Recaps

Joey convinced Benny to help expose the Mermaid Forest’s plans and joined the preparations to create chaos in Lia Harbor. After Annie’s treasure hunt drew the crowds toward the church, she brought Joey back into the operation because an unknown person had told her that she needed him, leaving Joey suspecting someone familiar was manipulating events.

• Joey told Benny that their goals aligned, revealed the Mermaid Forest’s plan, and persuaded him to help while Benny explained that the Sheriff's Office ammunition depot required his Key to access.
• Three days later, Annie broadcast a treasure hunt across Lia Harbor, and Benny and Joey watched the crowds gather as the first phase of her plan began.
• After all eight chests were found, the crowds headed toward the church, where Oli and Mi Pang were set to detonate a bomb.
• Annie found Joey and told him to come to the Sheriff's Office, explaining that someone had warned her the plan would be difficult without him.
• Joey questioned Annie about the unknown person, then followed her toward the Sheriff's Office while suspecting that someone familiar was directing her.

Joey and Annie planted explosives in the Sheriff's Office armory while unrest erupted in Lia Harbor over the Church of Light's crimes and a Sea God Church declaration. They were caught in the crowded headquarters, and Joey provoked an important figure from Feren to buy time as the explosives continued counting down.

• Annie disguised Joey in a Sheriff's uniform, and they infiltrated the Sheriff's Office to plant explosives in the armory.
• At the church square, the Black-Robed Man threatened to destroy the church and declared himself a follower of the Sea God Church, stirring the crowd against the Church of Light.
• Gami Enriques and Oli Via exposed the Church of Light's crimes, and furious residents seized clergy members while Benny struggled to control the crowd.
• Joey and Annie discovered that the Sheriff's Office was still packed with Sheriffs, so they tried to stop the activated explosives without being noticed.
• The Deputy Director tried to bring Joey to meet an important figure from Feren, but Joey staged a fall and challenged the outsider after he kicked him.

Joey and Annie tried to stop the explosives in the Ammunition Depot while Yuri Mo and his Imperial Knights disrupted their plans. The pair were trapped in a basement passage, where Yuri revealed he knew Annie Bullock’s identity and had come prepared.

• Joey provoked the Feren investigators to create a distraction, but Yuri Mo knocked down the Deputy Director and forced Joey to pretend to submit while Annie tried to reach the Ammunition Depot.
• Joey rammed one of Yuri Mo’s men, and he and Annie used the ensuing brawl to flee before Yuri caught up and attacked Joey.
• Joey and Annie were trapped in a passage, with Yuri’s men blocking both ends and wearing Transcendent Weapons that kept Annie from fighting free.
• Joey sensed danger from Yuri but could not determine its source as the bombs’ deadline approached.
• Yuri named Annie Bullock and threatened to hang the Brocka Family’s young lady, revealing that he had come prepared.

Yuri Mo and the weaponized soldiers cornered Annie and Joey, forcing them to fight while a bomb threatened the Sheriff's Office. Joey used the Red Spider Silk to restrain the soldiers and keep Yuri Mo at bay as Annie fought her way deeper into the alley.

• Yuri Mo revealed that the Holy Hall had turned people into weaponized soldiers and showed that he had enhanced himself as well.
• Joey recognized that the soldiers and Yuri Mo were dangerous, while he and Annie tried unsuccessfully to talk their way out of the confrontation.
• Annie apologized for involving Joey, and Joey decided to fight so she could escape without revealing the full extent of his abilities.
• Joey used the Red Spider Silk to slow the soldiers and sent Annie racing through the alley.
• Yuri Mo charged after Annie, but Joey struck with Quenching and its hidden thread; Yuri Mo's lightning deflected the attack and destroyed one of the soldiers.
• Annie fought several weaponized soldiers deeper into the alley while Joey and Yuri Mo watched each other warily.

Joey and Annie fought Yuri Mo as they tried to reach the Ammunition Depot, where a bomb threatened everyone. Joey killed Yuri Mo with a carefully prepared combination of poison and transferred damage, then sensed danger coming from the depot and ran toward Annie.

• Yuri Mo trapped Joey and Annie inside a Barrier and attacked them with lightning needles, but Joey transferred the damage through Fortune Shifting and Red Spider Silk, killing the Soldiers around them.
• Annie rushed toward the Ammunition Depot while Joey held off Yuri Mo, then Joey used Red Spider Silk to block Yuri Mo and let Annie continue alone.
• Joey confronted Yuri Mo and subdued him with poison and transferred side effects, then killed him when he tried to launch a sneak attack.
• Joey sensed danger from the Ammunition Depot, feared Annie had failed to stop the bomb, and sprinted toward the passage to find out what had happened.

Joey tried to stop Annie from sacrificing herself to prevent the explosives from detonating, but she vanished and died for good. The bomb never exploded, and Joey was left alone in the emptied ammunition depot, mourning her and wondering what she had taken from Ghost Island.

• Joey reached the locked ammunition depot and heard Annie question whether the world needed gods and say she did not want to live.
• Joey urged Annie to open the door and warned that her plan might kill her permanently, but she said she hoped to escape the cycle of rebirth.
• Annie thanked Joey and vanished; Joey’s spiritual warning disappeared as her life force faded away.
• The explosives did not go off, and the door opened onto an empty depot with no sign of Annie or its weapons and ammunition.
• Joey’s intuition told him Annie was truly dead, and he wondered why she had not told him what she took from Ghost Island.

After Annie disappeared, Joey confronted Benny over her death and questioned whether he could trust him. Benny pressed Joey to finish the bombing plan, then led him away from the public security bureau as a bomb began beeping inside.

• Joey suspected that the Sea God and Maimaiti had shaped the events surrounding Annie and the failed resurrection ritual.
• Benny arrived, and Joey accused him of selling him out and causing Annie's death; Benny denied responsibility and said another hidden force had intervened.
• Joey demanded to know when Benny would bring Barbara back, while Benny questioned whether Lia Harbor was safe for her.
• Benny told Joey to finish the plan and revealed that a bomb had been prepared to blow up the public security bureau.
• Joey followed Benny out, noticed their earlier battle had been erased and that passersby could not see them, then sensed a powerful presence and shouted that Benny would kill everyone inside.