With the defeat of Gauron, Sousuke's life has entered a comfortable rhythm. He's adjusting to schoolâ€"the occasional car bomb false alarm notwithstandingâ€"and balancing his newly-found normalcy with the needs of his mercenary life. He's even started to turn his thoughts toward the futureâ€"a future that might involve Kaname. But that future will soon face a threat, not from North Korean soldiers, Italian mobsters, or Russian spetsnaz... but from the hierarchy of Mithril itself!