Recaps

Kallen spent the night at Piaget’s house, where a dream of a Female Giant creating a mural led him to identify the obscure Wall God Church. Linda’s gift of paints and letter left him wondering about her connection to the church and what she knew about his life.

• Kallen and Piaget discussed religious paintings and psychological cases, then stayed up late talking over sandwiches and milk.
• Kallen saw a human-skin-like figure descend the stairs, then Linda guided him to a guest room.
• Kallen dreamed of a Female Giant creating a mural of a True God and woke beneath a ceiling mural resembling the canyon in his dream.
• Kallen recalled the Wall God Church, whose followers painted religious murals and used their ashes as paint, and asked Piaget whether Linda belonged to the Berry Church.
• Piaget confirmed Linda had followed the Berry Church, and Kallen left with a gift box of paints and a letter from Linda addressed to him as the Great Lord Evil God.

Kallen realized Linda was the powerful Otherworldly Demon planning a Divine Descent Ritual to summon the Wall God Church’s True God, but chose not to warn Piaget because doing so could endanger his family. After finding Piaget’s letter, he learned Piaget had willingly gone to Bellwyn City to support Linda’s final wish.

• Kallen suspected Linda had been a Wall God Church follower and wondered how she had recognized him as an Evil God.
• Kallen remembered that Linda planned to help Dis’s ritual and clear the Immerlis Family of suspicion, then returned to Piaget’s house when Piaget was missing.
• Kallen found Linda’s mural depicting a Divine Descent Ritual and realized she intended to summon the Wall God Church’s True God.
• Kallen decided not to pursue or warn Piaget because exposing the ritual could put his family in danger.
• Mrs. Seymour gave Kallen a letter from Piaget, who wrote that Linda had asked whether he agreed to her leaving him forever and that he had answered, “Oh, darling, of course!”

Kallen returned home after visiting Mrs. Seymour and told his family about his successful date with Eunice, while Puer discussed her family and their arranged-marriage history with him. Dis then asked Kallen to choose the church he disliked most and write its name on a bookmark, leaving Kallen to recognize the ominous parallel with a myth about Ankara.

• Kallen returned home, rescued Aunt Mary from choking, and recounted his date with Eunice to his enthusiastic relatives.
• Kallen told his aunts he had hugged Eunice twice, and Dis later told him to invite her to dinner with the family.
• Puer confronted Kallen about dating her younger relative and asked him to treat her descendants in Vien as family; Kallen agreed if they welcomed him as family.
• Dis said the Wall God Church was targeted by the Order God Church because its deity, Rilielsa, had angered the God of Order.
• Dis gave Kallen a bookmark and instructed him to write down the name of the church he disliked most, reminding Kallen of a myth in which Ankara used a similar bookmark before a deity fell.

Kallen courted Eunice, bought shoes, belts, and an umbrella with her, and invited her to dinner with his family. After Eunice gave her mother the purple bookmark from Kallen’s grandfather, Mrs. Jenny recognized its significance and insisted on accompanying Eunice to the visit the next day.

• Kallen waited outside the school, but Mina led Lunt and Chris away to take the tram while he continued waiting for Eunice.
• Kallen took Eunice shopping, let her choose three pairs of shoes and two belts, and kissed her after she bought him an umbrella.
• Kallen and Eunice shared dinner, and he told her he would cook for himself even if he lived in Vien before inviting her to his family’s home the next day.
• Kallen kissed Eunice good night outside her house, and Mrs. Jenny teased her about how quickly their relationship was progressing.
• Eunice gave Mrs. Jenny the purple bookmark from Kallen’s grandfather, and Mrs. Jenny dropped to her knees before it.
• Mrs. Jenny decided to accompany Eunice to Kallen’s house the next day and told her she could stay overnight if she wished.

Kallen visited No. 128 and learned how Miss Molly came to live there before Alfred arrived with ingredients for hot pot. Later, Kallen brought Eunice home to meet Dis, where Mrs. Jenny entered the study first and immediately knelt before him.

• Kallen heard Miss Molly explain that she had once lived at No. 128 with her family and that Alfred had helped her settle there after her death.
• Alfred arrived, and Kallen, Alfred, and Miss Molly ate hot pot before Kallen and Alfred returned home.
• Kallen went to Eunice's House to escort her to dinner, while Alfred frightened the Old Maid and stopped her from entering the house.
• Kallen, Eunice, and Mrs. Jenny arrived at 13 Mingke Street, where Kallen explained that Dis had asked to meet Eunice alone.
• Mrs. Jenny entered Dis's study ahead of Eunice, then fell to her knees and greeted him in a trembling voice.

Dis and Mrs. Jenny discussed Kallen and Eunice’s arranged marriage, while Kallen agreed to return to Vien with Eunice. Puer worried the Allen Family might mistreat Kallen, but Dis said the family would bear the consequences if it wronged him.

• Puer grew angry that the Allen Family had sent Mrs. Jenny instead of its senior members to discuss the marriage, and Dis told her the family was unworthy of his grandson.
• Kallen and Eunice talked privately, shared an intimate moment, and agreed they would go to Vien together and ride horses by the river.
• Mrs. Jenny presented a bookmark bearing the name Raphael, and Dis destroyed it before deciding they would use the Order God Church’s coordinates in York City.
• Dis instructed Mrs. Jenny to protect Kallen in Vien and warned that the Allen Family could openly end the engagement if it wished, but must not wrong him.
• After Mrs. Jenny left, Puer urged Dis to choose another family, fearing the Allen Family would eventually mistreat Kallen.
• Dis called Kallen a falcon rather than a chick sheltered beneath his wings and said the Allen Family would bear the consequences if it wronged him.

Rasma reviewed Simon’s report criticizing Dis’s handling of deaths in Rojia City, then sought to calm his emotions by revisiting Mine Street and examining its people through a childhood perspective. He discovered that Rot’s family had been driven to die by poison, hanging, and falls, and concluded that they had not been the intended victims.

• Rasma dismissed Simon’s report as insufficient to harm Dis and told Simon to keep it for possible later use.
• Rasma walked through Mine Street and used a swinging dagger to restore his inner Order and broaden his perception.
• Rasma saw Rot and his family with traces of color, then perceived that Rot should have died from poisoning and his wife and mother from other causes.
• Rasma learned that Rot’s family had all died by apparent suicide in one night, including his daughter Sarah, who had fallen from a building.
• Rasma returned to himself, listened to the pastry-shop woman describe the family’s deaths, and said they had not been the intended victims.

Kallen took his family and Eunice on a picnic before they were due to leave for Vien, where he hoped to explore his grandfather’s forbidden abilities. At the circus that evening, Rasma sensed that its owner was a Bewitching Otherworldly Demon and killed the Chasean husband who interrupted him.

• Kallen drove Eunice and the children to a riverside picnic, where Alfred threatened a baron who insulted Kallen and Eunice.
• Kallen and Eunice talked about their future and their past ambitions, then shared a quiet moment together while Mina turned away.
• At dusk, Kallen led the family into the crowded circus grounds while Alfred watched over the children.
• Rasma rested in a Chasean woman’s tent and saw a little Otherworldly Demon with Succubus Eyes and the circus’s owner, a Bewitching Otherworldly Demon.
• When the woman’s husband entered the tent, Rasma killed him.

Kallen attended the Kaqiluo Circus with Eunice and the children, where a performance by the drowned, reanimated Mandila drew him into her memories and despair. After Kallen silently wished the magician dead, Mandila pulled him into the water tank and drowned him, then thanked Kallen.

• Kallen bought VIP tickets for the group, and they watched the circus begin with a song, acrobatics, and a lion act.
• Alfred investigated a disturbance outside and met Rasma, who trapped him with Order-Cage but released him after learning he served Dis; Rasma said a man had insulted the Order God Church, and Alfred agreed to handle the corpse.
• During a water-tank act, Kallen recognized that Mandila was a corpse and heard her describe being drowned repeatedly by the ringmaster, the magician, and the master who had bought her from her parents.
• Kallen experienced Mandila's suffocation and despair from inside the tank's perspective, then recovered in Eunice's arms as the magician opened the tank and Mandila emerged.
• After Kallen silently told Mandila to die, she dragged the magician into the tank and held him underwater while the audience cheered, then thanked Kallen.

Alfred recognized that Kallen had spoken an Evil God's curse during a deadly circus act, and Kallen hurried Eunice and the children home before the lucky draw could draw them into danger. The next morning, Mandila's corpse arrived at Kallen's house, where it unexpectedly sat up and grabbed the stretcher wheels.

• Alfred returned to the big top, saw black vapor coming from Mandila, and realized Kallen had cursed someone in the language of the hymn.
• Kallen led Eunice and the children out of the circus, and Alfred kept the group together when a lucky draw stirred up a crowd.
• Kallen drove the children home, took Eunice home, and later went to bed after the circus brought back memories of being trapped underwater.
• Kallen learned that Dis had gone to church and helped Ron unload two corpses from the Hearse.
• Mandila's corpse sat up on the stretcher and grabbed its wheels while Ron praised Kallen for holding it steady.

Kallen discovered that he could command Mandila’s ritually refined corpse, while Puer recognized his unusual power as a gift that made him unlike an ordinary believer. Puer urged him to go to Vien and offered to serve as the Sacred Artifact for his Purification there.

• Kallen learned from Alfred that an Order God Church figure had fled after admitting he could not defeat Dis, and that the circus had also left town.
• Kallen commanded Mandila’s corpse to rise, and she performed actions as he directed before returning to the steel-plated bed.
• Puer identified the runes on Mandila as formation patterns left by a bewitching otherworldly demon and questioned how Kallen had gained control over her.
• Kallen explained that Mandila had called to him during the performance and that he had sensed her emotions before discovering he could command her.
• Puer insisted that Kallen go to Vien to complete his Purification perfectly, then revealed that she was a Sacred Artifact and offered to help him there.

Dis learned that the Order God Church expected him to join the temple, but divination showed he might instead turn the Sword of Order against it. He delayed negotiations for seven days so he could attend to his family, then declared the Immerlis Family a forbidden ground for the church and even the gods.

• Dis received the Ruilan District administration’s praise for stopping the invasion and rejected Simon’s questions about seeking promotion.
• Dis told Simon that Rasma had come for him, and Rasma revealed that the temple expected Dis to become a Temple Elder but feared he would attack the Order Temple.
• Dis told Rasma he wanted to negotiate with the Church and scheduled the meeting for seven days later, after listing the family obligations he planned to fulfill first.
• Rasma warned that three Temple Elders had come with him, but Dis insisted the temple could negotiate sooner if it accepted the consequences of his choice.
• Dis returned home, recalled Kallen calling the house home, and declared the Immerlis Family forbidden ground for the church and gods.

Kallen spoke with Dis about the Order God Church, Dis’s refusal to become a Temple Elder, and the family’s past before an Evil God summoning forced the church’s elders to act. After the ritual failed and Linda’s soul was destroyed, Kallen heard from Piaget, who mourned Linda’s departure and agreed to pay extra for counseling.

• Kallen shared lunch with his family, then asked Dis about Rasma, the Order Temple, and Dis’s plans to refuse the church’s offer and leave in seven days.
• Kallen speculated that the Ferocious Beast in the painting “Light of Order” might have been Puer, and Dis agreed that the idea made sense.
• The Order God Church’s elders sensed a ritual summoning Rilielsa, and three elders destroyed the Female Giant’s manifestation before Xidi erased Linda’s soul.
• Rasma visited Dis, refused to enter the family home, and left after repeating that negotiations would take place in seven days.
• Piaget called Kallen to mourn Linda and agreed to pay a higher counseling fee after Kallen explained that repeat customers paid more.

Kallen took Mandila out for a late-night walk and learned from Alfred how his ability to awaken corpses differed from the circus demon’s control. He realized he might use his unusual affinity to awaken powerful, well-preserved corpses as protection in Vien, but Mandila’s independent kiss reminded him that an awakened corpse could also be dangerous.

• Kallen left his room, brought Mandila out of the basement, and met Alfred, who reported that the circus was hiding on a farm near Rojia City.
• As they walked through a park, Alfred explained that Mandila’s corpse was gradually losing its preserved spirituality and contrasted her condition with Molly’s transformation.
• Alfred described how powerful corpses might retain memories and replenish their spirituality, though awakening them could demand enormous effort and risk the caster’s life.
• Kallen considered searching Vien for powerful, well-preserved corpses to awaken as bodyguards, and Alfred eagerly agreed to look for candidates.
• After returning home, Kallen asked Mandila whether she was willing to be buried; she agreed, then kissed him before returning to the basement.
• Kallen warned Alfred that Mandila’s independent action showed an awakened corpse might turn on its awakener.

Kallen arranged Mandila’s burial and helped Aunt Winnie reject her ex-husband, Parker. After Winnie reconciled with Dis, Kallen told his grandfather that he had sent Alfred to kill Parker and send him to heaven.

• Kallen arranged for the dead magician to be cremated and Mandila to be buried in a cemetery, and he touched her headstone to wish her peace.
• Kallen and his family returned home to find Aunt Winnie’s ex-husband, Parker, pleading to reunite with her; Chris rejected him, and Alfred carried him outside.
• Aunt Winnie spoke with Dis in his study, apologized for her past choices, and emerged having found relief in his forgiveness.
• Puer asked Kallen about his relationship with Eunice, then began preparing a radio script about relationship problems.
• Kallen told Dis that Parker had visited and challenged his grandfather’s decision not to punish him, then revealed that he had sent Alfred to kill Parker.

Kallen received an enforcement warrant from Dis to deal with Parker, while Mason and Winnie worried that Kallen’s plans to go to Vien meant he was being pushed out of the family home and business. Kallen reassured them that he chose to leave and would always have a home to return to, ending the chapter determined to protect his family.

• Dis gave Kallen an enforcement warrant that made it legal for an official Otherworldly Demon to act against Parker.
• Mary told Mason that Dis seemed to be keeping the family from involving themselves in Kallen’s relationship with Eunice, and Mason feared Kallen was being sent to Vien so he could inherit the family business.
• Mason confronted Dis, then scolded Winnie for not telling him her concerns and asked Kallen whether he planned to go to Vien.
• Mason and Winnie offered to give Kallen all their shares, but Kallen said he wanted to see the world and trusted that his family would welcome him back.
• Kallen persuaded Mason and Winnie that family mattered more than shares, and Dis told Kallen he was proud of their family as Kallen vowed to protect it.

Kallen received an invitation from Simon to meet at Mink Street Church, but told Dis about it and went with him to West Street Cemetery instead. On the way home, Kallen realized Dis had been shielding him from a dark figure during their earlier encounter.

• Kallen read Diary of Wild Fantasies and learned that Lunt had done poorly on his exams, though Aunt Mary calmly encouraged him to work harder next term.
• Mina gave Kallen a letter from Simon inviting him to meet at Mink Street Church at eight that night, and Kallen tore it up before reporting the message to Dis.
• Dis took Kallen to West Street Cemetery, where he explained that the day marked the anniversary of Kallen's parents' deaths.
• Kallen discovered that Dis had stood at a random couple's gravestone each year to remember his lost family, and the two returned home in the rain.
• As Dis opened the door and told Kallen to go home, Kallen recalled that Dis's murderous gaze in their earlier encounter had been aimed at a dark figure behind him, while Dis had been protecting him.

Kallen learned that Dis had hidden the source of his injuries and was preparing to resolve an unknown threat before Kallen left for Vien. At Oak Cemetery, Dis awakened Mr. Hoffen and asked him to help seal the newly descended Evil God, intending to give it to Kallen as a companion.

• Kallen questioned Puer about Dis's old injuries and reconsidered whether Alfred had caused them.
• Kallen's family gave him a bankbook and loan documents to help him buy a house in Vien, and Dis told him an unnamed danger would end within two days.
• Dis lit a candle for Kallen to watch, then secretly took Alfred to Oak Cemetery and awakened Mr. Hoffen from his grave.
• Dis explained that the Evil God brought down by the Divine Descent Ritual had failed to enter Kallen's body and was now hiding nearby.
• Dis asked Mr. Hoffen to help seal the Evil God, saying he wanted to give it to Kallen as a companion.

Kallen sat before a candle as two unseen gazes gradually accepted him, while Dis, Mr. Hoffen, and Alfred planned to lure the lurking Evil God out of its uncertain state and seal it. Dis revealed that he would provoke a crisis around his emerging Godhead Fragment, and the chapter ended with him choosing the Golden Retriever as the Evil God’s vessel.

• Kallen watched a candle burn in the Immerlis study as two unseen gazes observed him and their scrutiny grew gentler.
• At Oak Cemetery, Mr. Hoffen celebrated his return from death with Alfred, then joined him and Dis to plan how to seal the Evil God.
• Dis explained that Kallen could serve as bait because the Evil God could no longer alter another body and would have to seek Kallen’s.
• Mr. Hoffen deduced that Dis had gathered Order Church figures and rival church elders by revealing his coming Godhead Fragment, and Dis confirmed that he had leaked the information himself.
• Mr. Hoffen learned that Kallen had called him Grandpa and vowed to seal the Evil God as a gift for his grandson.
• Dis pulled the Golden Retriever over with a leash and declared that the Evil God would be made into a dog.

Mr. Hoffen prepared to seal the weakened Evil God inside Golden Retriever as Dis unleashed his divine power, drawing the major churches toward Oak Cemetery. Meanwhile, Raniedal tried to take over Kallen’s body, but Kallen’s parents stopped him, and Dis revealed he could reach the Evil God through a hole in Kallen’s chest.

• Mr. Hoffen began drawing a sealing formation on Golden Retriever while Dis raised a barrier over Oak Cemetery and released his cultivation level.
• Dis’s divine presence summoned three pillars of light from Rojia City, and the Abyss Church, Reincarnation Church, Night God Church, and Principle God Church sent forces toward the cemetery.
• Raniedal entered Kallen’s body as the candle flame turned black, but Kallen’s parents appeared and stopped him by touching his otherwise insubstantial form.
• Raniedal tried to withdraw and wait for another chance, but a slit opened in Kallen’s chest and a hand seized him.
• Dis told Mr. Hoffen that he could catch Raniedal because he was Kallen’s grandfather, then put his hand into a black hole in his chest and said he had once opened a hole in Kallen’s chest too.

Dis sealed the Evil God Raniedal inside the Golden Retriever and rejected the Order Temple’s demand that he return, leaving negotiations until the following afternoon. Kallen dreamed of his birth parents, woke in Dis’s study, and was told to take the Golden Retriever with him to Vien.

• Dis called the gray mass Kevin, and Hoffen used a formation to seal it inside the Golden Retriever.
• Dis confronted the visiting churches, who affirmed the Order God Church’s authority, then declined the Order Temple’s offer and set negotiations for Sunday afternoon.
• Kallen dreamed of the man and woman who had been his parents; they told him to live well and try to be happy.
• Kallen woke in Dis’s study and found Dis had returned safely with the Golden Retriever, while Puer reacted nervously to the dog.
• Dis gave Kallen the Golden Retriever’s leash and told him to take the dog to Vien.

Kallen attended Mr. Hoffen’s memorial ceremony, where Hoffen explained the previous night’s events and gave him forbidden formation knowledge. Hoffen revealed that the failed Divine Descent Ritual had cost Dis nothing, then wondered whether the God of Order had granted everyone what they wanted and what he wanted in return.

• Kallen visited No. 128 Mink Street and joined Mr. Hoffen for his own memorial ceremony.
• Mr. Hoffen told Kallen that an Evil God lived inside Kevin and gave him a notebook of forbidden formations and ten books of beginner formation knowledge.
• Kallen asked what price Dis had paid for the Superstandard Divine Descent Ritual, and Mr. Hoffen said the God of Order had taken nothing because the ritual had failed.
• Mr. Hoffen asked Kallen to cremate him in two days, and Kallen left to invite Eunice to dinner.
• After Kallen left, Mr. Hoffen revealed that Dis, Puer, and Mrs. Linda had helped prepare the ritual and wondered what the God of Order wanted.

Kallen prepared for Eunice’s birthday, welcomed her into the Immerlis family, and celebrated with her alongside his relatives and friends. The next day, Dis attended church, where Rasma and the Order God Church clergy surrounded him in a show of force, and Dis answered their praise of Order with an insult to the God of Order.

• Kallen visited the exhausted Piaget, cleaned his house, and left him a note thanking him for the coffee.
• Kallen picked Eunice up in the family hearse, brought her home for her birthday, and introduced her to his family and friends.
• Dis welcomed Eunice and blessed her relationship with Kallen, then quietly reflected that it would not matter if she forgot him.
• Kallen gave Puer a birthday cake after the party, and Dis told Kallen to read in his study after noon the next day.
• Rasma and the Order God Church clergy gathered at the church and praised Order, while Dis answered them with an insult to the God of Order.

Kallen read Dis’s letter revealing that the God of Order had fabricated his faith and posed as a True God to conceal his hunger and hunt other deities. As the church transformed into an Order Inquisition Grounds, Dis publicly declared the God of Order a fraud.

• Kallen brought refreshments to his grandfather’s study and read an older copy of “Light of Order,” where Dis had left a letter.
• At the church, Rasma questioned Dis about his alleged crimes, but Dis refused to answer and rejected Rasma’s attempt to begin peaceful negotiations.
• The clergy summoned the Order Divine Seat, transforming the church into an Order Inquisition Grounds as the Temple Elders confronted Dis.
• Dis challenged the church’s account of the God of Order’s sacrifice of Ankara and explained that the God had created the Light of Order to hide his hunt for other deities.
• Kallen read Dis’s letter proposing that Ankara might have survived and concluding that the God of Order had falsely fashioned himself as a god.
• Under the Sword of Order and the gaze of the twelve Order Knights, Dis proclaimed that the God of Order was not a True God and had acted only to become one.

Dis rejected the Order God Church’s demand to enter the Order Temple and used his multiple godhead fragments to force the church to release him. He cursed the Immerlis Family’s spiritual aptitude and left Kallen wearing a mysterious mask as a blood thread tried to reach him.

• Dis told Rasma and the Temple Elders that he rejected the God of Order, then agreed to give them a godhead fragment if they accepted his three conditions.
• Geller, Niwen, Xidi, and Rasma swore not to erase their memories of Dis’s words, but Dis said he needed guarantees and sent Young Dis to detonate his godhead fragment against the Order Temple.
• Dis revealed middle-aged Dis and threatened another strike, prompting Geller to order the Seals removed so the real Dis could escape by teleportation.
• Middle-aged Dis traveled through regional teleportation arrays, killed the Raphael Family’s head and another man, and continued onward.
• At the church, Dis used a blood sacrifice to sever the Immerlis Family’s descendants from the spirituality needed to enter a church.
• Kallen obeyed Dis’s instruction to wear the silver-white mask, which caused a blood thread reaching for him to disintegrate as he recalled that Order was a mask.