"Chise has come face to face with the person responsible for the brutal killings at a nearby churchyard - and to her shock, it's someone she recognizes from her visions of the tragedy at Ulthar!" --Back cover.

Emily and her brother Navin head for Kanalis to find an antidote for the poison that is killing their mother.

Immediately after checking into the Kurosaki Clinic with a mysterious scar on his back, the muscle-bound Chad goes AWOL. Accompanying Chad is a talking parakeet imbued with the soul of a young boy named Yuichi. It doesn't take newbie Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki long to surmise that a Hollow must be involved. Ichigo is about to discover that not every soul is bound for the Soul Society, especially if it's tainted with innocent blood.

Medusa plots to beat DWMA and her sister, Arachne, in the race for Eibon's demon tools, and Maka, Black Star, and Kid step up their training with their weapons.