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[alto-tenure]

Please explain what goes on in the JP-exclusive novels

I'm not going to put any major spoilers in these, but I am including links so you can read them yourself if you'd like! The translations can be a little bit janky but they're all comprehensible. The worst part is just that the plot of Illusory Forest is seriously confusing, especially the ending.

Phantom Deity (read here)

This one is the easiest to explain, yippee! Taking place sometime before Miracle Mask (around the LS-ED era, based on Luke's outfit in the cover), this one takes place in London, and features a thief known as the Phantom Deity. Oh boy, I can tell I'm going to have trouble with my i-before-e's here.

This thief steals several artifacts over the course of the work, most of which are connected to royalty in some way, with one specific king being name-dropped a lot. Descole is disguised as someone on the investigative team, which gets revealed. There's a final confrontation where the thief is exposed, sad backstory included.

Illusory Forest (read here)

Brides are getting kidnapped from a church and brought to the forest. Luke, Layton, and Emmy investigate! Takes place sometime around the time of Miracle Mask, since in the cover Luke is wearing his vest. During the investigation, they stage a wedding to get Emmy kidnapped, at which point they figure out the real pattern behind the kidnappings, and go after her into the titular forest, following a clue that Emmy left for them. Eventually, they stumble upon a village inside the forest. The POV is split between Luke and Emmy so that they can show Emmy's experiences while she was kidnapped, staying with the village's prince, a man named Aston Bloom. (No relation to Detective Leonard Bloom, as far as we're aware.) Layton and Luke figure out what's up with the forest, find Emmy, expose Descole, and there's a little bit of tragedy.

Wandering Castle (read here)

This one is set sometime between Diabolical Box and Unwound Future, since the Molentary Express is in it, among other things. The problem is that Flora is conspicuously absent, goddamn it :(

Anyways, the story begins with Luke seeing the titular wandering castle. This leads to Luke telling the Professor about it, who says that Dr. Schrader had written to him about something similar, saying that someone had also spotted the wandering castle on the Molentary Express! The castle also contains a Macguffin known as the Book of the Black Curse. This book tries to connect things to Celtic legend, which I am not an authority on, so I don't know if they pulled it off well, but they're the ancient civilization involved here. As they're about to set out, they encounter an old friend of the Professor's, a man by the name of Jeremy Campbell. He's a physicist. The three of them end up traveling together, since they're all going to the same place -- Jeremy's family hometown, Glenstowe. They uncover the secret of the wandering castle fairly quickly, but there's more still to uncover -- the wandering castle was based on a real castle. Family drama, scientific inaccuracy, and fighting over the Book of the Black Curse ensues.

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