Chapter Summaries

Edward completed the ritual to advance to Sequence 2 by making the well-known fact that he was Sefirah Castle’s master become false, but using [Lunatic on the Right] without Sefirah Castle’s help began draining his life. He left Sefirah Castle to seek advancement before the loss of vitality killed him.

• Amon took control of Sefirah Castle, but Edward reversed the change and Sefirah Castle rejected Amon.
• Amon found himself in the Astral World, where he encountered the Primordial Demoness, Cheek.
• Edward realized that making his mastery of Sefirah Castle false had completed his Sequence 2 ritual.
• Edward recalled how he had manipulated Amon into taking Sefirah Castle so he could reverse the event and fulfill the ritual.
• As his vitality continued to drain, Edward left Sefirah Castle to advance to Sequence 2.

Edward advanced to Sequence 2, becoming an Angel called a Fantasist, while his dwindling vitality and unstable humanity left him with only days to live. He learned his new abilities and the Sequence 1 Constructer ritual, which required him to construct a real, complete world.

• Edward asked the Earth Mother to shatter the Attendant of Mysteries Beyonder Characteristic, then offered it to her as a token of thanks.
• Edward prepared the Sequence 2 potion with the Planeswalker and Miracle Invoker Beyonder Characteristics and the Cowardly Trio's worms, then drank it.
• During his transformation, Edward realized that a Deconstruction Scholar deconstructed the essence of things and suspected that his earlier potion digestion had depended on truths connected to the Oldest One.
• Edward recovered as a Sequence 2 Angel, but his fading vitality and diminishing humanity struggled to balance each other, leaving him unable to live or die easily.
• Edward received the Sequence 2 Fantasist abilities, including Door, Record, and Fantasy, and learned that advancing to Sequence 1 required constructing a real, complete world.

Edward entered the Mirror World by using [Fantasy] to make a passage through its barrier and followed a divining rod through shifting scenes until he found himself in a modern university setting. There he discovered Lilith as a black cat by a lake, but she remained asleep as he called to her.

• Edward decided that finding Lilith in the Mirror World was his priority and used [Fantasy] to create a passage through the barrier.
• Edward entered the silent Mirror World and followed a dowsing rod as the surroundings changed from familiar streets and Hogwarts Castle to a modern city.
• Edward found himself appearing as Zhang San on a university basketball court, resisted the false memories, and asked the players about Lilith.
• Edward used the dowsing rod again and followed it to a lakeside, where he recognized the black cat as Lilith.
• Edward called to Lilith and reached out to pick her up, but she closed her eyes and continued napping.

Edward found Lilith in the form of a black cat and encountered a student named Amanises, who asked him to help her comatose friend, Li Li. At Li Li’s hospital bedside, Edward discovered that she was also connected to Lilith and began to suspect that her memories before the accident had been implanted.

• Edward recognized the black cat as Lilith, subdued her when she resisted, and tried to take her away.
• Amanises and two roommates confronted Edward, but he silenced them and used Legilimency to inspect Amanises’s memories.
• After learning that Amanises’s friend Lily had been in a coma since a car accident, Edward teleported the group to the hospital.
• The black cat approached Li Li and rubbed against her, while Edward’s divination confirmed that Li Li was also Lilith.
• Edward examined Li Li’s memories and realized that the memories after her accident remained dark, suggesting her earlier memories might have been implanted.

Edward awakened Li Li by lighting up a memory, but she rejected the identity of Lilith and unleashed darkness that swallowed him. He escaped into an alternate reality where Li Li ruled as the Dark Lord, and joined Amanises on her way to meet Harry Potter and the resistance.

• Li Li awoke confused, recognized Edward's name, and suffered from conflicting memories of Li Li and Lilith.
• People in the hospital insisted Lilith was false, and Li Li unleashed darkness that swallowed Edward after his powers failed.
• Someone pulled Edward from the darkness, and a blonde girl named Amanises told him that Dark Lord Li Li ruled Europe's Wizarding World.
• Edward recalled that Li Li had killed Dumbledore, seized power, and conquered much of Europe's wizarding world, while he was Zhang San, a Hogwarts fugitive.
• Amanises led Edward through a hidden entrance to the resistance's meeting place, where Harry Potter planned to destroy Li Li's final Horcrux.

Edward, known as Zhang San, was caught in a failed attempt to kill Dark Lord Li Li and then awakened at a meeting about a plan to assassinate the Lord that Created Everything. He realized he had been chosen to help carry out the plan, but was immediately asked whether he supported it.

• Amanises attacked Harry Potter, and Snape died shielding him as the resistance discovered her and Edward had apparently betrayed them.
• Edward switched sides to join Li Li, but Amanises attacked Li Li's black cat and was killed; Edward then accidentally struck the cat with a Killing Curse while under the Imperius Curse.
• Li Li unleashed blue-black flames that killed Harry, Edward, and everyone else present.
• Edward awoke at a meeting where Medici objected to Amanises attending and challenged Zhang San over a plan to assassinate the Lord that Created Everything.
• Edward remembered that Li Li had recruited trusted Kings of Angel and Subordinate Deities for Rose Redemption, and that he had been selected to participate.

Edward woke the Lord, who appeared as a black cat, and escorted him out to face the assembled gods. After Li Li stabbed the Lord, Edward lost his memories and found a freezing black kitten in the rain.

• Li Li turned Medici to stone when he refused to join the assassination, and assigned Edward the task of waking the Lord.
• Edward entered the Giant King's Court and found the Lord sleeping in the form of a black cat.
• The Lord told Edward that humanity no longer needed gods and agreed to leave the world to them.
• Edward led the Lord out of the Court, where Li Li stabbed him amid a coordinated attack and Edward felt his memories being stripped away.
• Edward found himself alone on a rain-soaked street with no memories and rescued a frail black kitten from under dead branches.

Edward sheltered from the rain in a stone cottage, where he left a black kitten with a girl before continuing on his way. Memories of a girl named Lilith then resurfaced, and Edward realized the kitten was important to him and turned back despite a surge of pain.

• Edward entered a stone cottage and warmed a black kitten he had rescued, while the girl gave them shelter and milk.
• Edward refused to take the kitten with him and left her in the girl's care once the rain stopped.
• The girl called the kitten Lilith and urged her to give up resisting and become one with Li Li.
• As Edward walked away, a voice and fragments of memories about Lilith returned to him.
• Edward realized he had come to find the kitten and decided to return to the cottage, but a wave of pain nearly made him collapse.

Edward entered the darkness to find Lilith and discovered her as both a black cat and a girl trapped in a peaceful world. He pulled the girl free as a furious face in the sky attacked them and claimed she was an illusion.

• Edward endured agony and crossed the darkness to reach a lake where a black cat was basking.
• Edward learned that the girl beside the cat was Lilith, and she refused to leave the quiet world.
• Edward picked up the cat and persuaded Lilith to come with him, saying that Edward and Lilith should be together.
• Edward struggled to pull Lilith free as the world resisted and began to shake.
• Lilith accused the face in the sky of tearing apart her soul and erasing her memories, while it claimed she was an illusion.
• The face sent black smoke toward Edward and Lilith and ordered Lilith to merge with it, but Edward continued dragging her free.

Edward and Lilith battled the Gorgon in the deepest reaches of the Mirror World, but the Gorgon captured Lilith and began transforming her into Li Li. Just as the Gorgon declared victory, an ancient Silver Mirror appeared in Lilith’s hand with the words “I finally caught you.”

• Lilith shattered the Mirror World’s false scenery and defended Edward from the Gorgon’s attacks as Edward’s memories began to return.
• Edward used [Degradation] to reverse the Gorgon’s catastrophes, then conjured a remembered vision of the Sun to burn her mirror-born forms.
• Edward opened a door to escape, but Lilith shoved him through and stayed behind, using Mirror Substitution to evade the Gorgon.
• The Gorgon deceived Lilith with illusions of Amanises, then trapped her with invisible threads and poured into her body to take her over.
• Lilith became Li Li, but an ancient Silver Mirror appeared in her hand bearing the message, “I finally caught you.”

Edward sacrificed himself to grant Lilith’s wish and escape from the Mirror World, then entered the starry river to choose a memory through which to resurrect. In 1350, Bernadette visited Lilith at her childhood home and asked about Mr. Sparrow, leaving their relationship with Edward unresolved.

• Lilith trapped Li Li and used the Magic Wishing Lamp to request Oldest One characteristics for an arm bone, but Edward returned and made the Genie grant her wish instead.
• Edward’s body collapsed into Star Worms, and Lilith escaped the Mirror World through a door while Arrodes warned that her restraints would soon fail.
• Edward arrived at the river of stars and considered which memory to use for his resurrection and how to find believers to anchor his humanity.
• In 1350, Bernadette visited the abandoned Sparrow villa in Trier and reunited with Lilith, who restored the garden and spoke with her about preserving humanity.
• Bernadette asked where Mr. Sparrow was and whether he was Edward, and Lilith confirmed it before Bernadette asked why they had ended up as they had.

Bernadette learned that Lilith and the first Sparrow she met had traveled back in time, and Lilith confirmed that her father was dead but not quite dead. In Backlund, Klein accepted that he was the Evernight Goddess’s Chosen and entered Saint Samuel Cathedral to retrieve the Antigonus Family Notebook.

• Lilith told Bernadette that she and Sparrow had traveled back in time, then said Bernadette’s father was dead but not quite dead.
• Klein received three marionettes from Miss Empress, including Qonas Kolgo, Admiral Hell Ludwell, and an unfamiliar Beyonder.
• After repeated divinations, Klein went to Saint Samuel Cathedral to investigate Lilith’s claim that he was the Evernight Goddess’s Chosen.
• Bishop Elektra directed Klein to Archbishop Anthony, who recognized him and confirmed that he could retrieve what he wanted.
• Anthony led Klein to Chanis Gate, and Klein entered alone to search the second level for the Antigonus Family Notebook.
• Klein followed a spiritual summons to a half-open room and found the Antigonus Family Notebook on a bone bookshelf.

Klein encountered a mysterious Evernight woman who offered him a faster route to the Seer Pathway formulas, then vanished as she sent him away. In Backlund, Feysac began its air raid, while a flashback showed young Bernadette meeting Lilith, who claimed to be Mr. Sparrow’s daughter.

• Klein found the Antigonus Family Notebook, but an Evernight woman appeared and offered him a more convenient way to obtain the Seer Pathway formulas.
• The woman took the notebook, got Klein to agree to try the faster method, and caused him to vanish.
• Church representatives escorted Earl Hall’s family toward Saint Samuel Cathedral as Feysac airships approached Backlund.
• A Feysac bomb fell on Backlund, and Audrey realized that war had begun.
• In 1160, Bernadette visited Mr. Sparrow’s villa and met Lilith, who introduced herself as his daughter.
• Bernadette became upset as she thought Mr. Sparrow would no longer have time for her.

Lilith and Bernadette chatted while Edward explained that the life-draining cost of [Lunatic on the Right] would kill him for good within three days. He outlined a possible way to resist it, then asked Lilith how she had learned the magic that let her survive, and she began recounting her death and escape.

• Lilith coaxed Bernadette into giving her father nicknames, then sent her away after encouraging her.
• Edward told Lilith that he had resurrected using her memories, but [Lunatic on the Right] was still draining his life and would kill him within three days.
• Edward and Lilith blamed themselves for the dangers they had faced, and Lilith vowed to find a way to save him.
• Edward explained that Sefirah Castle could no longer bear the cost because he had opposed Amon, and said divination had suggested a gentler way to resist it.
• Lilith said she had learned Horcrux Splitting and resurrection magic while studying with Susie at Hogwarts.
• Lilith recalled that Cheek and Adam ambushed her, and that she used Horcrux Splitting at the moment of death to hide inside Cheek's soul.

Lilith explained how she survived Cheek’s attack and used Edward’s bone and the Oldest One’s characteristics to resurrect as a new, stronger version of herself. Edward and Lilith connected the Evernight Goddess’s request to their shared origins and decided the Chaos Sea was key to learning the truth, though Lilith could not accompany him.

• Lilith recounted how she hid a Horcrux in Cheek, survived for millennia, seized some of Cheek’s authority, and gathered the ingredients for resurrection.
• Lilith revealed that she had obtained Edward’s arm bone from the future and combined it with the Oldest One’s characteristics to complete her resurrection.
• Edward congratulated the newly reborn Lilith with a Little Red Flower, and they discussed Sveti and the Angel of Holy Words.
• Lilith said the Evernight Goddess had asked her to retrieve an unknown object from the Forsaken Land of the Gods, as she had asked Edward.
• Edward and Lilith concluded that the Chaos Sea might reveal the truth about “That Person,” and Edward identified a Bronze Gate beneath an abandoned Sanguine castle near Backlund as a possible route there.
• Lilith offered to accompany Edward, but he refused because the Chaos Sea could corrupt her; she then revealed that Adam had promised to help her advance to Red Priest.

Edward confirmed that he could suspend himself in Sefirah Castle to delay his death, then prepared to investigate the secrets Amanises had promised to reveal. He and Lilith reached the ancient castle in Drell Forest, where Edward suspected the entrance to the Chaos Sea lay beneath it.

• Edward promised Lilith he would seek the strength to protect her so she would not have to become a man, and the two made a pinky promise to stay safe.
• Amanises reminded Lilith to fulfill her promise, and Edward agreed to go with her to uncover secrets about himself and That Person.
• Edward returned to Sefirah Castle and used divination to confirm he could imitate the Celestial Worthy's method of suspending remnants, using the Curtain to delay his death.
• At the Roselle family villa, Roselle worried about his coming military service, while Bernadette returned from Klein's home and demanded money from him.
• Edward and Lilith arrived at the vine-covered ancient castle in Drell Forest, where Lilith identified it as Olnia's former abode and Edward suspected the Chaos Sea lay beneath it.

Edward passed through the Bronze Gate beneath the Sanguine's Ancient Castle and discovered that the deepest Abyss contained the Chaos Sea, the River of Eternal Darkness, and the Shadow World entangled together. After defeating a raging devil with deception and Theft, he met Naboredisley, who revealed that the Three Great Sefirot were intertwined and asked Edward to help end the situation.

• Edward asked Arrodes whether the Bronze Gate led to the Chaos Sea, then entered the gate alone despite Lilith's concern.
• Edward followed the sound of rushing water and found a sea of corpses in the deepest part of the Abyss.
• A huge devil attacked Edward, who used Degradation, Theft, and a False Reality depicting the Ancient Sun God to overcome him.
• Edward stole the devil's fate of being alive, but Naboredisley appeared and restored the devil because he needed it to share the Mother Tree of Desire's corruption.
• Naboredisley explained that the Shadow World, River of Eternal Darkness, and Chaos Sea were entangled, then let Edward proceed because Adam had sent him.

Edward reached the hidden Chaos Sea and discovered that the golden light concealed a book titled Harry Potter, whose mysterious occupant confirmed that Edward’s former world was a Book World within the Lord of the Mysteries World. Expelled from the depths and unable to return, Edward struggled with doubts about his own reality as the Mother Tree of Desire’s branches surged toward him.

• Edward bypassed the Mother Tree of Desire’s corruption and reached the River of Eternal Darkness and the Chaos Sea, where he approached a golden light source.
• Edward used Deconstruction on the light and saw a book containing another world, including Hogwarts Castle and the River of Eternal Darkness.
• A voice inside the book identified itself as the person the Ancient Sun God had mentioned, said it had copied the Harry Potter book, and warned Edward not to awaken the Oldest One.
• The voice expelled Edward from the hidden depths, and Edward recognized the book’s title as Harry Potter before returning to the Abyss.
• Edward failed to reopen a path to the Chaos Sea and realized that Harry Potter had been a Book World, leaving him questioning whether he and his experiences were real.
• The Mother Tree of Desire’s branches grew toward Edward, intensifying his desire to mate.

Edward fought Abomination Suah in the abyss, degraded him to Sequence 2, and summoned the Tyrant’s lightning to shatter Suah and the Chained God’s projection. Suah fled toward his lair on the Southern Continent, but Edward pursued him, leaving Reinette to watch in astonishment as he beat the fleeing wooden doll.

• Edward resisted the Mother Tree of Desire’s corruption and used [Degradation] and [Theft] to weaken Suah until his Sequence fell to Sequence 2.
• Suah summoned the Chained God’s projection, overwhelming Edward with curses and suffering, but Edward called on the Tyrant for help and recreated the Tyrant’s divine lightning.
• The Tyrant’s trident shattered Suah and the Chained God’s projection, while Suah escaped as a wooden doll toward his lair on the Southern Continent.
• Reinette waited outside the Indulgence Faction’s lair, wary of Suah’s return and troubled by the President’s disappearance.
• Edward appeared at the lair riding Suah’s wooden doll and beat it with lightning- and flame-covered fists, leaving Reinette stunned.

Edward killed Abomination Suah but learned that Suah’s Beyonder characteristic had been taken, and he suspected the Mother Tree of Desire would use it to resurrect him through the Chained God. After recovering from losing control, Edward told Lilith that the Harry Potter world might be a Book World and began questioning his own role in the Oldest One’s awakening.

• Edward killed Suah after Leodero’s lightning had badly wounded him, then discovered that Suah’s Beyonder characteristic was missing.
• Edward realized the Chained God, under the Mother Tree of Desire’s control, had likely taken the characteristic, but he lost control from spiritual exhaustion and the cost of reversing events.
• Lilith used a Beyonder characteristic to help Edward regain control, and Edward replenished some spirituality with Beyonder characteristics in Hufflepuff’s Cup.
• Edward told Lilith he suspected the Mother Tree of Desire would use Suah’s characteristic and residual consciousness to resurrect him in another form.
• Edward revealed that the world of Hogwarts was inside the Harry Potter book beyond the Bronze Gate, leaving Lilith to question whether they were real.
• Edward considered possible explanations for Lilith’s existence and realized that the Oldest One had awakened within That Person, then wondered what his Sequence 1 ritual was.