This long-running series centers on people who specialize in settling grudges on behalf of others, meeting cruelty with carefully arranged consequences rather than simple violence. The arrangement gives each case a procedural, almost clinical shape: someone has been wronged, and the people who take the job figure out precisely how to make the wrongdoer pay.

The case at the center of this volume begins with a teenager who runs down a pedestrian with a motorcycle, treating it as nothing more than a game. He is sentenced to seven years in prison, which might suggest some kind of reckoning. Instead, he emerges from that sentence without remorse, and turns his attention to building an uglier version of his old cruelty, this time organized around video streaming as both tool and showcase for his crimes.

What makes this premise land is the way it updates an old kind of villainy with a very current delivery system. A person who already showed no regard for a stranger's life now has an audience and a platform, and the series uses that to sharpen the sense of threat without needing to explain the mechanics at length. Readers who want to see that kind of unrepentant cruelty answered, rather than simply punished on paper, will find the setup satisfying from the start.

Reaching the hundredth volume, the series has clearly built a deep well of grievances and methods for addressing them, and this entry shows it is still capable of finding new and uglier shapes for cruelty to take, as well as new ways to answer it. Readers drawn to stories about reckonings delivered with precision, where the people doling out justice are as calculating as the people who wronged others, will find this a satisfying continuation of that long-standing premise.