Chapter Summaries

Leo reviewed the potential peerage members Sirzechs had provided and chose Ravel Phenex, whose Phoenix bloodline, strategic talent, and family ties made her an appealing candidate. Sirzechs learned of Leo’s choice and planned to use it to advance negotiations with the Phenex Clan, hoping to help Rias.

• Leo compared the candidates’ potential and backgrounds, then noticed Ravel Phenex among the profiles.
• Leo considered Ravel’s Phoenix abilities, strategic talent, and importance in the original story, and found that she had not joined her brother’s peerage.
• Leo decided to recruit Ravel, reasoning that a Rook piece would suit her and that her Tears of the Phoenix would meet his needs.
• Leo contacted Sirzechs and chose Ravel Phenex as his peerage member.
• Sirzechs welcomed Leo’s choice as an opportunity to negotiate with the Phenex Clan and reflected that he had done what he could for Rias.

Leo brought his peerage to the Gremory Territory to meet Ravel Phenex, the young woman he had chosen as his next peerage member. After Grayfia welcomed them to the lavish Gremory Mansion, they entered the reception room and met Sirzechs and the Phenex family.

• Leo told Yukino, Utaha, Asuna, and Mahiru that they would visit the Gremory Territory and meet Ravel Phenex.
• Leo explained why devils could join another devil’s peerage and described the Phenex family’s healing Tears and regenerative abilities.
• Leo and the girls teleported to the Gremory Mansion and were astonished by its enormous castle and gardens.
• Grayfia welcomed Leo and his peerage, then led them through the mansion to the reception room.
• Sirzechs greeted Leo and the others as they entered the room, where the Phenex family was waiting.

Leo met Lady Phenex and Ravel Phenex to discuss Ravel joining his peerage, and Lady Phenex offered the Phenex Clan’s support. Riser Phenex interrupted the arrangement, insulted Leo, and refused to let his sister serve him, prompting Leo to challenge his reputation.

• Sirzechs introduced Lady Phenex as Ravel’s mother, and she welcomed Leo and praised his potential and peerage.
• Lady Phenex offered Leo financial and material support for restoring the Eligos Territory, and Leo accepted her goodwill.
• Ravel introduced herself and confirmed that she intended to become Leo’s peerage member after her mother’s approval.
• Riser Phenex interrupted the agreement and insulted Leo’s clan, heritage, and Longinus while refusing to let Ravel join his peerage.
• Leo smiled at Riser and told him that he was not nearly as impressive as his reputation.

Leo confronted Riser Phenex after Riser insulted him and tried to grab him, and Yukino, Asuna, Utaha, and Mahiru quickly restrained Riser. Lady Phenex intervened and Ravel asked Leo to make her his servant, leaving Leo surprised by how strongly the Queen Evil Piece responded to her.

• Leo mocked Riser's reputation and called him a thug who relied on immortality or bought victories.
• Riser tried to grab Leo, but Yukino, Asuna, Utaha, and Mahiru appeared and restrained him with their powers.
• Leo taunted Riser and criticized Sirzechs's father's choice of fiancé for Rias, while Riser flared into flames before Lady Phenex stopped him.
• Lady Phenex ordered Riser to apologize, then reassured Leo that she would discipline her son and apologized for his behavior.
• Ravel apologized for Riser, said she had chosen to join Leo's Peerage, and asked him to grant her an Evil Piece.
• Leo saw that the Queen Evil Piece glowed almost as brightly as the Rook and wondered whether Ravel was suited to be a Queen.

Leo chose the Rook piece for Ravel Phenex despite her strong compatibility with the Queen, and recruiting her triggered a surge in his power. That feedback strengthened Zenith Tempest and let Leo complete its Balance Breaker, transforming him into a Ten-Winged Devil.

• Leo weighed Ravel's strong Queen-piece compatibility against his reluctance to use his only Queen, then chose the Rook because it reacted most strongly.
• Ravel accepted the Rook piece and swore to follow Leo, gaining enhanced attack, defense, Phoenix fire, and immortality.
• Leo received Demonic Power and Sacred Gear feedback from Ravel's recruitment, which strengthened Zenith Tempest and pushed his power forward.
• Leo's Sacred Gear aura erupted in the reception room, and Sirzechs identified his transformation as a Balance Breaker.
• Leo manifested ten Devil Wings and soap bubbles containing devastating natural disasters, revealing Zenith Tempest's completed Balance Breaker.

After Ravel joined Leo’s peerage, the Phenex family departed, and Leo questioned Sirzechs about Rias’s arranged marriage. Leo returned to the Eligos Territory with Ravel and said he would take her to Tokyo before she joined the peerage’s training.

• Lady Phenex entrusted Ravel to Leo, while Riser nervously said goodbye and left with his mother.
• Leo asked Sirzechs whether Riser should really become Rias’s husband, and Sirzechs explained the Pure-blood Devils’ political pressure to arrange marriages.
• Sirzechs said he could only support Rias indirectly and revealed that his favor from the Phenex Clan might help her.
• Leo and his group returned to the Ancient Battlefield camp with Ravel, and Leo told the peerage to resume special training.
• When Ravel asked whether she had to train, Leo said he would take her to Tokyo first.

Leo and Ravel investigated Tokyo’s supernatural power structure and learned about Kaguya Shinomiya’s background and her formidable bodyguard, Ai Hayasaka. Leo decided they would try to contact Kaguya and pursue the Tablet of Destiny.

• Ravel stopped Leo from drinking alcohol because he was still underage, then reported that human exorcist families controlled Tokyo and kept other factions at a distance.
• Ravel explained that the Shinomiya Family was a powerful conglomerate with close ties to the Five Great Clans, whose exorcists guarded its residence.
• Ravel revealed that Ai Hayasaka, Kaguya Shinomiya’s maid and personal attendant, was a talented exorcist capable of defeating beings as strong as High-Class Devils.
• Ravel told Leo that Kaguya was neglected by her father, Ganan Shinomiya, because of doubts about her parentage, leaving her with little influence in the family.
• Leo cautioned that Kaguya might still be difficult to use as leverage and decided to make contact with her first, then left the bar with Ravel.

Leo and Ravel waited for Kaguya Shinomiya so they could approach her about the Tablet of Destiny without risking a confrontation at her home. When a suspicious limousine arrived, Leo let Ravel take the lead, and she flew toward it on Phoenix wings.

• Ravel suggested that Leo could force the Shinomiya Family to submit, revealing her domineering instincts.
• Leo explained that strength did not justify carelessness and that they should avoid walking into possible defenses at Kaguya's home.
• Leo and Ravel waited by Kaguya's usual route, hoping to contact her discreetly.
• Leo detected something unusual around an approaching limousine and identified its passengers as their target.
• Ravel spread her Phoenix wings and flew toward the limousine to lead their first engagement.

Ravel Phenex confronted Ai Hayasaka on the highway and demanded that she bring Kaguya Shinomiya to meet her master, Leo Eligos. As Ravel and Ai began fighting outside the limousine, Leo appeared inside and introduced himself to Kaguya.

• Ravel flew toward Kaguya Shinomiya's limousine, burned through Ai Hayasaka's first attacks, and demanded that Ai bring her mistress to meet her master.
• Ai refused to hand Kaguya over and attacked Ravel with exorcist bullets, Shikigami, a Devil-suppressing barrier, and lightning, but Ravel's immortality healed her injuries.
• Ravel told Ai that her attacks could not defeat her and repeated her demand, while Ai silently refused and Ravel charged at her.
• Inside the limousine, Leo Eligos appeared before Kaguya as she watched the fight and introduced himself.

Leo confronted Kaguya Shinomiya in her car and revealed that he wanted the Tablet of Destiny, which she possessed. He offered to trade it for a chance to see or speak with her dead mother, leaving Kaguya stunned.

• Leo introduced himself as the surviving head of the Eligos Clan and told Kaguya that he had stopped her car to speak with her.
• Leo revealed that he had knocked out twelve elite exorcists guarding Kaguya and argued that their presence showed she was more important than she believed.
• Leo identified the stone tablet in Kaguya's possession as the Tablet of Destiny, and Kaguya denied having it despite her reaction suggesting she recognized it.
• Kaguya agreed to hear Leo's offer, explaining that the tablet mattered to her because it was the only gift her father had given her.
• Leo offered to help Kaguya see or speak with her dead mother, leaving her stunned.

Leo persuaded Kaguya to trade the Tablet of Destiny for his promise to help her speak with her deceased mother within a year. After Kaguya handed over the tablet, Leo and Ravel teleported away, leaving Kaguya with hope and uncertainty.

• Leo offered to help Kaguya find her mother's soul in exchange for the Tablet of Destiny and promised to arrange a conversation within a year.
• As the battle outside the limousine intensified, Leo restrained Kaguya when the vehicle shook, while Ravel continued to overpower Ai Hayasaka.
• Kaguya agreed to give Leo the tablet after realizing Ai was nearing defeat.
• Ravel returned unharmed while Ai, badly injured, helped Kaguya out of the limousine; Kaguya then went into the mansion with Ai.
• Kaguya came back with the weathered Tablet of Destiny and handed it to Leo, who examined it and gave it to Ravel.
• Leo promised Kaguya an answer within a year, then teleported away with Ravel, leaving Kaguya hoping to see her mother.

Leo and Ravel visited Tiamat in the Familiar Forest, where Leo returned the Tablet of Destiny she had lost. Tiamat agreed to introduce him to two twin sisters, but warned that he could take them only if he could reincarnate both as Devils.

• Leo and Ravel flew to the lake in the Familiar Forest and summoned Tiamat, who greeted Leo and recognized Ravel as a Phenex serving in his peerage.
• Tiamat offered to train Leo, but he explained that he had come to fulfill her request by returning the Tablet of Destiny.
• Leo gave Tiamat the tablet, and she confirmed it was hers, explaining that it could regain its power by absorbing energy from the stars.
• Tiamat promised to introduce Leo to the two children she had saved, but said he could take them only if he could reincarnate them as Devils.
• Tiamat explained that the children were twin sisters who refused to be separated and required either two Mutation Pieces or a Maou-Class Devil capable of using several Evil Pieces.
• Tiamat offered to take Leo to meet the sisters, and he agreed.

Diatmat brought Leo and Ravel to meet Ram and Rem, the last survivors of the Oni Clan, hoping Leo could reincarnate the powerful twins as members of his Peerage. Leo recognized the sisters as the mansion’s maids, and the chapter left their fate in his hands.

• Diatmat explained that she had rescued Ram and Rem from the destruction of the Oni Clan’s village ten years earlier and settled them in the Lucifer Territory.
• Diatmat described the sisters as rare one-horned oni with extraordinary power, explaining that their unusual nature had made them difficult to reincarnate as Devils.
• Diatmat brought Leo and Ravel to her mansion in the Lucifer Territory, where the surrounding Devils’ rumors had made it a forbidden place.
• Ram and Rem came out to greet Diatmat, and she introduced them to Leo as the last descendants of the Oni Clan.
• Leo recognized the twins, and Diatmat left it to him to take them in.

Tiamat explained why Ram and Rem needed a new master and how Devil reincarnation could restore Ram’s horn and help Rem control her power. Leo successfully reincarnated both sisters with two Pawn pieces, triggering a major transformation that advanced him from Eight-Winged Class to Ten-Winged Class.

• Tiamat told Leo and Ravel that Ram’s severed horn had left her weakened, while Rem’s activated horn could make her lose control, and explained why reincarnating both sisters as Devils might help.
• Ram and Rem agreed to reincarnate only if they could stay together and serve the same master; Leo accepted the challenge and used two Pawn pieces on them.
• The Evil Pieces shattered and merged into Ram and Rem, successfully reincarnating both sisters as Devils.
• Leo received large amounts of Demonic Power, an enhanced Sacred Gear, and additional feedback from both sisters, then advanced from Eight-Winged Class to Ten-Winged Class as his body and Zenith Tempest were strengthened.

Ram's reincarnation restored her horn and brought her power back to the level of an Ultimate-Class Devil, while Rem's awakened horn sent her into a violent Oni Transformation. Ram fought to contain Rem as Tiamat explained the twins' contrasting abilities and Rem's dangerous loss of control.

• Ram's broken horn regenerated during the reincarnation ritual, restoring her immense power and revealing her as an Oni Clan transcendent.
• Rem's horn awakened and her power surged to match Ram's, but she lost control and destroyed the mansion with a Morning Star.
• Tiamat carried Ravel to safety while Ram emerged from the collapsing mansion and faced Rem's rampage.
• Ram dodged Rem's attacks, then countered with Wind Magic and drove her underground as Tiamat described Ram's magical talent and Rem's berserk transformation.

Leo returned from taking in Ram and Rem transformed into a Perfect Devil and a Ten-Winged Devil, with his strength and abilities greatly increased. He stepped in to end the sisters’ fight, stopped Rem’s attack effortlessly, and caught her after knocking her unconscious.

• Ram and Rem fought fiercely as Ram tried to wear Rem down and restore her sanity.
• Leo arrived, and Tiamat noticed that his body and presence had changed.
• Leo revealed that he had become a Perfect Devil and reached the Ten-Winged Class, gaining immense power and freedom from Devils’ traditional weaknesses.
• Tiamat agreed to let Leo handle the sisters, and Leo unfolded ten wings and flew into the battle.
• Leo caught Rem’s Morning Star in one hand and dissolved its iron ball with Demonic Power.
• Leo tapped Rem’s forehead with a shock wave, knocked her unconscious, and caught her as she fell.

After Rem woke from her berserk Oni Transformation, Ram comforted her and helped her let go of her feelings of inferiority. Leo prepared to take the sisters with him, while Tiamat challenged him to a fight; he refused, and the group got ready to leave.

• Rem woke with her head in Ram's lap and lamented that she had lost control again.
• Ram stopped Rem from calling herself useless, reminded her of their promise to stay together, and told her to accept herself as an Oni.
• Tiamat accepted that Leo would take Ram and Rem with him, while considering how powerful he had become.
• Tiamat challenged Leo to fight her, but he refused because he feared she would get carried away and kill him.
• Tiamat reluctantly dropped the challenge, and Leo told Ravel to get ready to return.

Leo returned to the Eligos Territory with Ravel, Ram, and Rem, then introduced the new peerage members to Yukino, Utaha, Asuna, and Mahiru. The group got along as they began chatting, while Yukino found unexpected comfort in Ram’s figure.

• Leo brought Ravel, Ram, and Rem back to the Eligos Territory and told them to rest before meeting the others the next morning.
• Yukino, Utaha, Asuna, and Mahiru greeted Leo when he appeared at their morning training, and he explained that he had returned the previous night without alerting their detection magic or barrier.
• Leo told the girls that Ravel and two new companions had arrived, then welcomed Ravel, Ram, and Rem as they approached.
• Ravel explained that Ram and Rem wore maid outfits by choice, and the twins introduced themselves as Leo’s Pawns and maids.
• Utaha asked the twins’ ages, and Ram and Rem said they were both seventeen, prompting Yukino to compare herself with them.
• The peerage members began chatting warmly, though Ram seemed displeased by Yukino’s unusually cheerful greeting.

Leo concluded that Rem’s training gains were being channeled into her Oni Transformation, leaving her overwhelmed and unable to control herself. He told her that her greatest weakness was her fragile confidence and will, and suggested repeated transformation practice in isolation.

• Leo sent Ravel to train at a volcano, told Ram to rebuild her strength from the beginning, and assigned Rem to practice controlling her Oni Transformation.
• Leo noticed Rem was progressing unusually slowly and theorized that most of her growth and Demonic Power appeared only after she transformed.
• Leo explained his theory to Rem, who confirmed that she had gained very little Demonic Power after reincarnation.
• Leo told Rem to focus on strengthening her mind, heart, will, and belief in herself rather than her physical strength or combat skills.
• Leo advised Rem to go somewhere secluded and repeatedly transform until she could control herself.

Leo trained Rem to control her Oni Transformation in the Ancient Battlefield, repeatedly interrupting her attempts until she transformed and fought him. Rem realized she now carried Leo’s expectations as well as Ram’s, and rose to continue training while Ram watched nearby.

• Leo brought Rem to the quiet, devastated Ancient Battlefield and urged her to awaken her Oni Transformation.
• Leo repeatedly flicked Rem’s forehead to interrupt her uncontrolled attempts and advised her to manage the transformation’s pace and her emotions.
• Rem’s indignation pushed her into a full transformation, revealing that her power and Demonic Power surged dramatically when she became an oni.
• Rem attacked Leo with Ice Magic and a powerful punch, but he blocked her magic, restrained her with Demonic Power Chains, and knocked her unconscious with another flick.
• Leo revived Rem with a bitter fruit and ordered her to continue, while Rem resolved to meet his expectations as well as Ram’s.
• Rem stood up to try transforming again without noticing Ram watching her nearby.