Chapter Summaries

Gabriel inspected three ships that Adam had enlarged and outfitted with special abilities, learning that the Queen Anne's Revenge carried dangerous magic cannons. Adam then showed him the next ship, whose battered hull looked like a wreck raised from the seafloor.

• Gabriel arrived at the dock and was astonished that his subordinates' three ships had grown larger than the Black Pearl.
• Adam explained that the Black Pearl's size depended on how much magic power Gabriel invested in it, then led him to the Queen Anne's Revenge.
• Adam explained the difference between Conversion X Magic, True X Magic, and Inner X Magic to Gabriel.
• Adam revealed that the Queen Anne's Revenge's forty cannons could fire flames that kept burning and grew stronger, while activation checks and Adam's control kept them secure.
• Adam told Gabriel to choose an emblem for the sails, then showed him a second ship whose weathered hull looked like a salvaged wreck.

Adam showed Gabriel the Flying Dutchman, a ship manned by magically controlled, immortal corpses and built to attack from underwater. He planned to find sea beasts to control it, then led Gabriel to inspect a final, even more dilapidated ship.

• Gabriel spotted a humanoid shadow aboard the Flying Dutchman, and Adam explained that it was one of the ship’s crew members.
• Adam showed Gabriel how he had modified pirate corpses and used the ship’s magic arrays to control them.
• Adam explained that the immortal crew could attack from underwater because the ship could dive, though its occupants did not need protection from water pressure or a lack of air.
• Adam realized the ship needed a controller who could live underwater and proposed modifying sea beasts to operate it.
• Adam led Gabriel to the final ship, and Gabriel asked whether its skeletal-looking hull could dive too.

Adam explained Silent Mary and her Zombie crew’s poisonous curse to Gabriel as they prepared to launch their pirate enterprise. Gabriel struggled to name the crew and chose to base it on their ships, then turned to devising an emblem.

• Adam explained that Silent Mary was a living ship formed from the pirates’ souls and could manage herself.
• Adam described the Zombie crew’s defenses and the accumulating curse in their toxins, which he called “Nature’s AIDS.”
• Adam and Gabriel discussed their small crew and planned to make their first raid memorable after Hank and Hans returned with information.
• Gabriel suggested several crew names, then abandoned them and proposed naming the crew after their ships.
• Gabriel began agonizing over the crew’s emblem.

Gabriel and his crew finalized names and symbols for their four fleets, then set out to raid a merchant fleet. They instead found Midnight Sun forces slaughtering pirates, and Adam prepared to join the fight.

• Hank and Hans completed symbols for the Phantom Black Pearl, Flying Dutchman, Silent Mary, and Queen Anne's Revenge, with Jack Sparrow leading the fleets.
• Gabriel decided the crew would raid a merchant association's fleet the following day.
• Hank spotted a battle through Telescopium and found that the merchant fleet was already engaged with pirates.
• Adam examined the battle and recognized the key-shaped symbol of Midnight Sun among the forces attacking the pirates.
• Gabriel considered retreating, but Adam explained Midnight Sun's ordinary members were uneven in strength and readied himself to fight alongside the crew.

Adam led Gabriel, Hank, and Hans across a massive ice shelf he created to reach the battle between Midnight Sun and the White Whale Merchant Guild. Gabriel declared the Phantom Black Pearl’s intent to rob the merchant fleet, leaving Lakul and his forces facing a powerful group of pirates.

• Adam used Ice Magic: Ice Age to create a thick ice shelf stretching from the Black Pearl to the battlefield.
• Adam and the others walked across the ice, stunning Lakul and the mages fighting near his fleet.
• Lakul ordered Midnight Sun to kill the pirates and break through the ice, but their attacks only chipped away at the enormous shelf.
• Adam’s group rescued the defeated pirates, and Adam froze one after examining his magic.
• Lakul invited the newcomers aboard, but Gabriel planted the Phantom Black Pearl’s flag and announced, “Robbery!”

Gabriel and Adam’s group took the goods from Lakul’s merchant fleet after Adam froze the sea, then left without killing the crew. Lakul and the fleet’s mages rebelled against Midnight Sun and joined the pirates, while Adam’s main body arrived in Toya and went to the school festival.

• Lakul ordered his subordinates to unload all the goods after seeing Adam’s ice spell, and Gabriel accepted their surrender.
• Gabriel used spatial magic to take the goods, then told Hank to remember the cooperative merchant guild before the group departed.
• Lakul called after the pirates, fearing execution if he returned empty-handed, and chose to defy Midnight Sun.
• Adam’s main body entered Toya and learned that Lakul’s fleet had rebelled and joined Midnight Sun, making Phantom Black Pearl’s first raid a haul of an entire fleet.
• Adam’s main body ended the conversation and hurried to the festival stalls to order takoyaki, taiyaki, and okonomiyaki.

Adam enjoyed the school festival with Sakura and Tomoyo, then joined them to watch Yukito’s class perform Cinderella. The play revealed Toya as Cinderella, leaving Sakura stunned and the audience of girls cheering.

• Adam tried yakisoba-flavored okonomiyaki, drank Ramune Soda, and learned that Yukito’s class was performing a cross-cast version of Cinderella.
• Yukito revealed that he was playing a character called Mackerel Can and asked Adam to keep Toya’s role secret from Sakura.
• Adam won a huge bundle of stuffed toys at festival games and shared some with Sakura and Tomoyo.
• Adam, Sakura, and Tomoyo watched the class performance after Adam set up his recording equipment.
• Toya appeared onstage as Cinderella, and Sakura fell off her chair in shock while the audience of girls shrieked.

At the school play, Sakura captured the Mist Card after Adam explained how to contain its corrosive fog, but the damaged platform collapsed anyway. Adam helped save Toya and the Prince, then reflected on how the flow of time between worlds was growing increasingly different.

• Yukito appeared in the Cinderella play wearing a mackerel can on his head, while Toya performed as Cinderella.
• Toya foresaw danger to a classmate, and acidic mist from the Mist Card corroded the platform supports.
• Sakura used the Shadow Card to gather and seal the Mist Card after Adam explained how to trap the mist.
• The weakened platform collapsed, and Li Xiaolang used wind magic to lower Toya and the Prince safely to the ground.
• Adam recorded Toya's rescue, then bought takoyaki and thought about the growing difference in time between worlds.

Adam investigated why time was slowing in the world where Fei Wong Reed was hiding and went to Yūko Ichihara’s shop, where he unexpectedly found Watanuki Kimihiro. After two days and a night of questioning, Adam learned information Watanuki had initially told him he was not ready to hear.

• Adam connected the world’s increasingly slow flow of time to Fei Wong Reed and wondered whether something had changed in the events leading to Fei Wong Reed’s death.
• Adam went to Yūko Ichihara’s shop but found Watanuki Kimihiro running it instead of Yūko.
• Watanuki told Adam he had come too early and tried to send him back, but Adam refused and threatened him.
• Watanuki agreed to explain, and Adam questioned him until their conversation lasted two days and one night.

Adam learned that the world contained a mirror dimension replaying the past, but his presence had given its phantoms a measure of reality. Watanuki Kimihiro explained that Fei Wong Reed was only a phantom and that the mirror’s true inhabitants had already noticed the disturbance, leaving Adam concerned about his actions there.

• Adam summarized Watanuki Kimihiro’s explanation that the mirror dimension replayed the past and had been created by powerful wishes.
• Adam found that his influence had changed the mirror’s phantoms, but neither he nor Watanuki Kimihiro could alter the mirror directly.
• Watanuki Kimihiro warned that using The Nothing to erase the dimension could now have serious consequences.
• Adam asked about Fei Wong Reed, and Watanuki Kimihiro revealed that the real Fei Wong Reed was dead and the phantom had little power against the people he targeted.
• Watanuki Kimihiro said he occasionally visited the mirror dimension to see Shizuka Doumeki and his descendants, and Adam worried they might discover that he had bullied some children.

Adam wondered why he could not leave after Fei Wong Reed’s death and agreed to inspect a dream with Watanuki Kimihiro, while the widening time distortion between worlds continued to trouble him. After advising Felt about her combat outfit and Celestial Spirit Keys, he asked what she wanted to do on their first journey far from home.

• Watanuki Kimihiro reminded Adam to look at a dream, and Adam suspected it was connected to why he remained in the world.
• Adam noted that the time gap between worlds was growing wider and harder to endure.
• Felt showed Adam a fitted combat outfit, but he said it would not suit her fighting style or survive her transformation.
• Adam recalled how Felt used Leo and three additional Celestial Spirit Keys, whose abilities enhanced her strength and senses while granting animal features.
• Felt changed back into her combat-ready clothes, and Adam praised her transformed appearance before asking what she wanted to do on their journey.

Felt set out to make money and give Old Man Rom and the people in the slums a better life, but Adam explained that mercenary work would not earn enough. They followed the intelligence Felt gathered to raid a gang’s sewer hideout, and Adam’s mood changed when they opened its vault.

• Felt asked Adam whether they should become mercenaries, but he explained that the work’s expenses and slow start made it unsuitable for saving enough money.
• Adam told Felt that building capital would require bloodshed, and Felt used her keen hearing to gather intelligence about the city’s criminal underworld.
• Felt and Adam entered a gang’s sewer base, where Felt killed the gang leader after they reached the vault.
• Adam used magic to open the gang’s vault, but his mood soured when they saw what was inside.

Felt and Adam searched the gang leader’s treasury and found that most of its money had recently been transferred away, likely as tribute, but they found no clue to its destination. The story then shifted to Adam’s other worlds, where he defended giving his children only one Celestial Spirit Key and wondered about Queen Victoria’s uncertain identity and fate.

• Felt discovered that the treasury held only a few bags of money, and Adam concluded that the funds had likely been voluntarily transferred as tribute.
• Felt and Adam searched the gang leader’s room for clues, and Felt considered calling herself King of the Beasts.
• Adam considered giving Felt a Unicorn Celestial Spirit Key, then joked that giving children too many cheat abilities was unacceptable.
• Adam’s other selves sprayed tea at Adam Black Butler Reed’s claim that he had only given his children one Gemini Celestial Spirit Key.
• Adam avoided Queen Victoria’s summons by having Joseph Jr. claim he had an infectious disease, then questioned whether the queen was dead, an impostor, or a substitute.

Adam encountered Clow Reed in a dream, where his teacher began explaining the paths through the Sea of Worlds. Clow Reed left him with the lesson that the central region was important to certain paths, but was not the only place where powerful beings could be found.

• Adam realized that the time differences between his worlds had widened, forcing him to process many simultaneous events at once.
• Adam confronted Clow Reed in the dream and asked whether he was truly dead or still existed in another form.
• Clow Reed admitted that he was materially and spiritually dead, though reaching his state made it difficult to disappear completely.
• Clow Reed praised Adam’s understanding of the paths from one to all and from all to one, then explained that both led toward the Sea of Worlds’ central region.
• Clow Reed explained that the center did not define all power, since beings beyond the Sea of Worlds’ edges could rival those found there.

Adam learned from Clow Reed that the Sea of Worlds had inner and outer boundaries, and that the inner boundary excluded worlds tainted by concepts from beyond it. Realizing he might have spread information tied to those outside concepts, Adam asked Clow Reed what would happen, but Clow Reed disowned him as a student.

• Adam wondered whether Clow Reed had defected to an existence beyond the Sea of Worlds, and Clow Reed explained that those influenced by outside concepts were forbidden from crossing the inner boundary.
• Clow Reed told Adam that the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation handled anyone who crossed the inner boundary, which lay roughly one-third of the way from the center of the Sea of Worlds.
• Clow Reed explained that the outer boundary included worlds that maintained some order, while worlds defined by chaos, distortion, disaster, or despair lay beyond it.
• Adam realized that his Da Qian Record in the Fairy Tail world might have promoted concepts from beyond the Sea of Worlds.
• Adam asked what would happen if he had unknowingly spread information about outside powers, and Clow Reed denied being his teacher.

Adam learned that the Da Qian Record posed no danger because its name was only a coincidence, then discussed possible paths forward with Clow Reed. After weighing Clow Reed’s path against his own, Adam decided to continue along the path he had already begun.

• Clow Reed told Adam that the Da Qian Record’s title could not invoke anything beyond the Sea of Worlds and that its contents amounted to a curse from their side.
• Clow Reed asked Adam which path he planned to follow and warned that no one had completed the path from all to one.
• Clow Reed explained his own path of raising himself as a concept until other concepts became subordinate to him.
• Adam considered the risks of pursuing the path from all to one and the limits of following a path tailored to Clow Reed.
• Adam concluded that his existing powers already formed the beginning of his own path and chose to keep following it.

Adam asked Clow Reed about his previous life, and Clow Reed gave him a mysterious half-tablet that might help with his investigation. After returning to Yūko Ichihara's shop, Adam examined it and realized its faded characters were already affecting his perception.

• Adam asked Clow Reed whether he knew where Adam came from, and Clow Reed said he could not see through Adam's origins.
• Clow Reed told Adam that an item stored in Yūko Ichihara's shop might aid him at the center of the Sea of Worlds and in investigating his previous life.
• Clow Reed warned Adam that the item had influenced his creation of the Clow Cards, then vanished as Adam left the dream.
• Adam used the Sword Card to open a seal in the shop and retrieved half of a black wooden tablet that resisted his magic.
• Adam studied the two surviving Chinese characters on the tablet and noticed that they made him feel as if he had forgotten how to recognize a word.

Adam suppressed his emotions to decipher the Wooden Tablet’s two characters, briefly understood them as “Taishang,” and created a new Emotion Card. He suspected Lord Lao might be connected to his transmigration, but wondered whether that meant he was expected to fight cosmic threats.

• Adam left Gabriel and Hank to face the approaching Spade Kingdom ships while he returned to rest and investigate the Wooden Tablet.
• Adam used his Adam Cards to suppress his emotions, then watched the tablet for more than three hundred and forty thousand seconds until its two characters became clear to him as “Taishang.”
• Adam’s emotions returned, and their cards combined into a new Emotion Card after the tablet’s revelation gave him a perspective on the laws of worlds.
• Adam concluded that “Taishang” likely referred to Lord Lao and considered whether Clow Reed had been hinting that Lord Lao arranged his transmigration.
• Adam speculated that he might have been sent to become a chosen one and fight Azathoth and the Chaos Gods, then recoiled from the idea.

Adam accepted that Lord Lao’s wooden plaque had kept him trapped in the Cardcaptor Sakura world, then prepared to travel more actively while wondering what awaited him back in the Harry Potter World. He stood outside that world, anxious about whether his brothers were still alive, and urged himself to go in.

• Adam decided to keep Lord Lao’s broken wooden plaque but conceal it unless he needed it.
• Adam left the Cardcaptor Sakura world and sent Thought Body clones to his other worlds to gather magic and memories independently.
• Adam sent another clone to support the Mirror World in Cardcaptor Sakura and then headed toward the Harry Potter World.
• Adam hesitated outside the Harry Potter World as he recalled Watanuki Kimihiro’s loneliness and feared that his own brothers might be gone.
• Adam told himself to face whatever awaited him and struggled to move into the Harry Potter World.

Adam returned to a devastated London and found the Human Alliance living in tightly packed coffins and life-support pods. After reuniting with Eugene, Bernard, Klon, and Uther, he stopped time and asked them to explain what had happened, but the chapter ended with the group welcoming him back.

• Adam entered London amid nuclear blasts and found the Hanging Gardens filled with coffins containing living people.
• Adam opened Eugene’s coffin, and Eugene recognized that Adam had truly returned.
• Adam pulled Bernard from another coffin and learned Bernard had impersonated him with a spell.
• Adam awakened Klon and Uther, then took them and Bernard and Eugene to the former Human Alliance Great Hall.
• Adam stopped time outside the Great Hall and asked the others what had happened while he was away.
• Klon, Uther, Eugene, and Bernard embraced Adam and welcomed him back.