Rudo

> "I reject everything you've said. And I embrace everything you reject. Because of that... I'll beat the shit out of you."
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> — Rudo, Gachiakuta, Chapter 16
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**Rudo** (ルド *Rudo*) is the main protagonist of the Gachiakuta series. He is the foster son of Regto and originally lived in the slums before he was accused of murder and sentenced to the Abyss.

He later joins the Akuta faction of the Janitors.

## Appearance

Rudo is a boy with large eyes and distinctive red irises as well as thick, messy, ash blonde hair with dark gray tips. Like most of the people in the slum, all of his garments are dirty and worn out. His clothing consists of a loose vest with a square neck and vertical stripe patterns; over it he wears a large hoodie that has characteristic shide-like patterns running down the middle; he wears loose pants and over it fastens a band of thick fabric around the lower shins and ankles that have a vertical stripe pattern.

Due to his parents abuse during his childhood, Rudo's hands were heavily scarred; from the tips of his fingers to his elbows, ring-like patterns form within the concentric growths of the damaged bands of skin. He wears large gloves with a ring in the center, given to him by Regto, over bandages which soothes excruciating pain from the scars and also allowed him to escape disgusted gazes from people. He seems to take them off only when his hands are being tended by Regto.

### Gallery

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## Personality

As a result of being physically abused and eventually abandoned by his parents, Rudo has become emotionally closed off and introverted person, holding an intense pain and anger that would never stop burning him inside. Due to being the son of murderers, he's been isolated at a very early age, with the only people who do not see him as a bad person being Regto and Chiwa.

Rudo has an obsession with the trash people throw away, often taking worthless things and repairing them so they can once again fulfill their function.

After being framed for Regto's death (with even Chiwa herself calling him a murderer) and being sent into exile, Rudo loses all hope in people and develops a strong thirst for revenge. He makes an oath that he will return to Heaven, kill every single one of the Celestials, and make them regret calling him filthy before throwing him away into the Abyss.

Obviously, due to his past, Rudo has major trust issues and does not want to befriend people from the Abyss. At first, he makes it clear that he is only willing to cooperate with them in order to achieve his goal of returning to Heaven. However, Rudo slowly begins to develop bonds with the people he's met in the Abyss, such as the Janitors.

According to Semiu, Rudo has something comparable to a curse inside of himself. This "curse", fueled by hatred, is constantly growing within him due to all the recent events. This is seen most clearly when, after being released from Amo's ability, he immediately begins to beat Amo up in retaliation.

## Synopsis

### History

Rudo was born and raised in the slums of Heaven. For his entire life, Rudo's arms were left scared and in constant pain. Rudo claims to have been given said scars by his parents, but it is unclear how. Rudo was later left parentless at a very early age, due to both his parents being exiled for being accused of murderer. Regto, another tribes person, took Rudo in and cared for him, giving him his cherished gloves. Regto told him to care for them, for if he did, a soul will dwell in it. It was this action that made Rudo cherish all trash, and he would begin to break into trash disposing facilities, becoming known as the 'Trash Vandal'.

These actions and scars made Rudo an outcast even in the slums, despised by many who were trying to remain crime free in order to remove the stigma around tribe's folk and their criminal past. The only friend Rudo had in childhood was Chiwa, who he later grew feelings for.

### Plot

#### **Abyss Wanderer Arc**

Late at night, Rudo is once again taking trash from a waste collection site. A guard hears and finds Rudo, recognizing him as the trash vandal from previous reports and alerts the rest of the facility to track him down. Rudo barely escapes, suffering a minor wound in the process, and retorts to being called a vandal by the guards. Later in the slum, Rudo is looking over the trash he collected, while nearby tribes people comment on him, annoyed by the fact the entire slum will face possible consequences. Chiwa then appears and scolds Rudo for collecting trash again. Some nearby kids' approach, commenting on Rudo's appearance despite not living much better themselves, and bring up Rudo's parents criminal past. The kids claim he is the same as his parents. Rudo glares at the boys, scaring them off. Chiwa comforts Rudo, and notices the stuffed bunny toy which he collected, which Rudo promptly gives to her. Returning home, Rudo finds out Regto overheard the two, teasing him for it. Regto discovers Rudo returned to the trash site and after seeing his wound, warns Rudo not to return to the site, as he could face the same fate as his parents.

    Regto gives Rudo advice on Chiwa, to which Rudo practices. On his way to meet Chiwa, he watches another criminal be dropped into the Abyss and wonders what fate awaits those down there, before being surprised by Chiwa. He expresses his feelings to her as best as he can, and he gives her the fixed bunny doll. The exchange goes well, and Rudo, excited by the outcome, rushes home to tell Regto. Not watching where he's going, he bumps into a cloaked figure. The mysterious person picks up a book they dropped and runs off, leaving Rudo confused by he continues on his way. He opens the door to Regtos home, only to be greeted by his impaled body. Rudo drops to the floor and asks who did this, but Regto, barely holding on, told Rudo to run. To change the shitty world. Before anything else can be said, Rudo is tasered by the Disciples who arrest him on the for the murder of Regto due to having his blood all over him. Rudo is hung above the Abyss as the people gather and watch his exile, calling him filthy. Rudo spots Chiwa on the crowd and calls to her, only for her to reject him and accept him as what everyone is calling him: A murderer. She drops his bunny and walks away. The crowd slowly begins to blend into one screaming voice as Rudo loses all hope. He spots on the crowd the cloaked figure he bumped into and is dropped into the Abyss. He screams up to the slowly disappearing island that he will kill all of them. He enters a void of total darkness, before appearing in a calm spot of sorts between two layers of clouds. This is the last site Rudo sees before being knocked out, and he awakens amongst a pile of trash with a terrible smell. Behind him, a figure emerges; a beast.

Rudo begins to run from the beasts, as more and more emerge and chase Rudo. The beasts seem to be living clumps of trash. As Rudo barely evades one, he notices a human skull beneath his hand, and curses out the people above for condemning him to this hell. The air around Rudo is deeply toxic, and he finds the more he breathes, the harder it is. He desperately searches for a safe place, only see a void of trash in all directions. He begins to cough up masses of blood which alerts the beasts. Facing despair, Rudo thinks back to how helpless he was when Regto died, but this in turns gives him the strength to fight the beasts. He grabs a stick and begins to clash. The endeavor seems helpless, as no matter what he does the beasts can regenerate from, or simply shake off. About of be crushed by trash, Rudo is saved by a masked figure with an umbrella. The man gives Rudo a mask, which allows him to breathe. Rudo realizes the man too is human, and asks him many questions, much to the man's annoyance. The man explained this is not the abyss but rather, the surface, and screams at Rudo to be quiet, which just alerts the beasts to them. He explains the beasts are Aberrant Beasts while transforming his umbrella into a blade. He enters battle with the beasts, but Rudo notices when he cuts them, they remain dead. The man disposes all four beasts and reveals himself as Engine, a Janitor.

    Rudo awakens in chains, being dragged by Engine. Engine explains the place Rudo came from is called heaven, and it's impossible to get back to right now. After showing his strong desire, Engine tells Rudo he will teach him what it's like to live in the abyss. Engine drops Rudo at a pickup point with several vans and leaves. As Rudo demands answers, a group of masked men come from the vans and recognize him as a sky person. The men take their masks off excitedly and are intrigued by Rudo. The men are seemingly hospital, offering to take his chains off. Rudo, however, finds himself once again chained up in one of the vans. The men show off their true colors, revealing plans to sell his body and clothes off for a very high price. The men claim to be doing this due to hatred for the sky people who have been dumping trash onto the surface for generations, and they force feed some food to Rudo. Rudo takes the chance to bite the skin right off the leader's finger who recoils in pain. The men prepare to retaliate but are shocked by Rudo's gloves beginning glow in his rage at everyone for their treatment of trash. Rudo transforms the chains, and the men are shocked by the fact heaven had a Giver, and they aim for the chain which they believe to his only weapon, however upon destroying that, Rudo transforms a tire, shocking all who witnessed it, some even thinking it to be unfair. As Rudo begins to give the final blow, Engine calms him down, and offers to train Rudo in his powers if he becomes a janitor, which he declines.

    Engine takes Rudo to a nearby town in the abyss to get checked up by a doctor, who is surprised Rudo is even alive. After the checkup, Rudo continues to decline becoming a janitor, but Engine puts bluntly that the abyss isn't a world where he will get information for free. Engine treats Rudo to a meal, and Rudo is shocked by the fact the abyss has a working society in it. As he eats, Engine begins to explain how his abilities work. Rudos power come from his Jinki, which is the thought that has dwelled in his gloves after years of being cared for. Aberrant beasts are another form of this jinki. People such as Engine and Rudo who can use the jinki are called Givers, and the Janitors are an organisation aiming to exterminate aberrant beasts. Rudo thinks about what Regto told him about souls dwelling in cherished items and is thankful to him once again. With that, Engine concludes the conversation, and gives Rudo the money he got from selling his clothes, to which his has an outburst. In his rage, said money is stolen by a cat, and Rudo begins to chase after it. He grabs a stick and traps the cat, only for an angry man to come after him and snatch the stick back. Rudo notices this man too is a janitor like Engine, but the man in anger begins to transform his stick into a bladed staff in order to 'educate' Rudo. The man swings at Rudo strikes the ground in front of him, speaking his name and calling Rudo a 'prodigy'. The man reveals himself as Zanka Nijik, and is a janitor acquainted with Engine. Rudo tries the calmly explain why he took the stick, but Zanka is having none of it, keen is beat the lesson into Rudo. Struggling with what to do, Rudo thinks back to a lesson Regto taught him, that he has to compromise in order to get others to listen. Rudo apologises to Zanka, to which Zanka too apologises for lashing out, showing a rather sweet side now. Rudo is shocked Regtos words worked, and the two begin to bond over their jinki and the janitors. Trying to go the extra step, Rudo attempts to smile which results in an incredibly creepy, almost mockful face, which angers Zanka. Rudo does not understand why he is angry and tries another attempt at a smile, which Zanka continues to be angry over. The two begin to bicker. The two realise they will never get along and once again prepare to battle, but Zanka too is shocked by Rudos ability to turn all items into a jinki.

The battle begins, and Zanka states that despite Rudo being a prodigy, he is no match for a 'super ordinary' guy like Zanka. Rudo is suddenly surprised by Zankas staff crashing in front of him due to never seeing him throw it, but before he can even finish that thought he is thrown backwards by a strike from the stick. All Rudo is able to do is defend against the endless array of attacks, and the one swing he gets in Zanka easily evades, leaving but a splodge on his cheek. Zanka pins Rudo down, the fight seemingly over, but Zanka notices the splodge on his cheek and discovers it is actually poop. Disgusted by the fact Rudo is using a plunger to fight, Zanka begins to flee, trying his hardest to avoid getting poop on him. Engine picks up Rudo and Zanka and finds the story hysterical, Rudo left shocked by the fact he is fighting with poop. Engine reveals Zanka will be Rudos mentor, and he is in fact the best jinki handler among them. In the back, Riyou was tagging along, and she is fascinated by Rudos hair, which he is left in shock by.

After arriving finally at the janitors HQ, Rudo exits the car is incredibly ruffled hair that had been played with by Riyou. The group enters the building and meet Semiu the receptionist. She uses her glasses jinki to measure Rudos potential and she is impressed at how well off he is already, stating the only training he needs is in his abilities. Engine gives Rudo a rundown of the janitors makes up and offers him to meet a few but is overwhelmed by the amount that were there so simply opts to head straight to the boss. However, it turns out the boss is away, so Riyou offers Rudo to observe their work.

#### **Workplace Observation Arc**

The request is a simple one, to clear out a group of small aberrant beasts. Semiu explains the details of the plan to Rudo, which reveals a lot of details left out by lazy Engine. The request will be in a contaminated zone so a mask will be required. Rudo looks in awe at the large amounts of trash in this zone which he refers to as 'treasure'. Riyou introduces the supporters, non-giver janitors who are still vital in the janitor's organization. Just one of these supporters are incredibly strong which both Rudo and Riyou find incredible. The beasts are then spotted and Rudo is overwhelmed by the amount, but Riyou claims they are perfect to observe to be being so docile. Needless to say, they were not docile, and they begin to run from something 'worst' coming, but Riyou remains calm, teaching Rudo to survive as a janitor its vital to have an ease mind. Rudo maintains an ease mind, even when a giant aberrant beast breaks through the walls, though perhaps it was simply shock. Riyou, however, is excited at the prospect of of facing such a strong opponent and faces the beast first.

Rudo watches in awe as Riyou instantly takes out a group of Aberrant Beast, not even seeing what she did. After explaining her jinki, The Ripper, Griss Lubion reminds Rudo not to slack off as he saves Rudo from a beast. As the group begins to clean, Rudo realizes how Janitors fight. Rudo spots Follo about to be attacked by a beast and jumps in front blocking it with an iron bar. While declaring his reasons for joining the Janitors, Rudo's Gloves turn the bar into a large jinki web. Confused at what he did, Riyou jumps in and defeats the beast while praising Rudo.

As Riyou takes on the large beast, the ground surrounding the area begins to collapse as the group has to retreat. The ground below Rudo collapses and Rudo begins to fall, and he begins to question everything that had happened until that point. But at the last second, Griss Lubion saves Rudo, and carries him to safety, reminding him it's ok to run. Following the mission, the group returns to the Janitors Headquarters and throw Rudo an abyss welcoming party. While everyone is celebrating, Rudo is sulking at a table. Griss sits down and comforts him, and upon brightening up, Rudo joins the party.

#### **Vandals Trap Arc**

After receiving a request from a merchant, Rudo is put onto the mission despite only being a trainee but is told he is on the mission as it involves a sky person, the people he knows. On the way he discovers Griss has a knife and an amulet which he prays too. The two are quickly scared by the merchant, who takes them into the building where the sky person is being held hostage, but the group quickly finds it's a trap, with Rudo and the group falling into a basement. Two Vandals appear, and profile Rudo as 'the sky person who's also a giver'.

Rudo and the supporters escape to find an exit while Zanka takes the vandals out. They quickly reach an exit with stairs but hear steps coming towards them, and are surprised Zanka was so quick, but quickly find it is not Zanka but rather another vandal named Jabber Wonger. Jabber immediately jumps behind the group, and targets Rudo, the skyperson who is also s giver. The vandal traps the group in by destroying the exit, Jabber demands Rudo come with him to 'meet someone', and brandishes his Jinki in the form of blades. Griss and Follo go to attack Jabber but are immediately cast aside by him. Griss gets in front of Rudo, declaring his desire to protect all his comrades, but Jabber is bored by the 'nobody' Griss is, and kills him.

This act leads to Rudo creating a large jinki using Griss's Hamsa. The sight of this excites Jabber to the point of drooling. Impressed by Rudo, he gives him his name, and upon getting Rudo's name, goes straight to battle. However, is disappointed when Rudo is not attacking but rather defending. After several failed attacks, it is revealed that the amulet does not just defend but rather predicts the moves and avoid, before Rudo promptly punches Jabber in the face. Jabber is taken aback by the action, and refers to Rudos jinki as a 'pain in the ass'. Jabber continuously begins to attack Rudo, only yo consistently be met with a powerful blow. However, the more he attacks, the more he pieces together the fact the Jinki only responds to hostility. Eventually, Jabber is left tired on a wall, smiling over the fact he hadn't had such a good battle in ages. In a final all or nothing attack, Jabber injects his poisons into himself, crying about the pain. He explains to Rudo he noticed the Jinki only responds to hositilty, and exclaims he's excited to see the outcome of this. Jabber falls silent before promptly lashing out.

Jabber laughs silently, before howling out and sprinting at Rudo. Just as he suspected, the Jinki would not react to his unconscious state which had no killing intent. Rudo is barely able to avoid Jabber, who begins to howl out again after being pushed back by Rudo. Rudo begins to tire as Jabber only gets faster and faster, and despite Rudos jinki hitting away Jabbers right claw, his left makes it through, nearly piecing Rudo. Jabber, however, is knocked down by Zanka, who declares he will punish Jabber but Jabber succeeds in capturing Rudo and prepares to leave but is stopped by a large group of janitors who he decides to fight.

Kutohni appears out of the blue just as Jabber is about to charge into certain death, holding him back with both her arms. She alerts him it's time to return, and while Jabber screams at her for obscuring his mission, she tells him the boss was smiling. With this, Jabber accepts the retreat, and Kutohni opens up her manhole once again. Jabber is screamed at by **Rudo**, before swifly retreating with Jabber into her portal and disappearing with it.

Rudo later mourns Griss’s death only to find out that he’s actually still alive and gets comforted by Enjin and Thoum, the boss Arkha Corvus later returns and introduces himself to Rudo and tells him a story about a woman in Penta who claimed to have seen someone cross the barrier without dying and asks Rudo if he wants to go and meet her to which Rudo accepts.

#### **Reaching to Heaven Arc**

After the mission on Penta the janitors return to the safe zone and meet Alice to get treated, to Rudo’s surprise he finds out that that Alice is actually the grandmother of August and Eisha Stilza, after they’re treated as they’re getting ready to leave August warms the janitors that a “shadow” will fall soon, Enjin explains that whenever heaven moves trash falls down from the sky and that there is a predetermined route allowing people of the abyss to build safe zone’s to avoid the falling trash, they’re later contacted by Semiu who tells them to come back through the back door to avoid the marauders attack on the headquarters, the marauders are driven away by Semiu leaving the janitors wondering as to how they found out about Rudo, later on the the janitors head to Done Dulse to recover from their previous mission, Enjin invited team child consisting of Brot, Dia and Guita to discuss the marauder’s who the janitors had interrogated revealed that they were tipped off by someone who wanted to find a weakness in the Janitors and had used the marauder’s to do it for them, the janitors then unexpectedly get attacked by the vandals

Zodel unexpectedly strikes up a conversation with Rudo getting his attention by showing him Amo’s boots before Kutohni uses a manhole to warps him and the janitors inside of an Abberant beast, he then uses a trash stream to separate the janitors, Kutohni creates several other manholes to send Jabber, Noerde, Bundus and Fu to send them each to the location of the janitors to eliminate and turn them into offerings while Zodyl talks with Rudo, Rudo demands to know what happened to Amo but Zodyl is uninterested and instead tells him that he’s here to share his rage, he introduces himself before asking Rudo if he’s interested in helping him bring down heaven, Zodel asks why Rudo is with the janitor’s who replies that it’s to find a way to get back to heaven with them, Zodel questions if they could really help him get back claiming that they’re only with him by coincidence, questioning his motives and if he’s planning on playing buddy buddy with them.

Later Kutohni informs Zodel that the janitor’s had defeated most the vandals remarking them to be tougher than he had initially imagined, before Kutohni once again creates manholes to warp Zodel and Rudo, Zodel is agitated by the fact that Rudo hadn’t yet answered if he wants to help him in taking down the heavens so he tries a different approach and decides to show him how he’s gonna get to heaven, explaining that he was the one who had created the watchman series items but hasn’t been able to make another watchman series item since but has created a special variant of aberrant beasts that feeds on jinki, he says that the watchman series contain unfathomable energy before feeding the boots to the abberant beast causing it to levitate to the sky, he says that people who normally use the watchman series go crazy unless the user has been through a sad event causing a part of them to be left behind in Rudo’s case being that he was banished from heaven, he explains that he had experimented creating imitations of the watchman series in the past which had created a core eventually turning into the aberrant beast they’re in and claims that his plan to bring down heaven was the accumulation of all his experiments as well as the friends that Rudo had made along the way informing him that they levitating beast will eventually pass through the barrier.

Zodel once again asks Rudo to join him claiming that he would be more of use in furthering his goals than the janitors can saying that they’re worthless and that all they do is fights aberrant beasts and compares them to trash that must be disposed of but this time Rudo outright refuses and says that he’s grateful to the for all, they’ve done for him and that he wants to get back at heaven while also living his beast life, Zodel while enraged transforms and attacks Rudo for being poisened by Hypocrisy and wasteful greed and claims that he will regret his actions, before the janitors arrive at their location, Rudo decides to stop the aberrant beast by attacking the code but is intercepted by Bundus who also shows up at the scene, while they fight Kutohni informs the status of the vandals after they had fought the janitors, Bundus gets defeated by Rudo but Zodel in unphased and informs him that they’re at the barrier, telling him that they have no more reason to stay now that he’s determined the capabilities of another watchman series item, Rudo calls them out for trying to run away but Zodel refutes this by saying they were nothing more than experiments and that there’s nothing they can do to stop his plan now that it’s too late to destroy the beasts core just as Noerde appears at the scene.

## Abilities

* **3RS:** Rudo's Watchman Series gloves hold immense Thought and have given him the unqiue ability to create Jinkis from any trash he finds. Upon its use, the higher level jinki crumbles away due to being successfully used.

## Relationships

* Regto: At some point before the start of the story Rudo's father was thrown into the Abyss and was abandoned as a kid. Then he met Regto and was taken in, Regto filled the position of a foster parent ever since. Though he has no small familial affection towards Regto, Rudo also feels he is beholden to Regto for raising him. Consequently, Rudo goes around the city to hunt for salvageable trash and earn money to support the family despite Regto disagreeing with his criminal methods. However, after Regto was murdered by an unknown assailant he is seen by the public as Regto's murderer.
* Chiwa: Rudo had a crush on Chiwa, and Chiwa seemed to show signs to reciprocating his feelings. However, when Rudo was convicted of Regto's murder and he turns to her for her support against the claims, he sees Chiwa losing her trust in him and believes him to be a murderer. From that moment on, their special connection was lost and apparently she is now also one of the people Rudo vows to "send to hell".
* Engine: Rudo met Engine right after falling into the abyss, Engine was amused by seeing how he would manage to escape from a bunch of slave traders, after that incident he took Rudo with him and made him a new member of the Janitors from the abyss. Since then, they have a close relationship, with Engine acting as Rudo's mentor and an older brother figure often giving him reassurance, giving Rudo some advice about his position and how to use his powers as a giver. Right after beating up Amo; Rudo and Engine share an honest and deep talk in which Rudo opens up and confesses his fear of not being capable of changing as a person, and Engine gives him advice and his support, offering his help to make him grow and mature.
* Zanka Nijik: At first Zanka greatly disliked Rudo because he thought he was stealing his Jinki. The two-show annoyance towards each other, specifically Zanka, and he refers to him as ill mannered. This dislike is further fueled by Rudo’s attempts to smile at Zanka; which he assumes that Rudo is mocking him, and Zanka shows both disgust and anxiousness when Rudo chases him with a plunger. However, both parties show some level of concern during their fight with Jabber and have some level of acknowledgment for each other aside from their actual opinions.

## Trivia

* **Likes:** sweets so much that it makes him go crazy
* **Dislikes:** Spicy foods, people of heaven, people who trample over important things

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Manga Chapter 1
2. ↑ Manga Chapter 2
3. ↑ Manga Chapter 3
4. ↑ Manga Chapter 4
5. ↑ Manga Chapter 5
6. ↑ Manga Chapter 6
7. ↑ Manga Chapter 7
8. ↑ Manga Chapter 8
9. ↑ Manga Chapter 9
10. ↑ Manga Chapter 10
11. ↑ Manga Chapter 11
12. ↑ Manga Chapter 12
13. ↑ Manga Chapter 13
14. ↑ Manga Chapter 46
15. ↑ Manga Chapter 47