After three children killed in a highway accident come back to life as Shikabane, Makina is dispatched to kill them. However, Ouri unwittingly interferes when he helps one of the Shikabane escape, mistaking her for a normal child named Hikaru, which irritates Makina. Keisei, Contracted Monk and Makina's counterpart, along with his fellow monks who are part of an anti-corpse group known as the Kōgon Sect, assist Makina in taking down the three Shikabane children, who combine themselves into one while being pursued in a park. After Ouri shows Makina a drawing that Hikaru had sketched of her family, he runs back to his apartment in tears.