Minimalist

Standing tall and heavily built, Minimalist was a man of what may have been Jamaican origin, his hair worn in dreadlocks, dark purple on the page and black on screen, above blue eyes. He dressed with deliberate plainness in a black shirt, olive green pants, and laceless black sneakers with pale grey soles that echoed those of Apart. Two black barcode tattoos ran side by side across his forehead and the bridge of his nose, and a golden piercing sat on his left nostril.

Living up to his name, Minimalist was a plain-spoken criminal with a particular hatred of liars. Trivial concerns did not occupy him, a mindset he summed up by mashing his meal into a ball and remarking that everything looks the same once crushed. He usually held a flat, emotionless front, but pressure could flip that into sudden fury, especially against a slippery opponent or when something of his was taken. For all his indifference and murderous streak, he could still work in concert with others, teaming up with his fellow killers to gather intelligence on Taro Sakamoto.

Before his arrest, Minimalist had taken over 370 lives, a toll that gave him the highest body count of his group and earned him a death sentence from Southeast Asian authorities on charges of murder and armed robbery. With Slur's help he and three other killers faked their deaths and broke out of a maximum-security prison, then gathered at a mall eatery in Shinjuku to await Kashima, who handed them a roster of targets that included Sakamoto, Nagumo, Osaragi, and Shishiba. The warning to stay cautious only irritated him, so he crushed the table into a ball and swore the whole list would be dead within the month.

He carried on murdering across Japan, leaving a trail of balled corpses, until he made for Sakamoto's shop and found only Nagumo there, disguised as Aoi. When the trick unraveled, Nagumo dropped a die into his mouth, called the number three, and took his head with the third blade of his weapon. His method throughout was to fold people into small, dense spheres, backed by a grip strong enough to wreck tables, shelves, and bodies alike, though it left him hopelessly outmatched against an Order member like Nagumo.