Chapter Summaries

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.

Kallen joined Neo's squad in pursuing the enemies who had attacked them and helped Fanny kill a concealed dwarf who nearly ambushed her. After a long run and his first coordinated live-combat exercise, Kallen finally scored a kill of his own.

• Zema returned with three wounded teammates and reported that Neo had taken the squad to hunt down the attackers while he stayed behind to protect Ophelia.
• Kallen followed Fanny and Peige past fallen Whip of Order members and helped reinforce the squad as it fought a giant silver centipede and pursued the remaining enemies.
• Fanny shot the crone, and Wende and Peige destroyed the escaping growth and the black beetles hidden inside it.
• Fanny and Kallen went down the slope to support Neo, who was fighting a rune-covered axeman, but a concealed dwarf suddenly attacked Fanny.
• Kallen tackled the dwarf and killed him with Dark Moon Blades after Sea God Armor stopped the dwarf's blade from piercing him.

Neo, Fanny, and Kallen defeated the frenzied demon and discovered a Lax Copper Coin among the remains. After Kallen briefly contacted Loya through the sealed warehouse, Neo sent him and Fanny to intercept an approaching Whip of Order Squad while their teammates secured the spoils.

• Fanny supported Neo with her rifle, and her purple bullet broke the demon's transformed arm so Neo could seize its head and burn it from within.
• Neo ordered Fanny to signal their teammates and clear the battlefield, then explained that Elisa's First Embrace had given him Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon blood.
• Neo found a Lax Copper Coin in the demon's remains, picked it up without being affected, sealed it, and entrusted it to Kallen to hand over.
• The coin drew Kallen's consciousness into the Order God Church's sealed warehouse, where Loya revealed she was the artifact spirit of multiple coins and urged him to rise through the Church's ranks so he could free her.
• Kallen returned to his body after 59 seconds, and Neo told Fanny to signal their teammates that an approaching Whip of Order Squad had been detected.
• Neo took Kallen and Fanny to intercept the approaching squad, warning that if its members were weak and ignored them, they would be reported as a third lost squad.

Neo's squad finished the dangerous mission, escorted Ophelia back to the hotel, and prepared to continue protecting her in York City. After Kallen slept through a day and night from the strain of entering the Sealed Space, Loya revealed that she had dreamed of her big brother wearing a silver mask.

• Neo stopped Gengdi's squad from advancing, then led Kallen away while the others finished collecting the loot and counted casualties.
• Ophelia agreed to keep Neo's squad as her guards, while Fanny exposed Xinla's self-inflicted injury and Ophelia replaced her maid.
• The Sealed Object Management Office took the Lax Copper Coin, and Neo told Kallen about the dangerous Sealed Space it had entered.
• Fanny and Peige discussed Kallen's new Sawa 7 Art pistol, the squad's earnings, and his exhaustion after the battle.
• Kallen woke after sleeping a day and night, joined Ophelia for breakfast, and agreed to accompany her to the formal meeting.
• Loya told Lonidale that she had dreamed her big brother visited her wearing a silver mask.

After a week of exhausting negotiations, Ophelia confronted Kallen about his ability to wield the Dark Moon Blade and concluded that he was descended from Paul Allen. Kallen acknowledged possessing Dark Moon power but was left facing Ophelia’s surprising claim about his ancestry.

• Ophelia and Bishop Fix’s teams held negotiations for six days, while Kallen waited outside the conference barrier with Peige and Fanny.
• Ophelia repeatedly summoned Kallen for late-night conversations, and Panmir revealed that Ophelia suspected he shared the Dark Moon bloodline.
• After the negotiations ended, Ophelia warded her sitting room and asked Kallen about his surname and the power she had sensed in him.
• Ophelia explained that Dark Moon bloodline abilities could coexist with faith in the God of Order, and Kallen revealed the blood-red power he could wield.
• Ophelia tested Kallen’s Dark Moon Blade and said the Spell Art had been passed to Paul Allen’s unborn child, concluding that Kallen was Paul’s descendant.

Ophelia mistook Kallen’s laughter for pain over his supposed Dark Moon heritage and offered him the family’s support, while Kallen negotiated aid through Allen Manor and concealed the truth behind her enchanted sword. As Ophelia departed for Dark Moon Island, she and Kallen exchanged poetic farewells, and the sword she had left in the squad’s car remained behind.

• Ophelia embraced Kallen, believing he was a mistreated descendant of Miss Paul, and promised the Dark Moon Family would support his advancement in the Order God Church.
• Kallen revealed his rank as an Inquisitor and arranged for Dark Moon support to reach him through Allen Manor, explaining that his girlfriend was the Allen Family Clan Leader’s daughter.
• Kallen asked Ophelia whether she liked anyone, and her enchanted sword reacted when she denied it; he then returned to find food and learned the squad would not escort her home.
• At the farewell banquet, Leon asked Ophelia to dance, but she declined, and the Neo Squad later escorted her to the docks while Fanny and Peige noticed she had left her sword in the car.
• Ophelia asked Kallen for a final poetic farewell, and they exchanged lines about her arrival, departure, and seeing his true self beneath the dark moon.