Yuji Sakai is beginning what he thinks will be another boring year of school. But everything changes when the world stops, the people around him are engulfed in blue flames, and a freakish doll-like creature begins sucking them up! Before Yuji suffers the same fate, a young redheaded girl with a sword appears and saves him. Yuji is drawn into the struggle between these creatures from another world and the girl Shana, called Flame Haze. He too has a crucial role to play in the conflict, despite the fact that he's dead!