Chapter Summaries

Lumian investigated Hisoka Tevanaco’s rebuilt house, where Kolobo sensed an unsettling cold throughout the building, but Lumian’s deliberate nap revealed no unusual dreams. He met the local Patrol Team and learned the town had been peaceful for nearly a year, while the team’s mosquito-repellent supplies led him to suspect Ludwig had kept insects away.

• Lumian searched Tevanaco’s house with Camus, then brought Ludwig and Kolobo inside; Kolobo said the entire house felt cold, while Ludwig detected nothing tasty.
• Lumian napped on the house’s third floor to test whether the Dream Festival involved dreams, but woke after half an hour without any unusual dreams.
• Camus introduced Patrol Team captain Maislow, Riya, and Loban, and explained that Lumian was investigating the hidden problems behind Tevanaco.
• Kolobo told Lugano that Tizamo had a stationed Patrol Team and military Beyonders because primitive tribes often attacked the town.
• Loban said the town had suffered no attacks in nearly a year, despite the tribe’s past pattern of raids.
• Maislow gave Lumian mosquito-repellent supplies, and the group realized there were no insects on the second floor; Lumian glanced at Ludwig and accepted the items.

Camus and his companions speculated that Louis Berri’s strange aura came from a connection to a deity, while Lumian settled into Tizamo Town and went out to observe its people. He encountered Amandina, and when Camus asked where he was headed, Lumian said he was going to the church.

• Loban recalled the saying “Do not look directly at a god,” and Camus guessed Louis Berri might carry a divine artifact or aura.
• Loban asked whether the patrolmen could return to Port Pylos after nearly a year in Tizamo Town, but Camus told him they still had a week to serve.
• Lumian checked the fortunes of passersby from his inn, then left Lugano and Ludwig to rest while he walked through town.
• Lumian noticed Amandina, the well-educated daughter of Sir Petit and Mr. Robert’s fiancée, and compared her easy manner to Aurora’s.
• Camus appeared beside Lumian and asked where he was going, and Lumian invited him to the church to praise the Sun.

Lumian investigated Tizamo Town during the day, noticed an abnormality in Priest Kali, and then slept in Hisoka Tevanaco’s rebuilt house to test whether it would trigger the Dream Festival. He woke to find the room changed, with the burned insect remains gone, and checked the time: 11:58 p.m.

• Lumian visited Tizamo’s church, used Weakness Detection on Priest Kali, and found a faint weakness deep within the priest’s Astral Body.
• Lumian had Camus guide him around Tizamo Town, including its military camp, plantations, and jungle outskirts.
• Lumian returned to the inn, then went out late at night to sleep in Hisoka Tevanaco’s rebuilt house and test for a special dream.
• Lumian questioned Termiboros about the house, but the angel remained silent.
• Lumian fell asleep and woke in the same room to find the insect corpses he had burned missing, then checked his pocket watch and saw it was 11:58 p.m.

Lumian explored a seemingly deserted Tizamo Town after entering a special dream by sleeping in Hisoka Tevanaco’s rebuilt house. He encountered an image of Hisoka in the jungle and woke at 1:38 a.m., suspecting the Dream Festival might be tied to December 17.

• Lumian left Hisoka Tevanaco’s house and found Tizamo Town empty, including the Giant Anaconda bar, Briu Inn, and Saint Sien Church.
• Lumian used Spirit World Traversal to test the dream’s boundaries, finding a dangerous, misty limit on the road to Port Pylos and a shifting dreamlike boundary in the Primeval Jungle.
• Lumian ventured deeper into the jungle, where fractured scenes showed Hisoka Tevanaco among people in dark robes before the dream shattered.
• Lumian woke in Hisoka Tevanaco’s house at 1:38 a.m. and confirmed that the insects and mosquito corpses had returned.
• Lumian connected the dream images to the Dream Festival and the primitive tribe’s attack on Tizamo Town, then checked the date and found it was December 11.

Lumian investigated the Dream Festival in Tizamo Town and learned from Madam Magician that two parts of the Abscessed Severed Hand were likely hidden in Morola, while another was in the Underworld. Franca reconnected with the telegram group and arranged a meeting with 007 before sending Lumian a letter; the chapter ended as his messenger lingered after delivering it.

• Lumian told Camus Castiya that Tevanaco had mentioned the Dream Festival and asked the Patrol Team to collect local dream legends.
• Madam Magician wrote that two parts of the Abscessed Severed Hand were likely in Morola and warned Lumian to assemble the body there, after finding the part in the Underworld.
• Madam Magician told Lumian he would have an opportunity to enter the Underworld within three months.
• Franca received a message from Madam Hella saying 007 had been unable to contact her, then rejoined the telegram group.
• Franca arranged to meet 007 about Moran Avigny and an exchange for the story of a Humanoid Sealed Artifact, then sent Lumian a letter.
• Lumian received Franca's letter from the Penitent Bainfel, who lingered instead of returning to the Spirit World.

Lumian investigated Tizamo Town’s recurring deaths and mass hysteria with Camus and Riya, uncovering patterns that pointed toward an approaching danger. He brought them to Hisoka’s house to enter the special dream where the Dream Festival might be held, and Camus awoke there to Lumian’s greeting.

• Bainfel told Lumian that the night concealed the flowing sin before vanishing, and Lumian wrote down the story of the Humanoid Sealed Artifact for Madam Magician.
• Camus and Riya reported that Tizamo Town’s deaths and attacks by a primitive tribe clustered in the months after mid-December, while cases of imagined possession and pregnancy recurred in the first half of the year.
• Riya told Lumian that she had been captured and sold after the Kingdom of Loen’s army attacked her Wind tribe, and that she believed her people were all dead.
• Lumian invited Camus and Riya to experience the special dream at Hisoka’s house, where sleeping late at night allowed entry.
• Camus woke beneath the crimson moon inside the dream, and Lumian welcomed him to the Dream Festival.

Lumian tested the special dream with Camus and Riya, learning that Tizamo's residents gradually lost their warmth under its influence. After leading the Patrol Team members into the Primeval Jungle, they were attacked by another Riya.

• Camus and Riya confirmed that the empty, silent town was a dream, and Riya recalled having occasional dreams like it before.
• Riya described Tizamo's residents as unusually docile and lacking warmth, then realized her own emotions had grown subdued during her year in town.
• Camus said few reinforcements would arrive, as only Captain Reyasa had offered help from the Patrol Team and the General's Guard had declined to send more forces.
• Lumian led Camus and Riya through the dream town and into the Primeval Jungle, where he told them about a possible mark left by the Apostle of Desire.
• A second Riya appeared in the trees and shot a lightning-wreathed arrow at Camus.

Lumian, Riya, and Camus woke from a dream that seemed to contain extreme versions of people’s suppressed emotions, then confirmed they were back in reality. As Camus and Riya chose to stay and confront the Dream Festival problem, Lumian received Madam Magician’s demand for an additional fifty thousand pounds’ worth of gold in exchange for information about a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact.

• Lumian, Riya, and Camus woke in Hisoka’s house and discussed whether the dream had turned Tizamo’s suppressed emotions into more extreme dream people.
• Lumian confirmed he was awake after finding Ludwig eating at the Briu Inn, and he questioned Ludwig and Lugano about their dreams.
• Camus explained to Riya that he would stay to help maintain order and repay Reyasa, while Riya said the Church and Patrol Team had helped her rebuild her life.
• Riya criticized Camus for pitying her despite his past support for Feynapotter’s invasions and colonial expansion, and Camus connected the plantations’ less docile residents to their time spent in Port Pylos.
• Madam Magician replied to Lumian’s letter and demanded that the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun add fifty thousand pounds’ worth of gold to its offer for information about a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact.

Lumian sent Madam Magician’s requirements to Jenna through the Chazot Rabbit, then taught the rabbit to shoot before spending the afternoon in Tizamo with Camus and Riya. That night, Lumian began investigating the abnormalities in Hisoka’s house with the Mystery-Peering Glasses, seeing a distorted view of the surroundings.

• Lumian summoned the Chazot Rabbit, gave it Madam Magician’s letter, and offered to teach it to shoot as payment for Jenna’s postage.
• After teaching the Chazot Rabbit in the Primeval Jungle, Lumian went to Bunia’s café, where he met Camus and Riya and learned Reyasa had arrived to help watch him that night.
• Camus admitted he was attracted to Amandina but would not pursue her because she was engaged, and Amandina introduced herself to Lumian.
• The Chazot Rabbit delivered Lumian’s letter to Jenna and told her he had taught it to shoot; Jenna offered it an underarm holster and custom bullets as further payment.
• Lumian, Reyasa, and Maislow gathered at Hisoka’s house, where Lumian put on the Mystery-Peering Glasses to search for the source of the abnormalities.
• Through the glasses, Lumian saw venomous insects in the sky, circling walls, and a lightless pool of underground water.

Lumian investigated the anomaly around Hisoka's house, confirmed its connection to a black boulder in the Primeval Jungle, and tested whether he could enter the special dream by sleeping near the jungle. As candles lit across Tizamo Town, Riya encountered a strangely altered Bunia at the café.

• Lumian used the Mystery-Peering Glasses and the Eye of Truth at Hisoka's house, learning that the anomaly was linked to a black boulder deep in the Primeval Jungle.
• Reyasa told Lumian that residents would remain in Tizamo Town through the Dream Festival, and Lumian noticed new visitors arriving at the Briu Inn.
• Lumian slept near the jungle region corresponding to the dream's overlapping fragments but did not enter the special dream, so he returned to town with Reyasa and Maislow.
• As Lumian walked back through Tizamo Town, his vision blurred briefly and candles began lighting in houses throughout the streets.
• Riya went to Bunia Café for food, where Bunia smiled strangely and remarked on her breasts.

Lumian and Riya found themselves lucid in a violent dreamlike version of Tizamo Town, where locals turned on one another. They reached Saint Sien Church, where Priest Kali declared that the Dream Festival had begun and that all taboos and restrictions were lifted.

• Bunia attacked Riya, but she kicked him away and held him at arrowpoint until he pleaded that he had lost control.
• Lumian noticed Reyasa and Maislow had vanished, then fought off a hunting guide and the leather artisan’s axe-wielding son as the town turned violent.
• Lumian used Shadow Transformation to escape and rejoined Riya, who had also remained lucid; he suggested they were in a dream and they headed toward the church after hearing its bell.
• Lumian and Riya reached Saint Sien Church, where Priest Kali appeared in a black robe and announced that the Dream Festival had officially begun, urging everyone to unleash their desires and commit any act.

Lumian and Riya realized that the Dream Festival could cause injuries and deaths in dreams to manifest in reality, then found Camus fighting his teammates in the Patrol Team headquarters. Lumian learned that Kolobo had also been drawn into the dream and hurried to the Briu Inn after hearing Lugano scream.

• Riya aimed an arrow at Priest Kali, but Lumian stopped her and explained that harm suffered in the dream could affect victims after they woke.
• Riya concluded that dream deaths might lead to irreversible deaths over the following months, and Lumian speculated that a jungle tribe helped conceal them as real deaths.
• Camus woke to find Kolobo missing and Loban attacking him, so he used Mental Piercing and shot Loban in the knee before finding Kolobo hiding in a storage compartment.
• Lumian and Riya arrived at Police Headquarters, where Camus asked why they remained lucid; Lumian suggested they had entered the dream early by sleeping in Tevanaco's house.
• When Camus confirmed Kolobo was in the dream, Lumian warned that this meant there could be bigger trouble and used Spirit World Traversal to reach the Briu Inn.
• Lumian heard Lugano scream in pain and terror outside his suite.

Lumian rescued Lugano from Ludwig by severing his bitten arm, then kept Ludwig occupied with food and spiritual materials, effectively sealing him in the suite until the Dream Festival ended. After warning Camus and Riya to avoid the inn, Lumian set out to investigate Tevanaco’s house, while Riya questioned why Lugano was lucid in the dream.

• Lumian found Ludwig devouring Lugano’s arm and used a sword to cut off the bitten forearm before teleporting Lugano to the suite doorway.
• Lumian distracted Ludwig with pastries, provisions, and spiritual materials, keeping him eating while Lugano treated his wound.
• Lumian teleported himself and Lugano to the Police Headquarters stairwell, leaving Ludwig surrounded by food in the suite.
• Camus and Riya saw Lugano’s injury, and Lumian warned them to stay away from the Briu Inn and the suite’s doorway.
• Lumian told Camus and Riya he was going to Tevanaco’s house, and Riya asked why Lugano was lucid too.

Lumian brought Lugano along while he and the Patrol Team members investigated the Dream Festival, then took them to Palm Manor to help Camus find Amandina. The group split at the manor when Riya ran to stop several slaves from assaulting a maid.

• Lumian questioned Lugano and learned that, unlike most Dream Festival participants, he remained lucid despite never having entered the special dream before.
• Lumian decided to keep Lugano close and go with Camus and Riya to Palm Manor rather than search for Captain Reyasa and the others.
• Camus chose to go to Palm Manor to find Amandina, and Lumian teleported the group there through the Spirit World.
• At Palm Manor, Camus headed into the main house while Riya ran toward the garden to intervene as several slaves assaulted a maid.

Riya rescued a mixed-race maid from an assault, only for the maid to attack her and reveal resentment toward Amandina. Lumian and Camus searched Palm Manor for Amandina, learned she had supposedly gone on a date with Robert, and then spotted her watching from a third-floor window at Hisoka's house.

• Riya drove off the servants attacking a mixed-race maid, but the maid stabbed at Riya before Lumian disarmed her with a Fire Raven.
• The maid told Lumian that Amandina was asleep in her third-floor room, while Riya insisted she would keep helping people despite their faults.
• Lumian and the others entered Palm Manor, where they found Madame Simone indulging herself and armed servants exchanging fire with Petit and his butler.
• Lumian disarmed the servants with fiery birds, then led Camus, Riya, and Lugano up the exterior of the house to search for Amandina.
• Camus found Amandina's maid holding a bloody dagger and learned Amandina had left an hour earlier on a date with Robert; the group found no trace of her in the manor.
• Lumian teleported the group to Hisoka's house, where he spotted Amandina looking out from a third-floor window.

Camus, Riya, Lugano, and Lumian found Amandina during the Dream Festival and learned that she had supernatural powers tied to a huge black rock and Robert. Amandina said Robert was at Saint Sien Church with his other lover, Priest Kali, and Lumian led the group there to visit them.

• Camus and Riya rushed into Tevanaco's house while Amandina escaped through a window and put Lugano to sleep.
• Lumian revealed himself and, with Camus and Riya, convinced Amandina that they were lucid and meant no harm.
• Amandina said Robert had brought her into the dream, where she gained supernatural powers after touching a huge black rock, and confirmed she had powers in reality too.
• Amandina explained that she had never consumed a potion and that Robert was already a Beyonder when he brought her into the dream.
• Amandina revealed that Robert was engaged to her but also loved Priest Kali, and that he was at Saint Sien Church.
• Lumian ordered the group to go pay Robert and Priest Kali a visit.

Lumian searched Tevanaco’s house with Amandina and learned what she had witnessed during last year’s Dream Festival, including serial murders and a strange woman who attacked her and Robert. The group reached Saint Sien Church, where Lumian and Amandina saw Robert and other men kneeling naked before Priest Kali as he preached.

• Lumian questioned Amandina about Tevanaco and learned his family’s house burned down just days after last year’s Dream Festival.
• Amandina told Lumian that she and Robert had found brutally murdered people during the festival, leading Lumian to connect the killings to Hisoka’s advancement ritual.
• Amandina recounted how a lucid woman captured her and Robert, then abandoned her after learning about Priest Kali.
• Lumian led Amandina, Camus, and the others toward Saint Sien Church and warned her to avoid the second floor of the Briu Inn.
• Lumian and Amandina looked through a church window and saw Robert and several other naked men kneeling while Priest Kali preached naked.

Lumian and his companions confronted Priest Kali after discovering his obscene ritual and learned that he was a wraith who had possessed Lumian. As Robert attacked them with a Frost Scythe, a mysterious couple at the Briu Inn prepared to act and heard someone chewing in a nearby room.

• Lumian watched Priest Kali lead a naked gathering in a sermon and learned from Amandina that Robert had been his lover in reality for about three years.
• Priest Kali possessed Lumian, who realized the priest's wraith nature might be connected to the Dream Festival and asked Amandina to put them both into a dream.
• Riya shot through the church window, but her lightning-wreathed arrow missed Priest Kali and shattered a table.
• Robert summoned a strange being that covered him in ice armor and armed him with a Frost Scythe, then charged at Riya, Camus, and the others.
• The couple at the Briu Inn discussed the patrol team and the dream, then heard continuous chewing from a room on the second floor.

Camus, Riya, and Lumian fought Robert and Priest Kali inside Saint Sien Church, using lightning and mental attacks to disrupt their opponents. Robert escaped underground, while Priest Kali reappeared and unleashed a Wraith Scream as Camus prepared special bullets.

• Camus struck Robert with Mental Piercing, and Riya followed up with a lightning-charged arrow.
• Amandina used her Nightmare Ability on Lumian, while Riya's arrow drew lightning to the Sea's Wrath brooch and woke Lumian and Priest Kali.
• Lumian shocked Priest Kali out of his body and fired a lightning-enhanced bullet, but the Wraith escaped by jumping to the chandelier.
• Riya's arrow shattered Robert's Ice Armor and drove the shadow from his body.
• Robert used blood and spiritism to summon stone hands that dragged him underground before Camus and Riya could hit him.
• Camus loaded Purification Bullets as Priest Kali appeared on a stained-glass window and unleashed Wraith Scream.

Lumian defeated Priest Kali by exploiting his attempt to possess Amandina, then used a Purification Bullet to drive the Wraith from her body. Amandina entered a dream with the weakened Priest Kali to question him about the source of the Dream Festival.

• Lumian endured Priest Kali's Wraith Scream and charged through the ice arrows as a Blazing White Spear, pursuing him between stained-glass windows.
• Riya and Camus kept Robert occupied while Priest Kali possessed Amandina to escape Lumian's attack.
• Lumian used the Heng-Ha Art to knock Amandina and Priest Kali unconscious, then shot Amandina with an Exorcism Bullet to force the Wraith out.
• Lumian struck Priest Kali with a Harvest-enhanced Purification Bullet, engulfing him in Golden Flame and weakening him severely.
• Lumian ordered Amandina to question Priest Kali about the Dream Festival's source, and she entered a dream with him while Lugano treated her wound.