Sakunosuke Oda vs. André Gide is a battle fought between Port Mafia member Sakunosuke Oda and Mimic leader André Gide outside the Yokohama Museum of Art.
It happened during a confrontation between the Mafia, including Ryunosuke Akutagawa, against Mimic operatives.
Prologue[]
During the conflict between the two organizations, the Mafia's five executives hold a presidium on how to retaliate against Mimic. Subsequently, Mimic launches an ambush on the Mafia on the art museum's front yard, consisting of four mafiosi and nine Mimic soldiers. Soon overpowered by the Mimic soldiers in terms of number and experience, the mafiosi are forced to resort to a pincer movement and retreat inside the museum.
Gide defends himself from Rashōmon.
With the Mimic soldiers chasing the mafiosi inside, Akutagawa launches attacks on the Mimic soldiers, compelling them to fall back. A second wave of Mimic soldiers arrive, with Gide arriving and engaging Akutagawa in close combat. In an attempt to discover Gide's ability, Akutagawa fights him in a physical fight, and the mafiosi back him up by shooting at Gide. However, Gide single-handedly and effortlessly overwhelms the Mafia members with his foreseeing ability, ending in Akutagawa getting held at gunpoint. With Osamu Dazai's intel about the ensuing confrontation, Oda arrives in time to disarm Gide off his pistol and save Akutagawa from being shot.
Battle[]
Oda charges at Gide while shooting at him, evading Gide's incoming bullets with his predictive ability; similarly, Gide dodges Oda's bullets. As Mafia reinforcements soon arrive, Oda manages to approach Gide to rid him of his remaining pistol, but Gide reads Oda's moves and avoids his onslaughts.
Oda knocks down Akutagawa.
Deciding not to neutralize the commander, Oda checks for conscious mafiosi, upon which he retrieves Akutagawa out of the museum. With Flawless, Oda escapes with him against Mimic's shots to a man-made forest and, when Akutagawa demands Oda – the one Dazai speaks highly of – to fight him, kicks him on his earlier wound to render him barely conscious.
Gide approaches him by the forest's entrance and expresses his interest in Oda as the one who can fulfill their wish of "freeing their souls". Oda sees a predictive vision of Gide firing a shot that requires him to dodge to the right. When it ends, another vision plays out where he receives a shot while he dodges. Oda stands dazed and learns that they possess an identical ability of seeing a few seconds into the future.
Oda purposefully misses his shot at Gide.
He then implores Oda to stop the war by killing them, but Oda refuses as someone who has not killed in years. Gide is visibly confused at his response, soon firing another shot at Oda. The latter foresees all possible attacks, causing him to plunge forward to evade them. Oda shoots at Gide but deliberately misses him nor anyone. The latter desperately asks him to kill them, but Oda reveals his aspiration of becoming a novelist; as such, he believes that writing about people requires him not to rob their lives.
Eventually, Gide points his gun at the unconscious Akutagawa, causing Oda to take the shots himself with his bulletproof vest. He tries to persuade Gide that they are not dead, only for Gide to refute his claim. In the end, the Mimic commander merely assures Oda that he will make him understand and that one of them will inevitably die. Gide then gets in his subordinates' truck and warns Oda to look forward to his upcoming move.
Aftermath[]
After the incident and their encounter, Mimic momentarily stops their attacks on the Mafia. The injured are also treated, while Oda becomes unsettled with Gide's foreboding warning and thinks that something big will happen quite soon.[1]
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