Chapter Summaries

Xipei celebrated Mel’s birthday after accepting gifts from the students, and Mel teased him into spending the night together. Later, Xipei moved his mage tower in preparation for living with Xipei, and Anna realized her teacher was in love with him.

• Xipei dismissed the students after accepting their gifts, while Mel paralyzed two first-years who tried to wave goodbye.
• Mel accused Xipei of neglecting his birthday and accepting romantic gifts, then demanded that Xipei prove he would not leave him by spending the night together.
• Xipei said Xipei had readily agreed to move into the tower, which excited him.
• Xipei summoned his mage tower from subspace and settled it onto a prepared foundation, finding that the transfer had killed the slimes but left the goblins and rats alive.
• Anna arrived at the new tower and guessed that Xipei had moved for Xipei; when Xipei did not deny it, she exclaimed that her teacher was in love.

Songwu Angela wondered what Reynold should be called after marrying her, since he disliked the druid naming tradition. Ciprins suggested they keep their own family names, leaving Angela with a possible solution to their marital dilemma.

• Songwu Angela explained that druids traditionally put their family names first and wondered how Reynold should be named after their marriage.
• Reynold objected to being called Songwu Reynold because people might mistake Songwu for his personal name.
• Songwu Angela asked Ciprins how he and Mel handled their names after marriage.
• Ciprins told Songwu Angela that neither he nor Mel had wanted to take the other's family name.

The narrator watched daily life at Ciprins’s tower and worried over Reynold’s pregnancy, which had made him irritable and insecure. After Moli and Anna explained that Reynold felt neglected because the narrator had avoided sex, she realized the five-month pregnancy had stabilized and reconsidered her restraint.

• A Shadow Moon priest offered Ciprins the Shadow Moon surname, but he declined while tending to a banshee’s organs and correcting her request for pink lungs.
• The narrator reflected on Ciprins’s harsh educational reforms and Mephistopheles’s popular new magic airship, then offered to carry Reynold to Silverheart Fortress as a giant eagle.
• Reynold argued with the narrator about traveling to give a speech and accused her of caring only about their baby, saying she had barely touched him for two months.
• Moli and Anna told the narrator that pregnancy and work pressure explained Reynold’s mood and that he felt unloved because she had stopped sleeping with him.
• The narrator recalled that, five months earlier, she and her companions had transferred her uterus and their baby into Reynold, and she concluded that the pregnancy had stabilized.

Songwu Angela and Reynold considered what surname to give their child and whether the child would need a magical class. The chapter ended when Reynold felt the baby kick.

• Songwu Angela worried that a child surnamed Songwu might be mistaken for a druid, even if the child did not become one.
• Reynold said he would be content if their child grew up without a class, since technology had made magic less necessary in everyday life.
• Reynold screamed as the baby kicked, and Songwu Angela hurried to hold his belly.

As Reynold’s due date approached, the narrator recounted the Shadow Moon Temple’s disastrous encounter with Hailianna’s memory echo and Ciprins’s resulting remedial classes for its priests. Reynold then went into labor.

• The narrator described Reynold’s pregnancy, the public’s reaction to it, and Anna’s plans to write about the couple.
• Ruiduo declined the offer to become High Priest of the Moon, and the narrator explained how Ciprins and Hailianna’s memory echo had beaten the Shadow Moon Temple’s priests.
• Ciprins sent the hospitalized priests to remedial lessons and arranged for them to apprentice at the mage tower.
• Reynold cried out in pain, and Ciprins announced that Reynold was going into labor.

Lady Crow rushed Reynold to the hospital when he went into labor, and Mephistopheles guided the doctors through a safe delivery. Reynold and Lady Crow welcomed a healthy daughter, while their friends crowded outside to meet her.

• Lady Crow transformed into a giant bear and carried Reynold to the hospital as he went into labor.
• Ciprins questioned how Reynold could give birth, and Mephistopheles explained that his modifications had created a passage for the baby.
• Xuefeng brought Goliath, Lusien, Luolan, Alessia, and their old friends to the hospital, where they waited outside Reynold's room.
• Mephistopheles directed the medical staff, and Lady Crow stayed with Reynold through the smooth delivery.
• Reynold asked about the baby, and Lady Crow learned from the crowd outside that their daughter was healthy.
• Lady Crow told Reynold to rest while their friends gathered to meet their daughter.