Chapter Summaries

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.

Edward learned from Bernadette that the King of Intis was the man in the portrait and considered how to retaliate against him. Bernadette described the king’s behavior at a banquet, then asked Edward to take her to see merpeople, but he said he had important business.

• Bernadette accused Edward of frightening her with an illusion and tried to bargain for a trip to see merpeople by arguing that quick learners deserved to rest.
• Edward recognized the man in the portrait as the King of Intis after Bernadette revealed that she had seen him at a banquet with her parents.
• Edward considered the king’s role in the Twilight Hermit Order and wondered how to take revenge on someone so powerful.
• Edward asked Bernadette about the king’s personality, and she recalled that he had warmly praised her father’s inventions, granted him a noble title, and remained quiet at the banquet.
• Edward gave Bernadette a fairy-tale doll as a reward, but declined her request to go to sea because he had important business.

Edward took Bernadette sightseeing around the Sonia Sea ports while searching for clues to the Abraham family, then questioned Medici about Mr. Door and his honorific name. Medici recognized Bethel but exposed Edward’s attempt to learn more, leaving Edward without the information he sought.

• Edward reviewed a detailed coastline map, decided to search the Sonia Sea ports for Abraham descendants, and took Bernadette to visit them.
• Bernadette enjoyed exploring Constant City and the resupply islands, including eating Bansy blood pudding, then wondered how her father was doing.
• Roselle found a treasure map aboard the Black Throne, changed course toward an unnamed island, and declared his ambitions to discover the Western Continent and circumnavigate the globe.
• Edward visited Medici and learned that Tudor’s seal confined Medici and prevented his actions from affecting the outside world.
• Edward claimed that Mr. Door was the being behind his honorific name, and Medici recognized Bethel while questioning Edward’s motives.
• Medici offered Edward Beyonder formulas, but Edward declined and asked about Bethel’s current condition and Door Uniqueness.

Edward used the Brass Rod to draw out Medici’s hidden knowledge and discovered it could let Medici’s voice pass through his seal. After Medici recited Bethel’s honorific name, Edward summoned him to Sefirah Castle, where Medici questioned Edward’s identity.

• Edward used the Brass Rod to let Medici speak through the sealed gate and learned the final line of Bethel’s honorific name: “the Key to All Mystical Worlds.”
• Edward suspected the rod had been planted by Intis and might be part of the Russian Priest’s scheme, then told Medici that it belonged to Adam.
• Medici recited the three-part honorific name Edward had given him, apparently trying to summon the being behind Edward, and Edward vanished with the Brass Rod.
• Inside Sefirah Castle, Edward used the red star to summon Medici and suppressed the two other mouths on Medici’s cheeks.
• Medici refused to sit and asked the obscured figure at the head of the table who he was.

Edward summoned Medici to Sefirah Castle, probed his situation, and invited him to a future gathering. Meanwhile, Marcia reported that Young Zaratul had taken an item from her, prompting the woman in the black dress to seek him out and investigate Tarik.

• Edward forced Medici to sit, questioned him about the City of Calamity and Lilith, and invited him to an upcoming gathering.
• Medici returned to the Underground Palace and discussed Edward with Sauron and Einhorn, wondering who he was and what he wanted.
• Marcia told the woman in the black dress that an old man had taken the item she retrieved from Mr. F at the Aurora Order.
• The woman in the black dress identified the old man as Young Zaratul and decided to speak with him in person.
• The woman in the black dress told Marcia to find out what had happened to Tarik, who had not contacted her in over a week.

Edward sought gemstones and a way to find an Extraordinary Gathering while Henry agreed to rent 7 Rose Street, and Audrey began investigating the connection between Edward and Klein. In Pritz Harbor, Fors advanced to Sequence 7 Astrologer under Dorian’s guidance.

• A woman in a black dress and her mother decided to find Zaratul and question him before choosing whether to follow their original plan.
• Edward asked Dubois to gather every kind of gemstone before the next full moon and to look for an Extraordinary Gathering in Trier.
• Henry returned to rent 7 Rose Street, and Edward authorized Dubois to sign the agreement on his behalf.
• Audrey wondered whether Klein had a connection to another world and resolved to stop waiting passively for clues about Edward’s disappearance.
• Dorian gave Fors the Astrologer potion, and she advanced to Sequence 7 before receiving his notes on acting.