Recaps

Anthony relayed Lumian’s warning to the Major Arcana card holders, while Rosanne decided to help Lumian and Jenna watch Zhou Mingrui at the station. They discovered Zhou Shasha carried a pocket watch containing a Special Mirror World Fragment, and Lumian and Jenna realized taking it from Zhou Mingrui would be extremely risky.

• Anthony repeated Lumian’s message to the gathered Major Arcana card holders, and a tall young man ordered everyone to stay in the room as sunlight filled it.
• Rosanne sketched herself guarding against monsters, then rushed to Zhang Qing’s office to request half a day off so she could help.
• Lumian and Jenna watched Zhou Mingrui at Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, where Jenna discreetly brought Rosanne to join them.
• Zhou Shasha arrived and showed Zhou Mingrui a repaired pocket watch whose dark glass Lumian and Jenna recognized as a Special Mirror World Fragment.
• Jenna urged Lumian to steal the watch, but Lumian warned that Zhou Mingrui’s attachment to it made the attempt dangerous.

Rosanne chose to approach Zhou Mingrui and steal his pocket watch, insisting that her memories and life were real and that she could become a guardian. Meanwhile, Ludwig’s treatment awakened An Xiaotian, who warned Anthony and Ludwig to beware of Zhou Mingrui.

• Rosanne told Jenna that she envied her real-life counterpart but believed her own memories made her life real, and asked Jenna to remember her.
• Rosanne ran after Zhou Mingrui and Zhou Shasha to steal the pocket watch, declaring that she could be a guardian.
• Anthony brought Ludwig into An Xiaotian’s hospital room and used a maze drawing to conceal it before Ludwig began treatment.
• Mushrooms grew over An Xiaotian’s head as the hospital room became dim and nurses were trapped in a maze-like corridor.
• An Xiaotian woke and warned Anthony and Ludwig to beware of Zhou Mingrui.

Rosanne took Zhou Mingrui’s altered pocket watch, but the dream around them collapsed and Zhou Shasha became a mirror used to threaten him. Jenna shattered the mirror, while Lumian questioned Arrodes and Anderson Hood destroyed the empty hotel with an explosion.

• In Dream City, An Xiaotian warned Anthony about Zhou Mingrui as the dream rejected Anthony and Ludwig and began turning them into Marionettes.
• At Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, Rosanne took Zhou Mingrui’s silver-white pocket watch and convinced him to let her keep it because it had changed and might endanger him.
• As the station darkened and blurred, Zhou Mingrui tried to lead Zhou Shasha toward a Light Gate and saw her become a mirror reflecting a hostile version of himself.
• Jenna shot Zhou Shasha’s mirror form with the Certain-Hit Gun and shattered it, but the reflected Zhou Mingrui figures warned that Shasha had already served as a medium pointing to the Mirror World.
• Lumian asked Arrodes whether it was a weapon or a medium, and Arrodes answered that it was a medium.
• Anderson Hood snapped his fingers, causing an explosion that engulfed the empty hotel in flames.

Lumian used the Witch card and Magic Mirror Arrodes to unleash deep darkness that swallowed the mirror selves and shattered much of Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, while Dream City stabilized before Zhou Mingrui was consumed. Jenna tried to save Rosanne but failed, and Lumian warned Zhou Mingrui that the incident was not over.

• Bernadette called Director Ya Yagaitze to request the best protection, while Dream City’s Internet World malfunctioned and sunlight and lightning struck Mushu Hospital.
• Lumian sent Franca’s Mirror Substitute through Arrodes toward the Star Dream General Store, then used the Witch card with the Blood Emperor’s residual aura and the Underworld Daoist’s seal to break through the mirror-behind region.
• Deep darkness swallowed Zhou Mingrui’s mirror selves and began consuming Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station as Jenna tried to reach Rosanne.
• Rosanne disappeared into the darkness after urging Jenna to remember her, and Jenna escaped the city using the dream’s remaining repulsive force.
• The darkness stopped short of Zhou Mingrui as Dream City stabilized; Lumian told him the incident was not over, and Zhou Mingrui agreed.

Lumian confronted Zhou Mingrui with his deductions about the struggle between Mr. Fool and the Celestial Worthy, then revealed that he had stayed in the dream to draw Zhou Mingrui’s attention while a companion acted elsewhere. Franca entered the movie screen, leaving the result of her move unresolved.

• Lumian explained that Zhou Mingrui embodied both Mr. Fool and the Celestial Worthy, and outlined how the Celestial Worthy had been influencing Dream City to weaken Mr. Fool’s humanity.
• Zhou Mingrui confirmed parts of Lumian’s account, including that Peng Deng and Zhang Yujia had been created within the dream.
• Lumian revealed that he had deliberately distracted Zhou Mingrui and concluded that Zhou Mingrui had temporarily lost the ability to expel him or turn him into a Marionette.
• Lumian told Zhou Mingrui that a companion was missing and that he was waiting for her actions to take effect.
• Franca, watching Great Pirate 3 in a cinema far from Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, pressed her palm against the screen and entered the movie.

Franca found Gehrman Sparrow inside a screening of Great Pirate 3 and persuaded him to leave the screen with her to help face the approaching Apocalypse. As the Major Arcana card holders tried to stabilize his image in the Dream City, Lumian explained how they might overcome the three-second limit on movie characters.

• Franca met Gehrman Sparrow aboard a sailing ship and truthfully told him she was a Transmigrator working under the Black Witch.
• Franca explained that Gehrman Sparrow was also a Transmigrator and asked him to leave the screen to help face the Apocalypse; he agreed to try, warning her not to lie.
• Franca took Gehrman Sparrow by the arm and exited the movie screen, despite worrying that he might quickly dissipate or destabilize the dream.
• At Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, Lumian told Zhou Mingrui that Franca was bringing Gehrman Sparrow from Great Pirate 3 and proposed strengthening him with a Dream Image, real-world anchors, and stories about him.
• Madam Justice, Madam Magician, Mr. Sun, and Madam Hermit worked together to open a route into the Dream City and stabilize Gehrman Sparrow's image through a woven Dream Image, prayers, and Mystical Reappearance.
• Madam Justice's Dream Image of Gehrman Sparrow disintegrated after three seconds, while the cinema audience applauded and mistook Franca's entrance for a magic performance.

The Major Arcana members worked to create a pure Gehrman Sparrow from anchors and dream images, separate from the Celestial Worthy, and send him into the Dream City. As the Gehrmans merged and the dream began to collapse, Lumian revealed that his Despair potion had been fully digested.

• Ma'am Justice wove Gehrman Sparrow’s dream image while Ma'am Magician held open the passage and Mr. Hanged Man drove back the shadows with lightning.
• Mr. Stars sent Gehrman Sparrow into a nightmare, and Mr. Moon tried to summon him through a gate but reality resisted.
• Lumian explained to Zhou Mingrui that the plan was to create a pure World Gehrman Sparrow and said that failure would help future Lucky Gold Coin holders continue the effort.
• Mr. Stars weakened reality with a symbol of deceit, and Ma'am Judgement strengthened illusion, allowing Gehrman Sparrow to pass through the Summoning Gate toward the Dream City.
• Ma'am Justice’s dream image merged with the arriving Gehrman Sparrow, and Franca pulled the Gehrman from the film out before guiding him to merge with the other figure as the dream shook.
• Lumian told Zhou Mingrui that the attempt seemed to have succeeded and revealed that his Despair potion had been completely digested.

Franca’s Despair potion finished digesting as the dream collapsed and Gehrman Sparrow absorbed the audience’s impressions of him. Lumian learned that Aurora could eventually be truly resurrected, while Zhou Mingrui prepared to fuse with the Celestial Worthy and returned to sleep, leaving Gehrman Sparrow to become The Fool.

• Franca realized Lumian’s plan had succeeded as the cinema began collapsing and white lights of the audience’s impressions flowed into Gehrman Sparrow.
• At Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, Zhou Mingrui praised Lumian and explained that Aurora could be truly resurrected through the Witch pathway, though the outcome might take an unexpected form.
• Zhou Mingrui told Lumian that he needed to fuse with and resist the Celestial Worthy, and that the Celestial Worthy would ultimately win the struggle.
• Zhou Mingrui drank the Samaritan Woman Spring water and sank into the darkness, telling Lumian that resisting was worth it.
• Gehrman Sparrow awakened as the dream city disintegrated, and Franca awoke to find Lady Justice, Lady Magician, and others in a sunlit room.

Lumian and his companions woke from the collapsing dream, received promises of help advancing their Sequences, and visited Rosanne in reality. Lumian drew the Chariot card as his Tarot Club Major Arcana identity, then joined the club as Mr. Fool began to awaken.

• Lumian encountered Medici at the collapsing Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, and Medici promised to wait until Lumian became an angel before hunting him.
• Madam Magician told Lumian, Franca, Jenna, Anthony, and Ludwig that they would be helped to advance one Sequence; Lumian chose to become a Witch of Unaging and revealed his new pinhole power.
• Lumian, Franca, and Jenna watched Rosanne and her daughter pass by a café in Tingen, and Jenna and Franca listened to their conversation about heroes and protecting others.
• Madam Magician offered Lumian and Franca one Major Arcana card, and Lumian drew the Chariot after first drawing the World; Franca revealed that the other card was the Empress.
• Lumian entered the Tarot Club gathering as Mr. Chariot, where Madam Justice introduced Madam Temperance and welcomed the awakening Mr. Fool.

Lumian and his companions prepared to explore the Blood Emperor’s treasury aboard the Blue Avenger, while discussing Mr. Fool’s revelation about Ombella and the Abscessed Severed Hand. The chapter ended with the group considering Gehrman Sparrow’s nature and how his faith anchors might need to be purified.

• Franca and Jenna questioned Lumian about Mr. Fool’s revelation, but Madam Magician arrived and offered to guide them to the Blood Emperor’s treasury.
• Lumian, Franca, Jenna, Madam Magician, and Mr. Hanged Man went aboard the Blue Avenger, where Lumian confirmed that he could still sense the Mirror Image Mark in the treasury.
• Lumian explained that Mr. Fool had advised him to borrow Earth's Gift after becoming a Witch of Unaging and take it to Banishment City before Severed-Hand Brother.
• Mr. Hanged Man and Madam Magician reasoned that becoming a Witch of Unaging was likely a necessary catalyst, rather than merely a way to gain strength.
• Franca compared Gehrman Sparrow to an AI shaped by faith anchors, and the group discussed purifying those anchors and changing people's perceptions of him.

Lumian, Franca, Jenna, Madam Magician, and Mr. Hanged Man entered Tudor’s treasure vault and found a corpse in a wedding dress inside a Western Continent-style coffin. Lumian’s palm suppressed the corpse’s power, and Madam Magician concluded that the woman was likely a monster from birth.

• Madam Magician transported the group to the mirror corridor and sealed the full-length mirror, allowing them to choose a treasure room safely.
• Lumian discussed why the Primordial Witch and the Great Mother had not interfered during the awakening operation, then followed a flash of inspiration into a treasure room.
• Lumian and the others opened a coffin and found a pale female corpse wearing a red wedding dress and phoenix crown.
• The corpse began to stir, and the Blue Avenger started drying out as the surrounding sea evaporated.
• Lumian extended his right palm, suppressing the corpse and ending the abnormalities.
• Franca wondered whether the corpse was an artificial hánbá, and Madam Magician said she was probably a monster from birth.

Lumian and the others explored the Blood Emperor’s underground chambers, where Madam Magician uncovered ingredients and Beyonder characteristics from corrupted corpses. Lumian gave Franca the War Bishop potion formula so she could decide whether to pursue advancement, and the group found another Witch of Unaging characteristic in the next room.

• Madam Magician explained that the girl in the coffin had become a monster when the Blood Emperor’s ritual failed to restrain the power bestowed on her, and Franca suggested the ritual might have involved refining a corpse.
• Lumian led the group to a spring whose enticing water came from a decomposed female corpse, and Madam Magician collected Witch of Unaging ingredients for Lumian and a Witch of Despair characteristic for Jenna.
• Lumian gave Franca the War Bishop potion formula, saying he wanted her to have the right to choose whether to advance.
• Franca opened the next starlight door, where a human skin attacked her, and Madam Magician destroyed it, revealing another Witch of Unaging Beyonder characteristic.

Lumian and his companions left the Tudor treasure vault after collecting the materials for their rituals, while the Hanged Man stayed behind with Madam Magician to explore it. Back in Trier, Lumian discussed his allies’ plans and used the War Bishop gift to return temporarily to his male appearance, sharing a kiss with Franca.

• Madam Magician explained that the vault was unlikely to hold other angel-level treasures, and Lumian led Franca and Jenna back to the villa while the Hanged Man and Madam Magician remained to explore.
• Jenna left to contact Julian and planned to advance as a Witch in Banishment City, while Anthony chose to keep using the Psychic Alchemy Association as an intelligence channel after becoming a demigod.
• Franca decided to continue the Witch Sect mission to investigate the Primordial Witch and the Special Mirror World, despite Lumian offering to end it.
• Franca asked whether Lumian’s War Bishop gift could change his body, and Lumian demonstrated that it could restore his male appearance without changing his Spirit Body.
• Franca kissed Lumian while he was in his male appearance, then asked him to change back and limit the gift’s effects.

Jenna observed Intis’s ordinary city life and worried it might disappear, while Lumian waited for his Person in the Mirror and discussed Franca’s risky plans with Madam Magician. Above the Gray Fog, the Major Arcana began comparing their impressions of Gehrman Sparrow and Mr. Fool to unify their understanding.

• Jenna paid to send a telegram, then heard news about telephone construction and large generators as she walked through the Art District.
• Lumian watched his reflection for an hour, hoping to find his Person in the Mirror for the Witch of Unaging ritual.
• Madam Magician warned that Franca’s continued contact with the Witch Sect was dangerous, then agreed to protect her when she met the Black Witch.
• Madam Magician told Lumian that the Major Arcana would meet above the Gray Fog to unify their understanding of Gehrman Sparrow and Mr. Fool.
• Madam Justice proposed that the Major Arcana describe and record their impressions, and Mr. Moon and Madam Justice shared their views of Gehrman Sparrow and Mr. World.

The Major Arcana shared their impressions of Gehrman Sparrow and agreed on a more nuanced public image for him. Madam Justice asked Madam Magician to finish Great Adventurer 7 within two weeks, and Madam Magician came up with its tagline.

• Madam Justice and Mr. Stars described Gehrman Sparrow as humorous inwardly, cautious, deeply attached to family and friends, and willing to risk himself to prevent disaster.
• Madam Magician, Mr. Hanged Man, Madam Judgement, Mr. Sun, and Madam Hermit each shared their impressions of Gehrman Sparrow and his other identities.
• Lumian described Mr. Fool as a guardian, while Mr. Stars added that he fought against danger and madness; Lumian also called him gentle, kind, and deeply attached to family and friends.
• Madam Temperance presented her written impressions, and Madam Justice led the group in agreeing that Gehrman Sparrow’s image should be enriched while retaining its familiar public labels.
• The Major Arcana settled on a shared description of Gehrman Sparrow as powerful, cautious, compassionate, generous, devoted to relationships, and yearning for his homeland.
• Madam Magician suggested adding that Gehrman Sparrow had a rich inner life and liked to joke inwardly, and Madam Justice assigned her to finish Great Adventurer 7 within two weeks.

Franca learned the Black Witch’s explanation of witches’ Persons in the Mirror and reported what she knew about Louis of the Emperor Party. Madam Magician then located and restrained Lumian’s Person in the Mirror, and Lumian entered the Mirror World to confront him.

• Madam Magician told Lumian to perform the ritual within two days, and Lumian agreed he was ready.
• Franca visited the Black Witch and revealed that she had become a Witch of Despair, astonishing Bruns.
• The Black Witch explained that Persons in the Mirror were projections shaped by potion power and the Mirror World, and warned that they avoided stronger witches.
• Franca reported that Louis of the Emperor Party had recently returned to normal after being unable to contact an important figure.
• Madam Magician used Lumian’s Mirror Substitute and her starlit magic to locate and temporarily restrain his Person in the Mirror.
• Lumian stepped through the Full-Length Mirror and followed the starlight into the Mirror World.

Lumian reconciled with his Person in the Mirror and drank the Witch of Unaging potion. After enduring petrification and a mysterious gaze from the darkness, he completed his advancement with his past and present selves united.

• Lumian met his Person in the Mirror, who explained how becoming a Witch had divided Lumian into a past self and a present self.
• Lumian and his Person in the Mirror reconciled, sharing their pain and agreeing that Lumian must resurrect Aurora.
• Lumian prepared and drank the Witch of Unaging potion, then used his Person in the Mirror to keep his consciousness from being petrified.
• Lumian's mirrored self became female, and versions of Lumian from different points in his life appeared in the Mirror World.
• An indistinct figure in the darkness looked down at Lumian, who later emerged from grayish-white webs and recovered.
• Lumian found that his past and present selves had become one, completing his advancement to Witch of Unaging.

After becoming a Witch of Unaging, Lumian discovered that his reconciliation with his Person in the Mirror had unified their consciousness, granted him powerful resurrection abilities, and fully digested his potion, which he believed was connected to Aurora’s revival. He explained the advancement and its dangers to Franca and Jenna, then Franca decided to attempt her own ritual.

• Lumian examined his new abilities, including resurrection through hidden Persons in the Mirror, expanded Mirror World powers, and stronger Witch abilities.
• Lumian realized his Unaging potion had been fully digested and suspected Aurora’s further revival had fulfilled the acting requirements.
• Lumian returned to his bedroom, where Jenna explained that Madam Magician had left to adjust the magic robe; Franca asked whether the ritual had succeeded.
• Lumian confirmed he had become a Witch of Unaging and told Franca that the potion was fully digested, prompting them to discuss how an unaging mindset might satisfy the acting principle.
• Lumian explained that reconciliation unified his mirror self with his main body and warned Jenna that a male Person in the Mirror replacing her could be exposed by the ritual, while a female one might not be.
• Franca decided to attempt the ritual that day, believing she might persuade her Person in the Mirror if he shared her pre-transmigration memories.

Franca reconciled with her Person in the Mirror, accepting him as part of herself, and completed digesting her Unaging potion. After Madam Magician advised Franca and Lumian to build anchors of faith through the Church of The Fool, Lumian found a mysterious note in Aurora’s handwriting telling him to summon White Paper.

• Franca met her Person in the Mirror and discussed his resentment, lost hopes, and fantasies of replacing her.
• Franca recognized the Person in the Mirror as part of herself, offered to reconcile, and pulled him to his feet, bringing their mystical connection closer.
• Franca confirmed that she had finished digesting her Unaging potion, and Madam Magician warned her and Lumian that advancing further would require anchors of faith.
• Madam Magician offered to make Franca and Lumian patron saints of areas in Trier under the Church of The Fool, and they agreed to consider the preparations.
• Lumian dreamed of returning to Cordou Village, then woke and found a note in Aurora’s handwriting that read, “Summon White Paper!”

Lumian summoned Aurora’s contract creature, White Paper, after realizing her message suggested that Cordou Village’s story still held an important secret. White Paper’s vanished liquid and enticing smell led Franca to conclude that it symbolized the beginning of everything, leaving them to investigate what that meant for the village’s disaster.

• Lumian reconsidered the events of Cordou Village after finding Aurora’s message to summon White Paper, wondering whether Madame Pualis’s arrangements and the infant Ombella held an unresolved secret.
• Franca suggested Aurora’s reminder might be the useful change tied to Lumian becoming a Witch of Unaging, and Lumian agreed that Aurora’s revived soul fragments could have delivered it.
• Lumian summoned White Paper in Aurora’s name, and the group noticed that it looked unfamiliar to him because his earlier memories of it came from Aurora’s soul fragments.
• Ludwig recalled that White Paper used to have an enticing smell, while Franca and Jenna reasoned that its former state might have been deliberately hidden or altered.
• Lumian asked what White Paper symbolized in the Cordou Village story, and Franca concluded that it represented the state before a story was written and the beginning of everything.

Lumian and the others reconsidered how White Paper’s summoning, the Hidden Sage, and the Great Mother may have shaped the Cordou Village disaster. Franca then devised her honorific name, while Lumian prepared to investigate why Aurora had been chosen for the Hidden Sage’s knowledge infusion.

• Lumian concluded that Aurora’s summoning of White Paper may have brought Ombella’s amniotic fluid into Cordou Village, drawing Madame Pualis there through a revelation from the Great Mother.
• Lumian and Franca suspected the Hidden Sage deliberately influenced Aurora and that April Fool’s Day’s account of events could not be trusted; Lumian reported their findings to Mr. Fool.
• Lumian said he would share his suspicions with Madam Hermit, while Franca planned to consult Madam Hella about revealing transmigration to the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society.
• Lumian asked Franca to find out when the Society would next gather so he could investigate why the Hidden Sage chose Aurora.
• Franca drafted her honorific name as the one who never ages, the keeper of disease and plague, the witch accompanied by strife and disaster, the cup that bears joy and pain, and the great Franca Roland.

Lumian and his companions finalized Honorific Names and sought a chance to visit Banishment City, while Lumian resolved to enjoy life despite the uncertain fate ahead. After receiving word that an answer might come within two days, Jenna invited Lumian and Franca to the opera, and the group shared a cheerful evening.

• Lumian wrote his Honorific Name, including descriptions meant to reflect his bond with Aurora and his Witch and Hunter abilities, with Franca suggesting that he cradle destruction.
• Franca and Lumian sent their Honorific Names to Madam Judgement and Madam Hermit and asked Madam Judgement to contact the Church of Knowledge about visiting Banishment City.
• Madam Judgement replied through Ongla that the Church of Knowledge might provide an answer the next day or the day after.
• Lumian said he wanted to treat himself better and accepted Jenna's invitation to the opera; Franca joined them, while Anthony declined and Jenna brought Ludwig along.
• Franca proposed making hot pot the next day, and Lumian, Anthony, and Jenna jointly rejected adding mushrooms.
• After returning from the opera, Franca planned to summon Madam Hella's Messenger and ask to meet in reality.

Franca learned that Angoulême had advanced to Sequence 4 and that churches were rapidly preparing more demigods for a looming crisis. She told her telegram group about the apocalypse and her own advancement, then met Hella, who revealed she already knew Franca had visited the Dream City.

• Franca discovered that Angoulême had become a Sunless and that the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun was advancing qualified candidates in preparation for a possible crisis.
• Franca warned her telegram group that the apocalypse was approaching but said there was still hope, and Angoulême's agreement convinced the members to believe her.
• Franca revealed that she had become a half-god while remaining on the Witch pathway, and she explained that transmigrators could make rapid progress when their special qualities emerged.
• Angoulême told Franca that several newly advanced saints had stayed in Trier, making her suspect that trouble might erupt beneath the city.
• Franca met Hella at the Little Calf Café and mentioned visiting a dream world with skyscrapers and cell phones, but Hella said she already knew about the visit.

Franca learned that Hella had long known the truth about transmigration, and the two discussed what to tell the other members and what they hoped to do after the apocalypse. Later, Franca, Lumian, and Jenna visited the Fool’s church in Lavigny Docks, where Franca heard illusory voices and saw points of light during prayers to her as the church’s patron saint.

• Hella told Franca that she had realized they were still in their original world after seeing Mystical Reappearance spells based on fairy tales.
• Hella and Franca agreed to preserve hope among the Society’s members, share limited information about the apocalypse, and hold another gathering that week.
• Hella described her hopes of surviving the apocalypse, seeing the world develop, and exploring the cosmos; Franca toasted with her to their homeland and distant horizons.
• Franca told Lumian that Hella planned a gathering, and Lumian said their trip to Banishment City was scheduled for the following Monday.
• Lumian, Franca, and Jenna visited the Fool’s church, where a bishop praised Saint Franca as its patron saint.
• As the congregation prayed to Saint Franca, Franca heard illusory voices and saw points of light.

Franca and Lumian answered prayers from their new believers, using their powers to cure an illness and briefly restore an elderly woman's youth. Lumian then considered how Witches could gain anchors of faith and began thinking about taking over the Disease Church.

• Lumian and Franca recognized that believers' prayers had reached them as anchors of faith, and Franca used a Healing Potion to cure a believer's illness.
• Franca decided she wanted to create a mysticism pathogen that could consume other pathogens, then left with Jenna for the Market District to check on people she had once helped.
• Lumian visited Saint Lumian Church and briefly restored an elderly believer's youthful appearance so she could have her photograph taken.
• Lumian considered how Witches might gain believers and thought about taking over the Disease Church, removing its corrupted members, and redirecting its faith.