Chapter Summaries

Allen met Ghislaine after the battle and learned that she had helped draw Jad’s attention, while the system promoted him to North God Style Saint-rank for killing two Saint-rank swordsmen. Allen and Ghislaine became stuck in the swamp together, leaving them unable to determine how long it would take for the Crimson Ink to dilute.

• Allen greeted Ghislaine, and she apologized for being unable to help more and asked whether Eris and the others were safe.
• The system announced that Allen had completed the mission and promoted him to North God Style Saint-rank after he killed two Saint-rank swordsmen.
• Allen told Ghislaine that the others were safe, but her strong grip pulled him into the swamp when the plank beneath him broke.
• Allen realized the lubricant in the Crimson Ink prevented him from finding footing, while Ghislaine said rain had begun to dilute it before Jad added more.
• Allen asked Ghislaine to estimate how long it had taken to regain footing, but she could not calculate the time, and Allen answered, “Six.”

After a night of fear and shock, Rudy and Sylphy waited for Allen to return from pursuing the assassins. Allen emerged from the forest at dawn with Ghislaine, and Sylphy collapsed into his arms after confirming he was alive.

• Sylphy sat inside the shattered carriage, overwhelmed by the violence and fear that Allen had not returned.
• Rudy confronted the kidnappers he had killed and resolved to search the forest for Allen.
• Rudy, Sylphy, Eris, and Philip saw two figures emerge from the forest at dawn, with one carrying two heads.
• Sylphy rushed to Allen, touched his neck to confirm he was alive, and broke down crying in his arms.
• Allen held Sylphy close and apologized for making her worry.

Philip investigated the rumored swordsman in Buena Village and planned to bring him and Paul’s son to Roa as Eris’s tutors, while secretly preparing to recruit them. He and Ghislaine revealed that the swordsman had destroyed a bandit group and that Philip intended to use the visit to cut off Darius’s influence.

• Philip asked Ghislaine about the swordsman who had protected Buena Village from the Demon Beast Tide, and she said he showed promise but should not yet be recruited.
• Philip proposed inviting the swordsman and Paul’s magically gifted son to tutor Eris, giving him a chance to assess their potential and build loyal retainers.
• Philip told Ghislaine he would write to Paul and bring Eris to Buena Village, while Ghislaine offered to accompany him for safety.
• After Thomas and Ghislaine left, Ghislaine returned secretly and reported that the swordsman’s traces showed Advanced-tier Sword God Style and Saint-tier Water God Style, and that the Water God Dojo had reacted to the bandit killings.
• Philip said the visit would only be a pretext to assess the swordsman and declared that he would cut off Darius’s reach into the region.

After Allen returned from defeating the assassins, Eris accepted him as her teacher, and Sylphy welcomed him back. Allen confronted Philip about the failed preparations and the assassination, then learned that Philip’s butler Thomas was the mole as the group continued toward Roa.

• Eris saw Allen carrying Nakur and Jad’s heads, asked whether he was stronger than Ghislaine, and agreed to take Allen as her teacher.
• Allen’s system announced that he had earned Eris’s admiration and unlocked a Divine Strike Magic slot.
• Sylphy climbed down from Allen, welcomed him back, and told him he did not need to apologize for making her worry.
• After the group confirmed the carriages could continue to Roa, Allen challenged Philip for failing to anticipate the assassination and warned him that the attack would make James even less likely to allow Allen back.
• Philip revealed that his butler, Thomas, was the mole, and Allen walked away to join Rudy and Eris.

Allen, Rudy, Eris, Sylphy, and Ghislaine rode together to Roa, where a conversation revealed Allen’s hidden connection to Eris’s family. As the carriage reached the city gates, Allen dismissed the revelation by claiming it was a coincidence that he and Eris’s cousin shared a name.

• Rudy and Eris argued over who would share a carriage with Allen, and the group ended up crammed together.
• Sylphy reflected on wanting to seize the present and let herself lean against Allen as the carriage swayed.
• Rudy showed Eris Allen’s callused hands, and Eris and Sylphy examined them before Rudy introduced himself to Ghislaine.
• Rudy passed along Paul’s message asking Ghislaine to teach Allen swordsmanship and look after Rudy.
• Ghislaine revealed that the Water God Style Main Dojo had a young Water Saint, prompting Allen to recall Isolte.
• Ghislaine identified Allen as Allen Boreas Greyrat, a distant cousin of Eris, just as the carriage reached Roa’s gates.

Allen, Rudy, Sylphy, Eris, and Philip arrived in Roa and met Sauros at the lord's estate. Philip reported that they had encountered an assassination attempt on the way back, leaving Sauros to hear the reason for their delay.

• Philip's carriages passed through Roa, while Eris teased Ghislaine about Allen's royal-capital cousin and Allen watched the city with the others.
• Allen and Sylphy exchanged a shy moment after passing a street of shops, while Rudy looked back at the buildings behind them.
• Sauros came out to greet the returning party, embraced Eris, and kicked Philip down for failing to return overnight.
• Philip introduced Allen, Rudy, and Sylphy as gifted candidates to tutor Eris and explained why he had recruited them.
• Sauros asked Eris whether she would accept them as tutors, and she agreed to Allen and Sylphiette.
• Philip looked toward Thomas and told Sauros that the party had encountered an assassination attempt on the way back.

After Sauros refused to let Allen tutor Eris and dismissed the ambush as something to investigate later, Allen attacked Thomas and tortured him to expose who had leaked Philip’s travel plans. Thomas denied leaking the information, but Allen identified his answer as a lie.

• Sauros kicked Philip after hearing that they had been ambushed, then refused Eris’s request to make Allen her tutor and walked toward the manor with Thomas.
• Allen asked Ghislaine to handle something he had requested earlier, then severed Thomas’s wrists and dragged him to the fountain.
• Allen repeatedly held Thomas underwater while explaining that water torture could force someone to reveal a secret.
• Allen asked Thomas who had received the leaked information about Mayor Philip’s trip, and Thomas denied leaking it.
• Allen called Thomas’s denial a lie and increased the force on his head as Thomas cried out for him to stop.

Allen tortured Thomas until he revealed that Darius had arranged the assassination attempt and that letters proving it were hidden under the bed. After Sauros read the evidence, he acknowledged Allen and allowed him to stay and teach Eris swordsmanship, while Allen's brutal actions left the children and Philip shaken.

• Allen repeatedly waterboarded Thomas until Thomas confessed that Darius had found helpers and that their messages were delivered by letters hidden under the bed.
• Ghislaine retrieved the letters and handed them to Sauros, who read the evidence implicating James in the assassination attempt.
• Allen drowned Thomas, then stared at Philip, leaving Philip unsure whether Allen's gaze held intimidation, mockery, or blame.
• Sauros acknowledged Allen and told him to stay and teach Eris swordsmanship.
• Eris happily accepted Allen, while she, Sylphy, and Rudy reacted uneasily to Thomas's death and Allen's cruelty.

Allen exposed the Boreas Family’s assassination plot, killed Thomas, and forced Sauros to accept a compromise that preserved the family tradition while leaving Allen in place. He met his biological mother Hilda without revealing his name, then gained her favor as he walked away.

• Allen used Thomas’s testimony to reveal that James had ordered an assassination against his own son, and Sauros chose to turn a blind eye to Allen’s existence rather than drive him into danger.
• Allen checked the system’s increased participation score while the others stared at Thomas’s corpse.
• Hilda arrived unexpectedly, saw Allen, and began to cry before her maidservants asked why she had rushed over.
• Allen introduced himself to Hilda as Eris’s new Water God Style teacher but did not give his name, and Hilda did not ask.
• Allen passed Hilda and went to comfort Sylphy and Rudy as the system recorded Hilda’s favor.

After Philip dealt with Thomas’s case and left to manage its aftermath, Eris tried to place Allen and Sylphy beside her bedroom. Allen persuaded her to respect the household’s boundaries, and the group settled into the guest room area, where Eris assigned seats at their classroom table and told Rudy to stand.

• Philip appointed Alphonse as the manor’s butler and left to handle the aftermath of Thomas’s execution, while Sauros disappeared.
• Eris tried to arrange bedrooms for Allen and Sylphy beside her own, but Alphonse objected.
• Allen asked Alphonse about Philip’s instructions and decided that he and the others would stay in the guest room area.
• Allen explained to Eris why staying in the residential area would be improper, and she agreed to Alphonse leading them to the guest rooms.
• Eris assigned the classroom’s four chairs to herself, Sylphy, Allen, and Ghislaine, then told Rudy he would have to stand.

Rudy reflected on the complicated emotions behind Hilda’s reaction to him and on the possibility that his family had once hoped he would change. After Hilda passed by, he wondered what lay beneath her feelings and what awaited him from his parents and grandfather.

• Rudy followed Allen and wondered whether Allen’s tense demeanor came from killing Thomas, but rejected the idea that Allen was troubled by death.
• Allen stopped in the corridor to leave room for Hilda, who arrived in a red dress and greeted Eris.
• Eris asked Hilda if she could share a meal with Rudy, Allen, and Sylphy, and Hilda reluctantly agreed.
• Rudy noticed what looked like disgust mixed with helplessness in Hilda’s expression and reconsidered the emotions behind his family’s rejection of him.
• Rudy wondered what Hilda was hiding beneath her feelings and thought of his father’s tests, his grandfather’s refusal, and his mother’s tears.

Hilda apologized for her earlier behavior and invited Rudy, Allen, Sylphy, and Ghislaine to lunch with her and Eris. When Allen introduced himself, Hilda realized he shared the name of her absent son, and the meal ended in uneasy silence.

• Hilda apologized to the group and invited them to eat lunch with her and Eris.
• Eris eagerly brought the tutors to the luxurious family dining room, where Hilda asked them to introduce themselves and explain what they would teach.
• Allen introduced Rudy and Sylphy, then said he would teach Eris Water God Style Swordsmanship.
• Hilda reacted to Allen's name by saying her own son was also named Allen, and the group fell silent.

Eris showed Allen, Sylphy, and Rudy around Boreas Manor, where Edna praised Allen during an etiquette lesson. That night, the three friends eased one another’s homesickness and went to their rooms, where Allen found four beastkin maids waiting to greet him.

• Eris took Allen, Sylphy, and Rudy on a tour of Boreas Manor after lunch.
• Edna taught the new tutors basic etiquette and praised Allen’s quick learning and posture, delighting Eris before falling asleep against a wall.
• Allen, Sylphy, and Rudy shared their unease about living away from home and laughed together in the candlelit corridor.
• Rudy and Sylphy asked Allen about his mood, and he said he was still adjusting but was all right.
• Allen entered his room and found four beastkin girls in maid uniforms bowing and greeting him.

After the beastkin maids teased Allen and left, he stayed awake planning how to protect people from the coming Great Transfer. He decided to remove himself and Sylphy from danger while weighing what to do about the Boreas family.

• Four beastkin maids visited Allen's room to make his bed, and their teasing remarks left him flustered.
• Allen, exhausted but unable to sleep, wrote down a plan for the Great Transfer affecting the Fittoa Region.
• Allen listed Paul, Zenith, Lilia, Norn, Aisha, Rolls, and Norda in Buena Village and planned to evacuate them if no better opportunity arose.
• Allen left Rudy and Eris's fates undecided but resolved to take Sylphy away and keep the four of them out of the disaster.
• Allen placed Philip and Sauros inside the Great Transfer circle, doubting that rescuing them would change their priorities or prevent further trouble.
• Allen considered Hilda's importance to Eris, then stopped writing as memories of the Boreas family weighed on him.

Allen weighed whether to save Hilda, Philip, and Shaoros, knowing that abandoning Future Sight could put his life at risk, but he still chose to give it up to change the future for the people he had accepted. He left Hilda’s fate undecided for now, then used Gaze to look at Lokkishi across the distance.

• Allen argued with the system over whether he should save Hilda, Philip, and Shaoros, and the system challenged him to consider whether he could save himself.
• Allen recognized that abandoning Future Sight could draw Orsted’s attention and endanger his life, but he remained resolved to do it for those he cared about.
• Allen added a question mark beside Hilda’s name and decided to keep watching her for three years and three months without changing Philip’s or Shaoros’s names.
• Allen used Gaze to see Lokkishi writing at a table in the Shiron Kingdom Palace, and he watched her as his pen unconsciously traced her name.

Lokkishi drafted a letter to Allen about his news, her life in the Shirone palace, and her growing concern for him, repeatedly crossing out her more personal thoughts before sending it. After reading Allen’s plans to move to Roa City and meet his biological parents, she wrote that he could tell her if anything was making him unhappy.

• Lokkishi wrote to Allen about the Snow Valley Demon Beast Tide and asked him to describe the dangerous hunt in more detail.
• She told Allen she had researched Sylphy’s white hair and believed Sylphy would be fine, while asking what had caused her magic power to run out.
• Lokkishi described teaching Pax Shirone and said she was following Allen’s advice to praise him and avoid discouraging comparisons with Rudy.
• She crossed out affectionate remarks and a paragraph about the doll she carved for Allen before finishing her letter.
• After rereading Allen’s plans to move to Roa City and meet his biological parents, Lokkishi wrote that he could tell her if anything was making him unhappy.

Allen woke from a dream shaped by the spring breeze and birdsong, then joined Sylphy and Rudy for breakfast at the Boreas Family estate. The group met Eris, Ghislaine, and Edna outside the classroom, where Edna raised the matter of the course schedule.

• Allen dreamed he was with Sylphy in Buena Village, then woke at his desk in the Boreas Family estate beside Lokkishi's finished draft.
• Allen greeted Sylphy after she washed up, and the two brought Rudy from the library to breakfast.
• Beast girls teased Allen about their service the previous night, while Sylphy stepped on Rudy's foot when he leered at them.
• Eris, Ghislaine, and Edna waited outside the classroom, and Edna asked to discuss the course schedule with the new tutors.

Allen reorganized the Boreas estate’s lessons, arranging classes for the new teachers and students. The finished schedule left Rudeus responsible for arithmetic, reading and writing, and history.

• Edna explained that everyone had to attend etiquette class and asked Allen to help rearrange the schedule.
• Allen pointed out that Ghislaine also needed reading, writing, and arithmetic lessons, and Edna agreed.
• Eris claimed the seat beside Allen, while Sylphy used Air Blast Magic to move Rudeus so she could sit there instead.
• Allen set the class schedule, and Sylphy encouraged Eris to accept reading, writing, and arithmetic lessons.
• Allen assigned Rudeus to teach arithmetic, reading and writing, and history, leaving Rudeus stunned.

Rudeus began trial reading and writing lessons for Eris and Ghislaine, only to discover that both could write little beyond their own names. After two hours of teaching, they learned to write each other's names.

• Rudeus started class by asking Eris and Ghislaine to write their names as a literacy baseline.
• Eris revealed that she had been expelled from school after beating up teachers and classmates, while Edna explained that Ghislaine was the only tutor besides herself who could defend against her.
• Rudeus asked Eris and Ghislaine to write ten words, but each wrote her own name ten times.
• Rudeus realized that Eris and Ghislaine could only write their own names and began teaching them from the beginning.
• After two hours, Eris and Ghislaine learned how to write each other's names.

After Reading and Writing Class, Allen noticed Sylphy had become more confident, while Rudy discovered just how poor Eris's arithmetic was. Eris's answers left Rudy stunned as the lesson continued.

• Four beastgirl maids served desserts to Allen, Eris, and Sylphy during the break, and Eris set herself a goal to learn to write her family's names.
• Sylphy politely dismissed the maids, whose teasing remarks about Allen and the maids' ears made his smile freeze.
• Rudy reviewed Ghislaine's arithmetic paper and found her answers mostly correct, though she struggled with multiplication and division.
• Rudy checked Eris's paper and found that she had answered the first four problems with 5 and the last four with 10.
• Rudy learned that Eris did not know numbers above ten, then kicked Allen under the table to stop him from laughing.