With the defeat of Gauron Sousukes life has entered a comfortable rhythm Hes adjusting to schoolthe occasional car bomb false alarm notwithstandingand balancing his newlyfound normalcy with the needs of his mercenary life Hes even started to turn his thoughts toward the futurea 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