BEAST Sakunosuke Oda/Synopsis (2024)

Plot[]

Oda appears before a starving young man by the river. He approaches him telling he is concerned about the young man. However, the young man starts to attack him however he is able to dodge the attack. Oda punches him in the gut and carries him over his shoulder, introducing himself as Oda, an employee of the Armed Detective Agency. ^[1]

After taking the young man in, whose name is Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Oda tells him to head to a certain location. Later on, he arrives late at the cafe, who was then scolded by Kunikida, another member of the agency, for being late and about the rookie he referred to which he explains he was having a conversation. ^[2]

After Oda arrives at the cafe, he immediately sits down and orders to curry, paying no attention to Kunikida's yelling. Oda explains he was late because he was stuck in a conversation with an old lady. Kunikida tells Oda to excuse himself at some point. Oda explains they don't take his words seriously, Kunikida replies that it is difficult to tell when Oda is serious, and he should make an unpleasant expression. Oda says he does, and shows Kunikida, to which Oda's expression stays exactly the same. Tanizaki introduces Oda as Sakunosuke Oda, explaining he joined the agency 2 years ago and he'll be Akutagawa's mentor. Oda's curry then arrives, after taking a bite, Oda goes to the waitress and orders to make the curry spicier when Akutagawa's Rashomon cuts his neck. ^[3]

It was a premonition of the future 3 seconds later. After seeing the future, Oda uses his spoon to block Rashomon piercing his neck. Oda apologizes to the waitress when Oda hands Kunikida his curry, right before Rashomon impales the table on and around where the plate was. Akutagawa continues using Rashomon to attack Oda, however, Oda easily dodges each attack with ease when Kunikida yells over the commotion. Oda explains that at the riverbank he had found Akutagawa at, he had fended off Akutagawa's attack, making Akutagawa wanting him to teach him how to attain such power. Oda didn't know how to train someone and told Akutagawa he would mentor him if he came to work with him. After Oda's explanation, Akutagawa continues to attack Oda to no avail over Kunikida's protests. Akutagawa blows Kunikida's words off and Oda suddenly presses a spoon into Akutagawa's neck, telling him he's done enough. Oda explains Akutagawa wishes to kill 2 people, that is why he is honing his ability. ^[4]

Together with other agency members, Oda approaches Edogawa to ask for his help in finding Akutagawa's sister. ^[5]

Oda then later on arrives at a building together with Tanizaki, Kenji and Kunikida to stop Akutagawa from going to the boss of the pharmaceutical company which killed the plants Akutagawa and Kenji is taking care of. ^[6]

Oda is then later on seen doing some training with Akutagawa. Oda says that he will be treating Aktuagawa to udon since he did a great job at his tactics. However, Akutagawa says that if he is going to give him a reward, he would like to receive his stamp since his and Yosano's are the only ones left. Oda asks Akutagawa what he will do in Yosano's condition to which Akutagawa replies that he will figure it out. Oda then tells them he will be gone on a business trip and would like Akutagawa to take care of the store to which Oda knows the owner. Akutagawa then arrives at the store and is surprised by the children to which Akutagawa states that Oda deceived him. ^[7]

Oda arrives after his business trip and sees Akutagawa. Akutagawa shares his sentiments about Kosuke and their training in which he emphasizes that it's better for Kosuke to become a chef but can be an actor for his action scenes and futher tells Oda that Kosuke is not suitable for fighting and people like Kosuke will just end up in a coffin sooner or later. Oda responds that they should pursue passion and the beast inside themselves pushes them to get back up and make an effort to be calm but tough. Akutagawa then asks Oda of the point of having that conversation - to review Akutagawa's own actions before going on a rampage on the man in black. Oda responds that he wouldn't go that far the change someone's mind. ^[8]

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