Chapter Summaries

A transmigrator spent twelve days adjusting to a new world, learning about its gods and his own faint supernatural ability, Bloody Glory. While packing to return to work, he found a diary revealing that someone had died after summoning an evil god.

• The transmigrator hid at home, then cautiously explored and read books and newspapers to learn about the world.
• He attended a banquet, where a girl touched his thigh, and realized he was a promising social prospect.
• He learned that the world had gods and possibly demons, and recalled that he was an imperial civil servant with a vacation ending soon.
• He discovered a faint supernatural ability called Bloody Glory while studying the world and its people.
• While packing his luggage, he found a diary stating that someone had died from summoning an evil god.

After waking in the body of Imperial clerk Charlotte Mecklen, Huang Haisheng returned to work in Strasbourg after a seaside vacation and accepted a special assignment. He left for Kilmainham Prison with an official letter, where someone would give him his next task.

• Charlotte Mecklen recalled his former life as Huang Haisheng and resolved to blend into the Empire of Fars using Charlotte's memories.
• Charlotte entered the Central Government Office and greeted his indistinct colleagues on his way to the shared office.
• Madame Aldegonde assigned Charlotte a difficult temporary task and gave him an identification and a ten-Flor note as compensation.
• Charlotte took a public carriage to Kilmainham Prison with the official letter of introduction.

Charlotte Mecklen arrived at Kilmainham Prison to help Miss Menilman organize case files, where he uncovered her search for records related to the Night Window Incident and Zimmerman Axel Robin. After learning that they had both graduated from Sheffield University, Menilman and Charlotte formed a bond of pure friendship.

• Charlotte presented his credentials at Kilmainham Prison and was escorted to Miss Menilman, the Empire's First Rose.
• Charlotte organized the office documents and found twenty-one records from the Era of the Black Moon Lady, Year Thirty-One, concerning March eighteenth; Menilman burned them.
• At Menilman's order, Charlotte found seven documents about the Night Window Incident and gathered files concerning Zimmerman Axel Robin.
• Menilman dismissed the other clerks and continued directing Charlotte to sort the office files, destroying dozens of documents as he worked.
• Charlotte told Menilman that he had graduated from Sheffield University in Black Moon Year 33, and she revealed that she was his senior.
• Menilman and Charlotte exchanged the Empire's etiquette for forming a pure friendship.

Charlotte secured a transfer to Kilmainham Prison as Senior Menilman’s Chief Clerk, a major promotion that left him thrilled. After returning to his apartment, he confronted the loneliness and danger of his new life in a world of gods and evil gods.

• Senior Menilman asked when Charlotte was due for promotion, and Charlotte claimed he would soon become a Third-Rank Clerk.
• Senior Menilman ordered a military officer to transfer Charlotte to Kilmainham Prison as Chief Clerk of her office.
• Charlotte thanked Senior Menilman and left to prepare for his new position and upcoming overtime.
• Charlotte returned to his apartment in the Alexander District and sorted the original owner's scattered clothes.
• Charlotte sat alone, worried that his status as a heretic and the dangers of evil gods could cost him his life.

After a successful first day at Kilmainham Prison, Charlotte ate and reflected on the shocking documents he had uncovered about Zimmerman Axel Robin. The records ended with Zimmerman leading his united pirate fleet back to the Empire, while Charlotte put off reading the tainted diary.

• Charlotte lit an oil lamp, cooked a meal from the supplies in his room, and drank the unusual black tea.
• Charlotte considered reading the diary but decided the dim light and its evil-god taint made it too risky.
• Charlotte recalled records showing that Zimmerman Robin was a noble-born prodigy who excelled at school and rose rapidly through the Imperial Navy.
• Zimmerman conquered Dongli Nation, rejected its governorship, joined the pirates, and became the Empire’s most wanted criminal.
• Zimmerman challenged and killed the Pirate King, united the Seven Seas’ sixteen pirate fleets, and led them back to the Empire.

Charlotte read documents recounting how Zimmerman Axel Robin returned to the Empire, became notorious during the Empire Rose Incident, and ended up imprisoned. The next morning, Charlotte left his apartment to complete work procedures.

• Zimmerman Robin led his fleet back to the Empire and asked the king to add Axel to his name rather than return to the Robin Family.
• Zimmerman began an affair with Madam Shirley, prompting Menilman Sumay to break their engagement and challenge him to a duel.
• After Menilman’s public declaration, Zimmerman fought 115 challengers and killed them all, becoming known for provoking their female relatives.
• Zimmerman accumulated 257 criminal charges and was imprisoned in Kilmainham Prison while awaiting a possible pardon or execution.
• Charlotte finished reading about Zimmerman, went to sleep, and left his apartment the next morning to handle work procedures.

Charlotte completed his transfer from the Central Government Office to Kilmainham Prison, where he became the warden’s office Chief Clerk and learned that he would also serve in the Prison Guard Corps. He went to collect his weapons and discovered the armory included confiscated supernatural items.

• Charlotte showed Madame Aldegonde his transfer order, completed his departure procedures, and left the Central Government Office for Kilmainham Prison.
• With Madame Pascal’s help, Charlotte completed onboarding as a thirty-seventh-grade Imperial Bureaucrat and First-Rank Chief Clerk in the warden’s office.
• Madame Pascal told Charlotte he was part of the Prison Guard Corps and needed to collect a pistol, cane, and sword before directing him to the armory.
• The bearded middle-aged soldier offered Charlotte a choice between standard-issue weapons and confiscated items kept in a back room.
• Charlotte learned the armory stocked weapons including the eighteen-round Magnum Hand Shuttle and the Thunderclap Blunderbuss.

Charlotte chose weapons from Kilmainham Prison’s confiscated armory and found a Vampiric Weapon that resonated with his Bloody Glory. He left with the hand axe and a Multi-Headed Flail, while surrendering an old Magic Rapier under the prison’s unspoken rules.

• Charlotte learned that prison staff allowed newcomers to choose up to three weapons, with rules about selling extras and keeping the proceeds.
• Charlotte found a Vampiric hand axe engraved with the patterns of the Vanga Family and used Bloody Glory to activate its eerie red light.
• Charlotte recalled that Huang Haisheng had inherited Charlotte Mecklen’s Transcendent power after the original Charlotte’s soul was taken by an evil god.
• Charlotte chose the Vampiric hand axe, a Multi-Headed Flail, and an old Magic Rapier.
• Charlotte handed the Magic Rapier to the bearded soldier, who recorded the selection and let him keep the other two weapons.

Charlotte settled into his new job at Kilmainham Prison, then used his day off to shop for weapons near Sheffield University. He bargained for a supposed antique rapier and left an address for its delivery, suspecting it was a fake.

• Charlotte chose a Starfall Iron Multi-Headed Flail to sell and kept the Vampire Hand Axe, then began work at Kilmainham Prison under Miss Menilman.
• Miss Menilman assigned Charlotte an exhausting load of paperwork, and after a week and three days she gave him a day off.
• Charlotte visited the weapons market near Sheffield University to buy a pistol and a cane for his prison guard work.
• Charlotte spotted a dusty rapier in a secondhand shop and bargained its price down to one Flor.
• Charlotte left his address for delivery and reflected that genuine Sherlock Dynasty Magic Rapiers were valuable antiques.

Charlotte bought a secondhand Magnum Hand Shuttle and other weapons, then returned to find a woman had been murdered in his apartment. The City Patrol took him in for questioning, and he arranged for a new room while leaving his belongings under watch.

• Charlotte bought a secondhand Magnum Hand Shuttle with ammunition, a holster, and a sheath for his Vampire Hand Axe.
• Charlotte returned to the Savings Society Apartment and learned that a home invasion murder had occurred there.
• Dobbin told Charlotte that a man had forced his way into his room, killed the woman with him, and escaped through a window.
• Charlotte checked his room, found his weapons and diary intact, and decided to carry the Vampire Hand Axe with him.
• Charlotte agreed to pay reduced rent for a year, asked the manager to have Mary guard his belongings, and went with the City Patrol to cooperate with the investigation.

After a murder in Charlotte’s apartment exposed his affair with Mrs. Yang Mills, Charlotte worried about losing his job and decided to sever his old social ties by moving. He settled into a new suite and planned to sell the Multi-Headed Flail and look for a house in Picardy District.

• Charlotte feared Miss Menilman would learn about the murder and his relationship with Mrs. Yang Mills, so he resolved to move away and cut ties with his old connections.
• At the City Patrol office, Charlotte identified the couple as Mr. and Mrs. Yang Mills, and the patrol filed his account and issued a warrant for Mr. Yang Mills.
• Charlotte returned to the Savings Society Apartment, tipped Mary, and moved into a suite on the fourth floor.
• Charlotte avoided reading the original owner’s diary, then planned to ask Senior Menilman for another day off, sell the Multi-Headed Flail, and buy clothes.
• Charlotte ruled out several districts and chose Picardy District as the place to search for a house.

Charlotte confronted a woman who entered his dream and accused him of causing Mrs. Yang Mills’s death, then woke and found the Dream Walker responsible waiting in a carriage. After Charlotte identified himself and offered to answer questions, Anne Brittany accepted that she had mistaken him for someone else.

• Charlotte recognized that he was dreaming and used Bloody Glory to knock away the apparition accusing him of harming her.
• Charlotte woke in his bedroom, leaped from the fourth floor, and confronted the girl inside a carriage about intruding into his dream.
• Charlotte introduced himself as a First-Order Transcendent, and Anne Brittany identified herself as a Gorgia University student and Dream Walker.
• Charlotte told Anne he had not known Mrs. Yang Mills and said he had been vacationing in Senis when her death occurred.
• Anne said she believed Charlotte and apologized for mistaking him for someone else.

Charlotte helped Anne Brittany after learning that she had come to test whether he was responsible for her aunt Mrs. Yang Mills’s death, then discovered that his Bloody Glory had granted him the Insight ability. The next morning, as he prepared to sell his flail, he encountered Anne again outside his apartment.

• Anne Brittany apologized for testing Charlotte and explained that she had planned to use Dream Arts to frighten him into revealing the truth about Mrs. Yang Mills.
• Charlotte offered to help clear Mrs. Yang Mills’s name and took Anne home to 58 Sixth Avenue in Val-d'Oise District.
• Anne lent Charlotte her carriage for his return journey, and he realized she came from a wealthy family.
• Charlotte discovered that the Insight rune in his Bloody Vortex let him sense everything within roughly fifteen steps, though using it consumed Psionic Energy.
• Charlotte prepared to sell his Multi-Headed Flail, but Anne appeared outside his apartment and greeted him.

Charlotte accepted Anne’s invitation to attend a Magic Item Auction, where she planned to track the man who killed her aunt. They arrived at the auction venue in the Alexander District, and Charlotte agreed to help Anne place a Tracking Beetle on her target.

• Anne offered Charlotte a ride and told him she knew of a Magic Item Auction where he could sell his friend’s magic item.
• Anne revealed that Yang Mills, the man who killed her aunt, would attend the auction hosted by Duchess Mesu, where the City Patrol could not intervene.
• Anne asked Charlotte to secretly place a Tracking Beetle on Yang Mills, and Charlotte agreed to help.
• Charlotte and Anne discussed their plan and arrived at the old residence hosting the auction in the Alexander District.

Charlotte sold his Multi-Headed Flail through merchant Louis Smythe at a private magic item auction, then accompanied Anne as she searched for Yang Mills. The chapter ended with Charlotte passing close behind Yang Mills and staring at him.

• Charlotte met Louis Smythe, who examined the Multi-Headed Flail and introduced him to a buyer named Lucas.
• Lucas agreed to buy the flail for 140 Écu after its enchantment was repaired, and Louis offered Charlotte 75 Écu for it.
• Louis paid Charlotte fifteen fifty-Flor banknotes and warned that he would be willing to explain more about business and auctions another time.
• Anne told Charlotte that Louis was a formidable merchant and explained that guests traded privately before items went to auction.
• Anne spotted Yang Mills and asked Charlotte to pretend they did not know each other, and Charlotte walked behind Yang Mills while staring at him.

Charlotte and Anne tracked Yang Mills at a magic item auction, where he bought an ancient painting linked to numerous deaths. While Anne used the Dream Arts at Yang Mills’s residence, Charlotte sensed danger and rushed into the smoke-filled courtyard as she remained trapped in a painful sleep.

• Charlotte secretly slipped Anne’s magic beetle into Yang Mills’s pocket, and he and Anne watched Yang Mills at the auction.
• Yang Mills bought an ancient painting associated with at least twelve gruesome cases and more than two hundred and twenty deaths, then hurried away with it.
• Anne and Charlotte followed Yang Mills to his residence, where Anne entered a deep sleep to use the Dream Arts.
• Charlotte cleaned and loaded his Magnum Hand Shuttle while guarding the sleeping Anne in the carriage.
• Charlotte’s Eye of Insight revealed black smoke rising from Yang Mills’s residence, and Anne moaned in pain without waking.
• Charlotte rushed into the residence’s courtyard and felt as though he had entered another world.

Charlotte followed a black beetle through the warped corridors of Yang Mills’s estate, killed Yang Mills after seeing through his disguise, and then faced a monstrous figure he feared might be Anne Brittany. Outside, Dobbin and the City Patrol waited for orders as black mist spread around the residence.

• Charlotte followed a black beetle through the endless, shifting corridors and passed a dying maid he could not save.
• A girl in hunting attire claimed to be Anne Brittany, but Charlotte used the Eye of Insight to recognize Yang Mills and shot him five times.
• The skinless, crimson monster carrying a spiked hammer kept advancing, leaving Charlotte unsure whether to fight it or whether it was Anne.
• Dobbin and the City Patrol guarded Yang Mills’s estate and waited for orders while the black mist grew thicker.

A mysterious aristocratic lady intervened in the aftermath of the evil painting’s Dimensional Corridor, and Anne Brittany reunited with Charlotte Mecklen and offered to help him find a home. Charlotte agreed to view a house on Champs-Élysées Avenue, where the chapter ended as he admired the bustling thoroughfare.

• An elegant lady bearing the Golden Pheasant Tail Flower emblem sent a classical oil painting to 25 Mignon Avenue.
• Charlotte escaped the vanished Dimensional Corridor, fled the Yang Mills residence, and avoided the City Patrol soldiers.
• Anne Brittany found Charlotte and thanked him for saving her from being trapped in the corridor.
• Charlotte told Anne that he had been transferred to Kilmainham Prison and planned to move closer to work in the Picardy District.
• Anne offered to show Charlotte a relative’s house within his budget and ordered the carriage to Champs-Élysées Avenue.
• Charlotte arrived on Champs-Élysées Avenue and admired the broad, busy street.

Charlotte toured the residence at Number 58 with Anne Brittany and agreed to buy it through interest-free installments. After paying the down payment, Charlotte invited Anne to the nearby Cat and Clover Cafe.

• Anne Brittany brought Charlotte to the residence at Number 58 and explained that her relative would sell it for one hundred and fifty Écu with installment payments.
• Charlotte toured the first floor, liked the spacious residence, and calculated that his salary could cover the debt in a few years.
• Anne was impressed when Charlotte told her he had reached the thirty-seventh civil-service rank only two years after graduation.
• Charlotte agreed to buy the residence, handed Anne ten fifty-Flor banknotes, and watched the coachman leave.
• Charlotte invited Anne to have coffee, and they went to the nearby Cat and Clover Cafe.

Charlotte and Anne grew closer over coffee before completing the transfer of Number 58 to Charlotte. After Anne left, Charlotte hired maidservants to clean the house and explored its spacious upper floors, discovering a terrace overlooking the Lucavaro River.

• Charlotte and Anne chatted over coffee, and Charlotte decided to write to his older brother to help resolve his unwanted engagement before pursuing a relationship with Anne.
• Anne's coachman delivered the property transfer documents and keys, and Charlotte signed the contract for Number 58.
• Charlotte offered to take Anne to dinner, but Anne returned home for her family's evening meal.
• Charlotte hired five maidservants from the coffee shop and led them to Number 58 to clean.
• Charlotte explored the house's second and third floors and discovered that a terrace faced the Lucavaro River and the Outer Fifteen Districts.