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Chapter 9
Flight 009
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Chapter Title Birdman Watching
Volume 3
Pages 34
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Birdman Watching is the ninth chapter of the Birdmen manga series. In this chapter, the Bird Club plays a game of tag, and Kamoda reveals more of his elementary school past with Karasuma. Karasuma finds a clip of his fight against his blackout, where he accidentally doxxes Takayama.

Summary[]

Under Sagisawa's leadership, the five Birdmen (Takayama, Karasuma, Kamoda, Sagisawa, and Umino) form the Bird Club with the goal of improving teamwork in order to overcome potential future difficulties. Karasuma is cajoled into becoming the vice-president.

Karasuma briefly recounts his experience fighting his blackout, concluding that though it was fairly easy to stay alive, he didn't feel strong enough to defeat the blackout. The Bird Club chooses the game of tag as their first exercise, with Takayama counting down from 100 before flying out to find them. Within several minutes, Kamoda, Sagisawa, and Umino are caught, leaving Karasuma the only one left standing.

Karasuma, standing by within the clouds, considers Takayama's strange ability to locate them from long distances away, and reasons that he must be able to sense Takayama's location, as well. Further consideration leads him to suspect that Takayama is actively hiding his location, and Karasuma attempts to call out to Takayama with his mind, asking why Takayama didn't appear when they first tried to summon him on the sky terrace. Takayama responds within Karasuma's mind, pointing out that it was Karasuma who willed Takayama to stay away. Karasuma deduces that Takayama must be nearby, and when Karasuma successfully dodges out of Takayama's grasp, a chase ensues.

Meanwhile, Umino returns to the sky terrace to join Kamoda and Sagisawa. Sagisawa mentions to Kamoda about what Karasuma had told him about their time in elementary school, when Karasuma locked up the bullies in the construction site. Kamoda, mildly perplexed, asks Sagisawa whether Karasuma only talked about himself, before further revealing that the bullies turned to picking on Kamoda after he initiated friendship with Karasuma. Karasuma carefully documented the evidence of their bullying, and offered Kamoda the chance to punish them. However, Kamoda, who still considered the bullies his friends, refuses Karasuma's offer. Instead, they opted to bait the bullies into physically attacking them before revealing the evidence that Karasuma had painstakingly collected as a threat to keep quiet. After listening to this tale, Sagisawa concludes that Karasuma was Kamoda's hero, to which Kamoda cheerfully agrees. At this time, Takayama returns with Karasuma in tow; Karasuma had been unwilling to give up, until Takayama was forced to punch him in the stomach.

After returning home, Karasuma compiles the information he learned from that night's training session. Birdmen are capable of communicating with their comrades from a great distance, and once this ability is under control, they can have a grasp on each others' physical location. There's a strong likelihood that there are other Birdmen aside from the members of the Bird Club, and Karasuma considers the possibility of communicating with the other Birdmen, though there's no telling whether these Birdmen would be friendly towards their cause or not. Karasuma further muses on the idea of the Birdmen connecting as a network via holding hands, likening it to how individual PCs can be linked to perform at the operational power of supercomputers. The chapter concludes with Karasuma finding a new video clip on Birdmen, which captures a segment of his fight with his blackout, in which he accidentally doxxes Takayama's name.

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