Aiko tries to tell Shinichiro her feelings but is interrupted when Miyokichi arrives.

Shinichiro looks for Noe during school, but after she suggests they eat lunch together or go home together, he becomes defensive and lies, telling her that he has dance practice after school and that she should eat with her friends instead of him.

After asking Noe out, Shinichiro tells her about his picture book that he is making about the rooster Raigoumaru.

Noe once again tries to approach Shinichiro at school, but he shrugs her off, telling her that she does not understand his situation.

Jun and Hiromi crash while on the motorcycle, but they are not harmed. As a result of the accident, both Jun and Hiromi get suspended from school.

Shinichiro hears from Miyokichi that he broke up with Aiko, even though he did not want to accept it at first.

It has been a week since Hiromi moved out and in the meantime has settled into single living. Miyokichi gets a call from Aiko, and the two decide to start over from the beginning as friends.

After Shinichiro listens to Noe talk to herself at the beach, he goes home but is unable to sleep due to her words.

While at home, Shinichiro Nakagami laments how he cannot express his feelings for Hiromi Yuasa.

The day after the festival, Shinichiro goes to Jun to apologize for Noe's broken leg, though Jun says he will not forgive him.

Now stuck in the mysterious End Earth, Souma and Kureha meet a wolf man who explains what the sword, that Souma drew from Kureha, is. After fighting more demons, through several villages, with the wolfman. Souma and Kureha decide to  help seal all the demon gates that are letting the demons through, but is there more to it then just sealing the gates?

With Souma still missing, Kiriya and the others receive even more bad news. Learning of a mysterious army in the neutral zone, they decide to investigate. Upon arriving, Kiriya and the others are surprised to find the leader of the mysterious army to b...

Unexpectedly facing Kiriya and Seena on the battle field. Souma and Kureha begin to question everything Shumari has told them. Feeling cornered, Shumari takes Kureha and orders a retreat. Now without a Soul Blade, Souma must find a way to rescue Kureha.

Souma and his group find an igloo in the middle of the desert. Belonging to the ice sorceress Blanc Neige, who turns out to be an old friend of Zero's. Meanwhile, an out of control Xecty escapes from a Baelgard.

While fighting one of Baelgard's four guardians, Xecty, Kiriya is trapped in an underground cavern with her. Elsewhere, Souma and his group meet Elwyn, an old friend of Zero's. Together they stumble upon a lab that turns the contaminated elves  into soldiers. Leading the lab is none other then Hiruda, can Souma fight his friend?

After the major events in the previous episode, Zero recounts to Souma his past, and how he became the guardian of End Earth. At the same time, Kiriya travels to Valeria, to request the aid of Beastia, and runs into a familiar cat-girl.