Eager to make new friendships, Shiemi asks her classmate Izumo Kamiki to be her friend and she pretends to agree, but Rin soon realizes Izumo is just taking advantage of Shiemi's kindness instead. Later, the students are reunited at the old dormitory to take part in the Exwire exam, where a demon attacks Izumo and her friend Paku by surprise and it's up to Rin and Shiemi to protect them.

Rin, Yukio, Shura and Arthur join forces to bring down the Gehenna Gate with no success. Meanwhile, demons keep coming through it and giving a hard time to the other Exorcists until the Esquires come with a plan to open a gate to Vatican, where is already daytime, and reflect the sunlight there to the Academy where is nightime to weaken the monsters protecting the Gehenna Gate. Rin and Yukio manage to seize these opportunity and when both unlock their demonic powers together, they fly through the gate and destroy it. One month later, things return to normal at the Academy and the Okumura twins return to the cave where they were given birth and pay a visit to their mother's grave.

After visiting their mother's grave, they meet an "evil spirit" in a highway. Rin appears from a highway cave with Kuro. The evil spirit then attacks Rin and Yukio. Rin destroys the evil spirit's first body and then the spirit takes control over a truck. Yukio shoots at the truck, Rin tell hims that there is somebody in the truck. Yukio says its just a dead corpse, but Rin believes the driver is still alive and that it's an Exorcist's job to protect people and defend against demons. He tells Yukio and Shura to find its weak point and charges after the monster.

Rinin harjoittelu keskeytyy, kun Epäpuhtaan kuninkaan Vasen silmä varastetaan. Manaajat suuntaavat Kyotoon suojelemaan Oikeaa silmää.