Ep. 9: Satou infiltrates Musashi Heavy Industries while Kei holds Hashiguchi hostage in a deadly confrontation.

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Satou’s team breaches Musashi Heavy Industries, neutralizing special weapons to fight with conventional arms against trained anti-Ajin forces. Despite their training to incapacitate rather than kill, they cannot stop Satou’s superior combat skills as they ascend to the upper floors. There, they encounter Kei’s group, who have already captured President Hashiguchi and threaten his life to deny Satou victory. Satou appears defeated and is tranquilized, but his IBM activates, killing him to reset his state and subsequently eliminating Kei’s human members. Reinforcements arrive by helicopter, forcing a retreat with Hashiguchi, whom Satou kills to access a high-security lab. Meanwhile, Sokabe arrests Kei, Shimomura, and Kou for trial, but Tosaki tranquilizes Sokabe to free them. Tosaki drives them away, frustrated by their failure, while Kei remains devastated by the deaths of Manabe and the others.