Okamura and Mao arrive in France. They are looking for clues about the mystery behind the wine bottle of 1967 Chateau Duel that was transported out of the lycee in Vietnam. And their investigations lead them to an unexpected encounter. In the meantime, another party has reached French soil. They are known as the Schiff, and are determined to hunt Saya and Hagi.

Near the new port of Marseilles, France. Riku finally awakens from a coma and everyone is overjoyed. But Riku is anxious about the way his body feels. Something is different. Worried about his little brother, Kai is frustrated about not being able to help him in any way. In the mean time the Schiff is about to reach the Red Shield HQ after Saya.

As Irene starts showing signs of dying, Kai refers to Saya what he was told about Schiff. But for the girl, who firmly believes that her task is to exterminate the Chiroptera, this is the first time she feels desperately far away from her stepbrother. In the meanwhile, Julia isolates a DNA component that apparently does not belong to any known living creature on this planet...

Kai begs Saya to give her blood to Irene and save her from the advancing crystallization process. But Saya hesitates: what will she decide in the end?

In the meanwhile, in the Red Shield HQ, Julia continues her researches, but she notices that her mentor Collins has got in touch with an unexpected person...

A year had passed and that period of time had clearly brought changes to the Schiff. Thorns emerge in Goodliff and Dirth. The few remaining comrades draw together quietly in an abandoned church avoiding the sun.

But they are about to be battered by another desperation, as the Corpse Corps abruptly attacks them...