After crawling out from his depths of despair, Sora—now reborn as the Soul Eater—has begun his revenge on the adventuring party that betrayed him: the Falcon Blades. With one of its members already in servitude to him, he sets his sights on the warrior priestess Iria as his next target. When Raz and Iria go their separate ways after a heated argument, Sora heads to Iria’s home village, the ailing Merte, to set up the groundwork for the next stage of his plan. But before he can act, a formidable foe gets in his way...