Recaps

Audrey questioned whether her urge to reconnect with Klein had been planted by a Psychological Suggestion, while Klein returned to Backlund and discovered Ince Zangwill had badly injured Dunn. In a past scene, Roselle left a church shaken after a priest revealed that he did not belong to this world.

• Audrey realized her idea of reuniting Klein with his lost acquaintance might have come from a Psychological Suggestion, but Susie calmed her before she lost control.
• Several dozen days later, Klein returned to Backlund and went to visit Dunn, whom he found unconscious and badly injured.
• Daly told Klein that Ince Zangwill had attacked Dunn, advanced to Sequence 4 of the Warrior Pathway, and could teleport with a Sealed Artifact.
• Klein learned that Leonard was safe for now and suspected Ince’s advancement might be connected to Feysac’s royal family.
• In the past, a golden-eyed priest told Roselle that he did not belong to this world, leaving him frightened and wondering whether his future could be changed.
• Roselle’s companions asked what the priest had said, but he pretended that nothing was wrong.

Edward visited the Earth Mother's Divine Kingdom in the Astral World and learned that the River of Eternal Darkness's tributaries had dried up, leaving the Evernight Goddess's plans uncertain. He returned to Sefirah Castle to rest, while Amon worried Edward might advance to Door; Edward later woke in the middle of the night.

• Edward met the Earth Mother Lilith in her Divine Kingdom and discussed her isolation, the Mother Goddess of Depravity, and the Primordial Demoness Cheek.
• The Earth Mother explained that the Seven Deities had not stopped Cheek because provoking her risked irrational actions and a breach of the barrier.
• As she showed Edward her garden, the Earth Mother said the other gods might welcome his visits, but she could not understand the Evernight Goddess's plans.
• The Earth Mother revealed that the tributaries of the River of Eternal Darkness had nearly dried up and said Edward could offer only his future in exchange for a Planeswalker Beyonder Characteristic.
• Edward ended the summoning and returned to Sefirah Castle, where Amon watched him and resumed pecking at the Birdcage bars.
• Edward slept until after three in the morning and woke feeling refreshed.

Edward visited the divine kingdoms of the remaining deities while continuing to digest his Wanderer potion, and he told Bernadette that he had found his daughter. Roselle returned home, reunited with Matilda, and learned that Bernadette had gone to Mr. Sparrow’s.

• Edward continued removing the effects of childishness from himself and explored the Earth Mother’s divine kingdom, where she said she hoped to someday travel deeper into the cosmos.
• Edward visited the divine kingdoms of the Lord of Storms, the Eternal Blazing Sun, the God of Combat, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, and the Steam Maiden, who was actually a male deity.
• The God of Knowledge and Wisdom warned Edward to beware of Adam, while Edward exchanged only a few words with the Steam Maiden.
• Bernadette asked Edward whether Roselle would make it back for her birthday, and Edward promised he would take her to find him if necessary.
• Edward told Bernadette that he had found his daughter and promised to introduce them when she could return.
• Roselle returned to his villa, surprised Matilda with a mock attack, and asked where Bernadette was; Matilda told him she had gone to Mr. Sparrow’s.

Edward rested at home with Bernadette while Roselle returned from his sea voyage and reunited with his daughter. Roselle learned that Edward had cared for Bernadette in his absence, and Edward revealed that he had already found his own daughter.

• Edward decided to rest before visiting the Evernight Goddess's Divine Kingdom and waited for Bernadette to get ready for a countryside outing.
• Roselle returned home and was devastated when Bernadette initially ran to Edward instead of recognizing him.
• Edward pointed out Roselle to Bernadette, who recognized her father and rushed into his arms in tears.
• Roselle and Dubois traded barbed remarks about Roselle's absence while Bernadette admitted she had visited Edward because her father was away.
• Roselle offered to ask the Church about a Beyonder Characteristic for Edward, and Edward told him he had already found his daughter.

Roselle returned from his voyage and celebrated with Bernadette, while Edward learned that Lilith had found a way to resurrect but continued deeper into the Mirror World. The Evernight Goddess summoned Edward to the Church of Serenity, and he agreed to go with Arianna after consulting Krismona.

• Roselle welcomed the news about Lilith and insisted on holding a party with Bernadette.
• Roselle told Edward and Bernadette about his sea voyage, and Edward later went to Krismona's home to ask about Arrodes.
• Arrodes relayed Lilith's message that she had found something, then warned Edward that someone was coming.
• Arianna arrived and told Edward that the Evernight Goddess wanted him to visit the Church of Serenity.
• Edward discussed the summons with Krismona, judged by coin toss that the visit would bring no danger, and prepared to leave with Arianna.

Edward met the Evernight Goddess, who hinted that the Forsaken Land of the Gods might hold answers about a mysterious person connected to her and other powerful beings. She gave him a Planeswalker Beyonder Characteristic and agreed that Arianna could help conceal him while he hunted Zaratul, but she could not provide a Miracle Invoker characteristic yet.

• Edward met the Evernight Goddess through the Eraser Angel and learned that she was slumbering and had mistaken him for someone with whom she had once made an agreement.
• The Evernight Goddess directed Edward toward the Forsaken Land of the Gods, where he might uncover answers about the person whose secret she had concealed and the River of Eternal Darkness.
• Edward learned that the Evernight Goddess would give him a Planeswalker Beyonder Characteristic, could not help him obtain the Miracle Invoker characteristic from Antigonus yet, and would let Arianna conceal him while he hunted Zaratul.
• Arianna led Edward to the underground rooms beneath the church and gave him the Planeswalker Beyonder Characteristic, which he stored in his Spatial Pocket.

Edward sought a way into the Forsaken Land of the Gods, then visited the Evernight Goddess’s Divine Kingdom and used Deconstruction on it. He discovered that the realm’s essence came from her Secrecy Authority and realized he might eventually reproduce part of that power.

• Amon warned Edward that Evernight was dangerous, guessed she had given him a Planeswalker Beyonder Characteristic, and explained that the usual route to the Forsaken Land of the Gods passed through the Giant King's Court.
• Edward considered ways into the Forsaken Land of the Gods, then put the search aside until he could meet Lilith.
• Edward asked Arrodes what the Evernight Goddess might have hidden in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and Arrodes suggested the Giant King's Court or its birthplace, prompting Edward to consider the Chaos Sea and a Bronze Gate beneath an abandoned vampire castle.
• Edward entered Evernight’s Divine Kingdom and wandered to the place where he had first met the goddess.
• Edward used Deconstruction on the Divine Kingdom until its plants and starlight vanished, revealing that its underlying darkness came from Evernight’s Secrecy Authority.

After the Goddess exiled Edward to the black town, he escaped and returned in time to attend Roselle’s banquet. There, he watched Roselle meet with King Doloren and then went to the wine cellar to speak with Zaratul.

• The Goddess’s power erased Edward’s body, but he awoke in the black town and carved a greeting to Zhou Mingrui into the statue before escaping with Homecoming.
• Edward returned to find an invitation to Roselle’s banquet, while Dubois revealed that he planned to advance to Psychiatrist that night.
• At Roselle’s banquet, Bernadette asked Edward to take her out, and Edward spotted King Doloren and considered meddling in their relationship.
• Roselle discussed expanding steam railways and his military appointment with Doloren, who asked for a private room to rest.
• Roselle sensed Zaratul at the banquet, met him in the wine cellar, and offered him wine before remarking that he had thought Zaratul would avoid returning to Trier.

Roselle learned that the Twilight Hermit Order sought to resurrect a great existence, then received an invitation to join it from Doloren Solon. He reported the strange coincidence to Edward in Sefirah Castle, where Amon recognized Roselle’s encounter as involving someone extraordinary.

• Roselle asked Zaratul about the Creator and the god above the gray fog, and Zaratul offered to answer if Roselle brought him the Antigonus Family’s notebook.
• Doloren Solon invited Roselle to join the Twilight Hermit Order, whose members aimed to resurrect a great existence.
• Edward avoided Bernadette at the banquet by pretending his stomach hurt and returning to the washroom.
• Roselle prayed to Edward in Sefirah Castle and described meeting a white-robed, golden-bearded priest on a primitive island.
• Amon remarked that the priest seemed extraordinary because the Paranoid had approached him of his own accord.

Edward learned that Roselle had met Adam and encountered the Twilight Hermit Order, then commissioned him to steal the Antigonus Notebook and give it to Zaratul. Edward planned to use the notebook to lure Zaratul toward Hornacis Main Peak and arrange a chance to hunt him in the foggy town.

• Roselle told Edward that Zaratul had linked the Creator to an organization seeking to resurrect it, and that the King of Intis had invited him to join the Twilight Hermit Order.
• Roselle revealed that he had prayed to Edward after the king's invitation frightened him, and Edward asked him to steal a dangerous notebook from the Church and give it to Zaratul.
• Edward identified the Twilight Hermit Order's leader as Adam, the priest Roselle had met, and explained that Adam could make his spoken words and written stories become reality.
• Edward told Roselle that the notebook could tempt Zaratul with the chance to advance to Sequence 1, and Roselle agreed to consider the dangerous commission in exchange for answers.
• Edward planned to use the notebook to draw Zaratul to Hornacis Main Peak, where the Evernight Goddess might send him into the foggy town and provide an opportunity to hunt him.

Edward considered how to alter Roselle’s tragic future and realized a covert, century-long deception might satisfy his Sequence 2 advancement ritual, though he doubted it was practical. After sending Roselle away, Edward questioned Amon about entering the Forsaken Land of the Gods and began investigating Amon’s authority; Roselle returned to Matilda, just as a commotion broke out.

• Edward warned Roselle about Adam and the Twilight Hermit Order, then weighed whether Roselle would cooperate in a long deception that could change his fate and fulfill Edward’s advancement ritual.
• Edward sent Roselle away from Sefirah Castle and complained that he still needed another way to complete his ritual.
• Amon asked about Roselle and explained that he had used the Error Uniqueness to exploit loopholes and enter the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
• Edward deconstructed Amon’s authority and realized that his progress was faster in Sefirah Castle, then thought of a new possibility.
• Roselle returned to his villa, joked with Matilda about his numb legs, and heard women scream amid a sudden commotion.

Edward left Roselle’s chaotic banquet thinking about Lilith, the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and whether to contact the True Creator. In 1360, Audrey tested Klein’s origins, and Klein later discovered that Lilith had returned to the Tarot Club.

• Edward said goodbye to Roselle, Matilda, and Bernadette after the banquet ended in a drunken fight, then considered his plans to contact the True Creator and Mr. Door.
• Audrey met Klein at Edward’s villa and asked him to seek Mr. Fool’s help in finding Edward and Lilith.
• Audrey questioned Klein about the girl he had searched for and suspected he came from Edward’s world after he claimed to have grown up in an abandoned town.
• Klein divined that Audrey did not know he was a transmigrator, then summoned the Tarot Club members above the gray fog.
• Audrey greeted the members and froze when she saw Lilith seated in the Empress’s place.

Lilith returned to the Tarot Club without Edward, saying he was safe but would need more time, while Audrey worried about his whereabouts. Klein discovered in Roselle’s diary that he had planned to steal the Antigonus Family Notebook, and the gathering ended with Emlyn asking how to lead resistance against colonizers.

• Audrey and the other Tarot Club members welcomed Lilith back, and Lilith told Audrey that Edward was safe but would return when the time was right.
• Bernadette reacted nervously to Lilith’s familiar way of addressing Audrey, while Klein maintained his composure and continued the gathering.
• Klein read Roselle’s diary entries and learned that Roselle had planned to steal an Antigonus Family Notebook from the Church on someone’s instructions.
• Lilith said she had visited the Astral World for revenge and had been beaten, while she admitted she did not know where Edward was.
• Emlyn arranged his trade with Alger and asked what someone should do to lead a group resisting colonizers, then claimed he was only curious.

At the Tarot Club gathering, Derrick reported that Sveti was guiding the City of Silver party toward Afternoon Town, and Lilith revealed that Sveti was an angel of the True Creator who might help them. Audrey reported that war between Loen and Feysac was becoming likely, while the gathering ended with Bernadette asking to speak with Lilith.

• Emlyn asked how the natives of the Rorsted Archipelago could resist their colonizers, and Alger explained that a Northern Continent war might draw away colonial forces.
• Derrick reported that Sveti had led the group out of the temple and onto a safe route toward Afternoon Town, and Lilith said Sveti was an angel who might respond to her name.
• Audrey said she had advanced to Sequence 6 and sought ingredients for Susie, while Bernadette offered to help find a Mind Dragon's brain.
• Audrey revealed that Edessak and Helena had returned to Backlund because war was approaching and confirmed that George III had framed Edessak for the Great Smog.
• Alger warned the members in Backlund to prepare for war, and Fors asked Mr. Fool whether her friend could join the Tarot Club.
• Priscilla said she was waiting for Azik and still having strange dreams, and Bernadette asked Lilith for a private conversation.

Audrey reunited with Lilith through the Tarot Club, while Derrick learned that Sveti’s promise to lead the City of Silver to the outside world concealed a deadly danger. In the past, Edward and Krismona waited anxiously for Lilith’s return from the Mirror World as the connection to her disappeared and night fell.

• Audrey asked Lilith about her disappearance, and Lilith revealed that Rose School and Demoness Sect forces had attacked them before they became trapped in a special place.
• Lilith offered Klein marionettes to help him digest his potion and told him that he had been the Evernight Goddess’s Chosen from the beginning.
• Derrick told Sveti that Lilith had asked him to pass along her name, and Sveti warned him to stop after reaching Afternoon Town because the Lord had gone mad.
• Dubois’s psychological consultations caused trouble at Edward’s villa, and he later fought Roselle after Roselle humiliated him in public.
• Edward and Krismona waited at No. 15 Emerald Street for Lilith to return, but Arrodes had lost its connection to her and the crimson night arrived without her appearing.

Edward learned that Lilith planned to resurrect herself using a ritual that still required her father's bone, and he resolved to enter the Mirror World to find her. At Sefirah Castle, he began devising a way to fulfill his advancement ritual and then restored the True Creator's altar to ask Him for a meeting.

• Krismona told Edward that Lilith sought resurrection through a ritual requiring her father's bone, a servant's flesh, and an enemy's blood, and that the enemy's blood had come from Cheek's divine vessel.
• Krismona linked the Great Terror in the Deep Mirror World to the Oldest One, and Edward decided to advance to Sequence 2 and search for Lilith there.
• At Sefirah Castle, Edward considered ways to make a well-known event false, tested [Lunatic on the Right], and agreed to pass Amon's message to the Hanged Man.
• Edward restored the ruined Aurora Order basement and altar, then prayed to the True Creator and asked to speak with Him.

Edward questioned the True Creator about reaching the Forsaken Land of the Gods and learned that the being called “that person” came from another world, was tied to the Oldest One’s awakening, and made a deal with the Ancient Sun God. The True Creator could not identify the thing Adam was seeking, and told Edward he could not yet come to the Forsaken Land of the Gods.

• The True Creator mistook Edward for an outsider called the Redeemer because Edward carried his aura, then asked whether Adam had sent him to pray.
• The Ancient Sun God explained that the outsider came from beyond the world and made a deal to resist the Oldest One’s awakening.
• The True Creator described how the Primordial awakened within him, leading him to form Rose Redemption and later split into Grisha and Adam.
• Edward wondered whether he was the outsider reborn, but the True Creator said Edward was too clean to have escaped the Oldest One that way.
• The True Creator said the outsider might still be in the world and warned that the barrier’s future collapse could trigger the Oldest One’s convergence.
• The True Creator said Adam might seek the thing the outsider left behind, but told Edward he could not yet enter the Forsaken Land of the Gods.

Edward sought the Antigonus Family Notebook from Stiano, the God of Steam and Machinery, and agreed to translate books for Him after learning the Notebook had been entrusted to His church by the Evernight Goddess. Meanwhile, Roselle went to Trier Cathedral to scout the Notebook’s location, but his attempt stalled when the Archbishop was away and ended with him accidentally knocking over a bookshelf.

• Edward visited Stiano in the Astral World and asked to borrow the Antigonus Family Notebook from Trier Cathedral, but Stiano initially refused.
• Stiano explained that the Evernight Goddess had left the Notebook in His church and offered to lend it if Edward supplied and translated more books into Intisian.
• Roselle went to Trier Cathedral to investigate the Notebook’s whereabouts and learned that the Archbishop had left for Backlund.
• Roselle entered the cathedral’s workshop under the pretext of digesting his potion and began drawing plans for a camera.
• Roselle worked on the camera and accidentally knocked over a nearby bookshelf, scattering its books.

Roselle found and stole the Antigonus Family Notebook, then reported his success to Edward, who urged him to deliver it to Zaratul. Edward later began a full-moon ritual to contact Mr. Door, whose voice recognized him before the ritual was complete.

• Roselle discovered the Antigonus Family Notebook shelved among ordinary books and struggled over whether to take it.
• When Machinery Hivemind members entered the room, Roselle realized the notebook had already been hidden inside his clothes.
• Edward told Amon he was hunting Zaratul with Sefirah Castle as bait, then heard Roselle report that he had obtained the notebook.
• Edward told Roselle to give the notebook to Zaratul and enhanced him with a Paper Figurine angel.
• Edward began a full-moon ritual to contact Mr. Door, whose ravings reached him through an Abraham Family Wanderer Beyonder Characteristic.
• Mr. Door recognized Edward and asked what he wanted before the ritual was finished.

Edward questioned Mr. Door about the City of Calamity and learned that his attempt to breach the Western Continent’s barrier had been an experiment, while Edward’s intervention revealed a connection between space and time. As Edward prepared to leave, Mr. Door offered to discuss a path beyond Sequence 2, while Christine approached the island under pressure from a powerful presence.

• Edward asked Mr. Door for a Planeswalker Beyonder Characteristic and learned that Mr. Door wanted him to come to the moon and help him return to Earth.
• Edward questioned Mr. Door about the City of Calamity, and Mr. Door explained that he had used the Door Uniqueness and the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s convergence with the Brood Hive to test the Western Continent’s barrier.
• Mr. Door said Edward’s opening of the wooden door had let him glimpse the power of time, prompting Edward to suspect that the Door Uniquenesses had connected past and future.
• Edward’s Deconstruction Scholar potion neared completion, and he decided to flee after realizing Mr. Door was answering his questions too readily.
• Christine opened a Traveler’s Door toward the island while a voice in her mind urged her to hurry, and Mr. Door asked Edward what he would do after reaching Sequence 2.

Edward was trapped by the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s blood-moon authority and attacked by Christine, but completed a deconstruction that let him escape to Calderón City. There, he suspected Christine was an independent aspect of the Mother Goddess and fully digested his Deconstruction Scholar potion.

• Mr. Door offered Edward a Key of Stars Beyonder characteristic in exchange for being allowed to return, but the Mother Goddess of Depravity’s blood-red moonlight trapped Edward and blocked his return abilities.
• Christine appeared and used the authority of fertility to make Edward’s cells and Starlight Worms reproduce, while he fought to finish deconstructing the moonlight.
• Christine withdrew the attack, allowing Edward to use Homecoming and escape to Calderón City, where he transformed into an Obscurus before returning to his child form.
• Edward concluded that Christine might be an independent aspect of the Mother Goddess of Depravity and suspected she had arrived on Earth through the missing heart on the Primitive Island.
• Edward’s Deconstruction Scholar potion reached complete digestion.

Roselle planned to hand the Antigonus Family's notebook to Zaratul while preparing a camera as a birthday surprise for Bernadette, but he pretended to forget her birthday and left her feeling hurt. Edward wished Bernadette a happy birthday through the gray fog, while Amon reacted angrily to being told he had no mother; Bernadette ended the chapter disappointed after Edward did not answer her request to celebrate aboard the Fairy-Tale.

• Roselle reflected on how easily he had obtained the notebook and waited for Zaratul, worrying that the meeting might be a trap.
• Roselle teased Bernadette by pretending not to know that the next day was her birthday, then decided to build a camera for her surprise.
• Bernadette felt hurt by Roselle's apparent forgetfulness, then wondered whether his unease meant that something had happened during his voyage.
• Edward appeared through the gray fog after midnight to wish Bernadette a happy birthday, and she asked him to take her to the Fairy-Tale to celebrate.
• Amon asked why people celebrated their birthdays, and Edward mocked him for having no mother; Amon admitted the remark made him angry.
• Edward left Sefirah Castle without answering Bernadette's request, and she decided he might simply have missed what she said.

Edward gave Bernadette a spectacular birthday celebration aboard the Fairy-Tale, while Roselle prepared a second surprise party for later that day. As Bernadette grew suspicious of her mother’s attempts to keep her away from Edward, Roselle’s plan remained at risk of being discovered.

• Edward took Bernadette to the Fairy-Tale, where he used the Sea God Domain to stage a fish-and-rainbow display spelling out a birthday greeting, then gave her Ravenclaw's Diadem as the ship’s characters celebrated her seventh birthday.
• The next morning, Dubois told Edward that Roselle wanted their help preparing another surprise party for Bernadette, and Edward agreed to cooperate.
• Roselle arrived at Edward’s home with his Four Knights, explained his elaborate surprise plan, and assigned Edward a minor role.
• Edward visited Krismona, who was anxiously waiting for Lilith to return, then wandered through the Mirror World, Cosmos, and Astral World before returning home.
• Bernadette woke late and learned from Matilda that Roselle had gone out; when she said she planned to visit Edward, Matilda nervously tried to keep her home, making Bernadette suspicious.

Roselle celebrated Bernadette’s birthday with a grand surprise, while Zaratul met him privately to collect the Antigonus Family Notebook. Zaratul examined the notebook and questioned how Roselle had obtained it, leaving its suspiciously easy theft unexplained.

• Matilda questioned Bernadette about Roselle’s birthday surprise, and Bernadette figured out that her father was preparing one.
• Roselle brought Bernadette home, where the Four Knights and their helpers had arranged fireworks, balloons, and lights for her birthday.
• Roselle told Bernadette that her birth had made the world feel real to him, then wished her a happy birthday as the celebration began.
• Roselle met Zaratul in the wine cellar and handed him the Antigonus Family Notebook, which he had taken from the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery.
• Roselle described how easily he had obtained the notebook, and Zaratul listened while wondering why the Church had allowed it to be taken.

Zaratul used Dream Divination to locate a hidden palace and narrowly avoided losing control, then returned Roselle’s notebook and left. After Bernadette’s birthday dinner, Dubois confronted Roselle about whether he was truly the original Roselle Gustav, and Roselle denied it.

• Zaratul saw a pitch-black peak, a hidden palace, and a mad-eyed man in his dream, then used Soothing to recover from the resulting threat of losing control.
• Zaratul returned the Antigonus Family Notebook to Roselle, promised to answer his questions later, and left his Marionette’s corpse behind.
• Roselle joined Bernadette’s birthday dinner and unveiled his camera, taking what he called the first photograph in the Lord of Mysteries World.
• Roselle told Matilda he would be away overnight, then followed Dubois to the garden for a private conversation.
• Dubois asked whether Roselle Gustav was all right and said he believed the original Roselle had died after falling from a maddened horse.
• Roselle denied Dubois’s suspicion, while Dubois explained that he had noticed inconsistencies in Roselle but had eventually thought he was mistaken.