Chapter Summaries

Cui Ciyou reunited with Kishirika and asked her how to treat Dulai Disease, hoping to save Nanahoshi Shizuka. Kishirika revealed that sokasi grass still grew beneath the Demon King's Castle, giving Cui Ciyou a way to obtain the remedy.

• Cui Ciyou showed Kishirika the Clairvoyance Demon Eye she had given him, and she finally recognized him.
• Kishirika offered Cui Ciyou another Demon Eye, but he declined and asked her about treating Dulai Disease.
• Kishirika explained that drinking tea brewed from sokasi grass cured Dulai Disease.
• Kishirika described the grass's former habitat in the Dragon's Tail Cave, which had been destroyed during the Second Human-Demon War.
• Kishirika revealed that she had ordered sokasi grass cultivated beneath the Demon King's Castle because she enjoyed its tea.
• Cui Ciyou realized the grass could provide a remedy for Nanahoshi Shizuka before her health ran out.

Cui Ciyou learned that sokasi grass grew beneath Demon King castles, but Kishirika warned that Atofe’s royal guard had come to take her. The guards surrounded them and demanded Kishirika’s surrender, leaving Cui Ciyou to decide whether to resist.

• Kishirika told Cui Ciyou that she had ordered every self-proclaimed Demon King to plant sokasi grass and that some grew beneath Badigadi’s castle in Old Kishirisu City.
• Kishirika explained that she had been hiding from an annoying opponent in Old Kishirisu City, but Atofe’s royal guard arrived and encircled the alley.
• The squad leader identified the soldiers as Atofe’s royal guard and ordered Cui Ciyou to hand over Kishirika and come to the castle.
• Cui Ciyou noticed that the guards’ portrait of Kishirika showed her as a grown woman, unlike the child-sized Kishirika who stood behind him.
• When Cui Ciyou asked what would happen if they refused, the guards drew their swords, and Kishirika panicked about what Atofe might do to her.

Cui Ciyou considered whether to resist Atofe’s guards, but agreed to go with them after their leader offered Sokasi Grass and promised that everything else was negotiable. He learned Kishirika had provoked Atofe by drinking all the wine meant for her, and shackled Kishirika before agreeing to accompany her to the Demon King’s Castle.

• Atofe’s scarred guard captain removed his helmet, bowed, and pleaded with Cui Ciyou and Kishirika to come peacefully to the Demon King’s Castle.
• The captain offered fresh Sokasi Grass and help cultivating it if Kishirika agreed to meet Atofe.
• Cui Ciyou joked that he would trade Kishirika for the grass, but the captain criticized him for betraying a companion, and Cui Ciyou reassured Kishirika that he was joking.
• Cui Ciyou asked why Kishirika disliked Atofe and learned that Kishirika had drunk all the Gegura wine meant for Atofe a year earlier.
• Cui Ciyou took the guards’ shackles and restrained Kishirika, then told her he would go with her.

Cui Ciyou and Kishirika waited for hours beneath the Demon King's castle for Atofe, while the guards warned them against accepting her rewards. Atofe finally appeared and dramatically introduced herself as the Immortal Demon King, leaving Cui Ciyou to face the audience he had been waiting for.

• Cui Ciyou observed that the castle was built from obsidian and that the room where he and Kishirika were held was off-limits to tourists.
• Cui Ciyou and Kishirika waited for two hours while Muya went to summon Atofe, and the soldiers whispered that she often lost track of time.
• Muya returned and warned Cui Ciyou and Kishirika to refuse any reward Atofe offered them.
• Atofe arrived, ordered Cui Ciyou to move aside, then drew her sword and scabbard to announce herself as the Immortal Demon King, Atoferatofe Reibak.

Cui Ciyou and Kishirika met Atofe at her castle, where the Immortal Demon King welcomed them with a chaotic ceremony. Atofe offered Cui Ciyou a reward, but when he tried to refuse her training, she ignored him and ordered armor and contracts prepared.

• Muya scolded Atofe for ignoring ceremony, and she cut him down before he could defend himself; Muya regenerated and returned to formation.
• Atofe restarted her entrance ceremony, introduced herself as the Immortal Demon King, and thanked Cui Ciyou for helping her capture Kishirika.
• Atofe forgot what to say next until a soldier reminded her to give Cui Ciyou a reward.
• Atofe threatened to duel Cui Ciyou if he refused her reward, so he reluctantly agreed to accept it.
• Atofe offered to train Cui Ciyou in her personal guard for ten years, but when he tried to decline, she ordered spare armor and contracts for him and Kishirika.

Cui Ciyou refused Atofe’s offer to join her Royal Guard, prompting her to attack him; he defeated her and learned the offer meant an eternal contract. Muya warned him to leave before Atofe returned, and Cui Ciyou departed with the Sokasi Grass and Kishirika.

• Cui Ciyou refused to join Atofe’s Royal Guard because he needed to find Sokasi Grass for his sick friend and would not spend ten years training.
• Atofe became furious, attacked Cui Ciyou, and regenerated her severed arm after he restrained her.
• Atofe began charging a North God Style secret art, but Cui Ciyou cut off her sword hand with water blades and punched her through the castle wall.
• Muya told Cui Ciyou that losing a duel would force him into a contract lasting until death and urged him to escape before Atofe returned.
• Cui Ciyou thanked Muya, took the Sokasi Grass and Kishirika’s chain, and left through the hall as the Royal Guard let him pass.

Cui Ciyou reflected on how little he could predict about the changed future, then woke up surrounded by Alice, Sylphy, and Roxy. At breakfast, Roxy announced she was pregnant, leaving Cui Ciyou overjoyed and eager to listen for the baby.

• Cui Ciyou considered how his actions had transformed the world and accepted that the future was unknown.
• Cui Ciyou woke with Alice, Sylphy, and Roxy crowded around him, and Alice explained her hickeys were meant to warn off other women.
• Roxy announced at breakfast that she was pregnant, shocking Cui Ciyou, Alice, and Sylphy.
• Cui Ciyou rushed to Roxy and pressed his ear to her still-flat abdomen to listen for the baby.

Cui Ciyou woke at night, sensed an unexplained presence in the study, and encountered a weary version of Roxy who seemed to have traveled through time. She attacked a rat behind him, calling it a carrier of Magic Stone Disease, and killed it with Blue Stream Blade.

• Cui Ciyou woke, found lipstick marks on his face, and headed upstairs to return a book rather than continue his research.
• Cui Ciyou sensed a presence in the study but initially saw no one there.
• Cui Ciyou turned back and found a timeworn Roxy sitting in the reading chair.
• The other Roxy said combining Summoning Magic and Teleportation Magic was the right path and identified a rat behind Cui Ciyou as a carrier of Magic Stone Disease.
• Roxy used Barrier Magic-Water King Magic: Blue Stream Blade to kill the purple-toothed rat.

A future Roxy traveled back a hundred years and killed a pathogen-carrying rat to prevent the present Roxy from contracting Magic Stone Disease. She told Cui Ciyou how the Human God’s plot had destroyed their family and explained that she had arrived in a parallel timeline, leaving him determined to prevent the tragedy in this one.

• Future Roxy used advanced magic to locate and destroy a crystal-toothed rat that carried the pathogen responsible for Magic Stone Disease.
• Future Roxy revealed that she was Roxy C. Migurdia from a hundred years in the future and had spent House Boreas’s stored Magic Crystals to travel through time.
• Future Roxy explained that the Human God had arranged for pregnant Roxy to contract Magic Stone Disease, then manipulated events so Cui Ciyou killed Cliff and was hunted by Rudeus and Orsted.
• Future Roxy recounted how Cui Ciyou died protecting Roxy, Sylphy, and Alice, while their family and friends suffered, and said their daughter later helped seal the Human God.
• Future Roxy told Cui Ciyou that she had learned the truth from the Human God and developed new forms of magic, but believed she had reached a parallel timeline rather than changed her own past.

Future Roxy died after traveling through time, leaving Cui Ciyou her worn Mage Hat and asking him to care for their daughter, Lara C. Migurdia. As Cui Ciyou grieved, a modern-clothed version of himself appeared in the study, leaving him uncertain which timeline or world the newcomer came from.

• Future Roxy rejected Cui Ciyou's Healing Magic and said her time had ended as her body dispersed.
• Roxy told Cui Ciyou about their daughter, Lara C. Migurdia, and asked him to let her be happy this time.
• Roxy vanished, leaving behind her worn Mage Hat, which Cui Ciyou placed on the study shelf.
• Cui Ciyou struggled to contain his grief over Roxy's death.
• A modern-clothed version of Cui Ciyou appeared in the study and reacted in surprise to seeing his double.

Cui Ciyou met a parallel-world version of himself who had crossed timelines while seeking a way to recover his dead wife, Sara. After the visitor vanished, Cui Ciyou suffered a sudden, agonizing attack and blacked out.

• The parallel-world Cui Ciyou explained how he used mental power and magic circuits to travel between parallel timelines.
• He revealed that Sara had saved him, married him, and later died, prompting him to search for a way to reach her again.
• He explained that alternate versions of Sara were not the same person as his wife and said he would try to bring her back to life.
• The parallel-world Cui Ciyou teased Cui Ciyou about his wives, then suddenly decided his travels might have been useful and vanished.
• Cui Ciyou developed a severe pain in his head, shouted after his departing counterpart, and lost consciousness.

Cui Ciyou woke to find his three wives angry that he had slept alone in the study, so he agreed to their demands for more time together. That night, he investigated the power inherited from his parallel-world self and recognized it as Byakuran Gesso’s Parallel World Ability.

• Alice, Sylphy, and Roxy confronted Cui Ciyou after finding him asleep on the study floor and demanded to know why he had stayed away from them.
• Cui Ciyou apologized, and the three wives made him agree to a month of dates, nightly visits, and other requests.
• Cui Ciyou spent the day practicing swordplay with Alice, sorting herbs with Sylphy, and discussing magic with Roxy.
• After his wives returned to their rooms, Cui Ciyou went back to the study to examine the ability he had gained from his parallel-world self.
• Cui Ciyou connected the accumulated collisions between parallel worlds to Byakuran Gesso’s Parallel World Ability.

After absorbing his parallel-world self’s memories, Cui Ciyou pieced together the Human God’s plan and identified the Dragon God as the key to defeating him. He left with a strategy mapped out and resolved to turn the tables on the Human God.

• Cui Ciyou recovered from the overwhelming flood of information and realized his parallel-world self had detected the shattering of the world’s barriers.
• Cui Ciyou wrote down what he learned about the Human God, who used Future Sight, Dreamwalking, and apostles to manipulate the Six-Faced World.
• Cui Ciyou inferred that he and Roxy might be the parents of the future savior, based on the Human God’s warning and the parallel-world memories about Roxy and their child Lara.
• Cui Ciyou identified the Dragon God as a necessary ally despite their past conflict, then mapped powerful figures, timelines, and threats connected to the Human God.
• Cui Ciyou concluded that Shinohara Akito and the Dragon God would reach the Void Space before year 530 of the Dragon King Calendar to confront the Human God, and vowed to turn the tables on him.

Cui Ciyou realized his knowledge of Jobless Reincarnation did not include the main story’s ending, though he recalled clues about who would defeat the Human God. After falling asleep, he met the Human God in Void Space, where the Human God demanded that he make Roxy get an abortion.

• Cui Ciyou discovered that none of his parallel selves knew how Jobless Reincarnation ended, and he pieced together what he could from official illustrations and other clues.
• Cui Ciyou recalled an illustration showing Orsted, Shinohara Akito, Lara, a red-haired swordswoman, and North God III standing against a Dark Chaos Rift, and concluded they would defeat the Human God.
• Cui Ciyou grew drowsy, struck his forehead on the table, and woke in Void Space.
• The Human God greeted Cui Ciyou as an old friend despite their falling-out, then asked him to make Roxy get an abortion so they could be good brothers again.

Cui Ciyou rejected the Human God's demand that he kill his unborn daughter and vowed to protect her, despite the threat of the Dragon God. The confrontation ended as Cui Ciyou woke from the Void Space to find three women scolding him for sleeping in the study.

• The Human God offered to remain friends with Cui Ciyou if he made Roxy end her pregnancy.
• Cui Ciyou accused the Human God of engineering wars and manipulating countless lives, then explained that the Human God feared the unborn child would draw the Dragon God’s attention.
• Cui Ciyou refused to harm his daughter and promised to face anyone who tried to touch her.
• The Human God warned that the child might cause a disaster and revealed that his apostles had led the Dragon God to believe she was one.
• Cui Ciyou challenged the Human God for letting him live, and the Human God ended their meeting as the Void Space cracked.
• Cui Ciyou woke in the study to three women telling him that he was sleeping there again.

Cui Ciyou told Roxy, Sylphy, and Alice what he knew about the future and the Human God's plans, and they agreed they needed to find the Dragon God Orsted. As they struggled to work out how to locate him, Roxy suggested asking Nanahoshi Shizuka.

• Cui Ciyou shared his knowledge of the future and the original story with Roxy, Sylphy, and Alice.
• Alice confronted Cui Ciyou about whether he would risk his life for her, and he promised he would protect her too.
• Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Sylphy agreed that they needed to find Orsted to deal with the Human God, while Alice said she would fight whoever they named.
• Cui Ciyou considered how difficult it would be to find Orsted in a world without modern communications or reliable information networks.
• Roxy suggested that Nanahoshi Shizuka might help them locate Orsted.

Cui Ciyou and his companions decided to seek Nanahoshi Shizuka’s help contacting the Dragon God, then he went to Ranoa University of Magic with a basket of fruit to approach her. He remained uneasy about the Dragon God’s cold, stern nature.

• Roxy suggested asking Nanahoshi Shizuka, who had traveled with the Dragon God, to help them find or contact him.
• Cui Ciyou praised Roxy, prompting jealousy from Sylphy and Alice before the group returned to discussing their plans.
• Cui Ciyou joked that the three women were all his wings, and Roxy, Sylphy, and Alice punished him together.
• The next morning, Cui Ciyou carried a basket of fruit toward Ranoa University of Magic to ask Nanahoshi for help.
• Cui Ciyou recalled the Dragon God’s stern face and wondered why he could not simply listen to reason.

Cui Ciyou visited Nanahoshi Shizuka to ask for information about the Dragon God Orsted, whom he planned to confront after strengthening his companions. The chapter ended as Cui Ciyou prepared to explain the serious risks behind his favor.

• Cui Ciyou recalled Orsted's violent reaction to the Human God and blamed the Displacement Incident for separating him from his loved ones.
• Cui Ciyou decided to learn Orsted's location from Nanahoshi Shizuka before preparing everyone to face him.
• Cui Ciyou arrived at Nanahoshi Shizuka's cluttered workshop and brought her a basket of fruit.
• Nanahoshi Shizuka dismissed Cui Ciyou's gift and invited him to ask for help, citing the times he had helped her.
• Cui Ciyou warned Nanahoshi Shizuka that his request carried risks far greater than the fruit basket could cover.

Cui Ciyou told Nanahoshi Shizuka about the future Roxy, his Parallel World counterpart, Byakuran’s abilities, and the Human God’s schemes. Nanahoshi concluded that he wanted to find and kill the Dragon God, but Cui Ciyou was baffled by her assumption.

• Cui Ciyou asked Nanahoshi Shizuka for help and warned her that his story would sound unbelievable.
• Cui Ciyou explained Roxy’s Magic Stone Disease, the arrival of a future Roxy and his Parallel World counterpart, and his ability to share mental abilities with counterparts.
• Cui Ciyou told Nanahoshi that he had learned from Jobless Reincarnation that the Human God was the final villain.
• Nanahoshi reacted to learning she was a character in a novel, then discussed the Human God’s cruelty and speculated about Byakuran’s abilities.
• Nanahoshi guessed that Cui Ciyou wanted help finding and killing the Dragon God, and refused to betray her friend.
• Cui Ciyou was confused by Nanahoshi’s conclusion and wondered why she thought he would kill the Dragon God.

Cui Ciyou clarified that he wanted to find the Dragon God to negotiate and ally against the Human God, not to kill him. Nanahoshi Shizuka revealed that she could contact the Dragon God, but Cui Ciyou decided to wait until he was ready.

• Nanahoshi Shizuka mistook Cui Ciyou's plan to find the Dragon God for an attempt to kill him, and Cui Ciyou corrected her.
• Nanahoshi Shizuka explained that anime plots had led her to expect Cui Ciyou to turn against everyone after learning the truth.
• Cui Ciyou asked whether Nanahoshi Shizuka knew how to find the Dragon God, and she described a remote ruin where he sometimes visited.
• Nanahoshi Shizuka offered to contact the Dragon God with a stone tablet, but Cui Ciyou told her to wait until he was ready.