In 1978, Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art. In 1870, teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to his own voice in his work. The power of art and words thins the boundaries between the present and the past and Merle and Arthur are able to enter each other's worlds.
As one young witch runs away from Death City, Medusa returns to DWMA, hoping to strike a deal with Shinigami-sama. While they are reluctant to trust the young witch after her previous betrayal, the information she offers is critical to their efforts to stop Arachnophobia and the spread of madness.
As Black Star and Tsubaki distract Mifune and Mosquito, Sid locates Arachnophobia's demon tool and destroys it, and Shinigami-sama locks the blueprints for it away in his safe rather than destroying them.
Medusa ambushes the DWMA's anniversary celebration and traps the meisters and their weapons inside the school, but there are a few who have escaped and may prove to be enough to prevent Medusa from waking up the First Kishin.
Maka, the scythe meister, has created the Soul Eater, a scythe that can change into the form of a human boy, but there is still work to be done before the Soul Eater will be good enough to become the weapon of Death.
Profiles the works of Shakespeare and discusses how his ideas and writings developed, how they affected future generations, why people think the plays were not written by Shakespeare, and other related topics.
