Shinya isn't completely dead despite being cut in half! He encourages Guren to win and also has enough time to use Byakkomaru. Guren tells Shinya to shoot through him.

Rigr is now dealing with his two "children".

I dunno how Shinya was able to hang on a bit longer but it's a miracle. It was nice that his last words and act were for Guren.

Things are getting desperate with Ferid's power about to reach it's limit. Rigr is gonna try to hold on until then. Meanwhile, Guren tells Mahiru to give him everything as this battle is where he dies giving it his all. Mahiru says she already is and they're going beyond their limit already.

Both Ferid and Guren attack Rigr from the front and back. Ferid's power reaches it's limit already.

Guren holds onto Rigr as Shinya gives it his one last shot. Rigr panics briefly as he's about to be shot.

But Yuu arrives on time! He's beaten the others offscreen. I'm sorry Shinya! You gave it your best til the end but Yuu-chan needs to win!

The two takes a break on one of the rooftops. Rigr tells Yuu that if they wait just a bit longer, they might win.

By the way, it seems someone's watching...

The black one was following Rigr and Yuu.

Shinoa deployed the eyeballs to watch the battle from afar (using the First's power, no doubt) and tells the others of what had happened: Lt. Col. lost while Yuu and Rigr seemed to have won in the end. But Shinoa saw everyone's ability and they can now make a proper plan to deal with it.

It's the end for Ferid who is about to turn. He looks like he had fun and is asking if Guren did, too. Guren wasn't in the mood to answer. As the realization of what would happen hit Ferid, he calls out to Crowley as he desperately wishes to not turn into a demon who has to continue to exist.

Oh my god... in the end, Ferid calls out to Crowley hoping the guy would answer. Man, everyone who "dies" clings to someone important to them. I'm sad and kind of happy to know that for Ferid, it was Crowley.

As he holds onto Shinya's corpse, Guren wishes he had died with him as a human back then like Shinya wanted. Mahiru apologizes to Shinya as well. Aaah... Guren made that promise of dying together to two people and it's both Mahiru and Shinya! They're really a trio til the end.

Mahiru also apologizes to Guren and takes responsibility for their failure. Guren tells her she did nothing wrong as they all desperately fought but it just sadly ends with them dying for nothing.

Mahiru tells Guren that she did gain something from all this as she found people precious to her and that those moments with them made her feel alive. She apologizes to Guren again for dragging him into this and Guren tells her that's he doesn't regret it. Mahiru gets turned first and disappears with Guren expected to follow her soon.

Like everyone else, huh? Like Crowley, Mahiru also cherished the moments she spent with people she cares about. It was really sweet! They'll be together as demons even though sadly, Shinya couldn't join them.

Yuu shows up to apologize for ruining all of Guren's plans. Guren is understanding as he knew Yuu just has his own plans and asked if it was something Saito thought of. Yuu proudly tells him that no, this was his own idea! He's gonna save everyone, including Guren, so the latter should leave it all to him.

"I thought for myself for the first time!" - Yuu-chan, don't say it like that! I mean, you're not wrong but still. You're kinda insulting yourself right now.

Guren asks who would pay the price for what Yuu was about to do. The world ended after Guren tried and he tells Yuu not to go through it and just live his life without making that difficult choice.

Yuu reminds Guren that it was him who taught Yuu that there's no point in living if you don't cling to your family. He thanks Guren as this helped him keep going and he's gonna give up on the latter either. He says Guren should take a break until then.

Guren asked Yuu for one last thing: kill him before he gets possessed. Yuu obliges and leaves Guren's corpse next to Shinya's.

Yuu is sad about this but Guren was counting on him. He tried to hang on but ends up crying in grief. Guren was his father-figure for four years after all.

Shinoa sees this and thinks that Yuu can't be left to do things himself.

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I was surprised in a good way seeing Ferid's last thought was that of Crowley. Like Crowley, he did care about their time together.

That was a pretty sad end. I am rooting for Yuu and Mika (and Rigr) but that doesn't mean I don't feel bad for Guren and the others who did everything they could. Their goodbyes are sad and sweet. Does this mean Guren isn't gonna be able to reunite with Mahiru now? Would he still meet Shinya in the afterlife after becoming a demon? It's sad if neither could happen.

It was nice to see the last convo between Yuu and Guren. There's no hard feelings as Guren understood that they all have a goal they want to reach and Yuu wasn't really the type to have some evil goal anyways. He even advised Yuu to not make a choice that would backfire on him as he didn't want Yuu to go through the same thing he did. Despite everything, he's still acting like Yuu's guardian.

400+ vampires that were devoured merged into one inside of Ferid making him one of the most powerful vampires at the moment. His movements were so quick that Rigr wasn't able to follow him in contrast to how Ferid sees everything in a slow motion-like pace.

To Rigr, it's as if Ferid had suddenly vanished and he didn't realize until it was too late that Ferid had quickly moved behind him. Ferid decapitates Rigr quickly but the latter was able to pull his head back to his body with numerous chains. Ferid cut off the chains before the head could properly rejoin and he decides to just eat Rigr bit by bit as the latter won't die easily.

Shinya appears behind Ferid to shoot the sinful key while Guren appears near Saito to stab him with a sword. Ferid is then instructed to eat Saito's head.

Rigr's head tries to escape but Ferid was able to catch up and using a chain, the latter was able to pull Rigr close and eat him.

Rigr is now in Ferid's tree but the latter sees that something is off. It seems Rigr's consciousness was elsewhere outside and wasn't devoured. Ferid tells Rigr he'd just devour the rest of him and Rigr says Ferid isn't actually strong enough and that he can just stall until Ferid's time limit is up.

Okay, I was shocked and slowly about to feel disappointed since Rigr got eaten so easily but it seems he had tricks up his sleeve to make this long awaited fight more interesting. It's not over yet!

Rigr hasn't used his weapon yet and Ferid mistakenly thought the weapon were the chains all this time. Rigr then tells him of his newly acquired cursed gear. Even if Ferid is still more powerful after that, Rigr can just keep dodging.

Oh my god!!! I forgot about Urd!!! He was turned into a demon, wasn't he?

It seems the rest of Rigr's consciousness was in the rest of his body. He calls out to Urd to the surprise of those outside.

Aaaaa!!! Yes!! Was this what he meant by them seeing each other again soon????

Shinya apologizes as he was killed so easily right in front of a horrified Guren. Ferid was then told to aim for Saito's legs. Mahiru has to remind him that they can just revive Shinya once they win.

This entire time, Guren has been the one telling everyone that they could give their lives so long as they could win since they can just bring the dead back but that bravado went out the window whenhe saw Shinya die. Guren tries but he's not as ready for all of this as he shows himself to be especially if the one to die is someone important to him. I'm shocked they killed Shinya first though since he's been an important character from the beginning.

Anyways, Rigr sees a sinful key near Shinya's corpse and Ferid attacks to try and stop him. Rigr asks for more power from Urd. This power lets Rigr follow Ferid's fast movements even a little.

I just wanna say, Saito doesn't have an outfit change and I'm kinda disappointed cause I expected something like what the others got. Oh well. I hope I can see demon Urd before this chapter ends at least.

Guren asks Mahiru for more power and was about to reach for the sinful key. He sees the dead body of Shinya and it affects him very badly.

Guren's desires turns to that of wanting his own death which Mahiru doesn't want to use. Guren laments being unable to save anyone - not back then and certainly not today.

Mahiru yells at him saying she feels the same as him but she doesn't want to give up yet and reminds him of their decision to win. She says she didn't fall in love with someone who would give up so even if they don't win in the end, she wants Guren's last desire to be that of someone who wants to keep fighting.

It seems Mahiru's pep talk was enough to get Guren back on his feet.

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Like I said, I didn't expect them to kill off Shinya so fast cause I expected them to kill off the other members of the army first before claiming the life of another main cast member. Shinya's death makes sense though since he's someone really important to Guren. From this chapter, I feel like we're shown that the two people who can significantly affect Guren's thought process are Mahiru and Shinya which, I'm sure no one was surprised at but it was nice to see.

They didn't kill Rigr yet! I'm actually happy about this cause he's like, the only one left that Yuu-chan and Mika can rely on for cooperation. Also, his and Ferid's face-off felt like it was built up all this time since Ferid's motivation was revealed way back then to deal with his father. It would've been super anti-climactic if Rigr just gets eaten then and there.

We were not shown demon Urd! I hope they shown him to us next chapter. I want to see him and I want to know if he kept some of his humanity with him even after demonization. He has that connection with Rigr the same way Mika had a connection with Yuu-chan and we saw Mika gets himself together in the end. I kinda expect the same of Urd now. He's a more powerful vampire and he still has some more human feeling and desires so he should be able to, right?

I'm kinda sad that for Rigr to have gotten eaten a bit, Ferid has had to get stronger cause I kinda want another reunion in that tree lol. Sadly, the other vampires have been merged in already when he got there.

I wonder when the Shinoa Squad will get here? The battles already going. On the other hand, once everyone had either gotten killed, injured, or have lost power, the Shinoa Squad would get there still in better shape. I might affect how things would go for them and it's gonna be an advantage.

At this point, the final battle might even be between Yuu-chan + Mika and the Shinoa Squad. I'm gonna take a guess that if that ends up being the case, there'd be a big fight as to whose idea would be followed when it comes to the ritual. They might not believe that Yuu's method would work but in the end, after a huge struggle, they're gonna just leave it to Yuu. We'll see but that's my guess for now.