The bitter war between the Empire and the Republic of Frost has ended, but three years after the ceasefire, the Empire is still ravaged by starvation and disease, and bandits terrorize the populace. Can the Imperial Army State Section III, aka Pumpkin Scissors, stop a renegade force with chemical weapons? And who is the mysterious stranger helping Pumpkin Scissors?
As a web of interlacing motives and enterprise continues to weave around Carradine, the key to the resistance outbreak, who rises to action but the Tumbleweeds! Can they put a stop to the friction?! The District Zero arc hits its dramatic climax!