Chapter 102

Chapter 102
Kanji	人外魔境 其の壱 前篇
Rōmaji	Jingai Makyō Sono Ichi Zenpen
Chapter Information
Volume	23
Pages	17
Release Date	June 03, 2022
Young Ace	Issue #2022-07
Story Arc	Vampire Infection Outbreak Arc
Chapter Guide
Previous	Chapter 101
Next	Chapter 102.5

Wicked Realms Beyond Mankind, Part 1, Section 1 (人外魔境 其の壱 前篇,, Jingai Makyō Sono Ichi Zenpen^?) is the 102nd chapter of the Bungo Stray Dogs manga.

Synopsis

Aya gains a moment of peace as she and Bram hide from their pursuers, and she takes the opportunity to inspect the holy sword that seals the vampire's powers. Read the next chapter of Bungo Stray Dogs the same day as Japan!

Summary

Aya takes Bram to their getaway truck.

Aya and Bram reach a laundry facility truck where they can escape in. Aya reckons that airport officials would not perform exhaustive search over a vehicle carrying laundry cargo, considering it the optimal place to hide and lay wait in. Bram commends Aya's idea, to which the girl asserts that she is a savior of justice after all.

While waiting in the truck, Aya suggests to Bram that they take off the Holy Sword Soluz Levni piercing him, but the latter declines and explains that doing so would only unleash darkness into the world. Aya blithely acknowledges, afterwards asking more about the sword. Bram expounds that it was a human being hundreds of years ago, forged from the ability user's body that denatured into metal upon his death. The resulting ability turned out to be the power to consolidate "body" and "ability".

Atsushi awakens and finds himself restrained.

Meanwhile, Atsushi is urged by a certain voice to immediately wake up and soon awakens to find himself restrained before a watchful Teruko. Bram further elucidates that merging an abstract concept like an "ability" with a physical vessel like a "body" exceeds the laws of the world and is thus a considerably tremendous ability. He also tells her that the sword that struck him branches roots into his brain and etches a mark on its wielder, specifically Fukuchi, who is therefore the only one who can control him.

Akutagawa locates Aya and Bram.

Aya remarks on Bram's vast knowledge on the topic; Bram finds it only natural, as he had been struck by the same sword twice. He recalls the first time during his past when he and his subjects were due for execution, where they were beheaded on stakes and punished as enemies of God. As he pleads the army to spare his fief's people, one of them brands him a devil and apparently strikes his head with the sword.

The girl then notices Bram's glumness, which the latter dismisses as a lord's anguish that a vassal like her would not understand, though he quickly retracts it and considers her a horse instead for carrying him all throughout. As Aya quips to drown him in a bath, Bram unwittingly views it to be the modern age's treatment towards kings, which Aya does not further press on. Just then, the truck they are hiding in gets bisected laterally, and the two are discovered by the undead Akutagawa. Bram advises Aya to quickly run away.

Characters in Order of Appearance

Aya Kōda         Bram Stoker         Atsushi Nakajima         Teruko Ōkura         Ōchi Fukuchi   Cameo         Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Abilities

• Rashōmon

Trivia

• The name of the chapter is taken from a novel series by Mushitarō Oguri about an explorer discovering places untouched by man.