Masaomi Kida is out about town, fervently trying to pick up girls, while Mikado tags along, feeling a bit confused and bewildered. They run into a foreigner named “Simon Brezhnev” who tries to attract customers to the Russia Sushi Restaurant where he works. Shizuo Heiwajima and Tom Tanaka are around as well, collecting debts. Elsewhere, Seiji Yagiri is feverishly searching for a “certain someone”, while Anri Sonohara searches for a friend who hasn’t attended school since the first day. Various people intermingle throughout Ikebukuro as rumors of the “Dollars” spread.

Mikado notices his classmate Anri being bullied in an alleyway. He goes to save her, but not before a voice calls out; a voice belonging to the perpetually unaffected information broker Izaya Orihara.