Chapter Summaries

Asaba Kotone helped Asa Mitaka escape the aquarium by turning it into a weapon, and Yoru used it to defeat the Eternity Devil. Asa became discouraged when Yoru's attempt to turn Asaba into a weapon failed, while Asaba met Kiga at a café to discuss something with her.

• Asaba gave Asa a million yen, and Asa turned the aquarium into the Aquarium Spear to escape the Eternity Devil's trap.
• Yoru took control of Asa's body and hurled the Aquarium Spear, sending the Eternity Devil back to Hell.
• Asa asked Asaba whether she was boring, and his reassurance made her happy and increased her affection for him.
• Yoru tried several times to turn Asaba into a weapon, but her ability failed, leaving Asa to conclude that Asaba did not like her.
• Asa and Yoru returned home, where Asa worried about Asaba's feelings and asked why Kiga had seemed hostile.
• Asaba sought out Kiga and agreed to buy her food at a café before discussing what he wanted to talk about.

Asaba Kotone met Kiga over an enormous dessert order and asked about the Nostradamus Prophecy. Kiga revealed she intended to control the War Devil, and Asaba Kotone made clear he would oppose that plan while still seeking to prevent the prophecy.

• Asaba Kotone and Kiga sat down, and Kiga ordered five servings of nearly every dessert on the menu.
• Asaba Kotone reassured the waitress and agreed to pay, raising Kiga's affection and earning a Constitution reward.
• Asaba Kotone asked Kiga what she knew about the Nostradamus Prophecy and the coming King of Terror.
• Kiga said the prophecy could not be stopped, but that she had her own method.
• Asaba Kotone guessed that Kiga planned to control the War Devil, then warned he would stop her while working with her to prevent the prophecy.

Asaba Kotone offered Kiga a partnership to stop the Nostradamus Prophecy, promising to cover her food expenses in exchange for her abandoning her plans for Asa Mitaka and the War Devils and not harming humans. Kiga considered the terms but said cooperation depended on how far it went.

• Kiga told Asaba Kotone that neither he nor the Control Devil could stop her alone, and Asaba insisted he could stop her himself.
• Kiga guarded the desserts she had ordered and ate them quickly, while Asaba ordered sweets of his own.
• After Kiga admitted she was still hungry, Asaba gave her his remaining desserts and offered to pay for her food if she worked with him.
• Asaba proposed that they prevent the Nostradamus Prophecy, with Kiga giving up her plans for Asa Mitaka and the War Devils and refraining from harming humans.
• Kiga said she was happy to be treated to food but that working together depended on the scope of the cooperation.

Asaba Kotone used Genjutsu to show Kiga that he could control her, and she agreed to cooperate in exchange for being kept fed. After finishing several rounds of desserts, Kiga expected him to provide dinner as well.

• Asaba Kotone cast Genjutsu on Kiga and made her reach out against her will.
• Asaba Kotone told Kiga he could control her and stop her, so she agreed to cooperate if he kept her fed.
• Kiga suggested Asaba Kotone use his control ability to deal with the War Devils, and he said he would consider it.
• Kiga asked Asaba Kotone to order three more servings of every dessert, and he paid for them.
• Kiga finished all the desserts and told Asaba Kotone she would count on him for dinner.

After spending more than a hundred thousand yen on Kiga’s seafood dinner, Asaba Kotone worried about the cost of keeping her but promised to keep feeding her. As they walked, Kiga explained how she had managed her hunger before, and Asaba noticed why she always tilted her neck.

• Asaba Kotone treated Kiga to a seafood dinner that cost more than a hundred thousand yen and left nearly a hundred empty plates.
• Asaba Kotone calculated how much Kiga’s appetite could cost and reaffirmed that he would keep feeding her.
• Kiga explained that she ate when food was available and went hungry when it was not, and that she preferred human cuisine to eating Devils in Hell.
• Asaba Kotone asked about Kiga’s tilted neck, and Kiga demonstrated that she could straighten it before tilting it again.
• Asaba Kotone deduced that Kiga’s heavier left earring made her neck tilt left when relaxed.

Asaba Kotone took Kiga out for lunch and entered her in a street eating contest, expecting her appetite to make winning easy. Kiga learned the contest rules and prepared to compete for the prize money.

• Ankyu Fumina told Asaba Kotone that Kiga was waiting to see him, and Kiga confirmed she wanted him to buy her lunch.
• Asaba Kotone told Makima he would work with Kiga, while Reze questioned whether he was trying to win Kiga over.
• Asaba Kotone took Kiga off campus and spotted a street eating contest.
• Asaba Kotone signed Kiga up, paid her two-thousand-yen entry fee, and left her as the sole contestant between them.

Kiga stunned the crowd by dominating an eating contest, leaving the other contestants far behind. After only ten minutes, she looked at the empty plates and asked, "Is that all?"

• Kiga registered for the eating contest despite the staff member doubting that she could compete.
• Kiga took her place among the mostly burly adult contestants as spectators questioned why a high school girl had entered.
• When the contest began, Kiga ate with graceful form and astonishing speed, quickly outpacing everyone.
• After ten minutes, Kiga had eaten far more than the next-fastest contestant and asked, "Is that all?"

Kiga won an eating competition but left before collecting her prize so she could find more food. After Asaba Kotone collected the prize with her, they ran into Asa Mitaka and returned to school together.

• Kiga finished the competition meal and complained that there had not been enough food, then left with Asaba Kotone to find more.
• After satisfying Kiga, Asaba Kotone returned with her through the Kamui Dimension to collect her hundred-thousand-yen prize.
• Kiga handed the prize voucher to Asaba Kotone, saying it made no difference since he would pay for her food.
• Asa Mitaka saw them collect the prize, and Yoru urged her to approach Asaba Kotone, but Asa hesitated.
• Asaba Kotone noticed Asa Mitaka, and the four of them returned to school together in an awkward atmosphere.

Yoru Mitaka confronted Kiga over her relationship with Asaba Kotone, but Kiga’s claim that he would take care of her for life caused Asa Mitaka to misunderstand their arrangement. Asaba clarified that he had only agreed to pay for Kiga’s meals to keep her from harming ordinary people, and Yoru already knew Kiga was dangerous.

• Yoru Mitaka took control of Asa Mitaka’s body and told Kiga that Asaba Kotone was her man.
• Kiga said she would support her little sister but insisted that Asaba had promised to take care of her for the rest of her life.
• Asa Mitaka and Yoru Mitaka misunderstood Kiga’s words as meaning that she and Asaba were a couple.
• Asaba Kotone explained that he had agreed to cover Kiga’s food expenses to keep the potentially dangerous Famine Devil in check.
• Yoru Mitaka said she already knew Kiga’s way of thinking was abnormal.

Asaba Kotone learned that followers of the Great King of Terror may have summoned Time Devils in Western Europe, whose power could accelerate the prophecy. The group returned to school with no clear way to find the followers or stop the threat.

• Yoru Mitaka confirmed she knew the general idea of Kiga's scheme but was too weak to oppose her.
• Yoru Mitaka called Asaba Kotone her man, and he dismissed the claim as an attempt to control him.
• Asaba Kotone, Yoru Mitaka, and Kiga returned to school, where Kiga warned that someone had summoned Time Devils.
• Kiga explained that Time Devils could rewrite time and might bring the Great King of Terror's arrival forward.
• Kiga suspected followers of the Great King of Terror in Western Europe had summoned the Time Devils, but Asaba Kotone had no way to pinpoint them.

Believers across Western Europe sacrificed more than a thousand people to summon the Time Devils and obtain the Nostradamus Prophecy. Asaba Kotone planned to ask the Future Devil about the prophecy and agreed to let Kiga accompany him.

• Believers in underground churches across Western Europe sacrificed more than a thousand people, and the Time Devils answered their call for the Nostradamus Prophecy.
• Asaba Kotone worried that the prophecy might arrive early and decided to ask the Future Devil about it after class.
• Asaba Kotone asked Yoru what she knew about the prophecy, but she said she knew little and did not care about humanity's fate.
• Kiga asked Asaba Kotone whether he had a countermeasure, then insisted on joining him to visit the Future Devil.

Asaba Kotone brought Kiga to Tokyo Public Safety and asked Kirisū Yuki to let him borrow the Future Devil’s power to investigate the Nostradamus Prophecy. He left Kirisū to arrange a meeting with the Future Devil so it could determine when the King of Terror would descend.

• Asa Mitaka left with Yoru after Asaba Kotone and Kiga said they had business to attend to.
• Asaba showed his identification at Tokyo Public Safety’s entrance and brought Kiga inside as his upperclassman from Fourth East.
• Asaba asked Kirisū Yuki to let him borrow the Future Devil’s power and explained the situation surrounding the Nostradamus Prophecy.
• Kirisū asked about Kiga, and Asaba told her Kiga was the Famine Devil and called herself Makima’s older sister.
• Asaba asked Kirisū to arrange for the Future Devil to predict when the King of Terror would descend, and Kirisū agreed to send someone.

Asaba Kotone asked the Future Devil to predict when the Nostradamus Prophecy would arrive, and it demanded three human eyes in exchange. Asaba returned with three prisoners who agreed to give up one eye for conditional freedom, leaving the prophecy’s timing unknown.

• Asaba Kotone, Kiga, and Kiga’s companions met the Future Devil at the place where Tokyo Public Safety imprisoned devils.
• Asaba asked the Future Devil to predict when the Nostradamus Prophecy would arrive, explaining that the Time Devils had brought it forward.
• The Future Devil asked to taste Kiga’s eyes, but Kiga warned it to try at its own risk, and Asaba refused to let it involve her.
• The Future Devil demanded three human eyes as payment for predicting the prophecy’s timing.
• Asaba returned with three serious offenders who agreed to give up one eye each in exchange for monitored, conditional freedom.

Asaba Kotone had the Future Devil examine a felon, who was predicted to die in three days because of the Nostradamus Prophecy. The Future Devil said human civilization would not end, so Asaba searched Nostradamus's writings for an explanation and found a prophecy about Mars ruling the world.

• Asaba Kotone had the Future Devil look into a felon's future in exchange for a reduced sentence.
• The Future Devil predicted that the felon would die in three days because of the Nostradamus Prophecy, but said human civilization would survive.
• Asaba Kotone left with Kiga and went to the Library to research The Centuries.
• Asaba Kotone found lines saying the King of Terror would descend from the sky in 1999 and that Mars would rule the world to grant people happy lives.
• Asaba Kotone wondered who Mars was and what those happy lives would be like.

Asaba Kotone searched for answers about the King of Angoulmois and Mars but found only baseless speculation, so he prepared for the Nostradamus Prophecy and told Reze about the coming disaster. Reze refused to hide in an air-raid shelter and chose to face it alongside him.

• Asaba Kotone asked Kiga for leads about the King of Angoulmois and Mars, but she said she knew nothing and refused to help.
• Asaba Kotone searched for reliable information about the prophecy’s figures but found only unsupported theories and gave up investigating.
• Asaba Kotone had already sent countries around the world the Future Devil’s information about the prophecy in Tokyo Public Safety’s name.
• Reze asked Asaba Kotone what was troubling him, and he told her about the Nostradamus Prophecy and urged her to take shelter.
• Reze rejected Asaba Kotone’s suggestion to hide and said she wanted to face the disaster with him.

Asaba Kotone prepared for the Nostradamus Prophecy by asking Reze to move everyone else to safety and making a life-and-death contract with Makima. He went to sleep ready to face the prophecy the next day, after Reze reported that the arrangements were complete.

• Asaba Kotone asked Reze to come with him, provided she first moved everyone else somewhere safe.
• Asaba Kotone asked Makima whether she would go to the air-raid shelter or accompany him, and Makima chose to come with him.
• Asaba Kotone and Makima made a contract to share life and death, with Makima giving him her control ability.
• Asaba Kotone went to sleep, and Reze returned to tell him that everyone had been safely settled.

Asaba Kotone witnessed the Death Devil’s countdown ability appear above people as the King of Terror descended and transformed the world into a death-filled illusion. The Death Devil approached him from behind, and he turned to face her.

• Asaba Kotone saw a death countdown floating above every person in Tokyo, while his own showed infinity.
• Makima and Kiga told Asaba Kotone that the countdowns were the ability of their eldest sister, the Death Devil, who was the King of Terror.
• People panicked when they realized the countdowns marked their remaining lifespans, strengthening the Death Devil.
• The world suddenly appeared lifeless, and Asaba Kotone noticed that the devastated surroundings seemed to be an illusion.
• The Death Devil silently wrapped her arms around Asaba Kotone’s neck, and he activated Intangibility before turning toward her.

The Death Devil appeared before Asaba Kotone and revealed that she had come to see the human close to her sisters. As devils flooded the streets and slaughtered people, Makima and Kiga moved to oppose her.

• Reze transformed to protect Asaba Kotone, but Makima stopped her and warned that the Death Devil was too powerful to hurt.
• Asaba Kotone realized the mysterious woman was the Death Devil and asked what she wanted with him.
• The Death Devil said she had come to see the human who had grown close to her little sisters, then teased Asaba Kotone after reading his thoughts.
• Asaba Kotone pointed out that the devils rampaging through the city were killing people despite the scene being an illusion.
• Makima controlled devils to fight the invaders, while Kiga prepared a figurine of the Falling Devil and declared she would not let the Death Devil have her way.

Asaba Kotone confronted the Death Devil and learned that she planned to remake humanity into beings symbiotic with Devils. Unable to agree with her disregard for human choice, he prepared to fight her.

• Asaba Kotone sent Reze to rescue as many people as she could while he stayed to face the Death Devil.
• The Death Devil explained that she wanted to create a lasting civilization where humans and Devils lived in symbiosis.
• Asaba Kotone objected that people should be allowed to choose whether to live with Devils, but the Death Devil dismissed their wishes.
• Asaba Kotone rejected the Death Devil's plan and challenged her to show her strength.

Asaba Kotone faced the Death Devil while the Falling Devil wiped out the attacking Devils. The Death Devil killed and revived him, then demanded that he become her toy.

• The Falling Devil killed the Devils around the Devil Hunters without harming nearby humans or allies.
• Asaba Kotone tried to pull the Death Devil into the Kamui Dimension, but she changed his countdown to zero and killed him.
• The Death Devil revived Asaba Kotone through his Weapon Human mechanism, leaving him in his Gun Weapon Human form.
• The Death Devil said she was interested in Asaba Kotone because her younger sisters were close to him and told him to become her toy.