[Matrixbeast]

Hibiki Volume 11.
Asumu is late once again, but this time it's for a different reason. He's just enjoying his surroundings, rather than panicking. Here, he's late for some kind of opening ceremony for new students (Something akin to that. We don't really see it, so I don't know). He decides to not go with the girl to show Hibiki their new uniforms and instead chooses to visit the store that he inadvertently helped prevent a shoplifter from getting away. Revealing that he's still unsure of his feelings on the whole situation, he mulls about before literally bumping into a woman carrying tons of bags.
Deciding to help her, he picks up what dropped and carries a few to her destination, the Tachibana tea shop. There, the girl (I don't know why her name isn't leaving an impact on me...They say it so often, but I never remember it...) stops by. After some brief confusion, things get cleared away and they have a nice tea together.

In the meantime, things for the oni are getting a little more intense. They're having to prepare more after the previous demon was a rare monster that only appeared once every hundred years. So Ibuki starts training while Hibiki goes to handle a case of tree demons (The crew as a whole were doing...Something, but I'm not sure what, exactly, as they were kinda only moving boxes).
Things aren't going well for Hibiki as none of his fire attacks are hurting them, and they've even broken his armor.

Back at the tea shop, Asumu spots a door that closes on it's own. He investigates only to find it's a trap door that leads to a slide, ending with him sliding down a spiral to who knows where.

Things happened, but there wasn't really much to talk about. Perhaps I'm just too dense to understand, but I didn't get the idea of what the side cast were doing...The way they talk or the way they were translated was just so confusing to understand.