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I am about 95% sure there's slash out there somewhere so you're probably not wrong
it'd be 100% if I had ever heard of this manga from sources other than Wifebolo

Dogs Vol. 4 (of 7, BTW)


The police(?) are investigating the subway incident. They don't seem to know about any of this supernatural/sci-fi stuff, so good dang luck with that. Mihai (formerly known as Old Snake) is having a chat with Liza, but doesn't have info for her. He does have one of those swords though. I think that makes 3? Naoto's, his, and Campanella's? Ernst and Heine are fighting and talking- Heine doesn't seem to trust him despite their past, but he insists that they're on the same side against the weird lab people. Liza, Heine, and Mihai fail to put together what's going on, but the subway thing doesn't look related to the recent string of kidnappings. Liza dispatches Badou, but specifies she wants Information Broker Badou. (as opposed to go crazy and shoot everybody Badou, I guess?)

Badou asks a cute associate named Mimi to look into those swords. She reminds him that he was going to avoid dangerous cases after the kidnapping incident with his brother. He flashbacks to his brother advising him to go big or go home. He doesn't wanna get killed, so he's gonna not do that. I don't think I believe him. Indeed, we next see him roughing up a gang for info on the kidnappings. (I assume this is the same string of kidnappings this whole time? IDK how far in the past this brother thing was.) All he gets is a fight and the name "Giovanni."

Some talking and chasing happens before another flashback to what I believe to be Big Bro's (alleged) death. Badou's trying to chase his old leads. The rest of the gang is talking about somebody named "Bishop." Badou visits the old smoke shop he and Bro used to frequent. Apparently the clerk has some kinda PTSD or something where she gets confused about time- she mistakes him for Bro. Mimi reports back with the name Magato Fuyumine. Some dude I don't know slaughters a mob I don't know. This dude is in fact said Magato Fuyumine, and he has a chat with a shadowy guy named "Herbst." Magato appears to have ties to both Naoto and Campanella, and enjoys killin' folks.

Flashback to Heine's Happytime Daycare and Dismemberment Jamboree. Also, cryptic talks with Yandere Doctor Mom and Giovanni. We've namedropped the title three times this volume now- Magato referred to underworld people(?) as dogs, Evil Mom called Heine(?) a dog, and Mihai has drawn a comically terrible picture of his attackers, saying they looked like dogs. Badou has received a mysterious invitation to an orchestra concert, which he sleeps through. :( The conductor was behind the invitation, and IT'S A TRAP he was the masked guy who put Badou's eye out. Magato catches Mimi poking around. The thing happened seven years ago, BTW. Magato is about to kill Mimi when Doug shows up. He has appeared before but didn't seem important, and in fact still doesn't.

Evil Conductor Man discovered emotions after That Thing With Badou's Eye, and has left his former life behind, except he has a platoon of tuxedo zombie lookin' dudes to sic on Badou. He regrets Badou didn't bring Dorothy the Traumatized Store Clerk. Actiony stuff I have trouble following ensues. The Bad Guy Train is on the move I think, and may or may not have just wiped out that one jobber and his gang. There is a whole lot of shooting and none of it has killed Badou, somehow.

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