Emma and Ray are reunited with the other children, and the female demon, Mujika, and the male demon, Sonju, reassure them that they are not like regular demons. They explain that for religious reasons, they do not eat humans in order to survive and that they are freelancers unassociated with the Houses. Sonju tells Emma and Ray about the history of their world. Thousands of years ago, humans and demons fought a long war which eventually ended with the humans and demons making peace and agreeing to live in their own separate "worlds"; the demon world, with several Houses breeding human offerings to appease the demons and a separate human world...