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Gokuto Jihen Shuibanashi -Akushoku- Light Novel Summary

As I promised, below I will give a summary of the "Gleaning Topic: Bizzare Eats" Gokuto Jihen 45 page Light Novel (available for 300 yen on BOOTH). Please support the official release by purchasing this light novel! It's displayed like a yotsume toji book. The plot is Hirahara centric! A synopsis is as follows:

Hirahara is assigned to investigate a culprit who stole the arm of another Escort from the Intelligence Bureau under the Court of Enma. He heads to an abandoned hotel in the mountains and starts his investigations, navigating it's many rooms and floors while avoiding humans and fighting on an empty stomach.

Spoilers below (of course) so proceed with caution!

The story starts with a deceased one crashing through the window of an abandoned hotel, into the empty parking lot where the moon shines bright. Beyond, in the building of the hotel, a pair of yellow eyes stare forward.

Cut back to half a day earlier.

Hirahara, in his usual spacey way, is getting assigned a job from Rokkaku - a member of the Intelligence Bureau had his arm stolen from him during an investigation and Hirahara has to get it back. Hirahara's lax attitude towards the whole situation an inability to read complicated kanji (he's me for real) causes Rokkaku to simply summarize everything for him, sending him off with an origami bird that acts as a guide through the mountains.

Upon arrival at the hotel, Hirahara notices that it's covered in dust, yet there's still a set of footprints that don't belong to him. He explores all the first floor to no avail, and continues to the second floor. Rather than finding any culprits, though, he realizes that some humans have pulled up in a car.

"Are you scared?" they ask each other giggling. Must be a test of courage. Hirahara really finds humans a nuisance - well, he doesn't hate them because their manga and games are interesting - they're just going to get in his way. He does his best to navigate away from those people, because with how fragile they are, if they run into each other, he might accidentally kill them.

Hirahara, sadly, hasn't eaten anything since dinner, which was already some time ago because the sun's long set when he arrived. He contemplates eating a bug, but lets it go by mistake. Next time, he'll just grab what he can to eat rather than abandon his mission for getting a snack. His hunger starts to mess with his intuition.

He follows sounds into a room with a giant hole in the ceiling, but doesn't see anyone there. He nearly misses an encounter with the humans by climbing into the upstairs room just before the humans enter the empty room, looking for ghosts. They leave just as quickly, though. Hirahara's really doing his best here!

Hirahara finds himself in a restaurant, and gets excited at the thought that he can get something to eat. Unfortunately, all he finds is wrappers and expired bentos, which puts him into tantrum mode as he stomps around. This attracts the attention of a high school aged girl named Aina. She's got a bag full of food, so Hirahara, ever the gentleman, just takes it from her and eats her food.

Aina's curious about Hirahara and asks him a lot of questions. What's his name? What's he doing here? What's his job? Hirahara answers with one or two words. He's Hirahara, he's here on a job, he's looking for a thief.

The two are interrupted when they hear a scream, followed by the sound of doors slamming shut and the car driving off. Hirahara notes this is because the humans left in terror. He wanted to ask Aina about it, but she ran off already. Again, being a gentleman and all, Hirahara gives chase down a long hallway into a storage room.

There, he's confronted by Aina again, but this time she's swinging a hatchet at him. Hirahara doesn't get it at all. "Hey I didn't do anything to those humans!" He says, thinking they were together and those guys just left Aina behind. But that's not why Aina's mad.

"Those two things aren't related at all!" Well, Hirahara has to really wrack his brain as to what's going on. Finally, it clicks. His hunger had gotten in the way of his thinking, but that's right. he's here on a job.

"You're the culprit."

That's when the fight begins. Aina and Hirahara really go at each other, Aina slamming Hirahara into the wall with a mighty swing of her hatchet. Blood drips down Hirahara's face, blinding him. He strikes back with his shovel, so hard and quickly that he's just hitting things. When he regains his sight, he can clearly see that Aina has lost her weapon. She bolts for the door, Hirahara hot on her tail. She just about makes it to the door when Hirahara takes another swing at her. She incapacitates him and takes his shovel. It's her turn to hit him now.

Just as she gains the upper hand, though, Hirahara strikes with his fist and punches her so hard, Aina flies out the window. She lands in the parking lot, unable to stand. Hirahara's about to deliver the finishing blow when - out of the corner of his eye, he sees something still moving around in the hotel. It's gone in an instant, and that distraction is just what Aina needs to close the gap and get Hirahara good with a kick to his face. It breaks his nose and shatters his teeth. He stands back up. The fight continues.

Tagami, meanwhile, has been assigned to assist Hirahara by Rokkaku. He really doesn't want to do it, but knowing he can't exactly say no, he heads to the hotel. When he arrives, he sees Hirahara and Aina fighting each other, their bodies basically falling apart, and still they're trying to strike each other.

"And what are you idiots doing?" Tagami has no time for this shit. Hirahara's convinced Aina's the culprit, he's sure of it. She ran away after all. But Aina continues to deny it. After all, she was just running away because Hirahara chased her. Finally, Tagami's had enough. He pulls out the paper that Hirahara didn't read carefully enough. Turns out, Aina's not the culprit after all. A picture of the guy is included in the description. Hirahara just jumped to conclusions, what a shame!

Just as Hirahara is rolling around, wallowing at his mistake, he sees something climbing the hotel wall. It's got a human like upper body with no skin and just flesh and a mouth, and it's lower body has bug like legs gripping the wall. As soon as the trio make eye contact, he spits at them with a gross smelling liquid and jumps at them - the actual culprit.

The monster goes for Aina - she's fresh meat and he's hungry. She goes for the punch but gets caught instead. The monster goes for the bite and rips her arm off with it's mouth, but suddenly Aina's dragged away to the hotel again.

It's Tagami, thankfully, as he did his best to save her from getting swallowed by throwing a chain at her to drag her back to safety. Unfortunately, Aina's arm can't exactly be recovered so easily. They can see it sticking out of the monster, along with other body parts that clearly don't belong to him.

Aina and Tagami have some quick banter with one another because Tagami explains the situation: Basically, a long time ago, there was a famine that drove people mad with starvation. This monster, previously human, ate everything - from insects to animals to humans. It changed his figure so much that other humans hunted him down, chopped him up, and sealed him away in the mountains. Overtime, he was forgotten about, so the Intelligence Bureau were in charge to watch over him. However, he was finally able to resurrect, attacked the Escort on duty, and escaped.

Tagami and Aina come up with a plan - they can see a special mark left by the previous Escort marking the monster's weak spot. Aina runs to grab her discarded hatchet while Tagami goes in to fight.

Hirahara, on the other hand, is having the time of his life. He loves that he can keep punching this thing to no end - especially because it just won't go down. He's a battle junkie through and through. The monster, however, is not having fun getting pulverized by Hirahara so he decides.

"I'll eat you."

Of course, the monster never gets a chance because Aina, now hatchet in hand, comes down on him and severs the arms on it's back. Tagami goes at him with the pickaxe, he strikes that spot on it's back marked by the other Escort when the monster swings the two of them off him. But instead of getting finished off, Tagami realizes that it's the monster who screams out in pain. The mark was actually magic that turned into ropes and recaptured the monster, letting Hirahara deliver the final blow. But uh...

Hirahara is literally starting to eat the monster. He bites into the neck, hating the taste of sweet and rotting flesh, but he can't help but go in for another bite. He's still hungry. Plus, the monster was the one who said "I'll eat you" first, so, it was fair game.

Aina, on the other hand, has never seen this feral man going to town before so, she drops this great line of "I think it's gonna give you diarrhea" as she stares on. As Hirahara enjoys his meal, Tagami notices that Aina's arm is growing back, which means the Escort who lost his arm is surely growing it back too.

When Hirahara finishes everything but the head, Tagami uses his great rope skills to wrap the head in cloth and bind it with rope, some kind of Escort magic seal to keep the monster from regenerating (at least not for 1000 years). Everyone has a moment to take a break, but Tagami's still a bit on edge.

If Aina isn't the culprit, then why did Hirahara call her a thief? Turns out it's because she took the food the humans left behind. I mean, Aina just felt like it was fair game because they came packed for a picnic. And besides, she doesn't think humans taste very good at all. Tagami, somewhat concerned, asks for clarification. Aina has, actually, tasted human before. She bit a stalker a long time ago, so it was just in self defense. If she had to pick between eating people and convenience store food, she'd rather eat the convenience store food.

Hirahara, for a moment, considers what it's like to taste humans, but Tagami and Aina both shut him down. That's too bad though, because Hirahara is always hungry.

And it's gonna be a while before breakfast.

#Gokuto Jihen #Underworld Capital Incident #獄都事変 #Insanity's Post #Insanity's Translations #Insanity of Mojiru #The interactions between Aina and Hirahara and Aina and Tagami are sooo good like treat yourself to the sass level on these three #Aina my new love my sweet girl please just be the sass queen of the mountains like go off #I hope y'all are prepared for the amount of fanart I'm suddenly going to be inspired to draw because of this LOL #I think I was really starved (no pun intended) of gokuhen content because I ate this shit up like no one's business...#...this is honestly the fastest I've turned around to read translate and summarize a light novel since Dancing with Dragons XD #I truly don't think there is anything funnier than my only translations here are Bucchigire or Gokuto Jihen related #You know the one about the color coded men fighting color coded crime #Please support the original work buy purchasing it! It's a really good price for what you get!#I considered not posting the summary because I was afraid it might affect sales but...#...I'm also the kind of person who thinks knowledge should be shared so if anything you could help me feel better by buying the original

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