Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion

Rune Balot is left in tears as she struggles to keep herself alive while trying to save the gravely wounded Oeufcoque, with Shell’s assassin Boiled closing in. Her situation shifts when Doctor Easter arrives in the Humpty Dumpty, a militarized vehicle designed to protect those in Welfare cases when their lives are in danger, and pulls them out of immediate peril.

Their escape leads to Paradise, the place where Scramble 09 technology was created and where the truth behind Boiled’s return takes shape. As the story digs into long-buried secrets tied to Mardock City’s past—and hints at what may come next—Balot is forced toward a difficult choice between pursuing her own justice and accepting the uneasy calm offered within Paradise.