BEAST Chapter 22

Future is the 22nd and final chapter of the Bungo Stray BEAST manga.

Summary
Kenji is seen talking about the importance and essence of halves in nature. Ranpo is seen enjoying the hammock made by Akutagawa using his ability. Tanizaki tells him that he shouldn't be napping in the middle of the office to which Akutagawa responds that he doesn't mind as he learns to use his ability for leisure while taking of the orphans. He further shares that he can make Ranpo fall asleep in just two minutes with just the right amount of rocking. Surely enough, Ranpo immediately falls asleep much to Tanizaki's awe.

Shortly after, Kenji arrives at the office in which Akutagawa and Kenji continuously talk about the work in the fields in technical terms. Tanizaki and Kunikida are seen to be chatting how Akutagawa can engage in a technical conversation. Meanwhile, Kunikida approaches Akutagawa and hands him a pile of documents to be discarded of. Kunikida assigns Akutagawa as the ambassafor for paper shredding. Akutagawa proceeds to activate his ability in order to shred the given documents.

Meanwhile, Atsushi wakes up in an infirmary. He is greeted by a female nurse, still in a confused state. The female nurse tells Atsushi that their orphanage director have taken care of him after he collapsed due to starvation. The nurse further tells him that starvation is not someting anyobody can pull off. While being conversed of, Atsushi slowly remembers what happened - with Dazai jumping to his death and him wandering from place to place after that. Shortly after, a male doctor arrives at the room and asks Atsushi if he knows where he is. Atsushi soon realizes that he is in the orphanage's infirmary. The male doctor introduces himself as the new orphanage director, as Dazai's request for him to manage the place while he pretends to have died. The male doctor tells Atsushi that he owe Dazai for saving his life for years ago and managing the orphanage is a request he couldn't refuse.

The male doctor tells Atsushi that he will come back to the orphanage until Atsushi can support himself one day. He then gives Atsushi the wrist watch the orphanage director gave to him as a graduation gift and tells Atsushi to destroy it. Atsushi refuses to do so while saying that he doesn't want to go forward and want to redo his actions on the director's office that day. Atsushi then glances at the male doctor and realizes he's the former boss of the Port Mafia, Ōgai Mori. Atsushi soon looks out outside the orphanage and sees children playing. Mori gives Atsushi an advice about overcoming fear. Atsushi asks him the reason he wants to reform him. Mori replies that there is a man who wants to die and yet he can't save him, leaving him regret and not wanting to experience that again. Atsushi still refuses to destroy that watch as he tells him that it defines who he is, and tells him that he will live. Mori reaches out to him and hugs him for comfort as Atsushi cries.

Oda approaches Akutagawa and tells that they have work. As Akutagawa stare at the city, he tells himself that although the world is only a fleeting shadow, all he have experienced are real. Meanwhile Gin's execution was avoided, revaling that there is no execution from the beginning. Shortly after, Gin was gone. Akutagawa decides to be patient in finding Gin as he doesn't want to face the same rejection as before when he first found her.

Akutagawa and Oda return to the office to which other agency members have been waiting for them. Tanizaki tells them that a client wants an investigation report for Akutagawa. Akutagawa goes to the reception room and and a woman introduces herself as Higuchi waiting for him. He then asks about the investigation report to which the woman tells him that there have been suspicious individuals lruking behind their company's building.