Recaps

Lumian investigated Moran Avigny’s connection to Roselle in the Mirror and used Hunt Destiny to remove a fragment from Moran’s past. After learning that the fragment’s removal did not undo what had already happened, Lumian had Franca and Jenna kill Moran so they could proceed with spiritism and uncover the Supervisor’s mirror coordinates.

• Franca, Jenna, and Anthony accepted Lumian’s guess that Roselle Gustav had a corresponding Person in the Mirror, while Lumian said the School of Truth had contacted Roselle through a ritual.
• Lumian told Jenna to report the discovery because the School of Truth’s cooperation with Roselle in the Mirror made the situation urgent.
• Lumian examined Moran Avigny’s destiny fragments and saw him lend the Supervisor a classical silver mirror and take shape as a Person in the Mirror at around seventeen or eighteen.
• Lumian hunted the destiny fragment in which Moran’s lust had exploded, then observed that Moran’s capture, interrogation, and memories remained unchanged.
• Lumian knocked Moran unconscious, and Franca and Jenna shot him dead before Franca began preparing for spiritism.

Franca used ordinary spiritism to question Moran Avigny’s spirit, obtaining the Supervisor’s mirror coordinates and information about the People in the Mirror connected to him. Before the spirit could finish answering, Magician, Judgement, and another woman arrived in a Pumpkin Carriage.

• Franca summoned Moran Avigny’s spirit and gave him the Mirror Buckle so he could provide the coordinates of the Supervisor’s mirror.
• Moran Avigny revealed that Griffith held the classical silver mirror used to communicate with their leader, but Franca had no question left to obtain its coordinates.
• Moran Avigny identified Griffith, Karantanza Tamara, Palia, and Spot as People in the Mirror, describing their real-world roles and activities.
• Jenna finished writing her letter and prepared to summon Madam Judgement’s messenger, but an ethereal voice told her there was no need.
• Magician, Judgement, and a scholarly-looking woman arrived in a Pumpkin Carriage drawn by gray rats.

Ma'am Magician and Ma'am Hermit followed a strange lamp into the Mirror World, where they confronted Loki and a church full of hanging corpses. Meanwhile, Lumian took Moran Avigny's Vanity Mirror, which summoned Perle, a possible School of Truth Supervisor, who used a Word of Order against the group.

• Ma'am Magician exchanged Franca's Mirror Buckle for Inexhaustible Wine, which Franca, Jenna, Lumian, and Anthony drank to restore their spirituality.
• Ma'am Magician opened a passage into the Mirror World, and Ma'am Hermit used a ball of yarn to guide her and Ma'am Judgement after the strange lamp.
• The three Major Arcana holders reached a church where Loki sat beneath suspended corpses, then watched the corpses open their pitch-black eyes.
• Lumian took Moran Avigny's Vanity Mirror, and it opened by itself and formed the figure of Perle in the quarry cavern.
• Lumian suspected Perle was a School of Truth member and possible Supervisor before she told the group, "Your crimes have yet to be punished!"

Perle attacked Lumian, Franca, Jenna, and Anthony in the quarry cavern, while conjured punishers targeted each of them according to their crimes. After surviving Perle’s attack with a Mirror Substitute, Lumian inferred that the School of Truth and April Fool’s Day might be involved in Perle’s Dark Box Transaction and a larger trap.

• Franca escaped Perle’s ice and black-flame attack with a Mirror Substitute, while a conjured Black Witch pursued her.
• A blazing-sun clergyman exposed and attacked Jenna, and a Trier police officer struck at Anthony with a lightning whip.
• Lumian’s suspected punisher failed to form, so he attacked Perle with Flame Spears and an Implosion Bullet, but her Word of Order turned both attacks back on him.
• Lumian survived the reversed attack with a Mirror Substitute and heard Perle say that a Dark Box Transaction required her to capture him alive.
• Lumian connected Perle’s rapid response to Moran Avigny’s situation with a possible informant inside the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun and suspected a partnership between the School of Truth and April Fool’s Day.

Lumian and his companions were trapped in a special Mirror World, where Perle and the manifested Punishers attacked them. As Franca turned the Pride Armor against Perle, the struggle in the church took a strange turn when Loki dragged a crowned woman into view.

• Lumian tried to teleport to Saint Viève Church and summoned Mr. K, but the Mirror World blocked his escape and Perle attacked him.
• Franca realized the group was inside a special Mirror World, but Clarisse destroyed her Mirror Substitute.
• Jenna and Anthony were struck down by the manifested Punishers, each breaking into mirror shards.
• Franca brought out the Pride Armor and sent it charging at Perle with a Giant Sword of Light.
• In the church, Judgement prohibited the use of marionettes, and Loki reached through the Magician’s doorway to pull out a crowned woman in a black gown.

Loki and the Major Arcana fought in the gloomy church while Lumian, Franca, Jenna, and Anthony struggled against Supervisor Perle in the Mirror World. Perle exiled the Pride Armor and confined Franca and Jenna, while Lumian and Anthony escaped her sight.

• Hermit used The Ugly Duckling to reveal her incomplete mythical creature form as the crowned woman and the mural attacked her and Magician.
• Judgement reached the church dome and weakened mysticism while strengthening reality.
• Franca shattered the Black Witch with lightning, and the Pride Armor struck Perle, dispersing the other punishers in the quarry.
• Franca and Lumian tried to reach Moran Avigny's makeup mirror, but Perle revealed that she had replaced the exit with a fake and exiled the Pride Armor.
• Lumian teleported away with Anthony, while Perle confined Franca and Jenna in an amber cage and began searching for Lumian and Anthony.

Lumian endured Perle’s successive lightning punishments while Anthony worked on a crucial sketch inside the Fictional Bottle. Just as Perle prepared another move, Lumian used a Golden Mask to halt the punishment, and Anthony completed a monocle on his sketch of Monet.

• Perle saw through Lumian and Anthony’s hiding place, but discovered that Lumian had built the remaining Fictional Bottle around himself to protect Anthony.
• Perle prosecuted Lumian for murder, and lightning struck him; he survived the first punishments with a Mirror Substitute, the Torture gloves, and his shadow.
• Anthony struggled to finish his sketch as the page began burning, while Lumian held Perle’s attention and endured another gathering execution.
• Lumian put on the Golden Mask, became undead, and caused the lightning punishment to stop because it had apparently fulfilled its purpose.
• Anthony trusted Lumian’s instructions to draw Monet before Madam Magician, and the page’s flames paused as he completed a monocle over Monet’s eye.

Anthony’s drawing of Monet caused the slumber effect to strike Supervisor Perle instead of Lumian’s group, but the shattered mirror let Mr. K enter the damaged Mirror World. Mr. K attacked Perle with recorded powers and cries of praise, and the chapter ended as he launched a desperate sword strike while Perle’s Dark Box Transaction failed to weaken her enemies.

• Anthony finished drawing Monet, and the slumber effect struck Supervisor Perle while Lumian and his companions remained awake.
• Lumian prepared to take Perle’s mirror, but it fell and shattered, cracking the Mirror World and allowing Mr. K to emerge from the broken mirror.
• The Magician used a stone clock and a mercury-colored snake to halt and then reverse the information torrent pursuing her, while the Hermit and Judgement returned to normal.
• Perle accused Mr. K of murder, but the punishment vanished, and Mr. K declared that the Lord had borne his sins before attacking her with a recorded Half-God ability.
• Perle protected herself with Word of Order, severing Mr. K’s arm when he struck, but Mr. K continued attacking and Perle’s Dark Box Transaction failed to weaken him or Lumian’s group.
• Mr. K lost both arms, bit down on his sword’s hilt, and leaped at Perle with a final strike.

Lumian realized his linked fate with Termiboros let him use himself as a weapon against the Half-God Supervisor, and he destroyed Perle’s painted figure, collapsing the Special Mirror World. The group returned to the Quarry, where Perle warned that a whirlpool was about to sweep everyone into it.

• Mr. K’s divinity ran out, forcing him back into his ordinary form as Perle’s shadowy figure began to reassemble.
• Lumian concluded that his connection to Termiboros let him harm Perle, then covered himself in Blazing White Flame and struck her while she was still recovering.
• Lumian detonated his right arm and blasted through Perle’s head; the Mirror World shattered, freeing Franca and Jenna as Perle’s figure fell.
• Lumian landed badly wounded but digested much of his Reaper potion, then found that Perle’s body had vanished and a ruined painting of a woman in a red dress hung on the rock wall.
• Perle spoke from inside the painting, saying the whirlpool was about to form and sweep everyone into it, before her voice faded beyond Mr. K’s reach.

After the failed attempt to stop the School of Truth, Lumian suspected Perle had gone elsewhere to fulfill a more important part of her Dark Box Transaction. The next morning, Mr. K brought Lumian to a True Creator church, where Lumian's contract with Bainfel revealed Lizard-like Sprites around the statue.

• Mr. K admitted he had failed to uncover the School of Truth's plan and told Lumian to meet him the next morning.
• Madam Magician healed Lumian and his companions, and Franca found the Pride Armor back in her Traveler's Bag; Lumian stopped her from taking it out.
• Perle searched through the Mirror World's dark tunnels while a colorful ball of yarn secretly followed her.
• Mr. K took Lumian to a church of the True Creator to repent and report that Lumian could serve as His Messenger.
• Lumian's contract with Bainfel triggered at the church, and he saw Lizard-like Sprites crawling around the True Creator's statue.

Franca told Angoulême that Moran Avigny had been captured and shared the major revelations about the People in the Mirror, the whirlpool plan, and the hidden traitor, while negotiating a reward. Later, Lumian returned to Trier and, after hinting that he had begun blaspheming, wrote to Madam Magician asking to meet her.

• Franca told Angoulême that her team had captured Moran Avigny and explained how the operation unfolded, including the revelations about the mirror's Roselle Gustav, the whirlpool plan, and a hidden traitor.
• Angoulême agreed to report the information and request all the ingredients for a Pleasure potion as Franca's informant's fee.
• Angoulême told Franca that the transaction involving the Humanoid Sealed Artifact had been approved and described what little he knew about its former identity as a Spectator demigod.
• Jenna reflected on how she could act as a Witch and then encountered Lumian singing outside the Golden Rooster Inn.
• Lumian told Jenna he had begun blaspheming, walked back to his apartment with her, and wrote to Madam Magician asking to meet.

Lumian told Madam Magician that the Lizard-like Sprite was connected to the True Creator and learned that his rapid rise as a Hunter had likely been arranged to prepare him to become a Red Priest. He decided to use those arrangements to grow stronger while waiting for Mr. Fool to awaken, then asked to explore Mr. Hanged Man's Blue Avenger.

• Lumian recounted how Bainfel and the Aurora Order's concealed church led him to identify the Lizard-like Sprite's connection to the True Creator.
• Madam Magician explained that the True Creator had likely arranged Lumian's rapid advancement to create a Red Priest who could fight the Primordial Witch.
• Lumian admitted he wanted to punch the deity responsible for Cordou Village, and Madam Magician advised him to restrain himself and grow stronger until Mr. Fool initially awakened.
• Madam Magician warned that the True Creator likely knew of Lumian's hatred but still valued him, and urged him to use the deity's arrangements cautiously as a form of revenge.
• Lumian asked to explore Mr. Hanged Man's Blue Avenger.

Madam Magician warned Lumian not to rush his advancement, offered his team rewards for their investigation, and explained how becoming an Aurora Order Divine Emissary might help him fulfill the Iron-Blooded Knight ritual. After she left, Lumian told Jenna he had seen the spirit linked to the Aurora Order’s god and that he would wait for Mr. Fool to awaken before considering what to do.

• Madam Magician assigned Lumian to investigate important Persons in the Mirror and offered his team the Hunter pathway’s Sequence 4 potion formula as a reward.
• Lumian asked whether he would become an Aurora Order Divine Emissary, and Madam Magician explained that the role could help him gather a team for the Iron-Blooded Knight ritual.
• Madam Magician said the Church of Knowledge had suggested that Ludwig, if tamed, could offset most of the ritual’s numerical requirements.
• After Madam Magician vanished, Lumian reviewed what he had learned, then joined Jenna on the balcony with a bottle of absinthe.
• Lumian told Jenna that the lizard-like spirit he had seen came from the being worshipped by the Aurora Order, and said Madam Magician had advised him to wait until Mr. Fool initially awakened.

Jenna told Franca that Lumian had learned the True Creator was responsible for the Cordou Village disaster, prompting Franca to plan a warning for the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society. Later, Lumian learned Loki had become an unstable vessel shared with Zaratul and used Beyonder Characteristics to persuade Ludwig to cooperate and explain his Pathway.

• Jenna returned to Franca and described her meeting with Lumian and his reaction to learning the True Creator's role in the Cordou Village disaster.
• Franca decided to warn Lady Hella and the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society's organizers about the School of Truth's cooperation with evil god cults, and to investigate the People in the Mirror.
• Franca told Jenna that Spot, the Deputy Minister of the Trier Police Department, had vanished, likely after the escaped Supervisor warned the People in the Mirror.
• Lumian read Lady Magician's letter saying Loki had become an unstable mixture of himself and Zaratul, and was advised not to seek him out or use his remaining resurrections.
• Lumian offered Ludwig Beyonder Characteristics in exchange for answering questions, and Ludwig agreed to call him Godfather and obey him.
• Ludwig told Lumian that his Pathway was the Gourmet Pathway, with Vagrant as Sequence 9 and Glutton as Sequence 8.

Lumian questioned Ludwig about the Gourmet pathway’s Sequences and learned how a Depriver could steal abilities by consuming a target’s flesh and blood. He struck a deal to help Ludwig advance in exchange for Ludwig’s obedience, then asked what mystical dishes could be made from Ombella’s remnant umbilical cord.

• Ludwig explained how Gluttons, Gourmets, and Cooks gained increasingly specialized eating and food-preparation abilities.
• Ludwig described Deprivers’ ability to temporarily strip targets of abilities and permanently acquire one by eating their flesh and blood.
• Lumian showed Ludwig a Deprivation Bullet, learned it came from a Depriver, and offered to help Ludwig obtain Depriver-related items and Beyonders in return for his obedience until Lumian became a Half-God.
• When Lumian asked whom Ludwig had followed, Ludwig broke down crying and said he had forgotten everything.
• Lumian showed Ludwig Ombella’s remnant umbilical cord, and Ludwig said it could make food that cured infertility or granted strong self-healing, before beginning to describe a third effect.

Lumian asked Ludwig to appraise Ombella’s umbilical cord and blood from an Evil Spirit, then gave him the Deprivation Bullet. Unable to sleep, Lumian tried to summon Aurora’s Contract Creature, White Paper, without success, before Madam Magician’s messenger delivered a coin pouch and a letter.

• Ludwig explained that Ombella’s umbilical cord could disguise Lumian’s aura and bloodline, but using it risked attracting the Great Mother’s attention, so Lumian decided to consult Madam Magician first.
• Ludwig tasted the powdered blood from the Evil Spirit Aden and identified it as coming from a man whose traits and condition matched the Devil Warlock Bourman, leading Lumian to suspect the spirit was Bourman’s own imprint from the depths of death.
• Lumian gave Ludwig the Deprivation Bullet, which Ludwig ate and praised, then agreed to look for the organization that had made it.
• Unable to sleep, Lumian recalled Aurora and attempted to summon her Contract Creature, White Paper, but nothing appeared.
• At six in the morning, Madam Magician’s Doll messenger delivered a coin pouch and a folded letter, then chided Lumian for smelling of alcohol.

Lumian examined his rewards, including the Iron-Blooded Knight formula and two dangerous weapons, then shared the items with Franca, Jenna, and Anthony. After they divided the rewards, Madam Magician ordered Lumian to go to the Blue Avenger.

• Lumian read the descriptions of the Chilling Blade and Winter Is Coming, learning their effects, limits, and dangerous drawbacks.
• Lumian studied and memorized the Iron-Blooded Knight potion formula, whose ritual required a tightly coordinated team of at least thirty people.
• Lumian showed the formula and rewards to Franca, Jenna, and Anthony, warning them that reading the formula caused intense mental influence.
• Jenna chose the Traveler's Bag, Anthony took Winter Is Coming, and Franca claimed the Chilling Blade.
• Madam Magician appeared and bluntly ordered Lumian to go to the Blue Avenger.

Lumian explored the Blue Avenger with the Blood Emperor’s residual aura and found a hidden hall beneath the ship. There he saw a figure resembling Alista Tudor on an Iron Throne, and the figure slowly raised his head.

• Lumian activated the Blood Emperor’s residual aura and searched the Blue Avenger while Alger and the Magician watched.
• Lumian descended the stairs to the lower cabins and realized they stretched far beyond the ship’s apparent dimensions.
• Lumian stopped a barrage of blazing white flame spears by thrusting forward his sealed right palm.
• Lumian entered a hidden hall and saw a figure resembling Alista Tudor seated on an Iron Throne, surrounded by damaged stone chairs representing the five great noble houses.
• As Lumian studied the hall and approached the throne, the figure slowly raised his head and revealed cold, iron-black eyes.

Lumian was nearly controlled by the Blood Emperor’s residual influence inside a strange starlit space, but the Underworld Daoist’s brand helped him escape the Silver Full-Length Mirror’s reflection. He concluded that the mirror might enable Alista Tudor’s revival and turned to investigate the Starlight Gates.

• Lumian was compelled toward an Iron Throne and fought the Blood Emperor’s influence as his appearance began changing to resemble Alista Tudor.
• On the Blue Avenger, Alger noticed Lumian’s stiffening movements and lengthening, blood-tinged hair, while Madam Magician prepared a Sealed Artifact to locate him.
• The Underworld Daoist’s brand inflicted deathly cold and decay on Lumian’s right palm, restoring his will before he reached the Silver Full-Length Mirror.
• Lumian saw his reflection transforming into Alista Tudor, rolled out of the mirror’s range, and endured a frenzied scream and pounding from within the mirror.
• Lumian recognized the starlit corridor and reasoned that the mirror and the Blood Emperor’s residual aura could be part of a revival scheme; he then examined the Starlight Gates.

Lumian explored a Starlight Gate, defeated a powerful suit of armor, and recovered three unusual items before Madam Magician warned him away from the other rooms. Back aboard the Blue Avenger, Madam Magician identified the sword as being made from an Iron-Blooded Knight Beyonder characteristic.

• Lumian entered a Starlight Gate despite receiving no warning from Termiboros and was attacked by an iron-black suit of armor wielding a flaming sword.
• Lumian used Teleportation and repeated strikes with Harvest to shatter the armor, then found a strange candle and a piece of human skin bearing a Sequence 4 formula.
• Lumian stored the candle, the skin, and the sword in his Traveler's Bag without testing them.
• Madam Magician warned Lumian that the other rooms were too dangerous, so he stopped exploring and left a Mirror Image Mark on the Silver Full-Length Mirror.
• Lumian returned to the Blue Avenger, where Madam Magician said the three items were closely related to Hunters and Witches and identified the sword as made from an Iron-Blooded Knight Beyonder characteristic.

Lumian examined the Sword of Courage, a Witch of Despair potion formula, and a Corpse Oil Candle with Madam Magician and The Hanged Man. When he lit the candle and meditated, he saw a misty street and a strange train resembling a scene he had witnessed in Fourth Epoch Trier, connected to the Second Layer of the Special Mirror World.

• The Hanged Man warned Lumian to accept that he could not escape every arrangement, make use of gifts from destiny, and stay alert to plans for the Blood Emperor to revive within him.
• Madam Magician examined the black sword and explained its powers, its dangerous effect of inflating courage, and its need to be sealed among at least thirty ordinary swords.
• Madam Magician identified the pure white leather as an ancient Witch of Despair's potion formula and warned that it carried mystical pathogens.
• Madam Magician identified the candle as a Corpse Oil Candle made with the corpse oil of an Iron-Blooded Knight and a Witch of Despair, and Lumian decided to test it while they watched over him.
• Lumian lit the Corpse Oil Candle and meditated, then saw a black-tinged mist, a dim street, and a strange two-carriage train reminiscent of Fourth Epoch Trier and the Second Layer of the Special Mirror World.

Lumian’s meditation with the corpse-wax candle connected him to a mist-shrouded city and nearly caused him to lose control. Madam Magician and Mr. Hanged Man explained the candle’s risks and the possible benefits and dangers of using Ombella’s umbilical cord remnants, leaving Lumian considering their connection to an ancient Harvest Goddess.

• Lumian saw a strange train, a fan-wielding lady, and a dark tower during meditation before Madam Magician forcibly woke him.
• Madam Magician explained that the candle had connected Lumian to a real city and identified Fourth Epoch Trier and Bansy as places where its effects could intensify.
• Madam Magician told Lumian to use the Sword of Courage as a Sealed Artifact for now and said she would restore it when he needed to make the Iron-Blooded Knight potion.
• Lumian asked whether he should eat Ombella’s umbilical cord remnants, and Mr. Hanged Man and Madam Magician warned him about the risks while describing potential benefits.
• Madam Magician said the remnants could help Lumian approach a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact formed from Ombella’s remains, and Lumian asked whether she meant the ancient Harvest Goddess.

Lumian shared the Witch of Despair potion formula with Franca and Jenna after exploring the Blue Avenger, while Madam Magician warned him about the risks of acquiring Ombella’s remains and discussed Resurrection Island. The formula’s advancement ritual required causing a plague among more than thirty thousand people, leaving Franca and Jenna horrified as Lumian suggested they switch pathways instead.

• Madam Magician confirmed that Ombella’s remains were a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact and said Lumian would need to be female and betrayed by a direct relative to consume the umbilical-cord remnant; doing so would make the Pride Armor target him permanently.
• Lumian told Madam Magician and Alger that Bourman had been influenced by Harrison and had killed an evil spirit suspected to be himself; Alger asked Lumian to report anyone of unknown origins found around death, darkness, twilight, or decay.
• Lumian returned to Franca and Jenna and described his preliminary exploration of the Blue Avenger, including finding the Witch of Despair formula and a corpse oil candle.
• Franca and Jenna read the formula and learned that its ritual required engulfing more than thirty thousand people in a severe plague, with greater death and suffering improving the results.
• Franca and Jenna objected to carrying out the ritual, and Lumian suggested switching to the Iron-Blooded Knight pathway after Sequence 5 and possibly returning to the Witch pathway later.

Lumian, Franca, and Jenna discussed advancing through the Hunter and Witch pathways, preparing for their rituals, and investigating the Moses Ascetic Order. After checking a mirror mark and warning Franca about the Witch Sect, Lumian returned home and asked Ludwig what was needed to cook the Umbilical Cord Remains Father Montserrat had carried.

• Lumian suggested Franca and Jenna could switch pathways and take turns forming Iron-Blooded Knight squads, and Franca and Jenna considered the idea.
• Franca asked Lumian to investigate the Moses Ascetic Order and help find Lugano’s Harvest Sacrifice Priest formula; she also offered to sell Jenna’s Dream Thief Beyonder characteristic.
• Lumian sensed a clear mirror mark in Moran Avigny’s study and an indistinct one in the Blue Avenger’s treasury, but his intuition warned him not to teleport to the latter.
• Jenna left to search hospital morgues for Witch opportunities and corpses of plague victims, while Lumian told Franca she might have to become a Witch of Despair.
• Franca said she would ask Madam Judgement to end her Witch Sect mission if she could not find a substitute for the despair ritual.
• Back at his apartment, Lumian asked Ludwig what seasonings were needed for the third method of cooking Father Montserrat’s Umbilical Cord Remains, shocking Lugano.

Lumian ate Ludwig’s Source of Life and dreamed of a child crying “Mommy,” waking with an unfamiliar change but no sign that he had become the Great Mother’s Divine Child. He then staked out the Trier Catacombs, where he recognized an aged administrator he had seen before.

• Ludwig explained how to prepare the Source of Life, and Lumian ate the finished dish before going to sleep.
• Lumian dreamed of a little girl crying for her mother and woke feeling changed, though he found nothing unusual on his body.
• Lumian reassured Lugano that he was neither carrying the Divine Child nor becoming it, then went to the Trier Catacombs to look for Harrison.
• Lumian entertained a group of university students at the Catacombs entrance with frightening stories and startled them with a skeletal hand.
• An aged Catacombs Administrator appeared, and Lumian recognized him from the tomb chamber containing the Samaritan Woman Spring.