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

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Adam breaks Shirase out of jail at Chūya's behest, but Verlaine storms the facility and corners them. The novel was originally published with a quote miscredited to Cao Zhi from his work the Luo Shen Fu, it would later be replaced with a quote by Alexander Pope from his work An Essay on Man.

However, if you’re already familiar with Bungo Stray Dogs and would like to read the light novels for yourself, go ahead and check them out over on Yen Press. 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. While the plot is a little bloated, it does not suffer the problem to the same extent as the others. But as he makes plans to move up, a man by the name of PaulVerlaine-claiming to be his younger brother-appears and vows toassassinate everyone he cares about! Many shocks emerge over the course of its three-hundred-sixty-four pages – making this the longest in the series by a wide margin!

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. Along the way, many truths will be revealed…including the answer to Chuuya’s most pressing question: Is he himself even human? Verlaine survives after Rimbaud used his ability to resuscitate him and comes to terms with Rimbaud before the latter finally passes on, and Verlaine gets confined in a Mafia underground shelter as an executive training assassins. It forces Chuuya to confront the possibility of his own inhumanity while also pairing him with Adam, an almost human-like machine.

We can even add how both Chuuya and Dazai witnessed Rimbauds death, which was trival for Chuuya's development.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. What lies ahead of his path, for now, would remain a secret, but I can only tell you one thing that's for sure — that road is not a smooth and easy one.