Chuuya uncovers the truth that he was never the final experiment, only the prototype. Y/n is the replacement, created after his escape as a controllable backup tied to Arahabaki. When Chuuya finds Y/n hiding with unstable gravity powers and fragmented memories, he realizes Verlaine will hunt them as a reflection of their shared trauma. Defying the Mafia and the government, Chuuya takes Y/n under his protection, determined to give them the choice he was never meant to have.
They are brought before N, a calm and meticulously controlled man whose face mirrors one from Chuuya’s childhood memories. Without hesitation, N identifies himself as Chuuya’s biological father and the lead architect of the Arahabaki Project. Through archived footage and data projections, he explains singularities—abilities born from internal contradiction, phenomena that collapse natural limits and become uncontrollable forces. France succeeded in stabilizing such a singularity, producing Paul
After the collapse of the Guild and the temporary stabilization of Yokohama, the Armed Detective Agency and the Port Mafia enter an uneasy ceasefire. Both organizations are weakened but attempting to regroup. During this fragile period, Fyodor Dostoyevsky begins moving his pieces openly, aiming to eliminate powerful ability users without revealing himself.
Verlaine accepted Chuuya’s resistance with a calm smile. He placed a hand on Chuuya’s forehead, gently explaining that he would leave the “gate” to his power slightly open so Chuuya would understand the truth. The air trembled. Chuuya gasped as his body rejected breathing, sparks flashing before his eyes. A violent wind erupted from within Chuuya, warping space itself. Adam detected catastrophic energy spikes and fired at Verlaine, but the bullets were stopped and reflected by gravity, injuring
At a collapsed overpass, Verlaine dies—only to awaken as a crimson cube forces his heart to beat. Rimbaud, long dead, appears and reveals the truth: he used his forbidden ability on himself to save Verlaine. Smiling to the end, Rimbaud vanishes, leaving Verlaine alive, weakened, and finally understanding what—and who—made humanity worth saving.
Chuuya is restrained in a vast, empty water tank chamber, suspended by barbed wires embedded in his wrists and impaled by electrified stakes driven into old gunshot wounds. N oversees the experiment from an observation room, subjecting Chuuya to repeated electric shocks while administering sedatives and poison to weaken his resistance and fracture his sense of self. N explains that Chuuya’s will anchors Arahabaki, making him a unique controlled singularity, and attempts to coerce him into reciting an authorization chant that would overwrite his personality. Under drugs and pain, Chuuya begins to falter, his thoughts dissolving into hallucinations.
At only sixteen, Chūya has already earned a reputation as a powerful and reliable executive, overseeing a gemstone black market operation. To celebrate his one-year anniversary in the Mafia, his close-knit group of friends known as the Flags throw him a surprise party. As part of the celebration, they present Chūya with a photograph of him as an ordinary child—something they uncovered by secretly investigating his past behind Ōgai Mori’s back. The photo unsettles Chūya, hinting at a life he can’
After revealing the clone, N ordered Chuuya separated and taken deeper into the facility. The truth destabilized him, but the poison administered during the blood test soon worsened his condition—his vision blurred, his body weakened, and his ability faltered. When Chuuya attempted to attack N, he was shot repeatedly and subdued, N coldly explaining that Chuuya was never meant to survive as an independent being, only as a vessel for Arahabaki. Chuuya lost consciousness and later awoke restrained
After the Sky Casino arc begins, Sigma—manager and “owner” of the casino created by the Decay of the Angel—is revealed to be a pawn of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Sigma’s ability, Information Exchange, allows him to learn everything about a person he touches, but only by offering equivalent information in return. This makes him valuable, but also disposable.
Y/n is the other adopted child of Loid Forger aka Twilight and Yor aka the Thorn Princess. Yor has found out Loid is Twilight, the most skilled spy in disguise for WISE, and Loid has figured out Yor is an assassin. After Loid and Yor send Anya and Y/n to school at Eden College, they meet in the living room, each ready to confront the other. Y/n however was skipping school and was about to walk back into the apartment when Y/n notices yelling
Adam warns Chuuya that the mailman is actually Verlaine, but the car has already sped off. Chuuya attacks the driver in an attempt to stop him, only for Verlaine to effortlessly counter and knock him into the rear windshield, leaving him dazed. As Chuuya struggles to recover, Verlaine casually apologizes and calls himself his older brother, forcing Chuuya to face the betrayal.