Chapter Summaries

Haimo led Rei, Fei, Lania, and other Xenos out of the Dungeon, where adventurers mistook them for captors and raised an alarm. Facing an armed crowd at the Tower of Babel, Haimo declared that the monsters had become members of his Familia, leaving Loki wary of his true intentions.

• Fei ignored Rei's order to stay behind, and Haimo allowed her to join the group heading for the surface.
• Rei asked why Haimo tolerated the Xenos, but he said only that he had plans of his own.
• An adventuring party spotted Haimo with the monsters and fled, spreading a false report that he had been taken hostage.
• Shakti, Loki, Finn, Riveria, and other Familias mobilized for a rescue, while Ganesha realized Haimo had brought the Xenos outside.
• Haimo led Lania by the hand through the defensive line and announced that the monsters were now members of his Familia.
• Loki ordered Finn and Riveria to put away their weapons, suspecting Haimo had more in mind than he had revealed.

Haimo calmed the standoff over the Xenos by relying on the gods’ fear of his reputation, then invited Shakti and Ganesha to dinner so they could see the monsters for themselves. Ganesha fled, leaving Shakti to accompany Haimo and the Xenos.

• Loki and Ganesha ordered their forces to stand down, and the other gods and Adventurers followed suit after imagining what Haimo might do.
• Ishtar reacted with terror at the thought of Haimo, while Haimo admitted to Loki that he had brought the Xenos out for fresh air.
• Sasamori Aya and the other girls arrived ready to fight, then relaxed when they saw Haimo calmly holding Aruru beside the well-behaved monsters.
• Tsukuyo Inaba sensed the monsters’ rationality, and Haimo reassured her that everything was fine.
• Haimo invited Shakti and Ganesha to dinner so they could observe the Xenos, but Ganesha made an excuse and ran away, telling Shakti to go in his place.

Haimo brought Shakti and the Xenos to the Hostess of Fertility, where Mia welcomed them despite frightening the tavern’s customers. Ryu Lion and the other waitresses rushed back after hearing Haimo had been captured, and Haimo began deciding which Xenos could move into his residence without frightening his children.

• Haimo told Shakti he had removed the Xenos’ urge to attack and helped them adjust to their new consciousnesses.
• Haimo brought the Xenos to the Hostess of Fertility, where Mia complained that their presence had frightened her customers.
• Fei and Rei praised Mia’s cooking, and Mia gladly offered the Xenos more food.
• Mia explained that Ryu Lion, Chloe, Lunoire, and Anya had rushed out armed after hearing Haimo was in danger.
• Ryu Lion and the others returned to find Haimo unharmed and the Xenos eating at the tavern.
• Haimo said he wanted only the less frightening Xenos to move into his residence so his daughters would not have nightmares.

Haimo brought Rei, Fei, and the other Xenos to the Hostess of Fertility, where their ability to speak and behave politely shocked Ryu Lion and the staff. After the meal, he escorted them to his mansion to settle them in, leaving Fei amazed by its chandelier.

• Haimo reassured Ryu Lion and the others that Rei, Fei, and the other monsters were members of his Familia and would not hurt anyone.
• Rei greeted Ryu Lion and the staff, shocking them by speaking human language, while Chloe and Anya explained how unusual and frightening monsters were to Orario’s residents.
• Haimo helped Rei and Fei eat, and Fei innocently told him that her heart beat faster around him; Kikakujō Mary and the others quickly stepped in to feed the bird Xenos themselves.
• Haimo said he would take the Xenos to his residence, and Shakti escorted the group through the streets before warning him to keep them under supervision.
• Haimo led the Xenos into his mansion, where Fei took off her hood and marveled at the chandelier.

Haimo welcomed Rei, Fei, Lania, and Helga into his Familia’s Mansion and asked the Xenos to protect and care for the traumatized children he planned to bring there. After Hestia reunited with him, Haimo learned that Tsukuyo and Rin had rescued Lili from Soma Familia and began questioning her about the ten-million-valis fee required to leave.

• Haimo introduced the Xenos as unofficial members of his Familia and offered them rooms in the Mansion until he could bring their companions out of the Dungeon.
• Rei, Fei, and Lania pledged their lives to Haimo, who asked them to guard and teach the children he planned to shelter.
• Mary and Rin took the Xenos to bathe, while Haimo arranged a suitable entrance and adjustable water temperature for Lania.
• Hestia rushed out from hiding and tearfully embraced Haimo after hearing rumors that monsters had kidnapped him.
• Tsukuyo explained that she and Rin had rescued Lili from Soma Familia members and brought her to the Mansion after Seitenshi healed her injuries.
• Haimo visited Lili in the guest room and asked her about the ten-million-valis fee she faced to leave Soma Familia.

Haimo challenged Lili to stop seeing herself as powerless and use her transformation magic to fight back against the Soma Familia. He left her with a test for the next day: face Soma and drink his purest Divine Wine, proving that her will to live could overcome its influence.

• Lili revealed her Ashen Woman magic, which let her perfectly transform into another race, and offered it as her only bargaining chip.
• Haimo said her magic alone was not enough and challenged her to show the resolve to fight for herself.
• Haimo explained how Lili could use her transformation and voice-changing abilities to turn Soma Familia members against Zanis.
• Lili admitted she feared Zanis's brutal retaliation, but Haimo reminded her that obedience had not spared her from abuse.
• Haimo told Lili he would take her to Soma the next day and ordered her to drink the purest Divine Wine as a test of her will to live.

Lili overcame her fear of Divine Wine and chose to follow Haimo’s plan to challenge Soma, while Haimo considered the growing needs of his Familia and received help from Rei in the bath. The chapter ended with Haimo waking Hestia after finding her hiding under his bedcovers.

• Lili weighed the danger of Divine Wine against her life of abuse and debt, then ran downstairs to tell Haimo she wanted to stay and prove herself by drinking the wine.
• Haimo corrected Lili for saying she would merely try, and Lili firmly promised she could do it; he told her to sleep and get up early.
• Haimo reflected that the Mansion would soon be overcrowded and planned to check on Ganesha’s promised castle construction.
• Rei quietly washed Haimo’s back with her wings and thanked him, Mary, and Lun for welcoming the Xenos and making clothes for them.
• Haimo found Hestia tucked beneath his covers and tickled her foot, making her shriek and kick the quilt off the bed.

Hestia joined Haimo in bed after confronting him about Sasamori Aya, while Dix planned to attack Haimo’s home to reclaim the monsters he considered his property. Ikelos warned that Haimo might grow stronger when targeted, and Dix abandoned the assault rather than risk walking into a trap.

• Hestia accused Haimo of hiding women, then snuggled beside him and fell asleep after seeing how exhausted he was.
• Dix learned that Haimo had brought intelligent monsters to the surface and declared them his merchandise and prey.
• Dix ordered the Ikelos Familia to gather weapons and attack Haimo’s home to reclaim the monsters.
• Ikelos stopped Dix, threatened to expose the Familia’s crimes to the Guild, and explained his belief that Haimo grew stronger when people bore him hostility or attacked him.
• Dix reconsidered the assault, cursed, and asked what they should do instead.

Dix accepted the loss of the monsters taken by Haimo’s group and ordered his men to secretly capture more through Knossos. At Haimo’s mansion, Lili began settling into her promised role while the household and its Xenos guests gathered for breakfast, which ended with Aruru suddenly leaping into Haimo’s arms.

• Dix ordered his subordinates to search for monsters and capture every one they could, while keeping their connection to the stolen monsters secret.
• Haimo woke with Hestia clinging to him, then found the maids preparing breakfast and Lili waiting to honor her promise.
• Enju Aihara, Kohina Hiruko, Kisara Tendo, and Seitenshi joined Haimo and Lili as the Xenos guests came out of their rooms for breakfast.
• Anya froze at the sight of the Xenos lining up, and Lunoire teased her about their manners.
• Hestia leaned against Haimo after drinking warm milk, but Aruru suddenly rushed across the hall and crashed into his arms.

Haimo agreed to upgrade Loki's Familia weapons and brought Loki and Lili to the Soma Familia headquarters. Lili's tense return to her former home ended with Loki forcing their way inside to find Soma.

• Aruru and Hestia competed for Haimo's attention until Ryu, Chloe, Lunoire, and Anya served breakfast.
• Loki arrived with weapons from her Familia and asked Haimo to upgrade them; he agreed to work on them with Hephaestus.
• Haimo invited Loki to accompany him and asked Lili to come along after breakfast.
• Haimo, Loki, and Lili reached the Soma Familia headquarters, where the guards said Soma was in the brewery.
• Loki shoved past the guards and led Haimo and Lili into the headquarters to find Soma.

Haimo and Loki entered the Soma Familia compound while Lili disguised herself and slipped away to reach the private vault. Lili tricked the guards into leaving and began picking the vault’s lock, while Haimo and Loki confronted Soma in the brewery.

• Lili used her Transformation Magic to disguise herself as a Dog Person boy and went to the underground vault.
• Haimo and Loki passed the drunken Soma Familia members and confronted Soma in his brewery.
• Lili resisted the Divine Wine’s influence and imitated Zanis’s voice to send the vault guards to the brewery.
• Lili approached the unguarded Fine Steel Gate and began picking its brass padlock.

Lili resisted the Divine Wine’s overpowering influence long enough to carry its finest bottle out of Soma Familia’s storeroom, while Haimo confronted Zanis about the brewery’s exploited members. Haimo revealed he had come to pick up a child, and Lili appeared at the brewery entrance with the bottle and blood running from her mouth.

• Lili entered Soma Familia’s private storeroom, nearly succumbed to the Divine Wine, then bit her tongue to regain control and carried the bottle away.
• Haimo challenged Soma over the addicts in the brewery, while Loki drank Divine Wine and Zanis excused his treatment of the Familia members.
• Zanis privately suspected Haimo’s surface-dwelling monsters were Xenos tied to Dix’s black-market trade and believed they might expose the Ikelos Familia’s dealings.
• Haimo said he had come to pick up a child, and Lili entered carrying the exquisite Divine Wine bottle with her voice slurred and her mouth bleeding.

Lili endured a mouthful of Soma’s Divine Wine and proved she could resist its effects enough to choose Haimo as her god. Haimo took the unconscious Lili away, while Soma removed Zanis as captain and appointed Chandra in his place.

• Lili handed Haimo the bottle of Divine Wine despite Zanis’s fury and Soma’s recognition of it.
• Haimo opened the bottle and offered it to Lili, who drank a large mouthful to prove she wanted the strength to escape her life of exploitation.
• Though the wine overwhelmed Lili, she fought to speak to Haimo, and Soma recognized her resistance as a miracle.
• Soma dismissed Zanis and made Chandra captain of the Soma Familia, then accepted responsibility for the Familia’s wrongdoing.
• Haimo carried the unconscious Lili away, saying he had come for her and that she had proved worthy of becoming his child; Loki asked Soma to send her some wine.

Haimo brought the unconscious Lili back from the Soma Familia and began her transfer to the Haimo Familia, while Loki praised Lili’s resolve. At the Guild, Eina raised concerns about Lili’s reputation just as Haimo arrived to complete the paperwork.

• Loki praised Lili for resisting Soma’s Divine Wine, and she parted from Haimo to return to Twilight Manor.
• Haimo brought Lili to the Mansion and instructed Rei to clean and treat her injuries.
• Haimo went to the Guild to formalize Lili’s transfer and urge Royman to accelerate construction of a new castle.
• Haimo’s arrival silenced the crowded Guild hall, and he went to the VIP room to meet Eina.
• Eina warned Haimo that Guild records described Lili as a Supporter who abandoned parties and stole their equipment.

Eina approved Lili’s Conversion paperwork and warned Haimo about his dangerous trip into the Dungeon, while Haimo flirted with her before leaving with Royman to inspect the new residence. On the Dungeon’s sixteenth floor, Sasamori Aya and Onigawara Rin easily defeated monsters and praised their strength and equipment.

• Eina stamped Lili’s Conversion paperwork after Haimo insisted that he would not abandon his new child.
• Eina reprimanded Haimo for entering the Dungeon and bringing monsters to the surface, and Haimo teased her about their promised meal.
• Royman arrived and offered to show Haimo the construction progress on the new residence, which the Guild was funding.
• Haimo told Eina he would pick her up after work, leaving her coworkers to tease her about their exchange.
• Sasamori Aya killed a Minotaur on the sixteenth floor and dismissed the middle-floor monsters as weak.
• Onigawara Rin examined her Tachi after defeating three Hellhounds and praised the weapon forged by her God.

The Haimo Familia discussed their growing strength, the fear they inspired, and whether they should challenge another Familia to a War Game. Lido and two Xenos overheard their conversation, but Tsukuyo Inaba discovered them, and Kisara Tendo attacked their hiding place as Enju Aihara joined in.

• The Haimo Familia girls noted that their strength and Seitenshi’s buffs made the Dungeon’s upper and middle floors far less dangerous.
• Hanabishi Warabi and Kikakujō Mary observed that people in Orario feared them, while Tsukuyo Inaba pointed out that their god was taking risks to protect the Xenos.
• Sasamori Aya proposed challenging another Familia to a War Game, but Onigawara Rin argued that their levels and numbers were insufficient.
• Lido and two Xenos secretly listened from behind a stalactite, learned that Rei and the others had reached the surface safely, and prepared to return to the Hidden Safe Zone.
• Tsukuyo Inaba detected the Xenos, and Kisara Tendo cut through their hiding place with Sword Aura.
• Enju Aihara sprang into action as dust filled the passage.

Enju Aihara and the girls encountered Lido and his companions on the sixteenth floor, where they nearly fought before Lido recognized their connection to Lord Haimo. After hearing that more Xenos lived on the twentieth floor, they followed Lido there through the Dungeon.

• Enju Aihara shattered the boulder where Lido and his companions were hiding, while Kohina Hiruko attacked Lido with her kodachi.
• Lido dropped his greatsword and explained that he knew Lord Haimo and that one of his people was at the girls’ residence, stopping the fight.
• Lido told the girls that the Xenos’ largest settlement was in the Hidden Safe Zone on the twentieth floor, and they agreed to visit it.
• Enju Aihara and Sasamori Aya quickly killed two Minotaurs on the way, leaving Lido stunned by their strength.
• Lido led the party to a concealed passage on the twentieth floor and opened the way into the Xenos settlement.

Lido brought members of Haimo’s Familia to the Xenos’ cavern, where a communication orb let them hear Rei and Lania describe the god’s kindness and plans for a castle that could house the Xenos on the surface. Rei’s account of bathing with Haimo stirred jealousy among the girls, and Lido tried to change the subject.

• Lido introduced Haimo’s Familia to Gros and the Xenos, who lowered their weapons after learning who the girls were.
• The Xenos questioned the girls about life on the surface while Fels arrived with a communication orb linked to Rei and the others.
• Lido and Gros spoke with Rei and Lania, and Lania confirmed that Haimo treated them well.
• Fei described the care Rei and the others had received, and Rei revealed Haimo’s plan to build a castle where all the Xenos could live on the surface.
• The girls grew jealous when Rei revealed she had helped Haimo bathe, and Lido hastily redirected the conversation toward repaying the god.

The Xenos welcomed Haimo’s girls with a feast, and Fels explained why Ouranos could not publicly protect them. When the girls asked about Haimo’s past in Heaven, Fels revealed that he had been a dangerous god who helped start a devastating war to discover how to kill Gods permanently.

• Lido and the Xenos prepared their rarest food and welcomed Haimo’s girls to the KPA Cave.
• Sasamori Aya and Onigawara Rin asked why Ouranos could not bring the Xenos to the surface, and Fels explained that doing so would destroy the Guild’s authority and provoke a massacre.
• Tsukuyo Inaba asked Fels about Haimo’s affairs in Heaven, prompting Fels to recount Ouranos’s warning that Haimo had been a vicious and dangerously curious god.
• Fels said Haimo could master the Gods’ techniques at a glance, then became obsessed with learning how to kill Gods permanently.
• Fels revealed that Haimo and Loki had launched a war that plunged Heaven into mass slaughter, and that Haimo kept the fighting going after Loki grew tired of it.

Fels recounted Lord Haimo’s past slaughter and rule over Heaven, then warned that the revived gods could not know whether their memories were real. Gros and the Xenos declared their loyalty to Haimo, while Haimo inspected the new construction site in Orario and sent a message to Ouranos.

• Fels told the Xenos and Haimo’s companions that Haimo had ruled Heaven for ten thousand years, killed every god, and left Heaven empty until the gods revived.
• Sasamori Aya and her companions showed little concern about Haimo’s past, while the Xenos reacted with fear and uncertainty.
• Gros defended Haimo, declared him his patron god, and led the Xenos in pledging their allegiance to him.
• Rei endorsed the Xenos’ decision to follow Haimo, whom they saw as one of the few beings willing to protect them.
• Haimo inspected the rapidly progressing construction site in Orario and told Royman to convey his approval to Ouranos.