Ability Wars Saga

The Ability Wars Saga is the first saga in the Bungo Stray Dogs anime and manga series.

Synopsis
The protagonist, Atsushi Nakajima, was kicked out of his orphanage out of fear of his ability. Weeks later, he is offered by Osamu Dazai to join the Armed Detective Agency. As Atsushi tries to adapt to his new life in the detective agency with his supernatural powers, a bounty of seven billion yen was placed on his head by a North American organization of Ability users called The Guild, causing the Port Mafia to attack him and the agency, all resulting in a three-way conflict between the three organizations. Being in the epicenter of the conflict, Atsushi and the Armed Detective Agency fight back to protect themselves and the city of Yokohama from falling.

Port Mafia Arc
Eighteen-year-old young man, Atsushi Nakajima is seen starving beside Tsurumi River. To prove that he can survive on his own, he decides to steal from the next person who passes by him. Unexpectedly however, he sees a man drowning and decides to save him. After being saved, the man reveals that he was drowning in an attempt to commit suicide. The man tells Atsushi that he wants a clean suicide without burdening someone, he then offers to buy the boy a meal using the money of his college Doppo Kunikida. The man then introduces himself to named be Osamu Dazai. Dazai and Kunikida tell Atsushi that they're members of the Armed Detective Agency and that they're looking for a man-eating tiger. Despite bring afraid of the tiger, Atsushi helps them out in hunting it down only for him to be revealed as an ability user who can turn into a tiger. Thanks to the efforts of Dazai's ability to nullify, Atsushi turned back to normal and decided to take him in and make him a new member of the detective agency.

After being taken in by the agency, Dazai helps Atsushi find work. In the middle of it, Kunikida finds them and inform them of a bomber at the agency office. Since the bomber only has hatred for the agency, Dazai sends Atsushi in to distract them as Kunikida goes in to restrain the bomber. With the timer on the bomb still going, Atsushi is in a state of panic on what to do. He comes to the conclusion of covering the bomb with his body. When the bomb hits zero, it didn't explode, and it was all revealed to Atsushi's entrance exam to join the agency which he has passed. The other two agency members introduce themselves to Atsushi. The bomber being Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and the hostage being his younger sister, Naomi. Atsushi gets to know his colleagues more by talking to them about what they did before joining the agency. Shortly after, they receive a request from a client named Higuchi to investigate some smugglers. Kunikida gives the job to Atsushi, accompanied by Tanizaki and his sister, he also tells Atsushi to look out for Akutagawa, a member of the fearsome underground organization, the Port Mafia. Atsushi, Tanizaki, Naomi, and their client, Higuchi, head to the area they have to investigate only to have reached a dead end. She reveals that she's actually a member of the Port Mafia and her and Akutagawa launch an ambush on them. Before becoming an all-out battle, Dazai arrives to put a stop to it all. He reveals having tapped Higuchi on their initial meeting and was listening to what's been happenings since their departure. In the end, Akutagawa and Higuchi retreats, declaring that they'll soon capture the weretiger Atsushi in exchange for the black market's ¥7 billion bounty.

Despite being saved from the Port Mafia thanks to Dazai's interference, Atsushi feel guilty and responsible for his allies getting harmed because of him. To not risk another attack on the agency again, Atsushi decides to leave. He contacts Higuchi challenging her to come hunt him down thinking that doing so would keep his comrades from harm. After hanging up, Higuchi assembles the Black Lizard to raid the agency office. As the assault commences, Atsushi rushes back to the agency headquarters only to find Kunikida, Kenji, and Yosano easily overpower the enemy. Kunikida lectures Atsushi for leaving despite now being a member of the organization. Upon hearing these words, Atsushi chuckles and sheds tears of joy.

After the agency defeated the Port Mafia's Black Lizard, Atsushi is tasked with accompanying Ranpo to a case. They later arrive at the crime scene and meet Officer Minoura, who tells them their help is no longer needed. He adds that the victim is his subordinate, Yamagiwa, who was found floating in the river that morning and has no leads. Minoura underestimated Ranpo's Super Deduction calming that his men are superior to the detective. Ranpo proves the officer wrong and activates Super Deduction, after which he claims that the killer is Minoura's subordinate, Sugimoto. Sugimoto is interrogated at the station, where they learn that he was a spy for a Diet member whom Yamagiwa has found evidence of corruption. When Sugimoto confronted Yamagiwa, he threatened to kill himself to force her to hand him the evidence. In the end, Yamagiwa tried to stop him, but Sugimoto accidentally pulled the trigger on her. Asking the Diet member for help, Sugimoto was instructed to fire two more bullets to make it seem like the Mafia's doing. He then set her body adrift in the river to delay discovery. With the case closed, Minoura apologizes to Ranpo for doubting him. On the way back, Dazai tells Atsushi that Ranpo's Super Deduction isn't an ability but more so a use of intelligence and analyzation, which is the reason why the agency respect him.

Sometime later at night, Dazai goes missing. The agency feels it's just his usual business. Meanwhile, Atsushi accompanies Yosano on a shopping spree. As the two on a train, they are suddenly plunged into the middle of a terrorist bomb threat by the Port Mafia bomber, Motojirō Kajii, and the assassin, Kyōka Izumi. As Yosano heads to the front car, she meets the bomber, Atsushi goes to the rear car to confront the assassin. After being showered with lemon bombs, Yosano retaliates against Kajii thanks to her healing ability, Thou Shalt Not Die. Atsushi defeats Kyōka's Demon Snow and asks her where the bomb is. Kyōka reveals that the bomb is strapped to her. Yosano tells Atsushi through the PA that the bomb has a remote detonator that can disarm the bomb. Kyōka hands the remote to Atsushi and he pushes the button to turn it off. However, pressing the button only started the timer on the bomb. To keep the bomb from blowing up the train, Kyōka jumps off the train, but Atsushi activates his Ability to remove the bomb and save her. Akutagawa, the voice who had been instructing Kyōka, disconnects from his phone. Before him stands Dazai in shackles.

After Kyōka is taken to the agency's custody, the agency learns from her that Akutagawa is responsible for controlling Kyōka's ability through the phone. Kunikida then tasks Atsushi to turn her over to the military police without letting her know what he's doing. To give her some last moments of happiness, Atsushi strolls around town with Kyōka visiting places. Atsushi is suddenly stabbed from behind by Akutagawa's Rashōmon. Akutagawa and the Port Mafia arrive to take both him and Kyōka away. The agency learn of Atsushi's abduction, president Fukuzawa orders the agency operatives to put their current duties on hold and focus on saving their newest member. Still detained, Dazai is visited by Port Mafia executive/his former partner, Chūya Nakahara. the two men exchange hostile pleasantries and Chūya asks Dazai why he let himself get caught. Dazai responds by saying his objective was to be caught and killed. Ultimately, Chūya breaks off Dazai's shackles and demands to fight him. Meanwhile, the agency are still locating Atsushi. Ranpo deduces that Atsushi is on a cargo ship traveling toward the open sea. Fukuzawa tosses the agency's high-speed vessel's keys to Kunikida and orders him to retrieve Atsushi.

Dazai and Chūya are engage in hand-to-hand combat. Overpowering Dazai, Chūya asks him one last time why he allowed himself to be captured, Dazai answers that he did it for Atsushi. Dazai then tells Chūya that he sent a letter to the Port Mafia stating that if he dies all of the organization's secrets will be revealed. In the end, Dazai was only tricking Chūya into sparing his life. Before the mafia executive leaves, he tells Dazai where to find info about the 7-billion-yen bounty on Atsushi's head. Atsushi wakes up and sees himself inside a truck. Kyōka opens the truck door. Atsushi then stands up, just as he is about to get outside the truck, he is pulled out by Akutagawa's Rashomon and slams him. While Akutagawa's pinning the boy down, Kyōka threatens the mafioso to let him go however Akutagawa manages to grab her and strangle her. Kyōka then tells Atsushi to run and pulls out a detonator switch which made an explosion. Kyōka tells Atsushi to run while Kunikida also telling him to leave the ship since it will sink. Atsushi thinks over about how Dazai and the agency never gave up on him and is wanting to do the same for Kyōka. Moments before Akutagawa finishes off Kyōka, Atsushi saves her and lays her at the side. Atsushi manages to defeat Akutagawa and passes out. Kyōka awakens and rescues Atsushi from the sinking vessel. As an explosion on the vessel goes off, Kunikida catches the two in his boat, thinking about how Atsushi did a job well done. Somewhere in the Mafia base, Dazai hacks into the mafia's communications records and discovers the one who placed the bounty on Atsushi. Meanwhile, Francis, leader of The Guild, perceives how the bounty approach with the mafia has failed, though he remains confident that his organization shall soon have the "Promised Land".

In the aftermath of Atsushi and Dazai's abduction, the agency must decide what to do with Kyōka. Fukuzawa decides to take her in similar to how they took Atsushi in. Meanwhile, the Port Mafia also deliberates what to do with the comatose Akutagawa as his enemies from Karma Transit seek vengeance. At night, Higuchi is informed that Akutagawa has been abducted goes to rescue him, despite her subordinates' disapproval of her plans. The number of enemies overwhelms her, but the Black Lizard come to her aid and defeats them. As she comes up to Akutagawa, he apologizes to her, to which she replies that it is merely her job. Later, Atsushi and Kenji work together on an investigation about a bizarre car explosion. They directly ask a gang at their base about the bomb used to blow up the car. However, the gang denies any relation with the bomb. Hence, Kenji believes their word and immediately leaves the building with Atsushi afterward. As they head along, the gang corners them and admits that the bomb they built was used to kill an enemy from another organization. Kenji merely thanks them for confessing the truth, but a gang member strikes him from behind. However, Kenji is unfazed due to his immense strength and taps into his ability Undefeated by the Rain to single-handedly defeat the entire gang. After his victory, Kenji eat a couple of beef bowl goes to sleep.

The Guild Arc
Francis, the leader of The Guild, a North American organization of gifted members, flies into Yokohama. Fukuzawa asks if it's true that Francis is the one responsible for issuing a bounty on Atsushi's head, and the former admits it was his doing. Francis discusses business with Fukuzawa and would like to buy the agency's building and their skilled business permit, but Fukuzawa refuses. As Francis makes his leave, he warns Fukuzawa that an agency without employees would cease to function and tells Fukuzawa that he shall deliver a message in the morning papers. The next morning, the agency watches the news about the disappearance of a seven-story building owned by the Mafia, believing it to be Fitzgerald's message. Kenji also went missing, and Tanizaki, Atsushi, and Naomi look for Kenji, but Naomi vanishes. Tanizaki notices Fitzgerald's companion, Lucy. M and demands she bring Naomi back. Lucy transports Tanizaki and Atsushi into Anne's Room along with several other victims. She explains how they can exit her dimension anytime, but their captured subordinates shall remain behind a black door, and their memories inside Anne's Room would disappear. As the several victims' escape, Atsushi, Tanizaki, and a doctor who's looking for a girl named Elise stay behind. Lucy's gigantic doll-like monster, Anne, immediately captures and imprisons Tanizaki. Atsushi think that he won't be able to defeat her without help from Dazai and the others, he attempts to leave but the doctor stops him and gives him some advice on how to win. However, Atsushi is captured towards the black door. Lucy turns to the doctor make and moments before she could make an attempted to catch him, he exudes a menacing aura that scares Lucy and even Anne. He tells her to look at the door, finding Atsushi resisting against the force dragging him into the room. Tanizaki had used Light Snow to create a false door and Atsushi to tie a ribbon on Lucy without her knowing. Atsushi pulls her toward him and the door and demands her to turn off her ability. Everyone trapped in Lucy's ability are freed, the doctor reunites with Elise, and Kyōka rushes to Atsushi out of worry. As the doctor give his last words of advice before he bids Atsushi farewell. In a back alley, the Port Mafia bow to the doctor after killing James L., an assassin from The Guild, doctor is revealed to the boss of the Port Mafia, Ōgai Mori. Mori states that anyone who opposes the Mafia will die.

Kyōka starts her first day of work at the Armed Detective Agency, but the job ends in a minor disaster. Atsushi gives her a crepe to cheer her up and notes that she still has her cellphone with her, in which she states that it's important to her, and that she changed the program of it. Kyōka's phone rings and the orders Demon Snow to eliminate all who show Kyōka the light. The demon promptly stabs Atsushi. The voice came from Kōyō, one of the Port Mafia's executives, who had come to take Kyōka back to the Port Mafia. Atsushi attempts to fight back and activates his ability. However, a second demon appears and slashes at him before he can get to the woman, Kōyō then threatens to kill Atsushi if Kyōka doesn't come back. Shaken, Kyōka agrees to go with Kōyō. The two walk further, and Kyōka draws out Kōyō's knife and tries to stab her, but Kōyō stops her. Kyōka takes advantage of the failed stab and to steal Kōyō's cell phone and uses it to command Demon Snow to defeat her. Kyōka's and Kōyō's demons' fight. Kōyō's tells her that as an assassin, the only way for her to survive is to live her life in darkness. She tells her that her true nature will never change, since she used Demon Snow to killed her parents, causing Kyōka to lose the battle. Eventually, the Port Mafia's mafiosos arrive at the scene to eliminate Atsushi. In time, Kenji and Kunikida arrive to save him. Just as the two organizations were about to engage in battle, the remaining Guild members makes their appearance leaving the agency and mafia heavily injured. After the attack, Kōyō ends up in the detective agency's custody. Chūya updates Mori about her whereabouts, Mori's decision to hire some guys to kill the head of the agency so they focus on defeating The Guild. Meanwhile, Fukuzawa is out for a walk and relays an order to Kunikida to gather the members at Bankoudou Hall. He is then attacked by assassins but manages to single handedly defeat them.

The three leaders of the organizations declare a three-way war between the organizations. The next day, Guild members, Margaret Mitchell and Nathaniel Hawthorne, are seen on the S.S. Zelda loading cargo on the ship. A worker finds the letter written to the Guild and gives it to them. The letter turns out yo be from Mori and it states Mori's intentions which includes eliminating the Guild's luxury liner and the lives of Hawthorne and Mitchell. At this point, the workers report that they have caught a suspicious man, which turns out to be Motojirō Kajii. The workers also note that Kajii was caught with a bag of lemons. Nathanial states that he looks familiar and identifies him as a bomber from the Port Mafia. He then invokes his ability, the Scarlet Letter and wounds Kajii. After wounding him, he takes one of Kajii's lemon bombs and throwing it at him. A freight helicopter reports in, preparing to unload cargo. However, much to the shock of Hawthorne and Mitchell, Kajii had survived the explosion of his lemon bomb due to his ability to take no damage from lemon bombs. The freight helicopter drops its cargo onto the ship, which turned out to be a crate full of lemon bombs. Nathanial calls for the workers to flee as the ship goes up in explosions. Nathanial and Margaret escape but are both impaled by Akudagawa's Rashōmon. With Margaret out cold, Nathanial fends for himself against Akutagawa, ending in Akutagawa being victorious.

Meanwhile at Bankoudou Hall, Ranpo, Fukuzawa, Yosuno and Kenji are on standby. Ranpo notices someone on the security footage, which turns out to be Chūya. Chūya then addresses Fukuzawa through the camera, showing him a photo of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and John Steinbeck. Chūya flips over the photo to reveal the date, time, and location where Lovecraft and Steinbeck would appear stating that this is a good time to go after them. Using his ability, Ranpo finds out that the Mafia used Haruno and Naomi as bait for the Guild in order to kill two birds with one stone. Fukuzawa orders the office staff to evacuate and to be put through to Kunikida.

After hearing about the Guild's arrival, Haruno and Naomi immediately vacate the guesthouse. However, Lovecraft and Steinbeck were able to catch them during their escape on the road. Kunikida and Tanizaki make it in time to save the two and tell them to catch a train to escape. Atsushi and Dazai are seen waiting at the train station for the clerks' arrival. Dazai excuses himself claiming he has to use the bathroom. Soon after, Dazai meets up with Gin and Higuchi. Higuchi relays a message from Mori if Dazai has any interest in returning to the Port Mafia as an executive. Naomi and Haruno finally arrive at the station with Atsushi escorting them. Higuchi reveals that Mori has released Q from their cell and informs Dazai that he was brought to her for his own safety. Naomi introduces a young child they meet on the train. The child activates their ability causing Haruno and Naomi to attack Atsushi. Dazai then rushes back to the station and snaps Atsushi out of it realizing that he is the one who is affected by the ability all along and been attacking Haruno and Naomi. Dazai nullifies the ability and Q manages to escape. Dazai's next cores of action is to bring the government into this war.

Dazai meets up with Ango Sakaguchi from the Special Division for Unusual Powers. Dazai reveals that the Guild is making their move and Ango states that they're well aware of their activities but due to them being a secret society, they don't have the authority to arrest them. Atsushi is waiting for Dazai when Fitzgerald appears before him. Fitzgerald attacks Atushi rendering the latter being unable to move. Kyōka appears and rescues Atsushi. The two of them escape and Atsushi tries to get help from the police telling them they've attacked. One of the officers receives an urgent emergency about a 14-year-old girl in a kimono. Before the officer pulls out his gun, Kyōka attacks him causing to Atsushi to drag Kyōka and flee the scene. However, they are soon stopped by Fitzgerald who takes Atsushi with them at the Moby Dick. Kyōka is left at the scene and is arrested for multiple counts of murder.

A week later, Hawthorne is seen waking up in an infirmary and Mitchell is currently in a coma state due to the sustained injuries she received after their battle with Akutagawa. Hawthorne leaves the infirmary and tells Fitzgerald that he no longer depends on him, and he will reestablish the reputation of Margaret's family himself. Fitzgerald soon demands for Louisa May to enact the emergency plan. Meanwhile, Q is captured by the Guild as a weapon for their emergency plan. Fitzgerald reveals to Atsushi that reason they've captured him is because he serves as a guide in obtaining the book and in order to easily find it, they need to get rid most of Yokohama's citizens. Fitzgerald puts their plan in action by ripping up Q's doll.

Atsushi is locked in a room when Lucy appears. She expresses her frustrations to him saying that he'll maybe understand the suffering she felt. Atsushi emphasizes with her revealing also his traumatized childhood. Eventually, Lucy agrees to help Atsushi - freeing him from the Moby Dick. As Atsushi is free falling from the Moby Dick, he sees the Port Mafia trying to keep the chaos under control. Atsushi successfully takes the doll to Dazai, and he recommends that they corporate with the Port Mafia to defeat the Guild.

After the incident with Q's curse has been resolved, a meeting is arranged with Fukuzawa and Mori. Mori, who is accompanied by Black Lizard, arrives at the meeting place, which Dazai then welcomes. Shortly after, Fukuzawa shows himself, accompanied by Kunikida. Fukuzawa states that an alliance was proposed by their newest member, Atsushi. However, Fukuzawa refused the idea and instead proposed a ceasefire. On the other side, Mori refuses to have a ceasefire as the mafia's honor and trust have been broken by the agency before. As a response to that, Fukuzawa proposes that they settle old scores now. As Fukuzawa and Mori are prepared to battle, it was revealed that Fukuzawa was an illusion created by Tanizaki. Before Mori and the Black Lizard make their leave, Fukuzawa gives his final notice to Mori to not interrupt the agency as they will move to retrieve Q from the Guild. Later at night, Dazai is sent to retrieve Q and is suddenly ambushed by the Guild. Chūya then appears and attacks Lovecraft and Steinbeck. Dazai and Chūya successfully retrieve Q. However, the two are attacked by Lovecraft's ability. As Dazai gets hit, he realizes that he can't nullify Lovecraft's ability because it doesn't count as an ability, Dazai suggest for Chūya to use corruption mod if they're going to beat Lovecraft. With the efforts of the two, Dazai and Chūya defeat Lovecraft.

Ranpo is given a challenge by Guild member, Edgar Allan Poe. The challenge is if Ranpo manages to solve the mystery within the novel they are transported in, he will receive information on the Guild's weakness. Ranpo and Dazai hold a strategy meeting on defeating the Guild. Dazai visits the Ango in the infirmary after the car crash they got into and asks for a favor to help Kyōka who is currently held in a drone aircraft. Meanwhile, Tanizaki and Atsushi arrive at the library in order to use the Special Division's Night Crow to infiltrate the Moby Dick. Atsushi manages to sneak into the Moby Dick and sees Herman Melville. He reveals that the Guild have evacuated and tells Atsushi that the Moby Dick is set to crash land into Yokohama. Dazai still tells Atsushi that they will not be changing their plan to seize control of the Moby Dick. As Atsushi is on his way to the control terminal, Atsushi encounters Akutagawa.

Dazai hears their argument and tells Atsushi they don't have time to deal with him, ordering him to give the communicator to Akutagawa giving Atsushi a chance to escape. Soon after, Atsushi arrives at Fitzgerald's office and sees he has the control terminal. Fitzgerald activates his ability and attacks Atsushi. They are then interrupted by Akutagawa's appearance whose sole objective is killing Atsushi. Meanwhile, Dazai is speaking to Kyōka about how to land the drone but Kyōka refuses. Dazai continues to talk to Kyōka and tells her that despite killing 35 people, she has what it takes to be a member of the Armed Detective Agency. Atsushi and Akutagawa head at the top of the Moby Dick and face off against Fitzgerald. In the middle of Akutagawa's continuous pursuit of Atsushi, Fitzgerald attacks Akutagawa. As the Moby Dick slowed down and enters its final descent on land, Akutagawa and Atushi flee away from the scene. Fitzgerald, Atsushi and Akutagawa arrive at Moby Dick's top. Atsushi asks if he is a fool for wanting to escape from his past memories, Akutagawa responds by saying that the words from the past don't dictate who he is now. After hearing his answer, the two work together to take down Fitzgerald.

After defeating Fitzgerald, Atsushi and Akutagawa get their hands on the control terminal. However, they fail to call off the Moby Dick's descent because someone has already override the controls. Kyōka contacts them from the air done saying that there is a way to prevent the crash of Mody Dick by smashing the drone against it. Atsushi learns that Kyōka can't get out of the drone as she is chained up. As the crash is near, Atsushi refuses to leave Kyōka behind but Akutagawa forcefully drags him. Shortly after, the Moby Dick crashes into the sea. After landing, Dazai and Fukuzawa are seen waiting for them. Dazai explains that it was all a test for Kyōka and that Fukuzawa's ability allows members of the agency to have control of their abilities. Because Kyōka passed the test, she became an official member of the agency and was able to escape the drone before it crashed.

After the crash of the Moby Dick, the Guild dissolve and its members decide to take care of their future plans - Louisa going to look for Fitzgerald, Twain continuing his book, Steinbeck leading the insurrection against Fitzgerald, and Lovecraft going to sleep. Along with that, Ango approaches Hermen to get information about the Guild since he was the organization's leader before Fitzgerald was. At the agency office, the agency throws a party for Kyōka becoming a new member. Meanwhile at an art museum, Dazai thanks Hirotsu for the part he played in the final conflict aginst the Guild. Hirotsu asks Dazai why he made Atsushi and Akutagawa work together. Dazai explains he did it so they can be prepared to face off against a certain "monster" he knows.

The person behind the crash of Moby Dick turns out to be a man named Fyodor Dostoevsky, the leader of the Rats in the House of the Dead. With Nathanial standing behind him, he tells him that his motive for joining Fyodor is to get Margaret out of her coma. Fyodor says that's fine by him and tells Nathanial that together they will taint Yokohama with the blood of the sinners, for a better world.

The Guild Aftermath Arc
After the three-way war, the Armed Detective Agency goes back to doing their daily task of doing client task. The agency takes some time off at the café. Atsushi approaches them for a client request, but they all pass on it. Atsushi reports that foreign gangs came into the country to seize goods that the Guild left behind. It was also noted that an ex-Guild member was seen. The next day, the agency visits the café again only to see the place ransacked and store manager bleeding. Soon after, the agency finds Zoopark, the group responsible for the ransack and confronts them. Dazai then confirms that someone must have putted out false leads about the Guild's hidden goods.

Atsushi and Tanizaki are investigating a truck crash. Atsushi is filling in for Ranpo and Ranpo hints that they should look for a flower shop. Tanizaki updates Atsushi that they have an I.D of the victim. Atsushi is in shock and fear that the victim was the director from his orphanage. In the evening, Dazai approaches Atsushi about the issue. Atsushi realized that the orphanage director was getting flowers for him, but the wind caught the article he was reading and when he was chasing it down, he got hit by a truck. Atsushi asks Dazai what he's feeling inside but Dazai replies by telling him only he can understand what he's feeling. Nevertheless, Dazai advises Atsushi that a person tends to cry when losing his father, causing Atsushi to cry.

Kunikida is on his way to an anti-terror meeting. Upon boarding the train, he sees a stranger in a hood hand over a briefcase to a young girl. Kunikida remembers Tanizaki's report about a briefcase and a bomb. Kunikida rushes to the young girl and steals the case which turns out contains a bomb, he runs outside of the station and throws the bomb in the air before it explodes. After contacting the police, Kunikida speaks with the girl named Aya and she drags him to find the bomber. The two of them find bombs on the train track. Upon turning back, he sees Aya strapped with bombs and is threatened by a hooded man who knocks out Kunikida. After waking up, Kunikida sees the culprit to be Shōsaku Katsura, the man Kunikida arrested two years ago for attempting to blow up a school. Kunikida manages to trick Katsura in opening his book, hence remotely manifesting a stun grenade, causing for Kunikida to be able to restrain Katsura. Kunikida rushes over to the laptop to deactivate the bombs on the track, but Katsura tells him that the shutoff signal for the bombs for both train railways and the one strapped to Aya is the same. Kunikida shuts off the bomb at the train railway and sacrifices himself together with Aya. Kunikida and Aya survive the explosion due to Akiko Yosano healing them and Kunikida knowing that Yosano was near the station at that time. Soon after, Katsura is arrested. It is revealed that the next president after Fukuzawa will be Kunikida.

Kunikida and Atsushi investigate the rat like symbol on the Moby Dick's control panel. They seek the assistance of Kunikida's close friend and former agency member, Katai Tayama. However, can't use his ability due to him being lovesick. Kunikida and Atsushi decide to help him confess his feelings in order for their investigation to proceed. Meanwhile, Higuchi is taking a drive notices Akutagawa on his day-off. She also sees a woman with him and becomes shocked. Atsushi and Kunikida are seen looking for the woman Katai's in to. Higuchi is also looking for said woman and sees both Atsushi and Kunikida from afar. Higuchi keeps herself from getting into a conflict between the two due to Mori's orders not get into a battle with the agency. Shortly after, Kunikida and Atsushi realized that Higuchi was watching them. After learning that the agency is looking for the same woman she was looking for in order to give her a love letter, Higuchi expresses her support thinking that Atsushi was the one expressing his feelings to her. Katai soon joins them in their investigation. The four of them spot the woman and both Higuchi and Katai woman, who is later revealed to be Gin Akutagawa, Akutagawa's younger sister. Katai proceeds to give his confession letter even knowing that the woman is a mafia member. However, Katai is rejected giving him a time to move on from his unrequited love and fulfill the task for the agency.

Later at night, the mafia executive named Ace captures Fyodor. Ace proposes that he'd be the one to interrogate him to which Mori gives his approval. After letting Fyodor out of his shackles, he orders his subordinates to give him some clothes to wear. After a game of cards, Ace offers Fyodor to join him in his mission of killing Mori. However, Fyodor refuses by proposes to kill Ace. Angered by his response, Ace uses his ability on one of his men to show Fyodor who's boss. He leaves the room with a warning to Fyodor about choosing his choice to live or not. Soon after, Ace returns to the room. Fyodor proposes that they play a game with cards and if Ace wins, he will join him. The two start the game which results in Ace's defeat. After losing, Ace immediately tries to contact his subordinates to kill Fyodor but is unable to do so. Ace deduces that the reason Fyodor won was because he utilized his ability to manipulate consciousness and space hence the two being in Fyodor's head. Ace then comes to the conclusion that in order to escape, he has to kill himself in the mind trap in order to get back into the real world. Karma encounters Fyodor in the hallway much to the former's shock and fear. Fyodor reveals that his ability does allow him to control space and consciousness and that his true objective was to obtain the list containing the Port Mafia members' abilities. He then kills Karma and makes his leaves.

At the café, Lucy gives a request handed to her by a stranger to Atsushi and Kyōka. The request is to take a case filled with money to a c company which has been stashed in one of the boats at the docks. It reveals that Lucy have taken the last page which contains information about which boat they have to find. Lucy shows Atsushi the last page and throws it off into the water. Atsushi swims after it but is caught by old mooring chains causing Lucy to save him. Meanwhile, a Special Division for Unusual Powers transport van was attacked and Document No. I-75-81-A which is the report on the "Thirty-Five Count Murderess" was stolen. Lucy, Atsushi, and Kyōka eventually get to the right boat and find the case which contains an investigation report for Kyōka. Back at the café, the three of them look over the report. The report reveals about the truth behind the death of Kyōka's parents who were killed by a vengeful ability user and their death was revealed as an incident caused by an ability that "gone out of control". Eventually, Kyōka learns that Demon Snow didn't kill her parents and it was originally her mother's ability who transferred it to her. She finally excepts Demon Snow as a part of her. It is revealed that Kōyō is the one who stole the investigation report and orchestrated the event of Kyōka finding it.