Following their battle against the demonic creatures at Walter Park, the Misfit Class has gained celebrity status—not just among their fellow students, but throughout the demon society. Iruma, in particular, finds himself constantly in the spotlight, frequently pursued by paparazzi. As a result, he and Asmodeus end up spending time at Clara’s place with her family.

While Iruma and his friends aim to savor their summer break before the new semester begins, certain family commitments mean that Asmodeus and Ameri can’t always be by his side, leaving him occasionally alone with Clara…

As the summer holidays draw to a close and the new term kicks off, the Misfit Class faces fresh challenges—or should we say, rigorous training sessions. Due to their impressive actions at Walter Park, the faculty at Babyls has decreed that in order for the students to continue occupying the Royal One classroom, every student must attain at least rank Dalet (4) by the end of their first year. Achieving Dalet, the minimum rank needed to graduate from Babyls in six years, will be an arduous task to accomplish in just six months. Professor Kalego, who relishes challenging his students but genuinely takes his teaching duties seriously, has handpicked unique instructors to train the students in pairs, tailored to their abilities. Unfortunately, these trainers are known for their eccentricity and for pushing students to their very limits.

The Misfit class is in for a wilder ride than usual, but they won’t let the instructors get the better of them. Whatever torture/training the instructors put them through, the Misfit Class will succeed and beat the odds at the Harvest Festival, the last exam of the first year, which will help determine their ranks.

After the excitement and action seen in the past couple of volumes due to the attack at Walter Park, Volume 11 gives Iruma and the rest of the demons of the Misfit Class a few chapters to enjoy their summer vacation as students should. These chapters highlight secondary characters, giving them a chance to shine and be the protagonists for once, while Iruma, Clara and Asmodeus take on a secondary role. It’s only toward the end of the volume that the story picks up again, when the Misfit Class is introduced to the new regulation they must fulfil to continue using the Royal One classroom.

To say the Misfit Class is in despair is an understatement, but as the readers know, when they reach rock bottom, our favourite demons know how to climb back up, even stronger than before. And that is exactly what Kalego is planning for them! The instructors he’s selected are brutal and don’t take pity on their students; they push them to their limits until they are broken. Well, the students don’t have any plans to take the torture disguised as training in silence, but they work to get stronger to beat their own instructors.

When everyone is being paired up, Iruma ends up with Lied and Professor Robin, who also asks for help from a relative, Bachiko, whom he considers an elder sister. She’s a new character and she’s quite peculiar; she looks and act like a spoiled child and ends up keeping Iruma under her wing… as a gofer! Well, if the training is successful or not will only be revealed in the upcoming volumes once the Harvest Festival is underway. While the readers get the gist of the training the Misfit Class are undergoing, we don’t know the full horror for them (fun for us) they’ve been subjected to, but I’m pretty sure it won’t take much longer to find out.

The story in the published volumes so far has finally reached the third season of the anime, so for those who have watched it already, you know what’s about to happen, and it will be nice to finally go further into the story than the Harvest Festival. Although Season 4 of the anime has been announced, there is still no indication as to when it will air on Crunchyroll.

Between Volumes 11 and 12, both translator and letterer change, but there is no interruption or weirdness in the translation and dialogues, so you’ll only notice if you look at the copyright page. Both volumes also keep to what we have seen so far in each volume about having translation notes at the end to clarify or delve more in depth into something mentioned or someone introduced in the demon world.

While the story is still full of comedy and school life anecdotes, I think with the training for the Harvest Festival, it takes on a slightly more serious tone as it sets the foundations for the demons in the Misfit Class to climb the demon ranks and grow both personally and in terms of their power.

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun is written and illustrated by Osamu Nishi. It’s published in the English language by Vertical, a Kodansha imprint, and Volume 13 is scheduled for release in April.

Our review copies from Kodansha were supplied by Turnaround Publisher Services.