Lina has lost her magic and in order for it to be restored, she'll need to travel to Mine, a village where Ruby Eye Shabranigudo is worshiped. A mysterious priest crosses her path and, she agrees to help him get the Clair Bible, which reveals how to make a chimera - a magical beasts that cannot be defeated by any magic spells.

Guided by Xelloss, an agent of the Greater Beast Zelas Metalium, Lina Inverse and her crew make their way to the heart of Dilse Kingdom, a country with many hidden mysteries - including the Claire Bible. While it seems fate has deemed that Xelloss take Lina to those manuscripts, she's not sure what his real plan is. But she really wants that Claire Bible, so she'll do whatever it takes!

Without warning, Phiblizo appears and attacks Chaos Dragon Gaav. He kidnaps Gourry by using the Sword of Light and taunts Lina to join them in Sairaag, a city that is now a barren wasteland with only a single Flagoon since the demon's resurrection. But Lina doesn't have time to think about the consequences - she has to settle things with the Hellmaster once and for all!

The Ring virus is mutating, and Ando, a medical doctor, must choose between possibly betraying his species and bringing back his drowned son. You don't know what the Ring is yet...

In a post-apocalyptic world, the war between humans and vampires rages on. While a group of vampire extremists manipulates events to ensure the war's continuation, a Vatican special ops group called AX must use everything - even a vampire who preys on the blood of other vampires - to protect the peace effort.

Nothing is quite as it seems when a mysterious weapon called Silent Noise destroys Barcelona and threatens Rome. Now both the city and Cardinal Caterina's life are threatened - and her enemies are even closer than she expects. Meanwhile, her greatest asset, Crusnik Abel Nightroad, has turned against himself and the cause, as a deeply personal loss leads him to question his allegiance to AX.

The struggle between vampires and humans continues. In the east, the Rosenkreuz Orden's New Vatican plots to abduct young Pope Alessandro XVIII and instigate war between the Vatican and the New Human Empire. To save everyone, Abel and the AX agents must foil their plans. But now Abel faces a new enemy: Know Faith.

A mysterious terrorist organization is hell-bent on orchestrating a war between the New Human Empire and the Vatican. Special Ops AX Agent Abel Nightroad teams up with a spunky young novice named Esther to try and stop Gyula, the bloodthirsty Marquis of Hungary, from unleashing the legendary Star of Sorrow.

In the far distant future, civilization has all but vanished thanks to the Armageddon. It's a dark time, when vampires and humans are locked in battle against one another. While on a visit to Cartago, Cardinal Caterina, the Duchess of Milan, receives a vampire child envoy. The young boy brings a message from the New Humankind Empress. Could she be asking for reconciliation? Or a declaration of all-out war?

Ion Fortuna returns to the New Human Empire bearing a secret document from Cardinal Caterina Sforza. But when he arrives, he finds his grandmother murdered, his family mansion burning to the ground, and himself framed for arson and murder! He is quickly ushered into hiding under the protection of Astharoshe Asran, where Aran pledges to bring him safely to the Empress Augusta Vladica. But how will he know if she's the Empress or an imposter?

12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires-and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.

In the title story, "Dark Nocturne," D is hired to unlock the secret of a siren's song that is drawing men in their twenties to their deaths in the hills outside Anise Village. In "Notes on Imagined Autumn," D finds himself caught between two lovers during a ritualistic sacrifice in the village of Shirley's Door, but if D can't stop the sacrifice will all in the village be doomed?