Chapter Summaries

Cui Ciyou concluded that Alice had been kidnapped and organized a search with Ghislaine, Roxy, and the Boreas family. The family discovered that Thomas was missing, and Roa City was sealed while Roxy prepared to help track Alice.

• Cui Ciyou told Ghislaine that Alice had likely been kidnapped by someone using North God Style concealment techniques, then sent her to alert Philip and investigate Thomas.
• Cui Ciyou found Roxy at the inn and asked her to use tracking magic to help locate Alice.
• Cui Ciyou and Roxy arrived at the Boreas Estate, where Sauros revealed that Thomas was the only person missing from the estate.
• Philip reported that Roa City had been sealed and no one had left since dusk, and he apologized to Roxy for the family's earlier prejudice against her as a demon.
• Hilda embraced Roxy while begging her to save Alice, and Philip and Cui Ciyou pulled Hilda away before Roxy suffocated.

Roxy used Tracking Magic to locate Alice inside the western tower of the Boreas Estate, where Cui Ciyou sensed her captors and prepared to rescue her. Sauros, Roxy, Philip, and Hilda joined Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine as they set out to bring Alice back.

• Roxy cast Tracking Magic with Alice's clothing and traced her last mana signs to the western side of the Boreas Estate.
• Cui Ciyou found a scrap of Alice's dress near the abandoned western tower, and Ghislaine detected Alice's scent leading inside.
• Cui Ciyou used his mental power to find Alice on the tower's top floor with Thomas and two swordsmen.
• Cui Ciyou identified the captors' strength, drew his sword, and called on Ghislaine to fight.
• Sauros, Roxy, Philip, and Hilda volunteered to join the rescue.

Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine confirmed Alice’s location and the enemy positions inside the Western Tower, then prepared a coordinated ambush. Cui Ciyou kicked the stone door apart, leaving the rescue assault poised to begin.

• Cui Ciyou kept Roxy and the Boreas family at the stairway landing while he and Ghislaine approached the door, and Philip restrained Sauros from rushing in.
• Cui Ciyou heard Thomas beating Alice and threatening to keep her alive for a cruel game.
• Cui Ciyou used Perception to locate Thomas beside Alice and identify two North God Style swordsmen nearby.
• Cui Ciyou assigned Ghislaine to strike Thomas with the Sword of Light while he dealt with the two swordsmen, prioritizing Alice’s safety.
• Cui Ciyou kicked the stone door apart, sending fragments and dust surging into the tower.

Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine stormed the room to rescue Alice, killing two North God Style swordsmen and disarming Thomas, but Thomas survived with a magic item and took Alice hostage. Cui Ciyou faced the familiar hostage standoff with cold anger.

• Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine burst through the stone door and attacked the enemies inside.
• Cui Ciyou used Magic Nullification and Sword of Light to kill two North God Style swordsmen before they could react.
• Ghislaine struck Thomas with Sword of Light, severing his right arm, but his magic item kept him alive.
• Thomas clamped Alice in his arm and held a dagger to her neck as Cui Ciyou confronted the hostage situation.

Cui Ciyou used telekinesis to slow Thomas and save Alice from being killed, then Roxy healed Alice’s injuries. The Boreas family was relieved, though Alice remained in need of care.

• Philip offered Thomas money, status, and clemency if he released Alice, but Thomas refused and threatened her.
• Hilda pleaded with Thomas to spare Alice, but he cut her neck and prepared to kill her.
• Cui Ciyou used telekinesis to slow Thomas, caught the dagger in his bleeding hand, and beheaded him with his sword.
• Cui Ciyou caught Alice as she collapsed and called for Roxy to heal her.
• Roxy used Healing Magic to mend Alice’s external injuries, and Hilda gratefully thanked her.

Alice woke after Cui Ciyou saved her and thanked him, but her concern shifted to his badly injured hand. Roxy’s healing magic failed because Cui Ciyou’s body annihilated mana, leaving Alice stunned by the limits of healing magic.

• Alice woke in Cui Ciyou’s arms, thanked him for saving her, then angrily pushed away his teasing hand.
• Cui Ciyou said he had cut down the man who hurt Alice because it was only right, making her blush.
• Alice noticed blood pouring from Cui Ciyou’s left hand and urged Roxy to heal him.
• Roxy’s Beginner Healing spell vanished against Cui Ciyou’s skin without healing his wound.
• Cui Ciyou explained that his body annihilated nearby mana and said the wound would heal on its own in a few days.
• Roxy marveled at his mana-nullifying constitution, while Alice was shocked that healing magic could not help him.

After Cui Ciyou saved Alice and injured his hand, Alice ordered an overblown emergency treatment despite his rapid healing. The chapter ended with his entire left shoulder immobilized beneath layers of bandages and a crooked bow.

• Alice ordered Sauros to summon the best court mage and the pope of Millis to treat Cui Ciyou’s hand.
• Alice commanded Cui Ciyou to return to his room and rest, and he accepted her orders.
• Alice and Hilda sent the Boreas Estate’s servants scrambling for ointments and bandages after Healing Magic failed.
• The estate summoned an elderly physician from Roa City, who treated Cui Ciyou and wrapped his hand in thick layers of bandages.
• Alice ordered more bandages to stabilize Cui Ciyou’s arm, then tied a huge crooked bow on his shoulder.
• Alice and Roxy remained worried while the Boreas family and Ghislaine struggled not to laugh at Cui Ciyou’s ridiculous appearance.

After the kidnapping, Alice slipped into Cui Ciyou’s room and found him without his bandages. She scolded him for reopening his wounds, then treated his hand before leaving him bandaged.

• Alice tiptoed into Cui Ciyou’s room at night, and he teased her for sneaking into a gentleman’s bedroom.
• Alice noticed Cui Ciyou had removed his bandages and scolded him for neglecting his injuries.
• Cui Ciyou showed Alice his healing wounds, but flexing his fingers cracked the scabs and made them bleed.
• Alice fetched ointment and gauze, then insisted on treating Cui Ciyou’s hand.
• Alice and Cui Ciyou agreed to bandage only his hand, and Alice finished dressing the wound.

Alice visited Cui Ciyou at night to thank him for saving her, but her awkward attempt at a cute performance left her embarrassed and angry. Cui Ciyou accepted her thanks and sent her to bed, leaving Alice convinced he had looked down on her.

• After bandaging Cui Ciyou, Alice backed away and shaped her hair into animal ears before winking and thanking him with a meow.
• When Cui Ciyou stayed speechless, Alice repeated the performance with several more meows, then angrily asked whether he was happy.
• Cui Ciyou sincerely said he was happy, and Alice called him a lolicon pervert like her grandfather and father had warned her.
• Cui Ciyou guessed Alice had come at night because she was embarrassed to thank him in front of others, accepted her thanks, and said good night.
• As Cui Ciyou lay down and waved Alice out, she left thinking he had looked down on her.

Alice tried to make amends with Cui Ciyou by offering what she believed was the Beastfolk’s highest form of apology, but he explained that exposing her belly meant surrender. She fled in embarrassment, while Cui Ciyou briefly thought of Roxy, who sneezed in her sleep at a distant inn.

• Alice became furious when Cui Ciyou dismissed her and jumped onto his bed to offer her belly as an apology.
• Cui Ciyou recalled that Beastfolk warriors exposed their bellies to signify surrender and placed their lives in another’s hands.
• Cui Ciyou covered Alice’s belly and explained that her grandfather and father had misled her about the custom.
• Alice denied wanting to surrender, called Cui Ciyou a measly Ciyou, and rushed out of his room.
• Roxy sneezed in her sleep at a distant inn and mumbled about cookies.

Alice apologized to Cui Ciyou for running away and admitted she had resented feeling less special than Roxy. Cui Ciyou gave her his cracked jade pendant, a treasured gift from his mother, and Alice vowed to wear it for life.

• Alice apologized to Cui Ciyou for running away with Thomas and for the trouble she caused.
• Alice explained that she had been hurt because Cui Ciyou made desserts for Roxy but not for her, and she wanted to feel special.
• Cui Ciyou recognized that Alice wanted a gesture meant only for her and gave her the jade pendant his mother had blessed him with.
• Cui Ciyou told Alice she did not need to compare herself with Roxy because both of them were one of a kind to him.
• Alice put on the cracked pendant, promised to treasure it for life, and offered to avenge whoever had damaged it.

Cui Ciyou read a history of the Six-Faced World and learned how the Creator God formed it, how the First Dragon God destroyed most of its realms, and how their remains fused into the present world. The chapter left Cui Ciyou wondering why the Dragon God attacked, why the Five Dragon Generals betrayed him, and whether the original gods had truly vanished.

• Cui Ciyou, injured and unable to work, borrowed a massive history book from House Boreas to investigate the boundary between history and mythology.
• The book described how the Creator God joined six unstable worlds through the World of Nothing to create the Six-Faced World and appointed a god to govern each realm.
• The First Dragon God launched a war across the worlds, destroying four realms and driving their survivors into the Human World.
• The Dragon Emperor and the other four Dragon Generals betrayed the First Dragon God, and all six perished in their battle, which also destroyed the Dragon World.
• The fragments of the five ruined worlds merged with the Human World to form the present world, leaving Cui Ciyou with questions about the Dragon God, the betrayal, and the vanished gods.

Cui Ciyou read the history of the Six-Faced World, tracing the human-demon wars, the oppression of demons, and Laplace’s rise and defeat. He learned that more than four hundred years had passed since Laplace’s death and finished the book with a clearer understanding of the world’s history and mana.

• Cui Ciyou read how humans and demons shared the Great Continent, where unequal resources and border clashes foreshadowed war.
• He learned that Ars and his companions ended the first war by defeating Kishirika Kishirisu, and that Aldebaran’s sacrifice ended the second war while splitting the Great Continent.
• Cui Ciyou read that humans fought civil wars and enslaved or expelled demons for 3,200 years after the second war.
• He learned that Laplace united and strengthened the demons before launching the third war, where seven human heroes killed him at the cost of four lives.
• Cui Ciyou discovered that only Perugius remained of the three surviving heroes and that more than four hundred years had passed since Laplace’s death.
• Cui Ciyou read about the world’s languages and blessed and cursed children, then closed the book and stood to stretch.

Cui Ciyou learned that Darius had orchestrated Alice’s kidnapping to satisfy his depraved desires and had abused noble girls for years with King Joseph’s protection. As his hand healed, Cui Ciyou enjoyed being pampered in bed while lamenting the absence of Earth’s phone and computer.

• Philip told Cui Ciyou that Darius had ordered Thomas to abduct Alice and had a history of abusing girls from lesser noble families.
• Cui Ciyou learned that Darius’s influence and King Joseph’s dependence on him kept his crimes hidden and his victims afraid to testify.
• Cui Ciyou judged Darius foolish for spending a long-cultivated spy on a scheme driven by his personal desires.
• Alice insisted on changing Cui Ciyou’s bandages and forbade him from getting out of bed, even though his wound had nearly healed.
• Cui Ciyou read Roxy’s Demon God Tongue guide and wished he could use a phone or computer while being cared for.

Cui Ciyou assessed his unusually rapid recovery while healing from the knife wound he suffered during Alice’s kidnapping. Roxy moved into the Boreas Estate and continued visiting him, caring for his injury and keeping him company as he recovered.

• Cui Ciyou tested his bandaged hand and realized his severe wound was healing quickly, with full control already returning.
• Alice practiced swordsmanship on the estate’s training ground while Cui Ciyou recovered in his room.
• Roxy moved from the town inn into the Boreas Estate after House Boreas invited her to stay for helping track Alice.
• Roxy visited Cui Ciyou each day, changed his bandages, supervised his medicine, and studied beside his bed.

While recovering, Cui Ciyou endured Ghislaine's forceful injury checks and Alice's constant, overbearing visits. Alice also showed her concern more quietly at night by bringing him books to read aloud.

• Ghislaine repeatedly removed Cui Ciyou's bandages and pressed around his wounds to check his recovery, despite Roxy and Alice's protests.
• Ghislaine offered Cui Ciyou a fresh magic-beast heart, which he refused, but he accepted the finely forged Knight's Longsword she gave him.
• Alice barged into Cui Ciyou's room without knocking, then ordered the servants to improve his room and bring him more nourishing food.
• At night, Alice brought Cui Ciyou illustrated adventure books she could not read and silently asked him to read them aloud.

Alice fed Cui Ciyou several pounds of rare magic beast meat, angering Sauros, who had treasured it for its supposed ability to enhance male strength. Cui Ciyou learned that his mana-free constitution protected him from the meat’s dangerous effects, and he recovered a few days later.

• Alice brought Cui Ciyou a huge bowl of grilled magic beast meat, claiming it was food that had been about to go bad.
• Sauros discovered that Alice had given away his treasured meat and grew furious with Cui Ciyou.
• Merry told Cui Ciyou that the meat was prized for enhancing male strength and explained Sauros’s hostility.
• Cui Ciyou consulted a library book and learned that the meat’s active mana could cause extreme arousal and loss of awareness.
• Cui Ciyou realized that his lack of mana made him immune to the meat’s effects.
• Cui Ciyou recovered fully a few days later.

Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine accepted Philip’s offer to become retainers of the Boreas Greyrat Family after helping save Alice. Philip planned to announce their recruitment and report the kidnapping to King Joseph Asura.

• Philip formally thanked Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine for rescuing Alice and invited them to become Boreas Greyrat retainers.
• Philip offered them a residence, salaries, family privileges, and petitions for lower noble status in exchange for protecting the family during major threats.
• Ghislaine told Cui Ciyou she would follow his decision, and Cui Ciyou accepted the invitation for them both.
• Philip said he would inform Sauros, announce that the family had recruited two Sword King-level fighters, and submit an account of Alice’s kidnapping to King Joseph Asura.

After Alice pushed herself through intense training, she told Cui Ciyou she wanted to become strong enough to protect her family, Ghislaine, and him. Cui Ciyou comforted her, then teased her by calling himself her dad, and Alice chased him as Ghislaine watched with a quiet smile.

• Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine arrived at the training grounds and saw Alice training with unusual intensity.
• After collapsing from exhaustion, Alice told Cui Ciyou she wanted to become stronger so she could protect herself and the people she cared about, including him.
• Cui Ciyou gently ruffled Alice's hair and told her he would wait for her to become stronger than everyone else.
• Cui Ciyou called himself Alice's dad, making her furious; she grabbed her wooden sword and chased him while he dodged.
• Ghislaine watched Cui Ciyou and Alice playfully chase each other and smiled to herself.

Philip privately revealed to Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine that he had three children and had lost the Boreas family succession contest to his elder brother, James. He explained that his appointment as mayor of Roa City was a distant posting after his defeat, then left Cui Ciyou waiting to hear the reason for his confession.

• Philip invited Cui Ciyou and Ghislaine to speak with him privately, apart from his roles as mayor and Boreas family member.
• Philip revealed that Alice was his second-born child and had an older twin brother and a younger brother.
• Philip explained that James Boreas Greyrat had been chosen as the next head of House Boreas while their father, Sauros, remained family head.
• Philip said he had been crushed in the succession contest and sent to Roa City to serve as mayor, far from the center of power.
• Cui Ciyou reconsidered Philip's polished manner as a mask for his disappointment and waited for him to explain his purpose.