The Power of the Demonic Fairy-Tale Card

The Fairy-Tale Card moves to seize Rin's mind by forcing his way in, but Mai, declaring herself Rin's producer, slams him into the wall, refusing to let the yokai make a puppet of her. He then turns his sway over body parts on Rin, erasing her mouth so she can no longer sing. With the song cut off, Okarun, Rokuro, and Vega stop rising out of Danmara and start to drop. Rokuro shapes his nanoskin into jet-booster arms while Okarun and Vega cling to his legs, though their combined weight stalls any climb. The delinquents rush at the yokai, yet their charge is useless against his manipulation of body parts, and they soon fall under his control and turn on one another. When a brainwashed student lunges for Rin, Saint-Germain cuts in, deflecting the blow and snatching up the talismans spread across the black cloth to pin them onto the controlled students' heads, freezing them in place. The Fairy-Tale Card knows him and demands why he blocks the path, given that he already understood the scheme to use Umbrella Boy for the escape. Even as the card acknowledges him, Saint-Germain asks who the yokai is while charging his sword with black lightning.

The Fairy-Tale Card works on Rin's mind, taking the guise of Mai, her mother, and grandmother, but Mai hurls him back and vows Rin will never serve as his puppet, so he strips away Rin's mouth. With her singing gone, Rokuro must rise on nanoskin jet arms while slowly hauling Okarun and Vega. The delinquents storm the yokai, but he removes their eyes or mouths or sets them fighting each other. The girls nearly fall, until Saint-Germain arrives to defend them. It expresses gratitude for Umbrella Boy being sent its way, though Saint-Germain recalls nothing of the yokai.

Opening the clash against the Fairy-Tale Card directly, this Volume 19 chapter brings Saint-Germain into the fight. His talisman counter and black-lightning blade set up his duel with the body-part-warping yokai.