Chapter 16

* Title card
* Cover page

## Chapter Chronology

**Chicken and Dog** (Chicken and Dog, *****Chicken and Dog*****?) is the sixteenth chapter of the manga *Choujin X*.

## Summary

Yamato Mori is an organization where good Choujin fulfill their role as Keepers and are registered. For them, keeping the peace in Yamato Prefecture and fighting the evil Choujin is a job. The Yamato Mori base is also a teaching center and a place where trainees between the ages of six and twenty-five hone their skills safely. One of these is Ely, who is now part of the organization and lives together with Simon and Maiko under the guidance of Sandek.
As some trainees are also students, she also has to alternate training and school, and even if she doesn't know the area very well, luckily there is someone to help her.

Meanwhile Tokio, having been late due to certain strange dreams, tries to use **Beastification** only on his legs to outrun school...with little success. Perhaps not everyone is naturally inclined to become a Keeper.Once at school the boy meets Ely and discovers that the girl gets up every day at 5 to train and then reach school and Tokyo already feels overtaken even though she has just arrived. When her friend suggests that he come to Yamato Mori too, the boy has some conflicts with his desire to become strong and help others and defends himself with the fact that he lives with his family and is not a morning person.

Sometime later, Azuma watches his friend in stress. Tokio explains to him that someone who has become a Choujin around the same time as him is going out of his way to help people and leads him to wonder if he too can achieve those results because he can't have a mental image of what it would be like. Azuma quickly realizes that it is Ely, whom he met in the morning when she was lost and tells him that if Tokio continues to think so, he will be left behind by the girl.

Meanwhile, Ricardo goes to get a couple of hot dogs, having fun scaring the passers-by before returning to the motel where he hides with Ririka. The girl has trained her paper "dogs" to follow the smell of Choujins who have been injected with Noh Mask serum so when her paper cutouts find the smell they will put a mark on the map to locate where their targets are active.

Richard wonders what their client will do with beaked Choujin and when she replies that they couldn't care less as long as they get their reward, Richard instead exclaims that curiosity is what keeps the spark in life and that it is important for Choujins like them to keep their humanity.

Towards evening while returning home, Azuma thinks back to his words to Tokyo and "being left behind" ... the boy fears deep down that he will be left behind by his friend. Suddenly a hyena appears in front of him but overtakes him and carries on. Azuma knows he is strong and can run fast, but against an animal he knows there's not any match.

## Characters

* Ely Otsuta
* Hoshi Sandek
* Simon Kagomura
* Maiko Momoma
* Azuma Higashi
* Tokio Kurohara
* Ricardo Terror
* Ririka Umezawa

## Locations

* Yamato Prefecture
	+ Yamato Mori
* Minami City

## Navigation

 **Volume 6**
 **Volume 8**

 Tower of Mourning Arc