HOMRA associates Yata Misaki and Kamamoto Rikio and SCEPTER 4’s Awashima Seri and Fushimi Saruhiko gain access to Ashinaka High to look for Isana Yashiro, with neither faction meeting with success. In the process, Fushimi crosses paths with Yata and provokes him into a duel, which Seri breaks up. Fushimi learns the suspect they’re looking for isn’t an Ashinaka student. Yata shows one final person the video still before leaving: Kukuri, who tells him she doesn’t know him.
Neither HOMRA nor SCEPTER 4 come away looking particularly competent this week, as Yata and Kamamoto do a half-assed job canvassing the school (they’re too shy to ask girls), both groups end up scaring the hell out of the students and administration, and just for kicks, they have a battle in broad daylight on school grounds. Yata and Fushimi’s is definitely the first battle we’ve seen between a sword and a skateboard. Combined with Yata fighting while on his board, or break-dancing like Mugen, it’s right on the border between zanily cool and laughably absurd.
Fushimi is formerly of HOMRA, but switch sides, though he doesn’t seem particularly loyal to anyone except himself; he’s seeking “blood and flesh”, suggesting SCEPTER 4 may have a psychopath in their midst. Both the computer (which has Isana Yashiro in its database) and Kukuri (who is friends with him) say they don’t recognize the photo presented to them. It’s not the best photo, but it was enough for everyone to conclude Yashiro was the culprit. Did Kukuri honestly not see Shiro in that picture, or did she lie to cover for him?
Rating: 7 (Very Good)
P.S. When Yata calls Seri “The Heartless Woman”, she says only the owner of “a certain bar” – Kusanagi – calls her that. Do they have a history?
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