Mission 25 (
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Becky greets Anya as they head to school for the morning. Becky gushes about the episode of Berlint in Love that aired last night and asks if Anya saw it, but Anya replies that she only watches cartoons. Becky begins talking about how childish Anya is for not even knowing what love is. Emile and Ewen overhear this, to which they make fun of them for talking about nonsense.
Forger Family photo
Anya, however, ignores them because she sees Damian and thinks about her plan to befriend him. Yesterday, she had a family photo taken with Bond so that she could impress Damian with his size. She drops the photo on the ground and brings attention to it. However, Damian and his gang just walk away, ignoring her. Instead, Becky picks up the photo and sees Anya's father, Loid, whom she finds very dreamy and decides to keep the photo for herself.
Later, they begin their art class with Henry Henderson as their teacher, as the art teacher is out sick. He assigns them an arts and crafts project with the theme of "animals." However, materials are distributed per table, meaning each table has to manage resources together. Damian at first decides to not take it seriously, but after overhearing that their success in this may go on their secret transcripts, he decides to put some effort in. Henry announces the tables with Damian and Anya at the same table which upsets Damian. Becky says goodbye to Anya as they are at different tables, but Anya just worriedly asks for her photo back so she can impress Damian.
Becky's art project of Lod
Unable to get her photo back, she decides that instead, she will need to create a model of Bond to show off to Damian. Henry looks over the students' work and cooperation and takes notice of Becky's creation. Becky tells him that she made Loid, which bewilders Henry, who tells her to start over because the theme is "animals." However, Becky stands firm with her work and tells Henry that humans are animals, which he realizes is true. He tells her that she can continue on, but she instead decides to start over as "Loid is more evolved than simple animals."
Damian's imagination of his father, Donovan
At Anya's table, Anya finishes making her paper Bond and shows it off to Damian. Damian is unimpressed and calls it garbage, which puts Anya into despair. Emile asks Damian what he is making, to which he replies that he is making a griffin, the crest of his family. He tells those at his table not to use too much paper as he needs a lot of them before envisioning his father being proud of him and his art. Anya, reading Damian's mind, imagines herself helping him make it and showing it off to his impressed father.
Putting "Operation Griffin" in motion, Anya tells Damian that she will help him and offers all her paper, which shocks him as he did not expect her to submit her Bond model. Anya tells Damian that she just wants to help him, which makes him blush. Damian instructs Anya to make the hind legs of the griffin and gives her the plans for the model. She instead proceeds to make jet engines, which angers Damian. He tells her instead to make feathers for the wings, to which she makes a few different-sized slips of paper. He yells at her for wasting all his paper, which brings the attention of Henry, who tells him off.
Anya and Damian's art project
The students continue working on their art projects, and Anya decides to convert her Bond model into a small female griffin to pair with Damian's griffin as an apology. Later, after the art projects are put up for display in the hallway, a group of Eden trustees wander down the hall. As they see some well-put-together art projects, they arrive at Damian's work, which looks tattered and falling apart. Despite that, the art project wins first prize due to the trustees interpreting it as a powerful vision of the nation's rebound from war, which Henry relays to a confused Damian. Anya tells Damian that his parents will probably be proud, but he tells her that he has no intention of showing the art to them, foiling Anya's plan.
Damian returns to his dorm and calls his butler, Jeeves. Damian asks how his dog Max is doing before Jeeves asks if he will be returning home for the weekend, which Damian declines as his father will not be there and says he wants to stay at the dorms so he can focus on studying for their midterm exams. Damian is about to tell Jeeves about their art project before deciding to instead ask about his father's response to the incident where Anya punched him. Jeeves says that Donovan was concerned when he heard, which Damian does not believe. After finishing the phone call, Damian goes to study with Emile and Ewen, intent on becoming an Imperial Scholar to gain his father's approval. Meanwhile, back in the hall, a confused Henry looks at Damian's art project and wonders how it got first place.
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- The official English version of the chapter reveals Damian's older brother's name as "Demetrius" for the first time, whereas the original Japanese edition introduces the brothers' short names, "Demmy" (デミー, Demī?) and "Dammy" (ダミー, Damī?).
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