The Fittest:Survival of the Fittest.When GHQ Second Lieutenant Daryl Yan, operating the Endlave Steiner, arrives and intervenes, Shu is forced to retreat with Inori and regroup with Funeral Parlor. After commending hacker Tsugumi and paraplegic Endlave pilot Ayase Shinomiya for their hard work, Gai not only lectures Inori for allowing Shu to absorb the Void Genome since the former had intended to use it, but he also states that Shu can no longer stand idly by with the power the latter now possesses. Later, Funeral Parlor proceeds to stop Guin, who took a group of innocent civilians hostage to have Daryl and the Anti-Bodies execute them. Funeral Parlor launches an attack and tricks Daryl to drive his Endlave Steiner away from Guin's command center to hijack it. Gai then reveals himself and has a standoff with Guin, in which Shu heads toward Daryl, cutting through his cockpit and extracts his Void, a weapon that produces myriad of barriers. As the standoff reaches its climax, Guin orders his men to fire at Gai, however Shu uses Daryl's Void to shield Gai and deflect the lasers fired, annihilating Guin and the Anti-Bodies. In the aftermath, despite witnessing the atrocities GHQ are responsible for and what Funeral Parlor stands for, Shu declines Gai's offer to join them. The next day, Shu is surprised to learn that Inori has transferred into his school.