An anti-AGS riot turns sour when Rudra threatened to use force to settle it after a bombing incident was credited to Hounds, a group of supposedly anti-PMC terrorists when mainstream news media claim that they were simply just extremists not out to kill. Haruki has doubts over the claims and visits Ulla Chiaki, the main leader of Hounds and a friend of Haruki who tells him that he and the others didn't plant the bomb in the mall. However, public pressure over pro and anti-Hound groups has forced AGS to conduct an anti-terrorist mission. The Blademen were deployed to locate them, only for their systems to be hacked in order to give Ulla and the others the chance to escape.
