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Detailed volume 18 summaries

PART 1:

From this point in v18 onwards, Ise and Irina start to talk about their childhood (with Ise mentioning that the mood is important), Irina gets some sort of misunderstanding (translation says "friend" but I think there's a more romantic tone there) for a moment, and then - the really interesting part for me -. Ise and Irina talk about his PROGRESS with her and Rossweisse (Note that my description for the next part truly does not convey how great it really is) They test out the power of this room by Irina placing Ise's hand on her breast, then as she gets on top of him (Ise can smell the sweet scent of her hair, and her negligee slides off mostly / gets messed up) and they're about to kiss they overhear the voices of all (Kuroka and Le Fay included, iirc) the other girls watching from a crack in the door, Irina fixes her negligee and scene ends.

After that, they head off to buy some props for the Christmas event, with Rose asking Ise if she should wear pants or a skirt for her Santa outfit, Ise replying that she'd look great ("has great proportions for a skirt", is the translation) in a skirt and that if it was a miniskirt he'd be very happy. When they're heading there, it begins raining (Xenovia joking about Dulio being able to get rid of the rain) and they wait it out before continuing, but are confronted by a man known as Yaegaki Masaomi, who wields the Kusanagi with Yamata no Orochi sealed inside. He begins a fight with Irina, Xenovia, Ise and Rose, (note that the fights in this volume are really well- done, much more so than I'm saying) and manages to poison Irina's father (the Kusanagi summons 8 heads that can be used for attacking, and with the blade poisons you) contact. Backup arrives in the form of Akeno, Kiba, Koneko and Gasper and Yaegaki escapes with a magic circle with Qlippoth's pattern on it.

Irina's father is brought to a hospital. He's going to be taken to Heaven so they can detoxify the poison inside him (as Ddraig mentions it's not as powerful as Samael's poison but still very deadly) but before that he recounts the story of Yaegaki Masaomi. . Yaegaki was an exorcist under Irina's father who had fallen in love with Diehauser Belial's cousin, a Devil Both sides tried to separate them but could not, so they were forced to kill both of them - Yaegaki by Irina's father, and Belial's cousin by. the House of Bael - to preserve the status quo at that time Rias, Ise, and Rias' father go to meet with the First Head of Bael; translation is a bit iffy on most of this so I'll skip the details, basically they went to find out more about the incident they just learned about, it later got onto the topic of love and Rias expressed her love for Ise and Zechram (rough translation of First Head's name) stated Ise needs to be a High-class Devil to proclaim his love for Rias to him. They meet back up with the rest of the Gremory group and discuss the events, then go visit Irina's father and talk about how they want to avoid this becoming a big thing yet have to stop Yaegaki as long as he allies himself with Qlippoth. Irina's father then presents Irina with a gift, the sword Hauteclere which has the ability to purify the hatred or anger of anyone it touches. Irina's father privately asks Ise to take care of Irina and talks about Ise being the only one with whom she can be a normal girl instead of an Angel, and Ise promises him and Irina will continue to have fun together, even if he's a Devil and she's an Angel. Ise and Irina talk up on the rooftop about all the new friends she's made and how they're now of different races, and Ise promises that it will not change anything between them like what happened with Belial's cousin and Yaegaki. Irina asks who he'd save, her or Rose / Rias (translation's being a pain mixing those two up, pretty sure it's Rias this time), and Ise replies that he'd save both and is desperate to get more powerful because of that Irina starts crying out of happiness at his answer and hugs him;. Ise says no matter what happens, he'll always be Irina's partner. Irina says after hearing him say that she will not be able to leave his side and Ise replies that then let's laugh together again like we did in our childhood. Irina continues crying as she hugs him while Ise thinks how it does not matter if she's an Angel and he's a Devil as they live in such an age where they can be together without worry.