#there's two left iirc but they'll end up being spoiled by IC posting probably

[mushroompollution]

Chapter 39: the Sablier arc part 5

chapters: 35 || 36 || 37 || 38 ||

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This chapter opens with Jack introducing Gilbert and Vincent to Alice as children. Vincent already hates how much Jack talks about her, and that feeling is only intensified when she immediately calls him a Child of Misfortune.

one day, Alice leans out of her tower and calls to Vincent that she had heard his brother had been killed by Glen. She explains that "Glen Baskerville" isn't human, but a collective. An undead spirit, passed down through hosts chosen by the Abyss.

Willing to do anything to save his brother, Vincent is lured by an undercover Duchess Miranda Barma. she tells him that he can save Gilbert if he interrupts the ceremony to transfer the first of Glen's Chains-- Raven-- he can delay the transfer of Glen's soul by 100 years. All Vincent has to do is open the door to Abyss at the right moment.

That moment is the Tragedy of Sablier

Back in the present, back at the Nightray Estate, Vincent sits on the floor and cries by himself, surrounded by cut up plushies as he makes a promise to Gilbert to return his past to him.

There's also a flashback of Jack and Glen. Gonna be honest w everybody I keep getting real burned out trying to write it but we're all cool moving along bsck to the present right? fantastic.

Anyway, as the more relevant characters continue their search for Gilbert and Alice, Elliot suddenly collapses.

and we cut back to Xerxes Break, casually enjoying a candy treat as he sits on a rocky ledge over the broken, but alive, bodies of the Baskervilles he's summarily beaten.

They discuss how similar Pandora and the Baskervilles goals for seeking the Will of the Abyss sound. Lottie says that Oz is a key that anyone beyond the Baskervilles would need to reach the Will, and that's why he was pushed into Abyss 10 years before.

Break asks, why not just kill the kid? Lottie explains that if Oz dies, Jack Vessalius will return to the world, the Will of the Abyss will chase after him, and the world would be further twisted and corrupted because of it.

Oz and the nerds spot a dazed and confused Gilbert. Oz runs up to him enthusiastically, but Gil looks at him with faraway eyes. He calls Oz "Master," which seems to shock Oz, but there's not really time to address that. Someone else approaches the group in the crater, someone they're all shocked to see.