Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 8 (light novel): Storm Bringer (Bungo Stray Dogs (Light Novel))

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It has been a year since Chūya joined the Port Mafia after ending the "Arahabaki Incident" with Osamu Dazai.

Chuuya being mostly unresponsive (that was a whole lot of physical and mental trauma in a very short time), the whole thing hit way too close to home. Murase, who has since been bent on getting Chūya out of the Mafia, tries to strike a plea deal with the mafioso to be released with Shirase in exchange for selling out internal Mafia intel, which Chūya flatly rejects. In the meantime, Dazai and Adam are unaware of the situation and start off doing the exact same thing they do in the light novel, but then realize something’s off compared to Dazai’s predictions. 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. Adam breaks Shirase out of jail at Chūya's behest, but Verlaine storms the facility and corners them.The mystery behind the Arahabaki and Verlaine incident in Fifteen has now been unraveled in this book.

Theres actually a small moment in stormbringer where Veraline (in the form of a beast) was heading towards Dazai and Chuuya and Chuuya instinctively grabs Dazai and pulls him away from the attack. Many shocks emerge over the course of its three-hundred-sixty-four pages – making this the longest in the series by a wide margin!

The events of SB take place over like, at most, 2 weeks, between the Flags’ deaths and the final fight.

In disbelief that his partner hid it from him, Verlaine leaves N hanging on a tower crane and sets off to kill his last target, Mori. Chūya soon escapes from him, only to be caught by Verlaine who reveals having slayed the Flags moments ago during Chūya's absence. For his one-year anniversary in the Mafia, Chūya is surprised by his friends, the Flags, who hand him a photograph of him as an ordinary child after going behind Ōgai Mori's back to uncover Chūya's background.What I’m saying is there was barely 6 months, most likely even less, between SB and the end of the Dragon’s Head Conflict. With no other choice, Verlaine activates Brutalization and decimates the Mafia's squads, but Chūya and Adam, per Dazai's earlier plan, poison Verlaine in that state. For his final journal entry, Rimbaud wrote having gifted Verlaine with a bowler hat that could control command sequences using ability metal powder. The action kicks off when the android Adam Frankenstein shows up to warn Chuuya of an assassin coming for him. The assassin’s excuse for being present at the beginning is a tad shaky, and his goal feels ambiguous as well.