AGS goes out to the public by using Haruki's death to further propagate anti-Hound operations and to promote AGS, deploying the Viper unit to a Hound safehouse before the military intervenes to arrest them instead. The unit was later blamed for massacring the Hound members who had surrendered as terrorists in a news report, forcing Saiki and the others to hide from public view as AGS security forces are mobilized to hunt them down before the police and the military apprehend them themselves. Saiki was able to escape being killed after he attacked intruding masked men, who are revealed to be military commandos.