Chapter Summaries

Tachibana Kirika questioned Luo Shu about keeping Tokisaki Kurumi at the Secret Management Department, but agreed to let him continue cautiously while warning him to protect SdS. At the Base, Luo Shu welcomed several recruits, only for Eriri to realize that everyone present was new.

• Tachibana Kirika challenged Luo Shu over making Tokisaki Kurumi his secretary and letting her move around the Base.
• Luo Shu argued that Kurumi might be brought over to their side, while Kirika urged him to restrict her access to confidential information and eliminate her if she threatened SdS.
• Kirika told Him to keep Natsuki Minamiya from learning how Kurumi's clone had been captured and wondered how Sharon had become Luo Shu's covert subordinate.
• Luo Shu gathered Yukinoshita Yukino, Utaha Kasumigaoka, Kisara, Tokisaki Kurumi, and Eriri at the Base to welcome the new members.
• Eriri realized that everyone at the welcome party was new.

Luo Shu’s department gathered for a meal, but Tokisaki Kurumi’s teasing turned it into a tense confrontation over Kisara’s claim that she was Luo Shu’s wife. Luo Shu admitted Kisara had drugged him and that he had not resisted, leaving Utaha Kasumigaoka bitterly regretting her earlier hesitation before Him arrived with liquor and found the room silent.

• Eriri complained that Luo Shu had invited everyone to eat without letting them help prepare, then called him a harem guy because the department consisted entirely of young women.
• Tokisaki Kurumi teased that the women might have to call one another sisters, and Kisara insisted she was Luo Shu’s wife, prompting Utaha Kasumigaoka to demand an explanation.
• Luo Shu revealed that Kisara had ambushed him with a demon aphrodisiac and that he had gone along with it, while Kisara said he had given her all her knowledge of humans.
• Yukinoshita Yukino recognized that Tokisaki Kurumi had deliberately provoked the conflict, while Utaha Kasumigaoka regretted missing her chance with Luo Shu.
• Him arrived carrying strong liquor, announced that everyone should drink, and wondered why the gathering felt like a company criticism meeting.

Luo Shu’s gathering turned into a chaotic round of teasing as Him revealed her role in SdS and discussed the Mystical Side’s interest in Luo Shu’s genetic material. After Luo Shu exposed how he had transferred Kisara’s pain to Tokisaki Kurumi, Kurumi desperately tried to stop him from revealing what she had learned during their fight.

• Him sat on Luo Shu’s lap until Utaha Kasumigaoka and Kisara dragged her onto the sofa and identified her as SdS Intelligence Department head.
• Tokisaki Kurumi remarked that Him’s identity was worth thirty million US dollars on the black market, while Him and Kisara joked about keeping Luo Shu’s genetic material for themselves.
• Tokisaki Kurumi teased Luo Shu about his relationships, prompting him to reveal that the Research Department’s Verde had repeatedly sought his genetic material.
• Luo Shu revealed that he had transferred the pain Kisara suffered when she forced herself on him to Tokisaki Kurumi during their fight.
• Tokisaki Kurumi begged Luo Shu to stop, but he declared that she was the woman who knew his shape better than anyone else in the world.

At the Secret Management Department’s new-member barbecue, Luo Shu ended the girls’ romantic arguments by accepting money for three nights with Utaha Kasumigaoka, Him, and Kisara. Afterward, Utaha warned Eriri that she was unprepared for the dangers of their world, and the chapter ended with Utaha moving her night with Luo Shu forward and agreeing to go to her place.

• Luo Shu jokingly offered to spend a night with anyone who paid him two hundred thousand yen, then accepted money from Utaha Kasumigaoka, Kisara, and Him and assigned them successive nights.
• Luo Shu silenced the gathering’s disputes and welcomed the girls to the Secret Management Department before the barbecue ended.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka confronted Eriri about neglecting her training and warned her that Ghouls made their world dangerous, prompting Eriri to run off in tears.
• Luo Shu told Utaha Kasumigaoka he would visit the Sawamura family and admitted he felt responsible for bringing Eriri into their world.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka stopped Luo Shu near a love hotel, refused a refund, and asked to move their night up; Luo Shu suggested going to her place in Ikebukuro, and she agreed.

At Utaha Kasumigaoka’s apartment, Luo Shu paid out points to the people who helped with the operation against Ghoul and explained the costly requirements for advancing to the Hero Rank Class Temple Guardian. Utaha worried that she was falling behind Kisara and Sharon, while Luo Shu noted that his own advancement path was difficult too.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka teased Luo Shu about going home to comfort Kisara, then encouraged him to focus on taking over Ghoul’s remaining forces.
• Luo Shu awarded 1,000 points to each person who helped search for intelligence during the operation against Ghoul.
• Luo Shu checked his system rewards and saw that eliminating Ghoul had earned him 80,000 points, though he kept his nearly 210,000-point total from Utaha.
• Luo Shu explained the expensive materials and dangerous ritual required to advance to the Hero Rank Class Temple Guardian.
• Luo Shu told Utaha that Sharon had gathered nearly all the materials needed for her advancement, prompting Utaha to worry about her usefulness to him.
• Luo Shu reassured Utaha that Sharon had started from a higher position and showed her his own Class, Calamity Priest (Hero Rank).

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.