Chapter Summaries

Bai Yue drank Soma’s wine without being affected, securing Lily’s chance to leave the Soma Familia and join Hestia’s. He then tested his ability to update status values and began analyzing Shun'ichi’s magic, ending after more than an hour of work.

• Hestia urged Bai Yue to recruit Lily and Loki’s Sword Princess, and Bai Yue said he had already laid the groundwork.
• At the Soma Familia headquarters, Lily warned Bai Yue that Soma’s wine could enslave anyone who drank it, but he finished a large cup without any effect.
• Bai Yue tasted Soma’s prized wine and offered some to Sannius, who drank it and collapsed into a deranged state.
• Bai Yue used a blood-written inscription to update a new Hestia Familia member’s status, revealing that he could perform updates himself.
• Bai Yue had Shun'ichi cast level-up magic on him, confirmed how it affected his unusual body, and spent over an hour analyzing the spell before declaring he was done.

Shun'ichi considered how to combine Tsubaki's new magic while Bai Yue wrote a mysterious book that Eina suspected was a grimoire. Bai Yue then asked Eina to help choose clothes for Hestia and the others, and the chapter ended with Eina agreeing to try on black stockings.

• Shun'ichi told Hestia and Tsubaki that he was thinking about how to combine Tsubaki's new magic, then asked Hestia to take Lily to the Guild and report his level-up.
• Eina saw Bai Yue writing in sacred script at a bookstore and suspected the finished book was a grimoire.
• Bai Yue asked Eina to help him choose clothes for Hestia and the others because they would refuse expensive gifts from him.
• Bai Yue took Eina to a clothing store and asked her to try on an outfit similar to Shun'ichi's size.
• Bai Yue bought Eina delicate black pantyhose and asked her to try them with the outfit, so Eina returned to the fitting room.

Bai Yue gave Eina stockings and an outfit, then invited her to dinner with Hestia and the others. At the tavern, Riveria recognized a book that fell from Shun'ichi’s bag as a grimoire and struggled against its compelling urge to read it before Loki took it away.

• Eina tried on the stockings Bai Yue gave her, and he flustered her by saying he felt as though he had fallen in love with her.
• Bai Yue gave Eina an outfit and invited her to dinner with Hestia and the others, where Eina accepted the invitation.
• At The Feastful Famer, Bai Yue gave gifts to Hestia, the prum girl, and the fox girl as Loki and her group approached.
• Shun'ichi crushed her paper bag in nervousness, causing a book to fall out, and Riveria caught it and identified it as a grimoire.
• Riveria felt a powerful urge to keep reading the grimoire, but Loki took it from her and Riveria returned to normal.

Bai Yue tested Loki with Soma’s wine, and Loki became drunk while he remained steady. At the tavern, Bai Yue recognized Syr as the source of a gaze he had felt before and suspected that she and Freya were somehow the same person.

• Loki examined the newly written grimoire and returned it to the foxfolk girl.
• Bai Yue offered Loki Soma’s wine, and she accepted it after Bell suspected it was dangerous.
• Loki and Bai Yue drank several cups, but Loki grew drunk and Riviera knocked her unconscious before she could demand more.
• Eina corrected Hestia about when Bai Yue had visited the Guild, and Syr denied being there that morning.
• Bai Yue suspected Syr and Freya shared the same inner core and traced the familiar gaze he had sensed to Syr.

Bai Yue escorted Eina home after the drinking party, while Ais gave Tiona two scrolls he had left as apology gifts. One sheet granted Tiona a powerful version of Tione’s Jörmungandr, leading Tione to suspect Bai Yue had copied her magic.

• Bai Yue escorted the tipsy Eina through the quiet streets after carrying the unconscious Hestia home.
• Ais gave Tiona the scroll tubes Bai Yue had left for her and Tione, and Tiona collapsed after reading the strange symbols on one sheet.
• Riviera examined the sheet and suspected it was a grimoire, while LeFia and Ais realized they would need Loki to check Tiona’s status.
• Loki updated Tiona’s status and found that she had gained Jörmungandr, a magic that activated without a chant and guaranteed its target would be bound.
• Tione recognized that the magic was her own and recalled that Bai Yue had used the same magic after she had cast it.

Loki’s Familia tested the grimoire Bai Yue made from Tione’s magic and found that it had improved Jörmungandr. Later, Bai Yue visited Eina’s residence, where an embarrassing accident left them sprawled together on the floor; the chapter ended before Eina discovered what happened next.

• Tione opened the grimoire, and Loki found that Jörmungandr’s description had changed to match Tiona’s version.
• Tione tested the updated Jörmungandr on Riviera, who confirmed that it had become stronger when fueled with more magical power.
• Bai Yue asked Eina what magic she wanted, and she said she wished for healing magic that could cure her mother.
• Eina brought Bai Yue into her residence to wait out the rain, and they changed out of their soaked clothes.
• Eina fell from a stepladder while trying to take down her intimate clothing and landed on Bai Yue, with the garment falling over his face.