Recaps

Lumian and the other four Lucky Gold Coin holders prepared to enter Mr. Fool’s real dream and try to awaken him. After Azik enhanced Samaritan Woman Spring water for their use, the group chose to take the risks and went to sleep holding their coins, beginning the first step of the plan.

• Madam Magician asked Azik to strengthen the Samaritan Woman Spring water, and Azik processed it into a vial that could induce prolonged sleep.
• Azik warned Lumian that waking someone affected by the vial would require more spring water processed in the opposite way or help from a true god.
• Madam Magician explained the dangers and restrictions of entering Mr. Fool’s dream and said identifying the Celestial Worthy’s identity there was part of the mission.
• Lumian, Jenna, Franca, Anthony, and Ludwig agreed to enter the dream, despite Ludwig’s hesitation.
• Madam Magician brought the five to a villa in Trier and instructed them to choose separate rooms and fall asleep holding their Lucky Gold Coins.

Lumian and his companions met Madam Justice and Susie on a dream platform, where they learned how their appearances reflected their subconscious selves. After receiving supplies and instructions, they boarded a train to enter Mr. Fool’s dream, leaving the platform behind.

• Lumian arrived at the platform with Franca, Jenna, Anthony, and Ludwig and recognized Madam Justice, while Franca realized she still appeared as a woman in the dream.
• Madam Justice explained that lucid travelers in a real dream manifested their subconscious self-images and that Lumian could switch appearances because he had become a Witch of Despair.
• Lumian spotted familiar figures on nearby platforms and recognized the golden dog as Susie, who warned them that Mr. Fool was wary and cautious.
• Madam Justice gave Lumian an envelope containing information about Mr. Fool’s dream identity, along with cash, identification, and a map, and explained how lucky gold coins would help them enter the dream.
• Lumian and his companions boarded the black steam train, which departed the platform toward the edge of the dream world.

Lumian and his companions entered Mr. Fool’s dream, where they found themselves aboard a modern train in Franca’s familiar world. After reaching a vast city, they left the station and discovered the name listed for Mr. Fool’s identity: Zhou Mingrui.

• Franca recognized the train carriage and passengers as resembling scenes from her own world, and Lumian reassured her that the Celestial Worthy’s presence explained it.
• Jenna found a ticket marked Ningbei-Yangdu, while Franca explained the unfamiliar technology and clothing to the others.
• Ludwig demanded food, so Lumian bought five boxed meals and used a mirror illusion to hide Ludwig’s excessive eating from other passengers.
• Franca guided the group through a city of towering glass-covered buildings and out of the station, where Lumian opened Lady Justice’s document about Mr. Fool’s dream identity.
• Franca read the name at the top of the document: Zhou Mingrui.

Lumian and his companions settled into the dream city and began observing Zhou Mingrui from a distance rather than approaching Mr. Fool. They encountered a possible Seer Beyonder and then discovered that Amon was present in the dream, leaving Lumian uncertain about Amon's intentions.

• Lumian decided the group would observe Zhou Mingrui and the people around him before attempting contact, and Jenna chose a nearby place for them to stay.
• Franca borrowed the Lie ear clip, found directions to a phone shop, and led the group to buy phones, SIM cards, and a children's watch.
• A helmetless motorcyclist crashed into a utility pole but emerged unharmed; Lumian found a tattered Paper Figurine Substitute at the scene.
• Lumian and his companions rode to their destination in a hired car, where they recognized the driver as Amon.
• Franca said Madam Magician had described Amon as being on their side, but Lumian noted that Amon might not want Mr. Fool to wake too soon.

Franca, Lumian, Jenna, Anthony, and Ludwig settled into a rental in the dream city, learned to use phones, and went out for food. Their first dinner was interrupted when a young woman stopped a necklace thief, and Lumian recognized her as Shatas, who shared an apartment with Mr. Fool.

• Franca negotiated a rental and discussed borrowing money, while Lumian considered selling the gold box through illegal channels.
• Lumian and the others discussed applying to Emperor Roselle's company and whether selling gold in the dream would affect the real gold box.
• The group cleaned the apartment with black flames, learned to use phones, and left to find food when Ludwig became hungry.
• Franca ordered local dishes at a roadside restaurant and shared her memories of the city with the others.
• A thief ran past the restaurant carrying a diamond necklace, and a young woman surnamed Xia knocked him down with a kick.
• Lumian recognized the young woman as Shatas, who shared an apartment with Mr. Fool.

Lumian and his team studied the suspicious people around Mr. Fool while planning to observe them before making contact, then went out for a late-night meal near the residential complex. They spotted the Divine Emissary Danitz offering tutoring flyers, and Ludwig reacted eagerly to the Dream Tutoring Class.

• Franca identified Shatas and the team discussed whether she could be the Celestial Worthy or one of His marionettes, while Lumian warned them to prioritize observation and avoid contact for now.
• The team toasted their past and future over dinner, then returned to the rental apartment and arranged rooms, borrowed money, and studied the Major Arcana's information about Mr. Fool.
• Lumian noticed that studying the information depleted his spirituality and warned the team to limit each session to half an hour.
• The team went to a barbecue stall near Mr. Fool's residential complex to observe its regular visitors, and Lumian recognized Danitz among them.
• Danitz approached the team and offered information about a Dream Tutoring Class, and Ludwig's pupils dilated as he bit through his skewer.

Lumian and his companions discovered that Divine Emissary Danitz had been hanged and hid his corpse to test whether events unknown to Mr. Fool's dream identity could be erased. Lumian proposed that the dream’s other inhabitants might be expressions of Mr. Fool’s subconscious, and the chapter ended as the group heard a local man pleading for his life near their residence.

• Jenna used Danitz’s tutoring flyer pitch to digest some of her Affliction potion, while Lumian and the others observed him and concluded he was a dream figure.
• On their way home, Franca spotted Danitz’s corpse hanging in an alley, and Lumian confirmed that he had been hanged.
• Lumian hid Danitz’s corpse and rope in a mirror, explaining that he wanted to test whether Mr. Fool’s subconscious would register an event it never learned about.
• Lumian suggested that the dream’s inhabitants might be performances of Mr. Fool’s subconscious and that this could offer a way to bypass the Celestial Worthy’s surveillance.
• After the group concealed the scene and continued toward their residence, they heard a local man crying out in fear beside the trees.

Lumian and his companions investigated a caregiver’s breakdown and learned that a corpse at Mushu Hospital had awakened after he assaulted it. As the group kept watch for further danger, Franca wondered whether Mr. Fool was a transmigrator, while Lumian thought of Aurora.

• Anthony soothed a panicked local man while Lumian hid the group from a security guard with Mirror Image Maze.
• The caregiver said he had assaulted a beautiful female corpse at Mushu Hospital, which opened its eyes after he finished.
• Lumian used Dream Divination to sketch the corpse, and Franca recognized her as possibly a Witch; the name Mushu also reminded Franca of the Mother Tree of Desire.
• The group agreed that the hospital and corpse warranted investigation, planned to keep watch, and prepared to observe Mr. Fool’s company the next morning.
• Franca told Jenna that Utopia was a term from her former world and wondered whether Mr. Fool was a transmigrator; Jenna urged her to focus on waking him.
• Jenna took over the night watch, and Lumian said he wondered whether Aurora had once lived in a city like theirs.

Lumian and his companions investigated the dream world's rules after police questioned them about Danitz's disappearance, then rented a car to discreetly watch a building. They ended the chapter observing the workers arriving there from a parked sedan.

• Lumian bought breakfast and joked to a shop owner that he ran a pyramid scheme, so Franca warned him to be more careful about concealing their identities.
• Two police officers, including the dream version of Mr. Star, questioned the group about Danitz after he was reported missing.
• Lumian confirmed Danitz's corpse remained in a mirror, and Jenna concluded that events unknown to Mr. Fool's dream identity could still become real and continue developing.
• The group decided to watch for the Celestial Worthy's subordinates and rented a car after Franca claimed she could drive.
• Lumian and his companions watched white-collar workers entering a building from a gray sedan parked across the street.

Lumian and his team watched Zhou Mingrui’s building, identifying him and several people connected to his dream life while looking for abnormalities. After shopping for new clothes, Lumian spotted a woman in the supermarket who might be the resurrected female corpse.

• Franca, Jenna, Lumian, and Anthony observed Zhou Mingrui enter his building and noted signs that he might have taken the Assassin potion.
• The team identified Rosanne and Vice President Wu among the people around Zhou Mingrui, but found no one suspicious during their first observation.
• Lumian decided to keep monitoring the people in their information and planned to apply for a security guard job at the Intis Group.
• Franca bought inexpensive new clothes for the team, then tried to avoid taking Ludwig into the supermarket because he was captivated by the displays.
• Lumian spotted a black-haired woman disappearing into the supermarket and warned Franca, Jenna, and Anthony that she might be the resurrected female corpse.

Lumian and Franca searched a supermarket for the resurrected female corpse, then used Lumian’s destiny ability to help Franca win money on scratch cards. Back at the apartment, a pale hand began emerging from the mirror holding Divine Emissary Danitz’s corpse, and Lumian destroyed the mirror with black flames.

• Lumian spotted the resurrected female corpse in the supermarket, but he and Franca searched the store without finding her.
• Franca took Ludwig and Anthony back to the car while Lumian accompanied Franca through the supermarket, where they bought groceries.
• Franca bought scratch cards, and Lumian amplified a Fate Branch; Franca won two thousand yuan, though Lumian could not tell whether his ability had caused it.
• Lumian and Franca discussed checking the mall’s surveillance footage themselves and decided to consider it that night.
• At the apartment, a pale hand reached out from the mirror containing Divine Emissary Danitz’s corpse, so Lumian burned and shattered the mirror.

Lumian and his companions tracked Divine Emissary Danitz’s corpse after it emerged from the Mirror World, then watched it mysteriously reanimate and travel to Mushu Hospital. When the corpse entered the hospital, their mirror tracking failed, so Lumian prepared to follow it inside in disguise.

• Lumian explained that Danitz’s corpse might be expelled from the Mirror World, and the group waited for his spiritual intuition to alert them.
• Ludwig vomited up hair Lumian had hidden in his stomach, and Lumian used it to locate Danitz’s corpse in an abandoned factory.
• Lumian brought the group to a nearby building, where they watched Danitz’s corpse rise and hail an unoccupied taxi.
• Franca and Jenna’s Magic Mirror Divination failed, and Lumian suggested consulting a magic mirror belonging to Mr. Fool as another option.
• The taxi carried Danitz’s corpse to Mushu Hospital, where it entered the outpatient building and vanished from Lumian’s mirror tracking.
• Lumian decided to follow the corpse into the hospital, and, after Jenna warned him about being recognized, he began changing his appearance.

Lumian investigated Mushu Hospital while tracking the revived Divine Emissary’s corpse, but his instincts warned him away from the morgue and the police soon recovered the body. He and Franca then considered whether the hospital represented an outside force or whether the police symbolized the dream’s governing power.

• Lumian disguised himself in a female appearance and entered Mushu Hospital to track Danitz’s corpse with a mirror.
• At the elevators, Lumian sensed intense desire and danger from two people heading toward the basement, so he avoided following them.
• Franca called Lumian and explained that a payment from the missing Divine Emissary’s phone would lead the police to the hospital.
• Lumian watched Officer Deng and Mr. Stars’ dream projection lead officers into the hospital and later carry out a covered body he identified as the Divine Emissary’s corpse.
• Lumian and Franca discussed whether Mushu Hospital came from the dream’s impressions or whether the police represented the dream’s governing consciousness.

Lumian and Franca secretly reviewed Bright Moon Mall’s surveillance footage and found that the resurrected female corpse appeared to be a powerful Witch connected to the Divine Emissary’s mutation. On their way back, Lumian realized she might also be checking surveillance for them, prompting Franca to turn back toward the surveillance room.

• Lumian, Jenna, Anthony, and Franca discussed how the dream’s main consciousness and the Celestial Worthy might conceal abnormalities and warned against attracting public attention.
• Franca used Mirror Image Maze to disguise the surveillance feeds while she and Lumian searched Bright Moon Mall’s recordings.
• Franca and Lumian identified the resurrected female corpse in the footage and traced her apparently aimless path through the mall.
• Lumian and Franca suspected the female corpse was a powerful Witch whose revelation or connection to the Celestial Worthy might link her to the Divine Emissary’s mutation.
• Franca declined to search government street-camera footage, and she and Lumian restored the surveillance room before rejoining their team.
• Lumian realized the female corpse might be checking surveillance for them too, and Franca exclaimed that they needed to return to the surveillance room.

Lumian and the others watched the mall surveillance room and discovered the resurrected female corpse had visited, leaving the guards unnaturally motionless. As the corpse attacked Franca’s group through the Mirror World and Lumian pursued a hand emerging from the surveillance screen, he and his sword plunged into the screen.

• Franca, Jenna, Anthony, and Lumian debated whether the resurrected female corpse had checked the footage and whether Loki might be guiding her.
• Anthony noticed the two security guards had not moved, and Franca saw a cold gray-white trace in one guard’s eyes.
• Lumian left the Mirror World to inspect the room and found both guards statue-still and the surveillance system frozen on an operation Franca had reset.
• Ludwig ate something spiritual in the air, prompting Franca and Jenna to use Mirror Substitutes as the resurrected female corpse appeared and tried to burn Franca’s mirror image.
• The female corpse retreated after her assassination attempt failed, while Lumian struck at a hand emerging from the surveillance screen and was pulled inside with his frost sword.

Franca and her companions faced the resurrected female corpse’s attacks in the surveillance room while Lumian pursued her through a strange world formed by surveillance footage. Lumian found and confronted the corpse, but a security guard’s explosive transformation engulfed Franca, Jenna, and the others in the surveillance room.

• Franca led Jenna, Anthony, and Ludwig to the surveillance room instead of pursuing the resurrected female corpse through the tunnel, where they found Lumian missing and the corpses crawling out of the surveillance feeds.
• Anthony’s Intimidation failed to stop the corpses, but Ludwig identified the real one, allowing Franca to strike it; the other figures vanished before the corpse appeared beside the mirror and attacked Anthony.
• Lumian entered a deserted mall through a surveillance screen, confirmed his phone had no signal, and defeated an illusion and a shadowy attacker before confronting the resurrected female corpse.
• Franca, Jenna, and Anthony evaded the corpse’s dagger attack, but a security guard transformed and exploded, filling the surveillance room with flesh, organs, and yellow-green pus as the corpse escaped into a mirrored ornament.

Franca and her companions escaped the surveillance room’s disease-bomb blasts while Lumian fought the revived female corpse inside Bright Moon Square. The corpse continued attacking from both locations, and the chapter ended as she prepared to destroy the surveillance screen and collapse the alternate dimension.

• A security guard exploded into infected flesh and pus, forcing Franca, Jenna, Anthony, and Ludwig to escape through the Vanity Mirror using Franca’s Ice Talisman.
• Franca suspected that Mushu Hospital held powers tied to disease and that the revived female corpse might be a living corpse or a marionette controlled by someone nearby.
• A second security guard, apparently controlled or infected, transformed and exploded, covering the mirror ornament and blocking Franca’s view.
• Lumian destroyed the revived female corpse’s mirror projection, then used the Sword of Courage to cut down her body and set the fourth floor ablaze with crimson fireballs.
• The revived female corpse reappeared in the surveillance room and formed an Ice Crystal Spear, preparing to destroy the surveillance screen and collapse the alternate dimension.

Franca and Jenna fought to protect the Surveillance Screen while Lumian wore down the Resurrected Female Corpse inside Bright Moon Mall. Just as the weakening women faced another attack, Ludwig deprived their enemy of Mirror Substitute, and Franca fired a Certain Hit bullet.

• Franca stopped the Resurrected Female Corpse from striking the Surveillance Screen, then joined Jenna in alternating attacks and defense to keep her away from it.
• Franca and Jenna became increasingly ill from the Plague Bombs, and Franca used her spider silk to prompt Jenna to burn away the Mysticism Pathogens with Witch flames.
• Lumian used Amplifying Destiny to curse the Resurrected Female Corpse through the Sword of Courage, then exhausted her Mirror Substitutes and struck her down.
• The Resurrected Female Corpse turned into an ordinary-looking young man before vanishing, and Lumian suspected she had a Special Mirror World Fragment.
• Ludwig emerged from the Mirror World and deprived the Resurrected Female Corpse of Mirror Substitute for one minute; following Anthony's instruction, Franca fired the Certain-Hit Gun at her.

Franca, Anthony, Jenna, and Lumian worked together to kill the revived female corpse, a Witch of Despair, despite her unleashing an incomplete mythical creature form. After tending to the corruption and securing her corpse and a black mirror fragment, they checked whether the fight had been recorded before planning to return and perform Spiritism.

• Franca's Certain Hit shot struck only a mirror projection, but Anthony intercepted the revived female corpse as she tried to escape through the Mirror World and shot her back into the surveillance room.
• The revived female corpse revealed her incomplete mythical creature form, corrupting Jenna and Franca, but Franca's Certain Death bullet pierced the corpse's hair and split her head open.
• Anthony soothed Franca and Jenna while Lumian burned the contaminated surveillance room, placed the corpse in a mirror, and collected a pitch-black mirror fragment.
• Franca checked the surveillance system and found the cameras in the room had been destroyed, then she and Lumian discussed whether his fight inside the surveillance world might have appeared in the footage.
• Lumian told Franca to check for any remaining footage and said they would return to perform Spiritism if there were no problems.

After surviving the fight in the Surveillance World, Lumian’s team returned to their apartment, where they discovered a Beyonder Characteristic separating from the resurrected corpse. Lumian began spiritism to learn why the woman had awakened in Mushu Hospital’s morgue.

• Franca reviewed the mall footage and confirmed the fight appeared on camera only as a blurry scene within the Surveillance World, while the real fourth floor remained intact.
• Franca and Anthony suffered the Certain-Hit Gun’s illness effects, and Healing Potions helped them recover enough to return to the apartment.
• Lumian quickly learned to drive the rented sedan, then parked it with Jenna’s directions.
• The team watched a dark Beyonder Characteristic gather in the corpse’s right eye, collected materials needed for the Despair Potion, and let Ludwig eat the corpse’s ears to strengthen his Mirror Substitute ability.
• Lumian performed spiritism, summoned the woman’s apparition, and asked why she had awakened in Mushu Hospital’s morgue.

Lumian and his companions learned that the resurrected female corpse was a marionette connected to the Celestial Worthy, and Lumian destroyed the evidence before it could attract attention. The next morning, Franca remained ill, so Lumian and Anthony set out to contact the Major Arcana while Jenna stayed behind to care for her and Ludwig.

• During Spiritism, the female corpse confirmed she was a marionette, and Lumian and his companions saw her threads extending into the darkness above, which they associated with the Celestial Worthy.
• Before the apparition vanished, the female corpse said Mr. Fool and the Great Mother had given her humanity, leading Lumian to suspect the Great Mother had helped create an independent marionette at Mushu Hospital.
• Lumian found no additional items on the corpse and offered it to Ludwig in exchange for obeying Jenna; after Ludwig agreed, Jenna, Franca, and Anthony left the Mirror-Behind Region.
• Ludwig said eating the female corpse would not restore him to Sequence 4 unless he also received Vazan Sanson's corpse, and he named his Sequence 4 as Sea Monster.
• The next morning, Lumian confirmed Franca's illness was a lingering negative effect, then arranged for Jenna to care for Franca and Ludwig while he and Anthony went to contact the Major Arcana.
• Lumian entered Star Dream General Store as their destination in the map app.

Jenna encouraged Ludwig to study and rewarded him with snacks, while Franca reflected on their warm domestic life. Lumian and Anthony investigated a possible hidden Marionettist before Lumian found Arrodes in a strange general store and asked what it could tell them about waking Mr. Fool.

• Jenna persuaded Ludwig to study, explaining that it could help him learn human rules and integrate into society, then offered snacks as rewards.
• Jenna cared for Franca as she recovered, and Franca found comfort in their family-like routine with Jenna and Ludwig.
• While driving with Lumian, Anthony noted that a security guard's behavior suggested a hidden demigod-level Marionettist and found a report about an irrational madman discovered near Bright Moon Mall.
• Lumian and Anthony visited the Star Dream General Store, where Lumian deposited letters addressed to Leonard Mitchell at the Church of Tranquility.
• Lumian examined a magical mirror that identified itself as Arrodes and asked whether it had any advice about waking Mr. Fool.

Lumian questioned Arrodes in the Star Dream General Store, learned to beware of the night, and discovered the mirror and other antiques were far beyond his means. After meeting the strangely familiar international student Stiano, Lumian sent Jenna and Anthony to investigate the Dream Tutoring Class while he stayed behind to care for Franca.

• Arrodes warned Lumian to beware of the night, then asked him about becoming a Witch and wearing women's underwear; Lumian answered both questions without punishment.
• Lumian asked the shopkeeper the prices of Arrodes and a brass book, learned they cost five million and nine million respectively, and left without buying or renting anything.
• Lumian and Anthony met Stiano photographing their rental car; Anthony later said Stiano gave him the same sense of familiarity he felt inside Steam Church cathedrals.
• Lumian asked Jenna and Anthony to take Ludwig to the Dream Tutoring Class and investigate Mr. Fool's enrollment and the effects of the Divine Emissary's death, while he stayed with Franca.

Lumian and Franca discussed the corruption spreading through Mushu Hospital while he cared for her at home. Meanwhile, Jenna enrolled Ludwig in the Dream Tutoring Class, where Principal Ai assigned him to Anderson’s introductory class and Anderson proposed teaching him to cook instead.

• Lumian helped Franca recover and fed her yellow peach while they discussed how the Mother Tree of Desire and other evil gods were corrupting Mushu Hospital’s dream from its basement upward.
• Franca wondered aloud whether she might rather remain asleep if her own dream contained everyone she cared about.
• Jenna took Ludwig to the Dream Tutoring Class and asked the receptionist about weekend courses, then negotiated the introductory English fee down to 5,000 with Principal Ai.
• Principal Ai warned Jenna that Anderson’s teaching could give children bad study habits, but Jenna enrolled Ludwig in his class.
• Anderson questioned Ludwig about his interests, learned he liked eating, and suggested teaching him to cook; Jenna recognized him as Danitz’s roommate.

Jenna and Anthony investigated the Dream Tutoring Class after the Divine Emissary’s murder, and Anderson Hood hinted that people in Dream City seemed to be following scripts before revealing he had been joking. Lumian’s group decided to continue observing key figures, avoid going out at night, and investigate Peng Deng next; the chapter ended as Lumian and Franca entered the Star Dream General Store to collect a reply and inspect the Brass Book.

• Jenna questioned Principal Ai and Anderson about Teacher Da’s murder and learned that Anderson had reported his disappearance to the police shortly afterward.
• After leaving the tutoring class, Jenna and Anthony discussed Anderson’s behavior, and Anderson told them that people around him seemed to be acting from scripts before laughing it off as a prank.
• Jenna learned that Principal Ai had once been Ludwig’s teacher at the Church of Knowledge.
• Lumian told Jenna and Anthony to keep observing key people and wait to question Anderson until he was alone; he and Jenna prepared food for Ludwig and planned to avoid going out after dark.
• Lumian planned to visit the Star Dream General Store and observe the nearby police station in the morning, then investigate Peng Deng in the afternoon.
• The next morning, Franca accompanied Lumian into the Star Dream General Store to collect the Major Arcana’s reply and see the Brass Book.