The only thing more eye-rolling than an awful protagonist who acts entitled is a story that caters to them.

Another clumsy 'the adults are useless, its up to this cool kid to save the world' monster battle where it is revealed that Shu spends his memories to power up his demon partner and bail him out from underbidding... In the show's credit, there was more kickback on the bidding scene this episode when his usual stupid bid was nullified (ASMR to me hearing him whine about that) when 'new facts' reclassified the job. Sadly, though, the show was all too eager to demonstrate that the actual winner was unable to do the job while exposition characters dumped more worship on how Shu is so great that he had to defeat a large rival company to get permission to set up business in the first place (cuz society is so unreasonable, huh guys?), in case we weren't sold on buying his merchandise quite yet. Blech.

Ayano remains the best part of this show, being an ideal xxx-dere and remaining rather cute while devoting herself to a dangerous job and expecting nothing from Shu (rightfully so). It is a bit sad that Shu is implied to still have feelings for her, though those memories are being erased battle by battle, and she seems like the kind of girl who is/was a net positive influence on Shu's self destructive lifestyle.

Speaking of, Shu, like an edgy teenager has taken a worrisome liking to the Memento plot point of having written instructions on his own hand and deciding to follow them in pursuit of an objective he... doesn't remember? I hope I'm misunderstanding that. Lets also forget about teeth bullets...

Now I'm wondering if Shuu will ever reach Kirito levels of prererential treatment by the author.