Recaps

Kallen brought Old Saman to Green Vine Cemetery for his funeral, where Old Saman rejected the Pamireth Church’s attempts to reconnect and demanded to be left in peace. After delivering his own eulogy, Old Saman used Spatial Exile to send his body and coffin into an unknown spatial counterflow, while his hidden teachings revealed themselves to church scholars.

• Kallen drove Old Saman’s hearse past the Pamireth Church clerics and Derius, then pushed through the gates of Green Vine Cemetery.
• Old Saman met Bishop Byrne and Derius outside the cemetery, rejected Derius’s request to pass on his teachings, and warned them not to disturb his peaceful death.
• Derius opened the church venerable’s decree, which projected the venerable saying only, “Farewell.”
• Old Saman returned to his grave, performed a ritual, delivered his eulogy, and used Spatial Exile to send his coffin and body away.
• Pamireth Church elders and scholars in Messenger Space saw Old Saman’s notes rearrange to reveal lost Spatial Spell Arts and Forging Spell Arts.
• In the Pavarro Funeral Society’s backyard, the golden retriever played with an exquisite compass and complained that Old Saman had treated him like a dog.

Puer and Kevin accidentally teleported Old Saman’s coffin into Kallen’s bedroom, and Kallen later awakened him after returning from the funeral. The chapter ended with Kallen offering Old Saman egg fried rice for a late-night snack.

• Puer discovered that Kevin had used the compass to teleport Old Saman’s coffin beneath the master bedroom bed, but it crashed down and broke the bed.
• At Old Saman’s funeral, Kallen praised his unusual spatial exile, and Alfred agreed to study the formation for the Funeral Society’s services.
• Kallen and Alfred left Green Vine Cemetery, where Alfred wrestled with whether Old Saman had been meant to join the chosen, while Kallen reflected on fate and a second chance.
• Kallen returned to the Funeral Society and found Old Saman’s coffin in his bedroom; Puer explained that Kevin had redirected the compass after Old Saman used it as a dog’s toy.
• Kallen prepared egg fried rice, then invoked Order to awaken Old Saman and invited him to have a late-night snack.

Kallen awakened Old Saman after his funeral and offered him the chance to remain awake longer by building specially designed coffins. As Old Saman began working with Alfred and the others, Borg brought Kallen two letters, and Puer was shocked to see that one was from Bernard.

• Old Saman woke beside his coffin, ate with Kallen, and learned that Kallen had awakened him and could eventually extend his time awake.
• Puer revealed that Kevin was the evil god Raniedal, whose compass adjustment had brought Old Saman and his coffin to Kallen’s bedroom.
• Old Saman agreed to build specially designed coffins, and Alfred led him to the warehouse to start work with Pike and Dinkum.
• The next morning, Kallen found Old Saman and the others still working, then met Borg, who delivered documents and letters from Ophelia and Bernard.
• Puer saw Bernard’s letter and exclaimed in surprise that he was still alive.

Kallen read an old love letter addressed to Paul and a work-report-like letter from Ophelia, then visited Richard’s family for dinner. The visit ended when Richard’s grandmother recognized something about Kallen and tearfully told Kaixi that she had suffered.

• Kallen opened an old letter from Bernard to Paul and read Ophelia’s letter, which ended with her saying she missed him.
• Kallen drove to Richard’s house and met Dark, Lucy, Old Master Delong, and Lucia.
• Richard and Kaixi thanked Kallen for saving her, and the family mistakenly took his words about being like cousins as a pledge of closeness to the Guman Family.
• Old Master Delong advised Kallen to plan his career and encouraged him to aim to become a Whip of Order captain.
• Richard’s grandmother saw Kallen, shuddered, and tearfully told Kaixi that she had suffered.

Kallen visited the Guman Family and grew suspicious that the old woman recognized his hidden identity. While hypnotizing Mr. Eisen, he uncovered a memory of Eisen’s dying sister pleading to be killed, and Eisen revealed that he had granted her request.

• The old woman warmly welcomed Kallen, called him her grandson, and urged the family to support him.
• Kallen told the family he had studied psychology and offered to speak with Mr. Eisen.
• Kallen hypnotized Mr. Eisen and guided him through memories of his past.
• Mr. Eisen described seeing his sister suffering and pleading with him to kill her.
• Mr. Eisen broke from the hypnosis, stared at Kallen, and declared, “I... killed her!”

Kallen recognized that Eisen’s guilt over his sister’s death had caused his psychological illness and proposed that he use a secret alternate identity to vent his emotions as a member of the Hound Dogs Squad. After Kallen left, Kaixi concluded that Kallen was Eisen’s illegitimate son, while Eisen’s gesture of giving her his allowance card only made her more certain.

• Kallen realized Eisen had already killed his sister in the past and that his unresolved pain, rather than confusion about the event, was behind his illness.
• Kallen proposed that Eisen occasionally wear a mask and take on another identity, arranging for him to join the Hound Dogs Squad in secret.
• Eisen agreed to the plan, offered to pay for the mask, and gave Kallen his allowance card to return to Kaixi.
• The old lady openly welcomed Kallen into the family, prompting Kaixi to suspect that the old lady had recognized his bloodline and was deliberately provoking her.
• Kaixi told Lucy that Eisen had lied about a deceased former girlfriend, then Eisen silently placed his allowance card in Kaixi’s hand.
• Kaixi took the card as proof that Eisen was making amends and cried that Kallen really was his illegitimate son.

Kallen learned that his grandmother may have recognized him and that the Alt Family’s inherited blessing creates a powerful bond between relatives. After discovering the bloodline could bring torment as well as empathy, he wondered whether the withdrawn version of himself had been suffering from it.

• Old Saman entered the coffin Alfred and Old Saman had built, and Kallen promised to replace it with one matching the other eleven.
• Alfred proposed giving Dinkum and Pike Divine Revelation, but Kallen said he would let them choose before he granted it.
• Kallen told Puer that his grandmother seemed to recognize him and asked about her beliefs and the Alt Family.
• Puer and Kevin explained that the Alt Family carried a blessing from the God of Eternity that heightened kinship between relatives and had once been exploited by powerful people.
• Kallen realized the bloodline could explain Mr. Eisen’s anguish over his sister and suggested the withdrawn “Kallen” might have suffered similarly.

Kallen dreamed of the childhood trauma he had witnessed through young Kallen’s eyes, then arranged a mask and invited Mr. Eisen to join the Whip of Order as an auxiliary member. Mr. Eisen accepted Kallen’s call and joined the team for a cleanup mission, where Richard welcomed him as the newest newcomer.

• Kallen dreamed of young Kallen seeing Dis kill his son and daughter-in-law, then woke and began his day at the Immerlis Family home.
• Kallen visited the Lemaire Pottery Gallery, commissioned Lemar to make a mask for Mr. Eisen, and slept there until Neo arrived with news of a cleanup mission in Binhai.
• Kallen told Neo about Mr. Eisen, and Neo agreed to bring him into the squad as an auxiliary member and invite him to the operation that night.
• Kallen called Mr. Eisen, who quickly left home after speaking with him; Richard celebrated that his father had asked to borrow Point Vouchers and later announced he would wield the whip for Order again.
• At Platform 3 of the Eastern District Train Station, Richard met Zema and Kunxi, then approached Mr. Eisen and joked that he would take the newcomer to a pastry shop next time.

Neo’s squad investigated the strange darkness surrounding Alaise Ancient Castle after two other Whip of Order Squads entered and vanished from view. The convoys later reappeared without their occupants, and Neo confronted the two captains, suspecting they were already dead when their watches showed different times.

• Richard welcomed newcomer Memphis and tried to befriend him before Kallen assigned him to Neo’s forward combat unit for the cleanup mission at Alaise Ancient Castle.
• Fanny explained that church investigators sent to question the Ales Family about defective iron-English sand had never returned, and Neo’s squad watched two convoys enter the manor before an unnatural darkness concealed it.
• After nearly an hour with no sign of activity, Neo ordered Fanny to report severe losses and request reinforcements; the darkness then lifted, and the two convoys appeared to leave the manor.
• Neo ordered Marlow’s second unit to intercept the convoys, but they found the cars abandoned; later, identical cars emerged from beneath a railway bridge, and Neo’s squad stopped them.
• Anthony and Kanse identified themselves as the captains of the other squads, but Neo told them he suspected they were already dead; Anthony checked his watch and reported that it showed one oh five, while Neo’s showed four oh five.

Neo's squad discovered that the strange effects around Ales Manor trapped them in a repeating route and distorted their sense of time. After failing to escape or contact anyone, they returned to their camp site, where Richard behaved as if he could no longer see Kallen and Memphis.

• Anthony, Kanse, and Neo compared their watches and found that their times differed by three hours, then agreed to follow Neo's plan to test whether his squad could reach York City.
• Marlow stayed behind with Anthony's and Kanse's squads while Neo's squad boarded a freight train, but the train returned to the junction and their walk on foot looped back as well.
• Kallen's squad noticed their clocks and star references shifting, and two members from the other squads disappeared; Memphis theorized that groups acted as moving coordinates while isolated people were sent back elsewhere.
• Neo led the squad back toward the hillside, where Anthony's squad, Kanse's squad, and Marlow had vanished, and ordered everyone to camp rather than enter Ales Manor.
• Richard searched for a boot-mark he had left earlier, then ran away from Kallen and Memphis while calling for Kallen to wait for him.

Kallen’s squad navigated a staged time-slicing test at Alaise Ancient Castle, while Neo led them toward an apparent escape route. Kallen recognized that the experience was a deception and shot Neo as the test’s hidden operators discussed the Raniedal Project.

• Richard vanished, returned, and later disappeared again along with Memphis, while Neo returned with Marlow and explained that the squads occupied different time periods.
• Neo led the squad toward Alaise Ancient Castle’s main gate, telling everyone to discard their watches and follow the flow of time to escape the time slicing.
• As the squad passed through the gate and followed the mist upstream, Kallen stayed near the rear and drew his Savage 7 Pistol.
• The test operators revealed that the time discontinuity was an engineered consciousness experiment and that they had isolated Neo and another squad member.
• Kallen turned and shot Neo in the forehead with his Savage 7 Pistol.

Kallen exposed a false captain during the team’s mission, then realized the team was trapped in an unreal world of consciousness and used his grandfather’s silver mask to escape its restraints. He joined Neo at Alaise Ancient Castle, where they found a statue and an inscription bearing the name Raniedal.

• Kallen shot the captain, whose body warped away, and wounded Marlow before black light transported the team to a Whip of Order interrogation room.
• Kallen inferred that the interrogation room was part of the unreal world and that the captain and Memphis were using their masks to break out.
• Kallen put on his grandfather’s silver mask and awoke on the hillside near Alaise Ancient Castle, where he suspected the mission had been a test involving a Divine Artifact.
• Kallen entered the castle grounds and encountered a team member wandering in a delusion about swimming through the river of time.
• Neo revealed himself to Kallen and said the castle was full of psychological suggestions, then led him to a hidden fountain behind it.
• Kallen read the fountain’s inscription, which said Raniedal would stop at nothing to return to the day someone entered the sea.

Kallen and Neo entered the innermost chamber of Raniedal’s consciousness space and viewed memories from his past. The final memory showed Raniedal helping the God of Order defeat the Sea God, who cursed him before his fall.

• Neo led Kallen to the red door on the Ancient Castle’s fifth floor, which Kallen could pass through because Raniedal had modified his body.
• Kallen opened the blue door beyond the stars, allowing Neo to enter a stone house that Kallen believed was Raniedal’s childhood home.
• Through the first window, Kallen and Neo watched young Raniedal follow the Mills Goddess along the shore without her knowing him.
• Through the second window, they witnessed the Mills Goddess become a god by entering the sea, while young Raniedal watched in fury.
• The third window showed the God of Order’s throne above the bound Sea God as Raniedal declared that he had fulfilled his vow to destroy the Sea God Church.
• The Sea God cursed Raniedal to lose his divinity, freedom, body, soul, and dignity and to live like a dog, but Raniedal dismissed the curses as childish.

Neo and Kallen traced a path into a hidden Order Church meeting space, where Kallen entered wearing the Mask left by Dis. The gathered members mistook his enormous golden light sphere for a Temple Elder and bowed to him.

• Neo and Kallen left the Ancient Castle and followed the smoke to a signpost, where Mr. Eisen appeared and offered to take them inside.
• Mr. Eisen explained that the hidden location held a confidential meeting of light spheres, so Neo refused to enter because his light-based nature might reveal him.
• Mr. Eisen activated a Formation and brought Kallen into a chain-filled space where hundreds of light spheres monitored marked people.
• Kallen realized his sphere was enormous and gilded with gold because he was wearing Dis's Mask.
• The gathered spheres addressed Kallen as a Temple Elder and bowed to him.

Kallen used his grandfather’s mask to pose as a Temple Elder in the Church’s testing space, where he redirected the project’s plans and refused to approve more dangerous experiments openly. After returning to the secret chamber, he worried that Mr. Eisen had recognized him, but redirected his uncle’s attention to Richard.

• Kallen realized he could not leave the testing space without raising suspicion, so he impersonated a Temple Elder and took the highest position in the gathering.
• Kallen questioned the test’s progress, criticized the researchers for excluding an effective squad, and advised them to continue exploring without relying on the same subjects.
• Kallen rejected a proposal to use captured sinners and otherworldly demons as test subjects, then told the researchers to act as though he had never visited.
• Kallen and Mr. Eisen returned to the secret chamber, where Captain Neo asked about their experience and Kallen decided to use his grandfather’s mask less often.
• After Kallen removed the mask, he saw Marlow angrily gesturing at him and noticed Mr. Eisen staring at him, so he pointed his uncle toward Richard.
• Richard reassured the newcomer Memphis with an elaborate series of gestures, and Mr. Eisen turned his attention to his son.

After surviving the test, Kallen returned home with Richard and Uncle Eisen, who asked what had happened in the chamber. Kallen warned Eisen to keep his identity secret, while Richard returned to find his father waiting at home.

• The Hound Dogs Squad woke after a day in the test chamber, reunited with Marlow, and signed confidentiality agreements before eating the clergy’s food.
• Richard invited Kallen and Memphis to the Pastry Shop, then Kallen drove Richard and Memphis home and joked with Richard on the way.
• After Richard got out, Uncle Eisen asked Kallen what had happened, and Kallen told him to keep his identity secret and act as if everything were normal.
• Kallen dropped Uncle Eisen off and urged him to show Richard more concern before returning home himself.
• Richard reassured Kaixi that his mission had been safe, then offered his father a pastry when Mr. Eisen appeared and slapped him.

Kallen recounted his mission to his household and learned that the Order God Church and Reincarnation Church would hold negotiations on Dark Moon Island. Later, beneath the moon, he asked Kevin whether his sacrifice for her had been worth it, and Kevin answered softly.

• Mr. Eisen beat Richard after Richard made a series of tactless remarks, while the elderly woman restrained Kaixi and confronted her about Kallen and Richard.
• Kaixi agreed that Kallen could return to the Guman Family and take its surname, and the elderly woman promised to treat Kallen and Richard equally while explaining that Kallen did not want to come back.
• Kallen reported his mission to Alfred, Puer, and Kevin, and Puer questioned Kevin about his past dealings with the God of Order.
• Alfred told Kallen that the Order God Church and Reincarnation Church had chosen Dark Moon Island as the site of their negotiations.
• Kallen invited Kevin to drink beer with him on the roof, and Kevin encouraged him to ask whether his sacrifice for her had been worth it.

Kallen spent his day off hosting Richard, reading, and resting while Puer interrogated Kevin. His captain then called to say their squad had been specially selected for a lucrative security assignment on Dark Moon Island after an important person praised them.

• Richard visited Kallen with a swollen face after his father beat him, and Kallen teased him while serving him noodles and lunch.
• Kallen and Richard read in the study until Richard called home and his father ordered him to stop disturbing Kallen and come back.
• After Richard left, Kallen bathed and napped while Puer interrogated Kevin, then talked with Puer and read the Order Weekly.
• Kallen's captain called and explained that their squad would replace another team as security for postwar reparations negotiations with the Reincarnation Church on Dark Moon Island.
• The captain told Kallen that an influential person had specifically recommended and praised their squad, securing them the assignment.

Kallen learned that his silver mask had likely drawn the attention of an influential figure, and Neo told him the squad would soon travel to Dark Moon Island on a mission. After arranging for puppets to be made from Puer’s portrait designs, Kallen returned home with a box containing a sexy puppet, which Xili and Mrs. Lake accidentally opened.

• Kallen told Neo that wearing his silver mask in the strange space had made him stand out, and Neo warned him not to wear it casually.
• Kallen told Puer he would be away on a mission to Dark Moon Island, and she asked him to arrange two puppets based on her designs at the Lemaire Pottery Gallery.
• Kallen paid Lemar for the puppets and a mask, then caught Matthews stealing his car and confronted him in an alley.
• Matthews’s wallet released pink smoke when Kallen kicked him, so Kallen left him intoxicated and returned home.
• Xili and Mrs. Lake joked about their feelings for Kallen, then accidentally opened the box he had brought back and found a sexy puppet inside.

Kallen learned that Alfred had been arrested during a church operation targeting bewitching otherworldly demons, possibly because of Kallen’s own authorization for the Raniedal Project. After Kallen and Alfred witnessed a powerful woman destroy a transport truck and its occupants, Kallen fought her to protect Alfred and agreed not to report what he saw.

• Kallen wrote in his notebook about people discovering his identity, then learned Alfred had not returned home.
• Alfred was arrested by the Order God Church while investigating an Otherworldly Demon Club, and Kallen collected him with Fanny’s help.
• Alfred told Kallen that many club members had been arrested in a special operation, leading Kallen to suspect his authorization for the Raniedal Project had caused the arrests.
• Kallen and Alfred saw a woman destroy a church transport truck and kill its occupants while rescuing a little girl and a fluffy white creature.
• The woman attacked Alfred, but Kallen drew the Sword of Arius and fought her alongside him.
• The woman offered to spare Kallen if he kept the incident from the Order God Church, and Kallen agreed.

Kallen sent Neo after the woman who had attacked him and Alfred, and Neo fought her in a deserted industrial compound. Neo defeated her after revealing his power as a Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon and invoking Light-Knight's Protection, then demanded that she keep his power secret from the Order God Church.

• Kallen asked Alfred to gather Fanny and the squad while he pursued Neo, and Alfred agreed that Kallen had not promised to report the woman to the Order God Church.
• The woman stopped in a deserted industrial compound, where Neo confronted her and demanded an apology for threatening Kallen.
• The woman and Neo exchanged spell arts before she used Ruimoer and her armor to attack him at close range, badly wounding him.
• Neo trapped the woman with his ribs and seized her, but she escaped with a sacred artifact and inflicted severe wounds on him.
• Neo healed rapidly as a Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon and invoked Light-Knight's Protection, then overpowered the woman with his greatsword and knocked her down.
• Neo held his greatsword to the woman's neck and offered to spare her if she kept what she had seen from the Order God Church.

Neo defeated Anita, an inheritor of the Gravekeeper Clan, and let her go after proposing they work together to find the sealed God-Burial Cemetery. Back at home, Kallen learned from Kevin that Kevin knew the cemetery’s location and had helped the God of Order seal it.

• Neo injected Anita with a drug, learned she belonged to the Gravekeeper Clan, and made her apologize to Kallen.
• After the drug wore off, Anita left with her symbiotic companion Ruimoer and gave Neo a black bead so he could contact her.
• Neo admitted to Kallen that he did not know where the cemetery was but planned to use the search as a reason to summon Anita for help.
• Kallen returned to the Funeral Society and told Puer what had happened; Puer recalled a former Gravekeeper Clan companion who had died searching for the cemetery.
• Kevin revealed that he knew the God-Burial Cemetery’s exact location and, through Alfred, said he had helped the God of Order seal it.

Kallen learned that Kevin could locate the God-Burial Cemetery only after another layer of his seal was undone, then prepared to visit Dark Moon Island and later Allen Manor. When Pike underwent Divine Revelation, Kallen used his chain to prolong the experience and guide him, ending with Pike recognizing Kallen as his boss after Kallen promised to quintuple his salary.

• Kevin revealed that he had arranged the God-Burial Cemetery’s banishment into the Void Countercurrent and could sense its coordinates once another seal was undone.
• Kallen discussed the plans for Earl Recar’s coffin and said he would visit Dark Moon Island before going with Alfred to Allen Manor.
• Dinkum told Kallen that Pike seemed close to Divine Revelation, and Kallen brought Pike into his study to undergo it.
• Kallen’s black chain halted Pike’s brief observation period and let Kallen enter Pike’s vision, where he encountered the God of Order’s revelation to Pike.
• Kallen tried to redirect Pike’s recognition toward him, and Pike called him a great boss after Kallen offered to increase his salary fivefold.

Kallen successfully guided Pike to distinguish Order from the God of Order, then discussed how he might eventually reshape the Order God Church. After resting, Kallen received a mission notification and prepared to leave for Dark Moon Island.

• Kallen helped Pike complete Divine Revelation and establish a new interpretation of Order, then rewarded him with a fivefold increase to his base salary.
• Kevin proposed that Kallen rise within the Order God Church and eventually replace the God of Order, but Kallen questioned how that would make him different from the gods.
• Kallen bathed and rested while Puer arranged for Dora and Doreen to use the Light-infused bathwater to ease their illness.
• Alfred told Kallen that Fanny would pick him up in two hours for a mission, and Kallen said he was going to Dark Moon Island.
• Puer told Kallen to stay safe while he was away, and Kallen reassured her that he would return.

Kallen and Neo Squad traveled with Bishop Woforen’s delegation to Dark Moon Island for negotiations, where they settled into the Bernard Hotel. With their duties light before the talks began, Kallen joined Laure, Leon, and Richard on an outing to explore the island.

• Kallen joined Neo Squad as they prepared for the trip, and Neo told them to present themselves as the victors at the negotiations.
• Kallen’s team teleported with Woforen, Leon, and Laure to Dark Moon Island, where Neo praised Order for shaping the world and Woforen agreed.
• The delegation arrived at the Bernard Hotel, where Neo assigned Kallen to share a room with him and gave most of the squad time to explore.
• Laure invited Kallen, Leon, and Richard to sample local specialties and visit the Mermaid Theater, while Richard promised to take Memphis there separately later.