Chapter Summaries

Cinderella stripped Lato Giaro of the sea’s authority, and the silver-gray behemoth pulled him into its energy passage. Lumian, Madwoman, and Mr. K followed him inside, while the Wandering Poet realized the plan had gone wrong and hurried toward the mountains.

• Cinderella arrived in a pumpkin carriage and used Betrayal Banquet to make the spaceship turn against Lato Giaro, revoking his authority as Governor of the Sea.
• The silver-gray behemoth dragged Lato Giaro through its energy passage, and Lumian, Madwoman, and Mr. K entered after him.
• In Milo Village, the Wandering Poet saw villagers celebrating the Sea-Praying Ritual and left the Governor of the Sea’s residence without being stopped.
• The Wandering Poet noticed the spaceship had not started despite the sea’s gift appearing, and he quickened his pace toward the Piraeus Mountains.
• Soft footsteps sounded behind the Wandering Poet as he hurried away.

After Loki abducted Ludwig and began trying to turn him into a marionette, Jenna and Anthony alerted Noelia and the Order of Abundance. Archbishop Agrippina’s search exposed the marionettes and trapped Loki, who abandoned his plan to advance and prepared to flee—only for Ludwig to wake and ask for food.

• Jenna told Noelia that Ruvio Paco was Loki, a Marionettist who had abducted Ludwig, a sealed demigod, and that Madame Marta was one of his marionettes.
• Noelia sent Simili to alert the dean and summon help, while Archbishop Agrippina arrived and organized a search for Ludwig and Madame Marta.
• Agrippina used seabirds, seeds, vines, moonlight, and anesthetic flowers to blanket the area, incapacitating the citizens and revealing the marionettes.
• Loki realized controlling Ludwig’s Spirit Body Threads would take at least an hour and that multiple demigods were watching, so he abandoned his plan to advance to Sequence 4 Trickmaster and prepared to teleport away.
• Ludwig woke in Loki’s arms and said he was hungry.

Cinderella and Hella subdued the Humanoid Sealed Artifact and the sea-touched crew, while Franca slipped toward the energy passage. Inside the Flying Vessel, Lumian confronted Ultraman Lato Giaro as the ship attacked them, and Madwoman and Mr. K suddenly exchanged positions.

• Cinderella used her Chess Game of the Years and Sleeping Beauty spells while Hella drew the Humanoid Sealed Artifact into a dream, then soothed it and the Colorful Flower Ceremonial Ship’s crew to sleep.
• Franca left the Sailing Ship and floated onto the Colorful Flower Ceremonial Ship, aiming to reach the energy passage.
• Ultraman Lato Giaro failed to gain control of the Flying Vessel and took Cinderella’s hesitation outside as proof that the ship could protect him.
• The Flying Vessel sealed Lumian and Lato Giaro inside a hall and released poison gas, but Lumian could not obtain the Governor of the Sea’s authority.
• Lato Giaro urged Lumian to escape with him, but Lumian put on the Torture gloves and ignited himself in crimson flames, declaring he would kill Lato Giaro.
• Madwoman and Mr. K, trapped among the metal rooms, vanished and reappeared behind one another in an apparent exchange of positions.

Lumian and Lato Giaro fought inside the sealed spaceship, each using their abilities to counter the other. After Lato Giaro’s Purification Halo hurt Lumian, Lumian escaped it with a Fictional Bottle and unleashed Pride Armor against him.

• Lumian tricked Lato Giaro into firing a Sun Ray at an empty fireball, then appeared behind him and knocked him unconscious with a pale-yellow blast.
• Lato Giaro’s Purification Halo struck Lumian before he could escape, causing intense pain and illusory murmurs.
• After both men recovered, Lato Giaro spread Purification Halo across the hall, expecting Lumian to remain trapped within its reach.
• Lumian hid inside an unstable space, but Lato Giaro found and destroyed it with a dark green ray.
• Lumian revealed Pride Armor, which charged at Lato Giaro with a giant sword of light.

Lumian Lee and the Pride Armor battled Lato Giaro, with Lumian stealing Lato’s Purification Halo and exploiting the armor’s shifting allegiance to land a lethal attack. After stabbing Lato in the eye with the black bone flute, Lumian grabbed him and demanded to know whether he had gone to Cordou Village to confirm the situation.

• The Pride Armor attacked Lato Giaro, who used the sea’s power to knock aside its sword and prepare a Purification Halo against Lumian Lee.
• Lumian used Lie to steal Lato’s Purification Halo, then relied on his own portion of the sea’s power to resist it and escape its reach.
• Lato tried to flee after striking the Pride Armor with sunlight, but the armor turned on Lumian as he appeared exhausted.
• Lumian unleashed the strength he had accumulated through Ascetic, causing the Pride Armor to turn back toward Lato as he closed in and attacked.
• Lumian played Hateful Movement while Lato fought the Pride Armor, freezing him with Emotional Detonation and letting the armor slash his shoulder.
• Lumian stabbed Lato in the left eye with the black bone flute, grabbed him by the neck, and demanded to know whether he had gone to Cordou Village to confirm the situation.

Lumian killed “Ultraman” Lato Giaro aboard the Colorful Flower Ceremonial Ship, but the strange building absorbed the corpse and opened its tunnels. Elsewhere, Loki escaped Ludwig’s assault with a powerful substitute, while the Wandering Poet learned that the Sea Queen’s Ring could be enchanted repeatedly.

• Lato Giaro taunted Lumian in Highland Language before dying, and Lumian thanked him fluently as he killed him.
• The silver-white floor absorbed Lato Giaro’s remains and Beyonder Characteristic, then the building reopened its tunnels as Lumian felt uneasy about what lay ahead.
• Ludwig bit off Loki’s hand despite repeated Air Bullets, forcing Loki to use a powerful paper figurine substitute and escape outside the Vine Forest.
• The Wandering Poet found himself at the ruined altar, where a young man with a Monocle revealed that the Sea Queen’s Ring could be enchanted more than once.
• The young man explained that he had spent over a thousand years establishing the false rule that Steal could only be bestowed once a year.

The Wandering Poet woke from a dream of a deceptive altar and learned that the Sea-Praying Ritual had succeeded, only to encounter Gandalf on the road out of the village. Meanwhile, Mr. K and Madwoman continued their battle inside the seabed spaceship, with Madwoman calling down Holy Light after evading his attack.

• The Wandering Poet fled the altar in his dream, woke in the Governor of the Sea’s residence, and realized the villagers’ subdued reactions meant the altar encounter had not been real.
• The Wandering Poet left the residence after the successful Sea-Praying Ritual and headed toward Santa Port, where Gandalf confronted him and called him a fake.
• Mr. K transformed using his grazed Demon abilities and bombarded the metal honeycomb with Sulfur Fireballs.
• Madwoman protected herself from the explosions, fought Mr. K with a Dawn Sword, and escaped his next strike using a Paper Figurine Substitute.
• Madwoman summoned Holy Light down upon Mr. K.

Lumian, Mr. K, and Madwoman were drawn toward the flesh-and-blood source of the Metallic Beehive’s corruption, where a burst of starlight revealed what Lumian suspected was a deity in gestation. As Madwoman rushed deeper despite the danger, Lumian decided to use Sea Power to try to stop her.

• Mr. K escaped the metal floor by severing his trapped legs, then pursued Madwoman toward the corruption while Lumian resisted the tunnel’s suction.
• The flesh-and-membrane structure deep in the tunnel discharged starlight, ending the suction and dropping Madwoman and Mr. K into the silver-white hall.
• Madwoman excitedly identified the structure as a deity in gestation and Flashed deeper into the tunnel, with Mr. K following her.
• Lumian questioned Madwoman’s reckless behavior and suspected the Celestial Worthy might be directing her, then decided he had to stop her himself.
• Lumian activated his Sea Power and merged it with his Astral Body to attempt to claim temporary authority as Governor of the Sea.

Lumian used his temporary authority as Governor of the Sea to trap Madwoman, but a grayish-white figure burst from her and rushed toward the flesh-and-blood nest. The nest began pulling everything toward a still-forming black hole, while Lady Magician appeared outside the silver-gray behemoth and sent a host of illusory doors into it.

• Lumian sensed the silver-gray behemoth’s illusory sea and used its power to trap Madwoman inside a dark sphere isolated from the Spirit World.
• Mr. K used a recorded Traveler ability to attack Madwoman, but a grayish-white figure tore out of her chest and fled toward the nest before he cut her in half.
• The flesh-and-blood nest began drawing in Madwoman’s remains, Lumian, and Mr. K with terrifying force.
• Lumian saw a black-hole-like object gestating inside the nest and sensed a vast presence connected to another place.
• The seabed’s suction overwhelmed Franca and the others as Lady Magician appeared and sent illusory doors into the silver-gray behemoth.

Madam Magician reinforced the seal around the silver-gray spaceship and rescued Lumian, while capturing Wandering Poet and forcing Loki to use a resurrection. She explained that the sealed object contained an embryonic black hole created by an evil god, and the chapter ended with Lumian questioning the identity of Mr. Door.

• Madam Magician reinforced the seal, causing Madwoman's phantom to vanish and transporting the ships and their passengers out of the underwater cavity.
• A gaze from the embryonic black hole crushed Lumian's body, but Madam Magician healed him and gave him Madwoman's ring to restore himself.
• Madam Magician trapped Loki in Santa Port, but he exploded himself before she could capture him alive; she then searched the Spirit World for his resurrection information.
• Madam Magician told Lumian that Wandering Poet had been captured alive by Gandalf in Milo Village, while Loki had been killed but would resurrect.
• Madam Magician explained that the silver-gray object was a spaceship carrying an embryonic black hole, sealed because attempts to damage it would strengthen it.
• Lumian asked about Mr. Door after hearing that Mr. Door and Amon had discovered and sealed the black hole during the Fourth Epoch.

Lumian and Madam Magician pieced together how April Fool's Day had been misled into risking the release of the sealed black hole, and Lumian refined his understanding of conspiracy and information. In the Night Kingdom, the group confronted Wandering Poet, who offered clues about Loki, but Lumian proposed killing him and using Spiritism.

• Madam Magician explained that Mr. Door had sealed the spaceship and that the Celestial Worthy had used April Fool's Day to try to release the black hole.
• Lumian realized Amon had secretly given Lie powerful theft abilities, helping the group thwart the scheme alongside other hidden forces.
• Lumian reflected on information gaps, advanced his Conspirer potion digestion, and identified exploiting or creating information gaps as an acting principle.
• Madam Magician gave Lumian the spoils to distribute, and he asked to see Wandering Poet.
• Lumian, Franca, Hella, and Gandalf brought Wandering Poet to the Night Kingdom, where he offered to lead them to Loki's Ancient Castle.
• Lumian suggested killing Wandering Poet and performing Spiritism.

Lumian disguised as Muggle tricked Wandering Poet into revealing what he knew about the Celestial Worthy by stabbing him and giving him Truth Serum. Wandering Poet explained how he became a believer, and Gandalf then asked how Loki had come to believe.

• Lumian stabbed Wandering Poet through the eye, leaving him alive but unable to resist, and then gave him Truth Serum.
• Franca learned that Lumian had imitated a frontal-lobe operation he had watched, while Gandalf and Hella accepted his harsh treatment of the April Fool's Day member.
• Gandalf asked how Wandering Poet had come to believe in the Celestial Worthy, and Hella limited him to giving only a few keywords after his first answer made the palace grow hazy and alarmed the others.
• Wandering Poet said he had been an antiquities thief who deciphered an inscription, then transmigrated and received a revelation from the Celestial Worthy.
• Wandering Poet confirmed that he became a believer before the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society was founded, and Gandalf asked how Loki had come to believe.

Lumian interrogated Wandering Poet about April Fool’s Day’s plans and learned the group had been deceived into targeting a spaceship that contained a gestating black hole. Wandering Poet also revealed links between Loki, the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun, and Dilan Ancient Castle, but did not know Loki’s full plans or the identity of his church contact.

• Wandering Poet explained that he and another Celestial Worthy-influenced member founded April Fool’s Day, then admitted the group intended to seize the spaceship beneath Port Santa.
• Lumian told Wandering Poet the spaceship held an unformed black hole, not a High Sequence creature, and that the Celestial Worthy had misled April Fool’s Day into risking the world’s destruction.
• Wandering Poet confirmed that Ultraman and Madwoman had visited Cordou Village and reported it destroyed, and said Loki had worked with Ultraman on matters connected to the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun.
• Wandering Poet confirmed April Fool’s Day included non-transmigrator Core Members and that a high-ranking Purifier from the Church had helped them learn of a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact; Loki alone knew the Purifier’s identity.
• Wandering Poet described Loki’s hidden Dilan Ancient Castle, which Loki had inherited with the Celestial Worthy’s help, and admitted he had once tried unsuccessfully to swindle it from him.

Lumian and the others questioned Wandering Poet about Dilan Ancient Castle, Hisoka, and the power of the sea before killing him. Lumian then revealed his Tarot Club affiliation and said he would leave the Society, though Gandalf offered to keep supporting his Muggle identity.

• Wandering Poet explained that the Esoteric Order had concealed Dilan Ancient Castle, where Loki once found the ingredients for his Trickmaster potion, but said they lacked clues to locate it.
• Wandering Poet described Hisoka’s volatile behavior and custom mystical playing card, then outlined the star- and earth-based sea pathway from Astronomy Enthusiast to Burdened One.
• After Franca, Hella, and Gandalf finished questioning Wandering Poet, Lumian struck him with a Weakening Ray and Gandalf killed him with a sword of light.
• Lumian told Gandalf and Hella that he belonged to the Tarot Club, identified the powerful Cinderella Half-God as the Hermit, and warned them to keep the Society from spreading fairy tales.
• Lumian said he would stop attending Society gatherings, but Gandalf offered to let him continue posing as Muggle and receive the Society’s help.

Lumian introduced the spoils recovered from Madwoman, Loki, and Wandering Poet, then let Hella and Gandalf choose items first. After Gandalf claimed the unfinished Sea Queen's Ring, Lumian received Madam Magician's instructions for distributing several remaining items.

• Wandering Poet's corpse yielded a corrupted Dream Thief Beyonder Characteristic, and Lumian laid out ten items taken from the dead April Fool's Day members.
• Lumian described the items' abilities and dangers, then invited Hella and Gandalf to choose one each.
• Hella took Madwoman's severely corrupted Traveler Beyonder Characteristic, suggesting she could reduce its harm.
• Gandalf chose the unfinished Sea Queen's Ring and arranged to study it at the ancient palace before each gathering.
• Madam Magician told Lumian that Mr. K could take the Devil Mask, Madam Hermit wanted Loki's mechanical music box, and Mr. Moon wanted the faceless doll.

Lumian gave Mr. K the dark-gold mask as a supposed revelation from the Lord, then divided the remaining spoils among Franca, Jenna, Anthony, and himself. He ended by preparing to do something private and asking the others whether they wanted to watch.

• Mr. K sensed that the dark-gold mask was the Lord's revelation for him and took it, while Lumian explained that allies had helped with the revenge operation.
• Mr. K revealed that Aurora Order angels had monitored the operation and urged Lumian to stay vigilant even when High-Ranking Beings were watching.
• Franca chose the Seven-Stone Bracelet, Anthony chose the blank sketchbook, and Jenna took the Dream Thief Beyonder Characteristic.
• Lumian chose the lightning-shaped brooch, named it Sea's Wrath, and gave the Bloodgold ring to Franca to keep for whoever needed it.
• Lumian told Franca, Jenna, and Anthony he was about to do something unsuitable for others to see and asked if they wanted to watch.

Lumian learned that Loki’s arm revealed the names Auville and Dilan, along with information about a dark-gold mask, and asked his companions to investigate. After settling compensation for the damaged Solo Hotel, he watched the citizens celebrate the Sea-Praying Ritual and toasted an unseen presence to the prosperity he had helped bring.

• Lumian asked Ludwig whether he could eat Madwoman’s corpse, but Ludwig refused because it was too dirty, so Lumian burned the remains.
• Ludwig revealed that Loki’s arm had given him Sequence knowledge, the names Auville and Dilan, and information about a dark-gold mask in Dilan Ancient Castle.
• Lumian asked Franca, Jenna, and Anthony to search their channels for information about Auville and Dilan, and asked Franca to pursue an exchange with the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun for details about a humanoid sealed artifact.
• Lumian paid Noelia 10,000 Gold Riso to compensate the Solo Hotel for its damage, explaining that the money came from the Paco Family’s commission.
• Lumian walked among citizens celebrating the Sea-Praying Ritual and reflected that his actions would bring a year or two of calmer seas and faster-growing sea life.
• Lumian raised a glass of Manzan Wine to an unseen presence and toasted the citizens’ joy and the future it had hoped for.

Lumian returned to Cordou Village and mourned the life and people he had lost before reappearing in Santa Port. He ended Lugano’s commission and offered to help him return to Trier, leaving Lugano undecided.

• Lumian realized Amon’s use of Steal had been crucial to the Sea-Praying Ritual and wrote to Madam Magician with questions about the plot.
• Lumian paid Lugano one thousand Gold Riso to look after Ludwig while he traveled toward the Southern Continent by way of Cordou Village.
• Lumian crossed the mountains and learned from a forester that Cordou Village had been destroyed after its inhabitants supposedly worshipped a devil.
• Lumian watched the ruins from a nearby pasture and wished that the village’s former life and its people had not been lost.
• Lumian returned to Santa Port and told Lugano the commission was over, offering to Teleport him to Trier or let him travel back on his own.

Lumian kept Lugano on as his guide and traveled by ship toward southern Feynapotter, where he used the Governor of the Sea’s power to calm the waves and clear the clouds. In Trier, Angoulême learned that the missing Humanoid Sealed Artifact had been recovered and that a mole had stolen it, while Jenna’s Mirror World Fragment began to tremble.

• Lugano chose to remain with Lumian, and Lumian agreed to hire him as a guide, doctor, and caretaker while paying him ten thousand Felkine.
• Aboard a ship bound for southern Feynapotter, Lumian asked Ludwig about a strange lizard-like creature, but Ludwig knew nothing about it.
• When a storm threatened the ship, Lumian used the Governor of the Sea’s abilities to calm the waves and open a gap in the clouds.
• Angoulême received a telegram from Sleeve Sword reporting that the Humanoid Sealed Artifact had been recovered and that a traitor inside the Church had caused its disappearance.
• After watching a play, Jenna felt the Mirror World Fragment from the Tamara Family’s tomb chamber tremble.

Jenna investigated a Mirror World Fragment’s reaction to a suspicious woman, and Anthony began profiling her from a divination image. Elsewhere, Norfie stayed in Santa Port while Batna sailed away, and Lumian performed an illusion aboard a ship.

• Jenna’s Mirror World Fragment trembled near the theater exit, and she later used Magic Mirror Divination to identify a woman who had searched the crowd in response.
• Jenna and Franca asked Anthony to analyze the woman the next morning, and he profiled her and began sketching her likeness.
• Norfie told Batna she would remain in Santa Port to oversee the Sea-Praying Ritual, while Batna prepared to sail back to Falin Port.
• Norfie declined to ask Batna to leave a child with her, then said she was happy he had accompanied her out to sea before leaving the docks.
• Lumian showed the drinkers in a ship’s bar an illusion of enormous waves before the vision vanished.