The Special Tutor Training Arc is the 13th Story Arc of the Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun manga series.
The arc centers around the students of the Misfit Class all being assigned special tutors in order to be trained up for the second term's Harvest and Music Festivals as they need to be Rank 4 (Daleth) demons by the end of their first year in order to continue remaining within the Royal One classroom. Iruma's special tutor ends up being Bachiko, a demon who excels in archery. Bachiko had pretty much given up taking in a student given that demons don't have the patience to master archery, which ends up being the perfect fit given that Iruma's a human. Iruma's eventually able to summon out a black magic bow as his primary weapon.
The arc consists of chapters 95 to 101, and was adapted into episodes 1 to 3 of the 3rd season of the anime.
Special Tutor Training Arc Summary
Chapter 95: Abnormal Class' New Semester
Iruma heads off from home to begin the second semester of his 1st year at Babyls Demon School. Once he makes it to school however, Iruma and the other Abnormal students have all become famous amongst the other students due to being the ones who opened the Royal One classroom, and for being the heroes who saved Walter Park from the demonic beasts. The Abnormal students are, of course, enjoying all the attention, but once Kalego arrives, they're forced to begin class.After getting settled back into the Royal One classroom, Kalego informs his Abnormal students that along with their usual classes, there will be two special events this semester, the Harvest and Music Festivals, where they will have opportunities to raise their demon ranks. However, he warns his students that this is only the case for the normal students. Instead, the Abnormal students are given a different curriculum to match the prestige of Royal One. As a result, an announcement is made that before the start of their 2nd year, the Abnormal students must all advance to Rank 4 (Daleth), or else those who fail will be kicked out of the Royal One class.
The Abnormal students are all left in despair that they're being ordered to achieve a rank that is most commonly the one that demons graduate with after 6 years at Babyls. However, Kalego assures his students that they've made sure that this task wouldn't be impossible for them. Suddenly, 6 adult demons enter Royal One to serve as the special tutors that the Abnormal students will be paired up with for the semester. Jazz and Schneider get General Furfur, Goemon and Picero get Lady Vepar, Clara and Elizabetta get teacher Raim, Kerori and Kamui get Mister Hat, Azz and Sabro get teacher Shichiro, and much to Iruma and Lied's horror, they get the incompetent teacher Robin.
Chapter 96: The Tutors' Plan
The next day, a short female demon is seen making her way towards the Royal One classroom while the Abnormal students are all finishing up their class learning magic basics from teacher Momonoki. They're all then dragged off by their assigned tutors to begin their special classes. Furfur heads off campus with Jazz and Schneider as their special class will be taking place at an adult location to train up their cleverness. Meanwhile, Vepar brings Goemon and Picero to the school's underground gym where she uses her crying tears to show off her powerful water magic to begin their training as powerful bloodline ability users.Next, Mister Hat remains on standby within Kerori's Royal One private sound studio. Having sent Kamui away for the time being in order to have a private talk with Kerori, Mister Hat reveals that he already knows about her second identity as evidol Kuromu, and that he's already gotten permission from her manager, Mal, to train her. He also assures her that said training, which will revolve around summoning, will also improve her as an evidol. Elsewhere, teacher Raim has taken Clara and Elizabetta under her wing claiming that she will be putting them through super hard training to make them strong and experienced women with the most charm and sexiness. Meanwhile, Shichiro begins to tutor Azz and Sabro by battling it out with them in order to make them the strongest. Overall, the tutors have all come up with plans to make their assigned Abnormal students the best amongst the 1st-year students, which they all ask their students to follow along with their plan.
Finally, Iruma and Lied remain unconvinced that they're getting anywhere as teacher Robin's tutoring just seems to be trying to make them yell and bring out their fighting spirit. Robin then brings the two of them back to Royal One as he had called a relative of his to help with the tutoring given his anxiety of being the least experienced tutor. When he tries to introduce his relative however, she punches Robin across the room out of anger from being forced to wait. Iruma is then greeted by Robin's relative; a short and aggressive woman who questions where his fighting spirit is at.
Chapter 97: Bachiko
Iruma and Lied meet Bachiko, the relative of teacher Robin. Bachiko makes it clear that she's only here because Sullivan asked her to, which Iruma and Lied realize that she must be strong if someone as high as Sullivan respects her. However, Bachiko also makes it clear she's not here to tutor anyone, which Lied begs her for help so that they're not left with Robin again. As a result, Bachiko orders them to try to get her in the mood if they truly want her to be their master.From then on, Iruma and Lied go about doing chores for Bachiko, such as the two of them carrying her around campus on a raised seat, painting the school's walls, providing her with snacks, and even doing her laundry. The tasks enrage Lied as he realizes that he's just doing errands for Bachiko rather than going through a special training like the other Abnormal students. However, Iruma is completely satisfied with doing errands as it's something he's already used to doing. After Lied departs to try to work with Robin again, Bachiko meets with Iruma having been watching his actions. She ends up calling him an idiot due to his desire of only doing what he's told for his desire to help others, which leaves Iruma unable to say anything.
Iruma spends the rest of the day thinking over Bachiko calling him an idiot, and by nighttime, he realizes that it's left him really frustrated. He tries to call Azz and Clara for advice, but he quickly catches on that they're hard at work pushing through their own special training, even though it should be their bedtime. Thus, Iruma concludes that he needs to do his part as well. The next day, Iruma properly dresses himself as a make-shift butler, and makes it clear to Bachiko that he's not someone who does what he's told. That it's actually a desire of his own will to become Bachiko's perfect personal servant. Thus, he asks Bachiko to guide her, much to her confused interest.
Chapter 98: Dreadful Stories
Two weeks have passed since the Abnormal students began their training with their special tutors. They've all been left completely wiped out and exhausted, which they decide to gather for an after school meeting within Royal One to discuss each other's training. Goemon and Picero's training with Vepar has them trying to utilize their bloodline abilities while being trapped underwater. Next, Lied's training with teacher Robin has the two of them playing video-games together non-stop all throughout each night to increase his concentration. Meanwhile, Sabro and Azz's training has left them stuck at school having to fight teacher Shichiro non-stop until the day that they finally manage to land a strike on him.Lied also mentions that he's kept in contact with the Jazz and Schneider duo over text messages, which he reveals that Furfur has apparently been training them at an off-campus location to the point of Jazz texting a call for help. Following them is Clara and Elizabetta, who've been striking poses throughout their meeting as a part of teacher Raim's tutoring to learn how to control people's attention to look at them. Next is the Kerori and Kamui duo. Kerori's been left in a depressed state since Mister Hat's summoning training requires her to remain locked in a cage with a bunch of animals in order to better communicate with beasts. Meanwhile, Kamui is just angry that he was put in a separate cage from Kerori.
Finally, it's Iruma's turn, which he gets to describing his training going over all the chores and errands he's been doing for master Bachiko. However, no one is convinced that what Iruma's doing is training, and is actually just Iruma being a servant. Suddenly, everyone gets phone calls from their tutors to return to training, which despite their exhaustion and complaining, they're motivated to do so since they're "abnormal" students who don't want to lose Royal One. Iruma also heads off to return to Bachiko ready to do his part. He looks over today's schedule, but ends up confused when he sees that he's been given a new order to make a weapon. Sure enough, Bachiko informs Iruma that he will be needing to make a brand new weapon for his training.
Chapter 99: Incompatible Weapon For Demons
A brief flashback is seen of Sullivan meeting up with Bachiko. Sullivan's glad to hear that she appears to be getting along with Iruma, and states that he's counting on her regarding Iruma's special training, which leaves her in shock. In the present, Bachiko has brought Iruma to the hills near Babyls. She informs Iruma that all the errands he was doing for her wasn't actually part of the training since she forgot that she was supposed to be training him, much to Iruma's disbelief. She then points out that as the "Undead Archer," Bachiko Barbatos, there's only one thing that she can actually teach him: the power of archery.Bachiko shows off her Barbatos family's Full Mark bloodline ability by creating a bow of magic, and firing dozens of magic arrows at a flag sitting atop a nearby hill. Sure enough, they all strike the flag and destroy the hill, much to Iruma's amazement. Bachiko explains how her Barbatos family's bloodline magic for archery is quite powerful as its known for shooting arrows that never miss. This led to many demons approaching her to learn the magic, but because demons are unable to handle the patience and concentration required for archery, they all ended up failing. Bachiko assures Iruma that learning her magic will allow him to break through to reach Rank 4 (Daleth), but she deems it impossible since archery is a weapon not suitable for demons. However, Iruma is left smiling and confident given that he's a human, much to her confusion.
Seeing Iruma's excitement to learn archery magic, Bachiko goes along with it, and orders him to follow along since like she mentioned before, they got to make his new weapon first. Iruma follows Bachiko to the room for the Magic Tools Research Division, which shocks Bachiko when she hears that Iruma's actually a member for it. Bachiko explains that the reason they're here is to pick out a material amongst the magic tools that they will use to craft Iruma's weapon. As they enter the room however, they're shocked to find that the newest division member, Schnare, has turned the Magic Tools Research Division into a creepy looking lab.
Chapter 100: Iruma's True Feelings
Schnare had filled up the Magic Tools Research Division with many new magic tools, which Bachiko finds hugely beneficial to pick out a material that Iruma will use as his 'core' to summon out a bow. Using one of the magic tools, Bachiko shows off the "Quartz-Quartz" spell that centers around infusing one's mana into a material in order to make it take the form of a bow. The difference being that her bloodline ability allows her to form a bow without the need of a 'core.' She orders Iruma to wisely choose a 'core' material as the bow's form reflects on the user's personality.Amongst Schnare's magic tools is a feather off the "Leader of the Valley" that Iruma met back during the Flying Race event, which Iruma chooses to be his 'core' bow material. Infusing his mana into the feather with the "Quartz-Quartz" spell, Iruma manages to form a small bow. However, Bachiko remains unconvinced as he's just copying the way she did it rather than forming a bow of his own desire. After several more failed attempts, Bachiko announces that he will have one last chance to turn the feather into his desired bow. She and Schnare then head out to go shopping; leaving Iruma alone to figure out his desired bow.
While Bachiko heads off, she's left thinking about her past, and how no matter how many demon students she tried to train up in archery, they all eventually decided to just give up. The result is Bachiko having given up hope of ever coming across an archer like no other, and that despite Iruma being different than her previous demon students, she believes that he will eventually quit just like them. Meanwhile, Iruma remains stuck trying to think up his desired bow. Ali pops out of the ring unable to understand why Iruma doesn't just quit, but Iruma makes it clear that this is the first time he ever truly wanted to prove himself, and that he wants master Bachiko to praise him for all his efforts.
Accepting Iruma's goal, Ali provides his master a bit of advise that what Iruma's searching for is the desire that he holds deep within that's too embarrassing to tell anyone else. The result is Iruma yelling out that his deepest desire is to be a hero that stands proudly with everyone as they all rise up to Rank 4 (Daleth). With his desire established, Iruma uses his last remaining "Quartz-Quartz" attempt on his feather 'core.' Bachiko and Schnare then return from shopping, and are both stunned in disbelief at the sight of the large black bow that Iruma created. Bachiko once more thinks about how she had given up on ever finding an archer like no other, and remains unable to believe what she's currently witnessing.
Chapter 101: Excellent Students
In the Babyls teacher's lounge, Dali and company discuss how the trial set up for the Abnormal students seems way too harsh. Dali questions Kalego if this is all a scheme of his to take back Royal One, but Kalego assures them that he's provided his students with the best tutors who will train them up thoroughly. Sure enough after weeks of training, the Abnormal students start to show signs of improvement.Goemon and Picero learn to adapt their respective wind and earth bloodline abilities to be usable within Vepar's water cage. Kerori shows off an ice-cold persona that makes all the beasts she's caged with submit to her rule while Kamui's gentlemen ways allow him to befriend all the female beasts during Mister Hat's summoning training. Lied manages to improve his concentration to the point of finally beating Robin in a video-game match. Azz and Sabro both manage to finally land a successful hit on Shichiro once they've put aside their reckless solo attacking and begin fighting as a battle duo. Finally, Elizabetta manages to impress Raim pulling off an extremely sexy pose, and even Clara manages to make Raim's heart jump with an innocent surprise attack that caught Raim off-guard.
Overall, the tutors are left impressed by their students exceeding all their expectations. However, the suffering for the Abnormal students continues on as the special tutors decide to raise the training to the next level throughout the following weeks. Once the day of the Harvest Festival arrives, Kalego looks over the final status report provided by the special tutors. Giving off a rare smile, he's proud to see that all his Abnormal students passed training; including a certain invisible student (Soi Purson).
