第6話: 二階堂の脱出、シンと呪術師の過去、そして下水道誘拐

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Nikaido evades Noi, finding her way to Risu. Trying to abduct him, Nikaido punches En and shatters his mask, enraging him and causing a huge magic outburst that covers everything in mushrooms. Risu, unaffected by En's magic due to it powering his prosthetic body, uses the confusion to flee. Nikaido also narrowly escapes but is injured, forcing Caiman to take her to Vaux when a huge mushroom sprouds from within her back. Speaking with Vaux and Kasukabe, Caiman learns they know Shin as a former patient. A flashback shows that sorcerers were historically considered a lesser caste in Hole, hunted and killed by human gangs. Shin, unaware his late mother was a sorcerer, accidentally bleeds magic dust at work, causing his boss to inform the local vigilantes. Fleeing, Shin returns home to find his father has been tortured to death by the vigilantes, prompting him to single-handedly murder them with a claw hammer. Shin uses hospital equipment to vivisect his arms and try surface his magic veins, hoping to increase their power at risk of bleeding to death; he is found by Drs. Vaux and Kasukabe, who reconstruct his arms and surface his veins, fully activating Shin's magic but leaving his arms paralyzed. Following Shin's surgery, Vaux and Kasukabe receive a large influx of magic victims: the remaining local vigilantes, whom Shin has dismantled into living pieces using his newly acquired magic, leading to the dissolution of Hole's vigilantes. In the present, Kasukabe insists to Caiman that Nikaido is a sorcerer, noting that they operated on her and that sorcerers have distinct anatomy due to their magic veins. Hearing a scream, Caiman runs to her room and finds she's been abducted from her bed. Pursuing the kidnapper, Kaiman follows them into the sewers at the alley where he first awoke. Pinned by the kidnapper's giant humanoid cockroach, Johnson, the Kidnapper mistakenly believes that crystalized beads of magic powder in sorcerers are gemstones that can turn him into a sorcerer; cutting off the Kidnapper's feet and throwing it to distract Johnson, the Kidnapper claims to recognize Caiman and Nikaido from the day the former appeared, only to die from blood loss. (Source: Wikipedia)