The two bandits up top are sweating bullets—if Broco finds out what happened, they’re toast. So, they decide to head down and confirm if Alicia has truly rage-quit life.

Meanwhile, Alicia regains consciousness… only to realize Clen has officially turned her into an undead. She’s basically a talking corpse—only her left eye works, and she can’t feel anything from the neck down. She starts worrying: Am I going to spend eternity as a paralyzed zombie?!

Playing dead (ironically), she lies still so the bandits think she’s really done for. Suddenly, her eye veins twitch—yep, her veins—and out pops a floating face of Clen (or rather, Clevatess), who looks like a tiny, angry puppy. He shows up just to call her an idiot for losing so much blood.

Alicia is baffled. “Why do you look like a pocket-sized dog?”
Clen explains his form depends on how much magic blood she has. Since she’s somewhat useful, he’s injecting more into her. As long as that blood stays in, she’ll eventually heal—unless some body parts are, well, permanently missing.

She asks why he stopped healing her. He says he’s just taking a breather—and waiting for her to ask something.

Then he randomly drops that he’s found a “wet nurse” for Luna: a bandit girl named Nell. His grasp of human stuff is a bit… off, but he thinks Nell is being abused and tried to rescue her. The kicker? Nell refused without even blinking.

Now he’s in an emotional crisis: Why would she choose to stay in this hellhole?

Alicia offers a theory—maybe Nell sees both Clen and Luna as slaves. And in her mind, slaves don’t get to leave. So when Clen gave her an out, she didn’t believe it was real.

Clen seems to get it and asks what he should do to convince Nell.
Alicia bluntly says: “Just wipe out all the bandits.”

But Clen refuses—he’s trying to keep his undercover status intact. You know, standard evil overlord protocol.

So, Clen tells Alicia to wipe out the bandits herself. After all, if a “hero” takes them down, no one will bat an eye. Alicia hesitates—because, you know, murder isn’t really in her job description—but Clen isn’t taking no for an answer. He warns her to finish the job before Luna gets hungry again, then shoves all the magic blood back into her. This causes her body to breakdance painfully back into shape as her bones snap back into place like glow sticks at a rave.

Meanwhile, some bandits jump down and freeze in confusion—one second she’s dead, next she’s busting moves. As Alicia gasps for breath, one bandit tries to take her down. She lets him stab her arm just to make a point, then knocks him flying, steals his sword and eyepatch like it’s loot from a low-level boss, and gears up for battle.

Clen, meanwhile, is still on a mission to recruit Nell as Luna’s wet nurse. He reassures Luna that Alicia will be just fine—after all, she’s the only human who’s ever scratched his horns.

Over in the bandit hideout, Karm scolds Nell for not cleaning the kitchen, even though Nell has just been beaten. Still, Nell seems weirdly cheerful. Curious, Karm suspects something’s up. Turns out, Nell is just wondering what the outside world is like. She even accidentally lets slip that someone offered to help her escape—oops. And who was it? “A slave,” she blurts out.

Broco overhears this, and before he can react, Karm slaps Nell for dreaming too big. Broco enters, asks about the baby (with suspicious interest), then tells Nell to come with him. Karm, powerless, realizes Nell might not return. Once they leave, Karm gasps—who’s going to feed the babies now? Translation: Broco might be planning to get rid of her.

Just then, Clen shows up holding Luna. Karm, clearly stressed, tells him Nell is gone because she made the mistake of hoping. But Clen, with that monster stare of his, demands an explanation. Under pressure, Karm spills the truth: Broco took Nell somewhere shady.

Cut to the cave: Nell, who’s grown up here, finds herself in a place she’s never seen. Broco shows off his magic ore factory, telling her he uses ores for various magical creations, including the lamp in his hand. Sounds educational… until she spots a human skull. Broco casually claims it’s not human—uh-huh, sure. Then the lights go out.

Nell, terrified, calls out. He says it’s just a mistake and turns the lights back on… only for Betty, his troll, to appear right in front of her. Nell screams. But there’s no one to hear her.

Broco tells Nell that the troll was subdued using magic, and that The Crows is a team built on mutual trust—something she shattered by considering joining another group. According to him, betrayal like that is punishable by death. As he commands Betty to devour her, Nell screams and begs for help. She stretches her hand out, silently wishing she’d taken Clen’s hand back when he offered it. She hopes he’ll appear now… but there’s no miracle. Not until she’s already halfway inside the monster’s mouth.

Right then, Clen arrives—dramatically late, of course—and Luna lets out a heart-wrenching cry. Clen muses aloud that “to eat and be eaten” is the very essence of humanity—heck, even demons chow down, so he doesn’t blame Betty. He just blames himself for showing up late. What puzzles him is how a mighty troll like Betty is letting herself be controlled by a pint-sized human like Broco.

Broco, clearly offended by being roasted by a floating child, orders Betty to eat Clen and the baby too. But Betty knows who’s boss. Without Clen even lifting a finger, Betty chokes and spits out a battered Nell, still clinging to life by a thread.

Though Clen could revive her, he prioritizes something else—taking down Broco. He tells Luna that only she can comfort Nell, so he places her on Nell’s body and summons a horn to whisk them away. Broco is shook. That power? Way beyond what he expected. He accuses Clen of using magic.

Clen, ever the clueless god-entity, admits he doesn’t even know what magic is. He pulls out a magic ore lamp and casually breaks down how it works—apparently the lamp lets him control trolls, though currently only female ones. As Betty starts resisting his control, he removes the ore and its stench floods the area, snapping her back under control. Even Clen can feel the ominous vibes.

When Betty breaks her chains and lunges at Clen, he dodges and scolds Alicia for never explaining magic ores to him. Meanwhile, Alicia herself is in a bind. She’s surrounded, tired, and her mana core is draining fast since she’s been borrowing strength from Clave’s blood. Her current weapon just won’t cut it.

She flashes back to childhood training with her dad. He once told her, “You hesitate, you lose.” That hesitation reveals fear—and fear gets you killed. She’s overwhelmed, but she remembers: don’t hesitate.

So she bolts for the river. She’s after Arventis, the hero’s weapon hidden beneath the waters. If she fails, she knows what these bandits will do to her—and it’s worse than death. The thugs watching think she’s about to pull a dramatic suicide leap, since no one’s survived that river in 300 years. But they’re idiots—she’s not jumping in the river, she’s leaping over it!

As she lands on the scaffolding, they rush after her—only for her to slice it down. Most fall straight into the monster-infested water. Amidst the chaos, they realize she’s vanished. What they don’t know is… she’s already underwater.

Alicia has one advantage over the old-school heroes — she doesn’t need to breathe anymore. So before diving into the river, she fills her lungs and prepares to sink straight to the bottom. Her plan is to stay unnoticed by the underwater monsters, grab the legendary sword, and get out. Simple… right?

But as the pressure crushes her and the pain becomes unbearable, she realizes that while she can’t die, she can definitely suffer. Numb and hurting, she finally sees it — the legendary sword. But just as she reaches for it, a massive eye opens below her. Turns out, the sword isn’t on the lakebed — it’s on top of a colossal demon monster.

Still, Alicia doesn’t give up. She lunges forward to grab the sword, and the monster gulps her down — sword and all. Inside its mouth, Alicia uses her last ounce of strength to grasp the weapon. At that moment, she remembers her father’s words: “You have the talent to wield that sword better than anyone else. You’re a born hero.”

That memory fuels her resolve. Her belly torn open and bleeding magical blood, she refuses to pass out. With the sword’s mana flowing through her, she swings it with force, using its aquatic-like propulsion to rocket upwards like a swordfish on a mission. She figures this weapon was designed for underwater battle — but then wonders, how did the original hero lose it? Her guess? The hero didn’t know this lake was the lair of an ancient beast — one that had been sleeping for thousands of years until magic excavation woke it up.

Slashing through lesser lake monsters like a blender set to rage mode, Alicia finally surfaces — only to find the two head bandits waiting. Even seeing her hold the legendary sword, these two Einsteins still think they can take her down. But their genius plan ends abruptly when the giant monster surfaces too and starts grabbing everything in sight with its octopus-like limbs.

Alicia, being a practical zombie-hero, uses her new sword to defend herself but realizes she’s in no shape to solo a kaiju. So she lets nature (and monster tentacles) run its course. As she walks away, the bandits beg her to save them, swearing they’ll leave the gang and obey her. But Alicia knows scum when she sees it — and she knows they’d stab her the moment her back’s turned. So she leaves them to their fate. The monster, unsurprisingly, finishes the job.

Even though she walks away, Alicia does feel conflicted — leaving such a cataclysmic creature roaming free goes against her heroic instincts. But some battles are better postponed… until she has all her limbs attached again.

Since the beast is a water-type, Alicia figures it won’t leave its territory. She’s already wiped out the bandits on Clen’s orders and wonders what to do next. Clen contacts her through their blood link, sensing her shaken condition and guessing the job is done. But when Alicia mentions fighting a colossal demon, he brushes it off, saying he’s been busy too. Apparently, his human form is restricting his powers—and to his surprise, humans are using “cheap tricks” (aka magic) he wasn’t aware of. He blames Alicia for hiding this and declares she deserves punishment.

Meanwhile, Broco, fleeing after Clen slaughters Betty, runs into Nell‘s unconscious body. But he notices Luna nearby and decides to kidnap him. Alicia rushes there under Clen’s command. She asks Clen about the red smoke everywhere, and he explains it numbs the senses of Deankind, making it hard to track Luna. He wants Alicia to fix it with magic—but surprise, she can’t use magic. Naturally, Clen insults her for being a useless hero and starts searching the cave himself. When Alicia asks what he’ll do if Luna’s harmed, Clen says if that happens, humanity is finished.

They come across a blood trail—human blood. Clen says Nell is injured but had managed to stop her bleeding for a while. Based on the drag marks, Alicia thinks either Nell crawled away or was dragged. Turns out, Nell is the one dragging Broco, clutching his clothes to stop him from taking Luna. Broco gets annoyed and threatens to chop off her hand. He knows Luna has Heiden’s blood after the boy screamed earlier and shattered a lamp with magic. Realizing the boy’s potential, Broco refuses to let him go.

Just as Broco is about to act, Alicia shows up, alive and well. When Broco asks about the bandits he sent after her, she snarks, “If they were crawling, they’d have reached heaven by now.” Clen also appears, promising punishment. Broco panics and threatens to cut off Luna’s fingers. Clen doesn’t care—he can just regrow them—but Alicia stops him, not wanting Luna to go through that pain. She proposes a trade: Luna for the hero’s sword. She throws the sword to the side and gives Broco a choice—grab the sword with both hands or take the boy and lose the blade. Broco laughs, realizing Luna must be extremely important if Alicia’s willing to part with the legendary weapon. One sword isn’t enough to make him give up Luna.

Broco, being the opportunistic rat he is, says he’ll only hand over Luna if they give him the location of the other swords. Alicia hesitates, but Clen brushes it off like it’s pocket change. “It’s just a few swords,” he says. “Besides, even if he knows where they are, he’s too weak to reach them.”

Alicia finally tells Broco the swords are all at Moon Mount—the place Clen had once attacked. Broco grins like a fool who thinks he’s outsmarted them. He sprinkles himself with some sparkly magic powder and vanishes like a bad magician at a kid’s party. But not before bragging about ditching this sword and going after the other twelve.

Unfortunately for him, he forgot one thing: Alicia might not see him, but she can hear. She hears the crying Luna and Broco’s loud internal monologue. So, she smacks him right out of invisibility. Shocked, Broco asks how she did it. She simply replies, “You never shut up.”

She lectures him—he’ll never be as strong as he dreams, because he’ll always be the kind of guy who loses to a girl swinging at thin air.

Clen retrieves Luna, wipes the powder off, and gets ready to leave. Alicia asks about Nell, but Clen coldly says she’s too damaged. He can heal her, but it’s too much work, and honestly, he doesn’t think she’s worth it.

Alicia, of course, disagrees. She reminds him that Nell protected Luna to the very end. That’s got to mean something. She insists that if she were Luna’s mother, she’d want someone like Nell to live for the boy’s sake.

Clen warns her: using his blood to save Nell means Alicia might die—he can only save one. But Alicia just shrugs. “I’ve already died once. What’s another round?”

After a short pause, Clen agrees. He transfers Alicia’s blood into Nell. She wakes up, shocked. When she asks if Clen saved her, he just points to Alicia and says, “Thank her, not me.”

As expected, Alicia wakes up moments later and immediately checks for her sword—yep, still there. Priorities.

Clen then hands Luna over to Nell, but gives her a new name—Nuru. He says she’s been reborn and must now follow him.

Nuru smiles, holding Luna close. She wonders whether she’ll be a burden on this journey. But the party of three has now become four. And honestly? Things just got a whole lot more complicated.