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Nenene insists Anita go to school, and so Anita enters the local seventh grade class. She meets and befriends the girls in her class, including the shy Hisami Hishishii. Anita ends up joining the library club to hang out with Hisa. During their chat, an English man named Richard shows up, trying to hide a book; however, he gets shot from an unseen assailant and passes the book to Anita. Anita is attacked by the shooter, who has the power of intangibility. But Michelle--who had shown up at the school to see how Anita was doing on her first day--appears and helps drive away the assassin. One of Anita's classmates, Tohru Okahara witnesses part of the fight, but chooses not to confront Anita about it (despite his rivalry with her). In the meantime, Nenene sneaks away to follow a lead on the missing Yomiko, and the Sisters receive a job order from Dokusensha.

The Paper Sisters travel to Romania to retrieve a book stolen during the fire at the British Library four years ago. While attempting to infiltrate Professor Webber's castle, their powers are partially stripped by a strange force surrounding the castle, and they are attacked by strange animals. Maggie grows excessively depressed while Anita grows extremely frustrated and begins to pick fights with her sisters, then runs off. The three finally find Professor Webber's central chambers, where they discover he has been weakening their abilities and playing on their emotional weaknesses with the influence of ultrasonic and subsonic waves. Michelle finds herself partially immune because of her general sense of calm, and the Sisters find a way to defeat the sonic attacks. Anita kills Webber and they flee. An already injured Maggie protects Anita from Webber's vengeful servant Irving, and Dokusensha agents Kim and Sonny Wong help the sisters escape the castle.

Anita's school day routine is shaken when her teacher announces the annual "Family Visit" day, and she tries to keep the knowledge of the day from her sisters, planning to skip class herself. She runs into Junior , who has been disguising himself as a student, searching for the book Anita hid in the library. When the household learns Anita has kept the family visit day--and accompanying required book report--a secret, Maggie and Michelle discuss Anita's aversion to books and reveals they are adopted, not blood related. Although Anita doesn't expect her family to appear for the visitation day, she decides to do a book report anyway, reading her first book in a long time--Nenene's "Midnight Liberation Zone."

Every night, the school library has been trashed, and Anita's classmates blame the intrusion on a poltergeist. They decide to stay in the library overnight to investigate. Anita invites Junior to the ghost hunt, and interestingly enough, the "ghost" fails to make an appearance. The students have fun partying in the library regardless, and Tohru finds a moment alone to try and confess his feelings to Hisami. Meanwhile, Anita finds Junior alone and keeps him company while they watch the stars. Anita reveals the location of the hidden book to Junior--but after having his moment of friendship with Anita and meeting Michelle, Junior reports to Wendy that he was unable to find the book.

Dokusensha sents the Paper Sisters to a hot springs resort in order to retrieve another British Library artifact, known as "the Key," from archaeologist and special agent Alice Alice Arquette. Coincidentally, Nenene is at the same location for a school reunion/wedding reception. Arquette, has hired Drake Anderson as her bodyguard, and they and the sisters have a face-off in the resort cafe, where Nenene discovers them. The writer follows the Sisters while they chase Alice and Drake into a cave. The Sisters find themselves at a standoff with Drake while Alice retrieves the Key--when suddenly Sonny Wong arrives and brutally slaughters Alice. Even though the Sisters are supposed to be on the same side as Wong, they protect Drake, disgusted by Wong's brutality. Junior appears, masked, and steals the Key. Drake floods the cave and helps the Sisters and Nenene escape. The Sisters receive only partial payment for their "assistance" to Mr. Wong, which they refuse.

Nenene receives two Christmas party invitations, the first of which she discards as being sent by a lunatic. The sisters talk her into accepting the second invitation, to the 10th annual Young Writer's Award reception (Nenene had been the inaugural recipient of the reward). After dodging loopy authors and snotty editors, Nenene announces she has begun work on her new novel. When they return home, the Paper Sisters reveal they sent the first invitation: a "birthday" party for the three of them. They tell Nenene about their first meeting, two years ago to the day, in an abandoned church in Hong Kong. The young Dokusensha agents, Michelle and Maggie, take in Anita, whom they find starving in the church. After the sisters fall asleep, Nenene gets to working on her novel.

With Nenene safe and no longer suffering writer's block, Linho terminates the Sisters' employment, so they must prepare to go back to Hong Kong. A depressed Anita finds it difficult to say goodbye to her classmates, especially Hisami. When Hisami avoids Anita's farewell party, Tohru convinces Hisami to return, and Anita and Hisa make their proper farewells to each other at last. Because Anita is leaving, Junior decides to retrieve Richard's book. Nenene gives the Sisters a standing invitation to visit her in Tokyo any time, and will accompany them to Hong Kong before they say goodbye. When they arrive at their Hong Kong apartment, a horde of Dokusensha soldiers ambush them, along with Lee Linho--preparing to capture Nenene.

Michelle and Anita leave Maggie behind to hold Wong's attention while they continue the search for Nenene. When the only way to get to Nenene can be traversed by the smaller Anita, Anita has to continue on alone. Meanwhile, Wendy and Joker have taken advantage of the distraction to retrieve the special books, while Junior plants bombs underneath the massive skyscrapers comprising the headquarters. Anita manages to rescue Nenene, and though Lee almost manages to subdue Anita, he repents and lets the two escape--at the cost of his own life. The bombs go off, Maggie escapes from Wong, who falls into the exploding building, and the protagonists are eventually reunited--but such was the damage of the explosion that a large portion of Hong Kong Island sinks along with Dokusensha's headquarters. Back in Tokyo, a familiar female voice leaves a brief message on Nenene's answering machine.

Junior finds himself temporarily allied with the heroes (after Michelle keeps him from shooting Nancy), as they try to figure out the truth of the matters at hand. Yomiko hides in the attic with Nancy, too upset to talk, but later she finds the courage to confesses to the others about why she told Nancy that Junior was dead: the British Library planned to use Junior as the new vessel for the Gentleman, and distraught she had been unable to save Junior, she ran into hiding with Nancy. An upset Junior phases into the Book of the All Seeing Eye and projects a holographic recording of the events leading up the the fire: Yomiko had a fight with Joker, and after being taunted about Donnie Nakajima's fate, Yomiko temporarily loses control of herself and causes the fire. Inside the burning library, a tiny Anita appears, and her paper mastery manifests to protect herself from Yomiko's unwitting attack.

Anita returns to her school, where everyone's behavior just seems slightly off: Hisa likes Tohru, Chiho is shy, and Natsumi is embarrased by her sisters' accomplishments. Wendy Earhart approaches Anita, offering Anita a chance to have her memory re-written just like her classmates, in exchange for freedom and a few tissue samples. Anita decides she cannot live a lie and returns to Nenene's apartment, where she runs into a tearful Yomiko. Despite Anita's resentment, she agrees to team up with Yomiko to sabotage the Jinbo-Cho satellite dish and capture Joker. They take him hostage and fly back to Saitama to rescue Michelle, Drake, and Nancy, who are being surrounded by British Library troops.

The three sisters meet with Yomiko and the others, and they spend a week searching for the British Library's secret location. They finally deduce the right place and discover Mr. Kim working for the British Library. After forcing Kim to help them infiltrate the headquarters. They split into three groups to rescue Junior, rescue Nenene, and capture Joker. The Paper Sisters successfully find Nenene, but Yomiko loses her nerve when facing down Joker. In the Special Operations base, Wendy is forced to hook Junior into the Gentleman Resurrection machine; while she is willing to do this, she asks him that if part of his own identity survives, to "feel free to take his revenge" on her.

With Yomiko, Nenene, and the Paper Sisters captured, the Gentleman transfer begins, and the heroes attempt to talk Joker and Wendy out of their plan. Drake creates a distraction while Nancy infilrates the Resurrection Chamber to free Junior. Nenene reveals she's hidden her manuscript under her shirt, providing ammunition for the Paper Masters, and the fight very quickly turns to their favor. Junior transfers part of the Gentleman energies into Joker's mind, sending him white haired and catatonic. Junior is freed from the Gentleman Key, although it tries to attach itself to Anita instead and nearly kills her. Ultimately, the Ressurrection Project fails, the British Library collapses, sending its members on the run. Wendy hides in the country to nurse Joker. Michelle makes sure Junior is back to normal, while Maggie does the same for Anita, and Nenene and Yomiko join Nancy on a trip to India so Nancy can recover some of her memories. Drake returns home to his daughter.