Noel, that coldhearted handsome devil, has gotten his revenge on his former comrades, and is now allied with the lightning-fast assassin Alma. Together they accept a mission to free a village from the depredations of a bandit gang, but the villagers themselves are hardly so innocent...or non-violent. Noel needs more firepower on his side if he is going to succeed in his goal of becoming the world's greatest seeker, and in the slums of the city, he may just have found a new member for his party: a vagrant named Koga, who is from a far-off country in the east...