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三名女子沦为冷血电话诈骗的受害者。为了讨回公道，他们决定对抗夺走他们金钱与尊严的犯罪网络。

　　In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.

　　处死朱由桦的当天，朱由桦离奇失踪，梅儿和兰心都因此受到责罚。兰心不顾太子反对，执意要将朱由桦送还给三皇子，却发现马车上的孩子竟然不翼而飞。兰心和太子感情出现嫌隙，梅儿和金碧瑶使出浑身解数争得太子宠爱。太子和万历等人到郊外狩猎，有人暗杀太子，梅儿为太子挡下一箭，生命垂危，太子深受感动，认为欠梅儿太多。上官鸿业调查太子行刺事件，却发现幕后的真凶并不是众人猜想的三皇子，而是梅儿。梅儿册封当天，郑贵妃揭出了梅儿乃娼妓之女的秘密，让梅儿不能受封。郑贵妃趁势发动自己的亲信弹劾上官鸿业，兰心救父心切，却误会太子，两人再次不欢而散。失踪多日的朱由桦突然出现在兰心房中，将朱由桦放入篮子中带入宫去，却被梅儿换成了旋儿，兰心带“朱由桦，”进宫，巧遇为上官鸿业来求情的太子，太子再次产生了误会。在王恭妃和郑贵妃的逼迫下，太子提剑杀死了璇儿 ，等知道时璇儿已经没有了呼吸。兰心伤心欲绝。兰心带幸存的朱由桦离去，太子策马追去，却寻不见踪影了。皇上以太子妃一位不可久缺为由，册封大学士王中泽之女王氏为太子妃。

这是系列首次以露伴的责任编辑、同时也是其得力搭档——泉京香为主人公展开的故事。这一次，京香因露伴的一句话，被卷入一场难以想象的怪异事件。本作在原作者荒木飞吕彦的协助下完成剧本创作，并由在国际上也备受关注的导演组合“5月”的关友太郎与平濑谦太朗共同执笔，推出全新原创故事。