Chapter 268

Devil (悪魔) is the 268th Page of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover.

Summary
During the fight, the Anti Magic Devil remembers the underworld. He describes it as a boring place where devils terrorize lower-ranked ones to kill time, and low-ranked devils beat up the ones even below them. For devils, supreme pleasure is toying with humans, and everybody in the underworld wants to go to the human world. Since the Anti Magic Devil was born without magic, he was at the bottom of the underworld hierarchy, and others bullied and terrorized him.

One day, a ticked-off higher-ranked devil threw the Anti Magic Devil at the gate of the underworld. Instead of hitting it, he passed through the gate due to his lack of magic and ended up in the human world. Although he had no feelings towards humans, they feared him, and Magic Knights attacked him. The devil ran away until his body stopped moving. He was ready to die, but a woman called Richita found and brought him to her house. She demonstrated her magic that allowed her to store things with no mana. She was surprised at meeting a devil a short time after finding a five-leaf clover grimoire. The devil asked if she was afraid of him, but Richita laughed and claimed that no one would be scared of an injured kid with no magic power. Richita said she was hated due to her body that steals magic power and lifeforce from whatever is near her. Richita thought that it was fate and offered to let the devil stay and be her child because he seemingly had no magic power or lifeforce to steal.

Richita and the devil then lived together as mother and son. They had a carefree and fun-filled life until Lucifero discovered Liebe. Lucifero took over Liebe's body and was glad that the time spent looking for a devil in the human world without a contract was justified. Lucifero decided to use Liebe's body in order to find a method of manifesting his own in the human world, but Richita thwarted him. The enraged devil used Liebe's left hand to pierce Richita's chest. However, she absorbed Lucifero's magic and forced the devil to leave her son's body. Shocked, Lucifero said that it was inconceivable for a human to get in the way of a high-ranked devil, and promised to return one day. A dying Richita sealed Liebe in the five-leaf grimoire to protect him from Lucifero, and asked Liebe to live on. As his body disappeared, Liebe called her "mom."

In the present, refusing to ever forgive devils or let his malice disappear, Liebe vows to kill all the devils, even if he has to steal Asta's body to do it.

Fights

 * Asta vs. Liebe