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STORM BRINGER
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KANJI
⽂豪ストレイドッグス ＳＴＯＲＭ ＢＲＩＮＧＥＲ

RŌMAJI
Bungō Sutorei Doggusu: STORM BRINGER

LIGHT NOVEL INFORMATION

AUTHOR
Kafka Asagiri

ILLUSTRATION
Sango Harukawa

PUBLISHED BY
Kadokawa Shoten (JP)
Yen Press (US)

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RELEASE DATE
February 27, 2021 (JP)
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ISBN-10
ISBN 4041085179 (JP)
ISBN 1975343301 (US)
Chūya Nakah… Paul Verlaine Bungo Stray … Bung

ISBN-13
ISBN 978-4041085172 (JP)
ISBN 978-1975343309 (US)
Are you prepared to handle the spoilers
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NO. OF PAGES
484 (JP)
Bungo Stray Dogs: STORM BRINGER (
224 (US)
,,
Bungō Sutorei Doggusu: STORM BRINGER?) is
the ninth light novel in the Bungo Stray Dogs
series. It is set one year after Dazai, Chūya, Age
LIGHT NOVEL GUIDE
Fifteen.

PREVIOUS
The novel was adapted into a stage play of the
Bungo Stray Dogs: BEAST
same name, which ran in Summer 2022.
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Bungo Stray Dogs: The Day I Picked Up Dazai
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Description

Honest Trailers Commentary …

Japanese

太宰治とともに『荒覇吐事件』を終息させ、
ポートマフィアに加⼊して１年。

幹部の座を狙う中原中也の前に現れたのは、中
也を弟と呼ぶ暗殺王ポール・ヴェルレエヌだっ
た！

「お前の⼼に関わる⼈間を、全員暗殺する」

彼の計画を阻⽌するため、中也は欧州の⼈造知
能捜査官・アダムと⼿を組む。

それは横浜をふたたび呑みこむ嵐の予兆。

中原中也とは⼀体“何”なのか。射⼲⽟の闇に包ま
れた過去の真実が今、明らかになる――！[1]

English

It's been roughly one year since Chūya Nakahara

joined the Port MaIa, and he's got his sights set
on an executive position. But as he makes plans
to move up, a man by the name of Paul Verlaine
—claiming to be his older brother—appears and
vows to assassinate everyone he cares about!
Now, Chūya must team up with Adam, a
European A.I. investigator, to stop this lunatic
before the storm swallows Yokohama once
again…[2]

Summary

Prologue

A passenger airplane crash causes a forest Ire

in a certain village, and from the wreckage
emerges a humanoid detective from Europole
named Adam Frankenstein. He sets out for his
mission after his aircraft's crash landing, then
asks a village boy for someone named Chūya
Nakahara.

[CODE;01] Nothing more than 2,383 lines of

code some researchers wrote oK the top of
their heads

A year after joining the Port MaIa, 16-year-old

Chūya has now made a name in the
organization managing a gemstone black
market. For his one-year anniversary in the
MaIa, Chūya is surprised by his friends, the
Flags, who hand him a photograph of him as an
ordinary child after going behind Ōgai Mori's
back to uncover Chūya's background. They hold
a party at a bar where they are sneaked upon by
Adam, who asks Chūya to cooperate in an
investigation involving the assassin Paul
Verlaine, whom Adam believes wishes to harm
Chūya. When the boy refuses, Adam kidnaps
him to the Flags' amusement and tries to
convince him elsewhere.

Chūya soon escapes from him, only to be

caught by Verlaine who reveals having slayed
the Flags moments ago during Chūya's absence.
The assassin says he wishes to kill everyone
associated with Chūya and partially opens the
Gate within the boy, causing gravity to go
haywire and unleash Arahabaki's [ames, until
Osamu Dazai arrives to nullify it. He then takes
Chūya to the bar, where he witnesses his
friends' corpses. Chūya Inally agrees to join
Adam in the investigation.

[CODE;02] The dead feel no emotion

The next day, Adam attends the funeral for the

Flags and interrupts the ceremony trying to
speak with Chūya about Verlaine. Initially
pestered to a It of rage, Chūya gets ordered to
go with Adam, who brings intel on Verlaine's
next possible targets, one of which is Buichirō
Shirase. Chūya and Adam head to where Shirase
works to warn him about Verlaine, but Shirase
[ees from them out of spite for Chūya, believing
that he had betrayed the Sheep. The three of
them get caught and detained by Detective
Murase and the police. Dazai is visited by
Verlaine, who retrieves the MaIa's internal Iles
they had negotiated over two days prior.

Murase, who has since been bent on getting

Chūya out of the MaIa, tries to strike a plea deal
with the maIoso to be released with Shirase in
exchange for selling out internal MaIa intel,
which Chūya [atly rejects. Adam breaks Shirase
out of jail at Chūya's behest, but Verlaine storms
the facility and corners them. Chūya arrives
despite Adam's cautionary messages and Ights
Verlaine. Before Chūya uncontrollably unleashes
Arahabaki again courtesy of Verlaine, the latter
spots Murase and kills him—his actual Irst target
—before retreating.

[CODE;03] I want to see Chūya suKer as a

human

Adam examines Murase's phone and recovers a

call of Murase contacting his allegedly dead
brother known simply as N; Chūya deduces that
N is still alive and researching Arahabaki. Just
then, N hacks into Adam's feed and invites
Chūya to see him. Chūya, Adam, and Shirase
head to a secret military facility, where they
meet N who introduces himself as Chūya's
"father". As N reveals that France was once able
to weaponize an ability singularity that birthed
Verlaine, he isolates Chūya from Adam and
Shirase, bringing him to Research Facility B that
was modeled after the facility he was created in
as an ability with its own will like Verlaine. Chūya
Inds the "original" Chūya, the owner of the self-
contradicting ability that brought him to life,
before the boy dies.

N soon subdues Chūya and attempts to force

Arahabaki out of him to control the singularity,
until Verlaine frees him. Dazai arrives and aids
Adam to look for Chūya. The latter corners N,
then impales and Ights Verlaine. After N
mentions knowledge of The Secret of the Gentle
Forest to a shocked Verlaine, N makes a short-
lived escape, while Shirase ultimately rescues
Chūya. They soon regroup with Adam and Dazai,
where they Ind Verlaine and N in tow escaping
out of the facility.

[CODE;04] O grantors of dark disgrace

In his journal, Rimbaud had detailed his Irst

encounter with Verlaine, then known as artiIcial
ability-derived life-form Black No. 12, and that
he had deciphered The Secret of the Gentle
Forest. Verlaine then urges N to tell him about
The Secret of the Gentle Forest, but N reveals
that these pages have been ripped ob by
Rimbaud. In disbelief that his partner hid it from
him, Verlaine leaves N hanging on a tower crane
and sets ob to kill his last target, Mori. He derails
the train carrying Mori, only to Ind out it was a
body double and gets ambushed as per Dazai's
strategy. With no other choice, Verlaine activates
Brutalization and decimates the MaIa's squads,
but Chūya and Adam, per Dazai's earlier plan,
poison Verlaine in that state.

For his Inal journal entry, Rimbaud wrote having

gifted Verlaine with a bowler hat that could
control command sequences using ability metal
powder. Later, with Verlaine put to sleep, N—
having killed his MaIa captors—remotely
unleashes Demonic Beast Guivre, the singularity
living inside Verlaine. With Verlaine succumbing
to the beast, Chūya and Adam get swallowed
inside, while Guivre tramples on everything in its
path, including N, and heads towards Yokohama.
After Chūya is shown Verlaine's memories on
how Guivre was thwarted nine years ago, Adam
initiates his Final Protocol, his secret mission,
and sacriIces himself to incinerate Guivre using
the Shell built inside him, but to little avail. Using
Verlaine's memory and as per Verlaine's plea to
his brother, Arahabaki Chūya unleashes his
energy on Guivre and defeats it.

Epilogue

The King of Assassins Incident is swept under

the rug due to the intervention of European
agencies. Chūya sees Shirase ob to London,
while Chūya and Dazai receive British
investigators and Adam's creator, Dr.
Wollstonecraft, to conduct investigation with the
MaIa. Chūya apologizes for Adam's sacriIce
saving his life, though Dr. Wollstonecraft reveals
someone from her suitcase who ostensibly
turns out to be Adam. Verlaine survives after
Rimbaud used his ability to resuscitate him and
comes to terms with Rimbaud before the latter
Inally passes on, and Verlaine gets conIned in a
MaIa underground shelter as an executive
training assassins. Adam continues with his
investigations alongside another humanoid like
him, while Chūya later visits who appear to be
the parents of the "original" Chūya. It is highly
implied that the current Chūya is actually the
original Chūya, due to a scar on his right wrist
that would not have been present in an artiIcal
skill-derived life-form, since the scar was
obtained long before his skill was turned into a
singularity. After some time, Chūya decides
against meeting his parents to Mori's confusion,
as Chūya merely asserts that the Port MaIa is
now his family.

Characters Involved

Character Description

He is a humanoid
Adam supercomputer detective
Frankenstein from Europole dispatched
to arrest Verlaine and
eventually gets aided by
Chūya, Shirase, and Dazai
in the investigation.

He was a member of the

Albatross Port MaIa's Flags and
specializes in vehicles.

He was a gifted spy for

Arthur France and the former
Rimbaud partner of Verlaine after he
took and trained him under
his wing.

He is a former member of
Buichirō the disbanded Sheep and
Shirase a suspected assassination
target of Verlaine. He
assists in the investigation
alongside Chūya, Adam,
and Dazai.

He is a member of the Port

Chūya MaIa's Flags in charge of a
Nakahara gemstone black market.
Aiding Adam in the
investigation, he learns
about his existence
throughout the case and
how he is connected to
Verlaine.

He was the boy who was

Chūya thought to have originally
Nakahara possessed the self-
(clone) contradicting ability that
created Chūya. However, it
is implied in the epilogue
that Chūya is in fact the
original, making this Chūya
the clone.

He is a gifted Port MaIa

Colonel member and a former
soldier from the Great War.

He was a member of the

Doc Port MaIa's Flags and the
MaIa's medical supervisor.

She is a gifted engineer

Dr. alliated with Europole
Wollstonecraft who created Adam.

He was a member of the

Iceman Port MaIa's Flags and a
hitman.

She is a gifted
Kōyō Ozaki swordswoman of the Port
MaIa and Chūya's
superior.

He was a gifted member of

Lippmann the Port MaIa's Flags and
the MaIa's negotiator.

He was a detective and

Murase one of Verlaine's
assassination targets. He
was the younger brother
of N.

He was in charge of
N Project Arahabaki who
also has knowledge of The
Secret of the Gentle
Forest. He was one of
Verlaine's assassination
targets and the older
brother of Murase.

He is the Port MaIa's boss

Ōgai Mori and one of Verlaine's
assassination targets.

He is a member of the Port

Osamu Dazai MaIa and serves as their
tactical strategist. He later
aids Adam, Chūya, and
Shirase in the
investigation.

He was the leader and only

Pan member of the rebel group
May Uprising who created
and controlled Black No.
12, an artiIcial ability-
derived life-form who can
manipulate gravity.

He is the so-called King of

Paul Verlaine Assassins who has come
to Japan seeking Chūya,
whom he considers his
brother, declaring on killing
everyone associated with
him. A former spy for
France, he is Rimbaud's
former partner.

He was the founder and

Piano Man de facto leader of the Port
MaIa's Flags and a
craftsman of supernotes.
 He is a gifted member of
Ryūrō Hirotsu the Port MaIa and served
as Mori's body double.

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Gallery

Colored Spread

Colored Page

Table of Contents

The Flags congratulate Chūya

on his one-year MaMa
anniversary

Verlaine overwhelms Chūya

Verlaine visits Dazai

N brings Chūya to Research

Facility B

Chūya impales Verlaine

Adam sneaks upon Verlaine

Chūya and Dazai planning the

attack on Guivre

Verlaine revived by Rimbaud's

ability

Character Designs

Chūya Nakahara Paul Verlaine

Adam Frankenstein Piano Man and Lippmann

Doc, Iceman, and Albatross

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Trivia

The novel was originally published with a

quote miscredited to Cao Zhi from his work
the Luo Shen Fu, it would later be replaced
with a quote by Alexander Pope from his
work An Essay on Man.

References

n. ↑ ⽂豪ストレイドッグス ＳＴＯＲＭ ＢＲＩ

ＮＧＥＲ. Kadokawa (in Japanese).
o. ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 8 (light novel). Yen
Press.

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