Recaps

Luo Shu learned the costly requirements for advancing to Calamity Priest and encouraged Utaha Kasumigaoka to begin building her own Class. After Utaha sent Kisara a provocative photo of them together, Luo Shu found Kisara waiting outside and took her with him to meet the Ghouls.

• Luo Shu read the Calamity Priest advancement requirements, then checked his Calamity Messenger progress and found it was only 3%.
• Luo Shu explained that Utaha Kasumigaoka needed to build a Class to gain a progress bar and encouraged her to start with affordable abilities.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka teased Luo Shu before he left, then sent Kisara a photo of them together from their time at her apartment.
• Luo Shu found Kisara waiting outside Utaha's apartment, where she had waited for over three hours after seeing the photo.
• Luo Shu took Kisara with him to meet the Ghouls, while Utaha said they were even.

After the Ghouls’ near-total extermination, Eto Yoshimura weighed how to preserve the survivors and decided to seek Luo Shu’s protection. Luo Shu recruited her group into SdS’s Secret Management Department and asked whether she was still in contact with Shizuka Hiou.

• Tatara reported that the Ghouls had vanished from their homes and that the warehouse had been thoroughly cleaned, while Eto Yoshimura assessed the power of Suzuka Dairenji and the wider world.
• Eto Yoshimura considered transforming the surviving Ghouls so they could stop eating people, joining Luo Shu, and even challenging Yoshimura for his position, but decided not to risk offending Luo Shu.
• Ayato Kirishima told Eto Yoshimura that Luo Shu had arrived, and she went with Tatara to meet him.
• Luo Shu offered Eto Yoshimura’s group funding, Gene Adjustment, training, and subordinate-unit status under SdS’s Secret Management Department; Eto accepted without questions.
• Luo Shu asked Eto Yoshimura whether she was still in contact with Shizuka Hiou.

Luo Shu asked Eto Yoshimura to offer Shizuka Hiou protection and made the task a test of her entry into his ranks. After a tiring night with Kisara, Luo Shu learned that Shizuka Hiou had come to visit his office.

• Luo Shu told Eto Yoshimura to ask Shizuka Hiou whether she would accept his protection, and made Eto’s effort a test of joining his ranks.
• Eto Yoshimura agreed to speak with Shizuka Hiou before dawn, hoping to bring her into SdS and secure an ally for the Ghouls.
• Luo Shu explained to Kisara that he wanted to place Eto under the system’s restrictions and use Aogiri Tree as agents in the Secret Management Department.
• Kisara hinted that she wanted to eat with Luo Shu, and he agreed before they went home for the night.
• Yukinoshita Yukino found Luo Shu exhausted at work, and later told him that Shizuka Hiou had come to visit.

Luo Shu met Shizuka Hiou, a Pureblood Vampire hunted by the Senate, hoping to recruit her as an agent in Vampire affairs. After learning she supported Ichijō Matoi’s leadership and had no intention of restoring Pureblood rule, Luo Shu offered her protection and a job, leaving her to consider the contract.

• Yukinoshita Yukino brought Shizuka Hiou to Luo Shu’s office, where he asked what she wanted and admitted he needed subordinates who could influence Vampire affairs from within.
• Shizuka Hiou refused to help Luo Shu challenge Ichijō Matoi’s leadership, explaining that Matoi had ended the war with humanity and helped sustain the Vampire race.
• Shizuka Hiou said the Hiou family had supported war against humanity, so she understood why the Senate and ordinary Vampires wanted Purebloods persecuted.
• Luo Shu abandoned his plan to use Vampire infighting for his advancement ritual and told Shizuka Hiou she had passed his danger assessment.
• Luo Shu offered Shizuka Hiou protection in exchange for contractual restrictions and work; she agreed to consider the paperwork for one day.

Luo Shu told Yukinoshita Yukino why he distrusted Shizuka Hiou and urged Yukino to stay cautious, while Yukino reflected on being excluded from the department’s secrets. The chapter ended with Yukino asking whether everyone except her and Tokisaki Kurumi was in a LINE group chat.

• After Shizuka Hiou left, Luo Shu and Yukinoshita Yukino agreed that most of Hiou’s statements were likely true but that she could not be trusted without safeguards.
• Luo Shu warned Yukino never to trust anyone completely and revealed that he suspected Hiou might be using him or working for the Senate.
• When Yukino mentioned Luo Shu’s Demon Ring, he guessed that Chisato or Mizuki had told her about it, but Yukino refused to name anyone.
• Yukino considered how the department’s members seemed to share information while excluding her, and wondered whether Luo Shu was testing her loyalty.
• After Luo Shu asked why she seemed to dislike him, Yukino directly asked whether everyone in the department except Tokisaki Kurumi and her was in a LINE group chat.

Yukinoshita Yukino confronted Luo Shu about his secretive tests and learned that he was a young deity recruiting women into his Familia. She agreed to become his subordinate, while Luo Shu revealed that Eto Yoshimura had not yet completed the contract required to earn his trust.

• Yukinoshita Yukino demanded that Luo Shu explain his test openly and state its requirements, prompting him to admit that his secrecy had been a mistake.
• Luo Shu told Yukinoshita Yukino that he was a deity, and she realized his secret put him in mortal danger.
• Yukinoshita Yukino deduced that Kasumigaoka, Sawamura, and the others were Luo Shu's Familia, and that joining them was the test's real condition.
• Luo Shu revealed that the Demon Heart could hypnotize women who failed or refused, but Yukinoshita Yukino clarified that she would join his Familia without taking on the other women's role.
• Luo Shu explained that Familia members had to sign a contract, then admitted Eto Yoshimura still needed to sign hers in front of him before he trusted her.

After Yukinoshita Yukino joined Luo Shu’s Familia, she awakened a knowledge-based ability and was offered the Knowledge Demon Class in exchange for two years of her monthly points wages. Luo Shu sent her to meet Eto Yoshimura, who was waiting upstairs.

• Yukinoshita Yukino awakened Knowledge Encyclopedia, and Luo Shu explained how Familia abilities reflected members’ personal traits.
• Luo Shu showed Yukino the Knowledge Demon Class and its Excellent Rank advancement requirements, including Eyes of Wisdom costing 10,000 points.
• Yukino calculated her expected repayment and teased Luo Shu about whether he liked her, while he insisted the Class was not a romantic condition.
• Luo Shu ordered Yukino to accept the Class in exchange for two years of her monthly wages and offered to provide advancement resources.
• Luo Shu reminded Yukino that Eto Yoshimura was waiting in the second-floor waiting room, then left with Yukino following him.

Luo Shu accepted Eto Yoshimura into his Familia, and she awakened the ability Devouring Evolution before revealing she had become a vampire. He brought her and Yukinoshita Yukino to the Secret Management Zone, where Eto met two captive ghouls, while Luo Shu left her to feed and teased Yukino about her supposed courage training.

• Luo Shu offered Eto Yoshimura a contract, and she signed it to join his Familia, awakening Devouring Evolution.
• Eto Yoshimura suffered hunger from her new ability, so Luo Shu took her and Yukinoshita Yukino to the Secret Management Zone.
• Luo Shu showed Eto the captive ghouls Rize Kamishiro and Roma Hoito, identifying them as valuable specimens and allowing Eto to drink some blood.
• Eto Yoshimura revealed that she had become a vampire with the Hiou family's bloodline, and Luo Shu told her to lock the ghouls away after feeding.
• Luo Shu admitted he had only teased Yukinoshita Yukino about courage training, leaving her to wonder whether he was petty enough to be getting back at her.

Luo Shu and Tokisaki Kurumi discussed the Secret Management Zone beneath the Base, which Kurumi sensed as a threat capable of devouring her. Luo Shu revealed that the area was like his Angel, leaving him to wonder whether his system could explain the danger.

• Luo Shu told Tokisaki Kurumi she could wander nearby and enter the underground Secret Management Zone as long as she did not touch anything.
• Tokisaki Kurumi said the area felt like an entrance to hell and revealed that her original body had fled after sensing it.
• Luo Shu explained that the underground area was equivalent to his Angel, and Tokisaki Kurumi realized it might counter her.
• Luo Shu asked whether the danger Kurumi sensed truly came from his Angel, then silently questioned his servant of God about it.

Luo Shu discovered that his Divine Kingdom had captured the Origin Elf at her birth and that she remained imprisoned there. He questioned Tokisaki Kurumi about her dream, learning that she wanted to return thirty years to investigate the first Abyss Descent, and left her furious after teasing her about her past.

• Luo Shu saw visions of the Origin Elf's birth, her capture by a spreading darkness, and her imprisonment in his Divine Kingdom.
• Luo Shu learned from the system that it had captured the Origin Elf and that releasing her before he became a Demigod was dangerous.
• Luo Shu asked Tokisaki Kurumi about her dream and teased her about her embarrassing chuuni phase, making her demand to know what he wanted.
• Tokisaki Kurumi said she wanted to return thirty years to find the starting point that changed the world, and denied knowing about the Origin Elf.
• Luo Shu inferred that Tokisaki Kurumi wanted to prevent the first Abyss Descent, prompting her to curse him for mocking her.

Luo Shu offered Tokisaki Kurumi an alliance with SDS and explained that joining his Familia could free her power from its restraints. Kurumi requested time for her original self and clones to decide, while Luo Shu later discovered she had eaten the lunch Kisara left for him.

• Luo Shu revealed that his Occult Studies Encyclopedia had supplied information about Tokisaki Kurumi and urged her to join SDS, explaining that their alliance could restore her full power.
• Luo Shu told Tokisaki Kurumi that her Zafkiel power came from the third Sephira and that joining his Familia would benefit them both, though he concealed the cost to Takamiya Mio.
• Tokisaki Kurumi asked to investigate the Base, including its underground space, and requested time to consult her original self and clones; Luo Shu agreed.
• Tokisaki Kurumi left after saying she had come for breakfast, and Luo Shu found Kisara's lunch basket empty and realized Kurumi had eaten it.
• Yukinoshita Yukino and Eto Yoshimura encountered Tokisaki Kurumi, then Yukinoshita Yukino warned Eto Yoshimura to avoid conflict with her and led her to see Luo Shu about an assignment.

Luo Shu tested whether Eto Yoshimura could evolve by drinking his and Yukinoshita Yukino’s blood, then sent Eto to obtain Shizuka Hiou’s signature on a contract. He left Yukino in charge while he went out to buy lunch and avoid Tokisaki Kurumi’s original body as it inspected the Base.

• Eto Yoshimura reported that drinking Ghoul blood had only slightly strengthened her Kagune, so Luo Shu arranged a test using his and Yukinoshita Yukino’s blood.
• Luo Shu used Calamity Absorption and Bestowal to heal Yukino’s finger and create a matching cut on his own, then healed himself after collecting their blood.
• Eto drank the mixed blood and gained a sight-activated Spell Formula that briefly increased a target’s bad luck, along with improved memories.
• Luo Shu gave Eto the Contract Document and ordered her to have Shizuka Hiou sign it or kill her; Eto accepted and left.
• Luo Shu told Yukino to manage the office while he went to buy boxed lunches, skip work, and avoid Tokisaki Kurumi’s original body during its Base inspection.

Tokisaki Kurumi recalled her clones and learned that Luo Shu had exposed her embarrassing past, then sent clones to investigate the underground Secret Management Zone and his office. Meanwhile, Luo Shu met Sharon away from the Base, hoping Kurumi would investigate, and gave Sharon six contracts to recruit talented girls.

• Tokisaki Kurumi’s clone reassured her that Luo Shu had not done anything to her, and the two reunited, sharing the clone’s memories.
• Tokisaki Kurumi discovered that Luo Shu had publicly exposed her “dark past,” then used Zafkiel’s Eighth bullet to recall and recreate five clones.
• Tokisaki Kurumi sent three clones to investigate the underground space and two to search Luo Shu’s office for special documents.
• Luo Shu ate ramen with Sharon near Shiba Park and explained that he had left the Base so Tokisaki Kurumi could investigate the Secret Management Zone and find a Contract Document.
• Luo Shu handed Sharon six Contract Documents and asked her to invite talented girls to sign them.

Luo Shu gave Sharon the ability to assess potential Familia members and arranged to shop with her for household necessities. Meanwhile, Tokisaki Kurumi investigated the Secret Management Zone, discovered her clones lost contact inside, and entered after using Zafkiel to make a clone the new original.

• Luo Shu bestowed the Eyes of Fate on Sharon so she could detect qualified recruits within fifty meters.
• Sharon told Luo Shu she had chosen a free room at Sakura Apartments, and he invited her to shop for household necessities after lunch.
• Tokisaki Kurumi entered the Secret Management Department and found its GINN defenses deactivated, then discovered an Astronomy Club membership application Luo Shu had left for her.
• Tokisaki Kurumi sent two clones into the Secret Management Zone, but their connection to her was severed when they entered.
• Tokisaki Kurumi shot a clone with Zafkiel to make it the new original, then stepped into the Secret Management Zone.

Tokisaki Kurumi entered the hidden space and discovered an inverted Tree of Kabbalah that Luo Shu identified as the God Class, along with the truth that Zafkiel held one-tenth of divine authority. Luo Shu offered to reclaim and return the power within her so she could become a demigod, and Kurumi appeared to accept on the condition that her original body approve the contract.

• Tokisaki Kurumi entered the white space, reunited with a clone, and learned that the space blocked her connection to clones outside it.
• Tokisaki Kurumi sensed a hidden presence, and her original body revealed a wooden door that opened onto a vast desert and an inverted Tree of Kabbalah.
• Luo Shu explained that the tree represented the God Class, formed by combining ten authorities, and Kurumi recognized Zafkiel as one-tenth of God's authority.
• Luo Shu revealed that he could not use the God Class and had seized its power from a Young God, then offered to reclaim the third Sephira within Kurumi and return it to her.
• Luo Shu said the arrangement would let Zafkiel use its full power and make Kurumi a demigod, and Kurumi said she could not accept until he clarified that her original body had to approve the contract.

Tokisaki Kurumi signed Luo Shu’s Familia contract and awakened the Third Power, becoming a Demigod with the unique Class Mother of the Highest. Luo Shu realized her new power governed spacetime, while the system began activating support functions for his first Demigod Familia member.

• Tokisaki Kurumi transferred her main body back and told Luo Shu they were even after their earlier deception.
• Tokisaki Kurumi asked how to sign the contract, and Luo Shu directed her to the Contract Document in his office.
• Tokisaki Kurumi signed the Contract Document and warned Luo Shu that betrayal would bring the nightmare of time after him.
• Tokisaki Kurumi awakened the Third Power, rose to Demigod rank, gained the title Time Angel, and obtained the unique Class Mother of the Highest.
• Luo Shu concluded that Mother of the Highest governed spacetime, then received a system notice that support functions were activating for his first Demigod Familia member.

Luo Shu discovered the Dream Simulation Room and took the newly ascended Tokisaki Kurumi there to test her demigod abilities. Kurumi’s simulated counterpart defeated him instantly, leaving Luo Shu to reckon with the gulf between demigods and weaker beings.

• Luo Shu learned that the Dream Simulation Room could help Familia members develop Classes and abilities and let them fight imaginary enemies.
• Tokisaki Kurumi finished transforming into a demigod and teased Luo Shu before agreeing to test her new abilities.
• Luo Shu summoned a full-strength simulated Tokisaki Kurumi, who struck him down with a technique called Concept Infusion.
• Tokisaki Kurumi explained that demigod techniques could inflict conceptual damage and shatter space-time, and Luo Shu realized how dangerous demigods were.
• Luo Shu left the simulation to rest, while Tokisaki Kurumi wondered how to soothe his wounded pride.

Tokisaki Kurumi endured a brutal Dream Spirit combat test against a copy of herself, while Luo Shu secretly controlled the copy and discovered how easily he could wield her Demigod abilities. The chapter leaves Luo Shu pondering his newfound advantage as someone offers him shelter from the rain.

• The Dream Spirit’s simulated Kurumi defeated Tokisaki Kurumi twenty-three times, leaving her stunned by her own strength and abilities.
• Luo Shu withdrew from controlling Kurumi’s copy and celebrated privately after venting his frustration on her.
• Luo Shu reflected on the gulf between Demigods and lower ranks and wondered why he had adapted so instinctively to Kurumi’s powers.
• Luo Shu considered using his ability to control Tokisaki Kurumi’s body and debated whether to tell her he had controlled her opponent.
• A woman approached Luo Shu in the rain and held an umbrella over him, warning that he would catch a chill.

Luo Shu met Mahiru Shiina in the rain, exchanged LINE IDs with her, and learned she knew him through Mira Tsubakihara. After Mahiru accidentally revealed Mira's private feelings about him, Sharon caught Luo Shu talking with her.

• Mahiru Shiina approached Luo Shu in the rain and warned him he might catch a cold.
• Luo Shu gave Mahiru his business card and tricked her into thinking she had endangered his undercover police stakeout, then advised her to be careful around strangers.
• Luo Shu and Mahiru exchanged LINE IDs, and Mahiru showed him a photo of him at home with Kisara and Mira Tsubakihara.
• Mahiru explained she lived next door to Mira's family and showed Luo Shu Mira's caption calling him her clingy little boyfriend.
• Mahiru realized she had exposed Mira's crush and hurried away, leaving her umbrella behind.
• Sharon appeared behind Luo Shu and teased him for supposedly seeking peace and quiet while chatting up a girl.

Luo Shu and Sharon went shopping for household necessities after discussing Mahiru Shiina and the new Dream Simulation Room at the Familia's base. At the supermarket, they unexpectedly ran into Mahiru, who had come to return an umbrella.

• Sharon told Luo Shu she had met Mahiru Shiina in the rain and suggested they might have a fateful encounter when Mahiru returned the borrowed umbrella.
• Luo Shu agreed to go shopping with Sharon, and they shared an umbrella on the way out of Shiba Park.
• Luo Shu explained that Tokisaki Kurumi's abilities were exceptionally powerful and that a Dream Simulation Room had been added to the Familia's base.
• At the supermarket, Luo Shu asked Sharon about her preferences for household goods and learned that a nun had taught her everyday knowledge.
• Luo Shu and Sharon spotted Mahiru choosing an umbrella, and Sharon teased him that her prediction had come true.

Mahiru Shiina ran into Luo Shu and Sharon at a supermarket, where Sharon teased her about Mira and then enlisted her help shopping for their new home. Mahiru agreed despite realizing the favor would take effort, and began helping the pair choose household and personal-care supplies.

• Mahiru Shiina encountered Luo Shu and Sharon, and Luo Shu told her he had returned her umbrella to the supermarket entrance.
• Sharon teased Mahiru by calling Mira a homewrecker, then admitted she had been joking after Luo Shu objected.
• Sharon told Mahiru that she and Luo Shu had recently moved and did not know what household goods to buy.
• Mahiru offered to help them shop, and Luo Shu listed the many supplies they needed.
• Mahiru lent Sharon a notebook and pen, but Sharon admitted she had never bought most of the listed necessities or cosmetics.
• Mahiru agreed to help Sharon choose the items, while worrying that the shopping trip would be troublesome.

Luo Shu, Sharon, and Mahiru Shiina bought supplies for Sharon’s hidden Safe House, and Sharon suggested Mahiru consider renting a unit in Sakura Apartment. Mahiru warmed to the idea, seeing it as a way to make moving out easier to discuss with her parents.

• Luo Shu carried shopping bags while the supermarket arranged delivery of quilts and other supplies to the Secret Management Department's Base for transfer to Sakura Apartment.
• Sharon explained that she had established three Safe Houses and secretly connected one room in Sakura Apartment to her room in the Astronomy Club.
• Mahiru Shiina discussed skincare and cosmetics with Sharon, who became worried that the products might cause facial hair to grow.
• Luo Shu pointed out that Mahiru had bought little because she planned to shop for household goods after finding a place to live.
• Sharon suggested that Mahiru look for a place in Nerima Ward and mentioned that Mira Tsubakihara owned most of the units in Sakura Apartment.
• Mahiru realized Sharon was suggesting that she rent from Mira and considered that her parents might be more accepting of her moving out.

After driving Mahiru Shiina home, Luo Shu learned that Sharon saw her as a naturally gifted candidate for the Holy Practitioner path and asked permission to guide her. The system confirmed Mahiru’s strong potential, and Luo Shu approved Sharon’s plan as he considered drawing Mahiru closer to his Familia.

• Luo Shu drove Mahiru Shiina to her luxury residence after they finished shopping, and Sharon observed that Mahiru seemed to have an unhappy home life.
• Sharon explained that Mahiru’s parents had married under family pressure and that Mahiru believed no one in her family cared about her.
• Sharon told Luo Shu that Mahiru’s pure soul made her a potential candidate to become a saint, and asked to bestow power upon her.
• Luo Shu paid 500 points for the system to assess Mahiru, which found a 73% chance she could become a Saint (Demigod) with basic cultivation.
• Luo Shu approved Sharon’s plan to guide Mahiru in the Holy Practitioner system and considered using Mira to bring Mahiru closer to his Familia.

Luo Shu considered turning Yoshimura’s Ghouls into blood clan members to save the cost of Coordinator modifications. At the Secret Management Department, he received a personal invitation from Minister Fujiwara to attend a family dinner.

• Luo Shu learned that Shizuka Hiou had joined his Familia and awakened the blood clan Class, which he decided not to let her develop within the Familia.
• Luo Shu planned to delay the Coordinator modifications and indirectly suggest to Yoshimura that blood clan conversion could be a cheaper alternative for the Ghouls.
• Luo Shu arrived at the Secret Management Department and met Shinbo Hideyuki, Minister Fujiwara’s secretary.
• Shinbo Hideyuki delivered Minister Fujiwara’s invitation for Luo Shu to attend a family dinner at his home on Sunday, and Luo Shu accepted the prospect with a smile.

Luo Shu weighed whether to reveal his Familia to Lacus Clyne and recruit her, while balancing his growing weekend commitments. After Yukinoshita Yukino asked him to submit his schedule, Luo Shu decided to take the gamble with Lacus while their relationship was still in its honeymoon period.

• Luo Shu reviewed his plans, including a date with Lacus Clyne, dinner with the Fujiwara family, and a possible visit to the Sawamura family.
• Luo Shu considered deepening SDS's cooperation with his Familia and wondered whether Lacus would accept a Familia contract.
• Yukinoshita Yukino brought Luo Shu a schedule request from the Action and Intelligence Departments and noticed his date with Lacus Clyne.
• Luo Shu explained that Lacus was SDS's Supreme Chairman, so security arrangements were needed for their date.
• After Yukinoshita Yukino left, Luo Shu decided to take the gamble and come clean to Lacus while they were still in their honeymoon period.