At the Taihei Detective Agency, Rei Utsubo, his associate Tsutomu Isaki and the wheelchair bound Hinako Saba reveal their main activity is intimidating and kidnapping the spoiled children of monster parents. He later buries alive a young man who has squandered his parents' money and from whom they have extorted ten million yen. Utsubo adds an assassin, Hiroshi Suzuki, to his small team and confides in him that he is concerned about the possible existence of Fable, who may be a threat to their business. That evening in a park, Akira and Hinako appear to recognize each other from one of his earlier assassination assignments. Meanwhile, Utsubo asks Isaki to get information from Kuroshio on Sanagawa's relationship with Ebihara, but Kuroshio is uncooperative. Utsubo later asks Isaki and Suzuki to get information on their next target, Itsuji Kainuma. Elsewhere, Akira asks Yoko to look into details of a murder four years ago in Tokyo. At work, Kainuma is becoming more obsessive about Misaki and when she mentions she will be working late that night at a new job, he plans to enter her apartment again.