Mikado Ryūgamine leaves his country home to attend Raira Academy, a high school in Ikebukuro, with his childhood friend Masaomi Kida. Three kidnappers strategically seize a teenage girl. As the three kidnappers wait at an exchange point, a helmeted person on a black motorcycle appears and attacks the leader and supporter. The driver drives away, but the motorcyclist gives chase. The driver rams the motorcyclist off their bike. The driver gets out of their vehicle, only to discover that the motorcyclist is headless. The motorcyclist then gets up and slashes the driver with a conjured scythe, and the driver falls to his knees.