Chapter Summaries

Claire Griffin reached Nafu City’s border viscountcy while using her weekly interdimensional trade to exchange healing potions for firearms and ammunition. The deal succeeded, giving Claire two revolvers and more than three hundred bullets.

• Claire learned that her father’s debts had been paid by selling the family’s royal capital estate, while Nafu City and the Griffin territory remained hers.
• Claire used her trade panel and connected with Monroe, a man from another world who offered a glass cup and a revolver.
• Claire recognized the revolver as a firearm and demonstrated that her Basic Healing Potion could heal a deep wound in seconds.
• Claire offered two full vials of healing potion for Monroe’s revolvers and the remaining partially used vial for his bullets.
• Claire and Monroe approved the exchange, and Claire received two revolvers and a large bag of bullets.

After trading with Monroe for guns and potions, Claire entered her viscount territory and asserted that she wanted to improve life for its people. Meanwhile, Knight Captain Dean plotted to undermine the returning lord, and Claire ended the chapter inspecting a village and spotting a dirty lamb.

• Claire declined Monroe’s offer to become fixed friends, stored most of the guns in her Spatial Ring, and loaded and marked one bullet in a revolver.
• Dean refused Vice Captain Hant’s suggestion to welcome the returning Viscount and ordered his knights to support his control of Nafu City.
• Claire learned from Regan that the carriage had entered her territory and would reach Nafu City in a few hours.
• Claire stopped at a nearby village, rejected Regan’s description of its residents as lowly commoners, and said she would help her subjects live better.
• Claire walked through the wheat-growing village and noticed a filthy little lamb.

Claire met Melly, her brother Kellan, and their mother in a wheat field and discovered how poverty and fear of nobles shaped their lives. After their mother mistook him for a tax collector, Claire gave the family ten Silver Coins and left.

• Melly introduced herself to Claire, but Kellan rushed over and knocked away the candy Claire offered her.
• Claire spoke with Kellan about his dream of becoming a knight so his family could eat well, then offered candy to him and Melly.
• Kellan and Melly's mother arrived, grew wary of Claire and Regan, and knelt in fear after Regan threatened them as nobles.
• The mother pleaded for more time to pay taxes and begged Claire not to raise them, revealing the family's hardship.
• Claire told Regan to give the family ten Silver Coins, then walked away.

Claire returned to Nafu City and confronted Knight Captain Dean, who had deliberately kept him waiting and defied his authority. After Dean drew his sword but held back from attacking, Claire shot him at close range as they passed each other.

• Claire learned that the viscountcy collected taxes twice a year and that its annual revenue had fallen to fifteen to twenty thousand Gold Coins.
• At Nafu City's gates, Dean refused to meet Claire promptly, so Claire waited for hours before the captain finally arrived.
• Claire dismissed Dean from his position as Knight Captain, and Dean protested that the role belonged to him by inheritance.
• Dean drew his greatsword and raised his Battle Aura, but Hant warned him against attacking the viscount, and Dean restrained himself.
• As Claire and Regan headed toward the city gates, Claire called Dean's attention and shot him from within seven steps.

Claire established her authority in Nafu City, took up residence in the Baronial Manor, and planned to cut taxes while targeting wealthier people and investigating the administrative officer. She went to sleep wondering about the strange blue moon.

• Claire named Hant the new Knight Captain and ordered him to behead Dean and hang his head at the barracks.
• Claire and Regan entered the Baronial Manor, where she reserved the basement for experiments and the top floor for her study and stored goods.
• Claire doubled the maids’ planned pay to ten Silver Coins a month and learned the Griffin Family had a little over twenty thousand Gold Coins left.
• Claire told Regan she would cut taxes and profit from those with money instead of squeezing the commoners.
• Claire asked Regan to look into how much the administrative officer had embezzled, then fell asleep beneath the blue moon.

Claire learned that the territory’s taxes had been burdening the commoners and ordered most of them removed, while also recruiting maids and clerks. The people of Nafu City celebrated the tax cuts and praised their returning viscount.

• Claire questioned steward Frank, learned about the territory’s many taxes, and ordered most of them abolished while changing collections to once a year.
• Claire told Regan to hire a clerk and learned that Hant had recovered more than fifty thousand Gold Coins from the former Knight Captain’s home.
• Notices announcing the tax cuts and recruitment drive appeared at the city gates, where Robin read them to a worried crowd.
• The commoners celebrated the reduced taxes, and Robin told Yuna she could apply for a maid position at the Baronial Manor.
• The crowd cheered for Claire and called him the viscount who had lifted their burdens.

After Claire’s tax reductions brought joy to Nafu City, he oversaw the recruitment of fifteen maids at the Baronial Manor. He hired Yuna, a timid girl who needed money for her sick mother, and ended the chapter waiting for next week’s trade.

• Kellan told his mother that Claire had reduced most taxes, and the news made the family celebrate.
• Claire let the maid applicants enter the castle for interviews, where Regan questioned them and Claire encouraged him to train inexperienced recruits.
• Yuna told Claire and Regan that she could do household chores and needed wages to buy medicine for her sick mother.
• Claire hired Yuna and ordered Regan to pay her the same ten Silver Coins as the other maids, without special treatment.
• Claire returned to his room and waited for next week’s trade.

Claire struggled to find a literate scribe, praised Yuna’s cooking, and agreed to host a welcome banquet for Nafu City’s nobles and merchants. At the banquet, he exposed their attempt to preserve their tax profits and invoked Frank’s authority to challenge their proposal.

• Regan told Claire that no one in Nafu City had applied for the scribe position because few people could read, write, and do arithmetic, so Claire considered recruiting from another territory.
• Claire praised Yuna’s steak and put her in charge of the kitchen, while Regan scolded her for interrupting the meal.
• Regan told Claire that the city’s minor nobles and merchants wanted to hold a welcome banquet, and Claire agreed, expecting them to bring gifts.
• Regan announced inflated values for the gifts at the entrance, prompting the nobles and merchants to present more valuable offerings worth over five thousand Gold Coins in total.
• Baron Eugene urged Claire to restore the previous taxes, claiming the city needed the revenue, and other nobles supported him.
• Claire rejected Eugene’s proposal and pointed to Frank’s long service as the government official, challenging the group to answer for its position.

Claire faced nobles who wanted her to reverse her tax reduction decree, then used Russian Roulette to frighten them into leaving. Afterward, she told Regan that the nobles could not threaten her and hinted that she would reclaim the Griffin Family’s stolen wealth.

• Claire let Frank take the blame for proposing the tax reduction, and Frank confirmed her account under pressure from Baron Eugene and the other nobles.
• Baron Eugene urged Claire to raise taxes again by claiming she needed money for her coming-of-age ceremony, but Claire proposed letting the gods decide.
• Claire demonstrated her revolver by shooting a hole through an iron suit of armor, then offered Baron Eugene a one-in-six chance to risk his life and make her withdraw the decree.
• Baron Eugene and the other nobles fled without touching the revolver, and Claire ordered Regan to have a wet sofa removed.
• Claire told Regan that the nobles had been taking the Griffin Family’s wealth and said they were too foolish to cause trouble as she watched them leave.

Claire inspected the Knight Squad and found that most of its fifty-four members had not learned Battle Aura. He gave them three days to reach Apprentice Knight rank, ordered Hant to train them with a new manual, and left Hant to figure out how to enforce the order.

• Hant greeted Claire at the military camp, where only a fraction of the knights were present.
• Hant hurriedly gathered all fifty-four knights, many of whom arrived in sleepwear after thirteen minutes.
• The knights introduced themselves, and Hant reported that only one was a Bronze Knight and three were Apprentice Knights.
• Claire gave the knights three days to advance to Apprentice Knight rank and ordered Hant to train them using his manual.
• Claire told Regan to post a recruitment notice, then left for the Baronial Manor.
• The knights complained about the training manual and decided they would rather go have fun than train.

Claire returned to the military camp and ordered the knights who had failed to become Apprentice Knights to leave. After terrifying Hant with her revolver, she taught him that his authority as Knight Captain came from her appointment and punished him for trying to plead on the knights’ behalf.

• Claire returned to the camp and ordered the knights who had failed to advance to pack their belongings and leave within ten minutes.
• The disgruntled knights urged Hant to plead with Claire, and he approached her despite his uncertainty.
• Claire pointed her revolver at Hant and challenged him over his failure to train, then made him demonstrate courage by facing a trigger pull.
• Claire explained that Hant was Knight Captain because she had appointed him, and he understood that his position depended on her authority.
• Claire fired at the head hanging at the camp entrance, then forgave Hant for his first offense; Hant thanked her with tears in his eyes.

Claire took control of the barracks, dismissed the knights who lacked battle aura, and ordered Hant to rebuild the squad through a more generous recruitment program. As she returned to the manor with Regan, she explained that she wanted a force loyal to her and defined truth and justice as belonging to the stronger side.

• Claire ordered Hant to expel the knights who lacked battle aura, and Hant forced them out of the barracks.
• Hant showed Claire fewer than twenty local applicants, so Claire sent them home and ordered recruitment across the barony with free meals and salaries.
• Claire instructed Hant to repair the barracks hall and replace damaged training equipment, promising funding through Butler Regan.
• Regan worried that Claire's plans would cost many Gold Coins, and Claire explained that she needed a knight squad loyal to her.
• Claire told Regan that the bigger fist was truth and the victor was justice, then returned to the manor without answering whether Hant could be trusted.

After Claire left, Hant ordered the knights to spread the viscount’s new rule across the barony. In a village, Kellan gave up on becoming a knight to support his family, but Ike brought news that training at the military camp would now be free, reviving Kellan’s hopes.

• Hant rehung Dean’s head above the camp gates as a reminder, then sent the three other Apprentice Knights to announce the new rule throughout the barony.
• Kellan’s family worried that they could not afford the meat and potions needed for him to train as a knight, so Kellan decided to stop practicing and help his father harvest wheat.
• Ike arrived at Kellan’s home and told him that the viscount had made military camp training free.
• Ike pulled Kellan out to see the knight who had announced the rule, while Kellan’s parents rejoiced that their son might still become a knight.
• Kellan’s parents thanked the Lord for granting them food, and Melly wished she could eat candy every day.

Claire continued experimenting with healing potions while Knight Captain Hant recruited and welcomed fifty-seven new knight candidates into the military camp. On his way to inspect the recruits, Claire ran into Melly, who had secretly traveled to Nafu City to visit her newly knighted brother.

• Claire practiced making Basic Healing Potions and continued researching how to produce them in large quantities.
• Hant recruited fifty-seven youths, bringing the camp’s total to sixty-one, and laid out their rules and training schedule.
• Claire set out for the military camp, where the recruits eagerly ate the generous breakfast provided for them.
• Claire stopped the carriage after spotting Melly, who explained that she had come to see her brother and brought him food.

Claire took Melly to the military camp, where Kellan discovered that the kind Big Brother who had encouraged him was actually the Baron. Claire watched the fifty-seven youths train and learned that it could take two years for most of them to become Apprentice Knights.

• Claire took Melly to the military camp by carriage and gave her extra rainbow candy to share with Kellan.
• Hant disciplined two youths for whispering in formation as the fifty-seven recruits waited for the Baron.
• Claire arrived with Melly and greeted the recruits; Kellan recognized his sister and realized Claire was the Baron who had encouraged him.
• Claire watched the recruits train and learned that Kellan was Hant's strongest prospect for cultivating Battle Aura.
• Hant estimated that most recruits could become Apprentice Knights in two years, and Claire told him to train them without rushing.

Kellan reunited with Melly during training, while Claire took her back to the Baronial Manor and worked unsuccessfully on a Battle Aura potion. At midnight, Claire used his newly restored Trade Point to begin another cross-world trade.

• Kellan reached the finish line first, and Melly visited him with food and candy for him and their mother.
• Claire promised to get Melly home safely, then brought her to the Baronial Manor, where she met Yuna and made a new friend.
• Claire spent the day experimenting with a potion to cultivate Battle Aura but failed to find a solution.
• Regan reported that Melly had returned home safely, and Claire went to the sixth floor after dinner.
• At midnight, Claire saw that he had one Trade Point and started a trade, hoping for a better match.

Claire negotiated with Chen Han, a martial artist fleeing pursuers, and found a chance to acquire cultivation techniques that might help her advance as a knight. She deceived him with a glass cup and reached an agreement to trade it for three techniques.

• Claire watched Chen Han evade martial artists who were hunting him for stealing the Five Elements Breathing Technique.
• Chen Han explained that the foundational technique could strengthen the body, and Claire offered to trade for his cultivation techniques.
• Claire disguised an ordinary glass cup as a rare crystal treasure from the Merfolk Kingdom and showed it to Chen Han.
• Chen Han offered the Five Elements Breathing Technique and the Minor Heavenly Cycle Circulation Method for the cup.
• Claire demanded Chen Han's family Movement Technique as well, and they agreed to the trade.

After trading with Chen Han, Claire discovered that the books he gave her had been translated to fit her world and used one to advance from an elementary mage to an Intermediate Mage overnight. She headed to the military camp to test the other books’ usefulness and found Melly cleaning the hall, apparently having won Regan over.

• Claire learned that Chen Han could trade only once a year, then watched the books from his world transform into readable texts adapted to her world.
• Claire studied the Mage Mental Power Circulation Method through the night and advanced from an elementary mage to an Intermediate Mage.
• Claire tested her new abilities and concluded that her magic could threaten a Silver Rank knight, though she still wanted to reach High Mage as soon as possible.
• Claire set out for the military camp to investigate the other knight cultivation books and found Melly cleaning the hall while Regan allowed her to help.

Regan found Melly waiting outside the Baronial Manor to play with Yuna and gradually warmed to the lonely girl. After Melly gave him a candy as a reward, Regan invited her inside to experience being a maid.

• Regan found Melly at the manor entrance and learned she had come to see Yuna, who was still working.
• Melly explained that she had no one to play with at home, and Regan began to feel sorry for her.
• Melly praised Regan for being the butler and asked whether she could become a maid when she grew up.
• Melly gave Regan her rainbow candy as a reward, then decided to go home because she thought Yuna would not come out.
• Regan invited Melly into the manor to experience being a maid, and Melly happily followed him inside.

Claire gave Hant a Battle Qi circulation method he claimed to have developed, and Hant discovered it offered a new way to cultivate Battle Aura. After practicing it, Hant broke through to become a Silver Knight.

• Melly explained that she worked as a little maid to earn food, and Claire let her keep helping while making sure she could play with Yuna.
• Claire sent Regan to notify Melly’s parents and summon Knight Captain Hant.
• Hant removed his shoes to avoid stepping on Melly’s freshly cleaned floor, then met Claire in the meeting room.
• Claire gave Hant the Battle Qi Breathing Circulation Method and said he had developed it.
• Hant studied the method and cultivated its circulation technique, causing his aura to grow stronger.
• Hant’s Battle Aura erupted, shattered his chair, and he announced that he had become a Silver Knight.