Episode 14

Preview image 1 taken from the Beastars anime website.

### Adapted from

Chapter 53, the ending of Chapter 54, Chapter 55, the first half of Chapter 56, the ending of Chapter 50

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The Kind of Lead Pebble That Sticks in Your Throat

**The Gray Police Hound Runs** (灰色の警察犬とりあえず走ってる, *Haīro no keisatsuken toriaezu hashitteru*?) is the fourteenth episode of the *Beastars* anime and the second episode of Season 2.

## Synopsis

The All-Organism Council Meeting is discussing Cherryton Academy's situation regarding a Beastar candidate. Legoshi has been tasked by Rokume to investigate and find clues about who Tem's killer might be.

## Plot

The leaders of every species are meeting to debate what to do about Cherryton Academy, because it has not presented a Beastar candidate for five consecutive years. Before Gon can say something, he is booed by the members of the council, who claim that he is irresponsible, lazy and useless as the headmaster of the academy. The insults stop when they ask him about the student Louis, who was the most promising candidate, but inexplicably left before the due date. Gon explains that he too would like him to be the Beastar, but his morals indicate that it is wrong to have to drag a student to that position by force. They are only children who are at a stage where they have fun, fall in love, study, begin to understand their instincts and emotions, and there is no need to take this stage of life from them. To place an overwhelming burden on a single student is what Gon was always against. He ends up explaining his motives by arguing that heroes are not found, they are born; for him all his students are important. After the explanation, one of the leaders refutes that same sentence that if everyone is important to him, then that includes the culprit of the predation case that occurred in the spring. He still has not been caught and according to the police, it is impossible that the murderer is someone outside the academy, so it must be a student who continues to live peacefully as if nothing had happened. The leader who was questioning Gon suggests that the student who captures the culprit is the one who should becomes the Young Beastar by Cherryton Academy. Gon tried to show his rejection, but was ignored because all the council members present accepted the proposal.

That mysterious entity that was chasing Legoshi throughout the academy appears before him. This mysterious rattlesnake was always watching his every movement within the academy. Legoshi interrupts the conversation because he has to pick up his clothes from the washing machine. The snake is amazed by Legoshi's bravery, who, despite knowing that he was being chased by a snake for several days, still had the courage to turn his back on her without any fear. She examines every part of Legoshi's body and argues that it is a work of art. Legoshi asks her for her name, and she replies that her name is Rokume, the one and only security guard in the school. She mentions how she was left speechless from his performance in the school play, while surrounding Legoshi with her body appearing little by little. She also explains that she knows everything he has done for that dwarf rabbit, how unhinged he was, and the more she learned about him, the more intrigued she became. At that moment Rokume lifts Legoshi from the ground while putting pressure on him, but Legoshi only caresses her scales and notices the pain that she has been carrying alone. Rokume, after hearing those words from Legoshi, leaves him while she runs to the place where Tem died. Rokume thinks Legoshi will be able to solve this murder case, because his instincts assure her that Legoshi is unique and unlike the others, he has the necessary gifts that she lacks to finish all of this before the arrival of new students to the academy.

The next day, Legoshi is in the cafeteria wondering how he can talk to Tem's closest acquaintances outside the drama club, but since he is a carnivore, he knows herbivores will avoid him. Jack sees Legoshi and asks him what is going on. He tells him about what he wants to do, but he thinks it would be easy if someone introduces him to those people. Jack suggests that he talk to Els in order to be able to talk with Tem's acquaintances. Legoshi, following Jack's suggestion, talks to Els, but she shows nervousness because the person he wants to talk to is her ex-boyfriend. Even so, she agrees to help him. They both go together to the relaxation room and Els introduces Legoshi to Carl, who was a close friend of Tem's, but Carl couldn't tell him anything. The sheep and alpaca students inside the room start to boo Legoshi and he couldn't get any answers. Disappointed that he could not find an answer, Legoshi asks himself what he should do and observes a kangaroo student who was running the night before. He decides to wait for him on a bench until dusk to ask him if he remembers if he saw someone the night Tem died. The student denies remembering anything from that day and asks him if he has anything else to say. Legoshi mentions that he knows that he is the one who is stealing gym clothes from the girls' locker rooms. Caught in that situation, he tries to hit him to escape, but is defeated by Legoshi. The next morning, Tao and Kibi congratulate Legoshi for having stopped the thief. At that moment Carl passes by Legoshi's seat, giving him Tem's diary. At dusk, Legoshi reads the diary's last few entries. Legoshi goes looking for Rokume to tell her that he will accept the proposal to search for Tem's murderer.

The Shishigumi are in a butcher shop making a deal with an old snapping turtle. They offer him protection from the other rival gangs in the Black Market in exchange for certain cash payments. He refuses, arguing that they are the worst of all, and he will not speak until someone with more power arrives. Seeing themselves in that situation, they open the way to Louis, who apologizes in advance for all the mistakes the Shishigumi made in the past. Louis offers the turtle a deal in which he himself will be a lure to attract people back to the Black Market and therefore generate profits from the sale of herbivore meat; the fragile peace that exists in society is totally thanks to the Black Market. The turtle, shocked by the offer, asks why he does that if he is also a herbivore. Louis explains that this world is divided into two groups, but that people misunderstand this concept thinking that they are only carnivores and herbivores, when they are really divided between winners and losers. If herbivores try to ignore the truth, they will be devoured whole, and that is why he will obtain true strength through the wickedness of carnivores.

## Anime/Manga Differences

* Carl the alpaca and Roger the kangaroo are not in the manga. They are original characters made just for the anime.
* The episode features scenes not present in the manga. These include Legoshi asking students about Tem, fighting with a kangaroo student, reading Tem's diary, and looking for Rokume in order to accept her proposal to catch Tem's killer.