Yukine takes up a part-time job at Daikoku's food stand to help repay what he stole, and wants to use Hiyori's old textbooks to learn like normal students. Tenjin suggests Yato sever ties with Hiyori to return her to normal, which upsets him. Hiyori invites the boys to the New Year's festival, but they get held up by a nest of Scorpion Phantoms that Rabō sent to test Yato's strength. Hiyori is attacked by Wolf Phantoms from Nora, who tells her that Rabō wants to kill Yato. When Yato and Yukine meet Hiyori, they are surprised to find that she no longer remembers Yato.