The big elephant in the room this season of Mairimashita Iruma-kun! (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun) is obviously the foul-mouthed, scowling, disrespectful purple-haired teenager who woke up in Iruma’s bed at the end of season one. The first season ends with this purple-haired Iruma giving the camera an intense staredown after giving Sullivan a taste of the renowned delinquent greeting: “Huh? The hell did you just say to me, old man?!” Then it faded to black. Season 2 drops over a year later and by episode 2, there still isn’t any mention of the guy we’re calling “Delinquent Iruma” to make things easier for ourselves. Delinquent Iruma is the direct opposite of the kind and mild Iruma we’ve come to know over the course of the first season and the initial stages of the second season. What happened to Iruma after the fireworks?

We have no idea what caused Iruma’s brief personality change; however, we could piece it together quite easily. After being promoted, Iruma’s connection to the ring given to him by Sullivan seems to be growing even stronger. The first promotion granted the ring a kind of quiet consciousness, while being promoted to Gimel (3) Rank meant that the ring developed a “body”, the ability to speak and communicate with Iruma, among other things. When Ali was introduced, he was shown to be subservient to Iruma; however, it is possible that this was just a ruse. If we consider Ali’s dark purple colour scheme, the offset hair colour exhibited by Delinquent Iruma could be a result of Iruma further merging with the abilities granted to him by the demon Sullivan, and Ali, the physical manifestation of the Ring of Gluttony.