A Banquet of Marionettes.A boy named Kei falls in love with a strange and beautiful girl, who turns out to be a shinma named Ranka who may be capable of granting him immortality. He has been having internal conflicts with his future career in life, let alone doing poorly in school and disliking how his mother compares him to his successful siblings. At the same time, a man informs Himiko that his daughter has disappeared and might have mysterious turned in a doll, which leads Himiko to suspect that a shinma is behind this act... and the girl happens to be one of Kei's classmates. During her investigations, Miyu and Himiko talk again and Miyu intrpoduces herself properly. She adds that it is her duty as a vampire to cast the shinma into the darkness, and that her companion Larva is bound to her through her blood. Later Miyu and Larva find Ranka and Kei in a cathedral, only to see that she has turned him into a doll-like Shinma like her; it turns out Kei liked Ranka not just because of her powers, but because he loved her as a person, and Ranka found herself loving him back so she couldn't just make him into a lifeless doll like her other victims. After viewing how strong their love is for each other, Miyu banishes them both into the darkness together; Himiko witnesses this and comments on how Miyu, despite having won the fight, lost the confrontation as a whole since Kei chose Ranka's love over hers.