Shu and companions stop at a town for lunch. Shu saves a well-endowed waitress called Bouquet from two men's harassment. She tries to repay his kindness, but keeps messing things up. Bouquet turns out to be a shadow user. Her shadow, Hippopotamus, is weak in combat, but can shapeshift. After she loses her job, they run away from her, with Bouquet chasing them from behind.

Kluke starts to get exhausted from various teleporting when getting some White Guardian soldiers away from the battle. After decimating half of the White Guardians' troops, General Logi clashes with Furioso. As the battle rages on, the Investiture Beings continue their meeting as Mikhail plans to take action upon both sides despite the objections of Hildegard and Lotarus. Shu and the Noi/Blue Dragon have begun their fight with Vermillion. Kluke finally collapses from the strain. Meanwhile, Delphinium and Matilda engage each other in battle which ends with Matilda having Zephyrus teleport her away from Delphinium and Deathroy. As Shu and Vermillion are locked in combat, Mikhail ends up leaving the floating city. General Logi and Furioso are still locked in combat until Furioso leads him into a trap consisting of the White Guardian soldiers firing their cannons at him. General Logi manages to evade it and makes a striking blow toward Furioso only for one of the White Guardian soldiers to throw himself in front of Furioso. Jiro and Xie continue their reconnaissance. General Logi's hideout blows up to reveal a weapon air fortress called Sleipnir which decimates some of the Brunacks. During Shu's fight with Vermillion, Mikhail arrives and assumes his Red Dragon form and starts attacking the Rosekstan soldiers and the White Guardian soldiers. Shu and the Noi/Blue Dragon managed to put up a barrier to protect Jiro and Xie. Shu ends up going into overdrive which starts to make the grounds unstable, but lets himself get beat due to the pleas of Kluke, Bouquet, and Marumaro.