Chuuya is on a rare day off when he notices he’s being followed and leads the men into an empty industrial corridor, already ready to end it, but before he can act something pricks his neck. His ability flickers out, the world tilts wrong, and when he tries to fight it nothing answers, his knees buckling as darkness closes in.
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
The afternoon market shimmered beneath strings of floating lanterns and drifting spice smoke. Merchant calls tangled with laughter while enchanted paper birds fluttered overhead.
The Port Mafia expected the exchange to be routine — a quiet retrieval in a warehouse district at the edge of Yokohama’s harbor. Intelligence reported a rogue ability user selling a stolen artifact on the black market: a metallic cube small enough to fit in one hand, but heavy enough to crack reinforced concrete when dropped. Mori sent Chuuya because the job required overwhelming force and subtlety in equal measure. In theory, that combination was exactly what he excelled at.
Chuuya is held captive in an experimental chamber, suspended by barbed wires and impaled with stakes that conduct electricity through his wounded body while researchers watch from above. Despite the agony, he remains conscious and defiant. N, observing from the control room, orders sedatives and treats him as a mere test subject, continuing the experiment without sympathy.
Nico di Angelo slipped away from the cabins, seeking the quiet of the woods at Camp Half-Blood. Shadows whispered around him as a pit scorpion emerged, its stinger dripping venom. He swung his Stygian iron sword, but the creature struck, burning and paralyzing him. Struggling to stay standing, Nico summoned the shadows, defiant even as the venom raced through his body.
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.
Injured and alone in the snow, Loid Forger briefly accepts Twilight’s logic—mission complete, survival optional—until thoughts of Anya and Yor force him up. Anya Forger Yor Forger
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
When Y/N realizes the silence in the streets isn’t natural, they spot the real danger—an Empousa, a shape-shifting predator, stalking Leo Valdez. While he remains completely unaware, Y/N must decide whether to intervene or risk letting him walk straight into a deadly trap.
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.