Anaido/History

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### **FILE: 04 Extended**

After Akihito Narihisago induces Koji Huyukawa into committing suicide, resulting in him being placed in solitary confinement, Tamotsu Fukuda is interviewed and considered as a possible replacement due to his high intelligence and deductive reasoning. Thus, Anaido is created and sent through multiple id wells to test his skills as the brilliant detective. However, his repeated deaths and inability to progress through the wells result in the session ending with nothing gained, forcing the Wellside to once again rely on Sakaido.

### **FILE: 06 Circled**

Anaido is mentioned by Kokuryu Matsuoka, who recommends that Koharu Hondomachi replace him as Narihisago's substitute on account of his uselessness.

### **FILE: 08 Desertified**

After Miyo Hijiriido, the third brilliant detective, is trapped inside a Mizuhanome cockpit within Narihisago's id well, Kura attempts to use Anaido to extract her. Despite his repeated deaths, he begins showing signs of improvement and eventually comes across the cockpit with Hijiriido in it. After the twentieth death, he is extracted and placed inside what is assumed to be Hunetaro Momoki's id well along with Sakaido.

After waking first, he waits for Sakadio to come to, and greets him when he does, neither of them remembering their names, and Anaido wonders if Kaeru, who is buried in the sand, has amnesia too. Sakadio flips her over, as as soon as they see her face, they remember their names and their roles as brilliant detectives. Anaido offers his hand, only for Sakaido to ignore it, with Anaido brushing it off humorously, to Sakaido's exasperation. He deduces that Kaeru suffered from dehydration by running out of stamina while digging for water, and also notices that all three of them have marks on their wrists suggesting they wore watches, which were stolen. Anaido then suggests they track down the "watch thief" by following the footprints, but Sakaido reminds him that they will likely die of dehydration before that.

After playfully mocking him, Anaido suggests they consume Kaeru's body to survive, which Sakaido shoots down, since blood has a high amount of salt and water is used in the digestion process, and questions whether Anaido really is a brilliant detective, who once again confirms that he is. Anaido then reluctantly joins Sakaido in urinating on their clothes to prevent water loss, and suggests they split up: he goes and follows the footprints, while Sakaido stays and examines Kaeru, joining Anaido once he finishes. After a brief argument, Sakaido agrees, and Anaido departs.

After a while, Sakaido catches up with him, noticing that Anaido is low on energy, who reassures him, and asks if they'll find a way out. Sakadio disagrees and points out the sun hasn't moved from its zenith, something Anaido noticed earlier, and wonders of the Earth's rotation has been altered, but Sakaido dismisses the idea that the world is anything but the desert they're in, leading Anaido to wonder if once they solve the case, the world will lose its reason for existing.

    Sakaido then suddenly falls down a hill into a pit of quicksand, something Anaido laughs at, before telling him how to escape, using hell as an analogy, with Sakadio finally acknowledging him as a brilliant detective. Anaido admits that all he did was apply general theory and hoped for the best, calling Sakaido his brother, the two finally coming to understand each other. They press on, gradually growing weaker, and Anaido volunteers to die helping Sakaido live, since one of them must survive to solve the case, but Sakaido tells him not to, having found the watch thief in a pit of quicksand, both of them breaking into hysterics at the sight. They dig up his face, before Anaido notices something else buried in the sand, digging up a Mizuhanome, though they have no idea what it is.

The two examine it, theorizing that the watch thief wanted them to find it. Anaido looks at the screen above the chair, and sees it's connected to a "well source" linked to "Kiki Asukai". Though the name isn't familiar to either of them, Sakaido decides to enter, instructing Anaido to eject him after ten minutes. Despite feeling a foreboding sense, Anaido agrees, wishing him luck as he pushes the "enter" key.

### **FILE: 10 Inside-outed II**

After counting sand for ten minutes, Anaido ejects Sakaido, who doesn't remember anything of his experience. Sakaido then remembers the marks on their wrists and realises their "watches" were actually straps from Kaeru's dress that tied them to her body, and that Anaido had removed Sakaido before they woke, hiding them in his pockets. Anaido reveals that not only does he retain all his memories as Fukuda, but that he discovered the corpse in the quicksand was Narihisago, based on the picture of his family on the body, and that they are in fact in the end-stage of Narihisago's id well, causing Sakaido to fall into dogma and see John Walker.

### **FILE: 11 Stormed**

Furious, Narihisago demands to know why Anaido betrayed him, grabbing him and preparing to attack him, but stops after noticing Anaido's smile, realising he wants to be killed. Anaido tries to egg him on, saying that he deserves it because of his pre-meditated crime, but Narihisago lets him go, headbutting him to clear their heads so they can think, refusing to follow John Walker's schemes, realising that Fukuda's existence is inconveniencing him somehow, and asks why Anaido deemed his life so unbearable that he drilled a hole in his head. Anaido refuses to answer, instead counting the newly revealed number plats. Noticing this, Narihisago thinks over their interactions and asks him his favourite number, Anaido revealing it to be three.

    Narihisago's then deduces that the reason Fukuda drilled his head was to escape his crippling arithmomania, and that diving into an id well seals up the hole, which, combined with his intellect, drives him to suicide again; Anaido gleefully confirms this. Though he expresses sympathy for his plight, Narihisago refuses to kill him, since he needs him to locate the cockpit, which has now vanished. Since Anaido has been in the id wells previous stage, he remembers the layout, and thus can lead them to the cockpit with Hijiriido. He confirms he can, since it took awhile to kill himself, but ominously wonders if Sakaido will find what he's searching for.

After leading Narihisago to the right spot, they start digging, and Anaido complains about the brutality of the wells, with Narihisago remarking that if it were less so they'd have to worry about people watching, before wondering how he could have spend a year in the well within a well, which astounds Narihisago, who theorises that the synchronisation of time in an id well and the outside is affected by the observation by a third party. Eventually, they manage to dig out Hijiriido and eject her. As she comes to, Anaido reminds of her true identity and their location, causing her hole to form, much to his excitement. She thanks Anaido for his help, to his confusion, and revels that John Walker's true identity is Takuhiko Hayaseura, Chief of Kura.

Anaido then leads them back to Kaeru's body to escape, though he is skeptical as to if it will work. Narihisago simply says that as the brilliant detectives, they must solve her death so that she doesn't resent them for leaving her side. In response, Anaido questions who Kaeru is and why she needs his help, but Narihisago says the important question is who Kiki Asukai is and why she looks like Kaeru. Soon after, they find Kaeru's body in the eye of the storm, allowing the Wellside to finally see and extract them.

### **FILE: 13 Channeled II**

Anaido/Fukuda is mentioned when Uraido dismisses him as a "third pillar" along with Hijiriido/Hondomachi and Sakaido/Narihisago, only to be trapped in a Mizuhanome within Fukuda's well, which only existed because of Anaido's existence, with Hondomachi acknowledging Anaido as the third pillar leading to John Walker's defeat.

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### **#14 To Be Continued**

Anaido makes a brief cameo appearance when Hondomachi recalls Hijiriido, Sakaido and Anaido's dive into Narihisago's well as she realises the nature of the observer effect on Mana Tsurumi's id well.