Act One: "past tense" This issue starts out with a small recap of what happened in Circle of Blood and Masks of the Noh. We are then led to see Siamese identifying a body as belonging to Kabuki and blowing it up while fighting off inmates the Control Corps facility. Fade to Black. Kabuki awakens in a strange room full of pictures from a past belonging to her that did not exist. She examines a scar on her stomach from where she was shot then finds a fresh change of clothes and a necklace made up of block letters that spells out her name. She starts to get dressed when a man enters the room and escorts her down a hallway filled with other women who she assumes to be drugged. They al have the same block necklaces with their own names on it. The man takes her to room 101, where she meets her doctor. The doctor explains to Kabuki that she is in Control Corps special facility that try to reform unstable agents and reprogram them for new jobs and new identities. She explains to Kabuki that they had to remove nine feet of shredded intestines from her, and that the doctor herself had donated blood to save her. She asks Kabuki questions about Dove and the Noh, but Kabuki refuses to talk without her "face," which the doctor refuses to give to her. The men take her back to her room, but this time it is empty.
	Act Two: "solitaire" Kabuki awakes in her room to find a large monitor showing reruns of herself on Noh TV. She loses track of the days and realizes her food must be drugged. Everyday she awakes to another color room. One day she is given a cup of thick black liquid as food, instead she uses a paintbrush made out of a lock of hair, a Band-Aid, and a rolled up paper plate and paints the walls. She falls asleep and awakes while a man is cleaning up her room and in the process of changing her. She attacks him and gets some of the black liquid in his eye. This is when Kabuki notices a folded piece of paper in the form of a butterfly floating down from the airvent in ehr room. She unfolds it to find a message from another inmate named Akemi. Kabuki receives more and more messages from this Akemi, and they tell her all sorts of things to keep her hopes alive. She tells Kabuki to exercise so that her body will be stronger than the drugs and to not fall for any of Control Corps' tricks. Kabuki comes to think of Akemi as a friends, even though they have never met. Slowly the notes stop coming as the guards have caught on to Akemi, and she resorts to writing them on her sanitary napkins and torn pieces of her own clothing. When they stop all together, she finds one slid under her door telling her to reply back using a red crayon that's hidden under the handle on her toilet seat. Kabuki realizes its a trick to get information about Dove and uses the red crayon to write on the walls over and over again "give me my face." Eventually Kabuki is taken back to the doctor's room and given her mask. Now Kabuki agrees to talk.
	Act Three: "paper tiger" The doctor tells kabuki about an agent who used to work for the Hattori Clan before killing them all, and the Noh. She was the original Tigerlily, she is Akemi. She tells Kabuki that Akemi gave Control Corps a vast knowledge of the workings of Japan's underworld, and in return placed her in a witness relocation program. Kabuki does not believe any of it. The guards take Kabuki back to a semi-furnished room and tell her is a reward for her cooperation. kabuki returns to the doctor's office the next day, but is not met by the doctor but another inmate named Kageko. Kabuki is scared at first that she may be a Noh operative, but after much talk with her and actually getting along with her and thinking that under different circumstances they could be friends, it is learned that Kageko is going to become kabuki's replacement. Noh TV is losing ratings due to the absence of new kabuki footage, so Control Corps reprogrammed Kageko to fill in. Kabuki is taken aback thinking that if her mask is her identity, and if someone has her mask, then does she no longer have an identity? Kageko gives Kabuki a note from Akemi before leaving. The last line says "I will come for you soon and you will know it is me." Deciding that she will now have to make friends with the horror with the scars on her face and use it to her advantage from now on, Kabuki meets with her doctor and decides to talk.