Recaps

Kallen secured Mrs. Lake’s agreement to let him support Mr. Pavaro’s family while keeping their unspoken understanding, and decided to take over the Pavarro Funeral Society. After learning the Raphael Family had been wiped out, he went to the Funeral Society the next morning and met Order God Church representatives delivering Mr. Pavaro’s commendation and death benefit.

• Mrs. Lake accepted Kallen’s promise to provide for Mr. Pavaro’s wife and daughters, and agreed to keep his identity secret.
• Kallen planned to take over the Pavarro Funeral Society and consider legitimizing his own identity as an officially registered Divine Servant.
• Kallen returned home, startled Xili by appearing as Mr. Pavaro, and asked Puer whether the pollution affecting Mr. Pavaro’s daughters could be treated.
• Alfred told Kallen that the Raphael Family had been wiped out, and Puer thanked him for helping Mr. Pavaro and Ms. Annie.
• The next morning, Kallen went to the Funeral Society with Alfred and met two Order God Church representatives bringing Mr. Pavaro’s certificate of commendation and death benefit.
• When a representative asked his name, Kallen introduced himself as Pavaro.

Kallen confronted Arbiter Vicolai over stealing Pavaro’s credit and negotiated a reward, promotion, and freedom to choose a Divine Servant. After Vicolai left, Kallen laughed at his boast that his grandfather was a bishop, thinking of his own grandfather.

• Two Divine Servants arrived to deliver Pavaro’s death benefits, but left to report to Vicolai after finding Kallen alive.
• Kallen resolved to let Vicolai buy his silence, while privately vowing that Vicolai would pay for taking Pavaro’s honor.
• Kallen reassured Mrs. Lake that her daughters might receive better treatment and listened as she grieved for Pavaro and apologized for how she had treated him.
• Kallen learned from Pike that a seventh-rank Inquisitor could have only two Divine Servants and earned one thousand Order Vouchers each month.
• Vicolai offered Kallen a promotion to sixth rank and seven thousand Order Vouchers; Kallen demanded fifth rank, ten thousand vouchers, and the right to choose his own Divine Servant, and Vicolai agreed.
• Vicolai said his grandfather was a bishop, and Kallen laughed after he left, amused that Vicolai had compared grandfathers with him.

Kallen arranged Annie’s funeral at the Pavaro Funeral Society and learned from the mourners how deeply she had supported the women of Red Leaf Street. The chapter ended with the pastry shops closing for the night as the women mourned her.

• Kallen asked Mrs. Lake to prepare Annie’s body and arrange a funeral that night, with a separate grave for Mr. Pavaro.
• Kallen and Alfred brought Annie and Mr. Pavaro’s body from Kallen’s home to the funeral society.
• Kallen read Mr. Pavaro’s work journals while Mrs. Lake restored Annie and prepared the mourning hall.
• Kallen told Dinkum he planned to recruit a divine servant and instructed Pike to announce Annie’s funeral.
• Women from Red Leaf Street arrived to mourn Annie, and Mrs. Lake explained that she had reached out to them.
• Kallen gave Mrs. Lake forty rael as his condolence money, and every pastry shop on Red Leaf Street closed for the night.

After burying Mr. Pavaro and Ms. Annie, Kallen took charge of the Funeral Society and prepared to learn combat arts while arranging for Little John to attend school. He received Pavaro’s Fifth-Rank Inquisitor documents and rewards from the District and Vicolai, then headed to obtain an Identity Card for his Divine Servant.

• At Green Vine Cemetery, Alfred carved Kallen’s thanks onto Ms. Annie’s and Mr. Pavaro’s headstones, and Kallen drove Mrs. Lake back to the Funeral Society.
• Kallen agreed to run the Funeral Society, told Little John he would arrange school for him, and discussed buying scrolls for Puer and Kevin’s arts.
• Kallen returned to the Funeral Society disguised as Mr. Pavaro and confirmed his Qi He case statement to Deputy Director Mian, who gave him Fifth-Rank Inquisitor documents and Vicolai’s gift.
• Kallen demanded the District’s two-thousand-Order-Voucher reward, then gave the vouchers to Pike for Mrs. Lake and told Pike and Dinkum to welcome the incoming Divine Servant.
• Kallen opened Vicolai’s gift box, found ten thousand Order Vouchers, and gave them to Alfred before setting off to get an Identity Card for his Divine Servant.

Kallen obtained Divine Servant identification and met Neo, who offered him a place in the Whip of Order. After accepting, Kallen left with a contact sheet and a flimsy whip-emblem ring, realizing the supposed membership was little more than an informal arrangement.

• Kallen suspected that Vicolai's concern about scrutiny centered on clerk Neo and went to the Regional Administration Office to obtain Divine Servant identification.
• Kallen passed the sensing-orb test by releasing only a tiny amount of spirituality, and the clerk completed his identification paperwork without the usual police verification.
• Kallen found Neo on the twenty-fourth floor and followed him to a concealed office on the thirty-second floor.
• Neo offered Kallen a place in the Whip of Order, and Kallen accepted, receiving a gray document bag and instructions to report monthly and collect a 100 Order Voucher allowance in person.
• Kallen examined the bag in Alfred's car, found only contact information and a gray whip-emblem ring, and broke the plastic ring with his fingers.

Kallen joined the Pavarro Funeral Society as a Divine Servant, took charge of the office, and went with Pike and Dinkum to collect a body. At the Red Tree Apartments, they found the supposed deceased woman pinned behind a bathtub curtain, and Kallen identified her as a Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon.

• Alfred drove Kallen to the Funeral Society after agreeing to buy supplies and investigate a silent march by hooded torchbearers.
• Kallen showed Pike and Dinkum his Divine Servant identification, ordered them to clean and work properly, and told them to call him boss.
• Kallen read Mr. Pavaro's notes, wrote down three goals, and rested until Mrs. Lake told him the Society had received a funeral call.
• Kallen drove Pike and Dinkum to apartment 702 at the Red Tree Apartments to collect a dead woman, but nobody answered the door.
• Pike found a woman with fangs and long black fingernails pinned to the washroom wall by a silver spike, and Kallen recognized her as a Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon.

Kallen and his Funeral Society collected a Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon’s corpse, and he decided against turning it over to the Church for a paltry reward. After learning that the dead woman had killed herself to prevent harming others, Kallen agreed to hold her a dignified funeral the evening after tomorrow.

• Kallen freed the female Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon’s corpse from a silver spike, and Pike and Dinkum purified and transported it to the Funeral Society.
• Kallen rejected Dinkum’s suggestion to investigate the house and decided not to submit the corpse to the Church for its 50 Order Vouchers reward.
• Kallen told Pike to prepare to burn the corpse, but a caller asked him to arrange a funeral for his wife, who had killed herself to keep from attacking people after losing herself.
• Kallen realized Neo had referred the caller to him and agreed to hold the dead woman a dignified funeral in white the evening after tomorrow.
• Kallen accepted that the Funeral Society would conduct the funeral and privately celebrated the business’s upgrade.

Kallen arranged a funeral for a Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon and investigated her connection to Neo. After learning that Neo had helped her and her husband, Kallen reported the situation to Neo, who told him to help give her a proper funeral.

• Mrs. Lake completed the dead demon’s funeral makeup while Kallen examined her fangs and nails and wondered why Neo had directed her husband to the Funeral Society.
• Alfred told Kallen he had delivered supplies, investigated the torch-bearing group, and found that they opposed illegal immigrants.
• Kallen questioned the demon’s husband, Keen, who explained that Neo had helped him and Elisa live together for two more years before she chose suicide rather than lose herself.
• Keen paid Kallen 2,000 Abyss Vouchers for arranging Elisa’s funeral, and Kallen decided the Funeral Society could specialize in funerals for nonhumans.
• Kallen secretly called Neo to report that Pavaro was refusing to surrender the body and preparing a funeral, and Neo instructed him to help give Elisa a proper one.

Kallen prepared for Elisa's funeral, investigated the bloodline condition behind her death, and suspected that Neo had been more than her friend. Anticipating trouble at the funeral, he arranged for the Pavaro family to stay elsewhere and chose not to disguise himself as Mr. Pavaro.

• Alfred decorated the funeral hall while Kallen finished Mr. Pavaro's journals and researched Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demons.
• Kallen inferred that Elisa had lost access to potions suppressing her ancestral bloodline's whispers and had killed herself before losing control.
• Kallen reported the funeral arrangements to Neo and suspected a romantic connection between Neo and Elisa after noticing Neo's emotional response.
• Alfred enrolled Little John in school, while Xili told Kallen about white-robed groups and Mr. Luther's campaign against discrimination.
• Kallen summoned the old man and learned that Light could imitate other systems' powers through conversion.
• Alfred moved Mrs. Lake and the two young ladies to a hotel, and Kallen arrived at the Funeral Society without assuming Mr. Pavaro's identity so he could flee if trouble arose.

Kallen hosted Elisa’s funeral, where her family’s arrival and a plot involving the Bocart and Magna families exposed the conflict behind her death. After Neo stopped an attack on the Anavas Count, he discovered Edis had caused Elisa’s death and killed her, saying Elisa would not be alone.

• Kallen and the Funeral Society prepared Elisa’s mourning hall, and Captain Neo and Elisa’s sister Edis arrived to pay their respects.
• The Anavas Count arrived, ordered Edis to kneel before Elisa’s coffin, and said he had given Gross genuine Resting Liquid.
• Gross revealed he had alerted the Bocart and Magna families, who had come to kill the Count and Edis, but Neo announced Order had purged their illegal forces.
• Neo stopped Edis from attacking Gross and asked the Count whether the Resting Liquid had been fake; the Count denied it and suggested Edis may have wanted Elisa dead for Neo’s advancement.
• Neo realized Edis had caused Elisa’s death, decapitated her, and said she could be buried with Elisa so Elisa would not be lonely.

Neo killed Edis and her bodyguards at Elisa’s funeral, then buried Elisa with Kallen’s help. During the drive and burial, Neo questioned Kallen about his secrets and explained that he wanted him to watch over Pavaro, leaving Kallen trusted but still wary of his own carefully maintained persona.

• Neo killed Edis, and the Count had her two bodyguards killed before leaving the mourning hall.
• Gross realized that he had unknowingly enabled Edis to switch the Resting Liquid, apologized to Neo, and shot himself.
• Neo ordered his squad to clear the hall, then took Elisa’s coffin to Green Vine Cemetery with Kallen driving.
• Neo questioned Kallen about his romantic relationship and recognized that Kallen habitually made his actions seem appropriate.
• Kallen and Neo buried Elisa, and Neo said he regretted making his relationship with her public while affirming his admiration for Pavaro.
• Neo admitted he wanted Kallen to keep watch on Pavaro so he could support him if trouble arose, and promised not to investigate Kallen because he trusted Pavaro’s judgment.

After a night at Green Vine Cemetery, Kallen returned home and learned two powerful spells from Puer and Kevin in the woods. He mastered Sea God Armor and Dark Moon Blade, tested their abilities, and ended the chapter feeling that he had finally learned how to fight.

• Kallen shared macaroni with Saman the Piper at Green Vine Cemetery before Alfred came to take him home.
• Kallen told Alfred he wanted to learn to fight and planned to practice the two spell scrolls before visiting Allen Manor.
• Kallen woke in the afternoon to find that Puer and Kevin had finished the scrolls, then went with Little John, Puer, and Kevin to practice in the woods.
• Kallen learned Sea God Armor in half an hour and used it to leap through the air and stop a handgun bullet without injury.
• Kallen learned Dark Moon Blade in fifteen minutes, combined it with Sea God Armor, and sliced through two rows of trees before sitting down exhausted.
• Kallen said that the security of having power had eased his fear and that he had finally learned how to fight.

Kallen left home to visit his fiancée at Allen Manor, collecting a gift from Lemar along the way. On the road, Kevin detected a high-grade Cursed Object in an overturned truck, and Kallen discovered that Neo was running a sting operation against the Abyss Church.

• Kallen wrote about how learning the Sea God Armor and Dark Moon Blade gave him a sense of security and a desire to protect those around him.
• Kallen left home with Puer and Kevin, and Alaye told him that Xili qualified to apply for a temporary residence permit.
• Kallen collected a glass-dome gift and a wallet from Lemar at the Lemaire Pottery Gallery, then continued west toward Allen Manor.
• Kevin detected a high-grade Cursed Object in an overturned truck, and Kallen stopped after suspecting the couple guarding it were not ordinary couriers.
• Neo appeared in Kallen's car and explained that the truck was part of a sting operation against the Abyss Church, then asked Kallen to order a group meal for fourteen people.

Kallen encountered two Abyss Church members trying to steal his car and killed them after they attacked him. He returned to Neo, who told him to take them alive next time so they could be ransomed for vouchers.

• Kallen recognized the rings worn by two men as associated with the Abyss Church, then ordered fourteen meals while waiting for his friends.
• The two men tried to take Kallen's car, and he shot one before fleeing into the woods as the other attacked him with Spell Arts.
• Kallen used Order-Guarding Walls, Sea God Armor, and Dark Moon Blade to kill both men and destroy their attempt to send a message.
• Kallen burned the bodies and returned to find Marlow and Zema with his car, while Neo waited inside the diner.
• Neo told Kallen he should have captured the men and said to take them alive next time so they could be ransomed for vouchers.

Kallen discussed his deliberate ambush and hidden methods with Captain Neo, who explained that his Whip of Order squad was made up of people with secrets and would soon take on more missions in York City. After returning to Allen Manor, Kallen checked on the family and visited Eunice, finding her asleep beside a nearly finished wallet and a passage about finding happiness in having someone to miss.

• Neo told Kallen that he did not need to memorize the Order Regulations and confronted him about deliberately luring the Abyss Church members into the woods.
• Neo explained that his squad had never been promoted because its members were all compromised, and said Kallen might join future missions after returning to York City.
• Marlow and Zema joked with Kallen about Neo's habit of calling his squad hounds and other groups ducklings, then warned him that Peige was interested in meeting him.
• Kevin and Puer explained that Kallen's advanced spells and their help had made it easy for him to kill the two Abyss Church members.
• Kallen returned to Allen Manor, congratulated Mr. Mike on reaching Level Four, and told Old Anderson to contact a pottery gallery about supplying materials.
• Kallen found Eunice asleep in her room and discovered her unfinished wallet, which held her photograph, along with a passage about the happiness of having someone to miss.

Kallen spent time with Eunice at the Manor, then asked Mike for combat pointers and sparred with Judiya. The fight revealed how powerful Kallen’s Arts and spiritual reserves were, while Kevin and Puer wondered how his lack of faith let him use other Faith Systems’ powers so efficiently.

• Kallen and Eunice discussed their relationship, her fire power, and his new home and plans to manage a Funeral Society.
• Kallen woke at noon, ate lunch, and went with Mike to the Cemetery to practice fighting.
• Kallen sparred with Judiya, using Order-Guarding Walls and Sea God Armor to withstand her attacks and Dark Moon Blade to break through her ice defenses.
• Judiya’s barrage drove Kallen to throw a Spear of Discipline, which broke her ice dome and wounded her before Mike intervened.
• Kallen dismissed his Arts and realized his vast spiritual reserves let him sustain unusually strong offense and defense.
• Kevin and Puer concluded that Kallen’s rejection of divine Revelation and refusal to place a god in his heart let him use powers from other Faith Systems without conversion losses.

At Allen Manor, Old Anderson corrected Mike’s belief that Judiya mattered more than Eunice, while Kallen shared a tender farewell with Eunice before returning to York City. Later, Puer showed Kallen two paintings that linked his Purification to the Light Remnants’ Divine Guidance and raised doubts about who their prophecy had led them to await.

• Old Anderson treated Eunice as the Allen Family’s roof and instructed Mike to support Kallen’s requests, including supplying the pottery gallery.
• Kallen and Eunice rode through Allen Manor, took a photograph together, and discussed his imminent return to York City for a possible mission.
• Kallen settled Eunice in her bedroom, then followed Kevin to Mr. Bede’s hidden studio beneath the Ancient Castle.
• Kallen and Puer examined a painting of the Light Remnants worshipping a golden bell and inferred that they had received Divine Guidance before approaching Piaget and Bede.
• Puer revealed a second painting dated the day of Kallen’s Purification, suggesting that his Purification preceded the Light Remnants’ guidance and may have triggered it.
• Puer questioned whether the person the Light Remnants awaited was the same person Piaget expected to meet.

Kallen left Allen Manor and returned to York City, where Puer suggested the world was changing after the Church of Light received divine guidance. At the Whip of Order, Kallen joined a protection detail for the Dark Moon Family delegation, and the chapter ended with him wondering what changes were coming.

• Kallen left Allen Manor after saying goodbye to Eunice and promised to bring her to Bluebridge Community once she had absorbed her bloodline’s power.
• Kallen visited the Pavarro Funeral Society, where Alfred and the others were nearly finished renovating the premises.
• Kallen met Peige and Fanny at the church affairs building, where Peige aggressively flirted with him until Neo began the squad meeting.
• Neo assigned Kallen, Peige, and Fanny to protect the Dark Moon Family delegation led by seventeen-year-old Ophelia during its talks in York City.
• Fanny helped Kallen collect basic mission equipment and told him to meet the squad at six in the morning the day after tomorrow.
• Kallen considered Puer’s warning that the world was changing and wondered what changes lay ahead.

Kallen tested the Whip of Order Squad’s basic equipment and discovered that his grandfather’s silver-white mask merged with his ring, allowing him to transform as before. He learned Puer’s connection to the Dark Moon Family, then joined her, Alfred, Pike, and Dinkum for dinner; meanwhile, Neo visited Elisa’s grave and discovered an empty plot registered in his name beside hers.

• Kallen inspected his squad equipment, found most of it poorly made or ill-fitting, and kept the spell revolver and 500 rael.
• Kallen’s grandfather’s silver-white mask merged with his ring, changing its color without affecting his ability to take on Mr. Pavaro’s appearance.
• Puer told Kallen that she had obtained the Dark Moon Blade from a Dark Moon Family suitor whom she left behind on a monster island.
• Kallen cooked dinner for Puer, Alfred, Pike, and Dinkum, and Alfred later gave Pike and Dinkum 300 Order Vouchers each.
• Neo visited Elisa’s grave, accepted Old Saman’s invitation to eat, and learned that an empty plot beside Elisa’s grave was registered in his name.

Kallen joined Fanny and Peige’s security team to receive the Dark Moon Family delegation in York City, where he exposed Ophelia’s disguise. His attempt to smooth over the reveal with a Dark Moon greeting was mistaken for a confession, and Ophelia asked for time to consider it.

• Kallen ordered a custom priestly robe before meeting Fanny and Peige, who assigned him to assist with Ophelia’s close-protection team.
• Kallen, Fanny, and Peige waited at the docks and prepared to receive the Dark Moon Family delegation.
• Fanny confirmed the apparent Ophelia’s identity, and Kallen failed to offer her a hand as she boarded the van.
• Kallen ceremoniously offered his hand to the masked female warrior, signaling to Fanny and Peige that she was the real Ophelia.
• The female warrior revealed herself as Ophelia, while the apparent Ophelia turned out to be a disguised member of her party.
• Kallen used a Dark Moon greeting to explain how he recognized Ophelia, but she took it as a confession and asked for time to consider it.

Kallen escorted Ophelia, a Dark Moon Island delegation leader, through a diplomatic visit to York City, where he learned she planned to visit Allen Manor to honor an ancestor’s lost love. After Neo’s squad effortlessly stopped an assassination attempt, the team welcomed Kallen by teasing him about confessing to Ophelia and formally accepting him as a teammate.

• Kallen explained Dark Moon Island’s customs to Ophelia during the car ride and learned she wanted to visit Allen Manor to tend the grave of her ancestor’s former lover.
• Ophelia recounted a romantic story about her ancestor and an Allen Family woman, and Kallen realized the story’s details might not match the truth.
• Peige stopped the car after a warning, but Neo’s squad swiftly killed the attackers and an assassin fleeing toward Ophelia’s car was sliced apart by Peige’s Order-defensive boundary.
• Fanny and Kallen escorted Ophelia to the Ankara Hotel, where she prepared for the welcoming banquet.
• Marlow led the squad in mock worship of Kallen for supposedly confessing his love to Ophelia, and Neo welcomed him as a new teammate with the team’s oath.

Kallen served as Ophelia’s close protection at a lavish banquet, where she discussed the Order God Church’s interest in cooperation and rumors about the gods. The chapter ended with Ophelia revealing that the Dark Moon believed the God of Order had abandoned his church.

• Kallen joked with Peige and Fanny before joining Ophelia, apologizing for the misunderstanding at the docks and discussing Vien and Allen Manor with her.
• Kallen and Peige accompanied Ophelia to a lavish banquet, where she spoke with church leaders while they sampled rare foods.
• Ophelia danced with the Chief Bishop’s grandson, whom Xinla identified as a potential marriage match beneath the Dark Moon Mottling.
• After the banquet, Ophelia told Kallen that the gods seemed to be sending more signs and that a rumor claimed the God of Order had abandoned his church.

Kallen reflected on the consequences of the Order God Church’s crisis, then spent the night with his close-protection team and learned their assignment would expand to escort Ophelia’s delegation and missionaries to Dark Moon Island. After Kallen wheeled Ophelia’s lavish breakfast away to share with his teammates, Ophelia was left hungry.

• Kallen called Alfred to arrange Puer’s grave, then considered how rumors about the God of Order’s abandonment had weakened the Order God Church.
• Kallen slept beside Peige, woke when the Dark Moon Blade began activating, and saw Ophelia meditating with her own Dark Moon Blade across the hall.
• Fanny told Kallen about her former squadmate, while Peige and Fanny discussed the expanded assignment and its additional rewards.
• Ophelia invited Kallen to breakfast, but he ate heartily and wheeled the remaining food back to share with Peige and Fanny.
• Ophelia admitted she was hungry after Kallen took the breakfast trolley away.

Kallen accompanied Ophelia to Allen Manor, where she learned about Puer through the Allen family’s portrait and gravestone. Ophelia pledged Dark Moon support for the Allen Family, while Puer sneezed back in York City and wondered if someone was cursing her.

• Ophelia asked Kallen whether she should marry Leon, and he told her the choice belonged to her.
• At Allen Manor, Old Anderson showed Ophelia the family portraits, including a portrait of Puer as a black cat; Ophelia laughed and asked to view it privately.
• Kallen brought afternoon tea to the hungry Ophelia, and she ate before the party set out for the Cemetery.
• Ophelia read Puer’s gravestone inscription, wept, and promised Dark Moon support and funding for the Allen Family.
• Ophelia and the others bowed at Puer’s grave, while Puer sneezed at home and wondered whether someone was cursing her.

Kallen and Ophelia’s party came under attack while returning to York City, as hostile forces ambushed their car and cut off contact with the captain’s squad. The group fled into the hills and fought off creatures emerging from Black Mist and underground, where Ophelia revealed her formidable strength by killing a giant centipede.

• After leaving Allen Manor, Kallen shared a meal with Ophelia and her attendants during their drive toward York City.
• Peige received a distress signal from another Whip of Order Squad, but the captain ordered their party to continue their mission and stay alert.
• When enemy forces surrounded the road, Peige turned the car around, but an earth wall blocked their escape and an Earth Spike lifted the vehicle into the air.
• Kallen, Ophelia, and the others escaped up a slope while the captain’s squad fought the main enemy force; Fanny led them to a mountain hollow to hide.
• Fanny and the others fought creatures that emerged from Black Mist, while Ophelia seized Kallen and threw him clear of an underground attack.
• Ophelia pulled a mangled centipede from the ground with her longsword and shredded it with a burst of blood-red light.