The second season abandons the first's safety net and asks the real question: what if the game itself was a person, and it wanted something from you. Ruko stops being a player the moment she realizes the LRIG isn't a tool. The cosmology builds in ways that make you rewatch episodes because the rules changed, not because you missed them.

Ruko Kominato is a Selector, one of the players whose LRIG cards have wills and personalities of their own and can grant a wish to the one who wins. After learning the truth about what being a Selector means, Ruko and her friends Yuzuki and Hitoe hold back from battles that could wreck the lives they care about. Another Selector, Chiyori, ignores every warning about the price of losing, and Ruko tries to save her from her fate. Along the way Ruko finds out about a WIXOSS novel that may hold the secrets of the LRIGs. Meanwhile Akira, whose modeling career has recovered, vows to help Ulith, who now possesses Iona and plots to torment Ruko and stop her wish from ever coming true. The second season is a psychological thriller built around the card game.