Recaps

Hoshikagi Shirayuki visited the Yukinoshita family at the hospital to discuss the secrecy rules surrounding Demons. As she began to suggest the family could join the Onmyoryo, an uninvited visitor entered the lounge.

• Hoshikagi Shirayuki introduced herself to Yukinoshita Yukino as a special-grade onmyoji and asked to speak with her mother.
• Yukino denied knowing about Demons, but Shirayuki explained that the Onmyoryo and SDS had cooperated with the police and Garrison to lock down Chiba Prefecture.
• Shirayuki revealed that her family ran Hoshikagi Shrine, and Yukino realized the local priestly families had helped suppress information about supernatural incidents.
• Yukinoshita Haruno and her mother joined them, and Shirayuki explained that outsiders involved in supernatural incidents would have their memories sealed unless the Yukinoshita Family joined the Onmyoryo.
• An uninvited person entered the lounge just as Shirayuki began to explain the possibility of the family joining.

Luo Shu joined the discussion between Hoshikagi Shirayuki, Yukinoshita Haruno, and Yukinoshita Yukino about the Yukinoshita Family’s access to Hoshikagi Shrine’s sorcerous inheritance. After Shirayuki revealed her mother’s demands, Luo Shu offered the family a different route through SDS.

• Kisara accompanied Luo Shu into the room, where he identified himself as a member of SDS’s Secret Management Department and recognized Hoshikagi Shirayuki.
• Luo Shu revealed how much he knew about Shirayuki’s background and connected with her by saying he was Natsuki’s student.
• Shirayuki explained that her mother wanted to seal the Yukinoshita Family’s memories because political families were barred from joining the supernatural side.
• Shirayuki said her mother would grant access to Hoshikagi Shrine’s inheritance if the Yukinoshita Family paid one hundred million dollars and had a child adopted into the Hoshigami Family.
• Luo Shu offered the Yukinoshita Family an opening for someone to join SDS.

Luo Shu offered the Yukinoshita Family a position in SDS in exchange for its support of the planned Chiba Prefecture branch. Yukinoshita Yukino chose to join SDS, leaving her family’s supernatural involvement—and her own future—set on a new course.

• Luo Shu offered to recruit one member of the Yukinoshita Family in return for its influence supporting the SDS Chiba Prefecture Branch.
• Yukinoshita Yukino asked whether joining SDS would exempt her family from having their memories erased, and Luo Shu confirmed it.
• Yukinoshita Yukino concluded that she was the family member most likely to be sent into the supernatural world and told Yukinoshita Haruno she would make her own choice.
• Yukinoshita Haruno accepted Yukino’s decision, and Yukinoshita Yukino agreed to join SDS as Luo Shu’s junior.

Mrs. Yukinoshita accepted Yukino’s decision to join SDS after Haruno explained that the department was safe, while Hoshikagi Miyuki saw the choice as a chance to build indirect ties with SDS. Yukino left with Luo Shu, whose unlicensed driving soon terrified her.

• Mrs. Yukinoshita reprimanded Haruno for not steering Yukino toward Hoshikagi Shrine, then agreed to let Yukino join SDS and told Haruno to suspend her studies at Sobu High School.
• Haruno realized that her mother cared about Yukino as she left the hospital to handle the school arrangements.
• Shirayuki told Hoshikagi Miyuki that Yukino had chosen SDS, and Miyuki accepted the outcome and instructed Shirayuki to return home.
• Shirayuki confirmed that she had added Luo Shu’s contact information and ended the call after Miyuki complained about the Onmyoryo.
• Yukino questioned Luo Shu’s right-side driving, and he swerved into the left lane before admitting he had never taken a driving test.

Yukinoshita Yukino met Chisato Nishikigi and joined Luo Shu and Kisara at a celebration dinner, where she learned Luo Shu had become a department head only three days after joining. She began to suspect the real irregularity in SDS was Luo Shu himself.

• Luo Shu brought Yukinoshita Yukino and Kisara to a sukiyaki restaurant, where Chisato Nishikigi greeted them and welcomed Yukino as a newcomer.
• Chisato Nishikigi linked arms with Yukino and Kisara and led them into a party celebrating the mission and Yukino's arrival.
• Mizuki Nakahara was shocked to learn from Takina Inoue that Kisara would become their colleague in Luo Shu's department.
• Luo Shu revealed that Chairwoman Lacus Clyne had approved his new department two hours earlier, just three days after he joined.
• Mizuki Nakahara complained about Luo Shu's rapid promotion and declared she would make him pay for the meal and get him drunk.
• Yukinoshita Yukino concluded that Luo Shu, rather than SDS's recruitment process, was seriously unusual.

At a sukiyaki celebration, Luo Shu discussed his new department and Yukinoshita Yukino’s transfer with Mika, who warned him about becoming department head too soon. Luo Shu stood by his decision and asked Mika to help Yukino learn, while the gathering ended in a comic struggle over the Kobe Wagyu.

• Mizuki Nakahara tried to pour Luo Shu a drink, but Mika stopped her from encouraging a high school student to drink.
• Chisato Nishikigi learned from Tachibana Kirika that Yukinoshita Yukino was transferring to Luo Shu’s new department and lamented losing her to another team.
• Luo Shu and Mika discussed Yukino’s inexperience and the risks of Luo Shu becoming a department head before proper training.
• Luo Shu explained that Chairwoman Lacus Clyne and Chief Tachibana had supported his independent work, and he asked Mika to help train Yukinoshita Yukino.
• Chisato Nishikigi kept taking Kobe Wagyu from Mika’s reach and placing it in others’ bowls, prompting Luo Shu and Mizuki Nakahara to restrain him.

Luo Shu told Yukinoshita Yukino to report to the Lycoris Cafe in two days and begin training with the Secret Management Department. Afterward, he drove Kisara back toward Tokyo and learned that she had enjoyed meeting the others, though her teasing question about her body caught him off guard.

• Luo Shu told Yukinoshita Yukino to settle her affairs in Chiba City and report to the Lycoris Cafe on March 21 for three months of training.
• After Yukinoshita Yukino left, Luo Shu revealed that he had only pretended to be drunk at dinner.
• Luo Shu took over driving from Kisara and asked what she thought of the gathering and Yukinoshita Yukino.
• Luo Shu explained that Yukinoshita Yukino would likely help Kisara with daily needs and studying, including learning about periods.
• Kisara asked Luo Shu to check whether demons had periods, and Luo Shu put off the request before driving toward Tokyo.

Luo Shu brought Kisara to his apartment, where she met Mira Tsubakihara and declared that she and Luo Shu had promised each other a future together. As Mira and Kisara settled into the apartment, Luo Shu considered pursuing both of them, though he decided to restrain himself for the night.

• Luo Shu brought Kisara to Room 303, and Kisara asked if it would be their home and offered to cook for him.
• Mira Tsubakihara greeted Luo Shu and met Kisara, who claimed they had promised each other a future together.
• Luo Shu told Mira that Kisara was the demon Ishaha had pursued and that he would look after her.
• Mira and Kisara agreed that Kisara would take the second bedroom while Mira borrowed the study, leaving Luo Shu to realize Mira intended to move in too.
• Luo Shu imagined having both women and went to take a cold shower to restrain himself.

Luo Shu used Vassago’s knowledge authority fragment to learn how to draw on its knowledge and how a calamity messenger could grow stronger. He decided to bestow calamity on powerful secret organizations rather than ordinary people.

• Luo Shu discovered that the knowledge authority fragment could answer questions and bestow knowledge as a powerful attack.
• Luo Shu asked the fragment how to increase his power as a calamity messenger without relying on points.
• Luo Shu saw a vision of a traveler who absorbed and spread calamities, gaining power when others endured them.
• Luo Shu concluded that spreading calamity could strengthen him and that overcoming it could provide further power.
• Luo Shu decided to bestow calamity on the strong and on secret organizations that brought calamity to others.

Luo Shu shared breakfast with Kisara before leaving to meet Tachibana Kirika about his new department. Kisara went shopping with Mira while Luo Shu learned that his department had been established as the Secret Management Department and discovered Kisara had left lipstick on his cheek.

• Kisara made Luo Shu breakfast and told him she planned to shop with Mira that afternoon.
• Luo Shu gave Kisara his credit card and money for shopping, and Kisara gave him fare and lunch money before kissing his cheek goodbye.
• Tachibana Kirika picked Luo Shu up and told him his new department, the Secret Management Department, would manage dangerous items and harmful organisms and handle special targets.
• Tachibana Kirika teased Luo Shu about the lipstick mark Kisara had left on his cheek.

Luo Shu learned that SDS offered new members a custom-made gene serum that greatly enhanced their abilities, and Lacus Clyne explained its benefits and risks. The chapter ended with Lacus offering to keep Luo Shu’s genetic test report exclusively in her custody, and Luo Shu agreeing to take the test.

• Tachibana Kirika brought Luo Shu to Kamijo Private Hospital’s Underground Hospital, where he met Lacus Clyne.
• Lacus explained that SDS’s sixth-generation gene serum could increase physical and mental capabilities eight- to tenfold, with only a small reduction in fertility.
• Tachibana revealed that she and Lacus had received first-generation serum, while Lacus kept the truth about her origins from Tachibana.
• Lacus and Tachibana explained why SDS would not mass-produce the serum, citing safety risks and the need to protect the department’s interests.
• Lacus offered to keep Luo Shu’s genetic test report confidential, and Luo Shu said the test sounded interesting.

Dr. Verde objected to the resources spent examining Luo Shu, but Tachibana Kirika explained that Luo Shu might possess abilities linked to a Level 4 Abyssal Artifact. Verde agreed to proceed, and the examination produced readings he declared impossible for a human.

• Dr. Verde complained to Lacus Clyne that bringing Research Laboratory Zero to Japan for Luo Shu’s examination wasted resources and risked the team’s memories.
• Tachibana Kirika told Verde that Luo Shu was an unaffiliated awakened ability user with powerful mental strength, wind magic, and potent healing abilities.
• Verde recognized that Luo Shu might be connected to a dangerous inheritance-type Abyssal Artifact above Level 3 and agreed that the examination was worth conducting.
• Verde started the examination after Luo Shu lay in the apparatus, then noticed Luo Shu seemed able to look through a window designed to block mental power.
• Verde saw the examination results and cried out that the readings were impossible for a human.

Verde discovered that Luo Shu’s physical and mental readings far exceeded human and demon norms and might mark him as a hereditary Newtype. Lacus Clyne ordered the data protected, agreed to tell Luo Shu the results, and privately considered Verde’s proposal to secure the Clyne Faction’s future through Luo Shu’s descendants.

• Verde examined Luo Shu’s readings, found his strength was still increasing, and asked Tachibana Kirika to collect genetic material for testing.
• Lacus Clyne demanded that Verde destroy the data and keep it from leaking, and Verde agreed to submit to the Memory Maze’s mental controls.
• Verde proposed that Lacus marry Luo Shu and bear his children if his traits proved hereditary, arguing that the Clyne Faction needed to secure the next generation’s power.
• Lacus Clyne told Tachibana Kirika that Luo Shu had acted out of trust in her, while Tachibana Kirika joked that he had been trying to win Lacus over.
• Verde recommended keeping Luo Shu in a safe department and cooperating with him, and Lacus ordered that he receive all the data about his body while asking them not to mention the marriage proposal.

Verde completed Luo Shu’s examination and gave Lacus Clyne the full report along with ordinary-looking results to conceal his condition. Verde then endorsed Luo Shu as a suitable supporter and potential partner for Lacus, leaving Luo Shu to read his medical data.

• Luo Shu met Verde, learned he led the SDS Research Laboratory, and teased Tachibana Kirika about understanding why he had kept his condition secret.
• Lacus Clyne asked Verde for the complete results and a misleading version to pass off as normal test results.
• Verde warned Luo Shu not to masturbate and offered to arrange an adult actress, prompting Lacus Clyne to rebuke him.
• Luo Shu secretly used the Fragment of the Authority of Knowledge to plant knowledge in Verde’s mind as a contingency, and Verde sensed the change.
• Verde asked whether Luo Shu was courting Lacus Clyne and said he would recommend him to Mr. Siegel as a fitting match and supporter for her.
• Luo Shu accepted Verde’s compliment and began reading his report.

Verde examined Luo Shu and explained that his body was transforming beyond human limits, then secured approval to use Coordinator Drug components to accelerate his growth. He also introduced the Nutrition Detector and presented Luo Shu with a special ring, which Luo Shu recognized as a Vongola Ring.

• Verde used a device to assess Luo Shu's physical condition and predicted that his strength would continue increasing as his body transformed.
• Verde offered to collect Luo Shu's genetic information, but Luo Shu mocked him and refused the test tube.
• Verde explained that Coordinator Drug components could serve as nutritional supplements, and Lacus Clyne approved their use to double Luo Shu's rate of growth.
• Verde arranged to examine Luo Shu weekly and obtained Lacus Clyne's approval to equip department members with Nutrition Detectors that could also track their locations.
• Verde showed Luo Shu a special Nutrition Detector ring, and Luo Shu identified it as a Vongola Ring.

Luo Shu received Verde’s Mist Ring and learned that the rings marked their holders as core members of Lacus’s family. Meanwhile, at an Astronomy of Truth banquet in Warsaw, Yatsukami Meiga sensed danger from Tokisaki Kurumi as she played piano, and Rodis explained that she was only dining.

• Luo Shu activated the Mist Ring and identified its blue flames as the Mist attribute, while explaining that Verde had also given rings to Lacus and Tachibana Kirika.
• Tachibana Kirika told Luo Shu that the rings likely designated Verde’s chosen family members, then offered to take him to the base in Chiyoda Ward.
• At a Warsaw banquet, Yatsukami Meiga and Rodis discussed the Knowledge faction’s withdrawal from East Asia and the attempted theft of Asmodeus’s Legacy.
• Rodis said the association chairman was interested in the Enchantress who had appeared in Japan and coveted her soul.
• The association introduced Tokisaki Kurumi as its new Environmental Angel, and Meiga felt a powerful sense of danger as she played piano.
• Rodis told the alarmed Meiga that Kurumi was only dining.

Yukinoshita Yukino rejected Haruno’s offer to return home and went to SDS, choosing a path beyond her family’s influence. After witnessing Luo Shu withstand Takina’s machine-gun fire, Yukino told him she was ready to enter the world of the abnormal.

• Yukinoshita Yukino told Yukinoshita Haruno that they were enemies and that she would pursue her own path outside the family’s sphere of influence.
• Yukinoshita Yukino arrived at the Lycoris café, where Chisato Nishikigi led her to the underground training range.
• Yukinoshita Yukino saw Takina Inoue fire an M240 at Luo Shu, whose Flame of Mist made the bullets pass through him harmlessly.
• Chisato Nishikigi examined Luo Shu in disbelief after Takina Inoue stopped firing.
• Luo Shu asked Yukinoshita Yukino whether she was prepared to enter the world of the abnormal, and she said she was ready.

Luo Shu gave Yukinoshita Yukino a newcomer test at SDS and explained how her ring could help her ignite Dying Will Flames. He revealed that Yukino had the Cloud attribute, then shot her to demonstrate the method of igniting the flames.

• Luo Shu gave Yukinoshita Yukino cleaning tools and told her to clean the newly renovated office as an obedience test.
• Luo Shu gave Yukinoshita Yukino a ring and explained that it monitored her health and could help her ignite Dying Will Flames.
• Luo Shu demonstrated his own Dying Will Flames and told Yukinoshita Yukino that strong resolve could let her ignite them even before taking the Coordinator Drug.
• Luo Shu identified Yukinoshita Yukino's attribute as Cloud, whose flames could propagate objects and create copies.
• Luo Shu aimed a pistol at Yukinoshita Yukino and fired before she could finish objecting.

Luo Shu tested a Dying Will Bullet awakening method on Yukinoshita Yukino and explained how it could force people to awaken dying will flames. Takina Inoue volunteered to be the next test subject, and Luo Shu fired at her.

• Luo Shu left Yukinoshita Yukino to finish cleaning after the Dying Will Bullet made her work frantically to fulfill an implanted obsession.
• Chisato Nishikigi tried to avoid the test, but Takina Inoue insisted she would volunteer as the second subject.
• Luo Shu explained that the bullet was constructed from mist flames and injected resolve, forcing the target's own dying will flames to awaken.
• Takina Inoue asked Luo Shu to inject his power into her, and he fired the gun.

Yukinoshita Yukino woke after awakening Dying Will Flames and feared that she had failed her test, but Luo Shu reassured her that awakening without the Coordinator Drug marked her as a genius. The group prepared to continue organizing the office after dinner, until Kisara arrived with a towering stack of lunch boxes.

• Yukinoshita Yukino woke to find herself amid a cleaned room, while Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue worried that she looked broken.
• Takina Inoue offered Yukinoshita Yukino a drink, and Yukinoshita Yukino asked Luo Shu whether she had failed the test.
• Luo Shu explained that her loss of composure came from awakening Dying Will Flames and that awakening before taking the Coordinator Drug signified genius.
• Luo Shu teased Yukinoshita Yukino, encouraged her not to set her standards too high, and suggested they eat in Akihabara before continuing to organize the office.
• Kisara arrived with a huge stack of vermilion lunch boxes, prompting Luo Shu to reconsider going out for dinner.

Luo Shu hosted Yukinoshita Yukino, Chisato Nishikigi, and Takina Inoue for a meal at the Secret Management Department’s base while discussing the department’s purpose. He revealed that Kisara was a contained dangerous life-form—a genuine demon—leaving Yukinoshita wondering if she was a succubus.

• Kisara served a lavish spread of Chinese dishes, and Yukinoshita, Chisato, and Takina joined Luo Shu for dinner.
• Luo Shu invited everyone to discuss business over the meal, and Yukinoshita noticed the department seemed to consist only of her and Luo Shu.
• Luo Shu explained that the Secret Management Department contained dangerous Abyssal Artifacts and intelligent life-forms capable of causing mass casualties.
• Kisara revealed that Luo Shu had contained her as a dangerous life-form and identified herself as a genuine demon.
• Yukinoshita saw Kisara’s glowing red demonic eyes and wondered if she was a succubus.

Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri Sawamura headed to meet Luo Shu in Akihabara, discussing his absence from school and Eriri’s need to adjust her mindset. They arrived just in time to see a pink-haired girl kissing a handsome boy.

• Eriri complained about disguising herself for their nighttime trip to Akihabara, and Utaha teased her about often visiting the district.
• Utaha said Eriri was in danger if she did not adjust her mindset, warning that she might have to bring Luo Shu along to clean up Eriri’s mess.
• Eriri checked Luo Shu’s location, and the two hurried toward the place where he planned to introduce them to people.
• Eriri bumped into Utaha when she stopped suddenly, then saw a pink-haired girl kissing a handsome boy.

Luo Shu said goodbye to Chisato Nishikigi and Takina Inoue after Mizuki Nakahara took Chisato away, leaving him short-staffed for cleaning the department store. When Kisara kissed him and Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri arrived, Utaha insisted that she and Luo Shu talk upstairs.

• Mizuki Nakahara scolded Chisato Nishikigi for abandoning her task, then took her away in a car with Takina Inoue.
• Luo Shu lamented losing two workers and explained his plan to divide the department store’s six floors among his friends and himself.
• Kisara offered to clean three floors, and Luo Shu praised her lunch before inviting her to choose a reward.
• Kisara kissed Luo Shu on the lips just as Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri arrived and saw them.
• Luo Shu persuaded Kisara to stop by warning that he would make it up to Utaha tenfold, and Utaha told him they needed to talk upstairs.

Luo Shu announced that the Astronomy Club would be linked to the Secret Management Department under his control and that its founding members would be added to the department’s system. The discussion ended with him turning to Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri to talk about their abilities.

• Kisara and Utaha Kasumigaoka traded barbed remarks about Luo Shu, while Eriri watched and tried to leave.
• Luo Shu explained that the Secret Management Department had become a department under his direct control and that he planned to connect its space with the Astronomy Club.
• Luo Shu said the founding members’ information would be entered into the department’s system, warning that Eriri’s father might discover her involvement.
• Eriri objected to her father finding out, while Utaha Kasumigaoka urged her to take the mystical side and its dangers seriously.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri agreed to have their information entered, with Eriri insisting that her family not learn about it.
• Luo Shu solemnly began a discussion about their abilities.

Luo Shu explained orthodox and unorthodox ways to advance abilities, showing how practice and feedback from influencing others could increase proficiency. Utaha Kasumigaoka, Eriri, and Kisara understood the methods and their risks, while Eriri ended up questioning her own suggestion to impersonate her mother.

• Luo Shu explained that an ability's name described its function and hinted at how to improve it through repeated practice.
• Luo Shu demonstrated that using an ability to affect others could grant proficiency through feedback from the corresponding concept.
• Luo Shu said that affecting influential beings or the natural environment could accelerate advancement, but warned that ordinary people provided little feedback compared with powerful ability users.
• Kisara summarized the difference between advancing through personal practice and gaining strength by affecting others, and Luo Shu said either path was a choice.
• Eriri wondered whether she should transform into her mother to gain feedback, prompting Luo Shu and Utaha Kasumigaoka to tease her until Kisara accused her of wanting to frame her mother.