The seagull and its companions, saboteurs Tora and Akari, continue their journey in search of the remains of Emperor Arthur Gaz, while also trying to break away from the government detachment pursuing them, led by the knight Alberik Jilett. Their next target—one of the detachment’s heroes who defeated the Emperor—is Dominika Skoda, a dragoons rider living as a solitary recluse in a mansion in the middle of the forest, where local residents dare not enter…