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• AT-ST-1: The Oni's Shadow (Interlude)
  Hoshiguma has only just returned to Mitsukue in Higashi and she is already being chased by the police. In order to avoid them, she barges into Momoka Hanyuu's performance, but thanks to a series of mishaps, she finds herself having become a 'vicious Oni' or 'ghost' right out of a kaidan tale.
• AT-1: The Yakuza Way (Before Operation)
  Detective Koretou of the Mitsukue police targets Hoshiguma as his prime suspect in a twenty-year-old murder case, but the statute of limitations has already expired. Hoshiguma's return to Mitsukue has nothing to do with the case—it's because of a letter from Tessai, the head of the Kinsekikai yakuza clan, a man like a second father to her. The police are left scratching their heads, while Kouhei Mifune, another Kinsekikai yakuza, shows up at the police station and pulls Hoshiguma out.
• AT-1: The Yakuza Way (After Operation)
  Right before Hoshiguma's eyes, Mifune takes a life as if it's nothing. He even forges a letter in Tessai's name. Meanwhile, Momoka is forced to investigate a 'haunted house' kaidan in Kajimachi as part of a new TV show, unaware that it is the very place Hoshiguma once called home.
• AT-2: Tales of the Supernatural (Before Operation)
  Hoshiguma crosses paths with Tessai's estranged son, Tetsuya, as well as Kichisei, a longtime resident of Kajimachi. Momoka, meanwhile, gets herself into even bigger trouble when her refusal to let her show tarnish Kajimachi's reputation backfires.
• AT-2: Tales of the Supernatural (After Operation)
  Late one night, an exhausted Hoshiguma comes face-to-face with an entity of kaidan legend known as the Wanyuudou. While tracking it, she encounters Moriuchi, an oden yatai owner. Meanwhile, the TV in Momoka's home suddenly begins showing a horrifying scene: her assistant Mio being coerced into plotting her murder. Worse still, not long afterward, Mio appears on Momoka's doorstep.
• AT-3: Notice: Nighttime Runaway (Before Operation)
  While running away, Momoka bumps into Hoshiguma, who helps the girl escape her pursuers. On their trail, Mifune broadcasts a 'missing person notice', effectively mobilizing the whole of Mitsukue to look for the duo.
• AT-3: Notice: Nighttime Runaway (After Operation)
  Moriuchi gives Hoshiguma and Momoka directions to a shrine, where they meet an unruffled kannushi, and ultimately grasp the truth of the 'Wanyuudou's' true form—a kami of the Higashinese belief system.
• AT-4: Hyakumonogatari (Before Operation)
  Momoka unknowingly picked up a broken blade while filming her TV show, which leads Mifune to order her capture. Mio pleads for Mifune to abandon his plan, but Mifune's men pursue her all the way to the shrine. With the aid of the Unruffled Priest, Hoshiguma and Momoka manage to escape.
• AT-4: Hyakumonogatari (After Operation)
  Moriuchi, Momoka, and the kami realize that most of Mitsuke's kaidan are nothing more than Mifune's machinations, leaving them bitterly disillusioned. But before they can even think about what to do next, Mifune's ninjas strike, spiriting Moriuchi away.
• AT-5: Legacy of Ruin (Before Operation)
  Momoka tells Hoshiguma about her past. As Momoka's room is not safe, they go to Kajimachi, where Tessai is. Hoshiguma and Tessai talk about the past.
• AT-5: Legacy of Ruin (After Operation)
  Hoshiguma rescues Moriuchi, whom Mifune was trying to coerce into helping him, but Mifune seems satisfied at the outcome and leaves after instructing Mio to delay Hoshiguma. Tetsuya finds evidence of the 'Northern Court spy' that he was seeking, but there seems to be more to the story than meets the eye.
• AT-ST-2: Symmetry (Interlude)
  Mifune takes Hannya and the deed to Kajimachi from Tessai by taking Tetsuya hostage. He kidnaps Momoka and Kichisei, and even livestreams his killing of Tessai to Tetsuya. Hoshiguma arrives to find a dying Tessai, and the demolition of Kajimachi begins.
• AT-6: Maelstrom (Before Operation)
  Hoshiguma escapes and encounters Detective Koretou in an alley on Nita Street. Rather than leave Higashi as Koretou advises her, she resolves to fight Mifune and face the sins of the past head-on. Just then, Hoshiguma hears Momoka's call.
• AT-6: Maelstrom (After Operation)
  Momoka makes contact with Kichisei and Hoshiguma with the help of Sarasa, an employee of Kinseki Station who detests Mifune. Moriuchi finds the Kami that he has been seeking for many years, though the reunion does not go as expected.
• AT-7: Cold Moonlight (Before Operation)
  Fireworks show and accession ceremony... before they begin, Sarasa gives Mifune an unpleasant surprise by hijacking Kinseki Channel and playing an emergency broadcast announcing a Northern Court invasion to the entire city. The rest make their moves accordingly.
• AT-7: Cold Moonlight (After Operation)
  Hoshiguma fights her way into the TV station and helps Momoka and the others. She fights Mio again, this time without holding back, and is victorious, clearing the way for tonight's most important performance.
• AT-8: Flowing River (Before Operation)
  Through Kinseki Channel's broadcast, Momoka tells Mitsukue about her circumstances, Mifune's manipulation of Mitsukue's kaidan, and how she views all this. Mifune does not even have the energy to kill a revenge-bent Tetsuya anymore, and soon finds himself face-to-face with Hoshiguma.
• AT-8: Flowing River (After Operation)
  By the riverside of Kajimachi, beneath the fireworks, Mifune spills the beans about the twisted hatred he has accumulated for Tessai and the others, but also shows a hint of tiredness and longing before the final showdown. Listening to the current state of Mitsukue—a place no longer recognizable as the hometown she once knew—Hoshiguma burns with the flames of rage, not just for Tessai, and not only at Mifune.
• AT-ST-3: Wayfarer (Interlude)
  Hoshiguma returns to Lungmen while Momoka continues her career in Mitsukue. The kami Moriuchi has been after this whole time finally shows up before the one who triggered the whole event in the first place, yet is the most removed from the incident.