Chapter Summaries

After binding the system to return to life, Kamiki Yūhaku began his first profile as an Artificial Ability User in Yokohama. At an evacuation shelter, a missing girl’s mother rushed out to search for her, and Kamiki was left amid the unfolding commotion.

• Kamiki Yūhaku agreed to bind the system, and the system loaded the [Artificial Ability User] profile.
• A military policeman warned Kamiki to evacuate Yokohama’s northern port district, and Kamiki left with his crow, Little Crow.
• Ango Sakaguchi received confirmation that the city’s districts had been evacuated and ordered personnel to withdraw.
• Kamiki settled into a temporary shelter, where people waited out the danger while he quietly fed his crow.
• A woman learned that her daughter Asaka had been left behind during a game of hide-and-seek and rushed outside to look for her.

Kamiki Yūhaku rescued a little girl from the flood caused by a falling aerial fortress and reunited with Osamu Dazai in Yokohama. Dazai revealed that Kamiki had once been the Port Mafia’s exceptional intelligence agent, and recalled a cryptic warning Kamiki had given before resigning four years earlier.

• Kamiki Yūhaku followed his crow through the deserted city and saw a colossal aerial fortress descending toward Yokohama.
• Kamiki Yūhaku ran to save a stranded girl as an airplane struck the fortress, sending it crashing into the sea and flooding the pier.
• Kamiki Yūhaku emerged from the water with the girl and greeted Osamu Dazai, then left her in Dazai’s care so she could be reunited with her mother.
• Osamu Dazai told Doppo Kunikida and Akiko Yosano that Kamiki had been a highly accomplished Port Mafia intelligence agent who resigned four years earlier.
• Osamu Dazai remembered Kamiki’s parting warning that a drink might make him lose many important things.

Kamiki Yūhaku returned to Yokohama to build recognition as a nightwalker who grants wishes and punishes the wicked, and he asked Dazai about joining a good organization. Dazai refused to let him join the detective agency, and Kamiki left determined to challenge government authority through vigilante justice.

• Dazai recalled the events following Mimic’s extradition, including Ango Sakaguchi’s exposure as an undercover agent and Sakunosuke Oda’s death, then went to find Kamiki Yūhaku.
• Kamiki Yūhaku checked his system’s falling recognition and explained that he had returned to Yokohama to develop a new identity beyond his villain label.
• Three punks tried to extort Kamiki Yūhaku, who frightened them by making them help him consider how to become a good person.
• Dazai confronted Kamiki Yūhaku and refused his request to join the detective agency, warning that he was dangerous and disloyal.
• Kamiki Yūhaku told Dazai he was creating a legend as a nightwalker who granted wishes and punished the wicked, and he blamed government authority for the Azure King’s failure.
• Kamiki Yūhaku left with a crow on his shoulder, declaring that he knew everything as an informant.

Kamiki Yūhaku accepted a commission from a grieving mother to seek revenge on Motojirō Kajii and the Port Mafia, and his Recognition rose as a result. He began planning while recalling how he had left the Port Mafia under an agreement with Ōgai Mori, and the chapter ended with his return to Yokohama after four years.

• Kamiki Yūhaku sent his hungry crow away and met a middle-aged woman who offered him 50,000 yen to avenge her daughter.
• The woman blamed Motojirō Kajii and the Port Mafia for the train bombing that had killed her daughter, and Kamiki accepted the commission against both targets.
• Kamiki returned the woman’s money, told her to await the outcome, and saw his Recognition increase to 69%.
• Kamiki summoned his crow and began planning how to act against Kajii and the Port Mafia.
• Kamiki recalled joining the Port Mafia at sixteen, working as an intelligence agent alongside Ango Sakaguchi, and leaving after Ōgai Mori agreed to keep him out of Yokohama for three years.
• Four years after Kamiki left, Mori believed he would never return, but Kamiki had come back to Yokohama.

Kamiki Yūhaku captured Motojirō Kajii and destroyed the Port Mafia’s weapons warehouse. Ōgai Mori investigated the attack and learned that Kajii was missing, while Ryūrō Hirotsu raised an unanswered question.

• Kamiki Yūhaku used a crow to distract Motojirō Kajii, then stabbed and subdued him after surviving Kajii’s lemon-shaped bomb.
• Kamiki Yūhaku sent Little Crow toward the Port Mafia’s weapons warehouse, where a bomb ignited the stored explosives and caused a major blast.
• Ōgai Mori left Elise to investigate the explosion as Port Mafia members tried to contain the fire.
• Ryūrō Hirotsu told Ōgai Mori that one warehouse guard was seriously injured, the other two had been away on a weapons deal, and the blast’s cause could not be confirmed.
• Ryūrō Hirotsu reported that surveillance footage along the route between the warehouse and laboratory had been corrupted and that Motojirō Kajii was missing.
• Ōgai Mori concluded that someone was deliberately targeting the Port Mafia, and Ryūrō Hirotsu began to explain what he did not understand.

After an explosion destroyed a Port Mafia weapons warehouse, Mori Ougai and his executives tried to identify the culprit. They discovered Kajii Motojiro bound and hanging outside Mori’s office, suggesting the attacker had reached the roof and was connected to Kajii’s disappearance.

• Mori Ougai suspected the warehouse explosion was a deliberate attack and summoned Chūya Nakahara and Kōyō Ozaki to his office.
• Chūya met a guard who claimed to have served with him during the Dragon Head Conflict, then entered Mori’s office; the guard was actually Kamiki Yūhaku, who removed his disguise and left.
• Mori, Kōyō, and Chūya ruled out Osamu Dazai and doubted an outside organization was responsible, while considering how the attacker had infiltrated the Port Mafia.
• Kōyō suggested the culprit might have been caught in the blast, and Mori began to reconsider when she mentioned someone flying.
• Mori raised the office shades and saw the missing Kajii Motojiro bound upside down outside the window, leading the executives to suspect the attacker had taken Kajii and reached the roof.

Chūya and Mori identified the intruder as Kamiki Yūhaku, a former Port Mafia intelligence agent who had sabotaged the weapons warehouse and left a threat. As Chūya began investigating, Kamiki remained near headquarters and watched Chūya arrive.

• Chūya rescued the two guards and Kajii, then learned that a white-haired, red-eyed intruder had knocked out the guards and attacked Kajii with a crow.
• Kajii gave Chūya a note warning, “Make him turn himself in, or it happens again.”
• Mori and Kōyō recognized the intruder as Kamiki Yūhaku, who had left the Port Mafia four years earlier, and Mori explained Kamiki’s defensive ability, Survival With No Hope.
• Mori ordered Chūya to investigate Kamiki and told Kajii to stay inside Port Mafia headquarters for safety.
• Kamiki used a crow to draw the Black Lizard away, then watched as Chūya emerged from the Port Mafia building and ordered a thorough search.

Kamiki Yūhaku reflected on his origins as an artificial ability user and deliberately provoked Chūya Nakahara by comparing him to a manufactured weapon. Their confrontation ended with Chūya breaking through Kamiki’s defensive ability and sending him crashing to the ground.

• Kamiki Yūhaku explained that his artificial ability user setting came from undergoing human experimentation and that recognition increased when others attached labels to him.
• Kamiki Yūhaku sent his client photographs proving he had completed her revenge, then waited for Chūya Nakahara to find him.
• Chūya Nakahara tracked down Kamiki Yūhaku, who sent his crow away and suggested that people could not be made loyal like trained animals.
• Kamiki Yūhaku provoked Chūya by implying he was a human-shaped weapon and claimed he remembered the pain of being experimented on, then laughed when Chūya believed him.
• Chūya Nakahara attacked Kamiki Yūhaku, whose blood-triggered defense briefly activated before Chūya shattered it and hurled him to the ground.

Kamiki Yūhaku revealed a personal connection to Chūya Nakahara’s past before escaping as the white fog engulfed Yokohama. He joined Atsushi Nakajima and Kyōka Izumi on their way to the Armed Detective Agency, where Atsushi challenged him for withholding a warning about the fog.

• Kamiki told Chūya that a bereaved mother had commissioned the Port Mafia attack and hinted that he had been a test subject like Chūya before disappearing amid the fog.
• Chūya fought the ability wearing his face and wondered whether Kamiki was another survivor of the Artificial Ability User project.
• Kamiki encountered Atsushi and Kyōka, who recognized him as a former Port Mafia informant, and persuaded them to let him accompany them.
• As the group headed toward the Armed Detective Agency, Atsushi asked Kamiki why he had not warned people about the fog, and Kamiki replied that Dazai had known too.

Kunikida brought Kamiki Yūhaku to the detective agency after Kamiki offered information about Tatsuhiko Shibusawa’s weakness, where a call to the Special Division for Unusual Powers reunited Kamiki with Ango Sakaguchi. Their tense exchange revealed their history as Port Mafia partners and ended with Ango giving Kunikida’s group information before the signal failed.

• Kamiki Yūhaku offered to reveal Tatsuhiko Shibusawa’s weakness, and Kunikida agreed to bring him to the detective agency.
• Kunikida contacted the Special Division for Unusual Powers, and Ango Sakaguchi recognized Kamiki on the call.
• Ango recalled working with Kamiki in the Port Mafia and discovering that Kamiki knew he was an undercover agent.
• After the Dragon Head Conflict, Kamiki left Yokohama while Ango went undercover in Mimic, where Sakunosuke Oda died and Osamu Dazai defected.
• Kamiki told Ango that they were enemies now, and Ango gave Kunikida’s group information before the connection cut out.

Kamiki Yūhaku helped Atsushi Nakajima and Kyōka Izumi recover their abilities, then went to watch Chūya Nakahara use his power. Fyodor Dostoevsky confronted Kamiki, while Chūya received a commission from the Special Division for Unusual Powers.

• Ango Sakaguchi recognized Kamiki Yūhaku as a former government test subject and felt guilty on the government's behalf.
• Doppo Kunikida assigned Atsushi Nakajima and Kyōka Izumi to complete their mission while he stayed behind to hold off their attackers, and Kamiki agreed to protect them.
• Kamiki explained that breaking the crystals on the abilities' foreheads would restore their powers, then used a borrowed ability at the cost of injuring himself to drive the White Tiger and Demon Snow back.
• Atsushi and Kyōka attacked their abilities while Kamiki left to find a vantage point from which to watch Chūya Nakahara's power.
• Fyodor Dostoevsky attacked Kamiki and pinned him against a wall, accusing him of deserting the Rats in the House of the Dead.
• After recovering his ability, Chūya Nakahara received a commission from the Special Division for Unusual Powers.

Chūya learned from Sakaguchi that Kamiki Yūhaku had endured horrific government experiments and might let Shibusawa destroy Yokohama to take revenge. As Chūya accepted the mission to protect Yokohama, Yūhaku faced Fyodor and reflected on how the experiments had left him unable to feel pain.

• Chūya agreed to help the Special Division for Unusual Powers in exchange for information about Kamiki Yūhaku’s past.
• Sakaguchi revealed that Yūhaku had been tortured in experiments that caused his hair to turn white and robbed him of his sense of pain.
• Sakaguchi warned that Yūhaku would target the government and asked Chūya to save him; Chūya left after condemning the government for abandoning Yūhaku in the rubble.
• Sakaguchi told Chūya that Yūhaku survived the French Concession explosion through his ability, and Chūya questioned how he had endured being left to die.
• On a dark street, Yūhaku spoke with Fyodor about the thorny flowers he once grew and recalled how he had tried to regain his sense of touch.

Kamiki Yūhaku’s history as an artificial ability user and his investigation into the French Concession disaster came to light as Fyodor discussed his connection to the Rats in the House of the Dead with Osamu Dazai. After Yokohama’s crisis ended, Kamiki watched Chūya Nakahara defeat the dragon and prepared to return to work.

• Kamiki Yūhaku shot Fyodor’s ability manifestation, then treated his wounded finger and continued onward.
• Fyodor told Osamu Dazai that Kamiki had investigated organizations connected to the French Concession and had returned to Yokohama to hunt someone who escaped there.
• Osamu Dazai recalled that the French Concession explosion had created Kamiki as an artificial ability user and that Kamiki had spent years seeking records about the incident.
• Kamiki Yūhaku’s awareness rose to 78 percent, and he expressed surprise at the sudden increase.
• Kamiki Yūhaku watched Chūya Nakahara destroy the dragon, then waited for dawn and Tatsuhiko Shibusawa’s death to end the fog.
• Kamiki Yūhaku reunited with his crow and decided his vacation was over and it was time to work.

Yūhaku uncovered a corpse-smuggling operation connected to the government’s surviving artificial ability-user researchers, while Ango began to suspect the same conspiracy. The chapter ended with Yūhaku forcing a smuggler to reveal what he knew as his investigation into Yokohama’s missing people continued.

• Yūhaku rejected Ango’s plea to take his life seriously, while Ango resolved to find a way to save him.
• Ango discovered that two ability users’ bodies had disappeared and suspected government-protected researchers were involved.
• Yūhaku confronted armed men carrying a corpse in a suitcase, injured them, and captured one of the smugglers.
• Yūhaku coerced Hikawa Kokurin into promising to tell him where the corpse was being taken by threatening to reveal his mafia ties to his wife, Keiko.
• Yūhaku’s investigation sought the survivors of the French Concession experiments and the fate of Yokohama’s thousands of missing people.

Kamiki Yūhaku uncovered the route to a hidden research facility and prepared to bring the long-running tragedy to an end. Sakaguchi Ango learned the government was protecting researchers behind the experiments and feared Kamiki would be killed if he attacked them, so he asked Dazai Osamu for help.

• Kamiki Yūhaku pressured Hikawa Kokurin by calling his wife, and Hikawa revealed how he delivered people and corpses to an underground facility.
• Kamiki Yūhaku discovered that greed had exposed the researchers and headed toward an unoccupied house, determined to end the tragedy.
• Taneda told Sakaguchi Ango that the government was sheltering researchers tied to the French Concession experiments and explained the earlier case involving Asukai and Mikumari.
• Taneda warned that the government would order Kamiki Yūhaku eliminated if he attacked the researchers, and Sakaguchi Ango recognized that the government would sacrifice him for political interests.
• Sakaguchi Ango called Dazai Osamu and asked if there was a way to save Kamiki Yūhaku.

Osamu Dazai, Ango Sakaguchi, and Chūya Nakahara investigated Kamiki Yūhaku’s past for clues to saving him. Nakahara agreed to search Port Mafia records as Kamiki arrived at a secret research facility.

• Dazai asked Sakaguchi to find records showing who rescued the gravely injured Kamiki from the ruins fifteen years earlier.
• Nakahara asked Mori Ougai for time to act on his own so he could be with Kamiki, and Mori warned him that Kamiki was dangerous.
• Dazai told Nakahara to investigate Kamiki’s early Port Mafia assignments, since Kamiki’s later campaign against human experimentation in France made his five-year failure to uncover the French Concession’s history suspicious.
• Nakahara agreed to search the records if it could help save Kamiki.
• Kamiki arrived at an unknown research facility, where a fingerprint scan opened the doors to reveal a figure in protective gear.

Kamiki Yūhaku infiltrated a government research institute carrying a fresh ability user’s corpse and confronted the researchers who had experimented on him as Prototype Otsu No. 0. After revealing himself and disabling their attempts to summon help, he faced Kitada Hiro, who asked him to spare the young researchers.

• Kamiki Yūhaku revealed that he had killed the man who delivered the corpse and attacked Fujita, identifying him as one of the researchers who had once used him as a test subject.
• Kitada Hiro and the researchers prepared to study the ability user’s corpse, and Kitada manually opened the laboratory door when the system blocked Fujita’s entry.
• Kamiki Yūhaku entered the laboratory, revealed Fujita’s death, and injured researchers near the console with a thrown dagger.
• Kitada Hiro tried to activate the defenses, but Kamiki Yūhaku stopped him with a dagger and revealed himself as Prototype Otsu No. 0.
• Kitada Hiro asked Kamiki Yūhaku to let the young researchers go, while Kamiki Yūhaku noticed them looking toward the console.

Kamiki Yūhaku defeated Kitada Hiro and destroyed the research facility, while Ango Sakaguchi found evidence that Kambe Kazuha had once saved him. After leaving the fire, Yūhaku met Chūya Nakahara, who took him to have a bullet removed and tried to confront him about his injuries.

• Kitada Hiro shot Kamiki Yūhaku, but Yūhaku used his defensive ability to survive and then shot Kitada in the arm.
• Yūhaku declared that he would bury everyone there and erase Kitada’s ambitions as the facility burned.
• Ango Sakaguchi called Osamu Dazai and said he might have found the person who saved Yūhaku, linking Kambe Kazuha to Yūhaku and his crow.
• Yūhaku followed his crow and encountered Chūya Nakahara, who noticed his injuries and brought him to a black-market physician.
• After the doctor removed a bullet and bandaged Yūhaku, Chūya heard him call his injuries a safeguard and grabbed him to challenge what he meant.

Chūya Nakahara learned that Kamiki Yūhaku had destroyed the Kōrai-kai to avenge Kambe Kazuha, the doctor who had rescued and cared for him. The chapter revealed how Kambe’s death left Kamiki alone with Xiao Wu and unable to cry, as Kamiki continued into the darkness.

• Kamiki Yūhaku thanked Chūya Nakahara for losing control in the past, saying it had helped him survive, then went to find Xiao Wu.
• Chūya told Kamiki not to pretend to be happy and urged him to cry when he needed to, while Kamiki continued walking without answering.
• Ango Sakaguchi found that Kambe Kazuha had rescued Kamiki from the laboratory ruins and raised him with Xiao Wu, and Chūya traced Kamiki’s deliberate destruction of the Kōrai-kai to revenge for Kambe.
• Kamiki’s first family had moved on after the explosion, so he left them and built a new family with Kambe and Xiao Wu, who taught him to respect life and believe in the light.
• When Kamiki was fifteen, the Kōrai-kai killed Kambe and burned their home after he failed to save one of its executives; Kamiki joined the Port Mafia to take revenge.
• After the Kōrai-kai was destroyed, Kamiki gripped a thorny flower to feel its pain, while Xiao Wu tried to make him release it, but he could no longer cry.

Nakahara Chūya learned that Kamiki Yūhaku was determined to remain bound to his painful past, and he stopped trying to persuade him to move on. After parting in the rain, Chūya called Dazai Osamu and said he would no longer interfere in Kamiki’s affairs.

• Nakahara Chūya followed Kamiki Yūhaku and learned that Kamiki cared deeply about Little Crow and would not abandon his past until he had settled it.
• Kamiki Yūhaku told Nakahara Chūya that he remembered being abandoned and wanted to know what it felt like not to be left behind.
• As rain fell, Nakahara Chūya gave Kamiki Yūhaku an umbrella and urged him to care for himself, but Kamiki continued searching for Little Crow.
• Nakahara Chūya watched Kamiki Yūhaku disappear into an alley, then called Dazai Osamu and said he would stop getting involved in Kamiki’s affairs.
• Dazai Osamu asked why Nakahara Chūya had changed his mind, and Chūya said that trying to hold Kamiki back would only trouble him.