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 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 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 Licita found and brought him to her house. She demonstrates her magic, allowing her to put things with no mana into, and take them out of others. She is surprised at meeting a devil a short time after finding a five-leaf grimoire. A devil asks if she is afraid of him, but Licita laughs and claims no one would be scared of an injured kid with no magic power. Licita says she is more hated due to her body that steals magic and life from whatever near her. Licita thinks that is fate and offers the devil to stay and be her child because he has no magic or life energy to steal.

Licita and the devil then live together as mother and son. They had a carefree and fun-filled life until Lucifero discovered Liebe. He took over Liebe's body and stated how he is glad that he killed time looking for a devil in the human world without a contract. Lucifero decides to use Liebe's body to manifest his own in the human world, but Licita thwarts him. The enraged devil uses Liebe's left hand to pierce Licita's chest. However, she absorbs Lucifero's magic and forces him to leave her son's body. Shocked, Lucifero says that it is inconceivable for humans to get in the way of a high-ranked, and one day he will return.

A dying Licita apologizes for being dumb to Liebe and decides to seal him in the five-leaf grimoire to protect Liebe from Lucifero. She says by the next time Liebe emerges, he will grow big and strong. Licita asks Liebe to live and calls him "her dear son" before she dies.

In the present, Liebe says that he will never forget devils, and that his malice won't disappear. He calls all devils "scumbags" and vows to kill them all, even if he has to steal Asta's body to do it.