Sven jumps at the chance to make a quick buck when a dirty politician earns a price on his head, but while working to secure the target, his vision reveals an assassination that will cost him the job.

Sven encounters a damsel in distress with a tale of family woe and a stack of cash. On the city rooftops, another young sweeper named Saya decides to take in the stray Black Cat.

Sven finds out that Eve is actually the world's foremost bio-weapon, an engineered killing machine in the guise of sweet youth. Even as Sven vows to save her, Black Cat resolves to kill the girl.

Sven and the Black Cat may share the same target in Eve, but their intentions are very different. As the sweeper and the assassin act, the young weapon attacks.

Sven lays low, keeping both Eve and Rinslet by his side. Train Heartnet informs Chronos he's no longer one of them and Creed is sent to retrieve the stray.

The struggle between Train and Sephiria is interrupted by a Taoist, a survivor of the magic-wielding race which Chronos thought extinct. He sets out to forcefully recruit the Black Cat for Creed's purposes.