Civil unrest begins to descend upon the city of Ikebukuro. Amidst this chaos, Izaya grins happily as he observes everything going according to plan. Unaware of Izaya’s plan, Masaomi finds himself in an abandoned building, depressed, thinking about his past: how he ended up back there, and how a girl named Saki Mikajima still waits for him at a hospital. Izaya’s words, “You can never run from your past” ring through his head.