Shinobu discovers Conrad is planning to have the Azure Brigade rejoin the Freyjagard Empire, just as Tsukasa predicted of their betrayal. Elsewhere, a Septicaemia epidemic has spread amongst the commoners which Keine attempts to cure despite suffering a Penicillin shortage due to Ringo's newest project. However, Count Serentius of the Medical Guild demands Keine allows his Guild to sell opium to the sick, but Keine refused. She instead makes a deal with Serentius that she will cure the sick using coal, and if she fails, she will allow him to sell opium...