Chapter 268

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

Summary
During fight, 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 underworld wants to go to the human world. Since Anti Magic Devil was born without magic, he was at the bottom of underworld hierarchy and others bullied and terrorized him.

One day, ticked-off higher-ranked devil threw Anti Magic Devil at the gate of underworld. Instead of hitting it, he passed the gate due to lack of magic and ended up in human world. Despite he had no feeling to humans, they feared him and magic knights charged him. The devil ran away until his body stopped moving. He was ready to die, but woman called Licita found and brought him to her house. She demonstrates her magic which allows user to put things with no mana into and take them out of other. She is surpised about meeting a devil a short time after finding a five-leaf grimoire. A devil asks is she afraid of him, but Licita laughs and claims no one would be scared of injured kid with no magic power. Licita tells she is not less hated person due to her body that steals magic and life from whatever near her. Licita thinks that is a fate and offers Anti Magic Devil to be her kid, because he has no magic or life energy to steal.

Licita and devil then live together as mother and son. She calls him Liebe and grates for saving her from loneliness. Suddenly Liebe falls on the ground in pain and calls himself Lucifero. Lucifero says he is glad he killed his time by looking for devil that exists in human world without a contract. Lucifero decides to use Liebe's body to manifest his own in the human world, but Licita thwarts him. Raged devil uses Liebe's left hand to pierce Licita's chest. However, she absorbs Lucifero's magic and forces him to left her son's body. Shocked Lucifero says it is inconceivable for human to stand on his path and he will return and interfere lowly devil.

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

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