Colonel Balance orders Lina to capture the caster who was behind Scorched Halloween. Balance gives Lina a custom-made device called "the Brionac" which converts Strategic-Class magic into a beam of high-energy plasma.
A string of bizarre murders occurred where the victims were found to have most of the blood drawn from their bodies. Due to the methods used by the killer, they were called "vampire incidents," and similar incidents were also occurring in America.