When Mireille and Kirika go to a friend's house to obtain information, they find him and his family dead. Mireille's investigation leads her into the catacombs of St. Galan's cathedral, where she finds a copy of a poem. Back at the surface, an armed man takes the copy from her. Kirika appears from out of the darkness before the man can kill Mireille, but he is not alone either. A firefight ensues, during which the man and his company are killed. Back in their apartment, Mireille deduces from what little the man had said and from the poem that their enemy's name is "Les Soldats". She then tells Kirika that, when she was a child, her parents were killed by an unknown assassin. That was also the last time that Mireille saw the watch that Kirika found in her apartment back in Japan.