Edited sentence: As Takashi dies, Akira goes berserk, killing all life in the approximate area, Nezu included.As the various groups fight it out over Akira, many of his private guards are killed off, and eventually the remaining few submit themselves to the military, leaving Nezu on his own.He fakes his death and later comes back.He later betrays Lady Miyako, as well as various other characters, as he attempts to take Akira for himself.He loses Akira in the ensuing battles.He misses his gunshot and Ryu in turn shoots Nezu.In one final attempt to selfishly take lives, he tries to shoot Akira, but misses, instead the stray shot instead hits Takashi (one of the three Esper children brought by the Colonel to take in Akira back to HQ) in the head, instantly killing him.The Colonel then orders his men to shoot Nezu.When he finds Ryu in a dark corridor with Akira in tow, he attempts to kill Ryu, thinking he is a member of Lady Miyako's group all along