected the altar’s Beyonder Characteristics and considered seeking a Sequence 4 Black Knight Potion formula at the Tarot Club.
• Luther used Flesh and Blood Magic to restore the corpses and turn the cultists into Flesh Puppets.
• Luther ordered the Puppets to bring in Aurora Order members who had been absent and eliminate them, planning to replace the Backlund group gradually.
• Luther searched Mr. A’s memories and decided to disguise himself as Mr. A and host his Beyonder gathering.

Luther searched Mr. A’s residence, looted the safe, and learned that Saint Tenebrous had taken its most valuable contents. He returned to his safe house and began testing M’s method for reaching the Gray Fog before the next Tarot Club.

• Luther had hypnotized the attendants in Mr. A’s house and ordered one to show him around.
• In Mr. A’s room, Luther found blood-red prayers to the True Creator, an Ascetic’s Belt, and a safe.
• Luther opened the safe with his Sword of Lava and contained the burst of blood-red mist behind a wall of flesh.
• An attendant told Luther that Saint Tenebrous had taken the safe’s former contents; Luther took the cash, deeds, and jewelry that remained.
• Luther left attendants behind to preserve the appearance of normalcy and planned to impersonate Mr. A and host a gathering in a few days.
• At his safe house, Luther summoned M, who began inserting her illusory hands into his skull to test her method for the Tarot Club.

Luther created a virtual personality that joined the Tarot Club as Mr. Temperance, where he met the other members and learned they were collecting Roselle’s Diary. The gathering left Luther wondering whether the Fool could read Chinese and whether he was a transmigrator.

• Luther and M created a virtual personality, which Luther confirmed had worked.
• The Fool summoned Luther’s duplicate above the gray fog as the Tarot Club’s new member, Mr. Temperance.
• Audrey welcomed Mr. Temperance and introduced the members, whom Luther studied and assessed.
• Audrey gave the Fool two new pages of Roselle’s Diary, and Luther was astonished that the Fool could read them.
• Alger noticed Luther’s subtle reactions as Luther wondered whether the Fool was a transmigrator.

Alger suspected the new Tarot Club member, Luther, of being a dangerous Rose Bishop, while the others watched him with varying degrees of curiosity. Luther learned that Mr. Fool wanted Roselle’s Diary and offered information about a Human Skin Shadow, leaving the gathering’s trades underway.

• Alger noticed Luther’s blood-red robe and ominous aura, suspected he was a Rose Bishop, and decided to keep observing him.
• Audrey offered Mr. Fool at least ten pages of Roselle’s Diary in return for his protection and mentioned that she still owed his Blessed £2,000.
• Alger charged Fors £350 for information about Deep-sea Gunfish blood, claiming its price had risen.
• The World asked the members to look for materials for a Sequence 6 potion, and Audrey said she would check Duke Negan’s treasury for a Thousand-faced Hunter fossil.
• Luther told the gathering that he had information about a Human Skin Shadow.

Luther joined the Tarot Club and sought the Sequence 4 Black Knight Potion formula, revealing that he was a Sequence 5 Shepherd. After Mr. Fool vouched for him and Luther proved he opposed the True Creator, Derrick offered a possible lead on the formula.

• Luther told the World that a colony of Human Skin Shadows had been found near a Fourth Epoch noble's tomb, but he could not provide further details.
• Luther asked the Tarot Club for the Black Knight Potion formula and said it was for himself.
• Alger recognized Luther as a Sequence 5 Shepherd, and Derrick panicked because he associated Shepherds with the True Creator.
• Luther denied worshipping the True Creator, and Mr. Fool confirmed that Luther did not worship the Fallen Creator.
• Luther cursed the True Creator and declared his hatred for Him, dispelling the Tarot Club members' suspicions.
• Derrick said he might have a lead on the Black Knight formula.

Luther offered a large batch of Beyonder Characteristics for sale at the Tarot Club, revealing that he had raided an Aurora Order stronghold. He prepared a detailed list for Alger, but no one had yet agreed to buy anything.

• Luther learned that the Black Knight formula belonged to Elder Lovia, a Sequence 5 Shepherd in the City of Silver, which was located in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Luther offered to sell Beyonder Characteristics, including a Judge, Devil, Rose Bishop, Psychiatrist, Shadow Ascetic, Listener, and numerous Secrets Suppliant Characteristics.
• Alger noticed how many of Luther's Characteristics came from the Secrets Suppliant Pathway and asked where they came from.
• Luther explained that he had raided an Aurora Order stronghold and killed its members, and that the Characteristics could serve as the main ingredients for their corresponding Potions.
• Alger asked Luther to write down the exact Characteristics he had, and Luther manifested a list above the gray fog and passed it to him.