Kirika briefs everyone about the recent events and its connection to the game Pandemonium which caused the players to "download" youma through the net unknowingly. After they learn that Ren has been kidnapped, Kazuma, Ayano, and Kirika enter Pandemonium. Ayano fights Lapis, who has the appearance of Tsui Ling. Meanwhile, Kazuma finds Ren, and identifies the man behind Pandemonium as Bernherdt Rhodes, a former enemy he defeated in the past.