The battle for the Rising Sun reaches its bloody conclusion—and from the ashes will rise only the strongest of souls. Aegiana proves a more dangerous threat than Inori anticipated, and even with all his world-defying power, he’ll need to utilize every tool in his sinister toolbox if he wants to bring his plan to fruition. Meanwhile, deep in the palace, a will stirs, tempered by the flames... As ideals clash, corridors burn, and walls crumble, dawn finally breaks upon a kingdom in darkness.

Enter: Masayoshi Date. A red-blooded man on a mission to prove himself, and nothing but the lamentations of a certain Inori Takafuji can sate his hunger for victory. He’s also a distinct thorn in everyone’s side and a total vibe killer. Inori is, of course, less than interested in putting up with the ramblings of a madman, but if there’s one thing he’s good at, it’s being a snake, and this situation is ripe for the swindling. As the Kingdom of the Rising Sun plays host to heroes from foreign lands, their prodigal layabout hatches a plan of diabolically petty proportions.

The bloodbath continues. The Kingdom of the Rising Sun is plunged into a waking nightmare as the layabout wretch himself lays waste to his old hosts. The halls will run red with blood and the walls will tell tale of gruesome slaughter before Inori finishes taking out the trash. There’s just one thing standing between him and absolute freedom—Aegiana Itze, captain of the knights. On her shoulders rests the burden of an entire nation, and ultimately, its fate falls to her. Screams echo in the night. Terror reigns. The dead stir... And sunrise is a long way off.

Fenrir—an elden beast bound by an ancient pact to protect. Inori Takafuji—just some guy. A seemingly one-sided battle becomes a cruel experiment as the cynical scoundrel himself goes up against a veritable monarch of the canids. But Inori isn’t the only one conspiring against thrones. As anyone with eyes could have suspected, all is not well in the Kingdom of the Rising Sun... Perhaps the undead layabout’s encounter with the great wolf was but an omen of things to come. Can two estranged sisters bridge the rift driven between them since birth? Who is the mysterious entity looming behind the scenes? Will Inori EVER get to sleep in again?

"There's a rift in the flock, and everyone is choosing sides! While Max and her team are Europe-bound, fang and his crew head west. No matter which direction the flock heads in, though, there's trouble around every corner"--Page 2 of cover.

The vice director of The Cradle, Hanajima, flies into an uncontrolled rage, stabbing Izumi over and over again and freeing the monsters from their prison in the heart of the facility. Mankind's successors escape from the facility rapidly spread across the planet, ushering in a new age of global terror...and they're hungry.