A few months after the events of Ketsu, Ikebukuro is returning to normal or as close as it can get. Masaomi Kida and Rokujou Chikage have settled into an easy friendship founded on similar ideas, and a good enough way to spend the time. Until it's not enough. Rokujou finds himself in a situation, not for the first or last time, where his heart is in a little deeper than he thought.