After thinking really, really hard, Meme decides to cheer her ailing mother up by making plastic bottle rockets. She soon encounters the man who asked Maekawa-san to make rockets. It turns out he is Meme's childhood friend. She makes a certain request...

Wein uses Mealtars in a risky gambit. Demetrio's poisoning is pinned on a surprising suspect. As Marden's trade-based economy booms, Wein is sure he can get what he wants by toying with Zenovia's heart, but Soljest is unhappy with the goods from the east.

One month ago, Maekawa-san received five plastic soda bottles When she confronts the man who gave them to her, he asks Maekawa-san to build plastic bottle rockets for him. After being told that he would pay 5,000 yen per rocket, Maekawa-san accepts.

Wein arrives to save Falanya, but exhaustion takes a toll. Lowa seeks Wein's advice. The imperial princes suspect Wein in an attempted poisoning. When the princes surround Mealtars, Falanya convinces its people to unite and thwart their aggression.

Ryuuko rediscovers Erio's infamy. She is worried that Makoto might get ostracized at school because of Erio's past. Also, Maekawa-san decides to visit Makoto's place. Ryuuko, who has conflicted feelings for Makoto, begins to show signs of irritation...

Falanya offers to attend important events in Mealters in Wein's stead, upsetting Lowa's scheme. But she quickly adapts by trying to get Falanya to say that Natra is on her side. When an imperial prince backs Falanya into a corner, unexpected help arrives.

Meme grows desperate and crazed upon her 40th birthday. Erio gives her a gift, which spurs her on to celebrate Erio's birthday the next day, since they skipped it when it actually came about. Erio tells Makoto she wants to rejoin society.

When Wein's second meeting with King Ordalasse ends with deadly consequences, the Natran delegation flees with the Cavarinians in hot pursuit. But Wein has a plan to turn hunter into hunted. Zenovia asks a favor that Wein is hard-pressed to refuse.

Makoto broke his right arm while partaking in an "adolescent" activity and has been stuck in the hosipital since. Erio doesn't come to visit Makoto, but his female classmates Ryuuko and Maekawa-san manage to swing by...

Wein heads to Cavarin for the Festival of the Spirit, but it is a perilous journey with Mardenian remnants in the borderlands and rebellious lords at home. In Marden, Wein forges an unlikely alliance, but the intrigue goes into overdrive in Cavarin.

Makoto is irritated by Erio's attempt to escape reality by making herself believe that everything was done by aliens. He wants to have her accept reality. However, Meme sits down with Makoto and tells him to just leave Erio alone.

After Geralt's freak accident, Wein visits Marquess Antgadull, who denies the rebellion plot. Wein is attacked but not by Antgadull, and his man on the inside foils a separate plot. Pursued by Antgadull, Wein flees but has another ace up his sleeve.

Erio, despite her beautiful appearance, is a strange girl who believes herself to be an alien. One night, Erio asks to be taken to a distant beach, where Makoto learns about the incident that caused Erio to begin calling herself an alien.

Lowa and Wein's strategic dance heats up when a secret letter leads to a surprise visit from a suitor. But when it ends in the worst possible way, Wein and Lowa must salvage their plan to save the empire. Will they pull victory out of the jaws of defeat?

When Niwa Makoto's parents moved overseas, they decided he would move to the city and stay with his aunt, Towa Meme. Makoto was told that Meme is unmarried and childless, but when he arrives, he finds a mysterious girl wrapped up in a futon...

Wein's dream about his academy days comes to life with a visitor. Lowa's marriage proposal catches him off guard, and he wonders what she's up to. He's again caught off guard by her power move. Lowa dreams about a talk she had with Wein about the future.