Alice

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Alice
Alias(es)	“Mad Dog”
Gender	Female
Affiliation	House Boreas Greyrat
Occupation/Role	Boreas heiress; student of Cui Ciyou, Ghislaine Dedoldia, and Edna Lelen
First Appearance	Chapter 28

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Instinctive trace of Battle Aura	28	At five years old, she unconsciously enhances a punch with a faint reddish aura during her first confrontation with Cui Ciyou.
Sword God Style fundamentals	30, 36	Under Ghislaine’s daily practical training, she progresses from swinging a sword wildly to using its point for thrusts and edge for cuts; her footwork, timing, and attacks rapidly improve.
Beginner swordsman	44	Ghislaine assesses Alice as having reached beginner-swordsman strength, though the setting’s ranks are determined by the judgment of stronger practitioners rather than fixed standards.

Appearance

Alice is a small red-haired noble girl whose cute appearance sharply contrasts with her notoriously violent temperament. She commonly wears practical light dresses suitable for movement and sword training. 28 34

• Flame-red hair, sometimes tied into twin tails with ribbons. 34
• Bright ruby-like eyes. 30 38
• Often carries or trains with a wooden sword. 30 36
• Wears white stockings during her first meeting with Cui Ciyou. 28

Personality

Alice is impulsive, combative, proud, and fiercely resistant to being controlled. She insults tutors, skips unwanted lessons, destroys materials, escapes through windows, and initially responds to Cui Ciyou’s discipline with a surprise bite. Her reputation as the “Mad Dog” comes from this aggressive, unruly behavior. 28 31

Her defiance conceals considerable insecurity. Alice genuinely struggles with arithmetic, literacy, etiquette, and dance, and eventually worries that her slow progress means she is unintelligent. Cui Ciyou’s reassurance and willingness to adapt his teaching help her become more cooperative and emotionally honest. 35 38

Alice is exceptionally persistent in areas that matter to her. Even when Ghislaine repeatedly defeats and bruises her in training, she rises and attacks again rather than conceding defeat. She is highly competitive, craves recognition from people she respects, and becomes particularly motivated when learning is framed as a challenge. 30 40

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship Talent

Alice possesses extraordinary instincts for the Sword God Style and develops quickly under Ghislaine’s harsh practical instruction. 30 36

• Displays exceptional reaction speed, attack timing, aggression, and refusal to surrender. 30 36
• Learns instinctive, animal-like movement cues that Cui Ciyou cannot easily interpret. 37
• Rapidly improves her footwork, slashes, thrusts, blocks, and basic combat structure. 36 42
• Actively seeks extra training, including on scheduled rest days. 42
• Ghislaine considers her a natural-born warrior with potentially limitless achievements if properly refined. 30

Battle Aura

Alice can unconsciously gather a faint amount of Battle Aura despite her young age. 28

• Her aura first appears as a faint reddish energy around a punch directed at Cui Ciyou. 28
• Her developing Battle Aura supports her suitability for the Sword God Style. 36
• She has not been shown deliberately controlling or using it at an advanced level.

Tactical and Practical Learning

Alice responds strongly to visual, physical, and competitive teaching methods rather than abstract instruction. 39 40

• Learns arithmetic through sword counts, strike totals, blocks, timing, and combat scenarios. 40
• Develops strategic thinking through sand-table battles and historical role-playing exercises. 40
• Can perform addition and subtraction within one hundred after several months of adapted instruction. 42
• Her academic difficulties remain pronounced in conventional reading, writing, memorization, etiquette, and dance. 38 42

Background

Alice is the daughter of Philip Boreas Greyrat and the granddaughter of Sauros Boreas Greyrat. As a young lady of House Boreas, she is expected to study swordsmanship, literacy, arithmetic, noble etiquette, and history, but her behavior drives away previous tutors at an extreme rate. 27 33

Sauros hires Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine to tutor her: Cui is assigned arithmetic, reading, and writing, while Ghislaine takes responsibility for swordsmanship. Alice immediately rejects Cui, demands a stronger-looking instructor, attacks him with Battle Aura, and later bites his shoulder after he disciplines her. 27 28

Her conflict with Cui gradually changes after he confronts her about skipping class and offers to resign. Alice’s immediate refusal reveals that she prefers him to her former tutors, despite her hostility. They agree that she will attend lessons while Cui will make them more engaging and protect her sword-training time. 33

Education

Academic Studies

Alice initially cannot reliably recognize numbers, write clearly, perform simple addition or subtraction, remember letters, or retain etiquette and history lessons. She becomes frustrated by these limitations and fears that she is “stupid.” 34 35 38

Cui Ciyou rejects that conclusion, recognizing that Alice’s problem is not laziness or a lack of effort. He begins using pebbles, images, stories, sword exercises, and role-playing to connect abstract concepts to her strengths. 34 38 39

The revised lessons produce tangible results:

• She learns basic addition and subtraction within ten after a month of sword-based lessons. 40
• She later performs addition and subtraction within one hundred. 42
• She can write numbers, several common words, and her own name. 40 42
• Her diary entries remain extremely simple, often focused on winning and losing. 42
• She becomes more willing to hear history when it involves heroes, battles, Demon Kings, and legendary weapons. 42

Swordsmanship Training

Ghislaine’s instruction is direct, brutal, and highly effective for Alice. The two communicate largely through sparring, corrections, and repeated challenges rather than lengthy explanations. 30 36

Alice initially insults Ghislaine, but comes to respect her overwhelming strength and begins calling her by name. During breaks, she follows Ghislaine to ask about monsters, adventurers, and combat. 36

Relationships

• Cui Ciyou — Her academic tutor. Their relationship begins with mutual hostility and physical confrontation, then develops into trust, playful teasing, and a more personal familiarity after he adapts his teaching to her needs. Alice permits him to call her “Alice” and begins addressing him as “Ciyou.” 28 33 35 41
• Ghislaine Dedoldia — Her Sword God Style instructor and combat mentor. Ghislaine’s bluntness and strength suit Alice’s temperament; their bond grows from hostility into close mutual respect through relentless sparring. 30 36
• Edna Lelen — Her etiquette and history teacher. Edna struggles with Alice’s conventional lessons but collaborates with Cui Ciyou to create role-playing and strategy-based instruction. 36 39 40
• Philip Boreas Greyrat — Her father. He hires tutors for her education but leaves the responsibility of managing her behavior entirely to Cui Ciyou. 28 31
• Sauros Boreas Greyrat — Her grandfather. His loud, rough temperament resembles Alice’s, and he is implied to have indulged her carefree upbringing. 42 46

Story Role

The New Tutors

Alice’s reputation as an impossible student is the reason Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine are hired by House Boreas. Her first encounter with Cui establishes Cui’s physical superiority and creates the central conflict of his tutoring work. 27 28

Reconciliation with Cui Ciyou

After weeks of avoiding academic lessons, Alice reveals that she does not want Cui to leave. Their discussion changes the relationship from open antagonism to a negotiated partnership: she agrees to attend, and he agrees to teach in ways that suit her. 33

Adapted Education

Alice becomes the focus of a cooperative teaching plan involving Cui, Ghislaine, and Edna. Role-playing, war games, combat arithmetic, and shared study sessions allow her to make progress without separating learning from her love of swords and competition. 39 40

Growing Trust

Alice increasingly seeks Cui’s praise, shares her achievements with him, and asks him to read adventure stories. Her decision to exchange given names with him marks a clear shift from formal hostility to personal trust. 41 45

Trivia

• Alice’s favorite academic material is anything connected to combat, heroic battles, powerful warriors, Demon Kings, or legendary weapons. 42
• She treats Cui Ciyou as her preferred storyteller and considers his reading more enjoyable than Edna’s. 45
• Her diary frequently contains short entries such as “Today, lost” and “Tomorrow, win!” alongside rough drawings. 42
• She is far more coordinated with a sword than with a quill pen or dance steps. 38