The First Witch slashes her own throat on a king's dagger, stealing his white wings of flame and cursing him to know only hate.

Emilia arrives in Hell with Wrath, believing she is betrothed to the Prince of Pride, whom she sold her soul to marry.

Emilia swears a blood oath at the Gates of Hell, declaring she freely chooses the devil and binding herself to her decision.

The Sin Corridor tests Emilia with a powerful lust illusion involving Wrath, which he breaks, warning her the realm feeds on desire.

Emilia collapses from hypothermia during the journey, and Wrath carries her through a magical mountain tunnel, whispering that he lied.

Wrath explains that entering House Pride without a formal invitation would be an act of war, forcing them to wait.

Wrath severs Lord Makaden's tongue at a royal dinner and impales it to his plate for making crude remarks toward Emilia.

Celestia heals Emilia's amulet pain with a magical tincture and pressures Wrath to stop concealing a secret from Emilia.

Wrath confesses that his mark on Emilia's neck sealed an unbreakable betrothal bond, making her his betrothed and not Pride's.

Emilia visits House Envy and uses truth-spelled wine to learn about the Triple Moon Mirror and the goddess grimoires.

During a training session, Wrath compels Emilia to stab him repeatedly in the chest to show how easily she can be controlled.

At the masquerade ball, Emilia blackmails the Prince of Pride with knowledge of his slumber root stockpile, securing safe passage to Bloodwood Forest.

Emilia drugs Wrath's champagne with slumber root, escapes House Gluttony, and rides to Bloodwood Forest to find the Curse Tree.

Emilia shatters a Curse Tree leaf before Wrath, confirming his true name is Samael and exposing him as the real devil.

The Triple Moon Mirror reveals Vittoria is alive and speaking with Antonio, and Emilia declares she chooses Wrath as her husband.

Emilia di Carlo arrives in Hell believing she is betrothed to the Prince of Pride, having sold her soul to avenge her twin sister's murder. She survives the treacherous Sin Corridor and settles in House Wrath, where the politics of the demon courts force her to grow quickly. A shocking revelation upends her mission when Wrath confesses that she is bound to him, not Pride, through an unbreakable magical bond. She gathers information across the courts, endures brutal training, and blackmails Pride at the Feast of the Wolf to secure her next move. After drugging Wrath and escaping to Bloodwood Forest, she forces him to confirm his true identity as Samael, the real devil. The ultimate twist — that her twin Vittoria is alive — transforms her grief into cold fury, and she chooses Wrath as her partner to face what comes next.

The headline events of Emilia's quest for vengeance in Hell.

A di Carlo family grimoire records a prophecy that twin witches will be born — one destined to die, the other to sell her soul.

After the First Witch curses the king and vows to take whatever he loves, he suppresses his rage and proposes a bargain to keep her alive.

A three-headed hellhound intercepts Emilia and Wrath in the Sin Corridor mountain pass, inspects Emilia closely, then retreats without attacking.

Wrath revives Emilia from hypothermia by stripping her wet clothes and using his own body heat to warm her.

An enchanted skull appears on Emilia's bed and delivers a cryptic message in Vittoria's voice about the angelus mortis and three goddesses.

Wrath informs Emilia she has been chosen as Guest of Honor at the Feast of the Wolf, requiring her to sacrifice her greatest fear.

Wrath returns Emilia's silver cornicello amulet and kisses her passionately after she fails to deny the attraction between them.

At the Crescent Shallows, Emilia traces Wrath's Latin tattoos, he translates them for her, and they discuss fate versus choice.

Wrath reveals that the witch murders in the mortal realm have stopped since Emilia's betrothal bond to him was formed.

Fauna tells Emilia that the other demon houses view Wrath's refusal to consummate their bond as a sign of political weakness.

An unknown assailant attacks Emilia in her bath with a garrote; she stabs them with a hidden dagger and forces them to flee.

Emilia joins the dawn hunt at House Gluttony, bonding with a hell horse she names Tanzie and riding with instinctual skill.

Gluttony identifies the black flowers Emilia gathered during the hunt as slumber root and encourages her to scheme bigger.

At the masquerade ball, Pride explains to Emilia during their waltz that Wrath serves as the impartial justice of the Seven Circles.

Emilia finds a hidden warning note from Wrath inside the returned Crone's grimoire just before she activates the Triple Moon Mirror.

Before Emilia's journey even begins, a prophecy marks the birth of twin witches as the start of dark days, and an ancient curse hanging over a king sets the stage for everything that follows. Emilia's early days in Hell are shaped by the guidance of Anir and Fauna, and by cryptic skull messages that hint at her sister's fate. The social fabric of the demon courts — gossip, shifting alliances, and political calculations — proves just as dangerous as any physical threat. At the Feast of the Wolf, the dawn hunt and a tense masquerade ball reveal the cunning beneath the celebration's pleasures. Clues accumulate across stolen moments, from the cornicello kiss to the revelation about the stopped witch murders and the truth about how Wrath's court views their unconsummated bond. By the time a hidden warning note from Wrath surfaces inside the returned grimoire, every secondary detail has snapped together into a picture Emilia can no longer ignore.

The supporting moments that shape Emilia's world in Hell.

In the Sin Corridor shelter, Emilia has a nightmare of a starlight-eyed woman screaming a curse of vengeance.

Emilia burns a robe embroidered with betrothal markings in her fireplace, channeling her rage at being bound to the Prince of Pride.

Anir reveals to Emilia that Wrath's fury after their argument at the Gates of Hell caused him to destroy an entire mountain.

Emilia secretly explores Wrath's private library and discovers his personal journals and a cryptic serpent-shaped wax seal.

Emilia channels her fury at Wrath's paternalism after dinner and summons a ball of rose-gold fire for the first time.

After Wrath discovers Emilia's hidden skulls, they renegotiate their bargain and he agrees to share information and treat her as an equal.

The Prince of Envy ambushes Emilia in Wrath's garden and reveals his curse on the stolen grimoire is blocking her magic.

Anir interrupts a midnight waltz lesson to announce that Antonio, the man who confessed to murdering Vittoria, is imprisoned in the dungeon.

Emilia confronts Antonio in the dungeon, where he claims a goddess's curse compelled him to murder the witches.

A vivid sexual vision that feels like a suppressed memory interrupts Emilia's seduction of Wrath during their pride training lesson.

Emilia enters House Gluttony unfazed by a scandalous tableau at the entrance, tasting whipped cream and walking past it with confidence.

Emilia uses her blood to open a hidden door in the Sin Corridor and discovers the Triple Moon Mirror inside.

Celestia appears at the mirror and is revealed as the Crone, restoring Emilia's blocked magic in exchange for the stolen spell book.

A final enchanted skull from Vittoria found in Wrath's dungeon tower invites Emilia to the Shifting Isles before it explodes.

Emilia demonstrates her restored fire magic to Wrath, reveals Vittoria is alive, and leads him to his bed to consummate their bond.

From nightmares in the Sin Corridor shelter to burning a betrothal robe in a fireplace, Emilia's journey through Hell is defined by moments of revelation that force her to see herself and her world in a new way. She uncovers secrets in Wrath's private library, channels her rage into fire magic for the first time, and renegotiates their partnership after his manipulation of her training is exposed. Each discovery — Antonio's confession in the dungeon, Envy's curse on her stolen grimoire, a memory-like vision during the pride training lesson — pushes Emilia closer to the truth about her identity and Hell's ancient politics. At the Feast of the Wolf, small moments of defiance, like walking unfazed through Gluttony's scandalous entrance hall, mark the cumulative transformation of a grieving witch into a strategic player. In the climax, a hidden door in the Sin Corridor leads to the Triple Moon Mirror, Celestia is revealed as the Crone, and a final skull message from Vittoria confirms a betrayal that reshapes Emilia's entire quest. Her response — demonstrating her restored fire magic and leading Wrath to his bed — marks her complete transformation into an agent of her own destiny.