Adam breaks Shirase out of jail at Chūya's behest, but Verlaine storms the facility and corners them. It forces Chuuya to confront the possibility of his own inhumanity while also pairing him with Adam, an almost human-like machine.

For his final journal entry, Rimbaud wrote having gifted Verlaine with a bowler hat that could control command sequences using ability metal powder. Dazai is visited by Verlaine, who retrieves the Mafia's internal files they had negotiated over two days prior. But for the time being, I would like to leave that destiny of Chuuya to the power of your imagination. Chūya sees Shirase off to London, while Chūya and Dazai receive British investigators and Adam's creator, Dr.Many shocks emerge over the course of its three-hundred-sixty-four pages – making this the longest in the series by a wide margin! Before Chūya uncontrollably unleashes Arahabaki again courtesy of Verlaine, the latter spots Murase and kills him—his actual first target—before retreating. Chūya soon escapes from him, only to be caught by Verlaine who reveals having slayed the Flags moments ago during Chūya's absence.

It’s been roughly one year since Chuuya Nakahara joined the Port Mafia, and he’s determined to become an executive before fellow mafioso Osamu Dazai.This instalment also questions whether being born gives you the right to live, or if there is more to it than that. To my partner, Harukawa Sango-sensei, who has always adorned the novels with their ever-beautiful and perfect artworks. It has been a year since Chūya joined the Port Mafia after ending the "Arahabaki Incident" with Osamu Dazai. Using Verlaine's memory and as per Verlaine's plea to his brother, Arahabaki Chūya unleashes his energy on Guivre and defeats it. in Storm Bringer, Iceman mentions Chuuya punching a guy through (several) ceilings for having asked him about his past.

The good thing about speaking here in the afterword is that no matter how mad people get and I apologize, physical punches will never come my way). A year after joining the Port Mafia, 16-year-old Chūya has now made a name in the organization managing a gemstone black market. The assassin says he wishes to kill everyone associated with Chūya and partially opens the Gate within the boy, causing gravity to go haywire and unleash Arahabaki's flames, until Osamu Dazai arrives to nullify it. They soon regroup with Adam and Dazai, where they find Verlaine and N in tow escaping out of the facility. But as he makes plans to move up, a man by the name of Paul Verlaine—claiming to be his older brother—appears and vows to assassinate everyone he cares about!

The PM might have mostly avoided taking part in it (canon reason why they managed to take over the underworld in its wake), but they still suffered from it all the same, especially since they had just spent and lost a lot of resources during their fight against Verlaine. Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam · Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era · The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency · Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito VS. The mystery behind the Arahabaki and Verlaine incident in Fifteen has now been unraveled in this book.