Recaps

Luo Shu hid Mira Tsubakihara from a masked stalker, then confronted him on the fourth floor and shot him after the man revealed a monstrous claw. The stalker fell to the ground as witnesses and a patrol officer noticed the shooting, and Luo Shu called Mika.

• Luo Shu carried Mira Tsubakihara to vacant apartment 503 and locked them inside while the stalker searched the fourth floor.
• Luo Shu descended through the balconies to his own apartment, changed into a protective suit, and linked his room to the Astronomy Club's space as an escape route.
• Luo Shu returned to the fourth floor, confronted the masked man with his gun, and shot him in the foot when he tried to flee.
• The masked man leapt over the railing and reached up with a claw to attack Luo Shu, who dodged and shot him several times in the chest.
• Luo Shu saw the man lying in a pool of blood as pedestrians screamed and a patrol officer stared up at him, then called Mika.

Luo Shu was released from police custody after Tachibana Kirika revealed he worked for a secret Metropolitan Police Department unit and had killed a terrorist. Kirika then explained that the dead man had been searching for a ruby ring called the Demon Heart, an Abyssal Artifact capable of hypnotizing women who saw it.

• Miwako Sato interrogated Luo Shu about shooting a man, and Luo Shu identified Tachibana Kirika and the Special Records Office as his superior and workplace.
• Juzo Megure stopped the interrogation and ordered Luo Shu released after confirming the dead man was a terrorist and Luo Shu belonged to a special department.
• Tachibana Kirika arrived, had Luo Shu uncuffed, and gave him his work credentials as Inspector Luo.
• Luo Shu left the station with Kirika, who identified the dead man as Nakamura Yuuichi, a Hound of the Demon Hunters, and said he had been searching for an item.
• Kirika told Luo Shu the sought item was a ruby-set ring called the Demon Heart, an Abyssal Artifact that could hypnotize women who saw its ruby.

Tachibana Kirika explained how the Demon Heart reached Tsubakihara Mira and assigned Luo Shu to find it while the authorities pursued the Seven-Star Demon Hunter. As Luo Shu arrived home, he found Tachibana Kirika’s dark red Lucky Wallet on the ground.

• Tachibana Kirika told Luo Shu that a dying Demon Warlock had hypnotized a woman and sent the Demon Heart away, eventually passing it through Tsubakihara Mira’s jewelry store.
• Tachibana Kirika explained that Nakamura Yuuichi had been sent to retrieve the Demon Heart and that its side effect made women who obtained it forget it existed unless hypnotized.
• Tachibana Kirika assigned Luo Shu to find the Demon Heart, which Tsubakihara Mira had forgotten, and warned him about the dangers of Abyssal Artifacts.
• Tachibana Kirika said the Onmyoryo had been mobilized against the Seven-Star Demon Hunter and that she had withheld the Demon Heart’s existence from outside authorities.
• Tachibana Kirika dropped Luo Shu off and told him to find the Demon Heart before his Lycoris report, and Luo Shu found her dark red wallet after her car drove away.

Tachibana Kirika and Takina Inoue watched Luo Shu from a hotel across from his apartment, but Luo Shu revealed he knew about the covert surveillance and returned Kirika’s runaway Lucky Wallet. After entering Mira Tsubakihara’s apartment, he unknowingly remained under close protection from Thor Security Group.

• Tachibana Kirika told Takina Inoue to keep watching Luo Shu until he received the Demon-Type Abyss Item, and Takina reported that he was waiting outside his building.
• Luo Shu called Tachibana Kirika, revealed he knew about her surveillance, and showed that he had recovered her Lucky Wallet.
• Tachibana Kirika let Luo Shu keep the wallet and told him to focus on Mira Tsubakihara.
• Luo Shu went to Room 302, where Mira Tsubakihara welcomed him and signaled Thor Security Group that she was safe.
• Takina Inoue alerted Tachibana Kirika that Mira had noticed them, while a Thor Security Group commander ordered most of his team to withdraw and left a protection detail near Luo Shu.

Mira Tsubakihara explained that her grandfather had arranged security next door after the attack, then admitted she had investigated Luo Shu through her family. When Luo Shu asked why the Hounds had followed her, Mira showed him a ring bearing the Demon Heart’s eye, whose stare left him frozen.

• Mira Tsubakihara told Luo Shu that her grandfather had sent American Thor Security Group personnel to guard her next door.
• Mira served Luo Shu black tea and explained that she had read his Metropolitan Police Department file after asking her family to investigate him.
• Mira told Luo Shu she had been relieved to learn they would meet again, leaving him flustered.
• Luo Shu asked Mira why the Hounds had followed her, and she revealed a ruby-set ring with the Demon Heart’s eye.
• The eye on the ring stared at Luo Shu, and his expression began to freeze.

Luo Shu learned that the Demon Heart had made Mira Tsubakihara forget and then remember it, and that it had pushed her to seek his help while the Hound pursued her. Mira offered the sentient Abyssal Artifact to Luo Shu, but when she asked about its ability to hypnotize women, he realized he could not safely answer.

• Mira Tsubakihara told Luo Shu that the Demon Heart had been in her pocket and had caused her to forget about it before making her remember it.
• Mira explained that government-trained bodyguards had been protecting her, but the Demon Heart had influenced her to ask Luo Shu for help as the Hound pursued them.
• Luo Shu acknowledged that he had saved Mira by shooting the Hound, while Mira insisted he was her lifesaver.
• Luo Shu's system confirmed that sentient Abyssal Artifacts could approach him to seek further evolution.
• Mira offered Luo Shu the Demon Heart and asked him to explain its ability, leaving him unable to reveal that it hypnotized women.

Luo Shu told Mira Tsubakihara that the Demon Heart could hypnotize women, and she warned him not to give it to Tachibana Kirika, Zeus Industries, or her family. He promised to keep it from them, exchanged LINE contacts with Mira, and returned to his apartment to investigate the Abyssal Artifacts.

• Luo Shu explained that the Demon Heart belonged to Astronomy of Truth and could mentally control women, and Mira Tsubakihara asked him to keep it sealed.
• Mira warned Luo Shu that Tachibana Kirika and a Zeus Industries executive had founded SDS to collect Abyssal Artifacts for military research, and urged him not to hand over the ring.
• Mira told Luo Shu that her family and the Six Major Arms Groups in the Americas also wanted the artifacts, and he promised to keep the Demon Heart from them all.
• Luo Shu checked the time, packed away the Demon Heart, and exchanged LINE contact details with Mira before leaving for his apartment next door.
• After Luo Shu left, Mira leaned against her door and remarked that he was eight years younger than her.

Luo Shu examined the Demon Heart and Lucky Wallet, learned their abilities and conditions, and accepted them as his artifacts. After activating both, he learned the system would shield him from their side effects and asked for his earned points.

• Luo Shu asked the system whether the living artifacts could communicate, and it explained that they had only limited instinct, not intelligence.
• Luo Shu received appraisals revealing the Demon Heart’s hypnosis and succubus-blood abilities and the Lucky Wallet’s fortune blessings and conditions.
• Luo Shu asked whether the system could recycle the artifacts, but it said it could not and explained how to establish ownership of each.
• The Demon Heart produced two drops of succubus blood, while the Lucky Wallet returned Tachibana Kirika’s driver’s license and produced thirty ten-thousand-yen bills.
• Luo Shu wore the Demon Heart and placed his student ID and a hundred-yen coin in the Lucky Wallet, activating both artifacts.
• The system assured Luo Shu that the artifacts’ side effects could not affect him, and he asked it to list his earned points.

Luo Shu spent points to advance Intuition and Combat Potential, awakening Super Intuition and Subconscious Control. After the upgrades raised his rank assessment to excellent, he sensed Mira Tsubakihara outside his door and greeted her.

• Luo Shu checked his new points and considered recruiting Mira Tsubakihara into his Familia, but Eriri and Utaha Kasumigaoka were offline.
• Luo Shu asked the system for the requirements to advance Intuition and Combat Potential, then redeemed the Spiritual Squid brain and Mind Dragon spinal cord.
• Luo Shu consumed both materials and experienced a strange vision and physical changes before falling asleep until morning.
• The system confirmed Luo Shu had gained Super Intuition and Subconscious Control, and his rank assessment had risen to excellent.
• Luo Shu sensed Mira Tsubakihara waiting outside his door and opened it to greet her.

Mira Tsubakihara visited Luo Shu early in the morning and brought him a property ownership transfer agreement. Meanwhile, Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue continued keeping watch on Luo Shu's apartment and discussed the mission.

• Luo Shu welcomed Mira Tsubakihara into his apartment and noticed he could sense her emotions.
• Chisato Nishikigi spotted Luo Shu and Mira entering his apartment, while Takina Inoue confirmed that no enemies had appeared overnight.
• Luo Shu tidied his apartment and spoke with Mira Tsubakihara about his bachelor habits and his reluctance to take responsibility for someone else.
• Mira Tsubakihara handed Luo Shu a property ownership transfer agreement that her lawyer had prepared.

Mira Tsubakihara offered Luo Shu a house to persuade him to keep living nearby and protecting her, and he accepted the agreement. He then revealed the Astronomy Club and invited her to join, leaving them bound as accomplices after she signed its Contract.

• Mira Tsubakihara offered Luo Shu a house in exchange for staying nearby, and he accepted after she reduced the arrangement to a shorter term.
• Luo Shu revealed the Astronomy Club and its Contract, explaining that signing would awaken Mira Tsubakihara’s superpower and bind her to the organization.
• Luo Shu warned Mira Tsubakihara that he would use the Demon Heart to make her forget if she refused to keep the organization secret.
• Mira Tsubakihara signed the Contract and told Luo Shu that they were accomplices now.

Luo Shu brought Mira Tsubakihara into the organization’s headquarters and awakened her abilities, discovering her potential for Alchemy. He invested points in observer dust to give her the Analysis talent her future skills required.

• Luo Shu led Mira Tsubakihara through his study’s hidden entrance into the organization’s alternate-space headquarters.
• Luo Shu approved Mira Tsubakihara’s contract, and she awakened Enhanced Comprehension and Deft Hands.
• The system revealed that Mira Tsubakihara had potential for the Elite-rank Alchemy skill but lacked talent in Analysis.
• Luo Shu spent 1,000 points on observer dust to grant Mira Tsubakihara the Observation ability, which she accepted as his investment.

Luo Shu gave Mira Tsubakihara observer dust, awakening her ability to analyze and create items. After she examined his counterfeit Demon Heart, Mira reassured him it should fool Zeus Industries’ experts, leaving Luo Shu confident he could use it safely.

• Mira Tsubakihara drank observer dust and, after examining Luo Shu’s counterfeit Demon Heart, realized she could identify its materials and quantities and potentially create one herself.
• Mira worried her family would exploit her new ability, but Luo Shu explained the ring was a severely weakened counterfeit, and she confirmed its limited effects.
• Luo Shu saw system notifications that Mira had gained Observation, Enhanced Comprehension, Deft Hands, and the excellent skill Item Creation.
• Mira asked whether Luo Shu planned to hand the counterfeit over to SDS, and he said Chief Tachibana had told him to keep and use it.
• Mira explained that Zeus Industries’ experts likely could not fully analyze an Abyssal Artifact and would probably accept the counterfeit’s properties as genuine, so Luo Shu concluded it was safe to use.

Luo Shu left Mira Tsubakihara at his apartment and met with Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue, who believed his mission to retrieve the Demon Heart had failed. He revealed that he had found the target: a ruby ring.

• Luo Shu left for school after warning Mira Tsubakihara not to get carried away with her new ability.
• Takina Inoue and Chisato Nishikigi watched Luo Shu leave and discussed their concerns about sending a rookie on the dangerous mission.
• Chisato Nishikigi waved to Luo Shu, then teased Takina Inoue about Mira Tsubakihara watching him from the apartment corridor.
• Luo Shu arrived at the hotel room and found Takina Inoue cleaning ketchup off her skirt after a scuffle with Chisato Nishikigi.
• Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue comforted Luo Shu, assuming he had failed to find the Abyssal Artifact.
• Luo Shu took a ruby ring from his pocket and told Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue that he had found the target.

Luo Shu showed Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue the recovered Demon Heart, and they prepared to leave after the mission. Chisato told him an Abyssal Artifact expert would approach him at Toyogasaki Academy, leaving Luo Shu to head to school with the ring and a stack of restraints.

• Takina Inoue recognized the Demon Heart and looked away, while Chisato Nishikigi celebrated Luo Shu’s success in obtaining both the artifact and Mira Tsubakihara’s cooperation.
• Chisato introduced Takina to Luo Shu, then the two women bantered before packing their equipment and ending their surveillance of Mira Tsubakihara’s apartment.
• Luo Shu asked whether the Demon Heart needed testing, and Chisato told him to visit Lycoris after school and warned him not to use the artifact at school.
• Chisato explained that an Abyssal Artifact expert would transfer to Toyogasaki Academy and gave Luo Shu talismans to restrain the Demon Heart.
• After Chisato and Takina left, Luo Shu picked up the counterfeit ring and resigned himself to attending school.

Tachibana Kirika discussed SDS’s recruitment of Luo Shu with Lacus Clyne and received news that he had found an Abyssal Artifact in one night. Before classes, Luo Shu met Utaha Kasumigaoka, explained that an organization had discovered his supernatural powers, and learned she had misunderstood his silence.

• Tachibana Kirika discussed Luo Shu’s recruitment and SDS’s plans with Lacus Clyne, then read a report about the apocalypse countdown.
• Chisato Nishikigi told Tachibana Kirika that Luo Shu had found the target in one night, surprising her.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka confronted Luo Shu in a park, explaining that she had slept on a sofa, hurt her neck and ankle, and mistakenly thought she had missed his messages.
• Luo Shu told Utaha Kasumigaoka that a semi-official organization had discovered his supernatural powers and was dealing with him.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka concluded that the organization was backed by arms dealers behind the Garrison and teased Luo Shu about protecting his Familia.

Luo Shu discussed concealing the group’s unusual nature and how his new government assignment would affect their secret club activities. He left for class with Utaha Kasumigaoka, while Eriri remained away after being called by her school friends.

• Luo Shu told Utaha Kasumigaoka that the group could spend two thousand points to conceal their unusual nature from detection below Hero rank.
• Luo Shu explained that his organization would send an ability instructor and two teammates to transfer into the school, and Utaha offered to use her Mind Reading to gather intelligence.
• Luo Shu said the group’s real club activities would take place in their Alternate Space base and planned to see whether he could bring his teammates onto their side.
• Utaha agreed to watch for the new transfer students and said Eriri had been called away by her school friends, whom Utaha had read the minds of.
• Luo Shu and Utaha postponed their discussion until lunch break and joked about whether they would walk to school together and fuel rumors.

Luo Shu and his friends searched for news of a rumored transfer student, but a youthful-looking new English teacher arrived in his class instead. Luo Shu recognized Natsuki Minamiya as the Witch of the Gap and suspected she was another visitor from the Abyss.

• Luo Shu checked the LINE chat, where Eriri Sawamura and Utaha Kasumigaoka discussed rumors of a transfer student and whether an official instructor could uncover their secrets.
• Luo Shu asked Utaha Kasumigaoka to question the teachers, and she promised to find an answer before second period.
• Teacher Takagi introduced Natsuki Minamiya as the class's new English teacher, shocking the students with her youthful appearance.
• Luo Shu called out that he understood, prompting the class to follow suit as Natsuki took charge and ordered them to open their textbooks.
• Luo Shu recognized Natsuki Minamiya as the Witch of the Gap and wondered if she was another visitor from the Abyss.

Luo Shu spoke with Natsuki Minamiya after she overheard him discussing her, and she agreed to teach him basic occult studies as his club’s faculty advisor. She warned that Eriri and Utaha Kasumigaoka might be better off learning the truth, leaving Luo Shu smiling as though events had gone according to plan.

• Eriri, Luo Shu, and Utaha Kasumigaoka discussed Natsuki Minamiya on the rooftop until she appeared and revealed she had heard them.
• Natsuki Minamiya took Luo Shu to the stairwell landing, where they discussed his abilities and what she knew about people arriving from the Abyss.
• Natsuki Minamiya agreed to teach Luo Shu basic occult studies in the clubroom from four to six on school days and offered to let Eriri and Utaha sit in.
• Natsuki Minamiya warned Luo Shu that Eriri and Utaha might be better off knowing the truth, then left as Luo Shu smiled to himself.

Luo Shu used the Lucky Wallet and concealed bracelets to keep Natsuki Minamiya from discovering the girls’ powers, while arranging for her to become their teacher and potential backup. After explaining the plan to Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri, he sent them back to class and reminded them to meet at the Astronomy Club after school.

• Luo Shu revealed that he had upgraded the bracelets and used the Lucky Wallet’s Demigod-level luck to make Natsuki Minamiya accept his cover story, at the cost of cash and an Ancient Serpent Shedding.
• Luo Shu told Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri that Natsuki would teach them occult studies and advise the Astronomy Club, giving them a powerful ally if trouble arose.
• Eriri complained that she felt left out, so Luo Shu explained how his maneuvers had arranged Natsuki’s involvement.
• When the bell rang, Luo Shu told Utaha and Eriri to treat Natsuki as their teacher and meet him at the Astronomy Club after school.

Natsuki Minamiya taught Luo Shu, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Eriri how to use Spirit Vision to detect danger by reading the flames that represent essence, vital energy, and spirit. She explained that if multiple flames flickered or shrank at once, they had encountered the Abyss.

• Natsuki Minamiya began a remedial lesson by having Luo Shu, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Eriri apply essential oil to their eyelids and activate Spirit Vision.
• Luo Shu, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Eriri saw three flames above Natsuki Minamiya: red for essence, yellow for vital energy, and blue for spirit.
• Natsuki Minamiya explained how changes in the flames could reveal physical injury, declining life force, or mental influence and attack.
• Luo Shu asked whether two or all three flames could flicker or shrink at once, and Natsuki Minamiya said that meant they had encountered the Abyss.

Natsuki Minamiya taught Luo Shu, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Eriri how to use Spirit Vision to read the three flames and recognize danger. She assigned them practice without essential oil, then asked Luo Shu to accompany her to Lycoris after class.

• Natsuki Minamiya explained that abnormalities in the three flames could result from Abyssal influence and warned the group about threats that harmed each flame.
• Natsuki Minamiya demonstrated how a stable yellow or blue flame could reveal a dangerous sorcerer, while noting that powerful people could disguise their flames.
• Luo Shu teased Natsuki Minamiya about being mistaken for a student, and she restrained him with chains while explaining that officials had misidentified her.
• Eriri laughed at Natsuki Minamiya's predicament, so Natsuki Minamiya assigned all three students homework practicing Spirit Vision without essential oil.
• Natsuki Minamiya asked Luo Shu to go with her to Lycoris after class, and he agreed.

Natsuki Minamiya explained Abyssal Artifact danger ratings to Luo Shu and said his Demon Heart ring was supposedly a level-two artifact, though she claimed it was fake. At the Lycoris café, Luo Shu reunited with Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue as Natsuki asked Tachibana Kirika where a dead Demon Warlock’s document had been sent.

• Natsuki Minamiya told Luo Shu about the four danger levels for Abyssal Artifacts and said his ring was believed to be a level-two artifact.
• Natsuki warned Luo Shu that his ring was fake and demanded he address her as a teacher, while he continued calling her Natsuki-chan.
• Natsuki led Luo Shu to the Lycoris café, where Chisato Nishikigi recognized him and greeted Natsuki warmly.
• Takina Inoue told Luo Shu that Natsuki and Chief Tachibana had led the response team when they first arrived and had not met much since.
• Natsuki asked Tachibana Kirika where the document containing a Demon Incantation, sent by a deceased Demon Warlock, had gone.

Tachibana Kirika used information recovered from the Hound to locate ten batches of documents that might bear demonic inscriptions, then negotiated with Natsuki Minamiya over how to divide them. She agreed to let Luo Shu randomly draw the addresses, relying on his luck as her Goddess of Fortune.

• Takina Inoue explained that demonic inscriptions were dangerous written powers found on objects, often associated with danger level two or higher.
• Tachibana Kirika revealed that Luo Shu's killing of the Hound had helped her track down a hypnotized jewelry store clerk and recover ten addresses where the clerk had sent documents.
• Natsuki Minamiya accused Tachibana Kirika of taking the clerk and surveillance evidence before the Metropolitan Police Department and the Onmyoryo could act.
• Tachibana Kirika offered Natsuki Minamiya a sixty-forty split, with forty for Kirika and first choice of addresses, and Natsuki agreed on the condition that the addresses be drawn randomly.
• Tachibana Kirika shuffled the ten envelopes and asked Luo Shu to draw, calling him her Goddess of Fortune.

Tachibana Kirika split four dangerous demon incantations among her team and sent them to search four addresses while Natsuki Minamiya warned her about provoking secret organizations. Before Luo Shu left with Takina Inoue, Tachibana returned his driver’s license, gave him a bonus, and explained how he could profit from selling information about Hound.

• Luo Shu took four letters from Tachibana Kirika, who gave the other six to Natsuki Minamiya and dismissed her warning about the secret organizations.
• After Natsuki left, Tachibana assigned her team to search four addresses for demon incantations, with Kurumi monitoring the locations and communications.
• Tachibana ordered everyone to check their equipment, attach pinhole cameras, and prioritize their safety before the team headed to the basement to prepare.
• Tachibana returned Luo Shu’s driver’s license, gave him 300,000 yen as a bonus for catching Hound, and told him how to sell information about Hound’s death on a bounty website.
• Luo Shu went to change into his uniform, then prepared to leave with Takina Inoue.