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Although Kal'tsit managed to injure the Royal Guard, she too is injured. Given the circumstances, the Royal Guard decides to accept Kal'tsit's excuse. Despite her wounds, Kal'tsit reads the letter from Kazdel and decides her next destination.

Despite the then Minister of Finance Witte's unexpected visit, Kal'tsit cannot let this precious opportunity slip by. After injecting the Grand Duke with her drug, Kal'tsit accompanies the wrongdoer through his final moments.

Having spent what seemed to be an eternity in Sargon, Elliot now stands before Kal'tsit once again. Fate has been cruel, in spite of the old cliche that fate works in mysterious ways.

Late at night, Skadi realizes Specter has disappeared from her treatment ward, and it is none other than Specter's old leader, Gladiia, who has taken her. Before departing, Gladiia tells Skadi that they will be heading for a small town in Iberia.

Skadi receives guidance from her contact, disguises herself as a wandering singer, and prepares to infiltrate Sal Viento. But her eyes are not alone on Sal Viento, as Iberia's Inquisitors are watching too.

A strange group inhabits this city of ruin. They treat Skadi, a rare outsider, both coldly and warily. A clash ensues.

Skadi effortlessly sorts out the inhabitants hostile to her, and meets a girl named Anita who's willing to communicate. Anita gives her directions, and assists her in searching for Specter. At the same time, another set of eyes has been watching Skadi all along.

Skadi goes to the shore looking for food, but finds that in this part of the sea, there is nothing but monsters.

Skadi witnesses the local inhabitants' unusual ceremony for seeking food from the ocean. An indignant young Inquisitor breaks it up, and maintains firmly that Skadi is a wicked Ægir, engaging her in a fight.

Breaking away from the young Inquisitor, Skadi runs into another, more senior Inquisitor, and after the two engage in a melee, Skadi flees, bloodied. Before long, the monsters from the sea have found her.

Skadi has shredded hundreds of these monsters on her own. On the verge of exhaustion, she meets the young Inquisitor once again. The Inquisitor wants to take her away, but the locals do not let her.

In her nightmare, Skadi tries to escape. Meanwhile, Anita insists on staying by her side. On the other end of the coast, the Inquisitors witness the truth behind the local ritual.

Impassioned by Anita's warm enthusiasm, Skadi walks into the crowd of locals and begins to sing for them. The music manages to tug at the still heartstrings of the inhabitants, though this moment of peace is broken when the high tide signal is sounded.

The inhabitants pile onto the beach to listen to the bishop's sermons. Skadi finally locates Gladiia, who asks her to ascertain what she truly wants. As she watches the inhabitants enjoying the food and the gradually nearing sea monsters, Skadi rediscovers her mission as an Abyssal Hunter.

Skadi makes up her mind and, invited by the bishop, she makes for the chapel. At the same time, the Inquisitors decide to blow up the chapel.

No matter how they seem, humans and Seaborn are wildly different.

Gladiia kills the Seaborn. The Bishop charges at the Abyssal Hunters in anger.

The Bishop transforms into something sinister in his fanatic craze while the hunters learn what it is like to hunt once more.

The Hunters finish off the monster that the bishop has become. They fight back the sea monsters on their way out, and when they reach the chapel doors, they find someone unexpected waiting for them.

In the karst cave underneath the chapel, Gladiia makes her goal clear, but is ambushed by a Seaborn's devastating attack. The Seaborn informs Skadi of the greatest secret in the Abyssal Hunters' history. Their blood is woken.

Kal'tsit defends the three hunters before the Inquisitor, securing their exit from Sal Viento. Having arrived back at Rhodes Island, Gladiia learns of a change.

Loughshinny boards the Duke of Wellington's ship with the Doctor's help, and finally ends the ducal alliance's stalemate siege of the city as Eblana's purple flames spread onto the city walls. Loughshinny keeps her promise and returns to Tara.

After the ducal alliance enters the city, Ch'en finally locates Reunion in Londinium, now led by Nine. Reunion saves some innocents affected by the war, and also hears a call to rise up and resist from Ursus.

After the battle at the walls, the defeat of the Sarkaz has led to more chaos in the city. Nowell helps Clovisia, leader of the Self-Salvation Corps, save the innocent citizens. He witnesses her death and lets his obsession go.

A Rose Riverside's Canoe finds the trail of her missing princess in Londinium, but she does not expect yet another parting waiting for her at its end.

The Nachzehrer King makes a final stand at the Palace of Westhaleg. He lets the Doctor's group through to Theresis, and enjoys his last war alone.

As the Sarkaz troops withdraw, Catastrophe clouds appear over the capitals of all the Core nations. Amiya stops a fleet that tries to intercept the retreating Sarkaz, and Laterano's main server delivers a revelation about the future.

Ebenholz and Kreide's performance does not gain Czerny's favor. Consequently, Ebenholz leaves to visit Gertrude, concert sponsor, where he learns of a plan she's had waiting in the wings.

Ebenholz and Kreide begin to rehearse for the concert. Hibiscus is conducting her investigation all over the Afterglow, looking to find the truth of the Infected suddenly recovering.

The extent of the mysterious recoveries turns out to be greater than Hibiscus foresaw, and the street is filled with uncertain rumors, linking a Sarkaz with calamity. Hibiscus is forced to confront the crowd besieging her.

While passing by, Ebenholz and Kreide save Hibiscus, but the cello Kreide borrowed from Czerny is damaged in the process. The concert draws closer and closer, but the duo have yet to earn Czerny's acknowledgement.

To purchase a new instrument, Ebenholz and Kreide put themselves at risk and enter the Cliffy Patio, an area off-limits to the Infected. Once again, they ask Czerny to assess the fruits of their practice.

Ebenholz finally gains Czerny's approval. When Czerny goes to the concert hall for a routine pre-concert inspection, he runs into Gertrude by chance.

Hibiscus discovers the changes in the conditions of the Infected are related to Ebenholz and Kreide. She speaks out and tries to bar them from performing, and Ebenholz goes to confront Gertrude.

Ebenholz tries to break free from Gertrude's grasp, but finds himself with nowhere to go. As soon as he returns back home, he collapses with a severe headache.

Hibiscus tries to convince Czerny to cancel the duet, but to no avail. Having second thoughts, Ebenholz runs into a suspicious person who seems to have a hand in the rumors circulating around the Afterglow.

Hibiscus learns some of the Afterglow's history; Ebenholz is about to detain his target, but an agent suddenly appears, giving the rumor-spreader an opportunity to flee into the sewers. The two give chase.

Ebenholz and the spy discover a secret laboratory hidden in the sewers, and a large number of special, activated Originium slugs gush out of the ground and threaten the Afterglow, even closing in on Kreide.

Ebenholz and Kreide use the Resonanz between their Voice of the Mundane to drive the Originium slugs away, but the shadow of the Witch King still looms over them. The mystery has not yet been solved, and everything points to the tampered-with concert hall.

The party finds an Arts amplification device set up by Gertrude in the concert hall. Gertrude herself appears, and after unsuccessfully trying to persuade Ebenholz, decides to take matters into her own hands.

Gertrude is taken away by the spy, but Kreide's health has deteriorated further. After studying the files obtained from the laboratory, this group of souls draws up a desperate plan.

During the concert, Ebenholz and Kreide follow the plan, but Gertrude already modified the entire concert hall and even directly interferes with their performance. Caught in a desperate situation, Ebenholz and Kreide simultaneously come up with the most direct solution.

The crisis in The Afterglow is averted, but an even crueler fate awaits Ebenholz and Kreide.

News of Infected taking a surprise turn for the better comes out of the Afterglow, a district of Vyseheim, Leithanien, where Hibiscus arrives to investigate. Coinciding with famed musician Czerny's farewell concert holding its selections, the noble youth Ebenholz and the wandering Kreide apply to participate in the occasion.

As he listens to the calm cello tune, Ebenholz reminisces about a past he had long sealed away.

The string of events has left different scars on each participant, but Ebenholz has yet to find the strength to understand these scars. He still needs time.

While making her way back to the Tianshi Bureau for study, Lin Qingyan receives a letter from Zuo Le, asking her to investigate Yun Qingping's disappearance. Doing so, however, gets her sucked into a strange little town, and a different, utterly baffling case involving the theft of a secret tome of martial arts.

At Mr. Pu's school, Lin Qingyan encounters talking brooms, walking scrolls... and finding out the truth of this town from Mr. Pu, she pieces together that in the fight for the secret tome, an altogether greater mess is brewing for Mangshan Town.

While investigating a robbery, Lin Qingyan retrieves a stone for a dying old man, one that has accompanied him his entire life. After losing and regaining the stone, the old man thinks back on his fated encounters with that collector, scattered throughout his life.

Yun Qingping learns that the one who 'invited' him to Mt. Mang is currently atop the mountain proper. While climbing, he helps rescue a wandering lady's husband from a game of weiqi. Only then does he learn that the game has been ongoing for many years, waiting for someone who could resolve it.

The swordsman loses his sword, but meets someone after his own heart—the one whom Lin Qingyan is chasing for the theft of the tome. Thunder breaks the woman's geisthood, and it turns out the swordsman never lost his sword, after all.

The secret tome that all jianghu seeks turns out to have been stolen by Huai Tianpei at the behest of a Shanhaizhong member by the name of Mo Yi. Mo Yi uses it to summon a massive illusion in the form of Shuo, which Huai Tianpei duels.

A hundred years ago, Mangshan Town was destroyed by the awakening of the bestial Sui. But with destruction comes rebirth. With the help of Yi, master of the Garden of Grotesqueries, the newly-born geists helped returning townsfolk rebuild their home. They live together in the new Mangshan Town to this day.

Ferdinand has the data recovered from Loken Watertank's experiments for Dorothy, but the reason she needed it surprises him.

The young seek out those they think are of like mind, but true understanding only comes with time. No matter where they end up, they tend to be genuine when they come back together.

The Doctor and Mechanist go into the alley to investigate Muelsyse's disappearance, only to find themselves ambushed. Outside the city, the Pioneers seek to bargain hostages for their freedom. They fail.

Saria shows up and saves the Doctor, at which point the three Rhodes Islanders are shocked to discover the power armor that attacked them had no pilot. Outside the city, the Pioneers receive a stern answer from Ferdinand.

Silence enters the test site to care for the unconscious Ptilopsis, coming face to face with the Pioneers. Just as the deadlock is about to break, the group is attacked by strange creatures.

The strange creatures are extremely tough, with the group powerless to resist them. Dorothy makes contact and leads the group deeper into the test site.

In the alley, the Doctor, with the other Rhodes Islanders, studies the power armor and the mysterious silver substance within. Outside the city, the Pioneers, now enjoying a moment of safety, refuse to trust Dorothy.

Back in the city, Saria takes the Doctor and Mechanist to a bar to meet a former scientist, only to get a stern warning. At the test site, Silence notes some similarities between the experiments there and her past with the Diαbolic Experiments.

Ho'olheyak shows up at the bar to stop the former scientist from revealing too much. The Doctor and the Rhodes Islanders give chase, but find themselves once again waylaid by power armor. Back at the test site, Silence and Elena dig into the experiment data and find its goals increasingly suspicious.

Back in the city, Saria is about to destroy the power armor, only for the Doctor to stop her at the last minute, saving Muelsyse within. At the test site, the group finally makes it into Dorothy's lab, at which point the Pioneers level their crossbows at her.

It turns out that the Pioneers have been trying to make their way into the lab from the very beginning, believing Dorothy to be the origin of the mysterious creatures. While they swing into action, the creatures appear to demonstrate sentience, moving to protect Dorothy.

Silence finally uncovers the true purpose of the experiment and steps up to put a stop to Dorothy. The group struggles to defeat her, while Ptilopsis uses her special sensory abilities to find the missing test subjects. They are sleeping peacefully.

The group learns that the collective consciousness of the unconscious test subjects is what drives the mysterious creatures, revealing the terrifying true purpose of the experiments. Saria guesses at Ferdinand's ambitions, while multiple attempts are made to synchronize with Ptilopsis.

The situation appears to be resolving itself as the Pioneers reach an accord with Dorothy, who agrees to terminate her experiments. Ferdinand makes a bold play, sending his men to inject the Pioneer with Transmitter.

The pioneers who accepted injections begin to pass out one by one. A strange noise is heard from inside the laboratory, and a never-before-seen enormous geometric construct appears. The experiment is now completely out of control.

Inside the Rhine headquarters, the Doctor and Saria find Control, who has been unreachable for some time.

After so many years apart, the former friends are finally reunited.

The information that the Doctor sends to Ptilopsis forces Control to interfere with the experiment. Back at the site, Dorothy suggests shutting down the system and proactively injects herself with the experimental Transmitter.

Dreams, pathways, and visions. Dorothy enters the collective will of the test subjects, breaks the Hub of the geometric construct, and personally destroys her own creation.

Back in the city at Rhine headquarters, Muelsyse, after connecting with Saria, finds herself pursued. Meanwhile, back at the test site, Ptilopsis falls into the Pioneers' trap and finds herself kidnapped.

The dream is over, but no one has yet reached the ends of their respective paths. An anticipated moment approaches.

Leontuzzo has been invited to participate in the Red Wine Championship, an event held in Nuova Volsinii by a Kazimierzian businessman. He watches as Demetri wins, which ends up drawing him into a murder case.

Top sales representative Tosia leaves the turf wars of Kawalerielki behind her and heads to Nuova Volsinii. Here, she begins to reexamine her sales methods and goals.

Despite the workers' opposition, Lupina has no choice but to sell the family winery she inherited.

Eirene negotiates with the merchants that are supplying contracts for AST drivers. She finds more than she bargained for in the profitable partnership, and the influence of the mafia is never far off.

Liesel lost her family once in Nuova Volsinii, until Paola gave her a warm home. But now, with Paola gone, how will Liesel find a new family of her own?

Leontuzzo, Lavinia, Demetri, and even Signora Sicilia—everyone knows Nuova Volsinii now stands at a crossroads.

Led by the architect Stitch, Tomimi and company head to the underground city of Zeruertza and witness a Durin water slide. Meanwhile, Gavial and Eunectes are searching for their own way underground.

The Durins are celebrating an extra-long summer thanks to the damage done to their dome. Stitch tells the climate representative, come to ask him to repair the dome, that he's found some new helpers.

The new arrivals at the Great Aquapit formally earn the acceptance of the Durin people after their referendum, and they enjoy a good time with the design representative. Gavial and Eunectes find a guide to help them go underground.

Gavial leaps down from the underground waterfall and crashes into Zeruertza, causing a huge misunderstanding. In lieu of repairing the dome, Stitch hopes that Gavial and the others will help him repair the railway bridge to solve the problem of Originium detection.

The party has to convince the representatives of the city to go along with Stitch's plan, and Inam goes to talk things out with the business representative. Gavial discovers that Avdotya, a Zeruertza local who once came from the surface, is extremely wary of them.

Stitch and the design representative argue with each other about their design philosophies. Eunectes's attitude towards Durin machinery attracts the attention of the industry representative, and Avdotya slowly opens up to Gavial.

The Durins vote to demolish the Great Aquapit, and Stitch and Catch the design representative decide to hold a contest to determine who will design the next Zeruertzan landmark that will be built alongside the railroad bridge.

'The Great Aquapit' will soon be demolished, bringing the gang here for one last round of fun. The Durins look forward to the birth of their next landmark, while Inam and Gavial discuss Acahualla's future.

Gavial and the gang hold a swimming competition under the guise of surveying. Stitch, anxious about his design task, is encouraged to join by the industry representative.

Inam and Eunectes discuss the leadership of Acahualla. A winner emerges from the swimming race.

The party discovers unexpected danger in the tunnel at the other shore—a vein of active Originium could soon destroy Zeruertza. As they argue, Gavial raises the possibility of refuge on the surface.

Faced with the prospect of hundreds of thousands of Durin who might rely on Acahualla to survive, Gavial feels a pressure and responsibility she never has before, while Avdotya goes to the library to search for a map to the surface.

The Durins begin setting about dressing their doomed city, and Avdotya is pondering how to convey her thoughts to the city's people, while Stitch instead opts to flee under the pressure.

Stitch's friends want to give him the courage to confront the dome and leave with no regrets, and they strive every which way to make it happen.

Avdotya's speech reaches the hearts of the people of Zeruertza. Gavial goes to see Stitch, who is suffering under the pressure to catch up to his teacher. He once again chooses to run.

Stitch finally confronts himself as the Durins decide Zeruertza's future. They will head to the surface and begin a new life there.

Gavial and Eunectes, both at Rhodes Island, receive a letter left behind by Tomimi, who is back home on vacation. Supposedly, a Durin from underground brought news that the entire rainforest could be in danger.

Several days later, the Durins start relocating to the surface, and while Stitch is working to restore Zeruertza to perfect form before its impending destruction, he unexpectedly finds himself reading a letter his teacher left behind for him.

Sora arrives at the theater she is to work at next. Leontuzzo finds Texas and informs her about her next assignment.

Sora meets a strange audience member while rehearsing the play. The city of Volsinii grows more and more restless as a banquet between Families is about to be held.