Hiroshi Akuma has now fully planted himself in this new world. After over a year of training, and strengthing his relationships with girlfriend Wisteria Itsumi and best friends Tsuyoshi Kage, Tomokazu Onuki and Bibi, he is finally ready to take on the world again, and shape it with the Ardor that inhabits his body, Kuro-Yami, Ardor of Darkness. However, will his strength be enough? Or will he be driven down the route of dispair once more?