Recaps

Kallen heard unexplained voices and screams from the basement but found no sign of trouble when Maina sent security to investigate. That night, a hole opened in the ward floor, and an old woman appeared to accuse him of stealing her money.

• Kallen and Puer discussed the Order Church, its ranks, and how its abilities could awaken the spirituality stored in corpses.
• Puer suspected Kallen had the ability to revive corpses and wondered whether he had returned from the dead, but Kallen denied being an evil god.
• Kallen heard screams from beneath the ward and asked Maina to have security check the basement; the hospital found nothing unusual.
• Kallen heard a voice asking for its money in his sleep, then woke to scraping sounds and found a hole opening in the floor beneath his bed.
• An old woman's face appeared in the hole and asked Kallen whether he had stolen her money.

Kallen survived an attack by a bewitching otherworldly demon, first with Puer’s help and then by using his Art to restrain a possessed nurse. Unable to reach Dis, he called someone else and summoned them.

• An old woman emerged from a hole beneath Kallen’s bed and tried to seize him, but Puer clawed her and broke her hold over his consciousness.
• Puer revealed that the attacker was a bewitching otherworldly demon and that she herself had once been a pureblood of that kind.
• A nurse entered the ward and attacked Kallen and Puer while possessed by the demon, but Kallen aligned the nurse with a phantom figure and awakened the struggle inside her body.
• Kallen commanded the nurse to kneel, stay still, and be silent, then left the ward to call for help.
• Aunt Mary told Kallen that Dis was away visiting Mr. Hoffen, so Kallen called another number and said, “I hereby summon you.”

Kallen survived a violent attack in the hospital, while Alfred removed the possessed nurse’s corpse and sealed the demon inside it for Miss Molly. As Kallen returned home with his family, Ron’s strange copper coin revealed a dangerous hold over him.

• Alfred found the dead nurse possessed by an otherworldly demon, sealed it inside her body, and carried her away after Kallen summoned him.
• Puer explained that the nurse’s awakened corpse and the demon’s soul made her body suitable as a purified body, while Kallen admitted he had called Alfred because he was nervous.
• Dis returned to the hospital, checked Kallen’s wound, and investigated the basement before Kallen underwent surgery and recovered in a different ward.
• Mina told Kallen that Nasi, the missing night nurse, had likely been the woman who died, and Uncle Mason arranged to take Kallen home for continued treatment.
• Paul and Ron carried Kallen home in a hearse, and Kallen examined Ron’s copper coin, after which Ron became vacant and muttered about his money.

Kallen returned home and learned that Ron’s copper coin was a counterfeit Source of Sin made by a Lax Church priest, which Dis purified before deciding to turn it in. Dis then began explaining Kallen’s past, opening with the revelation that he had killed Kallen’s parents.

• Kallen noticed that the copper coin strongly influenced Ron and felt reluctant to give it back, while Piaget handed it over without hesitation.
• Kallen told Dis about the coin, and Dis took it from Ron, identifying it as a counterfeit Source of Sin associated with the Lax Church.
• Dis explained the coin’s origins and the influence it had on ordinary people, then said he would turn it in for safekeeping.
• Dis purged the coin’s influence from Ron and sent him home to rest.
• Dis offered to explain Kallen’s past, and Kallen asked him to speak first.
• Dis began his account by telling Kallen that he had killed Kallen’s parents with his own hands.

Dis revealed that he had killed Kallen’s parents after they were irreversibly corrupted, then explained that he had arranged Kallen’s resurrection through a Divine Descent Ritual. Kallen and Dis reconciled as grandfather and grandson, and Dis left him to recover while promising to protect the family until he was gone.

• Dis told Kallen that he had killed Kallen’s parents, former Inquisitors of the Order God Church, to release them after their souls were irreversibly contaminated.
• Dis explained that he had lost faith in the church and wanted the Immerlis Family to withdraw from it and live ordinary lives.
• Dis revealed that Kallen had already died before he took him away, and that he had used a Divine Descent Ritual with Mr. Hoffen’s help to bring Kallen back to life.
• Kallen asked why Dis had not killed him as a descended Evil God, and Dis said he loved the child who called him Grandfather, regardless of the soul in the body.
• Kallen called Dis Grandfather and promised to help the family live safely and happily, while Dis told him he would not need to do that yet, before Dis left.

Kallen watched a hospital power failure turn a little girl’s successful surgery into her death, then stayed to arrange her funeral despite her father striking him. Back home, he lashed out at Lunt for joining Delis’s march and told Puer he would ask Aunt Mary to give the grieving parents a discount.

• Kallen prepared a pig-head meal with Ron, Paul, Aunt Mary, and Aunt Winnie, and Paul asked how to grow closer to his fiancée before their spring wedding.
• Kallen and the funeral society staff went to Hans Hospital, where the doctors initially saved the little girl he had been waiting to serve.
• A power outage caused by a student protest at a coal-fired power plant interrupted the girl’s surgery, and she died; her father punched Kallen when he identified himself as a funeral company representative.
• Kallen stayed at the hospital and offered the parents the Immoreles Funeral Company’s services, then accompanied the girl’s body back to Mink Street.
• Lunt proudly showed Kallen Delis’s signed protest placard, and Kallen splashed ice water on him and slapped him.
• Kallen told Puer he would ask Aunt Mary to give the girl’s parents a discount.

Kallen deliberately used his ability to bring the deceased little girl back for one final dance, then let her return to rest. After the lights went out, Puer sensed that the power involved was not Dis’s, while Dis identified it as Order.

• Uncle Mason punished Lunt for joining Delis’s protest, and Aunt Mary decided the family would handle the girl’s funeral at a loss.
• Aunt Mary prepared the girl’s body and talked with Kallen about grief, guilt, and the need to manage his feelings.
• Kallen played “Rojia Sprite” and reached out to the girl, sensing her presence as black, vine-like patterns spread across the workshop floor.
• Puer recognized that the power was not Dis’s, and Dis said it was Order.
• The girl returned to her body, danced for Kallen, then lay back down; Kallen applauded and switched off the lights.

Delis helped Mr. Oka and his allies plot to manipulate protests and stage a family’s suicide to undermine Rojia City’s mayoral incumbent and elect Ford. After Piaget directed Oka to the Immoreles Funeral Company, Kallen unknowingly accepted a reservation for a family funeral intended to support the conspiracy.

• Delis delivered an environmental speech, then attended Mr. Oka’s dinner with Ford, Humil, Haggett, and Molf.
• Mr. Oka and his allies planned student marches, protests by injured workers, and a staged family suicide to turn public opinion against the old mayor and help Ford take office.
• Mr. Oka asked Priest Aloteta to personally ensure the selected family’s deaths, then met Piaget and learned about the Immoreles Funeral Company on Mink Street.
• Dis led a funeral for a little girl while Kallen helped pack up the company’s things.
• A man asked Kallen to reserve the Immoreles Funeral Company for a joint family funeral between the 14th and 17th, and Kallen agreed without knowing the family was part of the plot.

Dis learned that High Priest Rasma would lead a second investigation into the Bellwyn incident, while the Immerlis Family arranged to acquire the Hughes Crematorium and hire new staff. The chapter ended when Kallen recognized the applicants as Alfred and Miss Molly, who knelt before him and pledged to answer his summons.

• A Whip of Order agent collected a replica of the Source of Sin from Dis and told him that High Priest Rasma would oversee a new investigation into the Bellwyn incident.
• The Immerlis Family discussed buying the Hughes Crematorium, and Paul offered 100,000 Lu Coins and volunteered to manage it.
• Aunt Winnie drafted the acquisition and share plans, the family raised the funds, and Mason bought a new hearse amid protests and marches in Rojia City.
• Kallen read religious books while awaiting two job applicants, unaware that the woman was Miss Molly disguised as Nasi and the man was Alfred.
• Alfred and Miss Molly knelt before Kallen and declared that they had come to answer his summons, startling Aunt Mary.

Kallen questioned Dis about hiring Alfred and Miss Molly, learning that they were legitimate assistants to Dis’s work as an Inquisitor and that Dis trusted them not to endanger the family. Dis reassured Kallen that he would not be forced to undergo Purification, while Puer urged Dis to reconsider and discussed the ongoing investigation into the Divine Descent Ritual.

• Kallen served a lavish lunch to the family, Alfred, Miss Molly, and Mina’s classmate Sarah, and the guests enthusiastically praised his cooking.
• Kallen asked Dis why he had allowed Alfred and Miss Molly, both otherworldly demons, to work for the family, and Dis explained that Inquisitors commonly employed otherworldly assistants.
• Dis told Kallen that he trusted the new employees and would not let anyone interfere with Kallen’s development or secretly perform Purification on him.
• Puer told Dis that Kallen’s power seemed pure and asked whether he would let Kallen undergo Purification, but Dis refused and warned Puer against acting without permission.
• Dis explained that the investigation into the Divine Descent Ritual in Bellwyn City had resumed and that Kallen would remain safe as long as he did not undergo Purification or reveal his power.

Kallen helped Mina and Sarah with their homework, then drove Sarah home to Mine Street and accepted her family’s invitation to dinner. After learning about Rot’s life and the Eastern District workers’ concerns, Kallen and Mina shared a meal with the Rott family before heading home with a jar of pickles.

• Kallen tutored Mina and Sarah, noticed Sarah’s hearing trouble and modest circumstances, and stopped them from massaging him because they were growing up.
• Kallen drove Mina and Sarah to Mine Street, where Sarah’s mother invited them to dinner at the family’s home.
• Kallen spoke with Rot about his injury, his tire-rubber slipper business, and the allowance Mayor Sixson had promised disabled and chronically ill workers.
• The Rott family served Kallen and Mina a generous meal, and Kallen praised Sarah’s mother’s cooking.
• Sarah’s mother gave Kallen a jar of pickles, and the Rott family saw him and Mina off as he drove away.

Kallen learned that Rot’s family had died by suicide after their desperate circumstances were worsened by the city’s neglect and a slanted newspaper interview. At the scene on Mine Street, Kallen recognized the dead as the family he had visited the night before, and Rot told him to get up as he struggled to support him with his crutch.

• Kallen read about the workers’ protest in the Rojia Daily and saw that the paper had distorted Rot’s words to portray him as condemning Mayor Sickson.
• A funeral job brought Kallen, Uncle Mason, and Afu to 117 Mine Street, where police reported that a man, his mother, and the man’s wife and daughter had all died by suicide.
• Kallen recalled meeting Rot and his family the previous night as he realized the bodies belonged to them.
• Kallen slipped while steadying the stretcher, and the man’s sheet fell away to reveal his empty trouser leg.
• Rot caught Kallen and urged him to get up, warning that his crutch would not hold out much longer.

Kallen recognized that the Mine Street family's deaths had been arranged and suspected an otherworldly demon was involved, but hesitated to endanger his family by pursuing the truth. When he told Dis about the contradiction in the wife's apparent suicide, Dis decided the Order God Church had to intervene and prepared to confront mayoral candidate Ford.

• Rot told Kallen that One-Armed Siso had been planning for his daughter's future and doubted that Siso's family had willingly died; he broke down as reporters photographed the bodies.
• Mason realized the family's deaths had been planned in advance, but feared that the powerful people behind them could silence the Immerlis Family.
• The hearse returned to Mink Street, where white-rose protesters and reporters gathered, while Humil directed reporters to photograph the prepared bodies at the memorial service.
• Kallen told Dis that he suspected an otherworldly demon had caused the deaths, and Dis agreed that the Order God Church had to intervene.
• Kallen identified Ford as the likely beneficiary of the deaths, and Dis proposed going directly to Ford's house to question him, confident that no powerful figure was beyond the Church's reach.

Kallen realized that Dis viewed the powerful as beings within reach of divine authority, not untouchable rulers, and Dis urged him to act against those responsible for the family's deaths. As preparations began for the memorial service, Kallen planned to use its guest list to visit the suspects with Dis, while Puer revealed that Dis did not believe in religion.

• Dis told Kallen that the gods had always stood above kings and ordered him to prepare a list of suspects and their addresses.
• Kallen admitted that he had come to Dis only to ease his conscience, and Dis told him to learn to take action.
• Kallen assigned the household work for the memorial service, including preparing the bodies, arranging the first floor, monitoring the reporters and protesters, and compiling a list of attendees.
• Kallen planned to use the memorial service to identify the suspects and visit them with Dis afterward.
• Puer teased Kallen about divine power and offered to help him embrace a faith, explaining that Dis did not believe in religion.

Kallen helped his family prepare for the memorial service of Siso and his family while political figures and protesters turned it into a public spectacle. After the service, he took Aunt Winnie's list of influential guests and went to Dis's study, ready to begin his own plans.

• Aunt Mary and Molly restored the bodies, while Mason and Ron prepared the memorial hall and joked grimly about confronting the protesters with shotguns.
• Rot's family visited Siso's coffin, and Rot explained that he had refused a reporter's bribe and was taking his family away to avoid being tempted by the money.
• Kallen read the newspaper's attacks on Sickson, prepared food for the memorial, and watched politicians, celebrities, and activists use the service to denounce the mayor.
• Mr. Oka paid the remaining balance, and Kallen told Mason that Dis wanted the coffins kept in the basement until the next day.
• Aunt Winnie gave Kallen a list of guests and their addresses, and Kallen went to Dis's study, saying it was his turn to knock.

Kallen and Dis visited the Molf estate to question businessman Molf about the deaths of Siso’s family. Dis punished Molf and Renee for violating Order, while Kallen confronted Molf with his family’s power.

• Kallen chose Molf as their first suspect, and Dis agreed to visit the estate with him and Alfred.
• Alfred used the Molf family’s youngest son to get them inside, then guided Kallen and Dis to Molf’s study.
• Molf denied knowing Siso’s family but admitted that Editor-in-Chief Humil and Mr. Oka had conspired to choose a family to sacrifice for the demonstrations.
• Renee tried to block Kallen and threatened to complain to the Order God Church, so Dis severed her arm for harming an ordinary person through church power.
• Dis threw Molf across the study for employing an Otherworldly Demon to harm an ordinary person, and Kallen asked him, “Who is the Molf family?”

Kallen and Dis killed Mr. Molf and the editor-in-chief after exposing their crimes, while Alfred impersonated the dead editor-in-chief to learn that Mayor Ford, Legislator Haggett, and Mr. Oka were celebrating Sickson’s planned resignation. The group set out to join them, and Kallen also confined Puer for attacking an ordinary person.

• Kallen confronted Mr. Molf over the murder of Siso’s family, and Alfred compelled Mr. Molf to eat cigarettes and cigars until he died.
• Kallen spared Renee, ordered Young Master Molf to remove his father’s body, and left with Dis and Alfred for their next target.
• The editor-in-chief took Molf Pharmaceuticals pills and listened as Alfred’s radio broadcast exposed the danger of using a journalist’s pen unjustly.
• Kallen and Dis confronted the editor-in-chief, and Dis sent the pens he had thrown back into him, killing him.
• Dis sentenced Puer to confinement for attacking Kallen, while Alfred answered a call from Mr. Oka and learned that Ford, Haggett, and Delis were celebrating Sickson’s planned resignation.
• Alfred told Mr. Oka that he and Mr. Molf would arrive soon, as the group prepared to go to the celebration.

Kallen and Dis continued their campaign against Rojia City’s corrupt officials and the Otherworldly Demon Aloteta, while Kallen reflected on his growing appetite for uncovering the world’s darkness. Dis confronted the banquet’s guests under the Order Regulations, and Aloteta fled with Delis as Dis pursued him; Kallen stayed behind with Alfred to prepare spring rolls for Mr. Oka.

• Kallen told Dis that the killings weighed on him but that he could overcome the shock, and he said the job was not finished while Rojia City still had corruption to expose.
• Alfred bought a young man’s radio, then played music as he, Kallen, and Dis danced their way into the Glorious Hotel and waited outside the private dining room for Delis to finish her performance.
• Dis entered the dining room and announced that Haggett, Oka, Ford, and Aloteta would be questioned under the Order Regulations.
• Aloteta seized Delis and crashed through the window, prompting Dis to leap after them; Kallen explained that Aloteta had resisted arrest and taken Delis hostage.
• Kallen and Alfred stayed behind with Oka and joked about using Haggett’s skin, Ford’s grass-filled head, and Oka’s grease to make the spring rolls Kallen had promised.

Dis erased Aloteta with a Forbidden Spell and returned to the Immerlis Family badly affected by its side effects, while Kallen chose to pursue the power to protect his family. In the basement, Kallen awakened Siso and his family, who embraced instead of attacking their killers.

• Aloteta invoked protections from several churches, but Dis erased him with Forbidden-Eternal Order-Erasure, leaving Delis alive but mad and damaged.
• Dis returned to the crowded hearse with Kallen, and Kallen told him he wanted to follow his grandfather’s arrangements and learn to praise Order.
• Dis coughed up blood from the Forbidden Spell’s side effects and said he would pray that the God of Order would not let him die.
• Kallen went to the basement, reflected on Siso’s family and their killers, and used chainlike strands to awaken the four people in their coffins.
• Siso and his family climbed out of their coffins and embraced each other rather than attacking Molf, Ford, Haggett, and Oka.

Kallen learned that his grandfather had arranged a lunch meeting with Mina’s beautiful teacher, Miss Eunice, and prepared hot oil noodles while making fish with pickled greens for Puer. The chapter ended as Eunice arrived at the Immerlis Family home and Kallen and Puer watched her from the window.

• Kallen woke late, learned that Dis had gone to inspect his Crematorium Society, and heard that Miss Eunice would visit for lunch.
• Mary explained that Dis and Kallen’s grandfather had arranged the meeting and asked Kallen to host Eunice while the family was away.
• Alfred offered to prepare romantic decorations and a car for Kallen, but Kallen sent him off to work on his radio show.
• Kallen discussed Dis’s preparations and the Divine Descent Ritual with Puer, then cooked fish with pickled greens for her.
• Kallen prepared hot oil noodles for lunch as Eunice arrived, and Puer and Kallen watched her approach the gate.

Kallen met Mina’s math teacher, Eunice, and shared a meal and conversation with her while Puer urged him to pursue her. After Eunice left, Puer recognized the emblem on her gift wallet and realized Eunice was descended from her family.

• Puer described her ancient family and encouraged Kallen to have children with Eunice, whom she believed had exceptional spiritual sensitivity.
• Kallen welcomed Eunice, corrected her mistaken assumptions about his age and education, and invited her to lunch.
• Eunice and Kallen ate noodles together and talked for hours while Puer watched and pushed garlic toward Eunice.
• Eunice gave Kallen a pink wallet for Mina and left in a taxi as evening approached.
• Puer recognized the wallet’s emblem and shouted that Eunice was a descendant of her family.

Kallen realized Dis was steering him toward Eunice and Vien as a possible safeguard, while Dis insisted that his own unforeseen trouble would not endanger the Immerlis Family. Dis then took Kallen to the hospital to bring Mr. Hoffen home, where an Order agent arrived to question him and Mr. Hoffen declared that the Evil God had already descended.

• Puer revealed that Eunice was her descendant and admitted she had warned Kallen away because she feared his Evil God nature would bring misfortune upon her family.
• Kallen handled Mrs. Moddes's funeral arrangements with care, then drew a diagram and concluded that Dis might be preparing a fallback for him through the Allen family in Vien.
• Dis told Kallen to pursue a relationship with Eunice and gave him money for dates, while explaining that a personal problem of his own—not Kallen or the Divine Descent Ritual—was troubling him.
• Dis said he hoped Kallen would go to Vien but would not deny his family the right to choose their own paths, then took Kallen to the hospital after hearing Mr. Hoffen had become critically ill again.
• An Order agent entered Mr. Hoffen's hospital room to question him about an excessive Divine Descent Ritual, and Mr. Hoffen announced that the Evil God had already descended.

Dis and Kallen brought the dying Hoffen home after he revealed his friendship with Dis and gave Kallen his Cross necklace. Dis explained that Hoffen had helped arrange a second Divine Descent Ritual to protect the Immerlis Family, while the chapter ended by revealing that the God of Order had taken nothing from Dis as a sacrifice.

• Dis and Kallen visited Hoffen in the hospital, where Hoffen urged Dis to kill Kallen and told him that Rasma had learned about the Divine Descent Ritual.
• Hoffen and Dis reminisced about their friendship, and Hoffen admitted that he had envied Dis and worshiped him as well as the God of Principles.
• Kallen told Hoffen that he had faith in truth without believing in gods, and Hoffen gave him his Cross necklace as a gift from his grandpa.
• Hoffen confessed that he had secretly worshiped Dis and then died after Dis explained why he had withdrawn from the Order God Church.
• Dis told Kallen that Rasma would conduct another Divine Descent Ritual in Bellwyn City, allowing Hoffen's testimony and Rasma's doomed attempt to clear suspicion from their family.
• Dis and Kallen brought Hoffen home for his funeral, and Dis privately recalled that the God of Order had taken nothing from him in the ritual despite his readiness to sacrifice everything.

After burying Mr. Hoffen, Kallen headed to meet Eunice while Dis reflected on the Order Church’s control over his faith and family. Kallen arrived at Eunice’s home and met her mother, who began warming to him.

• Kallen led Mr. Hoffen’s funeral, then left Dis at the grave and drove toward Rhine Street to meet Eunice.
• Alfred explained that the Special Department had concealed the circumstances of recent political deaths, while Kallen suspected Dis wanted him to go to Vien because Dis was in trouble.
• Dis told Mr. Hoffen’s grave that he feared the Order Temple would claim him and entangle his family, then said it was nearly time to take off the mask.
• Kallen refused to bring Puer on his date, and Alfred took her home while Kallen continued alone.
• Kallen reached Eunice’s house and spoke with her mother, who hid her growing approval of him behind teasing conversation.

Kallen and Eunice spent a peaceful day together at an amusement park, a movie theater, and a restaurant, then parted on warm terms. After returning home, Kallen visited Piaget and saw Linda's painting of the Mad Pope, titled "God's Twilight," depicting the moment he denied the existence of the God of Light.

• Kallen took Eunice on a date after reassuring Mrs. Jenny that he would bring her home safely before dark.
• Kallen and Eunice toured the amusement park, crossed the haunted house together, and shared snacks and a comedy film.
• Kallen and Eunice ate dinner by the river, embraced outside her home, and Eunice told Mrs. Jenny she felt comfortable with him.
• Kallen visited Piaget, who showed him Linda's painting of the Mad Pope and explained its connection to the Church of Light's collapse.