Chapter Summaries

Lanchi explained to Hughberlian that he planned to rescue Viscount Augustine and repeatedly seal and unseal him to farm merit. Hughberlian was horrified by the plan as they prepared to search for the Werewolf and hand the Viscount over to the clergy.

• Lanchi told Sticella to remain hidden in Bedroom 203 while the group kept their alliance secret from the live broadcast.
• Lanchi explained to Hughberlian that repeatedly sealing and unsealing Viscount Augustine could earn him tens of thousands of merits.
• Hughberlian realized Lanchi planned to turn Viscount Augustine into a fully automatic sealing-cycle device for four days.
• Lanchi said they would rescue Viscount Augustine and leave the work to the clergy, whose merit would be officially granted by the Goddess of Fate.
• Lanchi suggested documenting the device in a report on ecological balance and Blood Race governance, leaving Hughberlian overwhelmed with despair.

Lanchi and Hughberlian discovered that Frei had inherited wolf-like traits and recruited him to help free a sealed Blood Race Viscount beneath the castle's wine cellar. As they descended the stairs, Lanchi also revealed that a Resurrection Cultist planned to assassinate Hughberlian during the Yarolan delegation's visit, and proposed catching the culprit by staging an accident.

• Lanchi and Hughberlian found Frei instructing three clergymen as they dissected the still-living Earl Parocas.
• Lanchi asked Frei if he was a werewolf, and Frei explained that his bloodline had awakened wolf-like traits that grew stronger at night.
• Lanchi told Frei that a Blood Race Viscount was sealed beneath the wine cellar and that they needed a Witch's and a werewolf's blood to rescue him.
• As they went downstairs, Lanchi said a Resurrection Cultist in the Yarolan Kingdom delegation planned to kill Hughberlian and that they needed to catch the culprit without alerting the kingdom.
• Hughberlian realized Lanchi's plan to create an accident echoed the danger described by Sticella, who had warned that someone intended to kill her on campus.

Lanchi, Frei, and Hughberlian uncovered Viscount Augustine’s sealed coffin beneath the chapel wine cellar and freed him. Lanchi tricked the hungry bloodfolk into believing Earl Parocas had arranged humans for him, and Augustine followed them upstairs.

• Lanchi used the Saintess of Destruction’s blood to reveal an ancient magical coffin hidden beneath the wine cellar.
• Lanchi identified the seal as the Tier 5 spell Undying Eternal Punishment and explained how it could be reversed.
• Frei and Hughberlian dripped their blood onto Viscount Augustine’s coffin, causing its seal to open and awakening him.
• Lanchi showed Viscount Augustine Earl Parocas’s ring and claimed the earl had prepared humans and was waiting upstairs.
• Viscount Augustine believed Lanchi and followed him out of the cellar while Frei and Hughberlian went along.

Lanchi lured Viscount Augustine into the castle laboratory, where Frei subdued him with sunlight and began extracting his blood. Lanchi declared that trafficking the Blood Race was legal under the Honing Empire’s laws, while Augustine threatened them with the Blood Moon Cataclysm and revealed that he had killed the Witch.

• Lanchi led Viscount Augustine to the castle master's bedroom, where Augustine found Earl Parocas bound and wrapped in linen in a laboratory.
• Frei exposed Augustine to sunlight, pinned him down, and used the Blood Pressure Resuscitator to draw his vital blood.
• Poet of Great Love sang about the prisoners, while Hughberlian gave Lanchi her sunglasses to wear.
• Lanchi presented Augustine as new merchandise and told the clerics they could remove his organs if he refused to cooperate.
• Lanchi explained that the Honing Empire’s laws forbade trafficking humans but did not forbid trafficking the Blood Race.
• Augustine threatened the humans with the Blood Race’s retaliation during the Blood Moon Cataclysm and said he had killed the Witch.

Lanchi used the Poet of Great Love to break Viscount Augustine’s confidence and prepare him for a supposed redemption through love. After the Shadow World ended, Dean Loren gave up watching Lanchi’s exploits, while the chapter announced that the next arc would return to the Real World.

• Viscount Augustine challenged Lanchi and the clergy to justify their violence, but Lanchi said he only wanted to influence him with love.
• Lanchi revealed that the supposedly weak Earl Parocas was an earl-level vampire, and Augustine’s confidence collapsed.
• The Poet of Great Love and the three clergy members prepared to train Augustine as the night’s events ended in the Shadow World.
• At Iketerite Academy, Loren left the Conference Room, saying he would never watch Lanchi’s Shadow World again.
• The author announced that a new Real World arc would begin the next day.

Noe Wilford arrived at Iketerite Academy to investigate whether Lanchi had truly passed the entrance exam and been admitted to the Sage Institute, or whether he had forged documents to swindle his family. After getting lost on campus, Noe asked Lu Weixier for directions to Professor Bora Ao’s office, still suspicious that the professor and Lanchi were conspiring to cheat him.

• Noe Wilford traveled to the Royal Capital after hearing that Lanchi had passed Iketerite Academy’s entrance examination, entered the Sage Institute, and incurred a penalty from Professor Bora Ao.
• Noe rode through Ikelite and entered Iketerite Academy, intending to meet Professor Bora Ao before noon.
• Noe wandered through the academy grounds and lost his way while trying to find the Magic Engineering Institute Dean’s office.
• Noe asked Lu Weixier, a Student Union secretary and Hutton Times reporter, for directions.
• Noe told Lu Weixier he had an appointment with Professor Bora Ao, while privately suspecting Lanchi and the professor had fabricated the penalty ticket to get money from his family.

Noe visited Iketerite Academy to check whether Lanchi’s enormous Penalty Ticket was a scam, then learned it was genuine and that Lanchi had been admitted to the Sage Institute. Unable to find Lanchi because he was livestreaming from a Shadow World, Noe agreed to watch his upcoming performance before going to the Magic Engineering Institute.

• Lu Weixier examined Noe’s Penalty Ticket and confirmed it was genuine after noticing it named Noe Wilford as the recipient.
• Noe learned that Lanchi was at Iketerite Academy and matched Lu Weixier’s description of the strange, handsome student she knew.
• Lu Weixier told Noe that Lanchi had caused no trouble at school, though she knew he had defeated the Rebirth Church’s Saintess of Destruction outside it.
• Lu Weixier explained that Lanchi was livestreaming from a Shadow World and invited Noe to watch his upcoming performance at Jella Memorial Square.
• Noe decided to watch Lanchi’s livestream before visiting the Magic Engineering Institute.

Noe and Lu Weixier arrived at Jella Memorial Square to watch Lanchi present his work, and Noe expected his son to show academic progress and a newfound devotion to the Goddess of Fate. Lanchi unveiled a machine that forced two captured vampires to take turns moving a coffin lid and exposing each other to sunlight, leaving the academy square stunned.

• Noe reflected on how little he had understood Lanchi and hoped his son had become more diligent and would find faith in the Goddess of Fate.
• Lu Weixier led Noe to Jella Memorial Square, where crowds watched Lanchi's Shadow World challenge on the Open-Air Mega Screen.
• Lanchi announced that he would make history and presented two coffins holding the mummified Parocas and zombie Augustine.
• Lanchi demonstrated how the vampires blew through straws to move a shared coffin lid back and forth, alternately exposing each other to sunlight.
• Lanchi called the contraption the Solar Merit Accumulation Machine and claimed it generated clean energy while earning merit; the crowd fell silent.

Lanchi’s Shadow World advertisement and broadcast astonished Iketerite Academy, while Noe learned of Lanchi’s exploits and fainted from shock. The students rushed Noe to the Alchemy Institute as the broadcast continued.

• Lanchi’s advertisement for Giant Love Company played on the Open-Air Mega Screen, showing the chapel and its guests in the Shadow World.
• Noe questioned Lanchi’s actions, and students explained that the scene was in the Shadow World and described Lanchi’s recent victories.
• Noe bought the Hutton Times and read its account of Lanchi and his companions’ Shadow World strategy.
• Lanchi declined the Goddess of Fate Church’s invitation to join, and the three clergymen praised his ideals and promised to spread them.
• Noe recognized the clergymen in the newspaper, read how fanatical they had become, and fainted from shock.
• Students gathered around Noe and carried him to the Alchemy Institute for treatment.

A Yarolan Royal Academy delegation arrived in Iketerite, where its combat students planned to challenge the host academy and its Gold Tier Card Maker Karen concealed her true priorities. Two siblings in the delegation remained haunted by a terrifying encounter with a Radiant Demon in a Shadow World, though they believed he could never exist in reality.

• The Yarolan delegation arrived at Iketerite Central Station, with Adams eager to challenge Loren’s best student and the delegation’s fighters hoping to provoke the Iketerite Knight Institute.
• Karen smiled sweetly at the delegation while privately resenting that Adams might disrupt her plan to observe the Primordial Slab - Wind.
• The professor met the Iketerite staff and Student Union members as the delegation’s Holy Knight asked his priest sister about her pale, troubled appearance.
• The priest sister explained that nightmares had followed their Tier 4 Shadow World challenge, where a Radiant Demon had taken them to the Purgatory Corridor Academy principal’s office and eventually let them go.
• The priest sister hoped the visit would help her recover and reassured herself that the Radiant Demon had only been a Shadow World projection that could never appear in reality.

As the Shadow World neared its end, Lanchi said farewell to his companions and visited Princess Alexia, who asked him to meet her again in the Krui Di Empire. The castle vanished as the Shadow World ended, leaving Alexia with a fragile hope that Lanchi would return.

• At dawn atop Lichtenstein Castle, Lanchi said goodbye to the Young Master of the Chamber of Commerce and encouraged him to pay attention to his younger sister, the guard.
• Lanchi, Frei, and Hughberlian left the tower and exchanged farewells with the Chamber of Commerce guard and the clergy in the Sanctuary.
• Lanchi told Frei and Hughberlian he would visit Princess Alexia before the Shadow World ended, and they agreed to meet in the Liminal Space afterward.
• In Bedroom 201, Alexia told Lanchi that her private cold expression would signal danger and warned him not to trust her if she became a bloodkin puppet.
• Alexia asked Lanchi to wait for her in the Krui Di Empire, and he promised he would before leaving as the Shadow World ended.

Lanchi, Hughberlian, and Frei received an SSS evaluation for clearing the Sanctuary Villain's Banquet, and each advanced in rank. As their rewards appeared, Lanchi reflected on the Poet of Great Love's strange interest in turning the sanctuary's pipe organ into a kitchen appliance.

• The settlement screen credited the team with achievements for finding the traitor, rescuing Viscount Augustine, and releasing and sealing him over ten thousand times.
• Lanchi, Hughberlian, and Frei realized the Poet of Great Love had apparently wanted to remodel the pipe organ, and Lanchi resolved to keep her away from valuable instruments.
• The Shadow World awarded the team an SSS overall evaluation and raised Lanchi from Tier 3 to Tier 4 and Hughberlian and Frei from Tier 4 to Tier 5.
• Frei said his new rank and awakened wolf-kin traits would let him set a trap and kill the Saintess of Destruction in nighttime jungle terrain.
• The team received Undying Glass Tear, Wolf King's Pride, and Witch's Warm Company as rewards.

Lanchi, Hughberlian, and Frei received rewards after clearing the Blood Moon Ruined World, then traded items to suit their plans. They left the Liminal Space preparing for the Yarolan Kingdom delegation’s arrival, with Lanchi arranging protection for Hughberlian and himself.

• Hughberlian received Witch's Warm Company, Lanchi received Undying Glass Tear, and Frei received Wolf King's Pride.
• The trio learned that the Blood Moon Ruined World series had reached 2/4 and that their next objective was to clear its final node with an SSS rating.
• Lanchi traded Undying Glass Tear to Frei for Wolf King's Pride, whose resonance convinced Lanchi he could make a powerful new Magic Card from it.
• Lanchi planned to have the Poet of Great Love stay with Hughberlian while he stayed with Frei, so they would be safer from the hidden Resurrection Cultist in the Yarolan delegation.
• The three left the Liminal Space together to meet the Yarolan Kingdom's Academic Visiting Group.

Lanchi and Frei discussed how to protect Hughberlian while drawing out the Resurrection Church’s assassin without alerting them. They considered asking Talia to shelter Hughberlian, and Lanchi planned to approach her after the Student Union’s afternoon business.

• Lanchi, Hughberlian, and Frei returned to Iketerite Academy, had breakfast, and parted so Hughberlian could go to her dormitory.
• Lanchi and Frei agreed that investigating too openly could warn the assassin and put Sticella at risk, so they planned to keep Hughberlian as bait while protecting her.
• Lanchi outlined possible disguises and traps the assassin might use, prompting Frei to joke that Hughberlian was lucky the Rebirth Church had not hired Lanchi to kill her.
• Frei suggested disappearing to make the assassin feel safer, while Lanchi proposed asking Talia to let Hughberlian stay with her.
• Lanchi decided to take Hughberlian to Cat Boss Restaurant after the Student Union’s affairs, though he expected Talia might refuse.

President Monast told Lanchi about his father’s hospitalization and Adams’s challenge to the strongest Sage Institute student. After hearing how Dean Loren and Juliana had fallen into a deep misunderstanding, Lanchi decided to accept the challenge and help bring their marriage to fruition.

• President Monast told Lanchi that his father, Noe Wilford, had suffered a mild cardiovascular and cerebrovascular illness and was recuperating at the Alchemy Institute's Affiliated Hospital.
• Monast explained that Adams had challenged the Sage Institute’s strongest student, and that Asina had declined before the students nominated Lanchi.
• Monast said Adams had insisted on facing Lanchi after learning that Lanchi had defeated the Saintess of Destruction, though Lanchi had not yet agreed to the exhibition derby.
• Frei asked why Juliana Knight Commander and Dean Loren had such a bad relationship, and Monast recounted how misunderstandings had grown between them.
• Lanchi decided to accept Adams’s challenge and give his all to help Dean Loren and Juliana marry, alarming Hughberlian.

Lanchi and Hughberlian visited Lanchi’s father, Noe, in the Iketerite Academy Medical Center, where Noe mistook their partnership for a possible romance and was reassured by Hughberlian’s normal, approachable manner. Meanwhile, Frei told Lu Weixier about the grudge between Dean Loren and Juliana Knight Commander after warning her not to spread it.

• Monast asked Lanchi to handle matters involving Adams and suggested he visit his father, while Frei stayed behind to help the Student Union leaders.
• Frei encountered Lu Weixier in the corridor and told her about Dean Loren’s grudge against Juliana Knight Commander after warning her to keep it secret.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian registered at the medical center and went to visit Noe in his private ward.
• Lanchi introduced Hughberlian as his classmate, teammate, and good partner, and Noe thanked her for taking care of his son.
• Noe decided Hughberlian seemed like a suitable, ordinary girl and hoped Lanchi would devote himself wholeheartedly to whoever he loved.

Lanchi visited his recovering father, Noe, who learned that Lanchi had earned first place at the Sage Institute and a Quasi-Platinum rating as a card maker. The conversation ended with Noe teasing Lanchi about marrying a demon, unaware that Hughberlian was Duke Migaiya’s daughter and a demon herself.

• Lanchi reassured Noe that he was working hard at school, while Noe urged him to follow a steady path rather than chase lofty ambitions.
• Hughberlian told Noe that Lanchi had ranked first at the Sage Institute, surprising him.
• Noe praised Duke Migaiya’s achievements, and Hughberlian revealed that Lanchi’s card-maker rating was higher than Duke Migaiya’s Gold Tier rating.
• Hughberlian clarified that Lanchi had received an unofficial Quasi-Platinum Tier rating, leaving Noe stunned and delighted.
• Noe joked that Lanchi could never match Duke Migaiya unless he married a demon wife, prompting Hughberlian to leave awkwardly.
• Lanchi chose not to tell Noe that Hughberlian was Duke Migaiya’s daughter, while Noe continued teasing him about marrying a Pure-Blooded Great Demon Race woman.

Lanchi reassured Hughberlian that his father had praised her, then took her to meet his teacher, Tata. They left the school with pastries from Asina, and Lanchi warned Hughberlian to be honest with Tata and not reveal that he had warned her.

• Lanchi told Noe to rest, and Noe decided to stay at the medical center for a few days before returning home.
• Lanchi found Hughberlian troubled by Noe's remarks and explained that Noe had called her gentle and kind despite her demon blood.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian had dinner at school, then met Asina, who gave them a box of homemade pastries for Tata.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian set off to meet Tata, and Lanchi told Hughberlian never to lie to her or disclose his warning.

Lanchi brought Hughberlian to Cat Boss Restaurant, where they met Talia working as the hostess. After Talia treated Hughberlian gently and later discussed Lanchi with Cat Boss, she began wondering whether her feelings for him matched the human idea of love.

• Lanchi and Hughberlian arrived at Cat Boss Restaurant and found Talia working behind the counter.
• Hughberlian mistook Talia for the Poet of Great Love, prompting Talia to glare at Lanchi before he introduced her as his teacher, Miss Tata.
• Talia handed Lanchi a key and asked him to take Hughberlian upstairs while she finished helping Cat Boss.
• After the rush died down, Cat Boss asked Talia whether Lanchi had come to see her, and she insisted they were merely acquainted.
• Cat Boss described how love made someone care about and depend on another person, and Talia realized its signs seemed to fit her relationship with Lanchi.

Lanchi asked Talia to protect Hughberlian from an assassin by letting her stay at Talia’s home for up to two weeks. Talia agreed, while privately hoping Lanchi would help her find her younger sister, and she grew suspicious of what he was thinking.

• Lanchi told Talia that Hughberlian had been targeted by an assassin and asked her to shelter Hughberlian for up to two weeks.
• Lanchi offered Talia the future friendship of the Aransal Family, and Hughberlian pledged the family’s word in exchange for her protection.
• Talia agreed to take Hughberlian in and told her to collect clothes and buy necessities, including bedding.
• Lanchi stared at the Poet of Great Love card in surprise, and Talia wondered what he was thinking.