• Jean the cigarette-peddler
• The partner in crime's name is Nino
• The swirling smike of rumors in the castle
• Smoldering embers in an isolated nation
• Overlapping footprints in the distance
• Where pride and train tracks lead
• The truth emerges in the night mists
• The princess who spread her wings and the friend who had a duty
• A graceful black adder bears its fangs
• Starfall in a city without a sky
• Furawau's flowers smell of malice
• Where the bird flies.

For nearly a century, Dowa Kingdom has known only peace thanks to the independent organization known as ACCA. But as the king grows older with no named heir, rumors of a coup are spreading from the top brass down to the notorious smoker, Jean Otus. Tasked with auditing all thirteen states, he soon finds himself the target of his higher-ups while a mysterious person keeps tabs on his every move.

Rookie lawyer Ryūichi Naruhodō faces his first murder case; the accused defendant is his grade school classmate Masashi Yahari. With limited evidence, logic has become the only weapon Naruhodō has in order to turn the case around when all the odds are stacked against him.

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.