Chapter Summaries

Roxy overcame her hesitation and, after Elinalise left them alone at the inn, asked Cui Ciyou to stay with her because she was afraid to sleep alone. The chapter ended with Cui Ciyou stunned by her request.

• Roxy drained her cup of Camel Milk Wine and steeled herself, surprising Cui Ciyou and drawing Elinalise's knowing attention.
• Cui Ciyou ended the tavern conversation, and the three returned to the inn in tense silence.
• Elinalise teased Cui Ciyou and Roxy before going into her room and leaving them alone in the corridor.
• Cui Ciyou told Roxy to get some rest and began to head to his room.
• Roxy grabbed Cui Ciyou's clothes and told him she was scared of the strong wind and could not sleep alone.

Cui Ciyou and Roxy spent the night together, and the next morning he reassured her that he had enjoyed it. As they held each other, Cui Ciyou realized he still wanted to be close to her after their passion had passed.

• Cui Ciyou noticed that someone next door was listening, but Roxy told him she did not mind and moved closer to him.
• Cui Ciyou reassured Roxy that he found her figure attractive, and they spent the night together.
• The following morning, Cui Ciyou woke with Roxy asleep in his arms and gently brushed her hair from her cheek.
• Roxy woke, blushed at the memory of the night, and asked Cui Ciyou how it had been; he told her it was wonderful.
• Cui Ciyou drew Roxy into his arms and felt at peace holding her close.

Cui Ciyou and Roxy shared a tender morning after their night together, and Roxy asked him to call her his wife. They left their room to join Elinalise, who teased them about being overheard, and prepared to get on with the day.

• Roxy worried that she had been too bold the previous night, and Cui Ciyou reassured her that he liked her as she was.
• Roxy asked why Cui Ciyou still called her Roxy and shyly asked him to call her his wife; he did so, making her happy.
• Cui Ciyou and Roxy washed and dressed, with Roxy using Silent Spellcasting to create water.
• Elinalise teased Cui Ciyou and Roxy from outside their room, implying she had heard them during the night.
• Cui Ciyou opened the door, and Elinalise joked that they were basking in the afterglow before Cui Ciyou suggested they go.

After clearing the Displacement Labyrinth, Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Elinalise appraised and sold most of their spoils, earning a fortune and a labyrinth-clearance reward. They left Rapan on Two-Humped Red Camels, with Cui Ciyou deciding their next destination was the Magic Principality.

• Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Elinalise spent three days sorting the labyrinth’s treasures and brought their spoils to the Adventurers' Guild for appraisal.
• The guild valued their goods at thirty thousand gold coins, and Cui Ciyou exchanged the proceeds for a portable Magic Deposit Card.
• Cui Ciyou explained how they had cleared the Displacement Labyrinth, including the hidden passage on the Seventh Layer, earning them another thousand gold coins.
• The group bought four Two-Humped Red Camels and set out from the Labyrinth City of Rapan.
• When Roxy asked where they would go next, Cui Ciyou said they would return to the Magic Principality first.

Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Elinalise encountered a black-haired youth confronting a Behemoth on the Begaritt Continent. The youth killed the giant beast with one blow, and Cui Ciyou recognized who he was as their eyes met.

• Roxy discussed the ancient teleportation circle with Cui Ciyou while Elinalise teased her about spending the night with a teacher.
• The group heard a Behemoth's roar and hurried toward it, where they found a black-haired youth carrying an enormous greatsword.
• Cui Ciyou activated his mental power perception as the Behemoth charged the youth.
• The youth drew his sword, moved faster than Roxy and Elinalise could follow, and split the Behemoth in two with one strike.
• Cui Ciyou recognized the youth, who turned and met the group's gaze.

North God III, Alexander Kalman Reibak, confronted Cui Ciyou and challenged him over his friendship with Ruijerd Superdia and his intent to clear the Superd Race’s name. After Cui Ciyou affirmed his commitment, Alexander attacked him with the Dragon King Sword, leaving the two poised for battle.

• Cui Ciyou, Elinalise, and Roxy witnessed Alexander kill the S-Rank Behemoth with one strike, and Elinalise recognized his North God Style stance.
• Alexander identified himself as North God III and told Cui Ciyou he would forgive his past use of Alexander’s name, then asked what Cui considered a hero.
• Cui Ciyou described heroes as people willing to risk their lives for what they believe is right, and Alexander said their ideals were similar.
• Alexander asked whether Cui Ciyou was friends with Ruijerd Superdia and intended to help clear the Superd Race’s stigma; Cui Ciyou answered yes.
• Alexander declared they had nothing more to discuss and attacked with the Dragon King Sword, using Gravity Magic to overpower Cui Ciyou’s defense and drive him backward.
• Cui Ciyou steadied himself after the blow and concluded that they could not settle matters peacefully.

Cui Ciyou overcame the Dragon King Sword’s gravity magic with his Anti-Magic Field and gained the upper hand against Alexander. A sudden sandstorm swept Alexander and the Dragon King Sword away, leaving their fate unknown.

• Alexander intensified the Dragon King Sword’s gravity field, pinning Cui Ciyou beneath crushing pressure.
• Cui Ciyou unleashed his Anti-Magic Field at maximum output, severing the sword’s connection to its gravity magic and launching a counterattack.
• Cui Ciyou pressed Alexander with precise sword strikes until a sandstorm swept across the battlefield.
• Alexander took a shoulder wound and tried to retreat with the Dragon King Sword, but Cui Ciyou reached for its hilt.
• A powerful gust knocked Cui Ciyou’s hand aside and carried Alexander and the Dragon King Sword into the sandstorm.

Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Elinalise completed their return journey through the Begaritt Desert after rescuing Roxy and acquiring Magic Crystals. They reached the Ancient Ruins, ready to continue on toward the Magic Principality and reunite with their companions.

• Cui Ciyou and Roxy returned to the ring-shaped town, where Cui Ciyou bought gifts for Alice and Sylphy and a bag of desert wheat seeds.
• Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Elinalise traveled back across the desert, easily driving off monsters they had encountered on the way there.
• The griffin beast leader recognized Cui Ciyou and saw the group off, while Cui Ciyou decided against taking it along as a mount.
• Roxy killed a succubus that tried to charm Cui Ciyou, and he quietly avoided commenting on her jealousy.
• The group reached the Ancient Ruins, where Elinalise teased Cui Ciyou and Roxy that two people would soon interrupt their affection.

Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Elinalise arrived at a snow-covered ruin in the Northern Territory through an ancient teleportation Magic Circle. After testing the circle and discovering that a round trip took only a minute for Cui Ciyou but fifteen minutes for those waiting, they left to continue home so Cui Ciyou and Roxy could get married.

• Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Elinalise emerged from the Magic Circle in the snowy Crosscut Mountain Range, where Roxy began studying its runes and comparing them with their ancient scroll.
• Roxy asked Cui Ciyou to teleport back to the Begaritt Continent and return so she could observe the process, and he agreed.
• Cui Ciyou vanished into the Magic Circle and reappeared about fifteen minutes later, although he said the round trip had taken him less than a minute.
• Roxy theorized about the teleportation process and its time delay, then asked to run more experiments.
• Elinalise stopped Roxy when she noticed Cui Ciyou shivering, and he reminded Roxy that they still needed to go home and get married.

After returning to Ranoa, Cui Ciyou reassured Roxy that she could keep teaching after they married, then reunited with Alice, Sylphy, Bannie, and the others at Ariel Anemoi Asura’s mansion. The chapter ended with Lilia warmly accepting Cui Ciyou’s affectionate greeting.

• Cui Ciyou reflected on Paul’s disappearance and realized he lacked the magic power or mental imprint needed to locate him.
• Roxy asked Cui Ciyou whether she could continue teaching at the university after they married, and he encouraged her to keep doing what she loved.
• Elinalise teased Cui Ciyou and Roxy about their closeness and joked about Alice and Sylphy’s reactions.
• Cui Ciyou returned to Ariel Anemoi Asura’s mansion, where Alice, Sylphy, Bannie, and Ghislaine welcomed him home.
• Lilia greeted Cui Ciyou and hinted that she wanted him to address her as family, so he called her “Big Sister” and made her smile.

Cui Ciyou reunited with eight-year-old Aisha and watched her demonstrate her remarkable magical talent. Roxy explained that Aisha was learning magic from her and swordsmanship from Lilia while the group temporarily lived with Princess Ariel.

• Cui Ciyou saw Aisha for the first time in four years and noted how much she had grown.
• At Roxy's request, Aisha cast an intermediate Flame Bullet without an incantation.
• Roxy blocked Aisha's spell with a magic barrier, surprising Cui Ciyou with her defensive magic.
• Roxy explained that she and Ghislaine guarded Princess Ariel, while Lilia taught Aisha maid work and swordsmanship and Roxy taught her magic.
• Cui Ciyou sensed that Aisha already had a trace of Battle Aura and judged her swordsmanship talent exceptional despite Roxy's comparison to her magic ability.

Cui Ciyou announced that he intended to marry Roxy, shocking Alice, Sylphy, and the others at dinner. He asked Alice and Sylphy to marry him too, leaving both women flustered and Alice demanding to be his principal wife.

• Ariel returned home with Derrick and Luke and joined the Buena Village group for dinner, where Rudeus greeted Cui Ciyou.
• Cui Ciyou took Roxy's hand and announced that he was going to marry her.
• Alice protested that she was Cui Ciyou's fiancée, while Sylphy tearfully asked if his announcement was true.
• Cui Ciyou told Alice and Sylphy that he loved them both and asked them to marry him alongside Roxy.
• Alice punched Cui Ciyou and demanded to be the principal wife because he had become engaged to her first; Cui Ciyou said they would discuss it later.

After their marriage was settled, Cui Ciyou discussed the women’s plans and decided they needed to prepare a home before their wedding. He reflected on marriage customs and his own responsibilities, leaving the details of their wedding still to be decided.

• At breakfast, Cui Ciyou confirmed that Roxy would continue teaching at Ranoa Magic University, and Sylphy said she wanted to study there.
• Alice rejected attending university and said she would keep practicing swordsmanship with Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine.
• Cui Ciyou revealed that they needed to prepare a home before getting married, confusing Roxy, Alice, and Sylphy.
• Cui Ciyou reflected on wanting a stable home for his future family and worried that his body might remain frozen at nineteen.
• Cui Ciyou considered the wedding customs of different nations and noted that none of them placed much importance on ceremony.

Cui Ciyou and Roxy went to buy a spacious home in Sharia, where Roxy chose a suspiciously cheap mansion rumored to be cursed. After the clerk revealed the house’s violent history, Roxy used Cui Ciyou’s and Ariel Anemoi Asura’s names as guarantors to secure a provisional contract at a token price, and they left to inspect the mansion.

• Cui Ciyou explained to Roxy that he wanted to buy a lasting family home rather than rent, and she agreed to look for one.
• Roxy searched the property list and selected a large, old mansion priced far below comparable houses.
• The clerk told Cui Ciyou and Roxy that the mansion was haunted, its previous occupants and several adventurers having died inside.
• Roxy asked whether the house could be given to her if she lifted its curse, then arranged a provisional contract when the clerk refused.
• Roxy listed Ariel Anemoi Asura and Cui Ciyou as guarantors, alarming the clerk and bringing the manager to meet them.
• The manager offered a steep discount and waived fees, and Cui Ciyou and Roxy signed a provisional contract for the mansion at a token price.

Cui Ciyou and Roxy explored the supposedly haunted mansion from the first floor to the second, finding it clean, sturdy, and free of any supernatural presence. They left planning to return with Alice and the others and spend the night there to investigate the reported noises.

• Roxy excitedly appointed Cui Ciyou to lead their mansion adventure, and he played along while discreetly surveying the building with his mental power.
• Cui Ciyou and Roxy inspected the first-floor rooms and found a spacious, well-maintained house with two kitchens, four large rooms, four small rooms, and two toilets.
• They searched the basement, finding only empty shelves and minor damage, with no monsters or evil spirits.
• Cui Ciyou and Roxy inspected the symmetrical second floor and found eight bedrooms, but no traces of a curse or anything supernatural.
• Cui Ciyou suggested the reported noises might occur only at night, then proposed telling Alice and the others before spending the night in the mansion.

Cui Ciyou, Roxy, Alice, Sylphy, and Aisha searched the supposedly haunted mansion overnight, where Aisha led the group in a make-believe ghost hunt. They found a moving doll in the basement, and Cui Ciyou disabled it with Magic Nullification.

• Alice and Aisha insisted on joining Cui Ciyou and Roxy's overnight watch, and Sylphy joined after learning the other fiancées were going.
• The five waited in the mansion's master bedroom until they heard a creaking noise from downstairs just before dawn.
• Aisha organized the group into an adventurers' formation and led them through the mansion toward the basement.
• Cui Ciyou spotted a pale humanoid figure in the basement and recognized it as a doll when it crawled toward the group.
• Aisha, Sylphy, and Roxy struck the doll with Divine Strike magic, but it kept moving.
• Cui Ciyou used Magic Nullification to stop the doll, and the group examined it in the first-floor hall.

Cui Ciyou confirmed the mansion was safe, bought it, and gathered his family to plan how to turn it into their home. As renovations got underway, Roxy received the doll and its research notes, while everyone chose spaces suited to their needs.

• Cui Ciyou confirmed that the guardian doll had caused the mansion's eerie noises, then bought the property and told the real estate agency that a monster had been dealt with.
• Cui Ciyou returned to find Lilia and Aisha cleaning the mansion and welcomed them as permanent residents of the new home.
• Cui Ciyou asked Alice, Roxy, Sylphy, Bannie, and Ghislaine what they wanted, and Alice chose a stone-paved sword practice area.
• Cui Ciyou gave Roxy the doll research notes from the underground room, and she eagerly began studying them to understand the guardian doll.
• Sylphy asked for a potion-making room, Bannie requested only a bedroom, and Ghislaine chose a hard wooden bed.
• Cui Ciyou and the others began planning the renovations, expecting the work to take about a month while they continued staying at Princess Ariel's home.

After completing the renovation, Cui Ciyou planned how to invite family and friends to his wedding and assigned journeys to gather them. Ghislaine left for Fittoa, while Cui Ciyou set out with Roxy to invite Rudeus.

• Cui Ciyou mapped out plans to invite Alice's family in Fittoa, Roxy's parents on the Demon Continent, and Sylphy's parents, whose whereabouts remained uncertain.
• At a family planning meeting, Cui Ciyou assigned Ghislaine to travel to Fittoa and decided to visit the Migurd village with Roxy.
• Cui Ciyou reassured Sylphy that he had sent her parents a letter and had the Adventurers' Guild post a high-priority missing-person request.
• Cui Ciyou asked Alice and Sylphy to protect Princess Ariel while he, Roxy, and Ghislaine were away, and both agreed.
• Cui Ciyou escorted Ghislaine from the city with a swift horse, travel funds, and a letter, and she rode toward Fittoa.
• After Ghislaine left, Cui Ciyou took Roxy to invite Rudeus.

Cui Ciyou visited Rudeus and learned that he had married twin sisters Mia and Mina, who were expecting a child. He told Rudeus he was marrying Roxy, Sylphy, and Alice, leaving Rudeus stunned and envious.

• Cui Ciyou went with Roxy to Ranoa University of Magic to find Rudeus, but the dormitory caretaker said he did not live there.
• Ariel told Cui Ciyou that Rudeus was married and gave him the address of his house.
• Cui Ciyou met Mia and Mina at Rudeus's home and saw that Mia was pregnant.
• Rudeus explained that he had rescued the Miltett twins from bullies, later married them, and started a family with them.
• Cui Ciyou announced that he was marrying Roxy, Sylphy, and Alice, and Rudeus reacted with disbelief and envy.

Cui Ciyou and Roxy traveled to the Demon Continent and approached her hometown, Migurdia Village. Roxy reunited with her father, Rowin Migurdia, after Cui Ciyou’s teasing and their kiss provoked him into attacking.

• Cui Ciyou and Roxy reached the Rasta Bear den, where Cui Ciyou used Mental Pressure to knock out the bears and let them access the teleportation circle.
• The pair teleported to the Biekoia Region and walked toward Migurdia Village, while Roxy grew anxious about returning home and her inability to use telepathy.
• Cui Ciyou lifted Roxy’s skirt to distract her from her distress, then kissed her as they neared the village.
• Rowin Migurdia attacked Cui Ciyou from behind, but Cui Ciyou blocked his scimitar strike and identified him as Roxy’s father.
• Rowin threatened to cut Cui Ciyou for lifting Roxy’s skirt and kissing her, but Roxy stepped between them and rebuked her father.
• Rowin was devastated when Roxy said she hated his unreasonable behavior, and the three continued toward the village gates in an awkward mood.