Chapter Summaries

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.

Luo Shu explained how Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri could improve their abilities by training on dangerous Abyss Life held by the Secret Management Department. After Yukinoshita Yukino joined them, he handed Utaha and Eriri rings, told them to meet him at the school clubroom the next afternoon, and left them to clean the office.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka worried that improving her abilities would require hypnotizing Sorcerers as strong as or stronger than her, and Luo Shu said the department's imprisoned dangerous Abyss Life could provide practice targets.
• Luo Shu said he would request permission from the Supreme Chairman to let Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri train on the dangerous life-forms transferred to their department.
• Yukinoshita Yukino entered and reported that the third-floor office was mostly clean, then introduced herself to Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri.
• Luo Shu told everyone to finish cleaning, gave Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri rings, and asked them to meet him at the school clubroom after classes the next afternoon.
• Luo Shu went to handle the underground area, leaving Eriri, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Yukinoshita Yukino to clean the remaining floors.

Luo Shu established the Secret Management Zone inside the Astronomy Club’s Divine Kingdom space, guarded its entrance with autonomous Ginn mobile suits, and invited Lacus Clyne, Tachibana Kirika, and Natsuki Minamiya to discuss business. Meanwhile, Eriri and Utaha Kasumigaoka finished cleaning in Akihabara, where a woman stopped Utaha with a maid cafe flyer.

• Luo Shu unlocked the underground facility and used a Haro to open the door guarded by six autonomous Ginn mobile suits.
• Luo Shu deployed the Secret Management Zone inside the alloy block, naming it and limiting access to himself, Lacus Clyne, and Tachibana Kirika.
• Luo Shu messaged Lacus Clyne that the Secret Management Zone was ready, and she invited him to Lycoris Cafe, where Tachibana Kirika and Natsuki Minamiya were waiting.
• Luo Shu saved Lacus Clyne’s selfie, realized the invitation was for business, and headed for the elevator while wondering when they would have a real date.
• Eriri complained to Utaha Kasumigaoka about Luo Shu, then panicked when Utaha teased her about the secret he knew.
• A woman holding a flyer approached Utaha Kasumigaoka and asked whether she wanted to visit a maid cafe.

Utaha Kasumigaoka encountered Maria Naruse, who recognized her as a fellow succubus and awakened her Psychic Power. Maria brought Utaha to Dreamland maid café and revealed her own demonic form, telling Utaha she had succubus blood.

• After Eriri hurried away, Maria Naruse stopped Utaha Kasumigaoka and identified her as one of her own kind.
• Maria used her Sensuality Index to awaken Utaha’s Psychic Power and suggested that Utaha was a Descent Species or an Abyss Descent Species.
• Utaha contacted Luo Shu secretly and tried to leave, but Maria’s words made her stop and agree to visit the maid café.
• Maria took Utaha to Dreamland maid café and arranged for them to meet in private room six.
• Maria entered the tatami room with horns and a heart-shaped tail and told Utaha that succubus blood ran through her.

Luo Shu watched Utaha Kasumigaoka meet Maria Naruse, a succubus who tried to recruit her into the succubi clan. The chapter ended with Utaha asking for the clan’s materials and Luo Shu wondering who she planned to use succubus techniques on.

• Luo Shu learned that a succubus was working at the maid café and marked it on his map for a future raid.
• Eriri called Luo Shu after Utaha disappeared, and he reassured her that Utaha was resting at a café.
• Maria Naruse offered Utaha a lollipop and explained that she wanted to bring her back into the succubi clan.
• Maria warned Utaha about the danger her uncontrolled bloodline could pose to an ordinary partner and offered knowledge, power, and protection.
• Utaha asked Maria to send materials so she could verify the clan’s claims, and the two traded insults.
• Luo Shu watched their conversation from a nearby parking lot, concluded Utaha was safe, and wondered who she planned to use succubus techniques on.

Luo Shu met Tachibana Kirika, Natsuki Minamiya, and Lacus Clyne at Café "Lycoris" after encountering a succubus-run maid café in Akihabara. They explained Akihabara’s role as a partially regulated hub for Abyssal Artifact trading, and Luo Shu suspected their meeting was also about the succubi.

• Luo Shu arrived late at Café "Lycoris" and joined Tachibana Kirika, Natsuki Minamiya, and Lacus Clyne in a private room.
• Tachibana Kirika revealed that authorities knew Akihabara was a problem area, while Natsuki Minamiya and Lacus Clyne described its international trade activity and Beika Town’s unregulated counterpart.
• Tachibana Kirika explained that authorities let dangerous traders blend in with otaku and that media stigmatized male otaku to help manage incidents.
• Lacus Clyne asked Luo Shu about the maid café he had visited, and Natsuki Minamiya warned that Lacus’s presence would frighten the succubi.
• Luo Shu realized Lacus might have invited him to discuss the succubi.

Luo Shu learned that Astronomy of Truth’s lust faction was interested in Kisara, whose pure blood likely came from Asmodeus, and that succubi might soon approach him. He discovered Utaha Kasumigaoka was negotiating with Maria Naruse, the Princess of Lust, and decided to visit her maid café.

• Tachibana Kirika explained that the lust faction was one of seven demon factions in Astronomy of Truth and that succubi were among the least harmful.
• Natsuki Minamiya said Kisara was likely descended from Asmodeus and that Luo Shu could serve as her inhibitor because she had first seen him after gaining intelligence.
• Natsuki Minamiya and Lacus Clyne learned that Utaha Kasumigaoka had been mistaken for a succubus and approached by Maria Naruse.
• Lacus Clyne identified Maria Naruse as the Princess of Lust, and Tachibana Kirika explained that she represented an unorthodox succubus school.
• Luo Shu asked whether they should stop Utaha’s negotiations, then decided to visit Maria Naruse’s maid café himself.

Luo Shu and Lacus discussed how to handle the succubi, then Natsuki Minamiya shared intelligence about Astronomy of Truth and Tokisaki Kurumi. Luo Shu explained Kurumi’s time-consuming angel abilities, leaving Natsuki and Tachibana Kirika suspicious about how he knew so much.

• Lacus Clyne advised Luo Shu to let the succubi stay in Akihabara if they kept themselves safe, and Luo Shu considered using the Demon Heart if they tried to take Kisara by force.
• Tachibana Kirika complained about Luo Shu and Lacus acting like a couple, while Natsuki Minamiya brought the group back to business.
• Natsuki Minamiya shared confidential files about Astronomy of Truth and Tokisaki Kurumi, describing the group’s factions and its competition with the Golden Dawn in Europe.
• Luo Shu identified Tokisaki Kurumi as an angel who controlled time by consuming people’s time and could summon versions of herself from other timelines.
• Lacus asked Natsuki and Tachibana not to question where Luo Shu learned about Kurumi, and Tachibana criticized Lacus for indulging him.

Luo Shu discussed Tokisaki Kurumi and other dangerous Spirits with Lacus Clyne, Natsuki Minamiya, and Tachibana Kirika, while agreeing to help the Action Department investigate them. He also learned that his department would receive five hundred million yen alongside its first Abyssal Artifacts, but hesitated to ask Lacus Clyne about funding his own investigations.

• Chisato Nishikigi delivered sundaes, and Luo Shu asked whether he had passed a test, which Natsuki Minamiya denied was taking place.
• Luo Shu described Tokisaki Kurumi as dangerous but potentially open to peaceful negotiations, and revealed that nine other beings like her might appear.
• Tachibana Kirika agreed to send out the Action Department to investigate the Spirits, and Luo Shu promised to send information to Lacus Clyne.
• Natsuki Minamiya offered to install Spatial Spell Formulas in Luo Shu's department, and Luo Shu asked for the cost to be charged to the department account.
• Tachibana Kirika promised five hundred million yen in funding when the Abyssal Artifacts were transferred, and Luo Shu agreed to help keep the surrounding area safe.

After Luo Shu left, Lacus Clyne and Natsuki Minamiya discussed political pressure over the Chiba blockade and the possibility of offering Natsuki’s students a path into Luo Shu’s Secret Management Department. Lacus revealed that her father might meet Luo Shu, leaving Natsuki wondering whether the teasing about a future husband-and-wife operation was serious, while Luo Shu entered the Dreamland maid café.

• Luo Shu left to check that the Succubus’s maid café near the base posed no threat and to meet Utaha Kasumigaoka.
• Natsuki Minamiya warned Lacus Clyne that Congress and its arms dealers might distrust Luo Shu, but Lacus said she would cut ties with Congress if necessary.
• Natsuki Minamiya explained that the Onmyoryo and Public Security Agency objected to Lacus’s blockade of Chiba Prefecture, while Tachibana Kirika complained that other agencies were obstructing her Action Department.
• Lacus suggested that Natsuki offer her Onmyoryo students a route into Luo Shu’s Secret Management Department after graduation.
• Lacus said her father might meet Luo Shu, prompting Natsuki to wonder if the jokes about Lacus and Luo becoming partners were serious.
• Luo Shu arrived at the Dreamland maid café and went inside.

Luo Shu used his ruby ring to make the succubus maids lead him to private room six, where he found Utaha Kasumigaoka with Maria Naruse. He introduced himself as the head of SdS's Secret Management Department and asked Maria whether the Maid Café was legitimate.

• Luo Shu declined the blonde maid's offer of special service and used his ruby ring to make the succubus maids guide him to private room six.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka hurried to hide the books and have Maria Naruse change before letting Luo Shu into the room.
• Luo Shu entered, introduced himself as the head of SdS's Secret Management Department, and called Utaha Kasumigaoka his owner.
• Maria Naruse questioned Luo Shu's identity and asked what he wanted from her.
• Luo Shu asked Maria Naruse whether the Maid Café was a legitimate establishment, leaving her stunned by his question.