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

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Chūya finds the "original" Chūya, the owner of the self-contradicting ability that brought him to life, before the boy dies. That guy was a wholeseller Chuuya was supposed to be making a deal with for the jewel trade he was in charge of. 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. Storm Bringer asks whether having a human soul or a human body is enough to make you human, even if constructed.

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.Chūya, Adam, and Shirase head to a secret military facility, where they meet N who introduces himself as Chūya's "father". 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. We’re reviewing every single light novel from the Bungo Stray Dogs series every month to celebrate the latest release of the fourth season and the announcement for the fifth season.

For his final journal entry, Rimbaud wrote having gifted Verlaine with a bowler hat that could control command sequences using ability metal powder. Adam breaks Shirase out of jail at Chūya's behest, but Verlaine storms the facility and corners them. in Storm Bringer, Iceman mentions Chuuya punching a guy through (several) ceilings for having asked him about his past. The assassin’s excuse for being present at the beginning is a tad shaky, and his goal feels ambiguous as well.If I may add, this novel is set as the continuation of the novel "Dazai, Chuuya, 15 years old" which was released about a year and a half ago. However, a man by the name of Paul Verlaine—the king of assassins who claims to be Chuuya’s older brother—suddenly appears, vowing to murder everyone he cares about! He was the boy who was thought to have originally possessed the self-contradicting ability that created Chūya. 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. 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.

N soon subdues Chūya and attempts to force Arahabaki out of him to control the singularity, until Verlaine frees him. With Verlaine succumbing to the beast, Chūya and Adam get swallowed inside, while Guivre tramples on everything in its path, including N, and heads towards Yokohama. After N mentions knowledge of The Secret of the Gentle Forest to a shocked Verlaine, N makes a short-lived escape, while Shirase ultimately rescues Chūya.

Verlaine then urges N to tell him about The Secret of the Gentle Forest, but N reveals that these pages have been ripped off by Rimbaud. 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.