Chapter Summaries

Allen tried four times to persuade the Greyrat family to leave Buena Village, but his excuses only led to awkward family arguments. After Allen fled with Rudy, Zenith suggested he had another reason for wanting to leave, while an ornate letter rested unread on the bedroom desk.

• Paul listed Allen’s earlier arguments for moving away, including cold winters, Sylphy’s visits, Rudy’s health, and Aisha’s supposed magical talent.
• Aisha and Norn both called for Allen, leaving Paul and the family stunned when the girls showed their affection for him.
• Allen stopped Aisha’s crying with a carefully controlled battle-aura pellet, then hid his face in his bowl as the family fell silent.
• Rudy mentioned Mrs. Soma, so Allen covered his mouth, carried him out, and claimed they were going to find Sylphy.
• Paul wondered whether Allen truly disliked Buena Village, and Zenith said he likely had another reason for wanting to leave.
• An ornate letter remained on the desk in the Greyrat bedroom, its contents unreadable.

Allen struggled to find a way to enter the Tutoring Period and persuade Paul’s family to leave Buena Village, but Rudy’s growth and Paul’s plans had made the original setup unlikely. The Tutoring Period began ahead of schedule when Philip arrived at the Greyrat home, and Allen recognized him as his biological father.

• Allen reflected that Rudy’s advanced magic skills had removed his motivation to attend Magic University, while Paul showed no intention of arranging a tutoring job in Roa City.
• Sylphy called Allen back for lunch, and the three children walked through Buena Village during planting season.
• Four luxurious carriages passed the group, scrutinized Allen, and then slowed as they led the children toward the Greyrat home.
• Philip stepped out of the foremost carriage and exchanged a knowing smile with Allen as the system announced the start of the Tutoring Period.
• Sylphy grasped Allen’s hand and realized that Philip seemed to be Allen’s biological father.

Allen met Philip, his biological father, at the Greyrat family gate, where everyone tried to keep Allen’s identity secret. A new quest tasked Allen with passing Philip’s tests and meeting his expectations, and Philip ended the encounter by asking Allen his name.

• Rudy, Paul, Zenith, and Lilia worried that Philip would recognize Allen and expose his identity.
• Allen received a quest to complete Philip’s two tests and answer his expectations for participation-score rewards.
• Allen took Sylphy’s hand and approached Philip with Rudy and the others, despite their anxiety.
• Sylphy introduced herself to Philip as a guest, and Philip praised her name and hair.
• Philip turned to Allen and asked whether his name was Allen.

Allen concealed his identity while quickly recognizing that Philip had come to recruit him, and he persuaded Philip that his visit concerned Allen’s achievements against the Demon Beast Tide. Philip proposed hiring Allen and bringing Rudy to Roa City, leaving Paul bewildered by the offer.

• Allen calmly gave Philip his name and treated the shared name as a coincidence, easing Rudy’s and the family’s alarm.
• Allen and Philip rapidly discussed Philip’s information network and the reason for his visit, with Allen deducing that Philip had come to recruit him.
• Allen explained that Philip could publicly justify his visit by recognizing Allen’s achievement against the Demon Beast Tide, impressing Philip with his insight.
• Philip asked Paul to reconsider the offer and proposed that Allen and Rudy move to Roa City for work and education.
• Paul stared at Philip and Allen in confusion as the assessment declared Allen had passed Philip’s test of ability.

Allen inferred that Philip’s planned assessments would test ability and strength, while Paul struggled to respond to Philip’s visit and protect the family Allen wanted to keep. Before Paul could settle the matter, a red-haired girl burst from the carriage and demanded to know who Allen was.

• Allen reasoned that he had earned Philip’s favor and predicted that an upcoming assessment would test his strength, likely through Ghislaine.
• Paul realized Philip had probably already identified Allen and decided to refuse any recruitment offer on Allen’s behalf.
• Paul told Philip that he had not discussed the proposal with Allen and Rudy and questioned whether they were too young for recruitment.
• Rudy watched Philip with curiosity, while Sylphy nervously clutched her skirt and Allen noticed Paul’s concern for them.
• Allen heard someone struggling inside the second carriage and realized that Philip’s planned assessment had not yet taken place.
• A red-haired girl kicked open the carriage door, argued with her cat-eared maid, and demanded to know who Allen was.

Philip brought Eris to the Greyrat household to test Allen and proposed that Allen and Rudeus tutor her. Eris mistook Rudeus for Allen and slapped him, while Allen accepted a quest to earn her awe as her older brother.

• Allen received a 48-hour quest to earn Eris's awe and unlock a Divine Strike Magic Slot.
• Philip explained that he wanted Allen and Rudeus to teach Eris, hoping their lessons would stir her competitive spirit.
• Eris mistook Rudeus for Allen and demanded to know why someone younger than her would teach her swordsmanship.
• Eris slapped Rudeus, leaving Philip and the Greyrat family stunned while Allen hid his delight.

Eris arrived at the Greyrat home looking for Allen, but she mistook Rudy for him and started a chaotic fight. As the adults tried to intervene, Sylphy realized Eris’s words threatened the future she had imagined with Allen and Rudy.

• Eris jumped down from the carriage and slapped Rudy after mistaking him for Allen.
• Rudy protested that he was not Allen and slapped Eris back, prompting her to knock him down and attack him.
• Rudy used Air Blast Magic to block Eris’s punches while insisting that Sylphy was a girl and that his name was not Allen.
• Paul and Sylphy tried to break up the fight, but Eris shoved Sylphy aside.
• Eris complained that she already had Rudeus as a magic tutor and did not want another person teaching her swordsmanship.
• Sylphy stared at her soiled dress and avoided looking at Allen, shaken by the thought that Allen and Rudy might become tutors and change the future she had hoped for.

After Eris calmed down, she awkwardly offered Sylphy her friendship while the adults discussed Rudy and Allen going to Roa. Philip then asked Allen to step outside for a private conversation as a storm approached.

• Eris stopped attacking Rudy after she became tired, and Rudy argued that she had mistaken him for someone else.
• Eris tried to make Sylphy her friend, and Sylphy patiently accepted.
• Allen struggled to keep his attention off the cat-eared maid, while Philip offered that the Boreas estate had many maids like her.
• Paul agreed to Rudy going to Roa as a tutor but insisted that Allen must consent before leaving Buena Village.
• Philip opened the door and invited Allen outside to talk privately.

Allen rejected Philip’s offer to join his bid for leadership of the Boreas Family, but accepted four years of sword training from Ghislaine. He left the choice of whether to join Philip in Roa until he turned fifteen.

• Philip apologized to Allen for neglecting him and admitted he had come to recruit him and Rudy for his family ambitions.
• Allen challenged Philip’s belief that their strength could help him gain power in the royal capital.
• Philip praised Allen’s talent and offered him a better teacher, naming Sword King Ghislaine, while arguing that political power mattered more than swordsmanship alone.
• Philip promised Ghislaine would train Allen for four years, even if Allen chose to leave him afterward.
• Allen accepted the offer of training and walked away through the rain.

Allen agreed to return to Roa with Philip after rejecting Philip’s ambition but accepting his gift, and the system awarded him participation points. Philip announced the decision to Paul, who had argued that Allen would benefit from time with his real family and that the household could no longer afford his wages.

• Paul told Zenith and Lilia that Allen had grown closer to the family but could benefit from returning to his real family, and he admitted they could no longer afford to pay him.
• Eris questioned Sylphy about her and Rudeus’s abilities, and Sylphy solemnly said Allen was the strongest.
• Eris noticed Sylphy’s mood dim and redirected her frustration toward Rudeus, but Allen’s arrival interrupted their argument.
• The system recorded that Allen rejected Philip’s ambition and accepted his gift, rewarding him with ten participation points.
• Philip returned with Allen and told Paul that Allen had agreed to go back to Roa with him.

Allen demonstrated his Flow Arcana to Eris and agreed to leave with Philip that day to study alongside Rudy. As Allen prepared to go, Sylphy quietly accepted his invitation to help pack, while Paul and Zenith exchanged troubled glances.

• Paul agreed that Allen and Rudy could study with Philip, and Rudy said he would do his part for the family.
• Eris confronted Allen about staying dry in the rain, so he used Flow Arcana to trap a raindrop and stop her punch with one finger.
• Eris kicked Allen and walked away, while the others recovered from the confrontation.
• Philip urged the family to leave immediately, and Allen told Rudy to pack his luggage.
• Allen asked Sylphy to help him pack, and she quietly agreed as Paul and Zenith exchanged complicated looks.

Allen chose to take Sylphy with him to Roa and add her as a tutor, reassuring her that she belonged in his plans. The family prepared to leave, while Allen ended the chapter facing the task of persuading Sylphy’s parents.

• Sylphy asked Allen whether he planned to leave her out of the Adventurer Team, and told him she wanted to explore dungeons with him and Teacher.
• Allen realized he had already decided to take Sylphy to Roa, and Paul rushed in to question how he would explain the decision to Rolls.
• Sylphy broke down crying, and Allen promised to buy her ten dresses in Roa after she said her dress was dirty.
• Rudy and the little lion argued downstairs about making Sylphy a tutor, while Allen told Philip he wanted to add one more person to the tutors.
• Allen told Sylphy they still had to persuade her parents before they could leave.

Luffy’s father reflected on how Allen and Lokkishi had helped Luffy become resilient and independent, and he trusted Allen to take her away with the Adventurer Team. He asked Allen to care for Luffy and keep her smiling; the chapter ended with an author’s update note.

• Luffy’s father recalled how Allen had first comforted Luffy and how Lokkishi’s return led to Luffy becoming her student.
• He realized Luffy had grown stronger and more independent because she wanted to stand beside Allen and Lokkishi and share their adventures.
• He remembered how Luffy had defied Allen at Snow Valley, depleted her mana, and turned her hair white, then become more confident in expressing her thoughts.
• Luffy and Allen arrived at her parents’ home late at night and made a request that reminded her father she would eventually leave with the Adventurer Team.
• Luffy’s father told Allen to take good care of Luffy, not make her cry, and keep her smiling, and Allen agreed.

Allen and Sylphy left Buena Village for Roa after Rolls agreed to let her pursue further studies, while Paul’s family welcomed her and prepared for the journey. As the carriages departed, Eris arranged for Rudy to ride separately so she could travel with Allen and Sylphy; meanwhile, someone in the forest south of the village awakened and expected Allen to arrive soon.

• Rolls agreed to let Sylphy go to Roa with Allen, and Sylphy said goodbye to her parents before leaving with him.
• Allen and Sylphy returned to Paul’s home, where Paul, Zenith, Rudy, and the others welcomed them in the rain.
• Philip’s party prepared four carriages, and Paul refused Philip’s suggestion to assign a beastkin maid to Allen’s group.
• Eris’s cat-eared maid redirected Rudy into Eris’s carriage, leaving Allen, Sylphy, and Eris together in the third carriage.
• Sylphy sat beside Allen and realized he had been calm because he was certain he would take her to Roa.
• Someone opened their eyes in a forest south of Buena Village and said Allen should arrive soon.

As Allen rode through the torrential rain with Sylphy and Eris, he deduced that Philip’s assessment was testing his swordsmanship rather than his political ability. He realized Ghislaine was missing from the convoy just as darkness from a nearby forest approached the carriages.

• Sylphy sat beside Allen, growing flustered by their knees touching, while Eris slept in the cat-eared maid’s arms.
• Allen checked the assessment timer and concluded that Philip’s test was focused on swordsmanship.
• Allen noticed the fourth carriage seemed unnecessary and asked the cat-eared maid where Ghislaine was.
• The maid’s frozen smile and Eris’s surprise revealed that Ghislaine was not with them.
• Allen sensed Philip watching him as the curtain lifted and saw a forest looming in the rain ahead.

Allen detected an assassination ambush as the carriage entered the forest and ordered Sylphy to protect Eris. He swiftly cut down an attacker, leaving Sylphy and Eris stunned inside the Earth Fort Magic shelter.

• Allen sensed the rain and wind slow around the carriage and spotted armed attackers and arrows waiting in the forest.
• Allen intercepted an arrow with his palm, then ordered Luffy to use Earth Fort Magic to protect Sylphy and Eris.
• Sylphy caught Eris and kept her inside the earth fort, where Eris watched Allen through an opening.
• An attacker thrust a blade through the carriage, and Allen sliced the weapon and the attacker’s arm into pieces before decapitating him.
• Sylphy and Eris stared at the bloodied head, and Sylphy realized the earth fort was meant to shield them from blood.

Allen realized Philip had orchestrated the kidnapping attempt to test him and remove his disloyal butler, but the system warned that an unexpected variable might threaten the plan. Allen cut down the attackers and prepared to protect Eris as another kidnapper climbed into the carriage.

• Allen judged the first attacker to be an ordinary beginner swordsman and realized the arrow that entered the carriage had been a harmless coincidence.
• Allen inferred that Philip had arranged the kidnapping attempt as a test and suspected Ghislaine was meant to intervene if the children faced danger.
• Philip watched Allen from the departing carriage, approving of his abilities despite the unexpected movements by Allen and Eris.
• The system explained that Philip had used the staged kidnapping to assess Allen, strengthen the bond between the children, and expose his disloyal butler Thomas, then tasked Allen with finding Ghislaine and handling an unforeseen threat.
• Allen drew his blade and killed the attackers rushing toward the carriage, but another hooded kidnapper climbed through the rear window as Eris cried out.

Sylphy killed an attacker to protect Allen, but Allen sensed the surviving kidnappers had staged the attack and faced a sudden ambush. He survived a strike to the neck and split the carriage with his counterattack, revealing the North King Nakurujad and a second Mirtaite assailant.

• Sylphy pierced an attacker’s head with Ice Blade Magic, and Eris turned Sylphy away from the corpse.
• Rudy killed the remaining kidnappers outside and called to Allen and Sylphy through the rain.
• Allen sensed that three heartbeats in the carriage were unnaturally steady and realized the apparent corpse concealed an assassin.
• Two hooded assassins attacked Allen and Eris, forcing Allen to choose between defending himself and protecting Eris.
• Allen let a dagger cut his neck, then struck back with the Soundless Katana and split the carriage in two.
• The attackers retreated into the rain, revealing themselves as the Mirtaite North King Nakurujad and a second rabbit-eared fighter.

Allen concealed his healed neck wound and faced Nakur and a rabbit-eared accomplice, but they fled when Sylphy and Eris reacted to his apparent injury. Allen pursued them into the forest, killed the accomplice after learning she did not know Ghislaine’s location, and followed Nakur by tracking his traces.

• Allen recognized Nakur and realized the rabbit-eared woman posing as Jad was another assassin, while Philip struggled to leave his carriage.
• Sylphy and Eris saw Allen’s bloodied neck and panicked, prompting Nakur and the woman to escape through smoke and rain.
• Allen ordered Rudy to protect the others and chased the fleeing assassins into the forest.
• Nakur threw the rabbit-eared woman at Allen and escaped while Allen caught her with Flow Arcana.
• Allen questioned the woman about Ghislaine, then killed her when she offered no useful information.
• Allen identified himself as a sensory type and vanished into the forest after Nakur.

Allen pursued Nakur through the rain and killed him before he could reach Jad, then killed Jad while he was taunting Ghislaine. Allen crossed the swamp to meet Ghislaine and introduced himself.

• Jad taunted Ghislaine and used crossbow bolts and Crimson Ink to keep her trapped in the swamp.
• Allen tracked Nakur through the forest, dodging his traps as both men planned to kill the other before reaching their companion.
• Nakur attacked Allen with daggers and a short sword, but Allen used a false wound as bait and killed him at close range.
• Allen arrived behind Jad and cut off his head while Jad was distracted by the sight of Nakur's head.
• Allen laid planks across the swamp, approached Ghislaine, and introduced himself.