Trap

Trap (陥穽 Kansei) is the forty-fourth chapter of ULTRAMAN by Eichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi.
== Synopsis ==
Bemular tells Endo he cannot get involved with the latest case. Dan walks into a trap laid by Ace Killer. 
== Plot ==
Yapool bangs on the entrance to the SSSP HQ and requests an audience. A group of SSSP troopers surrounds and aim their weapons at him. Yapool has no choice but to surrender. Somewhere else in the city, Endo arrives on a rooftop looking for Bemular, who arrived roughly three minutes after his call. Endo shows him a picture of the barcode found on the bodies in the storehouse sometime ago. Immediately, Bemular warns him not to get involved in this case.
In the SSSP interrogation room, Yapool again pleads for the SSSP to help Seiji, who went off on his own. He blames himself for steering Seiji away from the truth, causing the game he wanted to play to backfire on him. Ide recommends finding Seiji at once, but Edo is against it. He explains that to be able to hire someone to assassinate a research family under the wing of the Star Cluster Alliance, the mastermind must be someone of great influence. Hearing this, Ide almost calls the search off until Yapool admits the Star Cluster Alliance itself is the mastermind. He was a member of the research team sent to Earth and the engineer Adad is looking for. Even though there will be serious consequences if they get involved, Edo still asks Dan to get on this mission. He asks Ide to contact Shinjiro as well and proceeds to question Yapool more.
On the rooftop, Bemular informs Endo this case is alien-related and also much bigger than the incident in which Rena was involved. Endo protests, saying a police officer like him should intervene in this case of murder, but Bemular says otherwise. This case is a battle in a new war. A brand-new alien invasion is already underway, and Earth is still unaware. Suddenly, Adad appears on a rooftop next to them and wants to hear more about Bemular's conspiracy theory.
Dan perches on a tree near Ace Killer's base of operations, looking like a vacant summer house. Shinjiro arrives late and asks for a situation report. Dan detected no vital signs and saw no tracks around the structure. However, the house has a vast underground space. It is unclear whether Seiji is down there, and since they have little time, Dan will have to confirm it in person. Edo even assures him the mercenary would not bother to do anything if not paid. Subsequently, Dan goes down to check while Shinjiro is on standby. After going down multiple sets of stairs while cloaked, Dan arrives at the entrance of the underground space. He enters and, much to his disbelief, stumbles upon hoards of corpses in vertically hanging body bags. He tries moving one but accidentally triggers a bomb. A colossal explosion obliterates the entire house...
== Appearances ==
=== Ultramen ===
* Shinjiro Hayata
* Dan Moroboshi
* Seiji Hokuto (Mentioned)
=== Kaiju ===
* Yapool
* Bemular
* Edo
* Agent Adad
* Ace Killer (Mentioned)
Category:Chapters
Category:ULTRAMAN (2011 manga)
Category:ULTRAMAN (2011 manga) Chapters