When a group of 'Armed Librarians' launch an attack against the Shindeki Church on a ship named the Silver Smoke, they are then attacked by 'Human Bombs'. After boarding the ship and fighting off the 'Mock Men', the Armed Librarians find dozens of 'Meats' in the hold but are unable to save them all before the ship itself explodes. When the Armed Librarians return to the Bantorra Library, Hamyuts Meseta, the Acting Director of the Armed Librarians, shows a book fragment about Shiron Byacornise, the "Ever-Laughing Witch", who found a cure for the Dragon Pneumonia three centuries ago in the Ronar Dukedom. One of the few survivors of the Meats is Colio Tonies, whose only thoughts are of killing Hamyuts.