Recaps

Lumian brought Amandina to the Samaritan Woman Spring, where she received a new gift and experienced a terrifying vision. After the group returned to Trier without meeting Harrison, Lumian told Franca that Jenna had asked him to help digest her Pleasure potion.

• Lumian guided Amandina to the Samaritan Woman Spring, where she saw Krismona and was overwhelmed by frightening visions.
• Amandina saw an old man at the spring and gained the Soul Soother ability, while Lumian collected some spring water for Madam Magician.
• Franca, Jenna, and Anthony waited for Harrison, but he never appeared; Franca postponed Amandina's help until she had adjusted to her new powers.
• Lumian and the others returned Amandina to her bedroom, and she reflected on the extraordinary journey she had experienced in half a night.
• Franca interpreted Amandina's remembered words as “beware, Penglai,” and planned to summon the Armored Wraith with Amandina in a few days.
• After Jenna left, Lumian told Franca that Jenna had asked him to help her digest the Pleasure potion.

Lumian told Franca that he had agreed to be with Jenna, leaving Franca devastated and angry. After confronting him again, Franca chose to stay close to both of them, saying they were the two people she cared about most.

• Franca learned that Lumian had agreed to Jenna’s offer and demanded to know why he had accepted.
• Lumian explained that he had chosen the option he thought would cause less lasting harm and believed their relationship would eventually erupt into conflict.
• Franca sent Lumian away and Jenna stayed outside Franca’s door in case she needed her.
• Franca later climbed through Lumian’s window, accused him of making her feel abandoned, and offered him two choices: become a Witch or include her in their relationship.
• Lumian affirmed that he and Jenna cared about Franca, and Franca said she wanted the three of them to stay together because they were the two people she cared about most.

Lumian agreed to Franca’s request after she confronted him about his arrangement with Jenna, and Jenna later spoke privately with Franca. Franca confessed her feelings and revealed that she had transmigrated from another world, but admitted she still thought about going home.

• Franca argued that Lumian had to treat the team fairly and asked him to agree to one of her proposed arrangements; he agreed, though Jenna would need to discuss her own wishes with Franca.
• Jenna told Lumian she had feared Franca might lose control and attack them, and admitted she had considered hiding until Julian’s future was secure.
• Jenna visited Franca and said she had heard Franca’s conversation with Lumian, then explained she preferred the other proposed options to the arrangement Lumian had accepted.
• Franca admitted she had liked Jenna for a long time and confessed that she had once been a man and had transmigrated from another world into her current body.
• Jenna accepted Franca’s revelation and asked whether she still wanted to return home; Franca answered that she did.

Franca explained why she chose to set aside jealousy and try a different kind of relationship with Jenna and Lumian, while Jenna affirmed their enduring bond but said she could not accept joining them for now. Two days later, the group summoned the Armored Wraith and asked it to translate documents, and its first translated passage described the union of yin and yang.

• Franca told Jenna that she chose to try setting aside love and jealousy because life was short and she feared they would otherwise drift apart.
• Jenna said Franca was one of the people she cared about most, admitted she might have fallen for Franca in a hypothetical past, and said she could not accept joining them for now.
• Jenna asked whether Franca would stay if Lumian and Jenna wanted her to remain after finding a way home, and Franca answered that she did not know.
• Two days later, Lumian prepared a ritual in a quarry cavern in Underground Trier while Franca, Jenna, and Amandina watched and Anthony guarded the area.
• The Armored Wraith recognized Amandina as a disciple of Haoli and accepted gold in exchange for translating documents and answering questions.
• The Armored Wraith translated the documents' opening passage as a statement that yin and yang unite to give rise to all things.

Franca questioned the Armored Wraith Chen Tu about transmigration and Penglai, and his vision of a corpse revealed that Harrison had died years earlier. After the group ended the ritual and Amandina left, Lumian suggested the translated teachings might be extremely important.

• Franca asked the Armored Wraith Chen Tu whether anyone from his world had transmigrated elsewhere, and he said he did not know.
• Franca asked Chen Tu to show the corpse that had drifted from Penglai, and he conjured a vision of Harrison's decomposed body.
• Lumian thanked Chen Tu and ended the ritual after the gold helped restore the wraith's golden body.
• Franca, Jenna, and Lumian explained to Amandina how her presence had helped them communicate with Chen Tu, and Amandina asked them to find Evernight pathway formulas and Beyonder Characteristics.
• After Amandina left, Franca recounted the translated teachings to Lumian, Jenna, and Anthony, and Lumian said they might be extremely important.

Lumian and his companions connected the Blood Emperor and Primordial Witch’s union to a method of approaching the Heavenly Dao, while considering what Resurrection Island and Harrison’s return might mean. Franca sent their analysis to the Major Arcana, and the chapter ended with Madam Magician arriving to deliver her letter to Stars.

• Lumian, Franca, Jenna, and Anthony reasoned that the Heavenly Dao represented the powers at the tops of the Hunter and Witch pathways, and that the Blood Emperor and Primordial Witch may have cooperated to approach it.
• Franca translated and interpreted the Armored Wraith’s material, then compiled the group’s ideas into a report for the Major Arcana.
• Franca confirmed that Resurrection Island was sacred mountain Penglai and that Harrison was the corpse that had drifted from Penglai, while the group considered whether the island had transmigrated into their world.
• Lumian assigned the group to find Harrison or Palia and said he would gather auxiliary ingredients for Iron-Blooded Knight; Franca agreed to collect ingredients for Witch of Despair as well.
• Anthony said Madam Hermit’s Minor Arcana, the Knight of Swords, had arrived in Trier and needed help from a Spectator pathway Beyonder, and Lumian offered his assistance.
• On the Southern Continent, Madam Magician arrived at Stars’ house carrying Franca’s letter.

The Magician and Mr. Stars discussed how That One may have influenced Alista Tudor and the Hunters and Witches, then arranged a payment and mission for the Two of Cups. At Lumian’s apartment, Jenna said she had recovered emotionally after speaking with Franca and urged Lumian to visit her, while promising to respect Franca’s choice.

• The Magician and Mr. Stars speculated that That One had helped Alista Tudor and may have arranged the Hunters’ and Witches’ initial meeting, while the Celestial Master influenced the knowledge that corrupted Kemolo.
• Mr. Stars prepared potion formulas and ingredients for the Two of Cups, planning to offer them alongside a special reward after another mission.
• The Magician asked why Pallez remained inside Mr. Stars, and Pallez explained that he needed the protection of the Church of the Goddess of Evernight from the conflict between Mr. Fool and the Celestial Worthy.
• Jenna told Lumian that talking things through with Franca had improved her mental state, and she described her conflicting feelings about his relationship with Franca.
• Jenna urged Lumian to go to Franca that morning and said she would try to make Franca stay while respecting her final choice.

Lumian acted on Jenna’s advice and fulfilled his agreement with Franca, who was embarrassed but agreed to be intimate with him. Afterward, Franca discovered that Lumian had lied about the Black Witch watching them and scolded him for deceiving a teammate.

• Jenna explained that Franca needed close relationships to help her cope with the possibility that she could never return home, then urged Lumian to take the initiative with her.
• Jenna coached Lumian on how to approach Franca, then left him to visit her alone.
• Lumian visited Franca and tried to ease her discomfort with teasing and an offer of a massage, but she turned him down.
• Lumian pretended the Black Witch was watching through a mirror, leading Franca to cooperate when he kissed her and took her to the bedroom.
• Franca learned that the Black Witch had never been there, pounced on Lumian, and warned him not to deceive a teammate again.

Franca told Lumian that Mr. Stars had asked her to collect water from the Samaritan Woman Spring and promised an additional reward, while Lumian explained how he had gathered ingredients for Jenna’s potion. After Franca proposed using Lumian to digest her Pain potion, they went to collect the spring water and spotted Harrison approaching through the fog.

• Franca told Lumian about Mr. Stars’s mission and questioned why he had offered her a special reward for collecting water from the Samaritan Woman Spring.
• Lumian described the bloodstained soil, plague victims’ blood, and other ingredients he had gathered, and said he planned to make disaster-corrupted plant powder himself after consulting Madam Magician.
• Franca suggested tormenting Lumian to speed up her Pain potion’s digestion, but Lumian proposed collecting the spring water first.
• Lumian and Franca collected half a vial of water from the Samaritan Woman Spring without triggering any abnormalities.
• As they left through the gray fog, Franca recognized the approaching figure as Harrison, the visitor from Resurrection Island.

Lumian and Franca watched Harrison enter the Samaritan Woman Spring’s gray fog barrier, then hid as they tried to determine how he had bypassed it. They suspected Harrison was connected to the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth and Penglai, but when he detected Lumian and tried to seize his Traveler’s Bag, Lumian moved to counterattack.

• Harrison entered the gray fog barrier without an item or ritual, surprising Lumian and Franca.
• Franca hid inside a mirror while Lumian became a Shadow Creature and concealed himself in the darkness.
• Franca and Lumian suspected Harrison carried the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth’s brand and was connected to Penglai and the Whirlpool Plan.
• Lumian realized the Underworld Daoist’s warning to Amandina to beware of Penglai might have referred to Harrison visiting the Samaritan Woman Spring.
• Termiboros warned Lumian to protect his Traveler’s Bag, and Lumian held onto it as Harrison tried to pull it away.
• Lumian changed his position through the shadows and appeared behind Harrison.

Lumian and Franca fought Harrison near the Samaritan Woman Spring, but he escaped after using deathly powers and the spring’s influence. They failed to track him and discussed whether his abilities came from the Thief pathway, the Death God pathway, or Resurrection Island’s unusual methods.

• Lumian and Franca used the Sword of Courage and Black Tear against Harrison as he attacked them with deathly magic and pale hands.
• Harrison invoked the Samaritan Woman Spring to weaken Lumian’s fireball, while Lumian’s Blood Emperor aura briefly stirred the spring’s madness and brutality.
• Lumian struck Harrison, who turned into a paper figure; Franca burned the surrounding figures, but Harrison escaped toward the gray fog.
• Lumian and Franca exchanged Sealed Artifacts and searched for Harrison, but his anti-divination measures left them without a trail.
• Franca translated Harrison’s incantations, and Lumian wondered whether Harrison’s powerful Thief and Death God abilities came from the Celestial Worthy’s influence or Resurrection Island’s methods.

Franca and Lumian discussed the danger posed by Harrison and clarified their feelings as they resolved to grow stronger. In Trier, Anthony agreed to help the Knight of Swords investigate the Indulgence Faction, then hypnotized a villa servant and learned what its occupants were doing.

• Franca and Lumian concluded Harrison was dangerous and agreed they needed to strengthen themselves and bring Ludwig into the team.
• Franca asked why Lumian had come to see her, and Lumian revealed Jenna had urged him to act and acknowledged he had desires of his own.
• Anthony met Maric, the Knight of Swords, agreed to treat his mental state, and accepted a mission to question an Indulgence Faction servant in exchange for a Lucky Gold Coin.
• Two days later, Anthony hypnotized the servant at a market and asked why the Indulgence Faction members stayed inside the villa.
• The servant told Anthony that the villa's occupants were reveling together and having babies.

Anthony uncovered signs that the Indulgence Faction and Night Tour Society were cooperating on a key part of the Whirlpool Plan, prompting Lumian to prepare his companions for danger. Meanwhile, the Tarot Club questioned Madam Hermit about the Queen of Mysteries, who was revealed to be sailing toward a dark, forested island with the Whirlpool’s initiator, Perle, aboard her ship.

• Anthony bribed a purchasing servant for information and learned that both women and men in the Indulgence Faction were giving birth.
• Anthony told Maric that the Indulgence Faction and Night Tour Society might be cooperating on an important part of the Whirlpool Plan, and Maric promised to alert Madam Hermit and the Temperance Faction.
• Franca and Jenna discussed their Lucky Gold Coins and advancement plans before Anthony arrived with his intelligence.
• Lumian decided to inform Madam Magician, reunite with Ludwig and Lugano, and move everyone to a new safe house.
• At an emergency Tarot Club gathering, Madam Hermit said the Queen of Mysteries had not answered her recent contact, then foresaw the others turning wary looks toward her.
• Bernadette reached a forested island aboard the Dawn with Perle, the initiator of the Whirlpool Plan, standing beside her.

At a safe house in District 14, Lumian questioned Ludwig about the Broker pathway’s whirlpool and learned it involved a web of transactions among many parties. Meanwhile, Angoulême’s Purifiers encountered a terrifying crimson figure at a Rose School villa, and Bernadette began a ritual at Roselle’s mausoleum with Perle, who revealed that their deal involved more than two parties.

• Franca proposed using homework to help digest her potion, and Lumian praised her and Jenna after Ludwig agreed to work with them.
• Lumian asked Ludwig about the Broker pathway, and Ludwig described the whirlpool as a network of transactions involving multiple traders.
• Angoulême led Purifiers to raid a Rose School villa, but a crimson figure in the fog entranced them and a sinister voice welcomed their arrival.
• Bernadette reached Roselle’s mausoleum with Perle and confirmed that the ritual and transaction involved one of the traders Perle had brought in.
• Perle asked to use the Wishing Lamp as a ritual medium, then began turning into a rotating whirlpool of white fog after offering to perform the ritual without it.

Bernadette and Perle began a Gray Transaction to balance the corruption inside Roselle, while other participants traded payments and information through the expanding vortex. Heros revealed Lumian and Ludwig’s location, and the chapter ended as three specks of light carrying information about two Angels flew from her loom into Perle’s mist.

• Perle conducted Bernadette’s offer to the Mist of Uncertainty, which sent white mist into Roselle’s mausoleum to balance the corruption within him.
• The Overlord of the Supernova struck the barrier with a Fireball, while Topsey sent a monster to break the seal over a spaceship beneath Santa Port in exchange for the return of the Primordial Hunger’s Angel.
• Bernadette hurled the Spear of Longinus at the point of light showing the sea, but Perle told her the vortex would continue unless she killed Perle, which would also prevent Roselle from reaching balance.
• Mr. Higdon agreed to help Topsey but said he did not know where the target was in Trier, so Perle turned to Heros for information.
• Heros revealed that Lumian Lee had taken Ludwig and the others to a safe house in Trier’s District 14 Botanical Garden, then sent three specks of light carrying information about two Angels into Perle’s mist.

Lumian’s group tried to escape the Botanical Garden after sensing danger, but a Person of the Loop trapped them in a repeating moment. Meanwhile, the Whirlpool’s participants advanced their plans through supernatural transactions, and Bernadette was interrupted as she tried to stop them.

• Lumian gathered Franca, Jenna, Anthony, Lugano, and Ludwig to teleport to New Silver City, but the group returned to the moment before their escape and Lumian recognized a Person of the Loop.
• Vazan Sanson received Lumian’s location and set out, while Higdon began an operation to recover an Angel of Primordial Hunger.
• Bernadette tried to disrupt Perle’s transactions and then used Pale Death to control her, but a familiar voice and chaotic space interrupted her.
• Harrison sent Heros a multicolored bead, and Heros used its vision to weave a blessing that the Whirlpool Plan would succeed, suffering severe injuries in the process.
• Perle announced that Mr. Sage was nearing completion of a sinister painting made with the remains of sacrificed Gifted and followers.

Mr. Sage completed the Endless Starry Sky painting, allowing the powers of First Philosophy and the Immortal Voice to influence listeners and the Circle of Fate to obstruct outside interference in the Whirlpool Plan. The resulting effects disrupted Beyonders and stranded several groups in Trier, while Madam Judgement sought Will's help to find the medium behind the influence.

• Mr. Sage sacrificed his body to finish the painting, letting the Immortal Voice and First Philosophy affect listeners, especially higher-Sequence Beyonders.
• The Professor and Associate Professor heard an unknown sound, while Mr. K and other Aurora Order members suffered severe pain and struggled to follow their Lord's instructions.
• Mr. Sage completed the Silver-and-Black Ring, and Perle announced that outside interference in the Whirlpool Plan was destined to fail.
• Madam Magician's attempt to reach the Emperor's island failed, and Madam Hermit's ball of yarn returned from the void to her feet.
• Angoulême de François and his team were returned to their starting point, while The Hanged Man, Mr. Stars, Mr. Moon, and Madam Judgement could not reach the hidden safe house.
• Mr. Stars identified the power of fate as the cause of their predicament, and Madam Judgement called on Will for help as worms emerged from Mr. Stars's face.

Lumian and his allies confronted Vazan Sanson and Higdon inside the Botanical Garden, with Lumian and Ludwig attacking Sanson while Franca and Jenna engaged Higdon. In the Black Emperor mausoleum, Bernadette reunited with the partially awakened Roselle, who questioned the sacrifices involved in her plan.

• The Person of the Loop appeared with Vazan Sanson and Higdon as the wooden cabin rapidly rotted, and Lumian recognized Sanson as the man responsible for Aurora's tragedy.
• Lumian sent Ludwig to attack Sanson, gave Franca Black Tear to hold off Higdon, and directed Jenna to support her.
• Lumian used the Demon's Whisper Bone Ring and Sword of Courage before charging at Sanson, while Anthony and Lugano were assigned supporting roles.
• Bernadette found Roselle partially awakened in the Black Emperor mausoleum and explained that Adam had helped her return and that she had prepared ways to counter the corruption and alert allies.
• Roselle warned Bernadette that the situation might not have worsened because many people had made sacrifices, and asked whether those sacrifices were worth it to her.

The battle in Trier continued as Higdon’s disease powers threatened Franca and Jenna, while Lumian used Teleportation to attack Vazan Sanson. In the Black Emperor mausoleum, Roselle chose to confront the Whirlpool Ritual himself, leaving Bernadette with his final lesson.

• Higdon spread a disease that began changing Franca’s and Jenna’s bodies, but both activated Mirror Substitute to escape its effects.
• Vazan Sanson manipulated Ludwig’s fate to make him fall, then struck Lumian’s burning Flame Spear with contracted rays.
• Lumian teleported behind Vazan Sanson, but a cold phantom emerged from Vazan’s back and attacked him.
• Perle observed points of light showing a blood-red villa, a bound figure entwined with branches and thorns, and Topsey gnawing at a seal above the sea.
• Roselle embraced Bernadette and told her he would handle the Whirlpool Ritual, despite the danger to himself.
• Roselle walked toward the mausoleum doors and gave Bernadette his final lesson: a true man knew what he must do and what he must never do.

Franca used Vazan Sanson’s Person of the Loop to reset the battle and free her allies, but Lumian warned that they could trigger it only once more before a predetermined ending. As Higdon attacked and Vazan prepared to kill himself to restart the loop, an unknown power interrupted them, and an emperor announced his return.

• Franca triggered the Person of the Loop by leaving the battle through the Mirror World, resetting the fight and freeing Lumian and Jenna from their attackers.
• Franca proposed using repeated resets to stall for help, but Lumian warned that they had time for only one more restart before the loop’s predetermined ending.
• Higdon attacked the group with a Certain Hit strike, and Franca used a Mirror Substitute while Lumian counterattacked and severed Higdon’s arm, which grew into a second Higdon.
• Franca told Anthony to use Winter Is Coming’s Certain Death against Vazan Sanson while Lumian and Ludwig kept him occupied.
• Vazan Sanson began gathering power to kill himself and trigger a restart, but his light dispersed, the attacks missed, and a voice proclaimed that Intis’s emperor had returned.

Roselle returned as the Black Emperor, but the Mist of Uncertainty’s corruption began consuming him after Madam Helt drew away the Great Mother’s corruption. In Trier, Lumian’s group escaped the Person of the Loop through the Mirror World, only to be trapped by Harrison and confronted by Vazan Sanson.

• Roselle emerged from the Black Emperor’s mausoleum and proclaimed his return, disrupting events across the world and causing the Black Emperor’s Uniqueness and three Sequence 1 Beyonder Characteristics to return to him.
• Perle arranged for Madam Helt to offer the Great Mother the Shadow of the Goddess of Beauty in exchange for Roselle’s corruption, but the Mist of Uncertainty then began corrupting him to replace the balance he had lost.
• In Trier, Franca and Jenna sensed that the emperor’s return had distorted the order and the Person of the Loop’s power, but the Person of the Loop triggered his effect before they could act.
• Lumian sensed a route through the Mirror World using the Black Tear Forehead Ornament and led Franca, Jenna, and the others through it without triggering the Person of the Loop.
• Lumian’s group arrived in a dark world where Harrison, Vazan Sanson, and Higdon appeared; Harrison said Lumian had to be kept trapped, and Vazan revealed he had escaped Fourth Epoch Trier through the Special Mirror World.

Lumian sent Franca, Jenna, Anthony, and the others away through mirrors while he stayed behind to face Vazan Sanson, Higdon, and Harrison. Elsewhere, Madam Magician’s group followed Will Auceptin toward the source of the fate disturbance, while Perle watched Roselle’s resurrection begin ahead of schedule.

• Lumian’s attempt to Teleport the group toward Morola was blocked, so he gave Franca the Black Tear and told her to lead the others through mirrors to seek help.
• Lumian stayed behind to distract the pursuers, and Franca, Jenna, Anthony, Ludwig, and Lugano vanished with the Ice Talisman.
• Lumian put on Demon's Whisper, took up the Sword of Courage, and faced the approaching Vazan Sanson, Higdon, and Harrison.
• Madam Hermit gave Will Auceptin an iron Cigarette Case bearing Mr. Fool’s aura, and Will used it to lead Madam Magician, Madam Judgement, and the others toward the source of the fate power.
• Perle watched the four lights converge on Roselle Gustav, whose resurrection had begun before the Whirlpool ritual ended, and an indescribable light erupted around him.

Lumian fought Vazan Sanson while Harrison interfered and Vazan used his looping power to survive Lumian’s attacks and exchange fragments of their destinies. The exchange continued as Lumian pursued Vazan, unable to stop its completion.

• Higdon used the Glass-like Ring to pursue Ludwig and the others, leaving Lumian to face Vazan Sanson and Harrison.
• Lumian ambushed Vazan Sanson with Avatar of Desire, but Vazan triggered his loop and escaped the corruption.
• Vazan attempted to exchange destiny with Lumian, while Harrison stole Lumian’s attack and struck back with a flaming greatsword.
• Lumian repeatedly attacked Vazan with the Sword of Courage and fire ravens, but Vazan used his loop and contracted Teleportation to recover and evade him.
• Lumian continued pursuing Vazan as their destiny exchange progressed, while Harrison used a paper figurine to avoid a disease.
• Lumian felt despair at being unable to interrupt the exchange, then regained his courage and continued fighting.

Lumian was immobilized after Vazan Sanson completed the destiny exchange, then transformed into a sheep while Harrison’s allies trapped Franca’s group inside the Special Mirror World. Vazan and Harrison began undoing the seal on Lumian’s chest, and silver-black light emerged from him to form a figure.

• Lumian unleashed a storm of explosions across the ruins, interrupting Vazan Sanson’s teleportation and blocking his dark-green ray with the Sword of Courage.
• The destiny exchange completed, leaving Lumian sluggish and stiff; Vazan Sanson returned and transformed him into a sheep with a ritual sheepskin.
• Harrison’s paper figurine revealed Franca and the others trying to escape, but a crowned woman forced them back into the Special Mirror World while Higdon blocked their route.
• Vazan Sanson and Harrison agreed to undo the seal on Lumian’s chest, and Vazan began a ritual with black-stained mercury spheres as Harrison prepared candles and bread.
• Silver-black light burst from Lumian’s body and intertwined before him, weaving into a figure.

Major Arcana members tried to damage the oil painting driving the Whirlpool Ritual, while Roselle resurrected as the Black Emperor and seized the Mist of Uncertainty’s followers to punish them. As the ritual continued and Roselle called for Adam, Amon appeared in the Special Mirror World and revealed that he was also Termiboros.

• Ma'am Hermit identified the oil painting as the source of the terrifying voice, but Ma'am Magician and Ma'am Judgement could only damage it slightly using Will Auceptin’s iron cigarette case.
• Roselle resurrected as the Black Emperor in the Astral World and distorted the Mist of Uncertainty’s connection to its believers, temporarily redirecting their faith to himself.
• Roselle used his control over the believers to kill them, including Perle, but their bloody mist continued sustaining the Whirlpool Ritual.
• Roselle called out to Adam for help as the ritual pressed on, and Adam answered that he was there.
• Amon appeared before Lumian in the Special Mirror World, freed him from his sheep form, and introduced himself as both Amon and Termiboros.