Recaps

Edward bought two pages of Emperor Roselle’s diary from Xio and read them with Audrey, while Xio prepared to take him to confront the person who had placed a bounty on him. The pages revealed Roselle’s early struggles as a transmigrator and left Edward and Audrey with the second page’s account of his loneliness and boredom.

• At dinner, Edward warned Klein that tensions between Loen and neighboring countries could lead to war, and Klein said he hoped his family would never learn about Beyonders.
• Xio sent Edward a message saying the bounty on him would expire in two days and that she had found two pages of Roselle’s notes.
• Edward visited Xio and Fors, paid fifteen pounds for the diary pages, and asked Xio to arrange a meeting with the person behind the bounty.
• Edward told Xio to send future letters to his new apartment at 88 Minsk Street, then went to Audrey’s Suitcase Space.
• Edward and Audrey read Roselle’s diary pages, which described his early efforts to invent a flush toilet and his boredom and homesickness.

Edward and his companions confronted Viscount Glaint’s bounty party, only to discover that Flame Danitz had arranged the commission. Danitz tried to seize Edward, but Edward and Audrey sprang an ambush, leaving Danitz conscious and armed.

• Edward told Audrey that a Roselle diary page seemed to have been written by another Chinese speaker and said he had met Mr. Fool’s newly advanced Blessed.
• Edward invited Audrey to join him and Xio in meeting Viscount Glaint, and the group switched carriages before being taken to an abandoned warehouse.
• Xio refused Viscount Glaint’s bounty payment until she could confirm Edward’s alleged crimes, prompting Glaint to reveal that someone else had placed the commission.
• Flame Danitz introduced himself as a boatswain of the Golden Dream under Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina Edwards and said Edward had offended their captain.
• Danitz approached the carriage to take Edward, but Edward and Audrey appeared inside and stunned him; Danitz dodged Edward’s chain and drew a revolver.

Edward and his companions captured Danitz and learned he had come to Backlund because Vice Admiral Iceberg was connected to a portrait of Edward. The group settled their business and parted with gains, while Edward left Danitz a message to help him contact the captain.

• Edward disarmed Danitz, who surrendered and revealed he had placed a bounty on Edward through Viscount Glaint.
• Audrey emerged from hiding in the carriage and reunited with Xio, Fors, and Glaint.
• Edward used the Imperius Curse to question Danitz, who said he had come to find the man in a portrait his captain had been staring at.
• Danitz broke free of the curse, so Edward knocked him unconscious and left a message in his pocket for Vice Admiral Iceberg.
• Edward took Danitz's ingredients, Glaint received the Apothecary formula, and Xio collected her bounty.
• Audrey asked Glaint to keep her outing secret, and the group ended the night with each of them gaining something.

Edward returned to the Nighthawks and joined Klein at a shooting club, where they met asylum doctor Dast Guderian and learned that the mad Hood Eugen had asked to see a trick performance before losing his sanity. When Dast revealed that Hood had met Lanevus, Edward realized he had dangerously overlooked Ince Zangwill’s role in the coming crisis and resolved to prepare for an attack.

• Edward returned to Blackthorn Security Company, met Frye, and learned that Klein had spent the night guarding Chanis Gate.
• Edward accompanied Klein to Zouteland Shooting Club and practiced firing revolvers with him.
• Klein introduced Edward to asylum doctor Dast Guderian, who said Hood Eugen had gone mad after asking to see a trick performance.
• Dast revealed that Hood had met a visitor called Ail, whose real name was Lanevus, and that Lanevus had visited three times.
• Edward recognized that he had overlooked Ince Zangwill’s role in the plot and feared that Ince could manipulate his attention or arrange his death.
• Edward decided he could not passively wait for Ince to target him and resolved to prepare to protect himself.

Edward used two pages of Emperor Roselle’s Diary to ask Mr. Fool for a chance to perform tricks, then discovered his magic was unusually powerful above the gray fog. He ended his performance to the Tarot Club’s applause, leaving Edward wondering why his abilities had grown stronger.

• Audrey received a telegram from Alfred Hall saying he had found two Rainbow Lizard Dragons, giving her the final ingredient for the Telepathist potion.
• Audrey learned that Susie had finished digesting her potion and might also be ready to advance, though Susie misunderstood Audrey’s advice about modesty.
• At the Tarot Club, Edward told Alger he had nearly determined why Vice Admiral Hurricane Qilingus had come to Backlund and suspected an assassination plot against a high-ranking Loen noble.
• Alger said he expected to bring Emperor Roselle’s Diary pages to the next gathering, while Edward offered two pages of his own to Mr. Fool in exchange for an opportunity to perform tricks.
• Edward explained his acting experiment and performed a series of tricks and spells that delivered the diary pages to Mr. Fool and covered the gathering place in vines before making them vanish.
• Audrey, Alger, and Derrick applauded Edward’s performance, and Edward wondered why his magic was several times stronger above the gray fog.

At the Tarot Club, Klein was shocked by a diary page that appeared to belong to another transmigrator, while Edward reported nearly digesting his potion through acting before Mr. Fool. Edward offered two Beyonder items, and Klein prepared to use the City of Silver’s sacrificial ritual to send Derrick the Hand of Glory; the chapter ended with Edward returning to find Lilith trying to pat his face with her foot.

• Klein read a diary page whose writing and tone differed from Emperor Roselle’s, suggesting another transmigrator had written it.
• Edward told the Tarot Club that acting before Mr. Fool had nearly finished digesting his potion.
• Edward offered a storage item and a Hand of Glory, and Derrick asked for the latter because the City of Silver lived in endless darkness.
• Klein questioned Derrick about the City of Silver’s faith and sacrificial ritual, then instructed Edward to sacrifice the Hand of Glory to him when notified.
• Edward returned to his room after the meeting and found Lilith trying to pat his face with her foot.

Edward tested the Resurrection Stone’s new abilities and used its Wraith power to explore as a spirit, briefly encountering Klein before returning to his body. He also tested the Time-Turner and sparred verbally with Leonard, who questioned how Edward knew about the entity inside him.

• Edward learned that the Resurrection Stone had gained four abilities, including a one-time resurrection and the power to leave his body as a wraith.
• Edward left his body and flew through the house, but Lilith dragged his body and chair across the room, forcing him to return.
• Edward traveled outside as a spirit and encountered Klein, who was pulled back Above the Gray Fog when his spirituality ran low.
• Edward returned to his body nearly depleted and found that the Time-Turner could turn back time only twice before cracking.
• Leonard questioned Edward about his knowledge of the presence inside Leonard, and Edward told him to give that presence his regards before leaving.

Edward became acquainted with Steven Green and Priscilla, worried that the approaching full moon might trigger Mr. Door’s ravings, and helped Christine reach the asylum before warning the Nighthawks. The next morning, he questioned Christine and learned that her search for a family treasure map had been tangled up with the Psychology Alchemists and the mad Hood Eugen.

• Leonard asked Pallez Zoroast about Edward’s monocle, and Pallez said Edward had used it as a performance to speed up his digestion as a Trickmaster.
• Edward accepted Steven Green’s invitation to dinner, where he met Priscilla and learned about her family and her mother’s death.
• Seeing the crimson moon, Edward worried that he might hear Mr. Door’s ravings at the full moon and resolved to prepare by contacting Mr. Fool if necessary.
• Christine paid Edward and asked him to introduce her to Director Dape; after the director agreed to let her replace Edward as the asylum’s magician, Edward warned the captain that someone might cause trouble there.
• Edward wrote “A Cleric Friend of Mine: Ince Zangwill and His Quill” as a gift to Ince Zangwill.
• In the Nighthawks’ basement, Edward questioned Christine, who explained that she sought a hidden map to her family’s ancient treasure and that Hood Eugen had demanded she prove she was a Trickmaster.

Edward questioned Christine about Hood Eugen, Lanevus, and the Aurora Order, then left her in Nighthawk custody. At home, the little black bird demanded wand-like sticks and showed a strong interest in Edward’s Resurrection Stone, leading him to suspect it wanted phoenix feathers.

• Edward learned that Christine had received the book from Hood Eugen, who had passed it to Lanevus, and that Aurora Order subordinates had hunted her.
• Edward told Klein and Leonard that Christine seemed mostly truthful, and Dunn ordered that she remain in custody while he reported the matter to their superiors.
• Edward gave Christine his messenger-summoning method and said he would return her notebook to her elder if she regained her freedom.
• At home, Edward noticed Lilith cleaning her paws with a towel before getting onto the bed.
• The little black bird rejected two defective wands, then eagerly asked for Edward’s Resurrection Stone, which he refused to give it.
• Edward guessed that the bird wanted the phoenix feather in his wand and decided to obtain feathers from Fawkes.

Edward accompanied Audrey to Duke Negan’s ball, where Qilingus attempted to assassinate the duke and was killed while trying to escape. The chapter left Edward and Audrey safe as the Church of Evernight and Alger brought the attack to an end.

• Edward disguised himself as Audrey’s maid and accompanied her to Duke Negan’s ball after reporting Qilingus to the Church of Evernight.
• Audrey danced with Earl Hall, then joined Edward at the dining table while they watched the guests.
• Qilingus attacked by dropping a chandelier, but Crestet Cesimir confronted him and blocked his escape.
• Qilingus fled the ballroom wounded, but an unseen attacker thwarted his attempt to escape through a window.
• Alger appeared in the woods and shot Qilingus dead.

After Qilingus was killed, Alger feared that a mysterious High-Sequence Beyonder had warned him for acting alone, while Azik retrieved Qilingus's Beyonder Characteristic from Edward. Edward obtained the Demoness Pathway formulas from Klein and prepared to act on his plan for Lilith.

• Alger escaped a mysterious man's attack and suspected the man was a Blessed warning him for concealing the island's secret and killing Qilingus alone.
• Audrey learned from Earl Hall that Qilingus had been killed by an unknown person, and she and her father silently acknowledged her involvement.
• Edward told Klein that Qilingus had lost his left hand and Beyonder Characteristic before Crestet Cesimir could pursue him, then admitted he had taken Creeping Hunger.
• Azik arrived and asked Edward to lend him Creeping Hunger to help recover his lost memories, and Edward agreed.
• Klein gave Edward the Demoness Pathway formulas, but Edward's offer of payment fell short of the formulas' value.
• Klein returned home to find Benson and Melissa waiting up for him, while Edward cleaned Lilith's paws and said it was time to act on his plan to make her an Assassin Potion.

Edward received the bounty for Qilingus, learned that the Goddess permitted him to use any means to protect himself, and spread word about Ince Zangwill and Sealed Artifact 0-08. He then arranged for a story to be published quickly, leaving the editor-in-chief intrigued by Lilith.

• Audrey read that Crestet Cesimir had killed Qilingus, and Earl Hall told her Duke Negan had given her a vacation estate worth fifteen thousand pounds.
• Edward prayed to the Goddess about protecting himself from Ince Zangwill, and received permission to use every means, though his request for direct intervention went unanswered.
• Anthony Stevenson gave Edward five thousand pounds and deposited another ten thousand, while Earl Hall's daughter received the remaining fifteen thousand.
• Edward told a clergyman at Saint Samuel Cathedral about Ince Zangwill and Sealed Artifact 0-08, spreading the secret through the cathedral.
• Edward spotted an advertisement for a Beyonder gathering and decided to pursue a Taunting Doll, then asked Steven Green to introduce him to a newspaper editor so he could publish a short story by the next morning.
• Steven brought Edward to the editor-in-chief, who watched Lilith drink Priscilla's juice and wrote notes about the clever cat.

Edward tried to expose Ince Zangwill by publishing a story about him, but the newspaper press broke down before it could print. He arranged publication and copies through Fors, left her a warning note, and attended the Eye of Wisdom’s gathering, where he negotiated for Black Snake’s Taunting Doll.

• Edward submitted a story exposing Ince Zangwill and the stolen Sealed Artifact Quill to the Tingen Honest People's Newspaper, but Ince caused the printing press to break down.
• Edward asked Fors to arrange a Backlund newspaper advertisement and print 3,000 copies of his story, and she secured a slot three days later.
• Edward gave Fors a folded note to open only if her life was in danger, and she put it away without reading it.
• Edward attended the Eye of Wisdom’s gathering, where the Fat Apothecary failed to sell his goods and Black Snake offered his Taunting Doll.
• Edward offered Black Snake 2,000 pounds for the Taunting Doll, which Black Snake claimed could affect even a Sequence 5.

Edward bought the Taunting Doll, obtained the ingredients for the Assassin formula, and publicized a leaflet about Ince Zangwill and the Quill across Tingen. Klein realized Edward was trying to expose the Sealed Artifact to the city, while Ince struggled to control the stories the Quill wrote and grew desperate.

• Edward bought Black Snake's Taunting Doll for 2,200 pounds and later tested it on Lilith, using Unrestrained to resist its taunt.
• Edward obtained all the ingredients for the Assassin formula at the gathering before it ended.
• Edward paid street children to distribute leaflets about Ince Zangwill and the Quill, then scattered thousands more across Tingen, especially near churches.
• Klein read a leaflet Rozanne brought back and deduced that Edward was trying to make the whole city learn about the Quill.
• Ince Zangwill tried to write stories involving Edward and other people but repeatedly crossed them out, then tore up his notebook in frustration.
• The Quill began writing that Ince Zangwill was getting desperate.

On the Crimson Full Moon, Edward heard Mr. Door’s ravings without suffering corruption and persuaded Lilith to drink the Assassin Potion, while Fors narrowly escaped her own ravings after reciting part of a prayer to the Fool. After a meteor destroyed the houses at 4, 5, and 6 Tulip Street, Edward realized Ince Zangwill had targeted him in retaliation for the leaflets.

• Edward heard Mr. Door repeatedly shout, “Don’t save me,” but suffered no pain or loss of control.
• Edward prepared the Assassin Potion and, after bribing Lilith with dried fish, got her to drink it without any immediate reaction.
• Fors endured the ravings, recited the first two lines of the Fool’s prayer, and worried that she had attracted the god’s attention.
• Klein responded to Fors’s prayer above the gray fog and recognized that she had called out to him.
• Lilith woke Edward by biting his ear, and he escaped with her just before a fireball destroyed three houses on Tulip Street.
• Edward concluded that Ince Zangwill had used the Quill to make a meteor fall in retaliation for Edward’s leaflets.

Edward and Klein investigated the meteorite that nearly killed Edward and learned that Steven Green and Priscilla had survived because Priscilla’s pendant summoned a protective skeleton. A diary found at Lanevus’s residence suggested the True Creator had written an entry about finding someone in Tingen, and Edward suspected that person was him.

• Ince Zangwill wrote that his meteorite attack would make Edward back down, while Edward discovered that a skeleton had protected Steven Green and Priscilla from the impact.
• At the hospital, Steven told Edward and Klein that his late wife had belonged to the Numinous Episcopate and had left Priscilla the pendant that protected them.
• Edward and Klein discussed Ince’s increasingly reckless attacks, and Leonard reported a carriage accident and a delay in the Holy Cathedral’s reinforcements.
• Leonard gave Klein Lanevus’s diary, whose entries described Lanevus’s loss of control and search for a key in Tingen.
• Edward identified the diary’s unusual entry as likely written by the True Creator and said its call to find someone might refer to him.

Edward pursued the Numinous Episcopate kidnappers to rescue Priscilla but was delayed by a dangerous Sealed Artifact and its summoned skeleton. Meanwhile, Klein and Leonard learned the Blackthorn Security Company was in danger and returned to find Mayor Dennis leaving Captain Dunn’s office in anger.

• Steven told Edward, Klein, and Leonard that the Numinous Episcopate had abducted Priscilla, and Edward left to pursue them while ordering the others to stay put.
• Klein divined that returning to the company was dangerous, then he and Leonard hurried there after concluding Captain Dunn and the others were in danger.
• Edward followed Priscilla’s shattered pendant to the city outskirts, where a skeletal figure attacked him with powerful abilities.
• Lilith interrupted the summoning by bringing Edward a bone, causing the skeletal figure to vanish; Edward defeated the remaining Numinous Episcopate members and continued toward Tingen.
• Klein and Leonard reached the Blackthorn Security Company as Mayor Dennis left Captain Dunn’s office angrily after asking about the Meteorite Fall Incident.

Klein warned Dunn and Leonard that Tingen City was in danger just as the supposedly dead Lanevus returned and demanded the key. Meanwhile, Edward interrupted the Numinous Episcopate's ritual to revive the God of Death through Priscilla, and Azik stopped her transformation before Edward could escape.

• Klein urged Dunn to evacuate everyone and retrieve the Sealed Artifacts, but Lanevus emerged from the mayor's carriage and demanded the key as the scene shattered under a godlike aura.
• Edward and Lilith tracked Priscilla to a forest, where the Numinous Episcopate performed a Spirit Dance around a coffin.
• Priscilla emerged from the coffin with illusory wings as the cultists proclaimed the God of Death had returned.
• Edward attacked the cultists with spells, and the Black-Robed Man summoned a gate that unleashed an army of undead.
• Edward burned the undead and damaged the Black-Robed Man, but Priscilla's scream caused feathers to grow from Edward and the cult leader.
• Azik appeared, stopped Priscilla's transformation, and caught her as she fell; Edward asked whether she was safe.

Edward found Klein and Dunn apparently dead at the ruined Blackthorn Security Company, stunned Leonard, and escaped with Azik. He then traveled back two hours with a Time-Turner and a Portkey, leaving Klein and Leonard on their way to the company as they learned Ince Zangwill's Quill threatened the Nighthawks.

• Azik rescued Priscilla from losing control, then received a message that Klein was in danger.
• Edward and Azik found Klein and Dunn apparently dead at the ruined Blackthorn Security Company, while Leonard was alive and grieving.
• Edward stunned Leonard, left with Azik, and searched the ruins for traces of Ince Zangwill before vanishing.
• Edward restored 5 Tulip Street, traveled to Backlund, and used a Time-Turner to go back two hours before Portkeying to Tingen.
• Klein showed Leonard the leaflet about Ince Zangwill and the Quill, and Pallez warned Leonard to flee Tingen.
• Leonard and Klein decided to return to the company and evacuate everyone.

Klein and the Nighthawks prepared to confront Lanevus after his attack on the Blackthorn Security Company, while Edward tracked down Ince Zangwill and attacked him. The chapter ended with Edward facing Ince as the Nighthawks remained in danger.

• Klein warned Captain Dunn that the company was in grave danger, and Dunn ordered an evacuation as Lanevus returned.
• Klein sent Azik a plea for help and used a Flaring Sun Charm against Lanevus, but Lanevus survived and Klein retreated toward the Chanis Gate.
• Dunn and Leonard returned with Sealed Artifacts, and Klein chose the Death Door and took Edward’s ancient key.
• Edward sent the Black Bird to watch over the company and then used its vision to locate Ince Zangwill.
• Ince wrote events into the Quill’s story, including that Klein would lure Lanevus through the Death Door, before Edward attacked him.
• Ince summoned undead and struck at Edward, who defended himself with black flames.

Edward fought Ince Zangwill with explosive magic and a lightning trap, but Ince escaped into the Spirit World after losing his quill-holding hand. Edward then returned to the Blackthorn Security Company, where he knocked Leonard unconscious and faced Dunn and Klein.

• Edward used Christine's notebook and a powerful explosion against Ince, then lured lightning down on him with Walkmans playing chants to Leodero.
• Ince escaped the lightning through the Spirit World and tried to rewrite events, but Edward's repeated Walkmans drew another strike that severed his right hand and quill.
• A Spirit World creature carried the quill to Backlund, where an unidentified woman picked it up.
• Edward's messenger rescued Dunn, Leonard, and Klein from the underground ruins and said Edward had gone after Ince Zangwill.
• Edward returned wearing Emlyn's face, stunned Leonard with Stupefy, and told Dunn and Klein it was really him.

Edward faked Klein and Dunn’s deaths after Lanevus was destroyed, then escaped toward Tingen. A Saint of the Aurora Order attacked him, but Mr. A intervened, giving Edward a chance to flee as they fought.

• Edward used the Walkmans to call down lightning that destroyed Lanevus and the True Creator’s divinity within him.
• Edward disguised two captured Numinous Episcopate members as Klein and Dunn, staged their deaths, and left Leonard unconscious beside the scene.
• Edward and Azik returned, and Leonard woke to find the apparent bodies of Klein and Dunn before Edward knocked him unconscious again.
• Edward fully digested the Trickmaster potion and realized he could advance to Sequence 7 Astrologer.
• A black-robed Aurora Order Saint stopped Edward’s Portkey and nearly killed him, but Mr. A rescued him and claimed the True Creator had ordered him to bring Edward back.
• Edward ran while Mr. A and the Saint began fighting.

Edward remained stranded in the Spirit World after Black Bird rescued him, while Audrey feared he was missing and learned from Mr. Fool that he was safe but unable to attend the Tarot Club. The chapter ended with Edward testing Ravenclaw's Diadem and Black Bird asking him for five sticks.

• Mr. A blocked Botis's attacks, and Black Bird dragged the wounded Edward into the Spirit World before Botis could finish him.
• Audrey worried over Edward's disappearance, then relaxed when Mr. Fool confirmed that Mr. Tower was safe but could not attend the gathering.
• Mr. Fool suggested that the Tarot Club use the sacrificial ritual Derrick had previously described to transfer Alger's materials to Audrey.
• Edward explored the silent Spirit World ruins, failed to reach Sefirah Castle, and learned that the Ravenclaw's Diadem had gained Beyonder abilities after absorbing a wisp of white fog.
• Edward tested the diadem's Quick Thinking ability and discovered that wearing it made him answer every question.
• Black Bird woke, explained that it had collapsed from exhaustion, and asked Edward for five sticks.

Edward returned from the Spirit World and reunited with Lilith, who had learned to speak and proved unexpectedly mischievous. He prayed to The Fool to explain his absence and report that the Aurora Order was pursuing him, while Klein listened Above the Gray Fog.

• Edward gave Black Bird two Phoenix Feather-core wands and promised to provide the remaining three, plus one extra, before it sent him back.
• Lilith greeted Edward after waiting five days, and he fed her and learned that Susie had taught her to talk.
• Lilith disrupted Edward's ritual preparations, then slipped out of the house and traveled by carriage and subway.
• Edward prayed to Mr. Fool, apologized for missing the Tarot Club gathering, and described being rescued by Mr. A after a Saint of the Aurora Order attacked him.
• Klein received Edward's prayer Above the Gray Fog and worried that Edward's dealings with Saints and the True Creator far exceeded his own circumstances.

Edward returned from the Spirit World and reunited with Audrey, who told him about her new Sequence and recent Tarot Club developments. After hearing about Edward’s dangerous encounters with the True Creator, they discussed how he could stay safe, and Edward prepared to trade for potion ingredients with Alger.

• Audrey secretly watched Susie teach Lilith to speak and learned that Susie had helped Lilith practice.
• Mr. Fool told Audrey that Mr. Tower had returned, and she hurried to visit Edward.
• Audrey emerged from Edward’s Leather Pouch, confirmed he was safe, and shared that she had become a Sequence 8 Telepathist while Susie had also advanced to Sequence 8.
• Edward told Audrey about his recent encounters in the Spirit World, including the True Creator’s descent, and worried that the True Creator could find him again.
• Audrey advised Edward that the True Creator might not see him unless Mr. A did, while Edward warned her not to trust an evil god’s apparent friendliness.
• Edward asked Audrey to stand watch while he took his potion, then prayed to Mr. Fool to arrange a trade with Alger, who was summoned from his ship.