Apart (アパート Apāto?) is one of the major antagonists in the Death Row Prisoners Arc.
Appearance[]
Apart appears to be a young man in his late teens, he has short orange hair with long bangs kept with neon pink paper clips (multicolored in the manga) that cover his sunken eyes who are black. He wears a black shirt with a orange wavy logo on it (the logo is omitted in the manga) under a olive green jacket with a white fur collar, as well dark gray pants and black laceless sneakers with a light gray sole.
As a child, Apart wears a white shirt with short leeves and shorts. He is mostly seen barefoot.
Personality[]
Apart is a perfectionist to the point of obsession. After perfectly dismembering someone into equal pieces to "look inside them", he realizes that one of the manga on the wall is missing, thus breaking the perfect row, which causes him to go outside to purchase the manga to fulfill his perfectionism, even commenting that he "may be kind of a perfectionist". This is seen again when interrupts a fight in order to rearrange some figures that had fallen over. He is also cold-hearted, barely caring about dismembering a dog when he was a child and feeling nothing when he dismembers people in his later years. He hates people who are unorganized, calling them crude and that they rub him the wrong way, saying how they annoy him without even caring.
Apart has an urge to 'connect' with people, which are people he sees as strong, as he says he's enjoying his fight with Sakamoto and feels like he can connect to him. As he's walking around Tokyo Tower, he says that he wants to connect with more people, which stems from his childhood loneliness and parental abandonment. He sees his dismemberment of people as his way as reaffirming that connection, as a way to cope with his increasing loneliness. His killing makes him wonder why life is so painful, since no one likes him and that he's human like everyone else, asking Sakamoto why he rejects him to 'connect' with him.
Since he has never interacted with anyone in a friendly way, when he sits at the table with Sakamoto and company, and they talk to him like a regular person, he comments on how weird they are, with him blushing in the process, showing that he's shy.
Synopsis[]
Past[]
Apart was completely excluded by other children and his mother never talks to him, although his father was the only person who actually cared about him, who taught him that it's what's on the inside that matters. One day, Apart's father gave him a doll, but a boy called him a weirdo, causing him to go home and take his anger out on that doll, imagining it as the boy who called him a weirdo, where he laughs afterwards. Over time, he continues ripping the doll up with scissors, then a box cutter, then needles to stick in its face as he's further excluded by the other children and his mother's ignorance.
One day, his father comes home and sees Apart sitting on the floor with the corpse of a dog he dismembered with a box cutter. The next day, his father brings him to a doctor to see what's wrong with him. The doctor says that he's perfectly healthy, with his father, in his frustration, saying how his son is perfectly normal. His father lifts the doctor up by the collar, asking him if he's calling his son a monster. Apart goes to his father, but his father pushes him away, as Apart take a pair of scissors and kill his father saying that there's nothing wrong with him and that both of their heads are the same, meaning that they're all the same on the inside, which made him realize that he was connected to everyone "after all".
Plot[]
Apart ended up killing 206 people before being arrested by the Southeast Asian police and sentenced to death for murder, mutilation and kidnapping.
Alongside Minimalist, Saw and Dump, he escaped from the death row of a maximum-security prison in Southeast Asia with the help of Slur. Apart is first seen at a mall in Shinjuku, having a meal in a McDonald's-like restaurant with the fellow serial killers before while he rants about the fact that the Big Mac he ordered has pickles, until Kashima ends up visiting him.
During the night when other serial killers are attacking some assassin agencies at night in Tokyo, Apart visits a assassin who points a revolver at him before he fully separates his body into pieces. He then notices that the man have a collection of manga, but after discovering that the volume 7 missing, he went on a mental breakdown before getting the missing volume.
Apart disappearing in Uda's self-destruction.
When Heisuke is talking to Kashima in the phone about assassinating the serial killers, he notices that they are coming. As Kashima is separated by Apart after hiding himself in a hotel room, Apart then crashes into the Tokyo Tower's window and releases a attack against Heisuke, before he is stopped by Sakamoto. Leading to their fight be started across the first floor corridors before ending up at the tower's elevators system, after learning his serious and tragic past, Sakamoto then forgives Apart before taking him away to be rehabilitated by Granny Miya. Apart then tells about Kashima, Slur and JAA's plan of annihilate the other assassins while at the same time, they use the serial killers as a form of distract to anyone who comes in their way. Hours after they arrived at the building, Apart confronts Uda who attempts to shoots Shin before his arm was quickly cutten off by Slur, hours later after losing its arm. Apart then disappears in Uda's self-destruction alongside 176 people who ends up dying.
Skills & Abilities[]
Overall Skills and Abilities: Apart has displayed abilities similar to assassins despite being a death row inmate. But he is still strong enough to being almost on-par with Sakamoto.
- Enhanced Strength: Apart was also able to take a punch from Sakamoto with minimal damage, he was also abe to slice half of the Tokyo Tower with its wires.
- Enhanced Reflexes: He was able to catch a replica of the Tokyo Tower with his wires that Sakamoto threw in an instant. He also manages to block a bullet from Heisuke with his wires.
- Enhanced Durability: Apart somehow managed to survive a fall inside the Tokyo Tower´s elevator after being punched by Sakamoto.
Equipment[]
Apart separates an assassin with his wires.
Wires: Apart uses wires for combat. They can easily dismember a person in an instant as well cut through solid metal like the Tokyo Tower structure. He can also use them as a swing.
Battle and Events[]
Trivia[]
- Just like other serial killers, Apart's nationality is never revealed. But he is possibly American given the structure of the houses on the place he used to live.
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