Bungo Stray Dogs (文豪ストレイドッグス)

The usual.

Sure thing.

One soft taco.

Don't you get bored

eating the same exact thing every single day?

Well, you always breathe in the same exact air

every single day.

You ever get bored of that?

Here. Seven-fifty, as usual.

Europol announced the cause

was a malfunctioning remote detonation device.

The counterfeit coins implicated are thought

to be the same as the ones discovered

following the Sky Casino terror plot.

Such a tragedy that was.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

Only that I agree.

It was the doing of terrorists like you.

The Detective Agency is innocent.

Oh, fine.

I brought a beautiful Asian pear.

Are you giving it to me?

Of course I'm not giving it to you.

See, it might not seem like it,

but I happen to admire you a great deal.

That day when you were about to blow yourself up in mid-air,

you grabbed Tetchou and used him as a shield

to protect yourself from the grenade explosion.

Without that slick move,

not even our gifted doctors could have saved you.

Your talent is worthy of praise.

So, I've come up with a way

to have you alone deemed innocent.

Kunikida, would you like to join the Hunting Dogs?

What?

Join us in hunting down

and arresting the Armed Detective Agency.

That's the price for your freedom.

Given that you'd need routine surgery each month

in order to stay alive,

you'd have no choice but to remain loyal.

You can leave now.

You really think I'd betray the Agency?

I'm afraid that unless you accept this offer

and the upcoming surgeries,

you will lose not just your ideals,

but all of your special abilities as well.

My abilities?

Think of your notebook.

How do you expect to write without either of your hands?

So then.

What are you gonna do now?

We have to get the page by the full moon.

That's the only way out of this mess.

But with Sigma dead, we have no leads.

If only we had the rest of the Detective Agency,

this wouldn't have been a big deal.

Don't be clingy.

Find a way with the strength you have now.

We have to start looking for more clues.

We might have missed something small.

I'm sure if we all work together,

we'll find some new...

- -

Atsushi!

Now, then, I have to be off.

I'm sure you're going to need some alone time

to consider my offer.

Oh, I almost forgot.

We've scheduled Dr. Yosano's execution for today.

That just goes to show you that your "ideals"

of protecting your own kind

really amount to a bunch of nothing.

Isn't it about time?

You're finally awake.

Nikolai?

Why are you here?

You're amazing!

Look at that shocked look upon on your face.

Amazingly...

Well, amazingly plain.

I remember falling from the Sky Casino.

And yet I don't have a single scratch on me.

It's actually the result

of a little bit of simple magic.

I used my spatial splicing ability

to catch you on your way down,

then spit you out in the opposite direction.

I kept doing this until you gradually lost speed.

I'm also using my ability to keep you alive

by looping your blood back into your body.

I practically got blood out of a stone for you!

Get the joke?

I'm certain that Fyodor was the one

who ordered the hit on me.

So what reason would you have for saving my life?

And besides, I thought you had died

during the chainsaw hostage incident.

Am I not standing here?

Ask me anything. Cut to chase, already!

How were you able to survive that?

Aw, shucks.

I don't know. Who asks a magician

to reveal his tricks anyway?

That's, like, so rude, y'know?

Nah, I'm kidding.

It's a simple trick.

I used my spatial splicing to make a gap

and connect it with another torso.

All the chainsaw did was split the spatial gap I created.

I still don't get it.

If you see a magician die

with their arms and legs tied up,

you have to question the trick.

Stop!

Look, you're definitely an elite Gifted

who has few, if any, scruples.

But that's not what I'm surprised about.

In the original plan, you were supposed to die, Nikolai.

All in order to erase the real culprit from the scene

and force the Detective Agency to take the blame

and go on the run.

You agreed to that plan

when you first joined the Decay of Angels.

You are 100% correct.

I was, in fact, intent on dying.

So that I could prove to the world

the existence of true free will.

I didn't expect anyone else

to understand what motivated me.

And yet...

Fantastic.

How fantastic you are.

You seem to resist God and struggle to lose yourself.

I was awestruck.

He saw the truth within me.

Fyodor is the only person who understands me.

He is my only friend.

Or so I thought.

And that's when I finally realized something big.

If I killed the only friend I ever had,

I would prove that we could be completely free

from the grip of our own emotions.

I could finally prove, once and for all,

that I am truly a free bird.

This guy's crazy.

I'll kill Fyodor.

To that end, I need your ability

to determine his special ability.

Would you do that for me?

He won't wake up.

Perhaps what caused this

is the empowered bullet that hit him.

In which case, this is a part of Fyodor's scheme.

What might they do in this situation?

Threaten to use the virus special ability,

like they did during the cannibalism?

Atsushi would become a hostage.

And if we hunt down the mastermind,

he would surely die.

But if we don't stop the terrorism,

millions will die.

As a member of the Special Operations Division,

the security of this nation is my top priority.

But it isn't for these two.

If they were forced to choose, they would choose Atsushi.

I wouldn't stand a chance in a fight.

Atsushi!

Ango,

I know where the missing page is.

Sigma told you where the page is?

Yes, with his special ability.

I think it happened when he grabbed my hand.

- Why? -I have no idea.

Because he was betrayed by Fyodor?

Or maybe...

You told me that you never figured out

the reason for your existence.

Well, that just can't be what a person is thinking

at the very end of their life!

You're a kind man to say that.

I see.

That explains why Atsushi collapsed.

When inundated with massive amounts

of special ability information,

the brain sometimes shuts down consciousness

in order to help focus on processing.

In the past, I've had it happen to myself

because of my own abilities.

So tell us, Atsushi, where is the page?

The page is being held

by the leader of the Decay of Angels, Kamui.

Kamui?

Isn't it about time?