Can Rakan, who has the power to bring plant seeds to life with a simple touch, save a dark and dying alternate world? Rakan and Company continue their journey towards the Imperial Capital, but new obstacles quickly get in their way. Enormous snakes begin to emerge from the ground, wreaking havoc and then disintegrating into streams of water - could this be the next part of the Ayame Prince"s prophesy? Narushige remembers his painful past as his younger sister learns just what it means that she has become the next "Sacrificial Child."