Bōryaku -intrigue-.AGS goes out to the public by using Haruki's death to further propagate anti-Hound operations and to promote AGS, deploying the Viper unit to a Hound safehouse, where the military intervenes to arrest them instead. The unit is then blamed for massacring the Hound members who had peacefully surrendered as terrorists in a news report, forcing Saiki and the others to hide from public view while AGS security forces are mobilized to hunt them down before the police and the military apprehend them themselves. Saiki is able to escape being killed after he attacks intruding masked men, who are revealed to be military commandos. The other members of the Viper unit also are forced to contend with masked commandos, in their rush to escape and regroup in order to figure out what's going on.