The impenetrable haze of Tôya's amnesia has always kept his past shrouded in mystery... until now, as his elusive memories begin to return. There was the island... the girl with the seashell... the name "Mikage." Tôya and the others go into full resuce mode in response to Aki's latest threats, facing gunfire, torture, and even death ... but Aya faces life, new life.

"Escorted around the facilities of the C-Project laboratories like the prize Mikage breeding-stock she is, Ceres uses the existence of Tôya's child, now thriving inside her, to taunt the monomaniacal Kagami. An outraged Kagami tries to kill Ceres, but will another's sacrifice be enough to protect this "First Mother" of all Celestial Maidens"..."

When Aki tells Toya that his personality is merely a fabrication, Toya stuggles to find himself and a way to help Aya. Meanwhile, Ceres still battles a revenge-seeking Miori, and Aki, the progenitor and forefather of the Mikage, makes plans to claim Aya.

Grandfather Mikage is the head of the Mikage family as well as Mikage International, both of which he rules strictly, under a regime founded on a belief in supernatural magic and ritual murder. His grandon Aki is his chosen successor, but Aki may have more in store for the family than Grandpa bargained for.

Every club needs to take a fieldtrip, and Tanpopo's Gardening Committee is no exception. Koki gets a tip that his elusive older brother may be living incognito in Hokkaido, so the rest of the group packs their bags and heads north with him. Tanpopo is doubly pleased because this extracurricular excursion affords her the rare opportunity to visit her former home--a place far different from the hustle and bustle of big city life. Later, when Koki's...

Tanpopo Yamazaki, having tested into the elite Melo Academy, decides to start a gardening club in an effort to make some friends and have some fun in an environment characterized by nepotism and superficiality.

It looks as though Koki and Tanpopo may never get the chance to be together when Koki receives word that his former fiancee has tried to kill herself, and Tanpopo is called away to tend to her sick grandparents.