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Commotion (騒音 Sōon?) is the 3rd chapter of Karneval by Touya Mikanagi.

Short Summary[]

On the train, Nai begins hearing noises, and soon discovers that Gareki is unable to hear them. Shortly thereafter, Hirato bursts through the ceiling of the train and attacks Gareki. However, he stops after seeing that Nai has a ticket, and heads to the front of the train to stop the hijackers, who have kidnapped the man that laid them off. Hirato then allows himself to be captured, until Nai and Gareki arrive, giving him enough time to fight the hijackers. The group soon discovers that the train is rigged with explosives, prompting Hirato to cut the train in half, allowing the rigged carts to explode well away from them. Upon stopping safely, Hirato approaches Palnedo and requests him for questioning, but the elderly man declines, saying he is sick. In his car, Palnedo requests his Doctor to capture Nai, saying that Hirato has also taken an interest in him.

Long Summary[]

Hirato crashing down

Hirato crashes through the train roof

Still unaware of the hijacking situation, Nai begins to hear a ringing noise, prompting him to search for the source. Gareki, seeing this, begins question Nai as to what he's doing. Nai then reveals that he hears a strange noise, but Gareki dismisses this, saying that everything is as quiet as can be. However, upon saying this, Gareki looks at their empty compartment, and begins to think it strange that they're the only apparent passengers on the train. Gareki then leaves his seat, causing Nai to wonder what he's doing. Gareki reveals his suspicions to Nai, but, as he tells him to stay where he is, Hirato comes crashing through the train roof.

As they stand confused, Hirato withdraws his cane, prompting Gareki to point his gun at the black-cloaked man. Hirato, however, quickly knees Gareki in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Hirato, musing at the situation, soon realizes his mistake, as he sees that Nai has a boarding ticket. Hearing the commotion, several hijackers rush to the back of the train, but they are easily dealt with by Hirato.

Hirato leaves the boys in search of the rest of the hijackers, Nai's curiosity making him run after him. He sees a large group of hijackers through the train car window and says this to Gareki, only to be knocked on the head by the latter for carelessly looking at the bad guys. As Hirato speaks with the hijackers, who have a CEO, his granddaughter, and Hirato's subordinate hostage, he discovers the men have all been laid off and are planning to blow up the train, along with everyone in it.

After seeing one of the girls shaking in fear, Nai wants to help her just like Gareki helped him escape from Mine and wonders if he can do that too. Cluelessly he wanders into the train car, surprising the hijackers and alerting them to their presence. Gareki grabs Nai and pulls him back, forcing him to run away. Some of the hijackers chase after them, but the others are incapacitated during the distraction, and Hirato orders Tsukumo to find them. Cornered by Hirato, one of the hijackers hits the switch to detonate the bombs that had been planted in all of the train cars to kill the CEO.

When the hijackers catch up to them, Gareki spots the girl from before and shouts at them not to harm the unarmed girl. However, his warnings are unnecessary as Tsukumo easily deals with the hijackers. Nai hears something and pulls both Gareki and Tsukumo back just before one of the bombs explode in another car, explaining that he heard an odd sound. Hirato finds them and orders them all to run to the front of the train.

They get back to the car where the hijackers were tied up by Hirato, who explains further about the bombs. As he's finishing, however, one of the hijackers collapses, having swallowed some poison so they wouldn't be able to interrogate them about the locations of the remaining explosives.

Characters in Order of Appearance[]

Characters in bold denote the character's proper appearance
Characters in italic are only seen briefly and have yet to make a proper appearance.

  1. Nai
  2. Gareki
  3. Hirato
  4. Tsukumo
  5. Erishuka
  6. Palnedo
  7. Uro

Magic[]

Magic in bold denotes the magic's first appearance.

  • Vakuum

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