Chapter Summaries

Priscilla briefly opened the Underworld gate and trapped the Medici Trinity, while Edward escaped with the Red Priest Card and sacrificed it to Mr. Fool. Klein added the card to his collection alongside the Black Emperor Card, and Edward realized he had overlooked something after returning home.

• Priscilla opened the Underworld gate, and the Medici Trinity tried to flee before being pulled back inside.
• Edward returned to his villa with the Red Priest Card, and Lilith tried to bite it because it smelled delicious to her.
• Edward prayed to Mr. Fool and offered him the Red Priest Card, explaining that he had taken it from an evil spirit in an underground palace.
• Klein accepted the card and told Edward he could borrow it, along with the Black Emperor Card, whenever he wished.
• Klein examined the Red Priest Card and placed it beside the Black Emperor Card, noting that the Tarot Club now held two complete divine pathways.
• After sacrificing the card to Sefirah Castle, Edward remembered something he had been overlooking.

Edward sent a membership application to the Twilight Hermit Order and learned from Christine that Verdu was seeking the Abraham Family's Ancestor and a way to lift the family curse. He suspected Amon had misled Verdu about the Sunken Laurel, while the Twilight Hermit Order prepared to demand that he rescue Mr. Door.

• Edward sent a message to the Twilight Hermit Order asking what he needed to do to join, and the priest instructed the Order to tell him to rescue Mr. Door.
• Amon discovered that the priest at the Corpse Cathedral was only an imagined avatar and called for a Group Amon Vote.
• Edward sent Christine a letter asking about Verdu and whether he had worn a monocle.
• Lilith asked the Messenger Bird how to grow bigger, and it told her to eat feathers.
• Christine replied that Verdu was a childhood friend obsessed with restoring the Abraham Family and finding its Ancestor, but she believed someone had misled him about the Sunken Laurel.
• Edward suspected Amon was behind Verdu's belief and wondered why Amon was using the Sunken Laurel as part of the scheme.

Edward received a Twilight Hermit Order task to rescue Mr. Door, then discussed the assignment with Bernadette, who delivered Botis's Secrets Sorcerer Beyonder characteristic. The chapter left Edward asking her for Botis's corpse or proof of his death.

• Edward warned Christine that the Sunken Laurel might be connected to a terrifying angel and asked the Messenger Bird to ask Bernadette about Botis.
• Edward visited the Orilan Coffee Shop, where the blond man refused to let him join the Twilight Hermit Order until he completed a task to rescue Mr. Door.
• Edward suspected that the task was meant to lead him to the Sunken Laurel and clues about rescuing Mr. Door.
• Bernadette joined Edward at the coffee shop, explained what Emperor Roselle had told her about Mr. Door, and gave Edward Botis's Secrets Sorcerer Beyonder characteristic.
• Edward thanked Bernadette and asked her for Botis's corpse or other proof of his death.

Edward traded stories and Roselle’s diary translations with Bernadette, who reflected on her father’s broken promise before leaving the café. Lilith’s unexpected reading skills and Edward’s tale of Pinocchio ended the meeting with a joke about his nose.

• Bernadette gave Edward the Apprentice Pathway formulas and the Polymath Beyonder Characteristic in exchange for three stories, and asked him to translate Roselle’s diary pages.
• Edward translated Roselle’s memories of Bernadette’s birthday, omitting the references to transmigration, and Bernadette said her father had broken a promise to her.
• Lilith showed that she could read some Rosellean and recited Classical Chinese lines, offering bizarre interpretations that Edward later promised to correct.
• Edward told Bernadette and Lilith the story of Pinocchio, and Bernadette warned Edward that liars’ noses grew longer before she left.
• Lilith teased Edward that his nose had grown, leaving him unsure whether Bernadette had used Mystical Reenactment or Lilith was fooling him.

Klein refused Talim’s commission to investigate Prince Edessak, though he kept the payment and divined that the work carried some danger. At the Tarot Club, Fors joined as Miss Magician, Klein read new pages from Roselle’s diary, and the members learned that the Fool possessed two Cards of Blasphemy.

• Talim offered Klein 200 Pounds to find out how his friend Edessak Augustus, the fifth child of the King of Loen, was doing, but Klein refused the commission.
• After Talim left, Klein divined the commission and found that it involved some danger, then prepared for the Tarot Club gathering.
• Klein introduced Fors as Miss Magician, and the members greeted her while she tried to understand the gathering and its members.
• Edward and Audrey submitted pages from Roselle’s diary, and Klein read Edward’s account of Roselle finding a diary left by a suspected transmigrator.
• Alger asked about the two cards on the table, and Klein identified them as the Black Emperor Card and the Red Priest Card, offered by World and The Tower.
• Audrey explained the Cards of Blasphemy and Roselle’s Notes to Fors, who was stunned by the Tarot Club’s knowledge and resources.

At the Tarot Club, Fors learned more about its members and discovered that Edward was notorious among pirates and had even provoked a Church of Storms Saint. The meeting ended with Priscilla naming the three arguing voices she wanted to quiet: Medici, Einhorn, and Sauron.

• Priscilla sold Fors the acting method for 200 pounds, and Edward offered to sell her the Apprentice Pathway's Sequence 7 Astrologer formula for 800 to 1,000 pounds.
• Alger told the Tarot Club that Edward had burned pirate ships and helped hunt down Seniors, the Admiral of Blood, while Edward denied setting the fire and said he had only assisted in the hunt.
• Alger revealed that Edward had hijacked a Loen warship after attacking Bayam's Governor's Mansion and had provoked Jahn Kottman, a Sequence 3 Saint; Fors feared she had joined a terrorist organization.
• Edward agreed to buy a one-use-per-day damage-substitution Beyonder Characteristic for 7,800 pounds, while Audrey renewed her requests for Mirror Dragon eyes, Elder Tree Fruit, and a Spectator Sequence 6 formula.
• The World asked the members to look for ingredients for his advancement to Sequence 6, and Priscilla asked how to make three quarrelsome people live peacefully together.
• Priscilla named the three as Medici, Einhorn, and Sauron, and Edward realized that they had succeeded in coming together.

At the Tarot Club, Edward revealed that Priscilla was a Sequence 5 Gatekeeper housing an evil spirit formed from three fallen angels, while Derrick sought advice on bringing hope and supplies to the City of Silver. After the gathering, Klein found that Priscilla lingered briefly above the gray fog, but his divinations showed no invasion or plot; he then returned to reality, where Lilith greeted Edward.

• Edward explained that Priscilla housed the combined evil spirit of the Medici, Einhorn, and Sauron angels, and Priscilla confirmed she was a Sequence 5 Gatekeeper.
• Edward warned that the scheming spirit might have a plan, but Klein reassured Priscilla that she could pray to him if she faced danger.
• Derrick asked how to help the City of Silver without arousing the Chief’s suspicions, and Edward advised him to reveal only a little to the Chief at first.
• After Klein ended the gathering, Priscilla remained briefly above the gray fog, alarming him; his divinations indicated that no one had invaded and that the spirit had no plot.
• Klein returned to reality, where Lilith greeted Edward at the villa in Empress Borough.

Edward visited Priscilla and discovered that the Medici Trinity had become a spirit under her control, while Medici blamed Adam for setting him up. In the City of Silver, Derrick prepared to use an upcoming expedition as an opportunity to report what he knew to the Chief.

• Lilith agreed to return to Hogwarts with Edward and asked to bring Susie along.
• Edward and Mr. Azik learned that the Medici Trinity was subordinate to Priscilla and could barely disobey her.
• Medici accused Adam of setting him up, while Edward wondered whether his presence in Loen would bring war earlier than expected.
• Mr. Azik recognized Medici but admitted he felt reluctant to recover his old memories.
• Dack told Derrick that Elder Lovia was assembling a team to explore the underground section of the Half-Ruined Temple, and Derrick planned to use the expedition to explain how he had contacted an existence to the Chief.
• Lovia asked Derrick whether the Asman's Brain he had taken earlier had been useful and offered to help if he needed anything else.

Edward finished digesting his Astrologer potion, received a technology shopping list from the Evernight Goddess, and prepared to return to the Harry Potter World for Christmas. He brewed and drank the Bookworm potion, then regained control of his body as Sequence 6 and learned how to use the Scribe ability.

• Edward prepared Christmas gifts for Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Snape, Grindelwald, Cedric, and his other friends while Audrey chose gifts for her friends.
• Arianna delivered the Evernight Goddess's list of electrical equipment, food, energy technology, and nuclear fusion principles, then asked Edward to divine whether the future still held hope.
• Edward's divination with Arianna completed the digestion of his Astrologer potion, and he promised Lilith a chance to instigate a ship full of pirates so she could digest her potion faster.
• Edward and Audrey brewed the Bookworm potion after Edward confirmed with a coin divination that drinking it would advance him to Sequence 6.
• Edward drank the potion, endured his body and brain transforming, and recovered with new knowledge of the Scribe ability.

Edward opened the mysterious door during his advancement and glimpsed a river watched by a scythe-bearing figure, then Hogwarts Castle. He became a Sequence 6 Bookworm, but his fear that someone had arranged his existence nearly drove him to lose control; afterward, he considered how to digest Scribe and meet the next advancement ritual.

• Edward pushed open the door in the starry sky and saw a rushing river, a red-eyed figure with a scythe, and Hogwarts Castle before the door slammed shut.
• Edward advanced to Sequence 6 Bookworm, learned about [Record] and [Bookworm Moth], and used [Delusion] to gain [Different Paths to the Same Destination].
• Edward realized the Bookworm Potion had been instantly digested because he genuinely believed the worlds of Harry Potter and Lord of the Mysteries were real.
• Edward feared he might be a contingency for a powerful being's resurrection and began showing signs of losing control; Audrey soothed him until he recovered, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Edward examined his new abilities and concluded that recording abilities he borrowed with [Bookworm Moth] could help digest Scribe.
• Edward realized the Wandering Mentor ritual required Special Coordinates in four different worlds and wondered where he could find them.

Audrey recovered at Edward’s home and discussed acting as a Psychiatrist, while Edward asked Klein to arrange several purchases after advancing to Sequence 6. Klein was then hired by Prince Edessak to investigate Talim Dumont’s death, and Edward continued preparing to teach magic and Beyonder knowledge in different worlds.

• Audrey woke at Edward’s home, washed up, and told him that her spirituality had recovered and she had digested more of her potion.
• Edward and Audrey discussed Psychiatrist acting, including treating students at Hogwarts and possibly prisoners in Azkaban, before Audrey asked him to recount his experiences as a mental patient.
• Klein received Edward’s request to buy potion ingredients, a Shepherd Beyonder characteristic, and low-sequence formulas and ingredients for every pathway, then relayed it to the Tarot Club.
• A butler told Klein that Talim Dumont had died while eloping with a maid and invited him on behalf of Prince Edessak to find her and learn what happened.
• Edward told his contacts he wanted low-sequence formulas and ingredients as preparations for the Wandering Mentor’s Different Paths to the Same Destination, while weighing whether to teach magic in the Lord of Mysteries World.

Edward and Audrey returned to Hogwarts after obtaining the Black Emperor Card, and found that Dumbledore was considering a run for Minister for Magic. They learned that Fudge had sent Dementors to the school to undermine Dumbledore, while Dumbledore welcomed them back and asked about their journey.

• Edward discovered that this crossing would last only twenty-eight days, despite his advancement to Sequence 6.
• Lilith welcomed Susie to Hogwarts and claimed Britain was a hidden country, though Susie saw through the lie.
• Edward and Audrey found a leaflet announcing an early Minister for Magic election and Dumbledore's candidacy.
• Edward and Audrey overheard Dumbledore and Snape discussing the election and Fudge's use of Dementors at Hogwarts.
• Snape left to deal with the Dementor situation, and Dumbledore invited Edward and Audrey to sit and share what they had learned.

Edward told Dumbledore about his new strength, potion-based abilities, and Obscurus Animagus form, then discussed training trustworthy allies and controlling dark magic. Dumbledore planned to lure Voldemort out with the Philosopher’s Stone and asked Edward to help protect children if danger arose.

• Edward gave Dumbledore the formulas and ingredients for the Melee Scholar and Warlock potions and asked whom he should teach.
• Dumbledore suggested trusted members of the Order of the Phoenix, including Hogwarts professors, and said Grindelwald might also be considered.
• Dumbledore learned that Lilith was an Assassin and Susie a Spectator, and was shocked that Lilith might become human after advancing.
• Edward described his Obscurus Animagus form and admitted using dark magic; Dumbledore advised him to learn from Grindelwald and Snape how to master it.
• Dumbledore revealed his plan to use the Philosopher’s Stone to draw Voldemort out and asked Edward to help children in danger.

Edward and Audrey encountered Dementors outside Hogwarts, where Snape drove them off with the Patronus Charm. Back at school, Edward gave Cedric a luck-blessed coin and learned about recent events, including Dark Warlocks who escaped Dumbledore.

• Edward shielded Audrey from two Dementors and used a spell to ground them while Snape drove them away with the Patronus Charm.
• Audrey promised to learn the Patronus Charm and protect Edward next time, then returned to the Slytherin dormitories.
• Edward tried to divine whether Voldemort was behind the Dementors but got no answer, then headed to the Hufflepuff Common Room.
• Edward reunited with Cedric and gave him a luck-blessed gold coin, warning him that a matter of life and death lay ahead.
• Cedric told Edward that Dumbledore was running for Minister for Magic, a magic academy would visit Hogwarts, and Dark Warlocks had escaped despite Dumbledore's intervention.

Edward returned to Hogwarts and caught up with Cedric, while Audrey became curious about Malfoy’s hidden secret. At dinner, the Weasley brothers asked Edward to predict Dumbledore’s ministerial campaign, and Lilith revealed she had caused Dementors to attack one another.

• Cedric told Edward he wanted to learn to fly freely, and Edward said he was waiting for a storm to complete his Animagus transformation.
• Audrey returned to the Slytherin Common Room, noticed Malfoy trying to avoid her, and resolved to use her Psychiatrist abilities to uncover his secret.
• The Weasley brothers asked Edward to divine whether Dumbledore would become Minister for Magic, and Edward agreed to keep watch for a result.
• Lilith told Edward she had taken revenge for him and Audrey by inciting Dementors to fight and kill one another.
• Harry greeted Edward in the Great Hall, but declined his invitation to sit with the Hufflepuffs.

After returning, Edward reconciled with Harry and resumed classes, while Dumbledore devised a cover story for the Dementors’ deaths and Grindelwald reflected on his renewed relationship with Albus. Edward began recording wizarding history and planned to visit Godric’s Hollow, as the Dementors disappeared from Hogwarts and Audrey approached him.

• Edward assured Harry that they were friends and promised to give him a present at Christmas or sooner.
• Dumbledore drafted an account claiming Hogwarts had discovered a new way to kill Dementors and sent Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans to Grindelwald.
• Grindelwald told his visitor how he had spent decades isolated in Nurmengard, then explained that Albus’s visit and gifts had made his life better.
• Edward listened to Professor Binns’s History of Magic lecture and explained to Cedric that he was recording wizarding history before visiting places in person.
• Edward told Cedric he might visit Godric’s Hollow first, and they noticed the Dementors were gone as students held a snowball fight.
• Audrey approached Edward and Cedric as they reached the ground floor.

Professor McGonagall asked Edward to cover some of her Transfiguration lessons, while Snape put Audrey and her classmates through a frightening practical lesson on Boggarts. The class continued facing their fears, with no student yet earning Snape’s promised twenty points.

• Professor McGonagall asked Edward to teach some first- through third-year Transfiguration lessons, and he agreed.
• Audrey joined Hermione, Harry, Ron, and Malfoy for Snape’s Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, where Snape summoned a Boggart that took his own form to frighten Neville.
• Snape explained that the Boggart took the shape of each person’s deepest fear and ordered students to fight it without using the Riddikulus spell.
• Parvati faced a bloodstained mummy and cast several spells in panic, but Snape sent the Boggart back into the cabinet before it could reach her.
• Snape called up Goyle, Dean, Crabbe, and other students, whose fears varied and whose attempts to fight the Boggarts had mixed results.

During Snape’s Boggart lesson, Harry, Audrey, and Malfoy faced their fears, and Snape warned the students to learn to defend themselves. Audrey asked Snape to teach her the Patronus Charm to help Edward, then Hermione revealed that she and Audrey had entered the forbidden fourth-floor corridor.

• Seamus blasted the Boggart and cabinet with an explosive spell, earning twenty points for Gryffindor.
• Harry faced a Voldemort-like Boggart and cast Expelliarmus, earning one point from Snape.
• Audrey calmly sent a Boggart version of herself back into the cabinet.
• Malfoy faced a Boggart that appeared as his father and threatened to disown him, leaving him shaken.
• Snape warned the students that they had to learn to defend themselves against Dark Warlocks, and Audrey asked him to teach her the Patronus Charm so she could help Edward.
• Hermione told Audrey that they had accidentally entered the forbidden fourth-floor corridor at night.

Hermione told Audrey that a three-headed dog was guarding something connected to Nicolas Flamel and the Philosopher’s Stone, while the Trio suspected Snape of trying to steal it. Edward arrived as the substitute Transfiguration teacher and began class by jokingly awarding and deducting House points, before Audrey asked how students could learn Transfiguration well.

• Hermione told Audrey and the Trio that Hagrid had revealed the three-headed dog guarded something connected to Nicolas Flamel, the known maker of the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Audrey questioned the Trio’s suspicion that Snape had tried to steal the Stone and advised them to bring their concerns to Dumbledore.
• Malfoy shouted at Slytherins who spread rumors about his family, and Harry tried to defend him while Audrey pointed out Malfoy’s own insults toward others.
• Edward entered the Transfiguration classroom as Professor McGonagall’s substitute and introduced himself to the students.
• Edward demonstrated that he could award and deduct House points, then announced the class’s snuffbox transformation exercise.
• Audrey asked Edward what students should do to learn Transfiguration well.

Edward taught his Transfiguration class that belief and emotion helped spells succeed, then demonstrated how one incantation could produce many transformations. After class, he and Audrey sought out the Grey Lady, who recognized Ravenclaw’s Diadem and sensed an aura from another world.

• Edward explained that Transfiguration depended on belief and emotion, and he transformed Harry into Ron to demonstrate its range.
• Hermione, Audrey, Goyle, Harry, and eight other students successfully transformed their snuffboxes and earned house points.
• Edward asked Audrey why Malfoy had seemed distracted, and she recounted Harry’s comment about bloodlines during Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Edward and Audrey went to Ravenclaw Tower to interview Helena about Hogwarts Castle.
• Helena saw Ravenclaw’s Diadem and exclaimed that it carried an aura from another world.