Chapter Summaries

Duanmu Huai and Kento Kaname investigated a haunted mansion and discovered that Princess Lia had been abusing kidnapped students under the influence of a Majin. When the Majin demanded the Holy Armament, Duanmu Huai revealed his terrifying power and prepared to attack.

• Kento Kaname told Duanmu Huai that girls had gone missing after seeing figures in Princess Lia's abandoned mansion, and Duanmu Huai decided they would investigate that night.
• Duanmu Huai and Kento Kaname entered the mansion, found a palm print on an upstairs window, and discovered a bound Paris Academy student in a locked room.
• Duanmu Huai and Kento Kaname found more imprisoned girls and reached Princess Lia and Lady Marys as they tortured another victim.
• Princess Lia admitted that she enjoyed tormenting girls and said the Majin had helped her embrace her desires, while Kento Kaname was devastated.
• A Blonde Demonic Human demanded the Holy Armament from Duanmu Huai, who unleashed his Fear Domain and declared he would purify the Majin and his allies.

Duanmu Huai killed Azeru after learning that the Majins had sought a weapon sealed in Lisass, then confronted Princess Lia, whose mind had been corrupted. He began a painful attempt to purge the demonic aura from her, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Azeru realized Duanmu Huai possessed power greater than the previous Demon King's and tried to flee, but Duanmu Huai killed his apostles and cornered him.
• Azeru claimed Lia's cruelty was her true nature and attacked Duanmu Huai, who tore off his arm and crushed his head before burning his body.
• Duanmu Huai found Lia and Marys after they fled through a secret passage; Lia offered him power and women in exchange for becoming her subordinate.
• Lia insisted she had done nothing wrong, so Duanmu Huai grabbed her and began trying to kill the demonic aura inside her through a painful purification.

Prince Barton followed Nos to Lisas’s sealed chamber, where he accidentally awakened the former Demon King Jill instead of gaining power from the sword. Jill’s return unleashed a crimson pillar over the Royal Capital, and Duanmu Huai went to investigate while Princess Lia became infatuated with him.

• After Azeru’s death ended the brainwashing, Lisas soldiers fought Herman’s forces, and Barton ordered his troops to defend the Royal Capital rather than retreat.
• Nos gave Barton Holy Armament and the Lisas princess’s blood, then directed him to a hidden chamber where he could supposedly obtain power to defeat a Majin.
• Barton took the sealed Demonic Sword, but Nos revealed that the ritual had awakened Jill, the former Demon King, and the sword shattered after Barton attacked him.
• Jill unleashed a powerful crimson pillar into the sky, transforming the Royal Capital’s castle with an ominous glow.
• Duanmu Huai left the mansion to investigate the disturbance, while Lia praised him as her destined master and left Kento Kaname bewildered.

Duanmu Huai pursued Demon King Jill through a spatial rift and forcibly searched her memories, learning that the world was created as a game for a mysterious being. Jill died before revealing the creator's identity, leaving Duanmu Huai with the world's secret but its greatest mystery still unresolved.

• Duanmu Huai entered Lisass's Royal Capital, dispersed the demonic energy, and killed the old Majin after he transformed into a black dragon.
• Duanmu Huai confronted Jill, who called the world a game and escaped through a spatial rift.
• Duanmu Huai pursued Jill, stopped her from fleeing deeper into the Warp Space Storm, and invaded her Mental World to search her memories.
• Duanmu Huai learned that a mysterious being had recreated the world as entertainment and that three Supreme Gods had established the repeating Demon King and Hero game.
• Jill's memories revealed that she had defied the Demon King's thousand-year lifespan rule and met the Supreme Gods, but her body burst apart before she could disclose how.
• Duanmu Huai burned Jill's corpse to ashes and considered the secret he had uncovered.

Prince Barton’s attempt to conquer the Free City Alliance ended in disaster when Maria’s tank destroyed his army, and Herman blamed the failed attack on him. Duanmu Huai returned to Duel City with Maria and Mashio Shizuka, then led them through a portal toward the Inquisition.

• Prince Barton ordered the Herman army to attack Free City Rajel, hoping to secure a new advantage after his plans in Lisass failed.
• Maria commanded the Tulip No. 3 tank as it blasted through Herman’s forces and crushed their assault.
• Prince Barton was killed by the tank, and the Free City Alliance routed the remaining Herman soldiers.
• Herman blamed Prince Barton’s secret collaboration with the Majin for the attack after the Demon King’s resurrection became known.
• Duanmu Huai returned to Duel City with Maria, Mashio Shizuka, and Kento Kaname, then opened a portal to the Inquisition.
• Maria and Mashio Shizuka followed Duanmu Huai through the portal to see the Inquisition.

Duanmu Huai introduced Maria, Mashio Shizuka, and their companions to the Inquisition, then assigned them to help Kukulu with mechanical work. After Ann and Gureiya questioned Kento Kaname about her past with Duanmu Huai, he reconsidered a new divine office the system had offered him.

• Duanmu Huai showed Maria, Mashio Shizuka, Kento Kaname, and the others a presentation explaining the Inquisition's rules, history, and approach to alien threats.
• Duanmu Huai explained that Maria's experience building Leman Russ Tanks mattered more than her current mechanical knowledge, then sent Maria and the Tulip Legion to work with Kukulu.
• Ann, Gureiya, and Odel took Kento Kaname aside to ask about what had happened between her and Duanmu Huai.
• Ann and Gureiya told Duanmu Huai they were not angry and encouraged him to gain experience before their wedding night.
• Duanmu Huai reviewed the unclaimed system prompt offering him the God of Love and Desire divine office and wondered whether the system was guiding him toward the domains of the Four Gods of Chaos.

Duanmu Huai advanced his Inquisitor class and chose skills that strengthened his fear-based combat style. With the galaxy quiet, he returned to Duel City to find a way to level God of Love and Desire and investigate the world’s game system.

• Duanmu Huai examined his attributes and realized Divine Offices gained experience according to their domains, making God of Love and Desire difficult to level.
• Duanmu Huai advanced from Inquisitor to Grand Inquisitor and gained Cult of Death's Ultimate Skill and Catachan Survival Training.
• Duanmu Huai read reports that the Guardian Civilization was using its new warships to bombard enemies before sending Guardians to finish the fight.
• Duanmu Huai returned to Duel City and considered asking Princess Lia in Lisass for help understanding the world and its connection to the God of Creation.

Duanmu Huai visited Princess Lia to seek information about the Demons, then traveled to the Magic Kingdom Sess with Mashio Shizuka, Kaname, and Okegis. The King of Sess welcomed them and promised to provide information, but left to handle an urgent matter before answering their questions.

• Princess Lia eagerly greeted Duanmu Huai and told him that Herman and Sess likely knew more about the Demons than Lisass did.
• Princess Lia gave Duanmu Huai a royal letter to help him meet the King of Sess, and Kaname was sent along as Lia’s representative.
• On the voyage, an adventurer from Sess warned Duanmu Huai and his companions that commoners there received inadequate magical education and were treated as inferior to mages.
• Duanmu Huai and his companions presented Lia’s letter in the Royal Capital and met Laguna Rock Aku Super Gandhi, King of the Sais Kingdom.
• Laguna Rock promised to answer their questions about the Demons, then left after a woman delivered him an urgent message.

Duanmu Huai learned how the Demon Realm’s factions formed and discovered a system quest to become a Monster Tamer. He asked Magica to take him to a legendary trial that could grant him the profession, hoping to tame the Demon King and gain information.

• Duanmu Huai reviewed Sais’s records and pieced together the histories of Naichi, Jill, and Guy, along with the Kebris, Honet, and Jill factions.
• Duanmu Huai exchanged information with Magica Ze Gandhi and explained the Hero system and the three Super Gods.
• Duanmu Huai found a Monster Tamer entry in a book and received a system quest to become a qualified Monster Tamer.
• Duanmu Huai reasoned that Monster Tamers might be able to tame the Demon King and asked Magica how to learn the profession.
• Magica told Duanmu Huai about a late Monster Tamer’s inheritance trial, and he asked her to take him there.

Duanmu Huai and Okegis activated the teleportation array beneath Zeth’s Royal Capital and arrived at Lord Baberich’s mansion, where they met a maid monster. He learned that he was a female Monster Tamer and that he had to tame the island’s monster girls to inherit Baberich’s legacy.

• Duanmu Huai and Okegis stepped onto the teleportation array, which suddenly transported them away while Magica watched.
• Duanmu Huai explored the clean but apparently empty mansion and encountered a maid who challenged him before recognizing him as Baberich’s heir.
• The maid explained that she was a Maid Species monster, and Duanmu Huai read the World Creature Compendium to learn about the world’s species and the island’s inheritance challenge.
• Duanmu Huai learned that he had to tame the island’s monster girls to become a Monster Tamer and leave, and that his eyes attracted girl monsters.
• The maid went to fetch a Monster Tamer’s weapon, while Duanmu Huai boasted to Okegis about his appeal and she questioned whether he was attractive only to monsters.

Duanmu Huai left the mansion to find a Monster Girl and capture his first familiar. He knocked out a Rabbit Rabbit girl and carried her back to perform the Contract Ritual.

• Duanmu Huai learned how to use a leather whip, but accidentally split a thick tree trunk with one strike.
• The Maid explained that Duanmu Huai needed at least two familiars to open new island regions and leave the island.
• Duanmu Huai found a Rabbit Rabbit girl eating a carrot and introduced himself as a Monster Tamer.
• The Rabbit Rabbit girl playfully punched Duanmu Huai and invited him to play, so he swung his whip and knocked her unconscious without hitting her directly.
• Duanmu Huai struggled to follow the bestiary's binding instructions, then carried the bound Rabbit Rabbit girl back to perform the Contract Ritual.

Duanmu Huai contracted with Rabbit Rabbit and the maid, then headed to the Snow Mountain to find another familiar and lift its seal. After encountering a Doodle Monster created by Sketch Child, he chose to search higher up the mountain for a rarer monster instead.

• Duanmu Huai formed a familiar contract with Rabbit Rabbit, and the system listed both her and the maid as pets with special abilities.
• Duanmu Huai learned that contracting with Rabbit Rabbit had lifted the forest seal, leaving seals in the Snow Mountain, underground, and the plains.
• Duanmu Huai set out for the Snow Mountain with Rabbit Rabbit, Okegis, and the maid, while Rabbit Rabbit complained about the cold and clung to him.
• Duanmu Huai grabbed and destroyed a Doodle Monster that attacked near a cave during a blizzard.
• The maid explained that Sketch Child could bring her drawings to life, but Duanmu Huai declined to capture her and decided to search higher on the mountain for something rarer.

Duanmu Huai climbed through a blizzard, revealed that he intended to tame the Demon King, and spotted a Snow Woman controlling the storm. He chose her as his next target and continued toward the peak.

• Duanmu Huai punched apart an avalanche and continued up the mountain with Rabbit Rabbit and the maid.
• Duanmu Huai told the maid he had become a Monster Tamer to tame the Demon King, leaving her shocked.
• Duanmu Huai and his companions found Squid Monsters and Octopus Monsters fighting on the snowy mountain.
• A black-haired girl caused an avalanche that swept the Boy Monsters into a ravine, then left.
• Duanmu Huai identified the girl as a Snow Woman in the compendium, chose her as his target, and continued climbing.

Duanmu Huai and his companions reached the Snow Woman’s ice castle, where he destroyed its defenders and brought the structure crashing down. He confronted the Snow Woman and demanded a fight to make her his familiar, but she immediately surrendered and begged him not to kill her.

• Rabbit Rabbit invited Duanmu Huai to play, and she climbed onto him while Okegis joined them.
• Duanmu Huai continued the tedious climb with his companions until they discovered a large ice castle.
• Snowmen attacked the group, and Okegis blocked their arrows with Puppet Strings.
• Duanmu Huai crushed the snowmen and shattered the castle with his fists.
• Duanmu Huai confronted the Snow Woman and demanded that she fight him to become his familiar.
• The Snow Woman prostrated herself and pleaded for her life, offering to do anything.

Duanmu Huai failed to make the Snow Woman his familiar because she resisted the contract, then left after learning of her bizarre fantasies about being abused. He met a group of Horse Girls on the plains, whose leader said he had to beat one in a race to sign a contract, leaving him unsure how he could win.

• Duanmu Huai repeatedly failed to bind the Snow Woman, even after knocking her unconscious, because she refused to become his familiar.
• Duanmu Huai decided to leave the Snow Woman, but she revealed her fantasies about being captured and mistreated before he walked away.
• The Snow Woman concluded that Duanmu Huai was testing her and vanished into the wind to spy on him.
• Duanmu Huai reached the plains with Rabbit Rabbit, the Maid Species, and Okegis, where he found a group of Horse Girls.
• The Horse Girl leader told Duanmu Huai that he had to win a race to sign a contract, and he realized his low Agility and lack of equipment left him with little chance.

Duanmu Huai tried to prove himself to the Horse Girls by racing them, first with an Electromagnetic Rhinoceros and then with the Great Wolf Omnis. After Omnis frightened the other contestants into collapsing, the Horse Girl leader accepted Duanmu Huai's victory, and a cheerful Horse Girl volunteered to become his familiar after hearing he would travel across worlds.

• Duanmu Huai learned the race rules and lost to the Horse Girls while riding the Electromagnetic Rhinoceros.
• Duanmu Huai summoned Omnis and chose to race the Horse Girls over 3000 meters.
• Omnis chased the Horse Girls while pretending to bite them, terrifying them until they fell or fainted, and then crossed the finish line with Duanmu Huai.
• The Horse Girl leader declared Duanmu Huai the winner and asked which Horse Girl would become his familiar.
• A petite Horse Girl volunteered after Duanmu Huai said they would travel across worlds and face battles.

Duanmu Huai celebrated gaining True Clever, whose Superior Charisma might let him resume triggering Charisma-based quests, then followed her to a hidden Mechanicus Cult base. The base sealed him and Okegis inside, so Duanmu Huai sent an army of dolls to search it.

• Duanmu Huai discovered that True Clever's Superior Charisma could help him access quests that his own low Charisma had shut off.
• True Clever showed Duanmu Huai a vine-covered steel gate bearing the Mechanicus Cult emblem.
• The gate opened on its own, and Duanmu Huai ordered True Clever and the other familiars to stay outside while he and Okegis entered.
• The gate slammed shut behind Duanmu Huai and Okegis, sealing their exit.
• Duanmu Huai summoned thousands of dolls and ordered them to search the underground base.

Duanmu Huai explored an abandoned Mechanicus Cult stronghold and uncovered the failed experiment that had killed its inhabitants. He learned a ghostly Psyker was the sole witness, and ended by offering to make her his familiar.

• Duanmu Huai entered the ruined stronghold after his puppets found no threats or traps.
• Duanmu Huai found a shattered tank, dead Tech-Priests, and the ghost of Experiment Subject 28912.
• The Ghost Girl told Duanmu Huai that the Tech-Priests had used a special STC to create psychic lifeforms and hoped to recreate the Emperor.
• The Ghost Girl explained that the experiment used a whale because other bodies could not withstand the Warp energy, then exploded and killed everyone.
• Duanmu Huai asked the Ghost Girl what she would do next and offered to make her his familiar.

Duanmu Huai left the Snow Woman behind and used the Monster Tamer’s ring to teleport randomly, discovering that it could summon his contracted familiars. He arrived in a forest, where he found Mashio Shizuka being hunted and learned that Kento Kaname had been captured.

• Duanmu Huai decided not to contract with the Snow Woman and returned to the mansion, leaving the Snow Mountain sealed.
• Duanmu Huai activated a random teleportation, and the Soul Contract Ring transported him and stored his familiars inside it.
• Duanmu Huai received a quest notification confirming that he had barely passed and owned Rabbit Rabbit, Maid, Ghost Girl, and Horse Girl.
• Duanmu Huai encountered Mashio Shizuka in a forest, and she told him that Kento Kaname had been captured while she was being hunted.
• Duanmu Huai drew his greatsword and prepared to attack the armed men surrounding him and Mashio Shizuka.

Duanmu Huai rescued Kento Kaname from a bandit hideout, then confronted a blonde girl who insisted her group were not bandits. He stayed his hand when children appeared and agreed to hear the girl’s explanation.

• Mashio Shizuka told Duanmu Huai that bandits had captured Kento Kaname after Kaname rescued a child, and she led him into the forest to find them.
• Duanmu Huai killed armed men who attacked the group, and Rabbit Rabbit guided them to a village warehouse where Kaname was being held.
• Duanmu Huai, Mashio Shizuka, and Okegis defeated the men inside the warehouse and freed Kaname.
• Duanmu Huai emerged to find dozens of armed men surrounding the warehouse and killed most of them with his Aura of Fear.
• A blonde girl in a wheelchair said her group were not bandits, and Duanmu Huai agreed to hear her explanation after she warned children away from the danger.