Humanity Vash and Wolfwood arrive in July, where Vash reveals he knows Wolfwood has been working for Knives. At Knives' base, Meryl and Roberto meet the researcher Bill Conrad who explains that he has been attempting to create a new type of weaponized human which would be better adapted to the hostile conditions of Noman's Land. However, his experiments such as Monev the Gale, Nicholas and Livio have ended in failure...