Claw
~7th Division~
Japanese Title:
"爪" ～第７支部～
"Tsume" ~Dai Nana Shibu~
Original Air Date:
6 September 2016
As Sakurai and Koyama herd the Awakening Lab kids through the facility to a holding cell, Koyama debriefs the other on his, um, adventure securing Ritsu. Turns out Koyama done goofed up something fierce. Terada, another Scar, overhears the two and, hoping to secure his own position in Claw, offers to fix the problem for them. He heads straight to the Awakening Lab... right into Teru and Mob's torture trap.
The Awakening Lab children get roughed up a bit by Claw lackeys. Ritsu, seeing a man who looks to be in charge here, attempts to lie the group's way out of this situation. The man, whose name is Mutō, isn't buying this. He picks a kid at random, demanding to see his powers: it's Kaito, the younger of the Shiratori twins. Silence from Kaito leads Mutō to drag the scared boy off. His screams rip through the air, followed a beat later by the bloody result.
Meanwhile, a car floats in the sky above Claw's 7th Division headquarters in a forest—Terada's; Mob is 'driving' it from the backseat, with Dimple and Teru navigating. The Claw enforcer makes a run for it after Mob crash-lands the car, then seeks to atone for his earlier mistake in letting two kids capture him. Thanks to Mob's ridiculous power advantage and Teru's quick thinking, that attempt backfires.
Daichi makes telepathic contact with his brother: Kaito is still alive, somewhere. Ritsu comes up with a clever escape plan to rescue him that uses everyone's strengths, while neatly covering their tracks.
Teru uses a skill he learned from the prostrate Terada to ensnare a couple of security guards. Dimple possesses one and breaks the trio into the building, where they learn where Ritsu is being held. Despite Teru's crushing security cameras ahead of them, Claw is alerted to their presence anyway. Dimple, Mob and Teru prepare to split up in search of Ritsu when a familiar face appears from around a corner. It's Koyama, nearly salivating at the prospect of finishing Mob off...
Tropes appearing in this episode include:
- Backseat Driver: Literal and subverted. Mob, silent the whole time, telekinetically steers Terada's car from its backseat.
- Brainwashing: Averted. Unfortunately for Mutō, he selects one of the Shiratori brothers as his first victim. The twins can still communicate with each other after Kaito's apparent death, breaking his attempt at terrifying the Awakening Lab teens into submission.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- Mob vs. Terada, in which the latter is made the unwitting filling in a tree-trunk sandwich.
- Mob vs. Koyama, round 2. See the Metronomic Man Mashing example below.
- Flipping the Bird: Terada's Air Whips technique involves a double-handed version.
- Hero-Worshipper: Teru's
rather fawning praise after Mob's effortless crushing of Terada and Koyama. - Metronomic Man Mashing: Koyama, unfortunate enough to face Mob again after injuring his brother. Mob wields the unsuspecting man like a meteorite to replicate the surface of the moon in a long hallway.
- Power Copying: Teru assimilates Terada's Air Whips technique after seeing it in action only once. He uses it to help break them into Claw's 7th Division.
- Torture for Fun and Information: Teruki dunking Terada in order to extract the location of Claw's headquarters, but mostly for his own amusement. Whatever malice Teru visited upon the enforcer's accomplices in the foreground—unconscious, in varying states of undress, and propped up at compromised angles—is left up to the viewer's imagination.
- Understatement: Mob's quiet response after bashing Koyama into oblivion.Mob: Sorry for being so noisy.
