Ciel Phantomhive, having just managed to escape by the skin of his teeth from the threat of the ravening corpses in the Campania's hold thanks to his fiancée Elizabeth's sword skills finally arrives at the secret behind the Aurora Society's resurrection of the dead. As the platinum blond locks of the handsome, young kaiser, who holds all the keys to this horrific case, undulate in the sea breeze, another shocking turn of events involving an old ally sets the young earl's ship reeling as a storm on the high seas begins to unfurl.