Recaps

Lumian received a hidden message revealing that Norfie was the child of a fugitive Sea Maiden, then went out to draw out people connected to the Sea-Praying Ritual. The Governor of the Sea approached him in disguise and begged him for help.

• Lumian found a concealed note in Travel Around Feynapotter explaining that Norfie's mother was a Sea Maiden who had fled Santa Port and that the Fishing Guild's powers weakened beyond the region.
• Lumian ordered Lugano to find Batna Conte and went out for a stroll to invite approaches or an attack from the Fishing Guild.
• Ludwig caught and ate a shadowy, bristled creature that tried to attack him in the washroom.
• At a café, Lumian recognized a veiled, cross-dressed visitor as the Governor of the Sea, who asked him to save him.

Lumian met the disguised Governor of the Sea, who revealed that he was an impostor and that the real Governor had died after last year’s Sea-Praying Ritual failed. After learning about the Fishing Guild’s threats and the mysterious fate of past governors, Lumian later heard that Batna and Norfie had vanished and decided what help to seek from the Knight of Swords.

• Lumian pretended not to understand Highland Language and gave the disguised Governor of the Sea paper so he could write his request for help.
• The impostor wrote that the real Governor had died during last year’s failed Sea-Praying Ritual and that Juan Oro and the Fishing Guild had forced him to impersonate the dead man.
• The impostor explained that he feared being killed after the handover ceremony, described Juan Oro’s power, and said he knew nothing about where previous Governors of the Sea had gone.
• Lumian burned the written pages and considered whether the impostor’s story was true or a trap, while connecting the failed ritual to April Fool’s Day’s suspected ring substitution.
• Lugano told Lumian that adventurers and Bounty Hunters had not seen Batna or Norfie since they arrived in Santa Port, and Lumian resolved to ask the Knight of Swords for help.

Lumian summoned the Knight of Swords’ Half-Fairy messenger and sent a letter, while Franca told “007” she suspected a man in her portrait had come from their world. The chapter left Lumian in Santa Port as the Knight of Swords’ card appeared in his room.

• Lumian waited for more contacts about the Sea-Praying Ritual, then summoned the Knight of Swords’ Half-Fairy messenger and asked it to deliver his letter.
• Franca met “007” in Trier and gave him a portrait of a black-robed man, asking him to discreetly search for the target.
• Franca told “007” she suspected the man had come from their world and said she had encountered him on the Fourth Level of the Catacombs.
• After breakfast at the Solo Hotel, Lumian saw the Knight of Swords tarot card appear out of thin air on his desk.

Lumian asked the Knight of Swords to find Batna Comté and Norfie, then used Lugano as bait to test whether the Fishing Guild would attack his companions. As Lugano returned to the Solo Hotel, three disguised vagrants suddenly shot at him.

• The Knight of Swords agreed to search for Batna Comté and Norfie and said he might need Lumian’s help later in the Southern Continent.
• Lumian sent Lugano to collect identity documents from Valerio while secretly following him through the shadows, expecting a possible attack.
• Lugano collected the documents without incident and returned toward the Solo Hotel after changing back into his usual appearance.
• Lumian spotted three unnaturally stiff vagrants springing up and firing pistols at Lugano from three directions.

Lumian and Lugano survived an attack by vagrants controlled by strange insects, and Ludwig identified the creatures and turned one into a supernatural drink. After sending Lugano and Ludwig to report the assault to Noelia, Lumian headed to the Santa Port Fishing Guild.

• Three vagrants shot at Lugano, but Lumian emerged from the shadows and incapacitated them while stopping the black insects that controlled them.
• Lugano treated his gunshot wound, and Lumian used Lie to transfer most of the injury from Lugano to himself.
• Lumian ordered Lugano to collect the guns, speak to the police, and then seek help from the Order of Abundance.
• Ludwig identified the insects as Batins Black Insects, ate two, and prepared a drink from the third that granted supernatural effects.
• Lumian sent Ludwig and Lugano to tell Noelia about the attack, then went to the Santa Port Fishing Guild.

Lumian forced his way into the Fishing Guild and fought Juan Oro’s grandson Fernandez, drawing Noelia’s intervention before learning more about the mysterious disappearances of past Governors of the Sea. That night, the Knight of Swords reported finding clues to the two targets’ whereabouts.

• Lugano told Noelia that he had been attacked and said Louis Berri had sent him to the Order of Abundance’s base.
• Lumian entered the Fishing Guild and fought Fernandez, using his abilities to defeat him and blast a hole through the building.
• Noelia stopped the fight and confronted Juan Oro, who denied knowing about the Aquinas Street shooting before returning to the guild.
• As Noelia escorted Lumian away, she revealed that previous Governors of the Sea had mysteriously disappeared, and Lumian asked what the Earth Mother’s Church hoped to achieve.
• The Knight of Swords told Lumian that he had found clues to the whereabouts of the two targets.

Lumian investigated Norfie and Batna’s boat-rental inquiry and suspected they were seeking the secret waters where Santa Port’s Sea Sacrifice took place, possibly to seize or destroy something there. In Trier, Franca found a connection between the Tamara Family tombs and her companions’ recent mission, while Lumian prepared to secretly watch Louis Berri in Santa Port.

• The Knight of Swords told Lumian that Norfie and Batna had asked the Balansat Ship Rental Company about renting a fishing boat, then vanished from the available records.
• Lumian theorized that Norfie might know the location of the Sea Sacrifice from her Sea Maiden mother and could be seeking whatever lay in those waters; he also wondered whether April Fool’s Day had tried to steal it.
• The Knight of Swords agreed to investigate the boat-rental company further, then disappeared, leading Lumian to suspect he was a spirit-type creature.
• Franca collected 007’s notes and learned that the ancient tomb containing the Mirror World Fragment belonged to the Tamara Family, as did the Thorns and Shield Wall Tomb Chamber tied to Jenna’s task.
• Franca decided to report the Tamara Family connection to Madam Judgement, while Lumian took up a disguised position across from the Solo Hotel to watch Louis Berri.

Lumian caught a man sent by Ruvio Paco to watch him and learned that Santa Port’s tensions had temporarily quieted. In Trier, Franca and Jenna learned more about the Tamara family, while the Knight of Swords later found a suspect in Norfie and Batna’s kidnapping and Lumian agreed to investigate with him.

• Lumian dodged a poisoned dart fired by a man watching Louis Berri, knocked him unconscious, and used Truth Serum to learn that Ruvio Paco had commissioned him.
• The Chazot Rabbit asked Jenna for a custom revolver in place of payment for five deliveries, and Jenna agreed.
• Franca and Jenna read Madam Judgement’s letter explaining the Tamara family’s history, its divisions, and its ties to the Gnosis Society and Witch families.
• Lumian, Lugano, and Ludwig went several days without being attacked as the watchers in Santa Port remained inactive.
• The Knight of Swords told Lumian he had found a suspect in Norfie and Batna’s kidnapping, and Lumian agreed to go with him.

Lumian and the Knight of Swords captured Lato Giaro and questioned him about Norfie, Batna, and the Sea-Praying Ritual. Lato revealed that the Fishing Guild had set a trap for Lumian and that the ritual was meant to marry the sea, leaving Lumian with a clearer picture of the danger awaiting him.

• Lumian met the Knight of Swords and followed him to the Giaro Family residence, where they found Lato Giaro in his bedroom.
• The Knight of Swords took control of Lato, and Lumian subdued him with sedative before administering Truth Serum.
• Lato confessed that Norfie and Batna were imprisoned in his basement and that he planned to use them to lure Lumian to the Sea-Praying Ritual site.
• Lato revealed that Juan Oro would be waiting at sea to kill Lumian, and Lumian inferred that the Fishing Guild had arranged the lead as a trap.
• Lato explained that the Sea-Praying Ritual granted the Guild its power and involved marrying the sea, with the Governor of the Sea serving as both sacrifice and chief officiant.

Lumian questioned Lato about the Sea-Praying Ritual, learning how it was meant to bind the sea to the Governor of the Sea and how last year’s rite failed. He suspected that someone from “April Fool’s Day” had stolen and replaced the ritual ring, and began investigating the surviving participants and Juan Oro’s abilities.

• Lato explained that the sea possessed four Sea Maidens and joined with the Governor of the Sea, while the Night-Watch Ritual altered the Governor’s body and prepared a specially empowered gold ring.
• Lato described the ring being thrown into the water with a wedding vow, but Lumian doubted that Lato understood the ancient language in which the vow was spoken.
• Lato said the four Subdeacons who handled the ring died when last year’s ritual failed, while the Sea Maidens and sailors survived under close watch.
• Lumian reasoned that an infiltrator among the sailors could have stolen and replaced the ring during the handling of sacrificial offerings, then asked Lato about last year’s Sea Maidens and sailors.
• After learning that participants were inspected and Juan Oro monitored them with his powers, Lumian asked what abilities Juan possessed.

Lumian questioned Lato Giaro about the Children of the Sea, the Sea-Praying Ritual, and the Death Navigators, then freed Norfie and Batna. Norfie revealed that she intended to destroy a palace beneath the sea, which she believed was the source of the sea’s influence.

• Lato Giaro described the powers and roles of the Children of the Sea, including their ability to navigate special waters and their belief that Death Navigators were former Governors of the Sea.
• Lumian made Lato release Norfie and Batna, then left without killing him so Juan Oro would hear about Lumian’s powerful allies.
• Norfie and Batna joined Lumian outside, and Norfie explained that Sea Maidens and Children of the Sea eventually became lizardlike humanoid monsters.
• Lumian questioned Norfie’s plan to stop the Sea-Praying Ritual, and she said she could destroy a palace beneath the sea that her mother had seen.

Lumian changed his approach after learning about Norfie’s plans and negotiated with Juan Oro instead of trying to disrupt the Sea-Praying Ritual. He offered cooperation in exchange for the Fishing Guild releasing innocent people, including the fake Governor of the Sea.

• Norfie told Lumian that she planned to hide until the Sea-Praying Ritual ended so she could receive a bestowal and grow stronger, despite the risk of transforming faster.
• Lumian asked Norfie and Batna to do something for him, then returned to the Solo Hotel and discussed changing plans with the Knight of Swords.
• Juan Oro warned Lumian that the sea’s kin could rebuild their village and retaliate, then asked what Lumian and his allies wanted.
• Lumian said he had never intended to disrupt the Sea-Praying Ritual and proposed cooperation if Juan Oro released innocent captives, including the fake Governor of the Sea.

Lumian agreed to cooperate with Juan Oro and learned that none of the Paco Family’s Children of the Sea had gone missing, deepening his suspicions about the family’s secrets. In Milo Village, Charnem questioned the surviving sailors about last year’s failed Sea-Praying Ritual and successfully summoned the spirit of Iru, whose apparition bore signs of violence and hatred.

• Juan Oro accepted Lumian’s cooperation terms, and they agreed that Juan would gather the surviving sailors from last year’s ritual at his home.
• Juan told Lumian that all the Paco Family’s Children of the Sea had appeared recently, and he shared his own suspicions about why the family had hired an outsider to handle the humanoid lizard.
• The following night, Charnem arrived at the Oro family home and began questioning the unconscious sailors in Juan’s presence.
• The sailors confirmed that Iru and Sara had carried the sacrificial lambs and died when the ritual failed, while Juan said earlier attempts to summon their spirits had failed.
• Charnem performed a Summoning Ritual using Iru’s tooth, and Iru’s spirit appeared with a wound on his forehead and pain and hatred in his eyes.

Charnem and Juan Oro uncovered how a fake Yilu infiltrated last year’s Sea-Praying Ritual, while Franca and Lumian identified Wandering Poet as the likely impersonator and began investigating the other conspirators. Lumian concluded that uncovering Ultraman’s role could reveal April Fool’s Day’s true objective.

• Charnem summoned Yilu’s spirit and inferred that the real Yilu had been kidnapped and later shot, while an impostor took his place aboard the ceremonial ship.
• Juan Oro confirmed that Yilu’s family was easy to impersonate and told Charnem that Milo Village’s ancestral records were mostly lost, though some undecipherable remnants remained in the Governor of the Sea’s residence.
• Charnem deduced that the saboteurs had chosen Yilu because he was easy to impersonate, and Juan Oro agreed to let Miguel go free after this year’s ritual succeeded.
• Franca told Lumian that Wandering Poet was likely the fake Yilu, responsible for stealing and replacing the Ritual Ring before faking his death by jumping into the sea.
• Franca speculated that Madwoman had extracted Wandering Poet and that Ultraman had helped plan the prank, while Lumian suspected Ultraman was a local who initiated it.
• Lumian concluded that discovering Ultraman’s other role in the prank could expose April Fool’s Day’s true objective.

Lumian reviewed the Sea-Praying Ritual and found a possible breakthrough in understanding its true nature, but the meaning of the language spoken by Lato Giaro remained unclear. He then bombed the Fishing Guild’s tower, leaving the city abuzz with the news.

• Franca agreed to investigate other Witches in Trier for Tamara Family members, while Lumian warned her to be careful under the Black Witch’s nose.
• Lumian discovered that Ludwig could learn knowledge by eating creatures, but Ludwig could not yet translate Lato Giaro’s unknown language.
• Termiboros confirmed that the phrase did not mean “marry the sea as proof of conquest” but refused to explain its true meaning, so Lumian wrote to Madam Magician asking for help.
• Lumian visited the Fishing Guild’s tower and planted delayed-explosion fireballs while Lato Giaro waited outside.
• The fireballs detonated, engulfing the tower and sending Lato flying, and word spread that the Fishing Guild had been bombed.

Lumian investigated the failed Sea-Praying Ritual and learned from Noelia that ancient traces in the Governor of the Sea’s residence might reveal why the Church tolerates it. After Madam Magician analyzed the ritual passage, a message delivered to Lugano added that the sea had mutated after last year’s ritual.

• Noelia confronted Lumian over the Fishing Guild explosion, then warned him to preserve order in Santa Port as he shared what he had learned about the Sea-Praying Ritual.
• Noelia told Lumian that ancient traces in the basement of the Governor of the Sea’s residence in Milo Village could reveal important information.
• Madam Magician wrote that the ritual passage lacked the qualities of a sacrificial language and likely activated the Ritual Ring, asking Lumian to reproduce the ring’s state for further analysis.
• A stranger slipped Lugano a note, and Lumian read that the sea had mutated after last year’s ritual.

Lumian investigated the sea’s mutation and the failed Sea-Praying Ritual, then learned from Juan Oro that an insider likely helped sabotage it. After obtaining drawings of the Sea Queen’s Ring and ancestral symbols, Lumian prepared to infiltrate the Governor of the Sea’s residence.

• Lumian suspected the sea’s mutation had weakened the Paco Family and considered Ruvio Paco a possible collaborator of Norfie.
• Lumian offered Lugano his remaining pay and a teleportation back to Trier, but Lugano refused to leave because he wanted to look after Ludwig.
• Lumian told Juan Oro he planned to enter the Governor of the Sea’s residence and asked him to recall the Sea Queen’s Ring’s design.
• Lumian explained how April Fool’s Day may have sabotaged the Sea-Praying Ritual, leading Juan Oro to conclude that a surviving Child of the Sea had betrayed the ritual.
• Juan Oro drew the Sea Queen’s Ring and the ancestral symbols for Lumian, and warned him that the Sea Kin could counter his abilities.
• Lumian appeared near the church-like building beneath the crimson moonlight.

Lumian infiltrated the Governor of the Sea’s residence to investigate the ring-making ritual and the village’s ancestral altar. After discovering two mysterious designs through the “Lie” ear clip, he escaped and sent his findings to Madam Magician for examination.

• Lumian used a dockside explosion to distract the sea kin, then entered the room where the ring-making ritual’s patterns were inscribed.
• He trapped the responding sea kin in a Fictional Bottle, escaped through its opening, and used Spirit World Traversal to reach the basement.
• Lumian found a ruined ancestral altar and tested several objects on it, but only the “Lie” ear clip revealed hidden markings.
• The altar displayed two designs: a series of doors and a twelve-part disk with one hand, and Lumian sensed something attach itself to the ear clip.
• Lumian teleported away as the sea kin approached, then wrote to Madam Magician and sent her his observations and a copy of the ritual patterns.

After deciphering the Sea-Praying Ritual, Lumian concluded that it was designed to steal power from a sealed underwater palace and began considering April Fool’s Day’s plans. More than a week later, the ritual’s day arrived, and Lumian heard music in the street as he went to the window.

• Madam Magician explained that the ritual’s words activated a ring and that its symbols came from the Amon and Abraham families.
• Lumian connected the ritual to an Abraham ancestor’s seal and Amon’s design, then realized its true purpose was to extract power from the sealed palace each year.
• Lumian inferred that the Church of the Earth Mother had tolerated the ritual to manage the waters and had encouraged his investigation to draw out potential saboteurs.
• Lumian concluded that April Fool’s Day intended to weaken the seal further and wondered how its members would claim the palace’s benefits without facing its dangers.
• More than a week later, on the day of the Sea-Praying Ritual, Lumian heard street musicians after breakfast and walked toward the window.

Lumian joined the Sea-Praying Ritual by disguising himself as a subdeacon, while Juan Oro secretly joined him to guard against sabotage. After the Sea Queen's Ring was completed, the ritual moved into its next segment, and Lumian sensed something as he watched the ancestor rites begin.

• Lumian left Lugano to care for Ludwig and went to the harbor to watch the Sea-Praying Ritual festivities before slipping into Milo Village.
• Juan Oro showed Lumian two unconscious subdeacons, and Lumian used the Lie ear clip to take one man's appearance while Juan disguised himself as the other.
• Juan Oro arranged for his wife to guard the unconscious men and explained that he would pose as Jorge while Lumian posed as Brian.
• Lumian and Juan Oro entered the Governor of the Sea's residence, where Juan told the false Governor, Miguel, to leave Santa Port with his wealth once the ritual succeeded.
• At midnight, a subdeacon retrieved the completed Sea Queen's Ring and carried it toward the basement; as the ancestor segment began, Lumian sensed something stir in his mind.

Lumian deduced that last year’s Sea Queen’s Ring ritual had been sabotaged by Madwoman, who left the ring’s final ritual stage incomplete, though he still could not identify Ultraman or predict April Fool’s Day’s plan. Meanwhile, Charnem prepared to sail ahead of the Governor of the Sea’s ship with Norfie and Batna, using a strange power to make the crew follow them.

• Lumian realized the Sea Queen’s Ring could gain its power-stealing ability only after being placed on the basement’s stone platform, and concluded last year’s rings had been fakes that lacked this crucial step.
• Lumian deduced that Madwoman had posed as a Subdeacon and brought the incomplete ring aboard the Ceremonial Ship, while Wandering Poet had acted as a distraction.
• Juan Oro told Lumian that last year’s Subdeacons had all died and that none of them had known the Ring-Making Ritual’s secrets, leaving Lumian unable to identify Ultraman.
• Charnem asked Norfie whether their ship could reach the special stretch of sea, then announced they would sail ahead of the Governor of the Sea’s ship and wait there.
• Batna agreed to join Charnem and Norfie, and Charnem used a strange gesture to make the ship’s captain and crew sleepwalk toward the pier.

Lumian joined the Sea-Sacrifice aboard the ceremonial ship, while Loki stayed behind in Santa Port and revealed his plan to target Ludwig. At the sacrifice site, Lumian recognized a nun as the source of the madness and the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun’s lost humanoid Sealed Artifact.

• Norfie and Batna watched corpses crew a ship as Charnem ordered Norfie to work as navigator.
• Lumian retrieved the Sea Queen's Ring with Juan Oro, then joined Governor Simon and the others aboard the ceremonial ship.
• Juan Oro guided the ship through fog and towering waves to a gray, distant sea where the sacrifice began.
• Giorgia told Lugano that the humanoid lizard was her husband, Ruvio Paco, and then restrained Lugano as Loki watched from across the corridor.
• Ruvio Paco revealed that he had abandoned his plan to trap Lumian and now intended to use Ludwig as the subject of his ritual.
• A woman in a black nun's habit emerged during the sacrifice, and Lumian recognized her as the source of the madness and the lost humanoid Sealed Artifact.

Wandering Poet revealed how he sabotaged the Sea-Praying Ritual, and the ritual failed as the sea erupted around the ceremonial ship. As Juan Oro held back the waves, Jenna and Anthony watched Lugano struggle against Giorgia and suspected her behavior was not intimacy.

• Lumian saw a nun in black whose gaze made her disappear from his view and seemed unimportant to him.
• Juan Oro gave Sea Queen's Ring to Simon and urged him to wed the sea, but the ritual triggered a violent eruption of waves.
• Juan Oro joined himself to the sea and stopped the towering waves from crashing down on the Colorful Flower Ceremonial Ship.
• Wandering Poet revealed that, disguised as Miguel, he had entered the basement and removed the altar's accumulated stealing power, ensuring the Sea-Praying Ritual would fail.
• Giorgia restrained Lugano outside the hotel suite and kissed him while Jenna watched through a mirror.
• Anthony told Jenna that Lugano and Giorgia's movements and expressions did not look like intimacy.

Jenna and Anthony realized Loki was controlling Lugano and tried to work out how to find the Marionettist without alerting him. Aboard the Colorful Flower Ceremonial Ship, Lumian used the Lie ear clip in an attempt to contain the crisis, but a heavy Sealed Artifact appeared and dragged the ship toward the seabed; earlier, Charnem had persuaded Norfie to drink a truth-telling potion.

• Jenna recognized that Lugano's sluggish resistance matched a Marionettist's control and warned Anthony that Loki was likely nearby.
• Anthony told Jenna that Loki would need several minutes to turn Lugano into a puppet, and they decided to search for Loki while keeping their presence hidden.
• Lumian sensed the sealed entity's destructive power and considered stealing and distributing it to those with sea blood to complete the Sea-Sacrifice Segment.
• Lumian used the Lie ear clip to draw in starlight, but a sorrowful woman in a black Nun's Habit appeared, and her immense weight pulled the ship and its passengers toward the seabed.
• Four hours earlier, Charnem instigated Norfie into drinking a truth-telling potion so he could learn whether she had secret collaborators.

Norfie revealed that a man posing as Juan Oro recruited her to destroy the underwater palace during the Sea-Praying Ritual, prompting Franca to suspect Lato Giaro and Simon Giaro were connected to April Fool’s Day. The chapter ended by showing Simon and Miguel exchanging knowing smiles during the Governor of the Sea handover.

• Norfie told Batna and Charnem that Juan Oro had secretly collaborated with her, but Charnem suspected the man she met was an impostor.
• Norfie explained that the impostor promised to help her enter the Land of Sea Sacrifice and activate the palace’s self-destruct sequence with a passage her mother taught her.
• Franca suspected Lato Giaro had deliberately captured Norfie to control and protect her, and considered that he might be a member of April Fool’s Day.
• Franca recalled that Simon Giaro belonged to the Giaro Family and wondered whether he was Lato Giaro in disguise.
• During the handover ceremony, Miguel passed the Governor of the Sea role to Simon, and both men exchanged faint smiles as they departed in opposite directions.