Recaps

The True Creator advanced in Laxia while the Aurora Order staged false descent rituals to distract the gods, but Edward used the curse on him to trap him in memories of the Betrayal Banquet. The True Creator repeatedly experienced the catastrophe and his helpless deaths, leaving him still caught in the illusion as the world collapsed again.

• Aurora Order members received the command to begin and prepared ten staged descent rituals to distract the gods during the True Creator’s advancement.
• The True Creator drew power from his original body and began advancing while Medici monitored Laxia and Edward watched nearby.
• Edward revealed that the True Creator was still under his curse, restrained Medici, and used curse conversion and memory retrieval to send the True Creator into an illusion.
• The True Creator found himself stripped of his Beyonder abilities and experienced a peaceful grassland destroyed by the catastrophe, dying alongside a lamb.
• The True Creator relived the Betrayal Banquet in different settings and repeatedly died while trying to flee, warn people, or save them.
• After countless deaths, the True Creator remained beneath a tree as the world collapsed again, lamenting that the experience was awful.

The Monarch of Decay made the True Creator relive the Eastern Continent’s catastrophe and question whether the millions sacrificed during the Betrayal Banquet had been necessary. The True Creator acknowledged his responsibility and accepted the dead’s memories and prayers, then began an ascent toward the altar as the chapter left his transformation underway.

• The Monarch of Decay showed the True Creator the deaths of the Eastern Continent’s people and asked how he regarded the sacrifices made during the Betrayal Banquet.
• The True Creator defended his past choice as necessary for his survival and the continuation of his civilization, but admitted that he had taken the victims’ deaths for granted and owed them remembrance and gratitude.
• The True Creator repeatedly tried to lead survivors to safety, and on his twelfth attempt a group of nine escaped the burning town before he collapsed and received their prayers and farewell.
• The Monarch of Decay gave the True Creator a bloodstained book containing the dead’s memories, and the True Creator took it as a burden he would no longer abandon.
• The True Creator climbed the altar with the souls’ help, then fell into its flames as shadows and chains gathered around the inverted cross.
• The book recorded the sacrifice as righteous, and the souls hailed the black-sun halo that appeared above the Inverted Cross.

Medici struggled to hold back the rising sea and the spreading flames around Laxia as a vast darkness descended across the world. In the Forsaken Land of the Gods, the True Creator appeared before the City of Silver, confessed responsibility for its people’s suffering, and promised that their salvation was coming.

• Medici waited for the sea to rise enough to use Reboot, but the sun vanished and a colossal, winged figure appeared in the darkness.
• Across the Southern Continent, lights and sound disappeared, while Edward finished a book about the Creator and anticipated the coming war.
• Uno raised a small area of dawn light around Mrs. Skold, and Derrick gathered survivors of the City of Silver within the light of purification.
• Stiffer arrived and bowed before the True Creator, who declared himself the Lord and told the people of the City of Silver that the sun had long since fallen.
• The True Creator confessed that the people’s suffering and deaths were his sins, released them from the need to believe in him, and promised that their redeemer was on the way.
• Stiffer mourned the dead who had sacrificed themselves for the Lord, and the long-delayed Requiem ritual carried away their sorrow.

Klein watched a Death Church agent pressure Richardson, then used the intruder to destroy the Black Skull Gang’s base. At the Tarot Club, Derrick described the True Creator’s changes to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, while Klein wondered whether the Creator intended him to rescue the City of Silver and become its people’s anchor; meanwhile, Aurora Order members began preparing for mandatory weekly confessions.

• Klein observed a Balamian intruder urge Richardson to serve the people of Death, then learned the man belonged to the Black Skull Gang, an organization subordinate to the Church of Death.
• Hazel knocked the intruder unconscious, and Klein turned him into a marionette that destroyed the Black Skull Gang’s base before Klein returned to bed.
• At the Tarot Club, Derrick told the members that the True Creator had removed the dangerous shadows that made people disappear in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, and that the City of Silver planned to expand its explorations.
• Klein recalled Roselle’s diary about anchors stabilizing angels and gods, then suspected the True Creator wanted him to rescue the City of Silver and have its people believe in him.
• In the Aurora Order, Mr. Z explained that the True Creator had ordered weekly confessions and reform of conduct, while Lewis Wien questioned whether he needed to repent for betraying the Abraham Family and decided to ask Botis.

Klein considered accepting Mr. X’s assassination task, while Edward and the True Creator discussed the Southern Continent war and the True Creator’s offer to send Medici to help. The chapter ended with Edward showing wanted notices linking Medici to the massive explosion in Backlund’s sewers.

• Fors told Xio that Mr. X’s gathering would take place Friday and that he was paying for information about people with abnormal luck.
• Klein divined the danger of assassinating Mr. X, then prayed to the Fool to negotiate payment and support if he took the task.
• A gas explosion shook southern Backlund, leaving Klein awake until morning and worried briefly about Hazel.
• Edward praised the True Creator’s recent advancement and asked him not to oppose Edward becoming a god.
• Edward described how the war and disrupted trade were worsening poverty and unrest in the Northern Continent, while the Aurora Order gained recruits.
• The True Creator agreed to send Medici to help the Balam Empire, and Edward showed wanted notices depicting Medici near the Backlund sewer explosion.

Medici wandered through Backlund after returning from the sewers, where he had caused an explosion, and learned that the True Creator planned to restore him while erasing the other two Conquerors. Meanwhile, Klein followed Walter into the sewers and discovered that Trissy had survived and was helping investigate Prince Edessak’s death.

• Medici recalled how the True Creator planned to reshape his body and restore his Sequence One power while weakening Einhorn and Sauron’s existence.
• Medici disguised himself, visited a cake shop, and returned with afternoon tea for the True Creator, who confronted him about the previous night’s sewer explosion.
• Klein used Seniol to follow Walter into the sewers after noticing that his butler had climbed out of the manor at night.
• Walter met a hidden woman and discussed their investigation into Prince Edessak’s death and their attempt to avenge him.
• Klein recognized the woman as Trissy, who had survived and was still working with Walter.

Mr. A joined the battle in East Balam as a newly advanced Black Knight and helped the Church of Death overwhelm the Loen army’s flank. Meanwhile, Klein infiltrated Mr. X’s gathering as Xio and arranged his assassination, but the Saint Tenebrous pursued him and drew the Church of Storms into the conflict.

• Trissy told the Admiral of Blood that she had sold her soul to the Primordial Demoness.
• Mr. A advanced to Black Knight, received the War Angel’s blessing, and went to East Balam to support the Church of Death.
• Mr. A used shadows and flesh magic to kill an Intis priest, allowing undead to attack the Loen army’s flank.
• Klein disguised himself as Xio, infiltrated Mr. X’s gathering, and took control of Mr. X’s Spirit Body Threads.
• Mr. X moved beside the short assassin as a tornado wrecked the gathering house, and the assassin shot him dead.
• The Saint Tenebrous attacked the fleeing assassin, who escaped through a door after summoning lightning; Redar Valentin then turned his attack on the Saint Tenebrous.

The True Creator arranged a possible meeting with Klein through the Outer Deity, while a Loen garrison escaped a doomed retreat using a mysterious oil lamp. On Primitive Island, Klein discovered a painting that suggested the Kings of Angels had betrayed and devoured the Ancient Sun God.

• Saint Tenebrous reported that the Aurora Order had failed to find the person who killed Lewis Wien, and the True Creator inspected the ruined crime scene with his gaze.
• The True Creator inferred that Klein might be connected to the murder and considered using it as a pretext to meet him; the Monarch of Decay offered to arrange an invitation to Dwayne Dantès’s dinner party through the Devil Family.
• As the Loen garrison retreated, the major general forced Johnson to cover the army’s escape and picked up a black oil lamp from his command tent.
• The oil lamp transported the major general and nearby soldiers from the plateau to the seaside, and the major general realized it might be a wish-granting Beyonder item.
• Klein and Alger reached a Burial Chamber on Primitive Island, where Klein saw a painting of three sinister figures dismembering the Ancient Sun God and a dark infant sitting in his opened torso.
• Klein identified the three figures as the Eternal Blazing Sun, the Lord of Storms, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, and suspected that the Kings of Angels had betrayed and devoured the Ancient Sun God.

Klein hosted a banquet for Backlund’s wealthy and influential guests, including Milan Nois, while discovering that Will Auceptin was trying to keep him away from the washroom. The evening ended when a terrifying figure emerged from the shadows, only to be restrained by a familiar young man who revealed that this was their first true meeting.

• Klein reviewed the banquet guest list and learned about Baron Brem Muller and Milan Norafitus from Walter.
• At the Nois Family villa, Milan told the other devils he would attend Dwayne Dantès’s dinner alone, while the family’s factory owners discussed exploiting workers to advance their potions.
• Klein welcomed Aaron Ceres and his pregnant wife, Velma Gladys, whose unborn child was Will Auceptin, along with Bishop Elektra, Madam Mary, and other guests.
• Klein greeted Milan Nois at the banquet and noticed that Milan’s two carriages had left after he entered.
• When Velma touched her belly, several gentlemen hurried toward the washroom; Klein realized Will was preventing him from approaching it and changed direction.
• A shadowy figure nearly touched Klein before a young man with black streaks in his blond hair restrained it and told Klein they were meeting for the first time in the true sense.

The True Creator asked Klein to take Mr. X’s place in work concerning the Eastern Continent, and Klein agreed. Audrey investigated the history of the Southern Continent and confronted the moral questions raised by colonial violence, leaving resolved to gain enough strength to protect her family.

• Fors sneezed repeatedly while Xio warned her to rest and said she suspected the Aurora Order was secretly following her.
• The True Creator told Klein that his fate and Sefirah Castle were linked, then asked him to replace Mr. X in work concerning the Eastern Continent; Klein agreed.
• Hibbert found Audrey studying old books for the Loen Antiquities Collection and Preservation Foundation and recounted a massacre attributed to the Highlands Resistance Army.
• Audrey questioned Hibbert’s account and concluded that powerful members of the Indulgence Faction may have carried out the massacre using Beyonder abilities.
• Audrey prayed, considered how invasion and retaliation might force her to confront violence, and resolved to become strong enough to protect her family.
• Richard and Galan De prepared to travel through the Spirit World after arranging accommodations for the children.

Klein negotiated with the True Creator over the fate of Lewis Wien’s soul and characteristic, then heard the Outer Deity warn that choosing Sefirah Castle would make him an enemy. At the Tarot Club, Derrick learned that the Ancient Sun God had been devoured by the Kings of Angels and that the black infant was the True Creator; later, Klein disguised himself and infiltrated Mr. Z’s group as the new “X.”

• The True Creator questioned Klein about killing Lewis Wien, then ordered him to return Lewis’s soul eventually and give the characteristic to the Abraham Family.
• The Outer Deity told Klein that choosing Sefirah Castle made them enemies, while the True Creator and the Monarch of Decay discussed preparing for the apocalypse and the True Creator’s plans to become a Great Old One.
• Alger showed the Tarot Club a mural of the Kings of Angels devouring the Ancient Sun God, and Derrick realized the black infant depicted was the True Creator.
• Klein left his Dwayne Dantès identity at home, disguised himself, and traveled through Creeping Hunger’s Traveler ability to meet Mr. Z.
• Klein claimed Lewis Wien had guided him into the group, and Mr. Z accepted him as the new “X.”

Klein took office as the Aurora Order’s new Oracle and was assigned to contact the Forsaken Land of the Gods’ Elect, while he arranged to disguise a Wraith with corrosion from the Evernight Church’s sealing power. Audrey worried over the war in the Southern Continent, and Klein prepared to steal the Antigonus Family Notebook.

• Saint Tenebrous received the Lord’s revelation to end the assassination investigation and welcome a newcomer, then decided to meet the new Oracle and settle Lewis’s affairs.
• Klein followed Mr. Z into the Aurora Order’s factory, used his powers to reveal a worker hiding on the ceiling, and learned that Saint Tenebrous wanted to assign him work.
• Saint Tenebrous told Klein to contact the Elect in the Eastern Continent, help them leave, and hint that they should believe in the unnamed great existence; he offered Klein a reward in advance.
• Klein asked Saint Tenebrous to make the Admiral of Blood’s Wraith appear corroded by the power behind the Church of Evernight’s Chanis Gate, and Saint Tenebrous sent him to use the Nightmare Pot.
• Audrey received a Mystical Item made from a Mentor of Disorder Beyonder Characteristic and worried that her brother Alfred and Loen’s forces were in danger near Berens Port.
• Klein watched the street from his balcony on Sunday night and prepared to steal the Antigonus Family Notebook.

Klein was trapped in the Foggy Town, where red moonlight awakened dangerous residents and a bloodstain corrupted his marionette, before he encountered the dead Zaratul. Elsewhere, Richard asked Edward for help relocating people amid a spreading Red Shoes epidemic, and Edward suspected the Writer was behind strange devil activity.

• Klein arrived in the Foggy Town after the Angel of Concealment sent him away, and discovered that neither the spirit world nor Sefirah Castle could help him escape.
• Klein explored the deserted town with Seniol, whose body began transforming after he approached a bloodstain that seemed to have come from a devil.
• When the red moon appeared, the townspeople emerged and filled the streets, forcing Klein to hide in a house and use his Door Opening ability to pass through walls.
• Klein reached the church and met Zaratul, who said he had died long ago and invited Klein to help him pass the time with Old-Era board games.
• Richard told Edward that a Red Shoes epidemic had spread across the Northern Continent and asked to borrow Rose School followers to help relocate people.
• Edward learned from Richard about suspicious devil activity and wondered what the Writer was doing.

Klein met Zaratul in the church and learned that he could obtain an escape key and the Bizarro Sorcerer formula by finishing their game, while concealing his knowledge of Sefirah Castle. Elsewhere, Hilda agreed to help children at the Temperance Angel’s request, provided he did not abandon them again.

• Klein recognized the old man as Zaratul, who promised him obsidian, a door-opening symbol, and the Bizarro Sorcerer formula if Klein finished their game and scattered his ashes in the Serenzo River.
• Zaratul told Klein that earlier Seers had failed to escape before the red moon appeared, and Klein took shelter when the moonlight stirred the hanging marionettes.
• Zaratul asked Klein whether he knew about Sefirah Castle, and Klein denied knowing the name.
• Hilda Gonzalez’s rose-filled children’s rhyme spread madness through a town and killed its inhabitants.
• Shanks asked Hilda to help children of mixed ancestry and Southern Continent origin at the Temperance Angel’s request, and Hilda agreed as long as the Angel did not leave them again.

Leonard recognized Sherlock Moriarty as Klein Moretti, while Klein played Zaratul’s game, received a false Door Opening symbol, and opened the way out of Hidden Town. The door exposed a terrifying hall and a Fool card, but Klein’s fate remained uncertain as another Zaratul watched the events unfold.

• Leonard compared Sherlock Moriarty’s face with a photograph of the Tingen Nighthawks and realized he looked almost exactly like Klein Moretti.
• Traynor told Medici that Azik Eggers was the Church of Death’s ineffective Consul, and they discussed the war, reinforcements, and the Aurora Order’s popular potato foods.
• Zaratul gave Klein a Door Opening symbol and the Bizarro Sorcerer formula, and Klein noticed that the symbol differed slightly from the one in the Antigonus Family Notebook.
• Klein used Zaratul’s symbol to open the door, but Seniol was seized by an unseen force and the ashes vanished from Zaratul’s urn as Klein glimpsed a hall of suspended corpses and a Fool card marked Sequence 0.
• Edward sensed his Sequence One characteristic far to the north and realized that someone had opened the door to Hidden Town.
• A concealed Zaratul watched a projection of Klein opening the door, then changed the scene so Klein walked out alive.

Klein escaped the foggy town, confirmed the Bizarro Sorcerer potion formula, and pondered Sefirah Castle’s influence and the coming apocalypse. Meanwhile, Maria’s group struggled to leave Backlund with 122 children, so she sought the Aurora Order’s help; Klein arrived at the factory with a Sequence 4 formula to trade.

• Edward told the True Creator that Death had asked for his support in becoming Eternal Darkness, but the True Creator said he would keep observing before deciding.
• Klein returned to 160 Böklund Street, sent unwanted items to Sefirah Castle, and reasoned that its connection to the Seer Pathway drew Seer-related people and objects toward him.
• Klein divined that the Bizarro Sorcerer potion formula he obtained from Zaratul was correct and considered the advancement ritual.
• Maria learned that authorities were blocking her group’s departure, and Gavin reported that 122 children were firmly willing to go with them.
• Maria asked Mr. Z for help, and he agreed to seek Sealed Artifacts that could take the children through the Spirit World.
• Klein met Maria and Mr. Z at the Aurora Order’s factory and offered to trade a Sequence 4 potion formula for useful goods.

Klein used a meeting with Loen officers and the Aurora Order to secure a possible mission to the Southern Continent and trade a demigod potion formula for spiritual materials. The chapter ended with Leonard discovering that Klein’s coffin was empty and a dream in which Edward confronted the Mother Tree of Desire and foretold Farbauti’s imminent death.

• Leonard dug up Klein’s grave in Raphael Cemetery and found the coffin empty.
• Klein met Colonel Galvin and other officers, who asked him to consider delivering supplies to Loen soldiers in the Southern Continent.
• Klein offered Saint Tenebrous the Sequence 4 Lawyer formula, Fallen Earl, and arranged to exchange it for spiritual materials, including a possible Bizarre Sorcerer ingredient.
• Saint Tenebrous offered to find Klein a guide familiar with Southern Continent seas and cities, and reminded him to support survivors on the Eastern Continent.
• Klein returned to 160 Böklund Street, retrieved his Paper Figurine Substitute, and later woke from a dream as a red-gloved visitor entered his sitting room.
• In a dream, Edward confronted the Mother Tree of Desire and declared that Farbauti would die within a month or two.

Klein agreed to transport aid for children in West Balam, while the True Creator learned that Edward foresaw a devil killing everyone across a large area of Loen later that month. The chapter left the cause of the coming catastrophe unknown as the True Creator studied the location Edward marked.

• Ince Zangwill gave in to madness and slaughter, then left with 0-08 and his notebook.
• Klein accepted Galvin's request to deliver supplies to children in West Balam within two weeks, despite the dangers and tight schedule.
• Constantine Rieveldt photographed the war-torn streets of Berens City and wrote to his wife about their daughter and the city's scenery.
• The True Creator explained that Medici needed to rebuild his renown to restore his fractured symbolism as a Conqueror.
• Edward told the True Creator that everyone in a large area of southeastern Loen would die at the same time because of a devil later that month.
• The True Creator recognized that Edward's marked area included coastal cities and a stretch of sea, and grew concerned about the vision.

Edward discussed an uncertain future trip to Loen’s southeastern coast with the True Creator, while Klein arranged a two-week Southern Continent commission with Ms. D and promised to seek Sun Pathway ingredients. At Alesse Port, Richard discovered that the Resistance Army’s leaders had allowed a ship to carry off royal tomb treasures, then devised a plan to extort money from the smugglers and their Loen contacts.

• Edward told the True Creator that fate might draw him to Loen’s southeastern coast, and they discussed how exposing George III’s role in the Great Smog could benefit the True Creator’s plans.
• Klein met Ms. D through Saint Tenebrous and agreed to take her to the Southern Continent for two weeks, promising to answer her request for information about a Sun God Bird and a Sacred Radiance Stone before Sunday.
• Richard confronted Mahames and Taufik after learning that a freighter at Alesse Port was carrying stolen royal mummies, Sealed Artifacts, and other burial treasures.
• Richard ordered the culprits released for the moment and told Mahames and Taufik to demand extra payments from the Loen smugglers, including ransom for captured accomplices.
• Richard spotted a golden hand in an ice-filled barrel and began considering how much he could charge for it and for any important Loen officials who came to seize the cargo.

Richard visited Alese, redirected Zatwen from hunting Sharron, and learned about the Rose School’s scattered operations. In Backlund, Klein arranged his trip to West Balam, identified a suspected royal demigod, and Prince Grove recognized Constantine’s artifact as the Magic Wishing Lamp, 0-05.

• Richard asked about Baranka and Hilda, then told Taufik to have Zatwen gather intelligence and seek new contacts instead of pursuing Sharron.
• A mysterious man stole Zatwen’s black-gloved Sealed Artifact, and Zatwen sensed danger but continued eating without reacting.
• Klein told Audrey he planned to travel to the Southern Continent, then asked Arrodes about Ms. D and received leads on Sun God Birds and Sacred Radiance Stones.
• Klein arranged to travel to West Balam by military airship and recognized a man at the officers’ club as the demigod suspected of aiding royal human traffickers.
• Prince Grove examined Constantine’s lamp and identified it as the legendary Magic Wishing Lamp, 0-05.

Klein prepared to travel to the Southern Continent and spotted Leonard and Daly boarding his airship, while Cattleya pursued a path to avenge Queen Mystic. Traynor spread fabricated intelligence to provoke the powers gathering in the Southern Continent, then left the prospect of war to Dawn.

• Klein secured a Bizarre Sorcerer through the Aurora Order, finalized deals with Ms. D and the Hermit, and boarded an airship bound for the Southern Continent.
• Klein saw Daly Simone and Leonard Mitchell approach his airship, and Leonard noticed him through a window.
• Cattleya resolved to avenge Queen Mystic and asked her crew to help her pursue Agalito, whom she blamed for the Queen's death.
• Otolov warned Cattleya that Agalito and the Death Announcer were nearing Loen's southeastern coast amid Devil-related incidents, and Cattleya ordered him to investigate the truth and find a way to kill Agalito.
• Traynor learned that Prince Grove had arrived and that Tony Dawn was being sent to the Loen Colony, then instructed a subordinate to circulate fabricated reports about military plans and troop movements.
• Traynor refused to lead troops and decided Dawn could claim the glory of the coming conflict.

Klein reached Eskelson Harbor and prepared to sail to Berens, while Colin Iliad asked him for help investigating a sealed mausoleum in the City of Silver. As Klein’s ship departed with a high-ranking Hunter aboard, Traynor plotted to keep Lenburg from supporting the Balam Empire and to make its neutrality look like collusion.

• Klein dreamed of the Creator’s temple and saw the spirit of Daly’s deceased partner beside her, then told Derrick to perform a ritual and recite his name so he could assist Colin Iliad’s investigation.
• Soest briefed the Red Gloves on Ince Zangwill’s disappearance and led their preparations to infiltrate Balam and capture his Church of Death contact.
• Klein loaded the nobles’ cargo onto a passenger ship bound for Berens and agreed to take aboard a rude blue-eyed Hunter who offered five thousand pounds for passage.
• Klein recognized the man as a high-ranking Hunter and let him board after confirming they were not enemies.
• Traynor learned that Lenburg was adjusting its actions based on his false intelligence and planned to frame it as supporting the Balam Empire so it would not aid his side.

Colin received a normal response to his prayer from the gray fog after 2,583 years, while Klein’s voyage toward Berens Port was diverted by the blue-eyed Hunter amid a supernatural storm and a looming naval conflict. Traynor and Tony Dawn planned to exploit the fighting by provoking conflict between Loen, Feysac, and the Church of Knowledge.

• Colin prayed over the City of Silver’s altar, and the scene of the gray fog and ancient palace appeared as the altar responded normally for the first time in 2,583 years.
• Klein divined that his traveling companion would benefit him, then learned the blue-eyed Hunter had obtained news that Berens Port was closed and offered to take him to a private port instead.
• A storm filled with Underworld creatures erupted around Klein’s ship, and the Hunter sped through the chaos while an ironclad ship and forces of the Church of Death clashed nearby.
• Traynor learned that Feysac forces were gathering to move against Loen and asked Tony Dawn to help draw the Church of Death and Loen reinforcements into the conflict.
• Traynor ordered Tony Dawn to attack a Lenburg demigod while impersonating someone from Intis, then destroy a nearby Loen colony while framing the Church of Knowledge.

Klein reached Caesar Pier with his cargo after Tony Dawn sped the passenger liner across the sea, then arranged to meet Ms. D and continue to Berens. Elsewhere, Edward discussed his Sefirah and plans with the True Creator, while Tony received information from Riel and a Lenburg Demigod sensed danger.

• Tony Dawn drove the burning passenger liner into Caesar Pier, wrecked it, and paid the captain compensation while Klein recovered from the journey.
• Klein checked into an inn, summoned Reinette Tinekerr to deliver a message to Ms. D, and slept after arranging their meeting.
• Tony Dawn summoned Riel, received information and a brass pendant, and promised to make up a funding shortfall; a Lenburg Demigod then sensed an approaching crisis.
• Edward and the True Creator discussed Edward's Sefirah, his inability to leave Earth until it was restored, and the danger he posed to the planet.
• Klein met Ms. D near the damaged warehouse, and she agreed that their cooperation had officially begun.

Klein read Azik’s warning about Spirit World Plunderers and planned a route with Ms. D to deliver the goods to Berens. At the port, the poverty and indifference he witnessed left him troubled as he and Ms. D set out for the city.

• Klein read Azik’s letter, learned that Spirit World Plunderers were dangerous and might be found in Calderón City, and decided to ask Azik about the city while replying that he had reached the Southern Continent.
• Ms. D laid out two routes to Berens and recommended skirting the combat zone, while Klein chose to travel without carriages and learned that the railways had stopped operating.
• Klein overheard a scavenger’s wife get cut when a child stole the scrap metal she had collected, and he felt uncertain how to help the impoverished couple.
• Ms. D secured repairs to the warehouse roof by posing as a wealthy Northern Continent noblewoman and paying the port official.
• Klein left the port with Ms. D and saw the child eating moldy bread after losing the stolen sheet metal.