Hunting Dogs

The Hunting Dogs (猟犬,) - sometimes colloquially referred to as "Mad Dogs" - is a Grade-A squad built for special tactics and supression duty. They are also the strongest military unit in the military police.

Description
The Hunting Dogs is an official special military division tasked by the government to hunt down and capture ability users with powerful/dangerous abilities when they begin abusing them and using them for criminal/terrorist actions, making them one of the most powerful military units available to the government.

The Hunting Dogs are also known to be one of the strangest if not the most bizarre group in the military due to the several unique personalities and quirks of its members and its leader's own eccentricities and bizarre habits.

Influence
The Hunting Dogs is known to be the most powerful Ability User Task Force within the nation of Japan with a undefeated track record in mission successes and a high attrition rate of survival. Effectively granting them an immense sway over the government, especially to the various law enforcement agencies and groups of the country, as seen where several of its members were able to order around even members of the Special Division for Unusual Powers and overturn their authority when ordered into investigations.

Due to their immense success, the Hunting Dogs have even garnered international stardom and have even been requested by other countries to assist them in handling ability related operations and crisis's globally. As seen where their leader Ōchi Fukuchi was noted to have handled numerous high risk supernatural missions and defeated several powerful ability users that eventually earned him immense international fame.

Admission
In order to join the unit, the candidate must first agree to being surgically altered by the government prior to being accepted into the group, where their bodies would then be physically altered and enhanced to grant them superhuman abilities such as enhanced speed, reflexes, strength, durability and stamina by the groups' Abilities Engineer.

However these modifications are also known to be the method the government uses to maintain control of the Hunting Dogs. As stated by one of their members, Jōno in his attempts to recruit Kunikida and Teruko when describing the commitment of being a Hunting Dog, the moment the surgery is completed, the physical changes to the potential recruit's bodies would need monthly surgeries to maintain their new bodies that would otherwise break down and self destruct on its own by rotting from the inside out if left alone. This insures that even if the new member isn't actually loyal to the group itself, they have no choice but to comply and stay in the unit or die, broadening the potential candidates to even wanted criminals.

Aside from the augmentation surgery, Teruko has stated that the duty of a Hunting Dog is to be a "slave" to society and to be the "ultimate violence" above all others in order to preserve the peace and the order of the nation and the world even if it means sacrificing one's own bodies and souls for the people; a Hunting Dog must fight while injured and to the death, further showcasing the commitment and resolve a loyal member must have to be in the unit.

Pursuit of the Armed Detective Agency
The Hunting Dogs arrive in the middle of Military Police’s anti-terror unit pursuit of the Armed Detective Agency after they were revealed as terrorists - particularly the group Decay of the Angel. The group pursues the agency - heading to the North Station and Southern highway by Fukuchi and Teruko, Jōno and Tetcho respectively. Jōno and Tetcho catch up to the agency halting their escape but the latter was instead rescued by a Port Mafia member, Chūya Nakahara, using a chopper. Despite their high altitude, the Hunting Dogs continue pursuing their targets, with Tetchō using his ability to hang on the chopper. In the end, Kunikida sacrifices himself to let his allies escape by detonating a hand grenade on himself and Tetchō mid-air. During this time, Tachihara is revealed to be the fifth member of the Hunting Dogs who manages capture and corner Yosano.

With gathered intel about the Decay of the Angel, the Hunting Dogs continues to hunt the remaining agency members by questioning Fukuzawa about the whereabouts of his subordinates and interrogating the café store manager eventually getting information about the agency heading to the Sky Casino.

Battle at the Sky Casino
The Hunting Dogs proceed to head over to the Sky Casino, prompting Sigma, its manager, to shut down the casino in order to track down the agency. With Sigma's refusal to abide by the order, the Hunting Dogs use explosions to block any route escapes. Using the current commotion of the explosion, they use the chance to find the agency - which uknowinlgy leads them finding about the coin bombs. Eventually, the Hunting Dogs take on Sigma after learning about the coin bombs as a tool for the Decay of the Angel's terrorism plan - with the goal to broadcast the casino's conspiracy to the world, and finally defeating Sigma. After the battle at the casino, Tachihara was instructed to infiltrate the Mafia once again to find where the two agency members are hiding.

At the aftermath, the Hunting Dogs successfully capture Kunikida and, Yosano who is sentenced to death penalty.

United Nations Beseechment
With the widespread terror, Fukuchi was approached by the United Nations' Council for Terrorism Counter-Measures to help them on the founding of a new anti-terror association with the latter proposing an organization consisting of military forces to defend mankind to be led by Fukuchi. An ongoing discussion about the use of supernational armed security force is happening at Security Council's room located at Standard Island, Fukuchi arrives and gives a speech about losing the war and having a humankind army that will eventually eradicate the world's terrorists.

Vampire Infection Outbreak
An ongoing widespread of vampire infection was reported by Tachihara - personally witnessing the Mafia members turned into vampires. The Hunting Dogs formulate a plan to destroy the source of the outbreak, concluding it's the agency performing their next step to world terrorism but refuted by Tachihara telling that there is a true culprit. With the obtained footage of the agency from the Sky Casino speaking about the truth, the Hunting Dogs particularly Fukuchi takes on the responsibility to forward the information to Deputy Commissioner Yasui.

Obtainment of One Order
The Hunting Dogs is seen at an airport waiting for the arrival of One Order to be released by the Europe, in order to supress the ongoing vampire outbreak and corner the agency. After hearing a large explosin at the airport during the One Order's transfer, Fukuchi radios Tetchō and Teruko to the scene of which the latter two immediately arrives. Suddenly, the plane swiftly defends - thinking that the One Order might be destroyed, Tetchō activates his ability and cuts through the plane. Shortly after, Fukuchi successfully catches and retrieves the One Order.

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Trivia

 * Harukawa stated in a magazine interview that the green color motif for the Hunting Dogs was based on Tachihara's green military crop jacket.

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