Demon Sacred: Volume 2

by Natsumi Itsuki, 184 pages

After the return of Mika, the mysterious "man" who helped their mother raise them before her death, Mona and Rina cooperate with him to draw in and tame K2, another supernatural being like Mika, to help them in their efforts to save Rina before the Return Syndrome kills her. Unfortunately for K2, he shares a face with a wildly popular celebrity idol--whom Mona happened to be thinking of when she tamed him--so he can't go about in public without being "recognized" and causing a commotion. When the girls go out to meet the real Keito as an unrelated favor to a friend, they give K2 strict instructions to stay home. Unfortunately for them, K2 isn't very good at following orders. Complications, unsurprisingly, ensue. Meanwhile, Shinobu's got his own secrets, both from the girls and from his corporate research lab employers.

This second volume flows much better than the first, having gotten all that awkward exposition out of the way earlier. Mika's a little scary and K2's kind of adorable. Mona and Rina are still clearly teenagers, but have to play mom to immature K2 (despite his millennia of existence). And poor Shinobu's trying to help, but things are only getting more complicated as his charges multiply and his control of the situation weakens.

I've gotten sucked into this now, so I'm hoping someone picks up defunct Tokyopop's relinquished English language license soon!