Kakurio Bed and Breakfast for Demons volume 3 opens at the cottage that our heroine, Aoi Tsubaka, hopes to turn into a casual restaurant. After checking on Oryo, still bedridden with the fever she came down with in volume 2, Aoi finds a box.with that lovely cut-glass bowl she was looking at in the last volume. Yes, Kijin bought it for her even though she most ungraciously rejected his offer.

Aoi walks in on a big argument between Akatsuki, the general manager, and his younger sister, Suzuran. The two tsuchigumo (spider demons) are in their spider forms. Suzuran wants to go back to Utsushiyo, the human world, even though Shiro Tsubaka, whom she loved dearly, is dead. Akatsuki is against it.

Aoi asks Kijin about the quarrel. He tells her. About 30 years ago, Akatsuki was trying to help Suzuran who was ill. This was back in Utsushiyo, where they were born. Aoi's grandfather, Shiro, took care of them until he brought them to Kijin and asked the ogre to take care of them. Shiro used to come to the Kakuriyho capital to listen to Suzuran play the shamisen, but he hadn't visited in ten years. Suzuran saved money to buy a pass back to Utsushiyo. She has her pass.

The next morning, Aoi finds Akatsuki outside in his spider form because he lost too much energy in the fight with his sister to take his human form. She takes the humiliated spider demon to the kitchen. Oryo feels well enough to be up and wants something to eat and Aoi decides to make the same thing for Akatsuki. He turns it down even though Oryo tells him that Aoi, as Shiro's granddaughter, cooks food that can restore their spiritual powers.

Aoi brings an ice cream parfait to Suzuran, who tells her more about her and her brother's backstory. It's not a happy one. They are the only survivors of their once happy family. We learn that both Suzuran and Aoi have something they wanted to do for Shiro that was left undone.

Aoi bullies Akatsuki into taking a drink that restores his ability to take human form. He is not grateful. (Unsurprising, given how Shiro was harder on the brother than the sister.) Aoi insists he reconcile with Suzuran before she leaves.

Aoi also talks with Ginji and tells him about the ayakashi who fed her when she was little. She wants to find that ayakashi to give thanks for saving her life. Ginji suggests that she might meet it should she continue working at Tenjin-ya.

Aoi's cooking is already catching on with the staff. The whirlwind security guards show her their human forms for the first time when they smell what she's grilling.

Akatsuki does show up to have Aoi teach him how to make boiled Chinese dumplings the way Shiro did as a gift for his sister. It seems Oryo, Ginji, and the whirlwinds got him to come. During the lesson, Aoi learns more about her grandfather. It seems likely that Shiro taught her how to cook the flavors ayakashi love so she could survive them.

Akatsuki softens just a little toward Aoi, but of course he has to yell at her when he tells her to address him by his name.
(He's left-handed, so Suzuran can tell he made some of the dumplings even though he ordered Aoi not to tell her that.) Suzuran thinks of Aoi as a sister because they were all reared by Shiro.

Ginji and Kijin have a conversation about Aoi. Kijin doesn't want to tell Aoi some truth because it might interfere with their marriage.

Suzuran is ready for her trip, but that jerk fabric demon, Tannnosuke, Lord of the Yahata-ya from the last volume, isn't willing to give her up. I enjoyed his argument with Akatsuki.

Kijin asks Aoi to take the Ox carriage and guide Suzuran to her destination while Akatsuki is busy fighting with the fabric demons. He promises that if she guides Suzuran, she may open her restaurant when she returns..

The fabric demons attack the flying carriage. Tannnosuke sends a long love letter that definitely crosses into stalker territory.
The girls make it to the rock gate. Aoi looks at a signboard that shows which destination is open on which day of the week and realizes there are more places to go than the human world. (Personally, I would skip Hell.)

The girls visit Shiro's grave. Each fulfills that she had left undone for the old scoundrel. Suzuran puts in a good word for Kijin to Aoi.

Aoi has shopped for ingredients she can't get in Kakuriya. On her way to the demon gate she meets Peewee, the smallest of the kappa she used to feed. The other kappa left and didn't take Peewee with them, so Aoi invites him to come with her. Peewee accepts.

Yes, I am still enjoying this manga. ( )