The story should have ended with the fourteen tragedies, but instead it grew even crueler, and forced a terrible choice upon everyone in it. After being invited down into the underground tomb by Jeanne de Rais, the new Torture Princess, Kaito and the others come face-to-face with the truth of the world and elect to cooperate with her to bring about salvation. What paths will Kaito, Elisabeth, Hina, Jeanne, Izabella...and the Butcher take amidst a world that nourishes itself on tragedy?