Chapter Summaries

After their first class, Lanqi and Hughberlian revived Bachelle and asked him to guide them to the Demon King's Awarded Restaurant. Bachelle warned that its regulars were dangerous, but Lanqi revealed his Faculty Badge and said he was a teacher.

• Lanqi and Hughberlian decided to eat before returning to their studies, then used Hughberlian's magic to wake Bachelle.
• Lanqi told Bachelle his ordeal had been a hallucination and pointed out the three Credit Coins in his pocket.
• Lanqi asked Bachelle to take them to the Demon King's Awarded Restaurant for its rare, high-quality cuisine.
• Bachelle warned that the restaurant's wealthy regulars might resent them for using the Functional Area's resources.
• Lanqi pinned on the Music Department Director's Faculty Badge and told Bachelle he was a teacher at the academy.

Lanchi and Hughberlian reached the Demon King's Awarded Restaurant, where a Silver-haired Demon’s wasteful ordering left little food for other customers. Lanchi condemned food waste, though Hughberlian suspected his earnest words concealed something else.

• Lanchi arranged for Bachelle to guide them to the restaurant and return after his next class, then Bachelle led them through the Functional Area and left.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian entered the Demon King's Awarded Restaurant, reviewed its rules, and studied the menu.
• The server told Lanchi that the two limited dishes were sold out and that few regular dishes remained.
• Lanchi noticed the Silver-haired Demon ordering high-grade dishes, rejecting them after a few bites, and having them thrown away.
• The Silver-haired Demon ordered all the restaurant’s remaining high-grade ingredients after noticing Lanchi watching him.
• Hughberlian advised Lanchi to let the matter go, and Lanchi responded by earnestly arguing that everyone should oppose food waste.

Lanchi staged a public service advertisement about conserving food in the Demon King's Awarded Restaurant, using his apparent disability to provoke the Silver-haired Demon. The manager punished the Silver-haired Demon for mocking Lanchi, and Lanchi ended the advertisement with a slogan while Hughberlian watched in disbelief.

• Lanchi told Hughberlian he wanted to make a broadcast advertisement about the honor of conserving food and the shame of wasting it.
• Lanchi pretended to have a disability and asked the manager for a drink to warm his body.
• Lanchi secretly healed the Silver-haired Demon repeatedly, causing him pain, then mimicked his cries and trembling.
• The manager mistook the Silver-haired Demon for mocking Lanchi and struck him, knocking him to the floor.
• Lanchi continued eating and declared, "Cherish food, starting with every little thing," while Hughberlian was stunned by his shamelessness.

After Lanchi killed the Silver-haired Demon for wasting food, he ordered the freed-up dishes and accepted the demon’s corpse as payment. He and Hughberlian continued their meal, with Hughberlian urging him to pray at the Goddess’s temple, while Lanchi secretly hoped he could stay at Purgatory Corridor Academy.

• The restaurant manager apologized to Lanchi and offered compensation, and Lanchi ordered two limited dishes whose ingredients had been freed up.
• Lanchi refused to blame the restaurant for the incident and asked the manager to give him the Silver-haired Demon’s corpse so he could bury it and play a Requiem.
• The manager agreed, understanding that Lanchi wanted the corpse as material for the Music Department’s soul-summoning magic.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian resumed their meal, and Lanchi celebrated having protected the food and earned a large reward.
• Hughberlian asked Lanchi to pray with her at the Goddess’s temple, while Lanchi considered how much he wanted to remain at Purgatory Corridor Academy.

After dinner, Lanchi and Hughberlian searched the Silver-haired Demon's belongings and discovered his wealth, an unfamiliar seal, and an ID from Demon King City. Meanwhile, the academy's vice principal warned the professors that envoys from Demon King City and the Blood Race were coming, as human infiltrators at the school could violate the North-South Treaty.

• Lanchi and Hughberlian left the restaurant and waited in a quiet corridor for it to reconnect with the Teaching Area.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian counted the Credit Coins they had taken from the Silver-haired Demon and realized they were all worth ten each.
• Lanchi examined a black seal and found that the Silver-haired Demon carried an ID from Demon King City instead of a Student ID.
• The vice principal told the professors that Demon King City's Special Envoy might infiltrate the academy in disguise and warned them not to offend him.
• The vice principal explained that the Blood Race suspected the demons of sheltering human infiltrators, whose presence could break the North-South Treaty.

As the Blood Race envoy approached Purgatory Corridor Academy, the vice principal waited anxiously for the Demon King's promised Special Envoy. Meanwhile, Lanchi and Hughberlian prepared to enter a Tier 3 classroom to investigate the academy's hidden crisis.

• The vice principal learned that the Blood Race envoy would reach the academy within hours and worried because the Demon King's Special Envoy had not appeared.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian reviewed their exploration progress and decided to seek a Tier 3 classroom to learn about the school's high-level meeting.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian threw the Silver-haired Demon’s corpse through the Glass Corridor window into Purgatory.
• After the bells reconnected the corridors, Bachelle arrived and Lanchi asked him to lead them to an arts department Tier 3 classroom, offering him three Credit Coins to wait outside.

Lanchi and Hughberlian entered the difficulty-three Painting Classroom, where Professor Mogut challenged students to identify whether paintings were made by Academy professors. As the class began, Enoer analyzed the challenge from a live broadcast and explained how students might learn to recognize painters’ magical signatures.

• Bachelle led Lanchi and Hughberlian through the Teaching Area to a Painting Classroom marked with three Demon Marks.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian entered the classroom and read the rules for identifying professor-made paintings.
• Professor Mogut displayed four example paintings and explained the scoring, penalties, and passing conditions.
• Magic Artisans watched the classroom through a live broadcast and discussed how difficult the challenge might be.
• Enoer explained that students could distinguish paintings by studying their brushwork and magical traces, then claimed his odds of answering correctly were fifty percent.

In Professor Mogut’s painting class, Lanchi quickly identified the paintings and helped several classmates answer correctly. After Lanchi told the Eagle-Eye Demon that the next painting was the professor’s, the demon had to decide whether to trust him.

• The Eagle-Eye Demon used Mental Magic to force Hughberlian to raise her hand, putting her first in the answering order.
• Lanchi told Hughberlian that the first painting was Professor Mogut’s, and she trusted him and answered correctly.
• Lanchi immediately identified the next painting as a student’s work, then quietly guided two more classmates to correct answers.
• When it was the Eagle-Eye Demon’s turn, Lanchi said the painting was the professor’s, leaving him to judge whether Lanchi was telling the truth.

Lanchi continued to answer Professor Mogut’s painting questions flawlessly, while the Eagle-Eye Demon’s suspicions led him to reject Lanchi’s truthful answer and choose incorrectly. After the class’s answering rounds, Mogut regarded Lanchi as an artistic prodigy, and Lanchi asked what reward he would receive for scoring 263 points.

• Lanchi correctly identified several paintings, making the class suspect he could not be relying on luck.
• The Eagle-Eye Demon decided Lanchi was manipulating him and answered that a painting had been made by a student, but Professor Mogut said he had painted it.
• Professor Mogut killed the Eagle-Eye Demon, then announced the free-answering round.
• Over the next hour, Lanchi answered Mogut’s increasingly difficult painting questions without trouble, leaving the professor astonished by his skill.
• Lanchi asked Professor Mogut what reward 263 points would earn.

After passing Mogut’s Fine Arts classroom, Lanchi used his reward to ask about the academy’s looming crisis. Mogut revealed that a Blood Race Envoy would arrive that night, and Lanchi silently showed him the Black Jade Seal taken from the Silver-haired Demon.

• Lanchi let the other students leave, then asked Mogut to answer two questions as his reward for passing.
• Lanchi asked Mogut about the academy’s greatest crisis and its turning point, prompting Mogut to wonder whether Lanchi was the Special Envoy from Demon King City.
• Mogut revealed that a Blood Race Envoy would arrive that night to search for a hidden human, and said the Special Envoy was the academy’s only hope.
• Hughberlian realized the Shadow World involved a struggle among several factions and that Lanchi had already disrupted their plans.
• Lanchi showed Mogut the Black Jade Seal he had taken from the Silver-haired Demon without saying a word.

Lanchi revealed his authority as the Demon King's Special Envoy and left with Professor Mogut to address the Blood Race Envoy crisis. Later, Talia returned to Iketerite Academy at midnight and wondered why students had gathered excitedly around the Open-Air Mega Screen.

• Lanchi told Professor Mogut to take him to the vice principal so he could help deal with the Blood Race Envoy, and Mogut agreed to treat Hughberlian as Lanchi's colleague.
• Lanchi left the Painting Classroom with Mogut, while Bachelle watched in shock as Mogut restrained his hostility at Lanchi's signal.
• Lanchi told Bachelle to attend class and gave him a legendary 10 Credit Coin, inspiring Bachelle to dream of becoming a powerful demon.
• Talia returned to Iketerite Academy in disguise after being unable to sleep, carrying roast chicken toward the lively Jella Memorial Square.
• Talia saw students gathered around the Open-Air Mega Screen and wondered why they were so excited about Lanchi taking an exam and teaching a class.

Lanchi took charge as the Demon King’s Special Envoy and Acting Principal, addressing Purgatory Corridor Academy’s leaders about education reform and the Blood Race incident. He secured their cooperation in making reforms as the Blood Race Envoy and Demon Realm inspectors prepared to arrive.

• Talia watched the mega screen in Jella Memorial Square and was shocked to see Lanchi seated as Purgatory Corridor Academy’s Acting Principal.
• Lanchi praised the academy’s achievements and proposed reforms focused on educational equality, teaching quality, and student development.
• The vice principal reported that Lanchi’s new regulations had taken effect and that the Blood Race Envoy and Demon Realm inspectors were expected within an hour.
• Lanchi told the academy leaders to reflect on their own failures while acknowledging that the Empire’s modification technology and the Blood Race’s dismissiveness had contributed to the incident.
• Lanchi promised to report his positive experience at the academy to the Demon King and ordered the leaders to cooperate with rectifications after the Blood Race Envoy was safely sent off.
• The vice principal assured Lanchi that the academy would follow his plan.

At Purgatory Corridor Academy, the Yarolan siblings watched the Shadow World’s objectives spiral out of control as an emergency rule forced them into a difficulty-two classroom. The Radiant Demon principal arrived and sent the students to his office for their safety, leaving the siblings confused about whether their apparent enemy was protecting them.

• The Yarolan siblings saw academy exploration progress soar to 748% while they waited in the classroom.
• The siblings recalled that the challengers needed to meet and share clues about the inspector, but the emergency rule forced everyone into classrooms and closed all difficulty-three classrooms.
• The girl prayed for help as demonic teachers entered the classroom with the black-haired, green-eyed Radiant Demon.
• The Radiant Demon ordered the students taken to the Principal’s Office and assured them they would be safe during the surprise inspection.
• The Radiant Demon promised compensation after the fourth class, and the siblings wondered whether he was helping them despite his fearsome reputation.

Baron Sanchez arrived at Purgatory Corridor Academy to search for a human, relying on his Blood True Eye to pierce disguises. After inspecting the academy’s senior officials, he met the Acting Principal, unaware that she was the Poet of Great Love acting as part of a deception with Lanchi.

• Baron Sanchez told the accompanying officer to avoid force unless the academy concealed the human or refused to accept blame.
• Sanchez explained his confidence in finding the human because his Blood True Eye could see through disguises and reveal a target’s true soul.
• The Acting Principal and the academy’s senior officials welcomed Sanchez at the academy gates.
• Sanchez used his authority to inspect the officials and found no humans among them.
• The Acting Principal questioned whether Sanchez suspected her of being a human impersonator, and he apologized for his caution.
• The gray-haired Acting Principal was revealed to be the Poet of Great Love, working with Lanchi in a double act.

Lanchi used Poet of Great Love, posing as Principal Lanfu, to cooperate with Baron Sanchez’s inspection while keeping the student challengers hidden in the Principal’s Office. The inspection continued, and Lanchi’s academy exploration progress had already reached 1200%.

• Poet of Great Love introduced herself to Baron Sanchez as Lanfu, and he warned her to restrain her dangerously enchanting voice.
• The vice principal explained that students were confined to classrooms and teachers were patrolling, then Baron Sanchez said the Inspectorate would take over patrol duties.
• Lanchi stayed in the Principal’s Office with the gathered demon students and told Poet of Great Love to handle Baron Sanchez’s inspection.
• Lanchi explained that he had gathered students from classrooms where challengers might be hiding, preventing the Inspectorate from finding them among the school’s ordinary classes.
• Lanchi reviewed official documents, reassured the students, and noted that his Shadow World academy exploration progress had reached 1200%.

Poet of Great Love tried to keep Baron Sanchez away from Corridor 24, but Sanchez forced his way into the classroom where Lanchi’s Demon King's Granted Theater was still looping. The officers waited outside as Poet of Great Love realized Sanchez and his squad might be trapped inside.

• Baron Sanchez noticed that Poet of Great Love and the vice principal had steered him around Corridor 24, and he demanded they take him there.
• Poet of Great Love reluctantly led Sanchez and his officers to the classroom in G24 Corridor.
• Sanchez sensed a likely human soul inside and ordered Poet of Great Love and the others to stay back while he entered with an elite squad.
• The officers and demons waited outside, but Sanchez and his squad did not emerge from the classroom.
• Poet of Great Love laughed and revealed that Lanchi’s looping Demon King's Granted Theater trapped anyone who entered unless they had exceptionally high Musical Magic Resistance.

The Poet of Great Love outmaneuvered the Inspectorate Legion after the Blood Race Envoy and its commander were trapped in the Demon King's Granted Theater. She left the vice principal to hold the corridor and went with Hughberlian to explore the Academy's Functional Area.

• The Poet of Great Love denied setting a trap, while the vice principal defended the Academy and ordered the theater entrance sealed.
• The Inspectorate Legion remained locked in a stalemate at Corridor 24, afraid to retreat or force their way inside.
• The Poet of Great Love left the corridor after asking the vice principal to maintain the blockade.
• Hughberlian emerged from invisibility and told the Poet of Great Love that the Blood Race Envoy and the other Inspectorate officers had joined the grand chorus.
• The Poet of Great Love relayed Lanchi's thanks and invitation to have fun, and Hughberlian gave her 10 Credit Coins.
• The Poet of Great Love chose to visit the Demon King's Awarded Restaurant and the Demon Realm Botanical Garden with Hughberlian.

With the Shadow World’s objectives complete, Lanchi stayed in the Principal’s Office to study forbidden magic while Hughberlian and the Poet of Great Love relaxed in the Botanical Experiment Garden. Their quiet morning was interrupted by a sudden, dangerous sound tearing through the air.

• Lanchi confirmed that the Shadow World’s objectives were complete and turned off his recording so he could study Magical Beast Fur Handling Magic privately.
• Lanchi wondered why he and Hughberlian had entered a Tier 4 Shadow World and whether other challengers might have mistaken him for an NPC.
• Hughberlian and the Poet of Great Love shared Demon Realm food in the Botanical Experiment Garden while the lesson had been changed to Free Viewing.
• A sharp, unexplained sound rang across the garden, making Hughberlian tense as danger approached.

Hughberlian was trapped in the botanical garden by a Tier 5 woman while a silver aberrant form slaughtered the demon students. After Lanchi had cleared the Shadow World, the live feed unexpectedly resumed, revealing Hughberlian’s danger to the students watching at Iketerite Academy.

• The silver aberrant form killed the Tier 5 demon teacher and devoured the demon students as poisonous black mist spread through the botanical garden.
• A scarred Tier 5 woman found Hughberlian, and Hughberlian used Purification Magic and stealth to try to escape her.
• The woman said Hughberlian would not get lucky again and demanded that she come out of hiding.
• At Iketerite Academy, students began leaving after Lanchi cleared the Shadow World and the broadcast ended.
• The screen suddenly lit up again and showed the attack on Hughberlian, alarming the students still in Jella Memorial Square.

Hughberlian was overwhelmed by Lilette, an S-rank Rebirth Church criminal, in the Botanical Garden and called for Lanchi to save her. The garden’s gate exploded, and the Purgatory Corridor Academy Principal appeared.

• Students at Jella Memorial Square learned that Hughberlian’s attacker was Lilette, an S-rank wanted criminal and Rebirth Church believer wielding Immortal Mercury.
• Senior students explained the Rebirth Church’s history and danger as the crowd feared for Hughberlian.
• Lilette and a Tier 2 sorcerer drove Hughberlian close to defeat inside the Botanical Garden.
• Hughberlian called out to Lanchi for help as Lilette mocked her.
• The Botanical Garden’s gate burst apart, and Lilette saw the Purgatory Corridor Academy Principal approaching.