Rin helps save another student at True Cross Academy who can see demons, and everyone else thinks he’s crazy. The council postpones Ron’s execution in favor of going after a more dangerous demon. Mephisto takes more interest in Rin and in training him to harness his demon powers. He also agrees to help Rin’s classmate, but Rin has to put in some work to get it. Meanwhile, Shura and other exorcists, including a paladin, chase down the latest threat to humanity.  Shura finds a man-made gateway to Gehenna that is continuously expanding and threatening all of humanity and the Earth.

Thanks to Emma and her pen, the residents of Goldy Pond can finally figure out what Mr. Minerva set up for them so many years ago.  Emma finds the true Goldy Pond, not the hunting ground facade that she first discovered, and within, there is much revealed about The Promise set up between the humans and demons generations ago, as well as important background details on Mr. Minerva himself.  Unfortunately, Goldy Pond is another dead end, and Emma and the rest of the children have to fight their way past some of the worst demons if they are going to continue their journey towards the Human World.

Benio and Rokuro are forced to move in together in the hopes that they will become eventual parents of the most powerful exorcist ever.  While they figure out their living situation, Benio finally tracks down the kegare she's been searching for - the kegare who killed her parents.  Rokuro's plan to make dinner is interrupted by Benio's failure to come home, so he goes out searching for her, and finds her within an inch of her life! After rescuing her from Magano and giving her the meal he's prepared, they re-enter and face the kegare together, embracing their twin powers. Later, Mayura tells Benio of the Hinatsuki Tragedy, and we learn Benio and Rokuro's pasts are bound in tragedy.

Illustrated by Posuka Demizu
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Mister tests out the survival skills of Emma and Ray by leading them into a deadly situation with plenty of man-eating demons.  Afterwards, Emma decides to have a heart to heart with Mister about all the pain he’s been feeling for years since his friends died. Mister leads Emma and ray into a trap, which he is regretful for because Emma was getting through to him! Emma ways up in a strange village with other children, which turns out to be a secret demon hunting ground. Ray convinces Mister to lead him to Goldy Pond to rescue Emma from being hunted, and Emma does what she does best - tries to save all the other children from becoming demon food.

Vol 3: Dream Country, illustrated by Kelley Jones, Charles Vess, Colleen Doran, and Malcolm Jones III

In this volume, we start to get a sense of Dream’s powers and his role as one of the immortals. In the first story, we meet struggling novelist Ric Madok who trades a bezoar for a muse. She pleads with her sisters to send her Dream, known as Oneiros, to help her escape. Then, we hear of a great dream by a Saimese, wishing to change the world for good if she can only convince other cats what she dreams is real. Next, we the company of Will Shakespeare performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the real faefolk who inspired the tale, but its success will have a steep price for the Bard. Lastly, we witness the torture of Rainie, a metamorphae who desperately wants to end her existence but merely transmutes into other substances. She is visited by Death, who isn’t really there for her, but helps her nonetheless.

Illustrated by Posuka Demizu

​The children at last arrive at the coordinates given to them by William Minerva, and they found a shelter, but the adult living inside is definitely not William Minerva! He also refuses to tell them his name or share his resources with the kids from Grace Field House - he calls them weak and says they'll all die anyway, and he doesn't want to waste anything.  But the kids prove they're at least smarter than him, and come to a tenuous agreement.  While the kids get to work creating renewable foods and trying to keep the shelter sustainable, Emma and Ray want Mister (Emma's name for him) to help them find the real William Minerva.  That means leaving the comfort and safety of the shelter, and there's no guarantee he'll step in and save either one if the demons come after them.

Vol 2: The Doll's House, illustrated by Steve Parkhouse, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III
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Morpheus continues his quest to set the world right after his realm wreaked havoc during his imprisonment.  At the heart of many cruel nightmare creatures is Rose Walker.  She is desperately trying to find her little brother, who was taken by her father after her parents separated.  Rose's grandmother, Unity, was supposed to be a Dream Vortex, a being who becomes the center of The Dreaming, but she fell into a sleeping sickness around the time Dream was imprisoned, and never became the vortex. This has caused considerable damage to the dreams of humans world-wide, and allowed a lot of Dream's nightmares to escape into the waking world.  The vortex trait was passed down through Unity's family to Rose.  In her search for her brother, Rose rents a room in a house close to where her brother Jed was living last, and enlists the help of a strange man named Gilbert to help find him.  Together, they are able to track down Jed to an abusive aunt and uncle's home.  Gilbert and Rose check in to a hotel on the way to rescue Jed, but unbeknownst to them, the hotel is hosting a convention of Serial Killers, and the honored guest is another one of Dream's escaped creations. 

Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes, illustrated by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III

​A secret society led by a powerful occultist attempts to capture Death in order to gain eternal life, but their ritual goes awry, and they capture Dream (also known as Morpheus), Death's young brother.  Fearing retribution, the group decides to keep Morpheus imprisoned, and hands down the stewardship to successive generations.  Seventy-some years later, a mishap allows Morpheus to escape, and he gathers the tools of his office, and the key to his power, that were separated upon his capture before he is able to exact his revenge on the progeny of his jailers.

Orphan Himari receives a will on her 16th birthday informing her that she had inherited Momochi house, a haunted Shinto-style mansion. When she finally makes it through the woods to the house, she finds it occupied! She finds three boys squatting in her mansion, and she decides to renovate the house to be so girly that they'll have to leave.  Then, in the middle of the night, she is "attacked" by demon spirts trying to get her to leave the house.  She finds out that the boys aren't who they seem, and that the house is occupied by helpful demon spirits called ayakashi. The Omamori-Sama, a warrior guarding a gateway between the material plane and the spiritual realm, also lives in the house, and begs Himari to reconsider her stay in such a dangerous place.

Tanjiro passes the test to become an official demon slayer, but he doesn’t get the chance to ask any demons about saving his sister before he has to slay them. Now that he’s part of the corps, he is sent on his first few missions. The first is to travel to a village where young women are disappearing. The second is to a bustling 1800s Tokyo.  While walking through the crowd, Tanjiro smells the demon who murdered his family and turned his sister, the powerful Kibutsuji. Tanjiro follows and confronts him, but the demon is holding a baby and is trailed by a wife! Tanjiro also meets two demons who perform medicine and try to heal humans who are attacked by other demons. Kibutsuji sends two of his inner circle after Tanjiro to kill him, and the whole situation puts the demon-doctors in jeopardy!