it’s strange, it feels like i’m reading a different manga than the most of you? everything is laid out so explicitly (the unnamed necklace feature, needing to find their “mastermind”, surveillance magic, not “falling” for their “taunts”, recognizing them as “elites” and warning the suedes to “keep back”) that it’s pretty clear they’ve figured out they’re demons and are letting sicily act as bait to track the demons to go with how the situation played out.
it’s preferable to shin going ballistic and causing mass destruction and collateral damage in an attempt to get her back immediately, and cutting off their link to a mastermind. shin’s obviously pissed and barely keeping it under wraps, but if it was actually that dire of a situation to him, he wouldve definitely blown up like before.
and i mean, just look at sicily’s face in the last panel. that’s not a “i’ve been kidnapped by the despicable people we were just warned about and i’m helpless and have to wait to be saved” face. i know the demons (devils?) outclassed them in combat ability before, all split up, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have any tricks up their sleeve to deal with a situation this predictable