Chapter Summaries

Hiraku Machio, a man who died after years of illness, met a god who transferred him to another world with a healthy, younger body and a wish to farm. He arrived in a forest with his Almighty Farming Tool, unsure whether anyone lived nearby.

• Hiraku Machio agreed to be transferred to another world after the god offered to restore his health and youth.
• Hiraku asked for a body that would not get sick and a destination with few people, explaining his difficulty trusting and communicating with others.
• Hiraku asked to farm, and the god obtained an Almighty Farming Tool that could transform into other tools, return to Hiraku, and be stored inside his body.
• Hiraku was transferred to a forest, found that his body was healthy and young, and saw forest in every direction with no people in sight.

The narrator survived in another world by using the Almighty Farming Tool to build shelter, secure water and food, and cultivate fields. He adopted the injured dogs Kuro and Yuki and their puppies, harvested abundant crops, and began making cooking tools, while the final side story began recounting Kuro’s past.

• The narrator dug a well, carved a home into a tree, and used the Almighty Farming Tool to obtain water and hunt rabbit-like animals for food.
• He built a toilet, fences, a ditch, and fields, where seedlings appeared and grew into crops after he prayed to the gods.
• Kuro and Yuki arrived injured, Yuki gave birth to four puppies in the storehouse, and the dogs stayed with the narrator and helped guard his fields.
• The narrator named the dogs Kuro, Yuki, Kuro One, Kuro Two, Kuro Three, and Kuro Four, then harvested the crops and made stone cooking utensils.
• In a side story, Kuro began describing how he encountered a powerful female who defeated him and ordered him to accompany her.

Hiraku welcomed Lu and Tia into his household, while his fields, dog population, and plans for the waterway continued to grow. As Kuro One’s children returned from seeking mates, one came back with three partners.

• Hiraku built new fields and fruit plots while Kuro and the others hunted, and Zabuton’s children began leaving to find mates.
• Kuro One’s and the others’ children left to seek partners, while some already-paired dogs stayed behind and Hiraku built them communal longhouses.
• Lu recounted how Infernal Wolves and Demon Spiders had cornered her before Hiraku saved her and became her husband.
• Tia arrived while Kuro and the others attacked her, reunited with Lu, and joined Hiraku’s household.
• Tia left on an errand, and Kuro One’s children began returning, including one male who brought three female mates.

Hiraku’s settlement grew into Big Tree Village as new residents and visitors arrived, and he negotiated a tax agreement with the Demon King’s envoy. After a dragon visited and prompted the village to improve its guest reception, a group of Beastmen arrived seeking friendly relations.

• Hiraku and the villagers harvested wine grapes, made red wine, and celebrated as the wine proved popular.
• Flora returned with twenty Oni Race maids and four cattle, and Tia later brought three Angels, fifteen Lizardmen, and forty chickens.
• Hiraku named the settlement Big Tree Village and agreed to pay the Demon King ten percent of its field harvest as tax.
• Doraim, a true dragon, visited the village, exchanged gifts, and left after a feast with food and drink.
• Hiraku and the villagers established a reception system, then Kuudel brought ten armored Beastmen led by Guraru, who sought friendly relations.

The village collected its taxes, expanded its farms and community, and welcomed new residents, including Donovan and Rusti, while the narrator became a father to Alfred. The chapter ended with Fraulerm arriving at the village and encountering its fearsome inhabitants and creatures.

• Beelzebub collected crops as taxes, praised the village's food, and discussed buying more produce before returning to the Demon King's castle.
• The narrator hunted a Grappler Bear and a Bloody Viper after they fought in the forest, and the village ate their meat.
• The narrator studied the geography around the village, and the dwarf Donovan arrived seeking good alcohol and decided to settle there.
• The villagers expanded their fields and orchards, improved their food and drinks, and built new bathhouses as Alfred was born to the narrator and Lu.
• Doraim's daughter Rasutisumoon attacked the village after suspecting her father of infidelity, then apologized and stayed as a resident to learn restraint.
• Fraulerm arrived on orders from her father and was overwhelmed by the village's dragons, High Elves, wolves, and Demon Spider.

Lu worried that she and Tia received too little attention in the next volume, and Tia revealed that other characters also counted as heroines. After hearing that Hakuren would appear in volume two, Lu and Tia resolved to make themselves stand out.

• Lu asked Tia whether they received too little page time despite being the heroines.
• Tia told Lu that Zabuton-san and Kuro-san were also heroines, and Lu questioned Kuro's inclusion because he was male.
• Tia reassured Lu that they were heroines but warned that Hakuren-san, a dragon, would make a more conspicuous entrance in volume two.
• Lu and Tia vowed to stir things up in volume two and asked readers for their support.

Hiraku Machio recorded the people, growth, and farming life of Big Tree Village, which he had built in the Forest of Death with help from the god’s gifts. As Lu, Tia, Ria, Ann, and Daga watched him write, he gave up on the record for the day and hoped a talented writer would someday join the village.

• Hiraku Machio recalled how the god sent him to another world with a healthy body and the Almighty Farming Tool, and how he became chief of Big Tree Village.
• Hiraku described the village’s residents and their roles, including the Infernal Wolves, giant spiders, High Elves, Oni Race, Angels, lizardmen, Beastmen, dwarves, and visitors from other lands.
• Hiraku noted that the village had grown and harvested crops three times a year, leaving him with no food worries.
• Hiraku carved a record of the village onto wooden boards and decided paper would be easier to use next time.
• Lu, Tia, Ria, Ann, and Daga peeked at Hiraku’s writing, and he stopped when they commented on their sections.

The village chief expanded the village’s games and welcomed the Lamia and Doraim’s dragon relatives, including Hakuren, who stayed and became a teacher. Trade improved through Lamia transport, Flora completed miso and soy sauce, and Fraurem learned that the Demon King’s princess was preparing an attack on the village; Lu appeared as she and her father debated how to respond.

• The village chief made toys and games, while Kuro’s descendants returned from the dungeon with five Lamia, whom he apologized to and sent home with crops.
• A dragon attacked the village, but the village chief wounded and grounded her before she transformed into Hakuren; Doraim’s family arrived, and Hakuren was made to clean up the damage before joining the feast.
• Doraim’s relatives celebrated in the village and left gifts, while Hakuren stayed behind, eventually becoming a teacher for the village children.
• The village chief distributed Death’s gifts, lent the Labyrinth Stone to the Lamia, and arranged for them and Doraim’s subordinates to transport goods; Flora finished making miso and soy sauce.
• Fraurem learned that the princess was gathering troops to attack the village and discussed with her father how to stop them without destroying the capital; Lu appeared while they were still troubled.

The Village Chief distributed Reward Medals, approved recruiting outsiders to establish a new village, and began organizing festivals and musical activities. He welcomed Lu’s grandfather, built infrastructure at the new village site, and received the investigation team back with seventeen Bloody Vipers, whose fate for the Giants remained uncertain.

• The Village Chief expanded fields, distributed Reward Medals, and dealt with villagers exchanging them for alcohol, games, furniture, and requests to have children with him.
• The Village Chief approved recruiting humans and demons for a separate new village, while attempts to plan a sports festival and broader festival stalled and villagers helped him make musical instruments.
• The Progenitor visited to see Lu and Alfred, asked the Village Chief to carve a statue of the God of Creation, and later sent a piano as a gift.
• Ria and the others chose a site south of the river, and the Village Chief built bridges, cleared a road and building plots, and prepared a well, toilets, a shrine, and waterways.
• Rasuti and Hakuren returned from the Northern Dungeon with seventeen Bloody Vipers, explaining that they had spared small ones for the Giants to eat.

Big Tree Village held its first martial arts tournament, with divisions for general contestants, warriors, and knights. Pillow won the knight division, and the chapter ended with the awards ceremony underway.

• The village chose a martial arts tournament as its festival theme, and the narrator prepared the grounds and organized the divisions.
• The general division concluded with the contestants competing under rules designed to limit injuries, and Frau and Sena earned praise for their long bout.
• Mea defeated Guraru in the warrior division final and won the championship, while Donovan, the Lamias, and Guraru received awards for their performances.
• Hakuren and Rasuti fought an exhibition match in human form, and Hakuren won after knocking Rasuti down.
• The knight division advanced through its rounds, with Tia defeating Lu and Pillow defeating Bulga in the semifinals.
• Pillow defeated Tia in the final and received the championship medals, trophy, and crown, which it placed on its rear.

Hiraku and the villagers struggled to accommodate three unexpectedly large immigrant groups while racing to finish the harvest and prepare for winter. The Minotaurs began building Village Two, the Centaurs took on fast transport between villages, and the Tree Elves settled near the fields, but Hiraku was still considering how each group would manage farming.

• The queen bee escaped the spiders’ captivity and accepted a new hive in a flower-filled paradise, agreeing to share honey with the spiders.
• Hiraku accepted all three immigrant groups and organized separate new villages, naming them Village One, Village Two, and Village Three provisionally.
• Doraim brought seventy-two Minotaurs, Beezel brought 104 Centaur refugees, and Michael’s connections brought Tree Elves to Big Tree Village.
• Hiraku and the village representatives arranged temporary shelter and work for the newcomers, then prioritized the harvest and traded crops for food and supplies.
• The Minotaurs helped build large houses in Village Two, while the Centaurs began carrying messages and goods between Big Tree Village and Village Two.
• Hiraku learned the Centaurs could run the route in about twenty minutes at full speed and wondered whether their representative Gruwald could communicate with his horse.

Glaem, a divine farming tool who was once part of the Divine Spear Glaem, recounted his life serving his master as the master built a growing family and village. Glaem remained devoted to him and looked forward to working and living by his side.

• Glaem began serving his blessed human master, helping him farm, build, and make tools in the forest.
• Infernal Wolves, a Demon Spider, a vampire girl, an angel girl, and many other residents joined the household, while Glaem worried over his master's safety and happiness.
• Glaem revealed that he was a divided spirit of the ancient Divine Spear Glaem and helped his master defeat a wyvern.
• The Demon Race and dragons visited, and later the vampire and angel gave birth to the master's children as the settlement continued to grow.
• Glaem became upset when his master considered managing without him, but stayed by his side as they established villages and continued their daily life.
• Glaem declined to become fishing gear and agreed to help make toys for the Infernal Wolves, hoping to keep working with his master.

Hiraku managed the villages through winter, mediated Glatts's courtship of Rinona and Dors's marriage troubles with Kuhdel, and learned that four more women were pregnant with his children. Spring brought plans for education and village development, followed by expanded farmland and new crops and livestock for Village Two and Village Three.

• Hiraku arranged winter support for the new villages, while Hakuren and Rasuti supplied huge fish to cover the growing wolves' food needs.
• Hiraku learned that Ria, Lize, Rafa, and Ann were pregnant with his children.
• Glatts proposed to Rinona after visiting to challenge the village's fighters, and Hiraku required her willing consent before supporting their marriage.
• Hiraku persuaded Dors and Kuhdel to exchange written requests about marriage, and they left the village together.
• Hiraku tested parachutes with Rasuti, Gran Maria, and the Alcohol Slime, replaced the river bridge, and hunted Panic Caribou for their edible antlers.
• Hiraku distributed Reward Medals, arranged teachers for the new villages, expanded Big Tree Village's fields and orchard, and established crops and livestock plans in Village Two and Village Three.

Big Tree Village prepared for festivals and welcomed Angels after Kierbit led an attack over Tia’s relationship with the village chief. The chief passed the Angel Tribe’s Trials and secured Kierbit’s approval, while the village continued adapting to new residents and finished the chief’s new mansion.

• The village investigated a distant hot spring, practiced fire response with a bucket brigade, held a hide-and-seek tournament, and agreed to sell a small portion of its alcohol reserves.
• The village chief played mahjong with Glatts, drew a sliding race as the festival event, and began building a hill and reservoir for it.
• The Progenitor warned that a large group of undead had appeared far to the northeast, and the village notified nearby allies while deciding to leave the undead alone for now.
• Kierbit led Angels and Harpies to Big Tree Village in anger over Tia’s child, but the Harpies and Angels apologized after the village chief confronted them.
• The village chief passed Kierbit’s wealth, intelligence, martial prowess, negotiation, and luck trials, and Kierbit accepted his relationship with Tia.
• Kierbit explained the Harpies’ living needs, the village planned to grow cotton, and the village chief’s large new mansion was completed.

The village chief helped resolve Good Forest Village’s dispute with Shuma Village, welcomed Gutt’s family to Big Tree Village, and led a hot spring survey north. After moles attacked the giants near the Northern Dungeon, the survey party split up to investigate the hot spring and the newly exposed tunnels.

• Donovan hired six lamias to help make wine, while Daga returned from Good Forest Village with Guraru and a request for the village chief to appeal to the Demon King.
• Frau discovered that Good Forest Village had returned the lord’s daughter to Shuma Village without explaining her miner’s cough, and she negotiated a reconciliation that led Gutt, Nacy, and Nat to move to Big Tree Village.
• The village chief formed a large hot spring survey team and traveled by teleportation to the Northern Dungeon, where moles attacked the giants and swallowed one of Kuro’s descendants before the village chief rescued it.
• The giants explained that the moles had emerged from an unknown cavern exposed when Hakuren and Rasuti collapsed part of the dungeon, and the village hosted a feast for them.
• The survey party split up to investigate the cavern and the hot spring; the village chief built a bath and sauna beside the hot-water source, while Lastismun joined Hakuren’s group to explore the tunnel westward.

The Village Chief and the Progenitor built an underground temple at one giant black rock, then carved a statue of the God of Light at a second site and discovered signs of more rocks. The Progenitor located a third site, while the Fallen God’s attempts at resurrection were repeatedly disrupted and an undead knight found a new purpose guarding the hot spring.

• The Village Chief spent winter making mochi, carving wooden tableware, and decorating the shrine, while Ursa grew close to Hakuren and joined races at the village track.
• The Progenitor arrived, and the Village Chief led a group to build a temple around the God of Creation’s statue in a deep underground chamber.
• The Village Chief dug a spiral tunnel to reach the chamber, and the group finished the underground sanctuary and built a wooden temple above the entrance.
• The Progenitor and Hakuren cleared monsters and insects from a second cave, where the Village Chief carved a statue of the God of Light and severed black strands beneath it.
• The Village Chief suspected the giant black rocks formed a pattern, and the Progenitor found a third rock at the indicated location before reporting more monsters.
• The Fallen God lamented that the statues and the Village Chief’s actions had repeatedly strengthened its seals, while a bewildered undead knight recalled awakening as a skeleton and searching for a liege.

An unnamed horse was bought by a wealthy merchant and brought to a village ranch, where he found a mate, learned to live with his owner and other riders, and eventually became a father. Given the name Belford, he prepared to race the centaurs, though he ended the day in a bad mood and went to sleep.

• A wealthy merchant bought the horse and a mare, then brought them by dragon to a village ranch, where the horse hoped she would become his mate.
• The horse struggled with his inexperienced owner’s riding but enjoyed running with two girls and carrying a slime.
• The horse grew jealous when the slime rode a wolf and when centaurs carried his owner, and he worried that a young male centaur might win over his mate.
• The horse and mare mated, and the long-eared girl and animal-eared girl helped care for the mare before she gave birth to a son.
• The animal-eared girl named the horse Belford, and he prepared to race the centaurs as the village’s fastest horse.
• Belford set aside thoughts of winning or losing and went to sleep in a bad mood.

The chapter followed Big Tree Village through the end of winter and the arrival of spring as its residents finished work, welcomed returning companions, prepared for the year, and expanded the pasture. It left the village celebrating Hakuren’s pregnancy and awaiting the return gift arranged by Fushu.

• The narrator attended the Progenitor’s banquet, learned that Beezel and Glatts had helped expose a conspiracy in the Demon King Kingdom, and welcomed Rasuti, Bulga, and Stifano back from a troubled visit home.
• The narrator adopted a black cat that was secretly the saved Demon God, while the Mountain Elves helped him modify a carriage and build blocks, a rocking chair, and a cradle.
• The narrator took Hakuren and a group of children to the hot springs, made the cat a small bathing pool, and began crafting wooden armor for the Death Knight.
• The narrator held the spring meeting, set the year’s farming and commerce plans, and arranged to receive ten newly married couples in Village One as Fushu’s return gift.
• The narrator expanded the pasture, helped prepare the villages for ordinary farming, and watched the soldier bees bring a new queen to the orchard after a weasel was defeated.
• Zabuton dressed Ursa and Nat in heavy outfits that made Ursa behave unusually well, and the narrator learned that Hakuren was pregnant.

The settlers moved into Village One, where Mam coordinated their housing and work trials as they adjusted to life alongside the tree spirits and other races. As their village life took shape, the village chief built a large smithy, while side stories followed Jack’s adjustment, an Infernal Wolf’s rescue of a Fenrir, and Gutt’s work teaching smithing.

• The village chief welcomed twenty settlers, learned that one girl was a Dragon Shrine Maiden, and reassured her about the nearby dragons while Death celebrated Hakuren’s pregnancy before Raimeiren took him away.
• Mam and Ig arranged for the settlers to live in Village One, with Mam serving as their liaison and Jack remaining their representative; the settlers chose houses and received nameplates.
• The settlers tried hunting, construction, brewing, farming, pottery, and other work, discovering their strengths and weaknesses as they settled in and befriended neighboring villagers.
• The village chief and the high elves built a smithy with three furnaces, and Gutt began forging its first sword; the chapter ended as the first harvest arrived.
• Jack recounted his first days in the village, including his fear of the fanged rabbit and his resolve to adapt, while an Infernal Wolf described rescuing a puppy that grew into a Fenrir attached to him.
• Gutt reunited with Nacy and their daughter Nat, became Big Tree Village’s blacksmith, and built a smithy in Village One to teach the settlers before deciding he wanted a furnace for melting iron.

Hiraku and the villagers dealt with a Death Ball swarm, tested weapons made from dragon scales and Kuro’s descendants’ horns, and enjoyed summer pools and village festivities. In side stories, Guraru won a Shashaato martial arts tournament and Wolgraf’s marriage was arranged, while the chapter ended before Wolgraf finished reflecting on the outcome.

• Gran Maria found Death Balls approaching Big Tree Village, and Zabuton's children trapped roughly two thousand of them in nets before the villagers ate them and held a potato party.
• Hiraku and Gutt tested lance materials, and Kuudel’s throw with one of Kuro’s descendants’ horns caused a powerful explosion that led the village to keep the horns out of use as weapons.
• Hiraku had Zabuton's children dyed in bright colors, and the Angels tested horn-based fireworks while Ann scolded them for not inviting everyone.
• Hiraku built several swimming pools, which the villagers used through summer before holding a barbecue to mark the pools’ seasonal closing.
• Guraru registered again as an adventurer in Shashaato, won its martial arts tournament, and returned to Big Tree Village with souvenirs.
• Wolgraf tried to avoid a marriage meeting with Randann’s sister, but a meal made with Guraru’s seasonings helped bring the match about, and Wolgraf’s marriage was settled.