Prologue
A passenger airplane
crash causes a forest fire in a certain village, and from the wreckage emerges a humanoid detective from Europole named Adam Frankenstein. He sets out for his mission after his aircraft's crash landing, then asks a village boy for someone named Chūya Nakahara.
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A year after joining the Port
Mafia, 16-year-old Chūya has now made a name in the organization managing a gemstone black market. 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. They hold a
party at a
bar where they are sneaked upon by Adam, who asks Chūya to cooperate in an investigation involving the assassin Paul Verlaine, whom Adam believes wishes to harm Chūya. When the boy refuses, Adam kidnaps him to the Flags' amusement and tries to convince him elsewhere.
Chūya soon escapes from him, only to be caught by Verlaine who reveals having slayed the Flags moments ago during Chūya's absence. 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. He then takes Chūya to the
bar, where he witnesses his
friends' corpses
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