Chapter Summaries

Jeanne and Le Fay escaped Cao Cao’s trap and reunited with Ren’s group in Kuoh Town, where Cao Cao was captured and taken to the Underworld. Ren kept the Twilight Spear and welcomed Le Fay into the Brotherhood, while her admiration for him grew as she joined his household.

• Jeanne explained that she and Le Fay had escaped after the blockade weakened, and she told Rias and the others how she had fallen into Cao Cao’s trap.
• Ren arrived with the unconscious Cao Cao, and Rias arranged for Sirzechs to send Underworld demons to take him away for interrogation.
• Cao Cao woke in an Underworld prison and discovered that his Holy Spear was missing; Ren had stored the Twilight Spear and decided not to return it.
• Ren received the completed mission’s rewards, including the Soul Repairer, and then joined the girls in the living room.
• Ren learned that Le Fay had joined the Brotherhood by choice, welcomed her, and told her to be careful during future operations.
• Le Fay’s admiration for Ren grew as he arranged food for her and Jeanne, though she noticed that his home was full of women with close relationships.

After Ren and Lavinia spent the night together, the defeated Hero Faction regrouped at a European base, only to be surrounded by Hades’s Grim Reapers and Shalba Beelzebub. Shalba demanded their Longinus, leaving the exhausted survivors facing an imminent attack.

• Rossweisse regretted drinking and resolved to quit, while Ren reassured Lavinia and spent the night with her.
• Georg teleported the surviving Hero Faction members to a remote European base, where they learned Cao Cao had been captured and Samael had been sealed.
• Siegfried rejected an immediate rescue attempt and decided the Hero Faction should recover before planning to save Cao Cao.
• More than a hundred Grim Reapers surrounded the manor, and Shalba Beelzebub arrived to confront the Hero Faction.
• Georg told Shalba that Ren had sealed Samael, and Shalba demanded that the Hero Faction surrender all their Longinus in exchange for intact corpses.

Siegfried sacrificed himself to let the Hero Faction escape Shalba and the Grim Reapers, who planned to use Hades’s power and Longinus against Ren. The next morning, Ren struggled to define the Brotherhood’s mission until the system unlocked daily missions and rewarded him for organizing the group.

• Siegfried fought the Grim Reapers while Shalba attacked Leonardo and Georg, then Georg used Absolute Mist to send the remaining Hero Faction members away.
• Siegfried taunted Shalba about abandoning his companions and doubted he could defeat Ren before crumbling away.
• The next morning, Ren found Jeanne, Le Fay, the Fallen Angels, Kuroka, and Ophis at home, and Raynare served him breakfast.
• Le Fay asked what the Brotherhood’s mission would be, so Ren declared that it would save the world and preserve peace.
• The system unlocked daily missions and issued the Rise of the Brotherhood mission, which let Ren receive rewards when Brotherhood members completed their daily missions.

Ren organized Brotherhood missions and promised members generous benefits, then spoke with Sona Sitri at Kuoh Academy. Sona asked Ren to support Rias, and the system issued him a mission to maintain the status quo.

• Ren explained that Brotherhood members could choose daily missions and earn points, while he planned to offer them extensive benefits.
• Le Fay enthusiastically approved of the Brotherhood's mission to fight threats to humans, and Jeanne was surprised by its benefits.
• Ren left home and went to school, where Sona Sitri met him in the student council office.
• Sona told Ren she was grateful he had resolved Rias's problems, though she felt jealous that she had been unable to help her friend.
• Sona asked Ren to support Rias, and the system issued Ren the mission "Friend's Assist" with the objective of maintaining the status quo.

Ren increased Sona Sitri’s favorability, and she wondered whether she should pursue him despite Rias. Ravel Phenex joined Rias’s peerage and moved into Ren’s house, where her clash with Koneko suggested that life there would be lively.

• Ren accepted Sona Sitri’s request to call her Sona and invited her to move into his house, while Sona blushed and considered getting a boyfriend.
• Ren met Rias and the others near the school, declined Rias’s offer to make him a student record, and went with them to the Occult Research Club.
• Rias introduced Ravel Phenex as a new member of her peerage, and Ravel asked to train and spend time at Ren’s home.
• Koneko called Ravel a useless turkey princess, Ravel erupted in anger, and Asia tried to mediate their argument.
• Ravel moved into Ren’s house, where the residents divided cooking duties while the Fallen Angels trio handled weekday meals.

Ren learned that giant beasts created by Annihilation Maker were rampaging through the Underworld, destroying settlements and advancing toward the capital. As the demons struggled to respond, Rias said they had no orders and could not fight the beasts with their current strength.

• Koneko brushed off Ravel’s concern while her heat cycle made her restless, and the two exchanged their usual insults.
• Ren visited Aiba Asagi, had her build a website and mobile app, stocked the exchange shop with weapons and local products, and launched it for the Brotherhood.
• Rias showed footage of a colossal Kyrieloid-like beast advancing on a city, while Akeno recognized the creatures from the Hero Faction’s earlier attack.
• The television revealed more giant beasts, including Demonzoa, which was heading toward Lilith, the Demon Kings’ capital.
• Jeanne suspected Leonardo could not have created such powerful monsters alone, while Ren wished he could summon an Ultraman to fight them.
• Kiba, Gasper, and the others asked what they could do, but Rias said they had received no orders and were too weak to confront the beasts.

As the Underworld struggled against the beasts and internal unrest, Ren sent Brotherhood members to help while watching the crisis unfold. Grim Reapers then entered Kuoh Town and surrounded Ren’s residence, leaving Rias and the others facing a major diplomatic threat.

• Ren received a quest to repel the Underworld beasts and find their mastermind, then posted daily quests for the Brotherhood on his online platform.
• Lefay and Jeanne traveled to the Underworld to join the battle, while reinforcements from several factions slowed the beasts’ advance but could not resolve the crisis.
• Grim Reapers arrived in Kuoh Town, and Sona spotted them heading toward Ren’s house before following them.
• Ren’s system warned him that a large group of enemies was approaching, and he alerted the girls in his house.
• More than a hundred Grim Reapers appeared near Ren’s residence, prompting Rias to recognize them and darken her expression.

Pluto, an Ultimate-Class Grim Reaper serving Hades, led hundreds of Grim Reapers into Kuoh Town and accused Rias, Sona, and their allies of conspiring with Ophis. As Pluto attacked Xenovia and Irina, an unknown figure intervened and challenged him.

• Rias and Sona gathered with their allies to confront the Grim Reapers who had invaded Kuoh Town.
• Pluto appeared, identified himself as Hades's servant, and accused people among them of secretly cooperating with Ophis.
• Pluto ordered his Grim Reapers to seal the exits and threatened to kill anyone who resisted, while Rias and the others rejected his accusations.
• Pluto dismissed their protests and rushed to attack Xenovia and Irina, targeting the angels because their holy light could harm Grim Reapers.
• Pluto halted his scythe and vanished after sensing danger, but an unknown voice asked whether he was Pluto.

Ren fought Pluto after the highest-ranking Grim Reaper attacked Rias and the others, while the battle spread across Kuoh Town. Ren protected the girls with Fenrir and its offspring, then prepared to finish Pluto with an ultimate move.

• Pluto accused Rias and the others of colluding with Khaos Brigade and attacked Ren, who blocked his scythe and burned it with the purple flames of the Cross of the Purple Flame Sacrificial Lord.
• Ren overpowered Pluto with his strength, punching him through Kuoh Town and then striking him down to his knees.
• Pluto tried to trap Ren in death aura and strike him with his scythe, but Ren countered with the power of Excalibur.
• Fenrir and its offspring transformed into giant demonic wolves, frightening the Grim Reapers surrounding the girls and preventing them from attacking.
• With the girls protected, Ren told Pluto to watch his ultimate move.

Ren defeated Pluto and captured him, but Pluto’s rumors about Ophis drew Gabriel and Azazel to Ren’s home. They denied believing the accusations until Ophis appeared, leaving both visitors stunned.

• Ren blinded Pluto with a burst of light, then defeated him with a parry, holy fire, Ultra Slashes, and a Ride Kick before sealing him in a flaming cage.
• Rias and Sona Sitri failed to get information from Pluto, who claimed he had spread rumors that Ren had colluded with Ophis and threatened the alliance between the factions.
• The remaining Grim Reapers lost heart after Pluto’s defeat, and Rias and the others wiped them out before reuniting with Ren.
• Gabriel and Azazel visited Ren to confirm the rumors, and Ren denied colluding with Ophis; Gabriel promised to help clear his name.
• Ophis came downstairs to ask Ren to fix her tablet, and Gabriel and Azazel froze in shock when they recognized her.

Ren exposed Hades’s plan to frame him after Pluto revealed the truth under the effect of an Honest Red Bean Bun. Gabriel decided to stay at Ren’s house and keep him under watch while the factions investigated, and Pluto’s confession left Ren with evidence to clear his name.

• Ophis appeared at Ren’s house, alarming Gabriel and Azazel, and Ren explained that she lived with him.
• Ren released the captured Pluto, who accused Ren of colluding with Ophis and framed him for the Underworld’s troubles.
• Gabriel proposed detaining Pluto and staying at Ren’s house to ensure Ren did not leave during the investigation.
• Ren had Azazel open Pluto’s mouth and fed him an Honest Red Bean Bun, making him confess that Hades had hired the Hero Faction to kidnap Ophis and supplied them with Samael.

Ren used the Honest Red Bean Bun to expose Hades's plan and clear suspicion against himself, then traveled with Azazel to the Underworld, where Annihilation Maker's monsters threatened Lilith. The chapter ended as Azazel prepared to report the crisis to Sirzechs and asked whether Ren would come along.

• Ren questioned Pluto, who revealed that Hades wanted Infinite Power to overthrow the alliance and had sent Shalba Beelzebub to create chaos with Annihilation Maker.
• Pluto explained that Hades had revived Shalba and that Shalba had controlled Leonardo, whose Annihilation Maker monsters were attacking the Underworld.
• Gabriel accepted Pluto into Heaven's custody, while Ren denied knowing where Samael was and Azazel failed to get further information from Pluto.
• Ren and Azazel traveled to Lilith, where Azazel described the diverse monsters and the black mist threatening the capital.
• Azazel said he was going to report the situation to Sirzechs and asked Ren whether he would join him or stay behind.

Ren recruited Minagawa Natsume and Nanataki Shiguko into his Brotherhood while fighting Shalba’s monsters in the Underworld. After learning Hades was behind the crisis, Sirzechs, Azazel, Gabriel, and Pluto went to confront him in the Netherworld.

• Grayfia and the allied forces struggled to stop Gatanothor and its multiplying monsters from reaching Lilith.
• Minagawa Natsume and Nanataki Shiguko fought swarms of monsters until Ren arrived and rescued them.
• Ren explained that Shalba controlled the monsters and invited Minagawa Natsume and Nanataki Shiguko to join his Brotherhood; Minagawa accepted.
• Sirzechs and Azazel learned from Pluto that Hades was responsible for obstructing the alliance and decided to confront him.
• Sirzechs and Azazel traveled to the Netherworld, where Gabriel joined them with the captured Pluto, and they walked toward Hades’s palace.

Gabriel, Sirzechs, and Azazel confronted Hades over the attacks and Samael’s stolen seal, but Hades denied responsibility until an outside assault interrupted them. Meanwhile, Ren accepted Grayfia’s mission to find the mastermind behind the magical beast invasion and tracked the target’s location.

• Gabriel presented Pluto to Hades, who claimed Pluto had acted without authorization and questioned the evidence against him.
• Azazel challenged Hades over Samael’s broken seal, and Hades blamed Cao Cao and the Hero Faction for taking Samael.
• Explosions sounded outside the palace, and a crimson figure ordered Hades to remain where he was while the matter was investigated.
• Minagawa Natsume collapsed from exhaustion after luring the last small magical beasts, and Ren prepared to end the fighting himself.
• Grayfia told Ren that the Hero Faction and Old Maou Faction had caused the invasion, then issued him a mission to find the mastermind.
• Ren accepted Grayfia’s mission, activated target tracking on the mission map, and locked onto the target’s location.

Ren arrived in Katerea’s territory, rescued her from Shalba, and defeated the resurrected former Maou after Shalba attacked him with a swarm of magical flies. With Shalba dead and his forces scattered, Ren received a dubious Fate Coin reward and a boost to Grayfia’s favorability, while another battle still awaited.

• Ren rescued Katerea from Shalba’s assault and gave her a Senzu Bean that restored her injuries and magical power.
• Katerea explained that Shalba had deceived her, possessed Annihilation Maker, and unleashed the magical beast invasion; she then went to protect her citizens.
• Shalba summoned a swarm of magical flies and boasted about his power, but Ren used Clock Up to strike him with a devastating kick.
• Shalba died after pleading for Ophis’s snakes, and his flies vanished as his followers fled, died, or were captured.
• Ren received ten Fate Coins and Grayfia’s favorability increased by thirty; he dismissed the coins as useless and noted that another hard battle remained.

Ren joined the battle to defend Lilith, using Heavenly Law, Earthly Form to grow into a giant and destroy Gatanothor. The black mist then gathered into Demonzoa, a new threat whose strength was around the Maou level.

• Ren left Katerea to guard Shalba's remains and destroy his soul if he returned.
• Grayfia, Serafall, Rias, Lavinia, Minagawa Natsume, and the other defenders struggled to hold back Gatanothor and protect Lilith.
• Ren enlarged himself and his Longinus with Heavenly Law, Earthly Form, then struck Gatanothor and shattered its shell, killing it.
• Lavinia and Asia recognized the giant as Ren, while the other factions mistook its sacred aura for a Heaven weapon.
• The black mist gathered into Demonzoa, which Ren recognized as one of the monsters he had described to Leonardo.

Ren defeated Demonzoa and the Underworld alliance wiped out the remaining demonic beasts, but his apparent sacrifice left his companions grieving until he revealed he had survived. After the battle, Grayfia returned to her duties, Leonardo was rescued, and Ren headed into Lilith with the others as the system announced the mission’s completion.

• Demonzoa absorbed the alliance’s attacks and unleashed a powerful beam, but Ren blocked it, let its tentacles drag him inside, and destroyed it from within.
• Ajuka’s countermeasure magic let the reinforcements defeat the remaining demonic beasts, and the alliance mourned Ren, whom they believed had died with Demonzoa.
• Ren revealed himself among the mourners, joked about their praise, and invited the exhausted women to eat with him.
• Ren rescued the unconscious Leonardo from Demonzoa and handed him over to Grayfia’s soldiers for treatment and questioning.
• Grayfia thanked Ren and left to resume her duties, while Ren traveled with the women toward central Lilith and explained how he had defeated Demonzoa.
• After the demonic beast crisis was resolved, the system announced the mission, “Demonic Beasts Attack.”

After helping repel the magical beasts in the Underworld, Ren received Kaioken and spent a day shopping and resting with the girls before visiting Katerea. He tested his newly fused Annihilation Maker on the way back, while footage of the battle began spreading and its wider consequences were just starting.

• Ren received the Kaioken skill as a reward for defeating the magical beasts and uncovering the culprit behind the Underworld chaos.
• Ren and the others explored Lilith's district, ate at a barbecue restaurant, and shopped after the streets reopened.
• Ren gave the group gifts, making Yasaka emotional, then rested at Rias's family castle before visiting Katerea that night.
• Ren left Katerea's territory the next morning and practiced creating an Ultimate-class magical beast with Annihilation Maker.
• Footage of the Underworld battle began circulating, bringing the conflict's aftermath into public view.

Ren visited Grayfia and discovered that she felt an unexplained familiarity with him, prompting him to suspect that he had met her in the past through time travel. After accepting a mission to investigate her secret, Ren revealed that he could travel through time.

• The Underworld rewarded Ren for defeating the magical beasts with a castle, territory, and the honorary title of count.
• Grayfia told Ren that Hades denied responsibility for the attack and accused Ren of possessing the missing Samael.
• Grayfia asked Ren whether they had met before, explaining that she had recently felt a vague sense of something important she could not remember.
• Ren suspected that his future self had traveled back in time and used the Random Time-Travel Scroll, then accepted the system mission to investigate Grayfia's past.
• Ren told Grayfia he could return to the past, leaving her shocked by his claim that he could travel through time.

Ren used the Random Time-Travel Scroll after embracing Grayfia to help pinpoint a time connected to her. He arrived in the Underworld during its civil war and found a young Grayfia fighting for the Satan government.

• Grayfia agreed to Ren's request for close contact, and he activated the Random Time-Travel Scroll.
• Ren arrived in a scorched, sulfurous Underworld and recognized it as the past during the demon civil war.
• Ren concealed his presence and watched the Reformist and Satan armies clash without intervening.
• Young Grayfia Lucifuge defeated a high-class demon and forced the Reformist soldiers to retreat, while privately grieving over the war against her fellow demons.
• Grayfia sensed danger, spotted Ren hovering above her, and prepared to confront the mysterious wingless stranger.