Hachiman "takes responsibility", as is his duty - at least, according to Iroha. But is her request one that Hachiman can truly fulfill?

A traveler awakens in Gensokyo with no memory of who he is or where he has come from. Armed with naught but a diary, he sets out to explore this exciting new world, noting down points of interest along the way. The more he discovers about Gensokyo, the more he also discovers about himself, and about his role in the fate of the realm at large.

A Knights of the Blood member's brief yet horrifying encounter with evil drives him to take action against those who have wronged him, leading to the creation of a team dedicated to weeding out and eliminating player killers. However, he eventually discovers that his true enemies may lie where he least suspects them to - both within the guild, and within himself.

To most of those who inhabit Aincrad, she is Lisbeth, the notorious pink-haired, wide-eyed, tomboyish blacksmith operating out of her workshop on the 48th Floor. But to those who have accompanied her since the beginning, she is simply Liz, a youthful and occasionally naïve character, yet a nonetheless kind-hearted and resolute friend in times of need.

A sickly and physically frail Inspector, who relies on her keen mind and dogged persistence to get by, oversees an investigation into a series of gruesome murders. Yet as she pursues the mysterious perpetrator behind the killings, she closes in on a dark secret that exposes her unwelcome past... and sees her fate, and the fate of the Sibyl System, inextricably intertwined.

One is playful and carefree; the other is earnest and reserved. The romance between the witch and the dollmaker is by now an open secret within Gensokyo, but only they know the true extent of the desire they feel for each other, and only time will tell if their relationship lasts for as long as they want it to.