Chapter Summaries

After three years away, Cui Ciyou, Alice, Sylphy, and their companions returned to Roa City and found it still struggling to rebuild. When Rujierd prepared to leave and continue his mission to clear the Superd Race’s name, Cui Ciyou persuaded him to help protect the city instead.

• Cui Ciyou, Alice, Sylphy, and their companions arrived at Roa City and saw its damaged walls and sparse, ongoing reconstruction.
• Rujierd announced that he would part ways with the group because he had fulfilled his promise to bring them safely home.
• Alice and Sylphy urged Rujierd to stay, and Alice called on Cui Ciyou to persuade him as well.
• Cui Ciyou asked Rujierd how he planned to clear the Superd Race’s name and pointed out that helping rebuild Roa could serve many people at once.
• Rujierd agreed that protecting Roa’s residents was a more direct way to do good, and Alice and Sylphy celebrated his decision.

Cui Ciyou, Alice, and their companions returned to the devastated Fitoia Territory and made their way through the rebuilt but sparsely populated Roa City to House Boreas. Alphonse welcomed them home, relieved to see Alice safe and teasing her about Cui Ciyou as her outstanding fiancé.

• Cui Ciyou observed how Roa City had been rebuilt after the Displacement Incident, with few residents and small, unfinished buildings.
• Cui Ciyou refused to stop at an inn and led the group toward House Boreas to bring Alice home.
• A guard recognized Cui Ciyou as the hero who saved the Fitoia Territory and directed them to House Boreas.
• Cui Ciyou found House Boreas's grounds intact but its castle replaced by a smaller, hastily built villa.
• Alphonse recognized Cui Ciyou and joyfully welcomed him, Alice, and Sylphy home.
• Alphonse called Cui Ciyou Alice's outstanding fiancé, making Alice blush, and the three replied that they were home.

Cui Ciyou and Alice returned to House Boreas, where Hilda, Philip, and Sauros greeted them with overwhelming affection. Alice protested that her family had paid more attention to Cui Ciyou than to her, but the reunion ended with her relatives doting on her.

• Alphonse led Cui Ciyou, Alice, and Sylphy through the altered Boreas estate and described how Sauros, Hilda, and Philip had fared over the past three years.
• Alphonse announced their arrival, and Hilda, Philip, and Sauros rushed to welcome them.
• Hilda embraced Cui Ciyou and thanked him for bringing Alice home while Philip and Sauros praised him, leaving Alice frozen out of the welcome.
• Alice pulled Cui Ciyou away from Hilda and accused her family of not missing her before threatening to leave again.
• Sauros roared at Alice, then apologized and tousled her hair, joined by Philip and Hilda as they celebrated her return.

After learning that Roxy and Ghislaine had escorted Princess Ariel to Ranoa Magic University, Cui Ciyou decided to travel there to find them. Philip and Sauros agreed to help him prepare, while Sauros reminded him not to neglect Alice, his wife.

• Cui Ciyou announced that he planned to leave for Ars to find Roxy, Ghislaine, and the others.
• Philip explained that the Asura Kingdom was unstable and that Roxy and Ghislaine had escorted Princess Ariel north to Ranoa Magic University.
• Cui Ciyou realized that Roxy and Ghislaine had taken the role Sylphy would have held in another timeline, and he chose Ranoa Magic University as his destination.
• Sauros reminded Cui Ciyou that Alice was his wife too, and Cui Ciyou decided not to object.
• Philip promised to gather routes and information for Cui Ciyou and told him to rest at home for a few days.

Cui Ciyou used Sylphy’s magic to check on Roxy and Ghislaine, then joined House Boreas for breakfast. Sauros declared him the family’s designated next head, leaving Alice furious as she argued with her grandfather.

• Cui Ciyou used Demon Eye: Clairvoyance through Sylphy to see Roxy asleep in a library beside books about the Ancient Teleportation Magic Circle, while Ghislaine moved in the shadows.
• Cui Ciyou and the others ate breakfast in House Boreas’s dining room, where the family followed the custom of waiting for Sauros to finish before eating.
• Cui Ciyou teased Alice with a wink and poured warm milk for Sylphy, prompting Alice to demand that Sauros explain why Cui Ciyou could eat first.
• Sauros called Cui Ciyou House Boreas’s finest grandson-in-law and designated next head, while Philip and the others agreed Alice would make a poor head of the family.
• Sauros cited the Asura Noble Code to say a wife could eat only after her husband, and Alice resumed shouting at him as everyone else moved their dishes out of reach.

Cui Ciyou detected Alice sneaking into his room at night, where she confronted him in a revealing nightgown and insisted she was nearly an adult. Their teasing recalled their early days together, and the chapter ended with Cui Ciyou catching her punch.

• Cui Ciyou meditated and reflected on his strength after neutralizing the Dragon God's Dragon Saint Battle Aura.
• Cui Ciyou sensed Alice sneaking into his room and recognized her by her Battle Aura and clumsy footsteps.
• Alice rushed into Cui Ciyou's arms and told him not to move or turn on the lamp.
• Cui Ciyou teased Alice about her appearance and called her grown up, while she insisted she was nearly an adult.
• Cui Ciyou joked about Alice's past attempt to execute Divine Punishment, and she swung at him in embarrassment.
• Cui Ciyou caught Alice's fist before it could strike his cheek.

Alice attempted to fulfill what she called her duty as Cui Ciyou’s wife, encouraged by her mother, Hilda, but Sylphy interrupted them by smashing through the guest-room door. Alice and Sylphy confronted each other while Cui Ciyou watched, caught between them.

• Cui Ciyou teased Alice after she confessed that Hilda had told her to fulfill her duty as his fiancée.
• Cui Ciyou asked Alice whether she knew how to please her husband, and she trembled in his arms.
• Sylphy burst through the guest-room door and warned Cui Ciyou that they were not truly married without a formal wedding.
• Alice covered herself with a sheet, challenged Sylphy, and insisted that an engaged couple counted as married.

Cui Ciyou met residents who gathered to thank him for saving Fittoa during the Displacement Incident, then faced people who had once insulted and bullied him and Sylphy. Their desperate submission left him convinced that he needed enough power to defeat the Dragon God and become the strongest in the world.

• Alphonse told Cui Ciyou that residents had gathered outside the Boreas Estate to thank him, and Cui Ciyou agreed to meet them after breakfast.
• Cui Ciyou appeared before the crowd, where an elderly resident praised his role in warning the king, organizing the great migration, and protecting Fittoa's people.
• Cui Ciyou spotted Mrs. Aite and Somar with the boys who had bullied Sylphy, and residents called them out for their past behavior.
• Mrs. Aite and the three boys knelt and begged Cui Ciyou to punish or forgive them, while the crowd waited for his decision.
• Cui Ciyou found their submission bleak and resolved to gain the power to defeat the Dragon God and become the strongest in the world.

Cui Ciyou brought Sylphy before the people of the Boreas estate and publicly defended her and the Superd race. He left the crowd with a decree protecting Sylphy, while she forgave the boys who had tormented her.

• Cui Ciyou told Mrs. Aite and the three boys that they could avoid punishment by apologizing to the person they had wronged.
• Cui Ciyou brought Sylphy before the crowd and revealed her green hair, causing the residents to recoil in fear.
• Cui Ciyou declared Sylphy his sister and precious family, praised her hair, and proclaimed Rujierd Superd a warrior worthy of respect.
• Cui Ciyou cleared the Superd race's name and decreed that anyone who disrespected Sylphy would be his and the Boreas Greyrat Family's enemy.
• Somar and the other boys apologized to Sylphy, and she forgave them through her tears.
• Sauros praised Cui Ciyou as worthy of Alice and as the future head of House Boreas.

After returning to House Boreas, Cui Ciyou realized Paul’s search-and-rescue team in Milbotz Territory still did not know the missing travelers were safe because his letter had not arrived. He set out with Sylphy to disband the team and reunite her with her parents, while Alice stayed behind with her family.

• At a lavish welcome banquet, Cui Ciyou worried that Paul and Rold’s search-and-rescue team was still operating because his letter to Paul had apparently gone missing.
• Cui Ciyou decided to travel to Milbotz Territory himself to tell Paul to disband the team.
• Alice asked to join him, but Cui Ciyou persuaded her to stay with Philip and Hilda and took Sylphy instead so she could see her parents.
• Philip prepared Horned Dragon Horses and travel money, and Cui Ciyou and Sylphy rode out toward Milbotz Territory.

Cui Ciyou and Sylphy arrived in Saint Grad City, where the destruction of Fittoa had turned the former grain hub into a busy destination for displaced adventurers. They decided to search for Sylphy’s parents, Rorze and Graz, and Paul’s search-and-rescue team through the Adventurers’ Guild.

• Cui Ciyou and Sylphy traveled south from Boreas and reached the Milbotz Territory, where the fertile fields contrasted with Fittoa’s desolation.
• Cui Ciyou explained that Saint Grad City had been built as a supply hub for the human-demon war, and that Fittoa’s destruction had restored its role as the kingdom’s breadbasket.
• Cui Ciyou and Sylphy saw merchant caravans and displaced adventurers crowding the city, including people discussing new jobs and monsters in the Black Forest.
• Sylphy asked how they could find her parents and the search-and-rescue team, and Cui Ciyou proposed looking for them at the Adventurers’ Guild.
• Cui Ciyou and Sylphy headed toward the Adventurers’ Guild to seek a trace of the team.

Cui Ciyou and Sylphy spotted three suspicious men carrying an unconscious Beastfolk child and followed them into the alleys of Holy Glad City. Cui Ciyou planned to rescue the girl and take down the kidnappers’ entire ring, and the men led him into a slum.

• Cui Ciyou noticed three young men duck into an alley with a sack that appeared to hold a struggling child.
• Using [Perception], Cui Ciyou discovered an unconscious Beastfolk girl from the Delu clan inside the sack, and Sylphy confirmed she sensed a child there.
• Cui Ciyou told Sylphy to wait with the horses, then silently followed the men through the alleyways.
• Cui Ciyou resolved to find and destroy the kidnappers’ network rather than simply rescue the girl and deal with the three men.
• The three men stopped in a slum after winding through several lanes, with Cui Ciyou still following them.

Cui Ciyou infiltrated the Rat's Nest to rescue a Beastfolk girl, but discovered that its residents treated her gently and seemed unlike ordinary traffickers. He recognized Vera and Shera and realized they had appeared in this different cycle without suffering the tragedy he remembered.

• Cui Ciyou followed three young men to a warehouse in the slum and watched them bring in a sleeping Beastfolk girl.
• After overhearing the residents, Cui Ciyou concluded that the girl was the only kidnapped child there and attacked the three men, knocking them unconscious.
• Cui Ciyou noticed the girl had been given clean clothes and questioned whether the people in the warehouse were human traffickers.
• A crowd of apparently ordinary residents entered the warehouse and called for Vera and Shera while senior leaders were away.
• Cui Ciyou recognized Vera and Shera from the original story and realized this cycle had spared them the tragedy he remembered.

Cui Ciyou entered a Rescue Corps warehouse after stopping its members from carrying off a Beastfolk girl, but Vera and Shera mistook him for an attacker. He realized the Corps included Paul and Sara, then effortlessly blocked Vera and dispelled Shera’s spell, leaving the sisters stunned.

• Cui Ciyou explained that he had intervened after seeing the Rescue Corps members carry a child away, but Vera denied the accusation and challenged him.
• Vera ordered Shera to provide support while the other members searched for their leaders, then charged Cui Ciyou with her greatsword as Shera cast Water Bullet.
• Cui Ciyou inferred that Paul and Sara were connected to the Rescue Corps and considered explaining the misunderstanding, but Vera attacked before he could speak.
• Cui Ciyou blocked Vera’s strike with his scabbard and used Magic Nullification to suppress her Battle Aura.
• Cui Ciyou guided Vera’s sword into Shera’s Water Bullet, dispersing it, and left both sisters stunned by his skill.

Cui Ciyou was recognized as the Prophetic Blessed Child after defeating Vera, and he reunited with Carl, his old acquaintance and captain of the rescue group. Carl explained that the group had grown while searching for displaced heroes and fighting human traffickers in the Milbotz Territory.

• Vera and Shera recognized Cui Ciyou’s rare traits and realized he was the legendary Prophetic Blessed Child.
• Carl arrived, stopped the crowd from fighting, and introduced Cui Ciyou as a hero and Sword King-level fighter.
• Cui Ciyou and Carl greeted each other warmly, recalling their first meeting ten years earlier.
• Vera and Shera apologized to Cui Ciyou, who let their misunderstanding go and asked Carl about the unconscious Beastfolk girl.
• Carl explained that the rescue group had grown to nearly a thousand members and that its members also fought human traffickers in the Milbotz Territory.

Cui Ciyou learned that the Rescue Corps had expanded its work to rescuing trafficked children, following Paul’s orders. Carl explained that Paul, Rorze, and their companions had gone to the Begaritt Continent to search for Cui Ciyou, leaving the story with Cui Ciyou assessing their formidable but risky party.

• Vera and Shera explained that traffickers abducted refugee children, and Carl said the Rescue Corps rescued them as well as displaced companions.
• Carl told Cui Ciyou that Paul had approved the Corps’s efforts to help vulnerable people, and identified her son Dak as its vice-leader.
• Carl revealed that Paul, Rorze, and their wives had traveled to the Begaritt Continent after hearing about a powerful black-haired swordsman who might be Cui Ciyou.
• Carl described the party’s fighters and healers, including near-Saint-level Elf Archer Rorze, Advanced Healer Zenith, and Advanced Beastfolk Swordsman Graz.
• Cui Ciyou considered the party’s strength and worried about the dangers of the Begaritt Continent, though he judged that they could protect themselves.

Cui Ciyou turned the search-and-rescue team into the Relief Corps, giving it official status, Boreas funding, and a mandate to protect the weak. The Corps began its new mission with Carl as acting commander and the trafficked Beastfolk girl asking Cui Ciyou if they were heroes.

• Carl explained that Sara was Rorze's student and the Corps' best scout, currently tracking human traffickers in the Black Forest.
• Cui Ciyou told the assembled Corps members that he, Eris Boreas Greyrat, and Sylphiette had returned safely, ending the search for them.
• After briefly announcing that the Rescue Corps would disband, Cui Ciyou declared the founding of the Relief Corps to fight for people in need.
• Cui Ciyou promised the Relief Corps legal protection, Boreas funding, equipment, bases, and training, then appointed Carl acting commander and Vera and Shera squad commanders.
• Cui Ciyou told Carl to notify Paul and the others to stop searching for him on the Begaritt Continent, and reassured the Beastfolk girl that they would become heroes who fought bad guys.

Cui Ciyou returned to the Relief Corps base with Sylphy and joined Carl and the corps members in a daylong celebration. Drunk and mischievous, he teased Shera until she fainted, then faced an icy voice and an incoming Boreas Justice Fist.

• Cui Ciyou found Sylphy waiting for him and told her that Rorze, Paul, Graz, and Zenith had gone to the Begaritt Continent.
• Cui Ciyou and Sylphy returned to the warehouse, where Carl celebrated the Relief Corps' founding and their reunion by starting a drinking party.
• Cui Ciyou drank with Carl, Vera, Shera, and the other corps members from daylight until night, becoming increasingly drunk.
• Cui Ciyou teased the timid Shera by pinching her cheeks and pressing his forehead against hers, and she fainted from embarrassment.
• Cui Ciyou supported the unconscious Shera as an icy voice called his name and a Boreas Justice Fist struck toward him.

Drunk Cui Ciyou teased Sylphy with confusing memories, then pressed his forehead to hers and left her flustered. When a blonde girl returned, he immediately turned his attention to her, leaving Sylphy jealous and annoyed.

• Cui Ciyou caught Sylphy's punch and called her Rufi while reminiscing about another version of her.
• Sylphy denied his embarrassing claims and insisted she had never been afraid to sleep alone or had nightmares about falling.
• Cui Ciyou guessed Sylphy was jealous, then pressed his forehead against hers and teased her about it.
• A blonde girl returned to the warehouse and reported that she had found the human traffickers' base.
• Cui Ciyou praised the girl's appearance and touched her hair, prompting Sylphy to call him an incorrigible womanizer.

After getting drunk and embarrassing himself with several women, Cui Ciyou woke with a hangover and vowed to quit drinking. He learned that Rudeus had been sent to Ranoa Magic University, reunited with Sara, and found that Sylphy had gone to the market.

• Sylphy gave up trying to reason with the drunk Cui Ciyou and asked Vera to help take him to bed.
• Cui Ciyou remembered his drunken behavior the next morning and swore to quit drinking.
• Norn confronted Cui Ciyou for bullying girls, and he learned from Carl that Rudeus had gone to Ranoa Magic University as a special student.
• Sara apologized for the previous night and told Cui Ciyou she had joined Paul's rescue team as a B-rank adventurer.
• Shera told Cui Ciyou that Sylphy had gone to the market to buy groceries.