Recaps

Hiraku prepared for and hosted the village festival, where residents competed in quizzes and several cavalry battles. Afterward, he checked on the villages and spent the festival night talking with Lu and the others, while side stories followed a Succubus adjusting to Sun Castle and a boy named Bowie discovering target shooting.

• Hiraku arranged the festival events, welcomed visitors, and discussed Shashaato’s great roof and the troubled effort to copy it with the Demon King and his companions.
• Lu, the Demon King, Frau, Zabuton, and Hiraku Ichirou won the quiz categories, and the cavalry battles ended with victories for a lizardman team, the Death Knight and his lion, and Corone.
• Hiraku reviewed the needs and progress of Villages One through Four, then spoke with residents and guests before Lu gathered him for a late-night heart-to-heart.
• Venavolna described how the Succubus Race surrendered Sun Castle, adjusted to its new ruler, and offered him pleasant dreams that he declined.
• Bowie explained how he won prizes at a target-shooting stall by learning its operators’ rhythms, then began practicing after the stall switched to a magic tool.