Recaps

Edward gathered Reinette and Pallez for a Misery Contest, promising to reveal their futures and reward the winner. After comparing their painful pasts, he showed Reinette a future in which she was killed by the Indulgence Faction, leaving her despairing over whether her struggle had been futile.

• Edward summoned Reinette to Sefirah Castle, introduced Pallez as Mr. No Characteristics, and announced the Misery Contest.
• Pallez recounted how he had been hunted for over a thousand years and reduced to clinging to life as a Sequence 1 Angel.
• Reinette described the Mother Tree of Desire’s destruction of her organization and the deaths of her family, disciples, and last friend, then asked Edward for help.
• Edward explained that he could not yet help against the Outer Deity and revealed that Pallez had also lost his family and endured centuries of persecution.
• Edward showed Reinette a future in which Abomination Suah, Baranka, and the Indulgence Faction cornered and killed her, leaving her questioning whether her efforts had mattered.

Edward brought Pallez and Reinette to Sefirah Castle and staged a contest over whose imagined future suffering was worse. Pallez won and learned his great-grandson Mobet was trapped in Groselle’s Travels, while Edward left both guests with hints about the future before sending them away.

• Edward showed Pallez and Reinette visions of their grim futures, including Pallez being swallowed by Amon and Reinette being killed and dismembered.
• Edward declared Pallez, whom he called Mr. Characteristicless, the winner of the First Misery Contest and offered him a choice of rewards.
• Pallez chose to learn about his great-grandson, and Edward revealed that Mobet Zoroast was alive inside Groselle’s Travels but would die of old age if he left the book.
• Edward suggested Pallez could give Mobet his Sequence 4 characteristic to help him survive and considered ways to bring the book’s other inhabitants into reality.
• Edward told Reinette that the Indulgence Faction would suffer a devastating blow in December 1349, then promised further help in a future contest and warned the pair to keep their meeting secret.
• After Pallez and Reinette vanished, Edward reflected that staging the contest had helped him digest his Spirit Mage Potion.

Edward warned Roselle that the Hidden Sage had targeted him and his family, prompting Roselle to take them to Trier Cathedral for protection. Bernadette kept her dream adventures with Mr. Sparrow secret as the family set out together.

• Edward sent Roselle a warning that the Hidden Sage had set its sights on his family and told him to find Stiano.
• Roselle decided to take his family to Trier Cathedral and seek protection from the Church.
• Bernadette wondered whether her father's diary could help Mr. Sparrow, but kept her dream adventures secret from Roselle.
• Roselle woke Bernadette and invited her to visit the cathedral, claiming they needed protection from an evil god.
• Roselle, Matilda, and Bernadette rode together toward Trier Cathedral, where Matilda teased Roselle about his plans for Dubois.

Klein arranged for Cattleya to take him to Lasha Island so he could seek the Beautiful Merpeople’s singing for his Sequence 5 advancement ritual, while Bernadette visited the merpeople in her palace. In the past, Edward prepared to rescue Akasha and learned Roselle had obtained the item Edward had requested, though he could not bring it into Sefirah Castle.

• Klein’s clashes with several Pirate Admirals helped digest his Faceless potion, and he decided to seek Queen Mystic’s help with his advancement ritual.
• Klein boarded Cattleya’s ship, the Future, and learned she had been cast out by Queen Mystic.
• Bernadette visited the Beautiful Merpeople on Lasha Island and recalled the Little Beautiful Merpeople doll from her childhood.
• Edward learned from Dubois that Roselle could help with Akasha’s situation but would not risk too much for a butler, then prepared to rescue her directly.
• Roselle thanked Edward for warning him about the Hidden Sage and said the God of Steam and Machinery had erased its marks from his family.
• Roselle revealed that he had obtained the item Edward requested, but could not bring it into Sefirah Castle.

Roselle learned that the Hidden Sage might target him because he could help Stiano stabilize his divine position, and he asked Edward for protection in exchange for stealing a Sealed Artifact. Meanwhile, Earl Clear blamed Roselle for Wells’s injuries and vowed revenge, while Akasha fled after discovering the assassination target was guarded by four Sequence 5s.

• Roselle asked Edward why the Hidden Sage might be targeting him, and Edward explained that Roselle was the only Chosen able to help Stiano stabilize his divine position.
• Roselle asked Edward for protection, and Edward offered it if Roselle took any Sealed Artifact from Stiano’s Church.
• Roselle asked whether anyone else like him existed, and Edward answered that Roselle was currently the only special existence before ending their connection.
• Edward watched Roselle wrestle with doubts about his transmigration and privately resolved to let the Emperor suffer for now while hoping to save him later.
• Earl Clear learned Wells had been crippled, blamed Roselle, and ordered a bounty placed on his head while Wells demanded to kill the woman himself.
• Akasha fled at midnight, cursing the people who had sent her to assassinate someone guarded by four Sequence 5s.

After rescuing Akasha from Earl Clear’s bodyguards, Edward learned that Earl Clear had been assassinated and that Akasha had been used as bait. Edward and Akasha caught the killer retrieving a hidden brass rod, then killed him after discovering he was an Aurora Order Shepherd.

• Akasha escaped three Sequence 5 bodyguards through Edward’s contingency and woke in Mr. Sparrow’s study.
• Edward told Akasha that Earl Clear had been assassinated while she distracted his bodyguards, and she realized she had been used as bait.
• Edward opened a Traveler’s Door to return Akasha to Feynapotter, but detected an intruder and used False Reality to control the villa.
• Edward and Akasha watched a bloodied man retrieve a hidden brass rod from the basement before confronting him.
• The intruder transformed into a devil, but Edward’s power degraded him from Sequence 5 to Sequence 6 and then Sequence 7.
• Edward teleported the intruder and Akasha to Trier’s outskirts, where a silver-white thunderbolt killed the Aurora Order member.

Edward questioned the dead Aurora Order Shepherd, learned that a mysterious Demoness had hired him to kill Earl Clear and retrieve an item, and discovered the Brass Rod could amplify spirituality. He returned Akasha to Feynapotter City, while Wells calmly watched the Clear family fall apart and declared it was all for the tide of the times.

• Edward used spirit channeling and Dream Divination to learn that the Shepherd had been hired by a Demoness to kill Earl Clear and retrieve an item from 7 Rose Street.
• Edward recognized the Demoness as the woman involved in the Roselle Family incident and divined that the Brass Rod could amplify spirituality and was likely made by the Twilight Hermit Order.
• Edward failed to divine where the other bronze rods were hidden, then told Akasha that the Shepherd had not known who hired him.
• Edward brought Akasha through the Spirit World to Feynapotter City, where she suddenly laughed.
• Earl Clear's sons began dividing their father's benefits while Wells quietly read Roselle's work and said, "All for the tide of the times."

Edward impersonated Mr. F to maintain his access to the Aurora Order’s resources while avoiding the True Creator’s attention. The Machinery Hivemind investigated the people connected to Earl Clear’s assassination, but Edward concealed his involvement and the investigators left with only preliminary suspicions.

• Edward weakened Akasha as a joke, then told her to open an upscale private hot spring to attract wealthy women.
• Edward returned to Mr. F’s residence, instructed the attendant to signal visitors with camellias, and avoided entering the secret chamber beneath the fireplace.
• Edward went home and sensed Machinery Hivemind members entering his False Reality to investigate him and others connected to Akasha.
• Horamick questioned Edward in a dream, and Edward denied knowing that Akasha had assassinated Earl Clear.
• The Machinery Hivemind captain concluded that Akasha was a suspected Sequence 6 Sanguine and that the killer might be a Shepherd or a Scribe.

Edward and Dubois were questioned by the National Intelligence Agency after Akasha was named as a killer in Earl Clear’s assassination, but Roselle’s intervention kept them from being taken in. Roselle celebrated Clear’s death and discussed Bernadette’s interest in becoming a Beyonder, while she insisted she would remember Edward for saving her.

• Edward wondered whether the powerful Sealed Artifact mentioned by officials might be Arrodes.
• Dubois read that Akasha was suspected of helping assassinate Earl Clear and questioned Edward, who denied knowing about it.
• National Intelligence Agency officers searched Edward’s villa, questioned Edward and Dubois, and ordered them to stay home without taking them in.
• Edward suspected Roselle had intervened and asked Dubois to watch 2 Camellia Street for a sign in its second-floor window.
• Roselle celebrated Clear’s death, told Bernadette she was too young to become a Beyonder, and learned that the National Intelligence Agency had left Edward alone.
• Bernadette said she would remember Edward for saving her, while Roselle claimed he had already repaid the favor twice.

In 1349, Alfred returned to Backlund and learned that his sister Audrey’s Edward was the notorious Gehrman Sparrow. In 1160, Edward prepared to move after the investigation at 7 Rose Street ended, then received Roselle’s notebook from Bernadette and read it in Sefirah Castle.

• Alfred reunited with Hibbert and Audrey at Backlund Railway Station and learned Edward was missing amid troublesome matters.
• Audrey revealed that Edward had once used the identity Gehrman Sparrow, prompting Alfred to loudly object to their marriage.
• After the National Intelligence Agency lifted its lockdown of 7 Rose Street, Edward decided to move to 28 Jade Street the next day.
• Bernadette prayed to Edward and offered him Roselle’s notebook, which she had borrowed for him to read.
• Edward read the notebook in Sefirah Castle, then asked Bernadette whether she knew what it contained.

Edward welcomed Roselle and his family to his new home after moving to 28 Emerald Street. Roselle revealed that he planned to set out on an ocean voyage soon and agreed to take Bernadette with him.

• Bernadette gave Edward a drawing, and he used False Reality to let her experience being Snow White in a magic mirror.
• Edward and his household moved from 7 Rose Street to 28 Emerald Street, and he enjoyed being waited on during the move.
• Roselle visited Edward to congratulate him, and Edward thanked him for helping secure his release from prison.
• Roselle said he hoped Akasha had truly assassinated Earl Clear because he had long hated the earl.
• Roselle announced that he was preparing for an ocean voyage, and Bernadette insisted on accompanying him.

Edward hosted Roselle and his family for dinner, where Roselle talked excitedly about sailing and the Western Continent. After they left, Dubois reported that camellias had appeared at the window of 2 Camellia Street, and Edward’s mood changed.

• Edward shared sailing stories with Roselle, who said he would search for the end of the sea and the Western Continent.
• Edward described blood pudding and mermaid-like fish monsters, prompting Roselle to ask about elves and Bernadette to worry about mermaids.
• Roselle and Dubois shared a drink and exchanged wishes before Edward saw Roselle’s family off.
• Edward teased Dubois about his relationship with Roselle, and Dubois told him camellias had been placed at the second-floor window of 2 Camellia Street.
• Edward’s smile vanished when Dubois mentioned the camellias.

Edward discovered that Ms. Marcia, the woman who collected the Brass Rod, was a Demoness Church member and had commissioned Earl Clear’s assassination on behalf of a Palace Guard named Tarik. After subduing and questioning her, he learned that she planned to give the rod to a messenger serving her Lord, but she did not know when the messenger would arrive.

• A veiled Demoness collected the Brass Rod from Edward and claimed Roselle Gustav and others had wanted Earl Clear dead.
• Edward followed her through several carriage changes and the sewers to a duplex in Memorial Hall Borough.
• The Demoness removed her disguise, and Edward recognized her as Ms. Marcia, who had rented him Jade No. 28.
• Edward appeared in Marcia’s room, subdued her, and used spirit channeling to question her.
• Marcia revealed that she belonged to the Demoness Church and had obtained the assassination commission from Tarik, an Intis Palace Guard working for an important figure.
• Edward learned that Marcia had sought the Brass Rod for her Lord and asked her for Tarik’s address.

Edward kept investigating Tarik and enlisted Roselle to help find his missing daughter, using their shared experiences as fathers to win his support. Roselle agreed to seek help from the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery before departing by sea, while Edward returned home with a new lead and told Dubois the truth about his search.

• Edward learned that the Demoness at Roselle Gustav's banquet had targeted him and used the murder to pressure Tarik into moving a hidden object.
• Edward chose to leave Marcia with her memory of meeting Zaratul, hoping to provoke a response from his enemies.
• Edward had the Aurora Order search for Tarik and secretly watched Marcia, while he continued presenting himself in Trier as a wealthy gentleman.
• Before Roselle sailed, Edward asked him to help find his missing daughter, and Roselle promised to seek assistance, possibly from the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery.
• Edward returned to 28 Emerald Street and told Dubois that he had come to Trier hoping to use special means to find his daughter.

Bernadette and Matilda worried about Roselle’s dangerous voyage, but he promised to return safely and set out as planned. Edward learned that the church’s Sealed Artifact, Arrodes, had gone missing, and Roselle promised to ask the Archbishop to keep searching.

• Bernadette argued with Roselle about his voyage, then made him promise to come home safely.
• Matilda reassured Roselle that his restless nature was part of who he was, and he went to the church.
• Bernadette asked Mr. Sparrow to stop Roselle from going to sea, but Edward refused to intervene.
• Edward and Dubois arrived as Roselle prepared to leave with his family and servants.
• Roselle told Edward that the church’s Sealed Artifact had gone missing and promised to ask the Archbishop to continue searching.
• Roselle led the group to Trier Port to show Edward the vessel for his voyage.

Roselle finally set sail after Edward stopped disrupting his departures, leaving Bernadette heartbroken but hopeful that Edward could take her to visit him. Back in Trier, Edward noticed a refined woman in a black dress moving into a nearby villa, where she later spoke with a blurred figure in her mirror about Marcia.

• Edward let Roselle's fourth departure proceed without summoning another storm, and Roselle's ship sailed south from the harbor.
• Bernadette sobbed over Roselle's departure until Edward promised he could take her to see her father if she behaved.
• Edward and Dubois noticed a woman in a black dress moving into a nearby villa and exchanged remarks about her.
• The woman entered her new home, asked why Marcia had not responded, and heard a blurred figure in the mirror tell her not to be impatient.

Edward abandoned his plans to obtain Arrodes for the moment and welcomed Roselle as the third member of his mysterious gathering after Roselle completed a task and asked for protection. Aboard his ship, Roselle spoke with Zaratul, who identified the monocled man from the other night as Amon.

• Edward considered how to find Arrodes, then reminded himself to focus on securing the Sequence 3 Beyonder Characteristics and protecting Lilith.
• Edward woke when Roselle summoned him and heard that Roselle had obtained a Church Sealed Artifact by borrowing it for his voyage.
• Roselle asked Edward to protect his wife and daughter, and Edward clarified that he meant only one intervention.
• Edward invited Roselle to become the third member of his gatherings before ending their connection.
• Roselle told Green to ease the ship's pace, then welcomed Zaratul aboard and asked about the man with the monocle.
• Zaratul identified the monocled man as Amon and warned Roselle that he was a terrifying existence.

Roselle learned about dangers in the War of the Gods Relic and received a Paper Figurine Substitute from Zaratul, whose interest in the god above the gray fog became apparent. In 1349, Audrey arrived in Tingen with Susie to ask Melissa some questions, while Alfred admitted his personal resentment toward Edward.

• Roselle asked Zaratul about the sea, and Zaratul warned him about dangers in the War of the Gods Relic.
• Roselle told Zaratul he had seen a god above the gray fog in Trier, and Zaratul concealed his interest while prioritizing the Antigonus Notebook.
• Zaratul gave Roselle a Paper Figurine Substitute and warned him that prolonged use could make him the substitute instead.
• Alfred admitted to Hibbert that he disliked Edward because Edward had beaten him twice, and Hibbert explained that the family trusted Edward because he had saved their father and Audrey liked him.
• Audrey and Susie arrived at 2 Daffodil Street in Tingen, where Melissa welcomed them and Audrey said she had questions for her.

In 1160, Edward agreed to take Bernadette to see the Beautiful Merpeople after recording her dance. He then confronted Tarik, who escaped after Edward’s powers failed against him, only for Edward to discover Tarik was a doll and collect the scattered parts.

• Bernadette begged Edward to take her to see Roselle, then persuaded him to promise a trip to the Beautiful Merpeople by dancing for him.
• Edward learned that Tarik served in the Intis royal palace guard and asked where he could find him outside the palace.
• Tarik confronted Edward about Earl Clear’s murder and demanded to know whether Marcia had sent him to retrieve something.
• Tarik pulled a specially treated revolver on Edward, but Edward seized the gun and tried to use [Degradation] and [Theft] on him.
• Tarik fled, and Edward pursued him with chains and a Thunderbolt until his body broke apart into metal components, revealing he was a doll.
• Tarik’s head threatened Edward before exploding, and Edward gathered the doll’s remains into a suitcase.

Edward investigated the origin of Tarik’s doll and uncovered a connection to the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, while the Machinery Hivemind found a hidden passage beneath Mr. F’s home. He took Bernadette to secretly visit Roselle, but she grew angry after seeing him with women, and Edward helped her set up a lesson for him.

• Edward divined that a cleric of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery had offered to give Tarik’s doll a soul, but a young man had refused.
• The Machinery Hivemind captain destroyed a fireplace with a grenade and uncovered an underground opening beneath Mr. F’s home.
• Edward disguised Bernadette as a little boy and took her to the Oladek Islands to see Roselle.
• Bernadette spotted Roselle asking Green to find him beautiful women and decided she no longer wanted to see him.
• Edward proposed teaching Roselle a harmless lesson, and Bernadette agreed.
• Roselle accepted the two women Edwards brought and led them to his room while his Four Knights waited outside.

Edward took Bernadette to the War of the Gods Relic after magically frightening Roselle, who woke the next morning convinced his ass hurt because he had been assaulted. Back in Trier, Edward learned that a young couple wanted to rent the villa at 7 Rose Street.

• Bernadette watched Edward’s illusion terrify Roselle, then left with him to search the relic for Beautiful Merpeople.
• Roselle woke to find his clothes torn and banknotes scattered, mistook the illusion for reality, and banned his knights from drinking until they returned to Trier.
• Edward’s Aurora Order agents failed to identify the richly dressed young man seen behind Tarik.
• Dubois told Edward that a young married couple with a child wanted to rent the villa at 7 Rose Street after their previous landlord sold their home.

Edward warned Henry Ansettin and Camille that 7 Rose Street was unsafe, then discovered Henry felt inexplicably compelled to rent it, suggesting a Beyonder's influence. Bernadette sought refuge from her mother's lessons at Edward's home, but her teachers soon tracked her down.

• Henry Ansettin and Camille asked to rent 7 Rose Street, hoping to reclaim Henry's family's ancestral home.
• Edward warned the couple that he had left the villa because it was unsafe, and Henry admitted he felt renting it would bring him good luck.
• Edward used Legilimency to discover Henry's feeling resembled psychological suggestion and told Dubois that a Beyonder was interfering.
• Bernadette brought Edward pastries from Matilda and explained she had run away to avoid lessons in painting, piano, and etiquette.
• Edward magically made Bernadette chubby, recorded her reaction when she admired her reflection, and restored her appearance as three young women arrived to find her.

Edward attended the Twilight Hermit Order’s gathering, where Adam announced that the tide of the times had deviated and tasked the members with finding the cause. After Edward joked about Amon, one member fled, and the gathering ended with confirmation that Adam had said Edward was not Amon.

• Edward left Bernadette’s lessons in Dubois’s hands and entered Sefirah Castle to attend the Twilight Hermit Order’s gathering.
• Adam announced that something had interfered with the tide of the times and ordered the members to find the cause of its deviation.
• Edward learned that Intis had missed the gathering and told the members he had encountered Amon in the ruins on Intis’s treasure map.
• Edward put on a Monocle as a joke, prompting the member with an indistinguishable voice to vanish from the Corpse Cathedral.
• Hermes reassured the members that Adam would have noticed if Edward had become Amon, and the vanished member returned to report that Adam said Edward was not Amon.

At the Twilight Hermit Order’s gathering, Edward learned that the group was tasked with investigating the tide of the times and protecting Roselle Gustav in Trier from a Demoness Sect scheme. Afterward, he arranged an information exchange with Coward about Amon and the Jacob Family, leaving Hermes to verify and swap their messages.

• Hermes announced that the first and third tasks from the previous gathering were complete and assigned the group to investigate the tide of the times’ deviation and protect Roselle Gustav in Trier.
• Edward suggested killing Demonesses entering Trier, then encouraged Demoness to reveal her sect’s plans in exchange for the mission’s reward.
• Hunter offered to help Edward obtain a Sequence 3 Beyonder Characteristic and deal with Intis if Edward helped him kill the War Bishop, but Edward said he would think about it.
• After the gathering, Edward apologized to Coward and proposed exchanging information through Hermes as an intermediary.
• Edward wrote that Amon knew of the Jacob Family’s secret treasure from the Fourth Epoch and had laid a trap, while Coward and Edward agreed to exchange their messages.

Edward learned that some members of the Abraham Family might be relocating with a Wanderer Beyonder Characteristic, and he began searching for their ship. After telling Hermes about the ancient Mind Dragon Ariehogg, Edward returned to his estate and discovered Bernadette was deliberately playing the piano badly to torment her tutors.

• The coward told Edward that members of the Abraham Family were preparing to move and might possess a Wanderer Beyonder Characteristic, while Edward warned him that Amon might be hidden in every Jacob Family treasure hoard.
• Hermes told Edward he was searching for the Mind Dragon Ariehogg, and Edward agreed to meet him so Hermes could identify the dragon and remove its Psychological Suggestion.
• Edward considered how revealing Ariehogg’s existence might affect Hermes and Adam, then recalled the Abraham Family’s ship, the Sunken Laurel, and decided to watch ports for it.
• Edward asked Dubois to obtain maps of coastal ports and identify a young man from a portrait.
• Edward went to watch Bernadette’s piano lesson and realized she was intentionally playing badly to upset her tutors.