Chapter Summaries

Eros passed his placement test with exactly eighty percent of the questions answered correctly and entered the fifth-year classroom. There, he recognized a disguised red-haired girl and sat beside her, leaving her unaware that her disguise had been exposed.

• Eros answered exactly eighty percent of the placement test questions, and the three deans confirmed every answer was correct.
• Wendy took Eros to stay at her villa, while Saliba ordered an attendant to report Eros's Elf Race bloodline to the palace.
• Joni questioned Wendy about Eros's past, making Wendy suspect that Joni had become interested in him.
• Eros entered the fifth-year classroom and recognized a red-haired student as a girl disguised as a boy.
• Eros introduced himself to the student, Thomas, and teased him about his slender hands and waist while Thomas mistook his attention for a strange fetish.

Eros suspected that Thomas, his red-haired male classmate, was a woman in disguise and considered recruiting her as an ally. After class, Saliba offered to help Eros become the next Rose Duke in exchange for Wendy, but Eros laughed off the proposal.

• Eros insisted that Thomas become his little brother, while Thomas endured his attention to maintain her disguise.
• Saliba entered the classroom and approached Wendy, but she switched seats with Thomas and sat beside Eros instead.
• Eros told Wendy that he suspected Thomas was a woman and might be the younger sister of a red-haired woman he had noticed before.
• Eros explained that he had tried to win Thomas over as a potential ally, and Wendy accepted his excuse after he complimented her.
• During the lesson, Saliba passed Eros a note asking him to meet after class, then offered Wendy in exchange for help securing the Rose Duke title.
• Eros mocked Saliba's offer, and Saliba replied that he knew Eros was the legitimate son who would inherit the title anyway.

Eros rejected Saliba’s offer to trade Wendy for help securing the ducal title, then told Wendy about Saliba’s bizarre willingness to offer up his mother and sister. At the academy, Eros dragged the red-haired girl, who was disguised as Thomas, to lunch and dinner, forcing her to eat three portions each time.

• Saliba offered Eros help inheriting the duchy in exchange for Wendy, then offered his sister and even his mother as additional bargaining chips.
• Eros refused Saliba’s proposals and told Wendy what had happened, prompting him to wonder why Saliba was so eager to give up his family for her.
• At lunchtime, Eros dragged the red-haired girl, disguised as Thomas, to the cafeteria and introduced him to Joni as his new little brother.
• Eros made the red-haired girl eat three portions at lunch, and she fled once they left the cafeteria.
• After classes, Eros cornered the red-haired girl again and made her eat three portions for dinner.

Eros used Barbara’s insight to discover that Wendy had a Spirit-Favored Body, making her a target for eldritch entities and a possible sacrifice to an evil god. He concealed her constitution with Lord of Secrets, leaving Wendy able to sense that he had placed something inside her.

• Eros examined Wendy with his darkened left eye and asked Barbara what she could see.
• Barbara revealed that Wendy had a Spirit-Favored Body and explained that evil gods prized people with that constitution as sacrifices.
• Eros suspected the blue-haired man wanted to offer Wendy to an evil god, and he warned her that she was in danger.
• Eros used the Little Book of the Night and Lord of Secrets to hide Wendy’s Spirit-Favored Body.
• Wendy said she could feel something inside her, and Eros protested that she could not say that.

Saliba confronted Eros over Wendy’s Spirit-Favored Body and learned that Eros had sacrificed her and wished her back to life. When Saliba reported Eros to the academy deans, they dismissed his accusation because of Eros’s Elf bloodline, leaving Saliba bewildered and keeping his distance from Wendy.

• Saliba accused Eros of taking Wendy’s Spirit-Favored Body, and Eros admitted that he had sacrificed her and wished for her resurrection.
• Saliba learned that Eros knew the resurrected Wendy was not the original and said he only wanted an obedient Wendy.
• Saliba decided to report Eros for worshipping an evil god and accused him of replacing Wendy with an Abyssal spirit.
• The deans rejected Saliba’s accusation, citing Eros’s Elf bloodline and the standing of the power that had bestowed it.
• Saliba left confused and stopped pestering Wendy, while other students assumed her rejections had discouraged him.

After recovering from the backlash of a divine art, Eros used Barbara’s shadow power to leave the academy and headed toward four people she had detected. The group, including Ayesha Romance and Natalia Romance, discussed retrieving a Sealed Artifact and planned to use a Night Remnant hunt as an opportunity, just as Eros overheard them.

• Eros fully recovered and used Barbara’s shadow power to slip past the academy’s detection arrays.
• As Eros moved away from the academy, his Nature’s Protection skill grew brighter and his power increased.
• Ayesha told Natalia Romance and two men that the Sealed Artifact remained in the Containment Room, where Church Officiants guarded it.
• The gaunt man suggested Ayesha join a Subjugation Team and try to earn access to the Containment Room by killing a Night Remnant.
• Eros called down from a nearby tree and asked what they meant about the Night Remnant being hunted.

Eros intervened when Natalia and her companions attacked him, restrained them, and learned that a Night Remnant had fled toward the Imperial Capital while being pursued by the Church. He gave Natalia a leaf as a way to contact him about their planned Sealed Artifact theft, then left to return to his neighbor.

• Eros used Shadow Exile to stop the group’s spells, fought off Natalia and the muscular man, and bound all four with Night Binding.
• Eros teased Natalia while holding her, then tossed her beside Ayesha and asked why the group had attacked him.
• Eros revealed that he was a Night Remnant, and the four explained that the Church had been pursuing one near the Imperial Capital.
• Eros suspected the fleeing Night Remnant was carrying an important message or item, then offered to join Natalia’s team for its planned Sealed Artifact theft.
• Eros gave Natalia a leaf she could use to contact him and left, saying his neighbor’s wife was about to give birth.

Eros learned that Irina Renka Night was being hunted by the Church and rushed to find her. Irina, carrying the location of a fragment of the ancestor’s divine kingdom, was struck by a powerful spell as the pursuers escalated their attack.

• Eros asked Barbara how to locate a clan member, and she used the Book of the Night to reveal Irina Renka Night’s position.
• Eros recognized Irina as his fifth sister and raced toward her location.
• Irina fled through the forest while carrying information about a fragment of the ancestor’s divine kingdom, hoping to reach the Imperial Capital.
• The Church pursuers learned that other squads were closing in, and their captain ordered them to capture Irina alive if possible or kill her before she could sacrifice herself.
• The pursuers strengthened their spells, and one struck Irina’s shoulder, throwing her to the ground.

Irina sacrificed herself to send information back to her clan, but Eros arrived too late to prevent her from being mortally wounded. He killed her pursuers with the Moon of Judgment and carried Irina into the forest, where he prepared to use a divine spell to save her despite the risks.

• Irina was struck down by the black-clad man's squad, but she managed to tell them her mission had succeeded before her body began to disappear.
• Eros arrived as Irina was fading, and the squad prepared to attack him after their captain promised them credit for capturing another Night Remnant.
• Eros summoned the Moon of Judgment, which crushed the entire squad while leaving Irina unharmed.
• Eros apologized to Irina, took the necklace she gave him, and carried her away from the approaching Church squads.
• Barbara told Eros that a divine spell could interrupt Irina's sacrifice and restore her, but warned that it would cause backlash while Church squads were nearby.

Eros saved Irina by making her his shadow, though the transformation left Barbara weakened and asleep. He fought through the Church's search squads and returned to the Academy at dawn, where he went to sleep without waking Wendy.

• Barbara proposed that she could alter Irina's sacrifice so Eros could accept it and merge Irina into his shadow.
• Eros asked Irina if she was willing to become his shadow, and Irina agreed.
• Barbara took control of Eros and transformed Irina into black light, merging her into his shadow before falling asleep from exhaustion.
• Eros killed two Church search squads with the Moon of Eternal Sleep and fought other squads while escaping toward the Academy.
• Eros returned to the Academy at dawn, left Wendy asleep, and went to bed exhausted.